project. Ask anyone who’s tried to bring redundant and last-mile broadband service to Humboldt County — the major stumbling block has not been shortcomings in technology or consumer demand; it’s been financing. How do you develop a feasible funding model? That is, how can the project be made profitable? With help from the gub’ment, that’s […]
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Privacy shmivacy
Imagine this: You’re out in your yard, watering the lawn, and because it’s a nice warm day, and because you live a mile-and-a-half down a private road festooned with “No Trespassing” signs, you’re wearing nothing but your favorite underwear, which have these cute little pigs on ’em and are so totally comfy. Suddenly you hear […]
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KEET to ignore analog extension
image ganked from popsci.com If you’ve been following the news this week you know that there’s been a lot of discussion about postponing the end of analog television and the coming switch to the digital age. It turns out that despite a lot of advance warning to get digital converter boxes before the big switcheroo […]
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Street View Still Irking You
Google’s ongoing little-big stunt gets another round of scrutiny . The writer of the piece goes on a fair bit about how criminals might use the maps and snaps to burgle you while you were away…. He also refers often to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat ‘s boot-leathering which found that the Google bug traveled […]
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New fiber hope?
Proposed fiber path along Hwy. 299 The fiber scramble continues. The strangest thing about the various efforts to bring a redundant broadband fiber to Humboldt County is how new plans just seem to pop up out of nowhere. Virtually everyone is in agreement these days that a second fiber optic cable is vital to our […]
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Pay no attention!
A Humboldt County voting booth The disturbing revelations brought about through the Humboldt Transparency Project may be going viral. A story posted today on Threat Level, a politics and crime blog on Wired magazine’s blog network, describes in painstaking detail how the curtain was pulled back on the voting machines created by the wizards of […]
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Driving into the Hydrogen Future
Humboldt State unveiled its hydrogen fueling station today with Rep. Mike Thompson here to help with the ribbon-cutting and talk about the role the Schatz Energy Research Center is playing in our renewable energy future. He’s shown above driving HSU’s hydrogen-powered car, which he’d just helped fill with fuel. Here’s a soundbite from Rep. Mike’s […]
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Daily Dose of Weird
I couldn’t tell you what it means — probably nothing — but does anyone else find it odd that mikeforsupervisor.org is hosted on the same server as the City of Arcata’s official website ? They’re housemates over at 72.51.37.112, an address on Sustainable Hosting ‘s air-powered server farm. Small world.