This is the second article in a series aimed at analyzing the motive behind the various bandwidth caps that have recently been enacted by numerous Internet Service Providers.
In the preceding article, The Relative Cost of Internet Access, we looked at the differences in costs between various service tiers available from two Internet Service Providers. For [...]

This article is the first in a series aimed at discussing the cost of Internet access around the world, as well as the implications of imposing ever stricter bandwidth caps on customers.
Intuitively, one might assume that as technology advances and becomes more readily available that products and service should become ever more abundant and [...]

Anyone who’s a Bank of America customer has probably gone through the process at one time or another. The site loads, you enter your username and state, and you hit “Sign In.” Waiting, waiting, waiting. Ok, next step: do you recognize this image? Huh, yeah, whatever; you enter your passcode and hit “Sign In” again. [...]

The public was angry; they had had enough of the harsh oppression, the unrelenting control, and the panoptic supervision of the ruling elite. No longer was a distant monarchy going to exert its tyrannical oppression over the well-meaning individual; and the events that would soon come to pass where going to [...]

Regardless of whether you’re into technology or not, you’ve probably heard various horror stories of how hackers have managed to commandeer the PCs of unsuspecting users to do their bidding. Traditionally a hacker would need to get a malicious piece of software – a.k.a. viruses and spyware – onto the intended [...]