Whether you think he's a hero or a traitor Edward Snowden's revelations have generated an import conversation around privacy. Here is his first Video from exile at South by South West.
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Yelp has released their top 100 places to eat in the country, as determined by the Yelp community.
Yelp's data team crunched the data using the Wilson Score to compile a list of highly rated places to eat. The method takes into account many of the same factors the everyday yelper uses, such as restaurant rating and number of reviews.
Here is a link to Yelp's Blog Post: http://bit.ly/1el9NJj
Bone Appetit!
In computer networking a peering agreement is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the users of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free, "bill-and-keep," or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the other in association with the exchange of traffic; instead, each derives and retains revenue from its own customers.So why is this significant? These types of agreements have been between the big internet players, the Level 3's, and AT&T's of the world. What makes this more insidious are the reports that Comcast and Verizon have targeted Netflix traffic. Here is a post on Arstechnica.com discussing there discoveries. Also Comcast and Verizon have refused to install Netflix's free bandwidth solution Open Box on their networks.
What does this mean? This mans that Comcast and Verizon may be altering Netflix traffic to force them into a payed peering agreement. The fact that they do not want to work with Netflix is appalling. For the short term Netflix has agreed to pay Comcast, so Comcast should allow Netflix to work. In the long term this agreement sets a precedent for ISP's to discriminate or targeted traffic. And at the end of the day threatens Net Neutrality.
The new season of House of Cards reminds me how good TV can be, and this speech given by Kevin Spacey is inspirational and exciting. I know it's been around the internet, but the message is important and we need to keep it in our social feeds.