FCC Claims Regulatory Power Over Home Computers

Pointing to Assistant Professor of Law Susan Crawford's blog, iman1003 writes "The FCC has filed a brief where it claims regulatory power over all instrumentalities, facilities, and apparatus 'associated with the overall circuit of messages sent and received' via all interstate radio and wire communication according to a blog published by Susan Crawford. The blog can be found here and the brief here (in PDF format). Kind of scary if you ask me." Ars Technica has good commentary on this, also referencing Crawford's findings.

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Re:Good

[dave420]

"low quality". right. Tell me that when you're playing Half Life 2.

Come on, folks! We're all grown ups. Don't bash other operating systems because you don't agree with the ideology behind it.

Windows is a perfectly adequate operating system. It does everything most of its users want, just as linux does for its users. You really make linux/OSS users look like a bunch of primadonna assholes saying stuff like that. There are tons of perfectly capable computer programmers/operators (some most likely better than you, I'd wager) using Windows.

For all the security leaks in Windows, I've been using it since version 2, and I've never been compromised. No trojans, no leaky firewalls, no buggy software. Maybe I had good luck? Maybe. Either way, from where I'm sitting, your opinion is highly flawed.

Re:Attention Slashbots

[aborchers]

Of course they do. I am also convinced that American voters by and large are knee-jerk single issue numbskulls that don't deserve to make decisions for the country.

HOWEVER, those who vote define the policy. That's how the system works, and backing out of the process just empowers the numbskulls more. Every dissident non-voter is as complicit in our current choice of government as those who voted out of fear for a society in which they're protected from the horrors of "gay marriage" and "partial-birth abortion", not realizing what they are really signing over.