George Eastman House Collection

Family group outdoors, George Eastman House.

Early 20th c. George Eastman House photos now on Flickr - Boing Boing points us to a pile of amazing photos

Digital Home Canada - Rogers violates net neutrality by hijacking failed DNS lookups

Slashdot | Canadian ISP Hijacking DNS Lookup Errors points us to
Digital Home Canada - Rogers violates net neutrality by hijacking failed DNS lookups which reminds me how far behind governments are in protecting us:

In what appears to be a violation of Net Neutrality by Rogers Cable, Digital Home readers are reporting that Rogers High Speed Internet service has begun redirecting customers “Server not found pages” to webpages laden with Rogers advertising.

The hijacking of the webpage appears to be attempt by Rogers to use its Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to cash in on the mistakes of its users.
 
The “Cannot Find Server” web page is typically shown to a user when they type in a web address that does not exist. The purpose of the page is to inform the user that the web site does not exist or a lookup error has occurred so a correction can be made.

Using DPI technology, Rogers inspects the web address request and if it determines that a web surfer has mistakenly entered an invalid web address, Rogers redirects the request and serves up an ad laden webpage selling Rogers products and services rather than allowing the informative “Cannot find server” web page to be displayed.

Judge Rotenberg Educational Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I was reading School of Shock: Inside the taxpayer-funded program that treats American kids like enemy combatants on the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center - Wikipedia. I had heard something about their use of shock treatment on children. I sort of ‘assumed’ that it would immediately be shut down, based on the logic that you can’t do to children in a treatment facility what you’re not allowed to do to adults in prison. Now I find out that though the program is under review, it is still running.

[Electroshock Therapy Used On Mentally Handicapped Children - DigitalJournal.com talks about how this aspect of the program is getting phased out, and how the state has tried to shut it down, and this link's only a month old.]