From my persepctive this does indeed prove that Reuters DO care about their community - a literate comment there, let alone a substantive or relevant one, was a rare thing
Doesn't this say just as much about their failure to curate and moderate? Yes, comments suck when nobody from the site participates or moderates effectively.
I don't go to Reuters to have an intelligent conversation, I go there to read their articles.
Not sure that YOU specifically not liking comments is a justification for getting rid of them.
As the piece notes I THINK Netflix is the "innocent" party here as well, but the fact ISPs didn't sign up for Netflix's free Open Connect CDN doesn't somehow magically settle the issue of whether or not ISPs intentionally caused a logjam. Only seeing the raw data will finally settle the issue.
They only agreed to adhere to the old FCC neutrality rules that didn't do much of anything in the first place. All they really did is prevent outright ham-fisted blocking or heavy throttling of websites and services. Everything else can be wiggled around if you make some half-assed claims it's for the security and integrity of the network.
No, I imagine Verizon won't be sympathetic. :) They want you to reach your shared data cap limit any way possible and start incurring those $10-15 per GB overage fees.
This is just a string of text, so not much bandwidth is consumed. Ads in general though do erode your usage allotment. AT&T is experimenting with a system that will let advertisers and content companies pay them an additional premium for their content and ads NOT counting against the usage cap, however.
Generally those carterfone conditions don't mean much, and I've watched as they've trampled them time and time again. You can violate them provided you declare your behavior (whether that's blocking Google wallet or disabling tethering) is for the security and integrity of the network. Throw some faux-technical justifications out there for whatever you're doing, and the FCC goes and takes a nap.
Exactly. Game construction requires music, art, artificial intelligence technology, writing, entire 3D generated worlds, etc. They're art (though granted there's a lot of bad art). I generally find that people eager to denigrate their value haven't played one since Atari 2600's ET.
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Well yes, AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein already illustrated that the dividing line between AT&T and the NSA is pretty fuzzy, with live fiber splits made available in AT&T network centers already.
That's what I love about these issues, is that these companies have a generation of bad behavior on the books, but every time they apply for a merger, ask for deregulation, or demand favors they promise to be on their best behavior (and by and large the press ignores the history of issues). I'm not sure where or when as a culture we'll just stop believing them and tell them to go home.
Do we really know Cisco didn't know about the "interception" of this gear? Isn't it possible this is just a big show of faux shock? I simply don't buy the NSA indignation and surprise from some of these companies post Snowden (Microsoft also comes to mind).
After all, Cisco is a big player behind the pushes to accuse Huawei of spying:
"It seems to me that this entire excavation was actually a trap set up by moderation to destroy people who were trusting enough to think that moderation was actually going to allow a rational discussion on adblock." Which would be even lamer than what I surmised above.
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Unless you're somebody like Brett Swanson, who is known to take money from the telecom industry to push inaccurate facts and anti-consumer policy. (he coined the "Exaflood" term and also helped push "intelligent design"): http://www.techpolicydaily.com/internet/caused-web-slow-down-comcast-twc-verizon/
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After all, Cisco is a big player behind the pushes to accuse Huawei of spying:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/huaweis-us-competitors-among-those-pushing- for-scrutiny-of-chinese-tech-firm/2012/10/10/b84d8d16-1256-11e2-a16b-2c110031514a_story.html
That kind of protectionism goes hand in hand with doing what government wants.
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