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Broadband Data Improvement Act Clears Committee
MBCook writes "Ars Technica is reporting that the Broadband Data Improvement Act has left committee with a unanimous vote. Among the changes proposed are requiring the definition of 'second generation broadband' (enough to carry HDTV) instead of the current definition of broadband as 200Kbps, and aggregating the data by ZIP+4 instead of just the full ZIP code. The act can now move to the full Senate."
This will never happen. The US is ridden with monopolies which hinder a proper rollout of broadband. In any city in Europe (my city with 50.000 citizens eg) you can choose between 10-20 broadband carriers, via wlan, phonecarriers or tvcable. As long as you have no choice in carriers you end up with poor quality, slow broadband.
Yes, because everything the man says is completely wrong. He, being human, fallible, biased is completely unable to come up with anything true or insightful. Because of course, you being a poster on /. are inclined to believe that you're somehow better or more perfect than anyone else.
Simply because you disagree with him on whatever doesn't mean he can't make a point. It's your problem if you can't handle that.
Not to mention, the guy had a VERY strong point when he said that. Rather than just attacking me for using the quote, why don't you actually do something intelligent and attack the quote itself if you have problems with it? Or...do you not have a point and therefore need to attack the man himself?