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FCC May Move to Cap Cable Company Size
explosivejared writes "The FCC is making plans to bring back the concept of a 'size limit' on cable operators. 'FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has enough support on the five-member commission to pass a measure that would bar cable companies from owning systems that have more than a 30-percent share of U.S. multichannel video subscribers ... the FCC could have a difficult time defending the 30-percent cap in court. The move comes six years after a federal appeals court threw out an identical FCC rule on the grounds that the agency did not have enough evidence to justify it."
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They'll make you take a tinkle when you wanna take a piss.
SQL programmer goes to a bar. Walks up to two tables and says 'Excuse me, may I join you?'.
You mean 'moot', not 'mute'.
Mute: unable to speak.
Moot: irrelevant.
You mean 'their', not 'there'.
There: indication of location.
Their: third person plural possessive pronoun.
As for IPTV, delivery isn't a solved problem (yet). Even companies with a lot of experience in streaming, broadcast and other forms of electronic delivery have not solved the limitations on IP delivery in the teeth of companies which don't want to let people use their supposedly purchased bandwidth up to the max. Until that happens and broadband is truly common, this is so much guesswork.
If you don't want Facebook to have your information, don't enter it in! Don't use Facebook! Most information you put online can become attainable if the right people want to get access to it.
Who cares if Facebook makes several databases of people's shopping habits, favorite movies, favorite bands, etc.. it is not like they are going to look at you, as an individual user and publish your information, they use all the information as a whole, statistically, to obtain information about trends, people's wants and demands. This only welcomes opportunities for major franchises to produce better products that meet the demand of the public!
There is really no other way to get such statistics in such a vast honest way (honest as in the user is telling the truth). Yes, Facebook is going to make millions selling this information, but they do provide the service, that YOU decide to join. I do not agree with any illegal activity Facebook is involved with, and at this point they have made privacy such a big concern and then apply an addition like Beacon, it goes against what they have been all about.
Wow! Good article! It is rather offtopic, but wow... for somebody like me who has only a light education in economics, it's easily digestable yet not dumbed down. I really appreciated reading this article.