Any sources or citations to share? Not sure I agree with that characterization... I only get periodic updates from groups I've joined, and those can be switched off.
NYPD is probably already there, just like with the African shopping mall crisis, pretending they have standing, and interfering with legitimate local jurisdictions.
While it's true that cable/telco/ISP's are the logical heirs to the telephony monopoly, there's a crucial foundation missing: Old-school copper telcos were correctly termed "common carriers", clearly indicating their role as providers of essential, but content-agnostic, infrastructure.
If Verizon and Comcast today took that same role, they'd maintain separate content divisions that handed off to, but received no special favors from, their core transport technologies. A similar structure was put in place after Judge Green dissolved the AT&T monopoly... an elaborate arrangement where CLEC's could create their own phone companies, and connect directly to the network itself. (Each one had an actual closet at the local telco exchange where they could house equipment.)
Sometimes, it's hard to declare unilaterally that free market is best, and any form of regulation is evil...
Really, folks? Hit the "report" button every time we disagree with someone? I can see that for the haters, flamers and ranting lunatics; but this seems like a civil, rational discussion to me. Disappointing.
"The core technology behind them is the Internet..."
No American auto manufacturer would have a platform for their products without publicly-funded roadways to drive on. Nationalize them all, right?
And once the government nationalizes corporations, we can look forward to the same efficient management it brings to all its endeavors. (Please don't mention the Veterans Administration, etc...)
Pre-Internet, telco employees would routinely get their jollies by monitoring late night bedroom conversations... phone sex, essentially. According to people I knew, CO (central office) technical staff were expected to monitor "line quality" by listening to random calls; and once you found something steamy, the monitoring might just go on and on and on. Ahh, good times.
Recently bought off-brand refill ink cartridges for two different household inkjets, and guess what? The printer wants to read a proprietary embedded chip before permitting operation. Is that for technical reasons? How about "inkjet safety"... nobody wants caustic ink sprayed on their mucus membranes! Must be that.
No, the absence of a correctly-formatted chip causes on-screen warning messages... kind of like the VHS FBI warning... that you're not using genuine manufacturer-branded cartridges, available for a mere 200% premium. Effectively disables operation. DRM rules, baby!
Texas A&M sued by Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham and Paddy Chayefsky, from beyond the grave, over potential confusion between "The Tenth Man" (each author used that title for a play or book) and their stupid football cheer.
I'm mostly confused as to why a trademark was granted. Great danger of confusion over that.
Not that this mitigates blame, but... I have no doubt that someone... a line producer or video editor... spotted this chestnut and allowed it to remain. Prevailing attitude: "Not my job to blur it, unless you ask me specifically."
I used to use distributed search engines. One was called AltaVista, one was called AskJeeves, and there were these other up-and-comers called Google and Yahoo. Seldom saw the same results; and, devoid of AI algorithms, you could search for literal phrases, booleans and directory paths. Ahhh, the good ol' days...
The "power up" thing has generated quite a buzz, pardon the expression, but I clearly remember a time when that was pretty much standard -- don't fly with a device that wouldn't switch on. For us TV people, it meant don't pack the broadcast-camera batteries in the checked luggage... keep at least one with the carried-on camera. Can't say when that policy was ever rescinded, actually.
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No truth, but no consequences
Why does that never happen? The "penalty of perjury" part?
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Guilty as charged
Much akin to last week's "... outright challenges to my authority."
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Re:
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Time for smart bullet deployment
On the post: Parallel Conduct: How ISPs Make The Consolidated Internet Service Market Even Worse
The rules have changed
If Verizon and Comcast today took that same role, they'd maintain separate content divisions that handed off to, but received no special favors from, their core transport technologies. A similar structure was put in place after Judge Green dissolved the AT&T monopoly... an elaborate arrangement where CLEC's could create their own phone companies, and connect directly to the network itself. (Each one had an actual closet at the local telco exchange where they could house equipment.)
Sometimes, it's hard to declare unilaterally that free market is best, and any form of regulation is evil...
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Re: innovation without patents
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Where does it end?
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Re:
On the post: Internet Industry Hate Taken To Insane Levels: Ridiculous Proposals To 'Nationalize' Successful Internet Companies
Grab them all
No American auto manufacturer would have a platform for their products without publicly-funded roadways to drive on. Nationalize them all, right?
And once the government nationalizes corporations, we can look forward to the same efficient management it brings to all its endeavors. (Please don't mention the Veterans Administration, etc...)
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Seizure fever
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That name again
On the post: Snowden Says NSA Employees 'Routinely' Passed Around Naked Photos That Had Been Intercepted
Old-school version
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On the post: Keurig Begins Demonstrating Its Coffee DRM System; As Expected, It Has Nothing To Do With 'Safety'
Re: Lexmark tried this same crap with their ink cartridges.
On the post: Keurig Begins Demonstrating Its Coffee DRM System; As Expected, It Has Nothing To Do With 'Safety'
Sounds familiar
No, the absence of a correctly-formatted chip causes on-screen warning messages... kind of like the VHS FBI warning... that you're not using genuine manufacturer-branded cartridges, available for a mere 200% premium. Effectively disables operation. DRM rules, baby!
On the post: Texas A&M Plays Hardball With A Double Amputee Over 12th Man Trademark
This just in
Texas A&M sued by Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham and Paddy Chayefsky, from beyond the grave, over potential confusion between "The Tenth Man" (each author used that title for a play or book) and their stupid football cheer.
I'm mostly confused as to why a trademark was granted. Great danger of confusion over that.
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Even simpler to remember than Cwf + RtB... words to live by. Business majors: quick trip to the tattoo shop, I think.
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Sounds familiar
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