Look Forward To Per-Service, Per-Page Fees

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Wired: "[Two] companies, Allot Communications and Openet — suppliers to large wireless companies including AT&T and Verizon — showed off a new product in a web seminar Tuesday, which included a PowerPoint presentation (1.5-MB .pdf) that was sent to Wired by a trusted source. The idea? Make it possible for your wireless provider to monitor everything you do online and charge you extra for using Facebook, Skype or Netflix. For instance, in the seventh slide of the above PowerPoint, a Vodafone user would be charged two cents per MB for using Facebook, three euros a month to use Skype and $0.50 monthly for a speed-limited version of YouTube."

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Re:A pox on both their houses!!!

[DNS-and-BIND]

Wrong! The UN, as an unelected body, can make dispassionate decisions without being subject to the whim of the uneducated masses. Imagine if the entire US Congress was replaced overnight with smart people who didn't listen to faux news sources and who weren't beholden to peasants and farmers from Hicksville, Flyover Territory, USA. It would be a new era of smart government by smart people who know what the right thing to do and who aren't afraid of consequences. I mean, come on! Today, a backhoe operator's opinion matters just as much as a university professor! Good government is better than self-government.