Apple has submitted to the IETF a draft describing their adaptive HTTP streaming. It is available here

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-01.txt

for anyone who is interested in the tehcnical details. This indicates that Apple is interested in seeing others use this work.

I have yet to hear anyone express any outrage about this (except for a few people talking about boycotting Kellogg's.)

It's not feigned outrage, it is propaganda directed from on high. There is a difference.

In my humble opinion, basically any time you have "consumer groups" or "parent groups" or similar entities ranting about medical problems what follows going to be pseudo-scientific nonsense intended to get them more attention and funding. And, if they are able to get government funding, watch out.

For goodness sake, change the name back. Nobody around here uses it anyway. Let him keep the monstrosity on 14th Street. It fits, somehow.

There were lots of reports in networking circles, such as NANOG, about traffic spikes on Tuesday, typically at 50% or more above normal usage. Here is some data on usage from MERIT in Michigan with some pretty pictures :

http://www.merit.edu/news/newsarchive/article_temp/article.php?article=20090120_inaug

Now would be an excellent time for a gas tax - say, 25 or even 50 cents per gallon. We need to keep incentivizing other forms of energy and, to be blunt, we need the money.

Of course there will be war crimes trials over this. I have been saying this for 6 years now. The real questions are, when and by whom ? Back then, I predicted them by 2015; we shall see if I was optimistic or pessimistic.

What a load of steaming donkey dung.

I predict that Mr. Lieberman will use his subpoena power to embarrass our new President, and will claim, when he is eventually stripped of his chairmanship, that it is part of a cover-up.

It is not too late. Impeach him for this, and he can't pardon anyone. But, I frankly do not think that it matters much.

People will not forgive and will not forget and a presidential pardon will not stop this process. Indeed, its biggest effect will likely be to accelerate the process of indicting and trying the criminals abroad. These people will face justice and this will haunt them until their dying day.

At least in Paris, McDonalds (yes, the well known Scottish restaurant) has good wifi connectivity, for 1/2 hour at a time.

and you think a prospective VP, coming right out of the gate, should have all the answers? Why?

Because she is running for the office. Because I take these matters seriously. And, actually, I do not expect a VP candidate to have all of the answers. But I do expect them to be familiar with all of the issues.

The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin ("Governor, what have you learned from your meetings?")

What is really going on here ? I mean, really, anyone running for any political position, even town council, should be able to field this sort of softball :

"America has a lot of friends in the world and I look forward to working with President X of Country Y once elected."

"I gained new insights to the problems facing Country Y and I assured President X of our assistance in the new administration"

Etc., etc. No one expects a deep answer in these situations, the mildest of pablum will do just fine. They just want a quote they can use for the evening news.

So, what is going on ? Does she really have some sort of political Asperger syndrome ? If given the chance, will she mix up Russia and Belarus, Uruguay and Paraguay ?

Q; What is a neo-conservative ?

A: A marxist who has been bribed.

All of this was brilliantly explained by Orwell in 1946 in Politics and the English Language :

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. ...

Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

His folksy, macho persona ...

Which one would that be ? The first step in escaping the lie lies in recognizing it, and W was and is neither folksy nor macho, no matter how many times that lie was repeated.

Nobody really cares much about the VP choice. The secrecy around it means that it has been in the news literally every day for the last week, and several times per week for the last month or so . There is no way that any realistic VP choice would have soaked up that much news oxygen.

the email was sent from Ross' ABC address; yesterday, I emailed both him and ABC's Jeffrey Schneider to request confirmation of its authenticity, and they didn't reply):

Do you have access to the full headers from these emails ? Have you checked the origin of the IP address for these emails ? This is a fairly basic forensic step of checking where emails actually came from (it is generally easy to spoof the "from" email address, but harder to properly spoof the chain of email IP addresses).

I would be glad to help you do this if you need it.

The typical post 1976 roll call vote is as boring as can be imagined. Roll calls with some drama were not. If there is to be no actual vote, they should just stipulate it and go on to something else.