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House Committee Approves 'Net Neutrality' Bill
An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica is reporting that the US House Judiciary Committee approved a bill yesterday that will prevent broadband providers from charging extra fees to websites for delivering their content to users." Ars's response is only guarded optimism, unfortunately. From the article: "The fate of the bill is not clear, as there are now two competing bills vying for the attention of the House floor. HR 5252, the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act, was overseen by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and is expected to be considered by full House. That bill is seen by some proponents of 'Net neutrality as being too weak, particularly after a Committee vote tossed aside an amendment put forth by Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) that would have enshrined the principle of network neutrality into US law. There is speculation that today's bill, HR 5417, could be proposed as an amendment to HR 5252."
if they arent going to decided on these important issues then why the hell are they there in the first place?
To suck up your tax dollars and prepare for their forthcoming lucrative careers as directors/lobbyists/consultants of course. What, you thought they were working for you?
Oh no... it's the future.
Free as in...
java: beer
Linux: stolen goods
As we all know (but many here try to ignore), it has been proven that the Linux 2.6 kernel contains up to millions of lines of code stolen from OpenServer.
Also, there is a high level of likelihood that at least some code of Windows 2000 has found its way into the Linux 2.6 source. Especially the memory manager which magically got a significant boost of Microsoft-like performance and quality.
When will the Linux crowd just stop pretending to respect other people's property and just start mugging grandmothers for their book club reading material? Please stop defending P2P like it's not simple theft.