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For Internet activists, last week's Web protests against two controversial copyright enforcement bills were a huge victory against three powerful and well-funded trade groups that pushed hard for passage of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act.

China is our biggest threat when it comes to Cyber Espionage. Even public sites like the Fort Riley website many times more Chinese computers traffic the site than Americans. Its encouraged even in schools early on to hone these skills.

Computer security is becoming more important as more utilize the Internet.

Adoption of 4G WiMax networks, which promise faster anywhere-Internet than 3G networks, has advanced at a crawl in the U.S. The problem: There are far too few WiMax-blanketed cities, and far too few WiMax-compatible devices. The Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot ($100) is the most practical way of logging on to WiMax yet.

"Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a client/server protocol that automatically provides an Internet Protocol (IP) host with its IP address and other related configuration information such as the subnet mask and default gateway. RFCs 2131 and 2132 define DHCP as an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard based on Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP), a protocol with which DHCP shares many implementation details." Quote from Article/Document

Thanks Brock sometimes I get the DHCP and DNS mixed up. I say DNS when I mean DHCP this article should help me keep the difference frresh in my mind.

You are welcome, Shane. You posted a lot of good articles as well.

It's epic.

Fascinating and mildly disturbing. Kevin Slavin talks about the internet, Wall Street, stealth technology, and the algorithms that are shaping our modern world. From TEDGlobal 2011.

(CNN) -- How would you like to have to pay a fee to be able to stream YouTube videos at full speed? What if you liked downloading music from, say, Last.fm or Soundcloud, but those sites suddenly became infinitely slower than bigger sites like Amazon or iTunes?

Just in case you missed it, a heart-warming story unfolded this week involving an unlikely combination of bobsled, Jamaica, virtual currency, crowdfunding and generosity. It has all the makings of an inspiring Disney movie - er, an inspiring Disney sequel.

Despite Internet speed improvements in nearly every state, most US residents are still surfing the Web at less than 10Mbps, according to Akamai's latest State of the Internet Report.

Google Fiber offers gigabit Internet access -- speeds 100 times faster than national averages -- for just $70 per month.Google I've seen the future. It's called gigabit Internet by Google Fiber, and it just launched in my hometown of Provo, Utah, the second of three scheduled cities to get speeds that are 100 times faster than the rest of America.

Verizon brought the case in which a court ruled against the FCC's net neutrality rules. A federal appeals court has struck down Federal Communications Commission rules that prohibit Internet service providers (ISPs) from restricting access to legal Web content.