In my experience each stream of 802.11ac in the real world has the same bandwidth of a 100Mb network link. If you go triple stream, you'll be getting about 300Mbps (despite the 1.2Gbps "rating"). There really is no substitute for wired. I just bought a house a few months ago and one of the first things I did was drop CAT6A in as many rooms as I could. It's a pain in the ass since it's an existing 2 story home, but again, there is no substitute for wired.

Population density is a problem of backbone infrastructure, not last mile infrastructure. The US is on par or better than most nations in the world when it comes to our backbone infrastructure; it's our last mile that equates to a 3rd world internet (at above first world prices). You have only 1 or 2 companies to blame which vary depending upon your market, and that is exactly the problem.

So which telecom company do you work for? Multiple Verizon references makes me think you work for them...

You have 3 more choices than I do then, living in one of the largest markets in the US (Dallas-Fort Worth). Additionally, the Swedish model is simultaneously a monopoly and not a monopoly. The infrastructure is provided by the government, but the service is provided by any of a multitude of companies. Personally I think this model is ideal and wish it would be adopted more here in the US. I don't care if the network is owned by a government or highly regulated monopoly, I just think separating service and infrastructure makes sense. It's exactly how we handle our power today where I live. Oncor runs all of the infrastructure, and I get to pick whichever power company I choose. I want that, but for Internet.

They're not bitching about fairness. They're trying to delegitimize the 3.7 million comments of which a cursory sampling shows about 99% in favor of greater net neutrality protections. They can't even fake the kind of groundswell support net neutrality got, so they're trying to make it look like an orchestrated movement instead.

Then maybe they should be using a series of Pirate Boxes (http://piratebox.cc/)? Although they would only exist in smaller nodes, since they currently don't all mesh together it would still allow you to chat and post pictures/files anonymously, all without going online.

Once Amazon started selling MP3s, I jumped ship from iTunes and never looked back. I imagine even if there was no court order mandating they remove DRM they would have for competitive reasons anyway. Apple may have market power, but not enough to kill the MP3 format I reckon, and it is support for this format that made for a time music purchased from Amazon far better for the iPod than music purchased from iTunes from a consumer standpoint.

I'm taking the supercharger network into account. My concern lay with the fact that if the car as a 100 mile range I'll be stopping every 75 minutes to charge for 30 minutes. It's not the end of the world (and admittedly a first world type problem), but still a big enough of a hassle.

I live in Texas. I'd love to own a Model 3 when they come out. But I'm on a budget, so if the price is closer to $35k I can do it, but at $50k it's not possible (my budget for cars in the next few years will be around $25k, the lower per mile cost of a Tesla will factor in though). Additionally, being from Texas, I occasionally need to drive long distances and would hope the range can still come in around 250+ at that price point.

While I love and appreciate Tor as a means to remain anonymous online, I work for a company that's the victim of quite a bit of "comment" spam hailing from among other places Tor. The spam ranges from individual businesses promoting themselves for their own benefit under false pretenses, all the way to professional spammers gaming the system (mostly locksmiths). I hope if the Tor network expands the list of exit nodes remains maintained so I can continue to blacklist content from those sources... it's heavy handed but beats swimming in spam.

Unfortunately, you're assuming they will adhere directly to the spec. I happen to have first hand experience at dealing with HP's horrible firmware and can say this will be among the most locked down PCs you can possibly own. Like putting in your own network card, 3G modem, or anything else? Not without HP's blessing you can't. Good at modifying a BIOS? Hope you can break their RSA 2048 bit lock they put in place...

ISPs have no competition, but Youtube, Facebook and Wikipedia do. The only thing those sites would do is shoot themselves in the foot while trying to force an immovable object to bend to their will. Lobbying the FCC on the other hand, that could actually affect change. It would be in the best interest of everyone (excluding short term investors in the various ISPs), with networking equipment manufacturers poised to win the biggest. I think it's all moot though, as Comcast is reportedly very far into their IPv6 rollout, as is Time Warner Cable (I have full dual stack at home with my TWC service). AT&T reportedly has rolled theirs out too, but some customers have experienced issues as the MTU setting is different on IPv6 as it is for IPv4. I also know first hand that Verizon Wireless runs dual stack over their LTE network. At this point, I think it's really just getting the proper equipment in the hands of customers that is the hindrance.

U-Verse is an H.264 IPTV solution (which doesn't support third party hardware, sadly). Most cable operators however still only transmit MPEG-2, though a few are rolling out some channels in H.264.

Texas's income tax rate is 0. Their sales tax rate however is 6.25 to the state and up to 2 percent more for the city and county (just about everywhere in the state charges around 8.25 percent).

Will this "copper wool" be as flammable as steel wool? If so, that could spell trouble.