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I know very lttle about this, but some think this is very important. Anyone know more about it and its implications?
http://gizmodo.com/5605310/google-just-killed-net-neutrality
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts
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How will this affect pr0n download rates?
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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EsnRedshirt Special user Newark, CA 895 Posts
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Balducci- if you buy the "comcast pr0n package", you'll get lightning fast download rates. If you don't, you'll think you're back on a 9600 baud modem.
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3528 Posts
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The FCC said afterwards that it was still committed to net neutrality. But it's hard for me to type that and keep a straight face at the same time...
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts
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What is pr0n?
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EsnRedshirt Special user Newark, CA 895 Posts
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Landmark, it's netslang, designed to "outwit" filters or content scanners back in days of old. Make the 0 an o, then flip it with the R, and you'll see exactly what it is.
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts
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Net neutrality as I understand is the only thing that will stop the large corporation from totallt controling the internet. Unless the FCC gets off their butts the internet will be under the controle of corporations like Comcast, Verizon, and Google.
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epoptika Elite user Florida 477 Posts
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3528 Posts
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On 2010-08-06 23:01, Al Angello wrote: I believe that is the intention, and the plan. Before this, they (the companies) just didn't know HOW to kill the internet. Now that they've figured it out, it's only a matter of time before all of "mainstream america" is only looking at what "they" want them to look at. Those of us on the edge will still have an internet, but very few people other than "us" (and the FBI, I guess) will have much real access to it... The 'Fiber is still gonna be free (I think...) but all the traffic will be throttled at the ISP level.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts
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The 'Fiber? Doesn't all consumer traffic go through some kind of ISP?
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts
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We can only hope that the chairmen of the FCC will stand up to the large corporations.
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3528 Posts
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On 2010-08-07 07:03, landmark wrote: Yes, but anyone with the proper equipment and $$$ can be an "ISP" with their own T1 or (soon) T5 backbone -relatively speaking, it isn't all that expensive... Serious mofo's can always opt for satellite... There is very little chance that even the big boys would be able to regulate anyone's satellite uplink. Quote:
On 2010-08-07 09:32, Al Angello wrote: Don't bet on it...
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epoptika Elite user Florida 477 Posts
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You might go to http://www.MoveOn.org and sign their petition to try to stop the corporate takeover of the internet. Then pass the word to all your friends.
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epoptika Elite user Florida 477 Posts
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Gaddy,
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3528 Posts
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On 2010-08-07 19:49, epoptika wrote: Hemlock.
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Cyberqat Inner circle You can tell I work on the net from my 2209 Posts
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On 2010-08-07 16:07, gaddy wrote: It is if you want to run your own backbone, that's coast to coast fiber you have to lay. Satellite is impractical for any near-realtime applications due to huge latencies in communication. (The speed of light gets you. Geo-synchronous orbit is much further away then many people realize.) So while anyone can be a local ISP, they all depend on a small number of very large telcos to reach the rest of the net,
It is always darkest just before you are eaten by a grue.
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3528 Posts
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On 2010-08-08 00:39, Cyberqat wrote: I believe the courts have ruled that the telcos must lease fiber to anyone who can buy it. What the cartel's pricing is like compared to their actual cost -I have no idea... Also, there are a few municipalities who have laid their own fiber. Curiously, the big telcos FOUGHT LIKE RABID DOGS TO HAVE THAT BUSINESS STOPPED...
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epoptika Elite user Florida 477 Posts
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The corporations do a very good job of convincing the sheep that anything that might interfere with their relentless redistribution of this country's wealth from the middle-class and poor to the wealthy 10% (or 5%, or 1%) at the top is "evil socialism". We are rapidly becoming transformed into a third world banana republic.
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epoptika Elite user Florida 477 Posts
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I firmly believe it is time to take some lessons from the French revolution and bring back the guillotine.
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Cyberqat Inner circle You can tell I work on the net from my 2209 Posts
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Well, the french were a trifle over-zealous in he use of that device.
As one whose head might be a candidate (although Im certainly not rich enough to be aristocracy in this country, at east not yet) I'd rather proper redistribution of wealth happened *without* the death of any who happen to have it now 
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