Month: February 2017
Mobile phones, again
/The CBC carries an article today on outrageous charges for data usage imposed by carriers, despite a new code of procedure imposed by the CRTC. There is a way to fix this problem. It is well-known and has produced reasonable outcomes in wired forms of data delivery. It involves establishing a wholesale price for mobile capacity, […]
Read more »The Internet of Things: Interconnected concatenated catastrophe?
/I thought that title would get your attention. How often does your computer crash? Right. Does it matter? yes, quite a bit, if you lose data or files or a year’s worth of work. But no one dies. Now just think about your house going cold in winter, your brakes failing, the power grid going […]
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