Level 3 Communications all but calls out consumer broadband providers in the USA.

It's a pretty great article with lots of behind the scenes detail about how broadband providers like Comcast connect to the wider internet and how they're deliberately harming the internet experience of their customers.

That leaves the remaining six peers with congestion on almost all of the interconnect ports between us. Congestion that is permanent, has been in place for well over a year and where our peer refuses to augment capacity. They are deliberately harming the service they deliver to their paying customers. They are not allowing us to fulfil the requests their customers make for content.

Observations of an Internet Middleman – Beyond Bandwidth
We received a lot of positive feedback, as well as a lot of questions when Mike posted his recent story, Chicken. Many of the questions asked for more spec

Originally posted on Google+ · May 6, 2014

Flying robot orchestra.

Originally posted on Google+ · May 2, 2014

My first inclination is that if you think money is ruining politics in the USA, then you should go donate to this ASAP.

Government has failed us. More than 90% of Americans link that failure to the influence of money in politics.

Yet the politicians ignore this influence. While America founders, they spend endless time with their funders.

These funders hold our democracy hostage. We want to pay the ransom, and get it back.

We're going to kickstart a SuperPAC big enough to make it possible to win a Congress committed to fundamental reform by 2016.

MayOne.us – SuperPAC to end all SuperPacs. Mayday for the Republic.
MayOne.us – SuperPAC to end all SuperPacs. Join our effort to win a Congress committed to reforming the influence of money in Politics.

Originally posted on Google+ · May 1, 2014

Not a single living person knows how everything in your five-year-old MacBook actually works.

Programming Sucks
Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro,1 you don’t work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver.” …

Originally posted on Google+ · April 30, 2014

That's unfortunate to say the least.

At least 4% of people who get sentenced to death are innocent
A new study finds that if everyone sentenced to death got their cases scrutinized for the next twenty years, at least 4 percent of them would likely get exonerated. And false-conviction rates are probably higher for other cases.

Originally posted on Google+ · April 29, 2014

Originally posted on Google+ · April 28, 2014

But since then, incredible pharmacological advances have been made in how the virus is treated and managed. Combination medications — termed ‘highly active antiretroviral therapy’ or Haart — have resulted in being able to maintain the infected person’s immune system and therefore prevent the opportunistic infections that resulted in the development of Aids and led to death. Despite working in the centre of London with high-risk groups such as sex workers and drug addicts, I haven’t seen someone die of HIV for years.

As a doctor, I’d rather have HIV than diabetes
‘There is now a deadly virus, which anyone can catch from sex with an infected person. If we’re not careful, the people who’ve died so far, will be just the…

Originally posted on Google+ · April 26, 2014

 Of course, that won't be instead of G+, but in addition to. 

I find myself having little things to share and say that I don't bother posting to G+ as my favorite G+ posts are more substantial, so hopefully Twitter will fill that hole.

Find me @dustin_wyatt if you care to get quick science and technology links in addition to my random quick thoughts.

Originally posted on Google+ · April 26, 2014

Originally posted on Google+ · April 26, 2014

I feel like people making comments about the United States' Healthcare.gov and whether or not it's finally been "fixed" are missing a bigger story.

Who cares if you can load the website and sign up for plans when the information it is giving you is flat wrong?

For example, today I've been looking over the dental plans.  While verifying plan information with various insurance companies I find that the information about the plans given by healthcare.gov is just incorrect, and not in minor ways.

For example, there are two Anthem BCBS dental plans that have identical out-of-pocket maximum figures that Anthem agents tell me are wrong by 40%.

Originally posted on Google+ · April 22, 2014