Net neutrality, explained
With the recent FCC action on net neutrality, a lot of people are worked up, but almost no one seems to know what it actually means. Here is what it is all about: The Internet is a protocol for...
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LightSquared
The LightSquared debacle still isn’t quite over; the remains of the politically connected company are now suing the government over its denial of a permit to operate. Since I was strongly opposed to...
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It goes without saying
If Obama won’t follow his own health care law, he certainly won’t follow his own website privacy policy. I do find it amusing that he uses the same tracking company as YouPorn.com though.
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Iron Beam
Years ago, liberals made an ideological commitment to the idea that missile defense was impossible. It’s easy to understand how: Reagan was for it, and liberals were against everything he was for. Why...
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Obamacare malware
Just when you thought Obamacare’s woes couldn’t get any worse: U.S. intelligence agencies last week urged the Obama administration to check its new health care network for malicious software after...
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Court rejects net neutrality, again
The DC Court of Appeals has unanimously rejected the Obama administration’s second effort to impose network neutrality. (It unanimously rejected their first effort in 2010.) This is a good thing. In...
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HHS won’t disclose security breaches
HHS, which under the execrable Obamacare law gets to make its own rules, has decided that it will not be required to disclose any security breaches, even to the people whose information is stolen. And...
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Robot lies
I suppose programming robots to lie is a big step forward in making them behave like humans.
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Healthcare.gov violates security standards
It’s a good thing that Healthcare.gov doesn’t work, because the system is also insecure: As HealthCare.gov was being developed, crucial tests to ensure the security and privacy of customer information...
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Obamcare problems pervasive
As a general rule, just don’t believe anything the Obama administration says: An executive of the largest contractor working on the federal health insurance exchange website told Congress Thursday that...
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OMG
Healthcare.gov is 500 million lines of code. 500 million! By comparison: Yeah, I’m sure they’ll be able to fix it really quickly. . . POSTSCRIPT: The caption is a little inapt, since Healthcare.gov is...
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Thermocline of truth
A superbly prophetic of prediction of disaster in the Obamacare exchanges. UPDATE: This quote from Nancy Pelosi: At a Thursday afternoon press conference, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi was asked...
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Still no Obamacare transparency
I noted on Monday that two major contributing factors to Healthcare.gov’s failure came not from typical government incompetence, but from the Obama administration’s own political malfeasance: (1) They...
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No-bid Obamacare
The primary contractor for the failed Healthcare.gov web site — the Canadian firm CGI — was hired with a no-bid contract. Cronyism generally doesn’t surprise me, especially from these guys, but in this...
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Obamacare IT
The failure of Healthcare.gov comes as no surprise to its hapless developers: As questions mount over the website’s failure, insider interviews and a review of technical specifications by The...
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It’s not the load
Obamacare’s apologists have tried to blame Healthcare.gov’s failure on heavy load. We’ve known nearly since the beginning that this wasn’t true. But some new reporting reveals it isn’t even remotely...
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Healthcare.gov is worse than you think
Yuval Levin’s heavily reported piece on the state of the Obamacare exchanges must be read in its entirety. They are, he reports, an utter disaster. Government officials are in “a kind of restrained...
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Obamacare IT
I have been enjoying the catastrophe that is the Obamacare rollout, of course. But beyond pure schadenfreude, it’s really interesting how the catastrophe came to be. The Obamacare web site goes beyond...
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Obamacare IT
CNN has been trying to use the Obamacare web site for two weeks now, to no avail. Never mind signing up for health care, their reporter can’t even set up an account: Of particular note, their reporter...
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