Tag: municipal_networking

  • DTH on WIFI: They have a point…

    From Sept. 18th’s Daily Tar Heel by kind permission of Mason Phillips. Nice to see a shout-out to my series on the poor decision to go with the proprietary lock-in NextBus system over an open-standards system. An alternative standards-based system could’ve delivered Internet access along all 23 transit routes – an alternative providing excellent penetration […]

  • Can you hear me now, NSA? Not if you’re the Justice Department.

    From CNN and the AP via AudioActivism and Daily Wireless. X-posted from Brian Russel’s AudioActivism Domestic spying inquiry killed AP is reporting that the US Department of Justice has stopped its investigation of the warrantless phone spying done by the NSA at the approval of George Bush. “We have been unable to make any meaningful […]

  • Can you hear me now, NSA?

    I like to keep it local on Concerned Citizen, but this report does have a local angle.