As feared, the FCC has decided to dismantle Obama-era net neutrality rules, rules that protected consumers from ISP throttling. The winners of course, are ISPs, cable companies, and wireless companies. The losers – the American consumer. The changes are expected to be approved at a Federal Communications Commission meeting in mid-December.
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Why do dozens of people keep showing up at a couple’s Atlanta home looking for lost or stolen cell phones?
The trouble began when an angry family knocked on the door of Christina and Michael Atlanta home demanding that they return their lost (stolen?) cellphones. The confused couple asked why the family thought they had their phones. The family explained – a GPS tracking application had led them to Lee and Saba’s front door.
The unsolved Max Headroom Incident – pirates hijack Chicago TV broadcast to air bizarre (creepy) tirade (1987).
Before the advent of the Internet and widespread existence of a coordinated “hacking” culture, a strange and eerie incident occurred during a November 22, 1987 broadcast on WTTW-11 Chicago of Dr. Who, when a still-unidentified hacker took over the station’s broadcast replacing a brief section of the evening’s program with a creepy montage of a…