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The Public Deserves a Return to the 2015 Open Internet Order Congress is actively debating how to fix the FCC’s repeal of the net neutrality rules. But the first bills offered ( H.R. 1101 (Walden) , H.R. 1006 (Latta) , and H.R. 1096 (McMorris Rodgers) focus narrowly on the “bright line” rules of no blocking, no throttling, and no paid prioritization. A major problem with this approach is that the public supported the 2015 Open Internet Order and a huge array of parties (with the exception of basically just AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon) supported Title II reclassification because of what else was protected. Privacy, competition, and public safety are all worse off when all you do is ban three basic tactics. Restoring the entirety of the 2015 Open Internet Order means protecting the vital components to keeping the Internet a free and open platform. If Congress decides to act, it should not shortchange the American public. Unfortunately, that appears to be where the House of Rep...

Did Congress Really Expect Us to Whittle Our Own Personal Jailbreaking Tools? In 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and profoundly changed the relationship of Americans to their property. Section 1201 of the DMCA bans the bypassing of “access controls” for copyrighted works. Originally, this meant that even though you owned your DVD player, and even though it was legal to bring DVDs home with you from your European holidays, you weren’t allowed to change your DVD player so that it would play those out-of-region DVDs. DVDs were copyrighted works, the region-checking code was an access control, and so even though you owned the DVD, and you owned the DVD player, and even though you were allowed to watch the disc, you weren’t allowed to modify your DVD player to play your DVD (which you were allowed to watch). Experts were really worried about this: law professors, technologists and security experts saw that soon we’d have software—that is, copyrighted...

At SXSW this year, connectivity is more important than ever before as AI, IoT, and edge computing play a bigger role in delivering high-quality video, music, and gaming to consumers each day. With this in mind, film, music and interactive content stand to suffer if connectivity is threatened. In the panel on March 9 at 2pm CT, How Connectivity Will Control Everything We Know , my colleague Ross Johnson, Enterprise Account Executive for Schneider Electric’s cloud, colocation and edge business, will help uncover why these types of computing are so critical to connectivity. In the meantime, however, we sat down with Ross to discuss what audiences can expect to learn from the panel, and how his past experiences position him as a connectivity expert. 1. Your panel at SXSW will focus on connectivity challenges, from an infrastructure perspective. This is not the typical panel that you see at SXSW; can you give us a sense of what inspired you to design this panel? As an Austin native a...

Written by Guest Blogger,  Mariana C. Gonzalez Effective goal setting is fundamental in many aspects of our lives, whether we are drafting and proposing annual performance goals to our manager or setting personal goals of any kind (e.g. related to exercising, learning a new skill, executing a home-improvement project, writing a book etc.). Knowing how to formulate goals in a way that is truly helpful and conducive to reaching them is essential. A well-formulated goal galvanizes one’s energy and resources as well as establishes a clear direction towards its attainment. Further, effective goal setting also involves prioritizing beforehand and deciding on what we ought to concentrate our efforts, as doing so spares us from overstretching, losing focus, and pursuing too many goals to the detriment of reaching any. Such clarity with respect to deciding and articulating goals is inextricably tied to having a clear vision in which these goals fit as steps in the direction of its materia...

In my last post, we looked at how the cost, reliability and quality of electricity can present significant risks to your business if they are not managed. Whether you’re operating commercial buildings, manufacturing plants, healthcare facilities, or data centers, it’s important to understand that lowering your electricity bills is more complicated than just trying to use less energy. The key for optimizing your electrical energy costs is to operate your facilities with a clear understanding of how your utility charges you for electricity, so that you use power in the right way at the right time. It’s also easy to appreciate how power interruptions and poor power quality can have a serious negative impact on your operations – potentially costing your business significantly. So, it’s quite surprising that so many corporations do not invest in managing these risks the way they do other business risks. For those companies who recognize the need to minimize these risks, the good news is ...

One of Sigmund Freud’s most famous quotes centers around the “fact” that there is “no such thing as an accident”. Of course, his theories tended to be more of a philosophical representation of human behavior than scientific; but if there’s even an ounce of truth to his statement, could we control the future? What if you knew an accident were about to occur in time for you to avoid it? It would certainly change how we live. We could avoid life-altering personal injuries, traffic accidents, and medical emergencies, etc. and all the headaches that go along with responding to them. Now, think what this would mean in the process plant. Documented benefits of costs you could avoid through early warning notification include: A complete Asset Excellence solution provides three key offerings: Smarter Operations, Now and in the Future As IIoT/Industrie 4.0 continues to enable smarter equipment that creates increasing amounts of data, chemical companies are faced with both the challenges an...