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Do Your Damnedest In An Ostentatious Manner All The Time!
-General George S. Patton
I'm choosing to mostly ignore your fatuity here and instead overwhelm you with so much data that you'll maybe, just maybe, realize that you have reams to read on this subject before you can contribute meaningfully to any conversation on this topic.
-DOCTOR Wuap
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostI used to be a net neutrality disciple but I am ambivalent at this point. It seems like some of the arguments against this recent action are grossly overblown.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/22/...-ajit-pai-plan
But I don't see a package with CS?!?"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by Uncle Ted View PostYeah, I like how the ISPs package up the internet into little content packages...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/22/...-ajit-pai-plan
But I don't see a package with CS?!?
This is why bots will never fully replace human thinking.Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
"The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by falafel View PostYou didn't even read that link, did you? It actually explains how what you are saying is going to happen is not what is happening in Portugal (the source of the image you linked).
This is why bots will never fully replace human thinking.
If the ISPs did do something like that I would imagine that Onion Routing would get very popular (and the NSA would be mad)."If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by Uncle Ted View PostYeah, I like how the ISPs package up the internet into little content packages...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/22/...-ajit-pai-plan
But I don't see a package with CS?!?τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν
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Uncle Ted, I recognize that you are probably the wrong person to ask, but what is the libertarian spin on this whole thing? For or against net neutrality?"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by Uncle Ted View PostAin't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
"The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostUncle Ted, I recognize that you are probably the wrong person to ask, but what is the libertarian spin on this whole thing? For or against net neutrality?
As an user of the internet I don't want anyone messing with my bits (slowing them down or blocking them) or even looking at them (I am looking at you, NSA). Therefore, in that respect I am for it."If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by All-American View PostThe big news is that napster's back.You're actually pretty funny when you aren't being a complete a-hole....so basically like 5% of the time. --Art Vandelay
Almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. --Jeffrey Lebowski
Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace. --President Donald J. Trump
You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. --William Randolph Hearst
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I don't see the competition in the marketplace that Goat refers to. In my neighborhood, there are only two companies with lines in the ground:
- CenturyLink, which offers DSL and wants to charge me $45 a month for 10Mbps. Yuck.
- Comcast, where I currently get about 240 Mbps right now for $90 a month. This is pretty good as far as residential internet goes but Comcast has got to be one of the most evil corporations in the country and I have no confidence that they won't somehow screw me over some day.
The only choice beyond those two is wireless. Yippee. The satellite ISPs with their 15Mbps offerings are a total joke.
I can't get Google Fiber no matter what I'm willing to pay per month.
I can't get CenturyLink Fiber no matter what I'm willing to pay per month.
I can't get any other service because ISPs have local monopolies because cities don't want every guy with a backhoe to go digging up the streets to lay down their own fiber.
So the fact that local monopolies exist, and the fact that telcos in general and Comcast in particular are known to be evil bastards, makes me favor the net neutrality rules.
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Originally posted by BigFatMeanie View PostI don't see the competition in the marketplace that Goat refers to. In my neighborhood, there are only two companies with lines in the ground:
- CenturyLink, which offers DSL and wants to charge me $45 a month for 10Mbps. Yuck.
- Comcast, where I currently get about 240 Mbps right now for $90 a month. This is pretty good as far as residential internet goes but Comcast has got to be one of the most evil corporations in the country and I have no confidence that they won't somehow screw me over some day.
The only choice beyond those two is wireless. Yippee. The satellite ISPs with their 15Mbps offerings are a total joke.
I can't get Google Fiber no matter what I'm willing to pay per month.
I can't get CenturyLink Fiber no matter what I'm willing to pay per month.
I can't get any other service because ISPs have local monopolies because cities don't want every guy with a backhoe to go digging up the streets to lay down their own fiber.
So the fact that local monopolies exist, and the fact that telcos in general and Comcast in particular are known to be evil bastards, makes me favor the net neutrality rules.
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The FCC and Ajit Pai suck at pr.
The FCC Is Blocking a Law Enforcement Investigation Into Net Neutrality Comment Fraud
In addition, the agency told me there was nothing it could do after someone hijacked my identity to claim I falsely supported killing net neutrality protections.
The FCC is blocking a law enforcement investigation into fraudulent comments designed to provide bogus support for the agency’s looming net neutrality repeal. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently announced his office has been conducting an investigation into who submitted millions of fraudulent comments (some using the identities of dead people) during the public comment period.
The FCC is already facing a lawsuit alleging the agency ignored FOIA requests pertaining to these fake comments. The agency similarly told me there was nothing it could do after someone hijacked my identity to claim I falsely supported killing net neutrality protections.
Detailed analysis of the record 22 million comments filed with the agency indicate the majority of the public overwhelmingly supports keeping the rules intact. But several analysts also found that some group or individual tried to counter this genuine opposition with fake support for the plan. Schneiderman's office believes these comments were filed by a bot that pulled identities from a compromised database of some kind.
According to Schneiderman, his office made nine attempts over a period of five months to obtain server logs, API key details, or other information that could aid his office’s investigation into the identity theft. But in a public letter to FCC boss Ajit Pai, Schneiderman noted that the agency simply refused to aid the investigation in any capacity whatsoever.
“We all have a powerful reason to hold accountable those who would steal Americans’ identities and assault the public’s right to be heard in government rulemaking,” argued Schneiderman. “If law enforcement can’t investigate and (where appropriate) prosecute when it happens on this scale, the door is open for it to happen again and again.”
Last week, the FCC doubled down on its refusal to cooperate in a more formal response to the AG.
In a letter to the AG’s office by FCC General Counsel Thomas Johnson, the agency lawyer again makes it clear the FCC has no interest in helping law enforcement get to the bottom of whoever is behind the farmed support for its repeal. Throughout the letter, Johnson repeatedly tries to imply that the wholesale fraud that occurred is inconsequential.
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