Yes, but the FCC says that Comcast must be neutral with respect to application type, so Comcast is complying. If that means that high-bandwidth streaming media gets hosed, well, take that up with the FCC.
No, I'll take it up with the cable co.
What they are doing with respect to the FCC and the public will at large is no different than what a little kid does when mommy tells him "don't do that" as he reaches for the cookie jar.
He does it again.. with the OTHER hand, and then proclaims his innocence when mother yells at him yet again.
The intent was clear: "Thou shalt not degrade internet traffic selectively"
This new policy selectively degrades high quality streaming video.
Yes, high quality video streaming is probably hit, but that is because it is an incredibly wasteful type of technology, requiring high bandwidth during primetime when the user online.
replace "high quality video streaming" and "6 mb/s" with "youtube" and "1.5 mb/s", which was what it was not too long ago.
Now you see why this is not "neutral"?
it is a deliberate bid to crush nascent industries which threaten cableco's primary revenue source: TV provision.
your own home + 50,000+ extra dollars to get the new house.
another 5,000 for the move
possibly the cost of finding a new job (unquantifiable)
unquantified opportunity costs as you and your entire family are placed through considerable inconvenience in your relocation.
FTTP is nothing more than a dream spoken about in whispers amongst the hovels of the "great unwashed", the 99.999999999% of us who don't live in zones wired with it.
This is ubiquitous though, and the bits per pixel are scarcely if at all documented.
This means it's pretty improbable that anyone will come eat their lunch any time soon, leaving them "safe" to do it, not that I don't despise them for it.
Why is it that EA who subversively plant malware on your PC that permanently occupies resources and damages your access rights can get away with it?
slow down cowboy. The case was just filed, it could take years to process.
The only case study i can think of where a considerable segment of the public demanded a corporation's head for malware was the sony rootkit debacle. Sony was the one who got away with it, though if i remember correctly that was because nobody actually pressed charges.
Since when has a non-sequitor status been a hinderance to the abrogation of public justice?
I mean, there are plenty of rulings which are dragged in via rube goldberg machine through the fourth dimensional portal beneath the justices' feet in the USSC.
Many of which took half a century to rectify, some of which were never rectified, and some of which will take another 50 years or more to rectify.
Eldredge vs Ashcroft, the upholding of "free speech zone" policies, Plessy Vs Ferguson, and the list goes on.
The politicians have deliberately forsaken our manufacturing base.
This does not, however, mean we should be enforcing some perverse imaginary property in an attempt to maintain economic dominance.
What we should be doing is abandoning the policies which are killing our manufacturing sector (subsidies, protectionism, bailouts, FTA's) and encouraging a resurgence.
This policy of intellectual property as some kind of export generally depends upon us maintaining a military which is onerously expensive. This is not something which can be perpetually maintained.
sorry, "i don't agree" does not equate to flamebait. I have karma to burn so i'll requote it, this time with the bonus active.
The politicians have deliberately forsaken our manufacturing base.
This does not, however, mean we should be enforcing some perverse imaginary property in an attempt to maintain economic dominance.
What we should be doing is abandoning the policies which are killing our manufacturing sector (subsidies, protectionism, bailouts, FTA's) and encouraging a resurgence.
This policy of intellectual property as some kind of export generally depends upon us maintaining a military which is onerously expensive. This is not something which can be perpetually maintained.
With the trends land line providers are taking, our service plans will be a buck per bit, with roaming, higher peak time charges, overage fees of 4 bucks extra per bit, and of course, for the "polite" users, "rollover bits".
Base price, 200 bucks a month for 30 bits, + unlimited off-peak (11 pm to 4 am), + your bit handling fee, your connection fees (per page of course), and of course 40 bucks a month rental charge for the modems.
Exceed your cap and you'll be taken down to 28 kilobits a second, just like the good old aol days.
And I can assure you that dog poop is quite a problem here. There is a lot of small children on the outside and dog poop is more immediate danger to them than occasional suicidal bomber.
obviously the suicide bombers have to up their game a bit if the general populace considers dog poop to be a greater threat.
maybe they should invent a new type of "dirty bomb".
they may even make suicide bombing a green profession, allowing you to re-use your martyrs because there were no nails ripping them in half.
They should do this with people who smoke and drop their cigarette butts on the ground.
Yes, lets use small scale littering as an excuse for a comprehensive genetic database.
Then they can harvest your dna in a local hardware store, a mine where you visited your cousin or friend, and a bank you frequent, which happened to be bombed by terroists (but not you).. and "put together the pieces" with a little scaremongering before a jury of "peers" who finance fine entertainment like survivor.
On an equally orwellian though not immediately threatening note, they could easily swab areas unobtrusively and run the combination of samples through that new process they've discovered to individualize the data from mixed samples, then cross-reference it with the database to data-mine mass surveillance on the general populace.
I just did a google news search, and nobody outside the ars technica/slashdot crowd has stories listed for this.
The fact that such a huge coalition is being ignored by CNN, NBC, ABC, REUTERS, et. al. shows how deeply these news agencies are buried under the thumb of the media cartels.
Slashdot Mirror
This strong counter-reaction to the introduction of "inconvenient truths" is a classic product of pavlovian conditioning.
For more on this, read the battle for your mind
Yes, but the FCC says that Comcast must be neutral with respect to application type, so Comcast is complying. If that means that high-bandwidth streaming media gets hosed, well, take that up with the FCC.
No, I'll take it up with the cable co.
What they are doing with respect to the FCC and the public will at large is no different than what a little kid does when mommy tells him "don't do that" as he reaches for the cookie jar.
He does it again.. with the OTHER hand, and then proclaims his innocence when mother yells at him yet again.
The intent was clear:
"Thou shalt not degrade internet traffic selectively"
This new policy selectively degrades high quality streaming video.
Yes, high quality video streaming is probably hit, but that is because it is an incredibly wasteful type of technology, requiring high bandwidth during primetime when the user online.
replace "high quality video streaming" and "6 mb/s" with
"youtube" and "1.5 mb/s", which was what it was not too long ago.
Now you see why this is not "neutral"?
it is a deliberate bid to crush nascent industries which threaten cableco's primary revenue source: TV provision.
how much is it for FTTP?
well, it's only about..
your own home + 50,000+ extra dollars to get the new house.
another 5,000 for the move
possibly the cost of finding a new job (unquantifiable)
unquantified opportunity costs as you and your entire family are placed through considerable inconvenience in your relocation.
FTTP is nothing more than a dream spoken about in whispers amongst the hovels of the "great unwashed", the 99.999999999% of us who don't live in zones wired with it.
At least in the last build i tried, and this is what keeps me away from the gimp.
all transform and move options do not provide feedback until they are completed.
This makes stitching and reconstruction of images/scans very difficult and frustrating.
even the pro models have crappy TN panels.
This is ubiquitous though, and the bits per pixel are scarcely if at all documented.
This means it's pretty improbable that anyone will come eat their lunch any time soon, leaving them "safe" to do it, not that I don't despise them for it.
Actually, I don't have a choice of a black and white screen.
This utterly murders battery life, because color screens cannot be read by sunlight, and require more powerful, uniform, and expensive backlighting.
A color screen is actually a hinderance to daytime use. We all know how well they display in full sun.
I've heard of several cell companies which require you to use their proprietary services to even get the pics off your phone.
I know I won't touch a phone camera with a 10 ft pole if it could end up itemized a-la carte on my bill at 20 bucks a pop.
yep, the corporate game studio is the "creator".
I see a lot of abstract concepts of law doing things of their own volition.
why, I just saw public enemy number one, "Terror", driving down the street in MY old car!
clearly "terror" is trying to frame me.
who says you wouldn't buy the game, then get the "no drm" version from TPB.
my point stands.
Why is it that EA who subversively plant malware on your PC that permanently occupies resources and damages your access rights can get away with it?
slow down cowboy. The case was just filed, it could take years to process.
The only case study i can think of where a considerable segment of the public demanded a corporation's head for malware was the sony rootkit debacle. Sony was the one who got away with it, though if i remember correctly that was because nobody actually pressed charges.
Since when has a non-sequitor status been a hinderance to the abrogation of public justice?
I mean, there are plenty of rulings which are dragged in via rube goldberg machine through the fourth dimensional portal beneath the justices' feet in the USSC.
Many of which took half a century to rectify, some of which were never rectified, and some of which will take another 50 years or more to rectify.
Eldredge vs Ashcroft, the upholding of "free speech zone" policies, Plessy Vs Ferguson, and the list goes on.
TPB
The politicians have deliberately forsaken our manufacturing base.
This does not, however, mean we should be enforcing some perverse imaginary property in an attempt to maintain economic dominance.
What we should be doing is abandoning the policies which are killing our manufacturing sector (subsidies, protectionism, bailouts, FTA's) and encouraging a resurgence.
This policy of intellectual property as some kind of export generally depends upon us maintaining a military which is onerously expensive. This is not something which can be perpetually maintained.
sorry, "i don't agree" does not equate to flamebait. I have karma to burn so i'll requote it, this time with the bonus active.
If you read halopedia, the lore behind the haloverse is just as storied as that of wow, if not more so.
I think an MMO, or at least an rpg of some kind, would be a great means of guiding people through the story.
The politicians have deliberately forsaken our manufacturing base.
This does not, however, mean we should be enforcing some perverse imaginary property in an attempt to maintain economic dominance.
What we should be doing is abandoning the policies which are killing our manufacturing sector (subsidies, protectionism, bailouts, FTA's) and encouraging a resurgence.
This policy of intellectual property as some kind of export generally depends upon us maintaining a military which is onerously expensive. This is not something which can be perpetually maintained.
Really, any new technology is good - we will weed out the bad ideas, keep the good.
all hail the big mouth bass!
Dude, anyone in a plane can 'zero-in' on your house. It's essentially being broadcast.
I know, right?
One of these days I need to stop painting "my house" on the roof.
With the trends land line providers are taking, our service plans will be a buck per bit, with roaming, higher peak time charges, overage fees of 4 bucks extra per bit, and of course, for the "polite" users, "rollover bits".
Base price, 200 bucks a month for 30 bits, + unlimited off-peak (11 pm to 4 am), + your bit handling fee, your connection fees (per page of course), and of course 40 bucks a month rental charge for the modems.
Exceed your cap and you'll be taken down to 28 kilobits a second, just like the good old aol days.
fascist?
What happens if you were savvy and ignored social networking sites all together.
Do they then assume you have no friends/social life and chuck you off the list that way?
It seems like these people in these departments are just being malicious.
And I can assure you that dog poop is quite a problem here. There is a lot of small children on the outside and dog poop is more immediate danger to them than occasional suicidal bomber.
obviously the suicide bombers have to up their game a bit if the general populace considers dog poop to be a greater threat.
maybe they should invent a new type of "dirty bomb".
they may even make suicide bombing a green profession, allowing you to re-use your martyrs because there were no nails ripping them in half.
They should do this with people who smoke and drop their cigarette butts on the ground.
Yes, lets use small scale littering as an excuse for a comprehensive genetic database.
Then they can harvest your dna in a local hardware store, a mine where you visited your cousin or friend, and a bank you frequent, which happened to be bombed by terroists (but not you).. and "put together the pieces" with a little scaremongering before a jury of "peers" who finance fine entertainment like survivor.
On an equally orwellian though not immediately threatening note, they could easily swab areas unobtrusively and run the combination of samples through that new process they've discovered to individualize the data from mixed samples, then cross-reference it with the database to data-mine mass surveillance on the general populace.
I just did a google news search, and nobody outside the ars technica/slashdot crowd has stories listed for this.
The fact that such a huge coalition is being ignored by CNN, NBC, ABC, REUTERS, et. al. shows how deeply these news agencies are buried under the thumb of the media cartels.
Positively disgusting.
the answer, of course, is the backstreet boys.