Internet
Internet Piracy: no one is guilty nor innocent
The Stop Online Piracy Act got nixed in bill form before it could become law, but don't be surprised if SOPA or one of its clones make a comeback before too long. Of course The...
There are no privacy settings
In an age where the definitions of privacy and security have undergone a dramatic change, one question has arisen: Who or what has the ability to force a user to give up their social...
Making an example of MegaUpload
The Stop Online Piracy Act may have been defeated last week, but the legal war over control of digital copyrighted content and internet distribution rages on. MegaUpload was raided and shut down earlier this month...
Net on fire
Exactly one week ago thousands of websites temporarily blacked out content to protest online piracy bills. The US government seized a popular but dubious website the next day. Internet hacktivists struck soon after. The...
SOPA threatens to shut down the Internet
Students who tried to log on to Wikipedia on Wednesday should have noticed something curious — it was blacked out. Those who tried to log onto Wordpress, TwitPic, Reditt or Mozilla would have noticed...
Internet service outage affects UH, UHD
UH, along with UH-Downtown, have lost Internet access as of Wednesday afternoon. According to a post on the University Information Technology website, "The UH network connection to the internet has been cut on the vendor...
UH back online
Internet connection has been restored to UH after being campus-wide for approximately 15 minutes from 3 to 4 pm today. "We're over subscribing. There is a saturation on the network," said Tuy Troung,who works at...
Sensory overload
The internet is a bounty of information, images and video that can be accessed anywhere and any time. The only downside to all the wealth of information is the unbelievably easy access to pornography. The...