Net Neutrality
Suffered a loss this week.
Here are some articles and an image on the subject.
How it affects gamers.
UK's PM wants to censor everyone's surfing.
What you can do?
The future?
Here are some articles and an image on the subject.
How it affects gamers.
UK's PM wants to censor everyone's surfing.
What you can do?
The future?
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Don't forget to add on the -$29.95 fuck-you-Telco-I'm-going-with-someone-else charge.
If the big companies don't provide reasonable services they will go out of business as people move on to smaller providers that do give them what they want. It's inevitable. Although there may be a year or two of suckage in the meantime.
It's just like what is currently happening to the cell phone industry, really.
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If the big companies don't provide reasonable services they will go out of business as people move on to smaller providers that do give them what they want. It's inevitable. Although there may be a year or two of suckage in the meantime.
It's just like what is currently happening to the cell phone industry, really.
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"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
It's a lot easier to build a tower somewhere than it is to run cables to them. And wired will always be >> wireless for speed and price. Look how much wireless data costs. You can pay $80/month for 2-4GB at 5Mbps speeds. My wired connection is $60/month for 50Mbps speeds, with UNLIMITED data. I've used over 150GB some months.TPRJones wrote:If the big companies don't provide reasonable services they will go out of business as people move on to smaller providers that do give them what they want. It's inevitable. Although there may be a year or two of suckage in the meantime.
Competition is very hard in the Internet arena, and will be for a while.
It's not me, it's someone else.
FCC caves.
The FCC will release a proposal soon to reinstate net neutrality rules that would allow broadband providers to negotiate with content providers for preferential treatment, an agency official confirmed Wednesday.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I find it hilarious that they're still calling them the "net neutrality" rules when there's the word "preferential" in there. If this gets shitty enough, I will dust of my m4d sk1llz1es and start hacking wireless networks for free access.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
How long until they go full evil, though? How long will the government ignore them? Won't Comcast eventually pay more senators more money and get the FCC siced on Google?TheCatt wrote:On the other hand, shitty rules are an incentive for Google to build out better networks on their own.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I think the latter is more likely than the former. Google isn't evil. Google has made my life better.GORDON wrote:How long until they go full evil, though? How long will the government ignore them? Won't Comcast eventually pay more senators more money and get the FCC siced on Google?TheCatt wrote:On the other hand, shitty rules are an incentive for Google to build out better networks on their own.
It's not me, it's someone else.
As they say... "If you aren't paying for it, then you're the product." I don't think they are the dark force that Vince does, but I do wonder how much of our info is sold and surrendered to the government. The government stuff bothers me more. They have an IRS and killer drones and a willingness to use them.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
http://www.cnet.com/news....esidentGORDON wrote:Money got to the right government people, finally.
By Google, probably not much at all. Government doesn't pay diddly. Now selling your info to advertisers, that's another story.GORDON wrote:... but I do wonder how much of our info is sold and surrendered to the government..
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
Stuart Smalley chimes in again.
"We can not allow the FCC to implement a pay-for-play system,"
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
He thinks like I do. Although the way our ISPs are currently structured - effective monopolies in many areas - it would be very rough for a lot of people for some time. But coming out the other end of that we'd have a mortally wounded Comcast and Time Warner and lots of new ISPs that are very good to their customers.
Making ISPs common carriers is all well and good, but it's a temporary measure and doesn't address the real problem that most large cable companies are downright hateful of their own customers. They need to be destroyed by the free market.
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Making ISPs common carriers is all well and good, but it's a temporary measure and doesn't address the real problem that most large cable companies are downright hateful of their own customers. They need to be destroyed by the free market.
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"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"