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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Savannah, Georgia
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Ted is on a roll, what did he rant?
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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I shouldn't even reply to this knowing that you are a troll not a person, but I keep thinking you want to be a human being.
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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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He said Skype is blocked on some wireless carriers. But it turns out Skype is making deal$ with carriers, and three days after the Times story, Skype signed an exclusive deal with Verizon for Verizon to embed a free Skype app on their phones. Nothing to download, it's just there and works.
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Read? I only know how to write.
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In earlier days, a mobile phone contained functions that the mobile carrier might disable before selling it. For example, a wireless carrier might not want a working timer that let you know how many minutes are available before paying 'excess use' penalties. That worked when the Nokia phone was only sold by your carrier. Today, phones from Google, Apple, etc mean any phone must work on any carrier. Phones that permit third party apps. Carriers are losing more control of their network. Carriers are becoming more data transport companies - less information providers. Carriers will resist this 'net neutrality' on their networks as much as possible. But the Verizon deal with Skype suggests resistance is futile. Once you could only connect AT&T equipment on the phone system. Then a court ruling said anyone else's phones could be purchased and used. AT&T tried to restrict modem access by requiring an expensive network interface. Eventually that also went away. Since AT&T made inferior (overpriced) modems, suddenly an entire industry prospered making better, cheaper, and faster modems. Back then it took a Supreme Court ruling to permit innovation. Today (and hopefully), free market forces will change mobile carriers into nothing more than data transport providers. That is a characteristic of net neutrality - expanding from the internet into telephones. |
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Read? I only know how to write.
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The FCC has tried to regulate net neutrality. As expected, a Federal court says nobody can require net neutrality. From the NY Times:
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As posted earlier, this is the data transporters attempting to subvert the information providers. People who wanted to surcharge Google now have the right to (barring a Supreme Court review). Or as the NY Times notes: Quote:
The FCC really had little right to demand net neutrality. Having subverted the 1996 Federal Communications Act (Clinton's effort to created net neutrality and what made a 15 year old technology called DSL possible) and now undermining the FCC, big business has the right to increase America's internet prices which have been rising significantly compared to the rest of the world. Another legacy of the George Jr administration. Despite wacko extremists who will reply, that is when attackes on net neutrality started and were encouraged by the White House. |
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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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In other news, bittorrent added encryption to its protocol three years ago.
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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
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Yes I'm being serious here.
tw - your last post is confusing Quote:
the last paragraph mixes tenses and . . . I really cannot follow whatever your point is.
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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He should have said the republicans in congress, instead of just congress, but I believe he's referring to congress' inability to work on anything bipartisan that would benefit the country (us), because of the want Obama to fail attitude by the disloyal opposition.
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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The internet is for PORN!!!
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Read? I only know how to write.
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Master of the Domain
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Quick! Start downloading whole damned thing "internet" on your hard disks before they start asking for money!
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
Join Date: Dec 2005
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That's right! That's why Patriotic Americans will NEVER let the internet be over!
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