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08-02-2008, 10:14 AM
|  | Horrendiculous! | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: S. Jerksey
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| | | Eat it, fatty! Boink!
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08-02-2008, 11:05 AM
|  | m00tini! | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Some Hotel Somewhere
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 : 78 th | | | Well good. I mean, the Hollywood and RIAA lobbyists were panting over the prospect of this going though, but level heads seemed to have come out on top. You can't shut down an entire technology because it can be used in nefarious ways. That's like saying we should outlaw cars because you can use them to getaway from the police in a car chase after robbing a bank. |
08-02-2008, 11:07 AM
|  | Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The arctic North Coast
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| | | Kudos for the FCC... for once... they got it right.
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08-02-2008, 11:08 AM
| | Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The arctic North Coast
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Originally Posted by Craig  | Or outlawing delicious doughnuts because the Office Idiot eats 6-8 in a sitting!
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08-02-2008, 12:20 PM
| | Horrendiculous! | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: S. Jerksey
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| | | good analogy Craig. I hate Comcast. So I'm glad for this just out of spite
I like how they are trying to cry wolf because they're network is SOOOO used. Well, isn't that the goal of Comcast, to have a lot of subscribers? So then, once they get people paying for unlimited internet, they two-face and say 'we have to throttle you because we're a victim of your surfing habits'.
fuck them!
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08-02-2008, 01:05 PM
|  | FIGHT! | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Boston, MA
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: 64 th | | | true, comcast fucked over out bill for 4 months in a row, so we downgraded to basic cable, and not using them next year, after we move to another apt.
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08-02-2008, 01:13 PM
|  | Usr1718(been here awhile) | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Volant, PA
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| | | This condemnation is welcomed, but little more than typical political posturing.
The SaveTheInternet.com folks and others acting in the interest of network neutrality want federal legislation to prevent ISPs from acting as Comcast has. This is well and good, but it prevents the people from being responsible for their own connections. If such legislation is passed and is poorly worded (as Congress will inevitably do since it collectively doesn't understand Internet technology), it would surely affect, or even prohibit, the use of QoS tools at the sub-ISP level, i.e. schools and apartments and municipal networks, and force everyone to follow more federal legislation.
What really needs to happen to ensure network neutrality is not legislation, but education. When a company does something which violates NN, that company must be punished publicly, by videos, articles, and radio ads blasting it for violating the trust of its users.
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