Could you list the terrible things occurring in 2015 that both forced the hand of government to enact "net neutrality" and why it precludes returning to the regulatory environment of 2015?
Here we go, and when this is over I expect you to apologize to the entire class for being such a dumbass...
MADISON RIVER: In 2005, North Carolina ISP Madison River Communications blocked the voice-over-internet protocol (VOIP) service Vonage. Vonage filed a complaint with the FCC after receiving a slew of customer complaints. The FCC stepped in to sanction Madison River and prevent further blocking, but it lacks the authority to stop this kind of abuse today.
COMCAST: In 2005, the nation’s largest ISP, Comcast, began secretly blocking peer-to-peer technologies that its customers were using over its network. Users of services like BitTorrent and Gnutella were unable to connect to these services. 2007 investigations from the Associated Press, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others confirmed that Comcast was indeed blocking or slowing file-sharing applications without disclosing this fact to its customers.
TELUS: In 2005, Canada’s second-largest telecommunications company, Telus, began blocking access to a server that hosted a website supporting a labor strike against the company. Researchers at Harvard and the University of Toronto found that this action resulted in Telus blocking an additional 766 unrelated sites.
AT&T: From 2007–2009, AT&T forced Apple to block Skype and other competing VOIP phone services on the iPhone. The wireless provider wanted to prevent iPhone users from using any application that would allow them to make calls on such “over-the-top” voice services. The Google Voice app received similar treatment from carriers like AT&T when it came on the scene in 2009.
WINDSTREAM: In 2010, Windstream Communications, a DSL provider with more than 1 million customers at the time, copped to hijacking user-search queries made using the Google toolbar within Firefox. Users who believed they had set the browser to the search engine of their choice were redirected to Windstream’s own search portal and results.
MetroPCS: In 2011, MetroPCS, at the time one of the top-five U.S. wireless carriers, announced plans to block streaming video over its 4G network from all sources except YouTube. MetroPCS then threw its weight behind Verizon’s court challenge against the FCC’s 2010 open internet ruling, hoping that rejection of the agency’s authority would allow the company to continue its anti-consumer practices.
PAXFIRE: In 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation found that several small ISPs were redirecting search queries via the vendor Paxfire. The ISPs identified in the initial Electronic Frontier Foundation report included Cavalier, Cogent, Frontier, Fuse, DirecPC, RCN and Wide Open West. Paxfire would intercept a person’s search request at Bing and Yahoo and redirect it to another page. By skipping over the search service’s results, the participating ISPs would collect referral fees for delivering users to select websites.
AT&T, SPRINT and VERIZON: From 2011–2013, AT&T, Sprint and Verizon blocked Google Wallet, a mobile-payment system that competed with a similar service called Isis, which all three companies had a stake in developing.
VERIZON: In 2012, the FCC caught Verizon Wireless blocking people from using tethering applications on their phones. Verizon had asked Google to remove 11 free tethering applications from the Android marketplace. These applications allowed users to circumvent Verizon’s $20 tethering fee and turn their smartphones into Wi-Fi hot spots. By blocking those applications, Ve
It always makes me wonder how it could feel like being an indifferent moron like you and the likes of you. Living under a rock, poking and yelling at everyone, calling them names and feeling good about it. It must feel awesome to have such a self confidence.
Can you imagine believing "I'm against Net Neutrality 'cause it triggers the libs" is a cogent political opinion?
I thought you were no longer allowed to use that term [slashdot.org]. How about "fact-based according to a someone who admits he doesn't know what he is talking about"?
Why are you discriminating against people who don't know what they're talking about? In 2017 America, someone who doesn't know what he's talking about is given control of our nuclear weapons.
Better advice instead is when you read "CDC" to remember it as "CDC" and not change it to "government-funded scientific organizations."
The CDC Is not the only scientific organization that has received directives banning certain words during the Trump regime. That's why I made it more inclusive.
"I'm no expert at anything, but I know that's a fact."
This is the quote of 2017.
And all of you haters and losers making fun of this guy, why do you hate diverse viewpoints in science? It's about time we had more Trump-supporting scientists.
I've read the original WaPo report on this *carefully*, and at present the effect is limited to budgetary documents that are being sent to Congress. It does not affect working scientists or epidemiologists...
I'm pretty sure scientists or epidemiologists are not likely to use words like, "science-based" or "evidence-based", because duh.
Why is the Trump administration banning words at all?
While China is exerting its technical superiority, here in the US, the regime in power has banned the use of the phrases, "science-based" and "evidence-based" from government-funded scientific organizations.
Funny how you give a pass to 1 private entity, but you want governement intervention for the other.
You can use the internet without Google. You cannot use the internet without your ISP. And 40% of the US has access to only one option for a broadband provider.
Because the Daily Caller did the leg work to get it restored following the Harlem Shake copyright notice:
That's some censorsheep if the video of Ajit Pai doing the Harlem Shake with Pizzagate girl was unavailable for a whole three minutes.
Slashdot Mirror
Then it's a good thing that Net Neutrality rules don't put the government in control of the internet.
And yet, the murderer was one of the alt-right jackoffs.
And we encourage straight talk by banning words?
Hmm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...
You want them in chronological order? I mean, you could have just googled it for yourself. https://www.freepress.net/blog...
Here we go, and when this is over I expect you to apologize to the entire class for being such a dumbass...
MADISON RIVER: In 2005, North Carolina ISP Madison River Communications blocked the voice-over-internet protocol (VOIP) service Vonage. Vonage filed a complaint with the FCC after receiving a slew of customer complaints. The FCC stepped in to sanction Madison River and prevent further blocking, but it lacks the authority to stop this kind of abuse today.
COMCAST: In 2005, the nation’s largest ISP, Comcast, began secretly blocking peer-to-peer technologies that its customers were using over its network. Users of services like BitTorrent and Gnutella were unable to connect to these services. 2007 investigations from the Associated Press, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others confirmed that Comcast was indeed blocking or slowing file-sharing applications without disclosing this fact to its customers.
TELUS: In 2005, Canada’s second-largest telecommunications company, Telus, began blocking access to a server that hosted a website supporting a labor strike against the company. Researchers at Harvard and the University of Toronto found that this action resulted in Telus blocking an additional 766 unrelated sites.
AT&T: From 2007–2009, AT&T forced Apple to block Skype and other competing VOIP phone services on the iPhone. The wireless provider wanted to prevent iPhone users from using any application that would allow them to make calls on such “over-the-top” voice services. The Google Voice app received similar treatment from carriers like AT&T when it came on the scene in 2009.
WINDSTREAM: In 2010, Windstream Communications, a DSL provider with more than 1 million customers at the time, copped to hijacking user-search queries made using the Google toolbar within Firefox. Users who believed they had set the browser to the search engine of their choice were redirected to Windstream’s own search portal and results.
MetroPCS: In 2011, MetroPCS, at the time one of the top-five U.S. wireless carriers, announced plans to block streaming video over its 4G network from all sources except YouTube. MetroPCS then threw its weight behind Verizon’s court challenge against the FCC’s 2010 open internet ruling, hoping that rejection of the agency’s authority would allow the company to continue its anti-consumer practices.
PAXFIRE: In 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation found that several small ISPs were redirecting search queries via the vendor Paxfire. The ISPs identified in the initial Electronic Frontier Foundation report included Cavalier, Cogent, Frontier, Fuse, DirecPC, RCN and Wide Open West. Paxfire would intercept a person’s search request at Bing and Yahoo and redirect it to another page. By skipping over the search service’s results, the participating ISPs would collect referral fees for delivering users to select websites.
AT&T, SPRINT and VERIZON: From 2011–2013, AT&T, Sprint and Verizon blocked Google Wallet, a mobile-payment system that competed with a similar service called Isis, which all three companies had a stake in developing.
VERIZON: In 2012, the FCC caught Verizon Wireless blocking people from using tethering applications on their phones. Verizon had asked Google to remove 11 free tethering applications from the Android marketplace. These applications allowed users to circumvent Verizon’s $20 tethering fee and turn their smartphones into Wi-Fi hot spots. By blocking those applications, Ve
Show of hands: How many of you believe that Ajit Pai's crusade to end Net Neutrality is about "restoring the open internet"?
Can you imagine believing "I'm against Net Neutrality 'cause it triggers the libs" is a cogent political opinion?
Why are you discriminating against people who don't know what they're talking about? In 2017 America, someone who doesn't know what he's talking about is given control of our nuclear weapons.
Get with the times, man.
It's more than semantics. There are nothing even resembling tax rebates in the GOP tax bill.
So if you're "calculating your upcoming tax rebates", I can help you out. Just put a big "0" on the line.
The CDC Is not the only scientific organization that has received directives banning certain words during the Trump regime. That's why I made it more inclusive.
There is a heroic aspect to The Matrix that is not found in the tech industry. This is a problem with using any movie to depict tech work.
If a movie were to depict tech work accurately, no one would see it because it would be too depressing.
The most accurate filmed depiction of working in tech is Fritz Lang's Metropolis. I am not joking.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hpI...
This is the quote of 2017.
And all of you haters and losers making fun of this guy, why do you hate diverse viewpoints in science? It's about time we had more Trump-supporting scientists.
Yes, but only as the punchline to a joke.
Yesss.
I've gotten the list of words that will be banned on Slashdot in 2018:
- cryptocurrency
- malware
- systemd
- unicode
- diversity
- indochimp
- Russia
- artificial intelligence
Make that "clean coal".
You've got to be joking. You can't possibly be that dumb.
Here in Soviet California, grad student's AI runs on YOU.
I'm pretty sure scientists or epidemiologists are not likely to use words like, "science-based" or "evidence-based", because duh.
Why is the Trump administration banning words at all?
I suppose we should wait until the Trump administration tells the Department of Energy that they're banning the words "radiation" and "nuclear waste".
This from the crowd that brought you Pizzagate.
While China is exerting its technical superiority, here in the US, the regime in power has banned the use of the phrases, "science-based" and "evidence-based" from government-funded scientific organizations.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
We are so fucked.
He's got an iPhone, which shows signal strength as a series of progressively longer butt plugs.
You can use the internet without Google. You cannot use the internet without your ISP. And 40% of the US has access to only one option for a broadband provider.
That's some censorsheep if the video of Ajit Pai doing the Harlem Shake with Pizzagate girl was unavailable for a whole three minutes.