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Comment Re:Get off your butts slashdotters (Score 1) 182

Just remember, people with cancer who complained about how Obamacare was hurting them and their treatments were FOUND OUT TO BE dirty filthy liars and then were audited by the IRS.

Fixed that for you, you fucking AC shill.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ri...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Math, it's what for dinner.

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Major ISPs Threaten To Throttle Innovation and Slow Network Upgrades 286

An anonymous reader writes "In a letter released on Tuesday and addressed to the FCC chairman, a group of the U.S.'s top ISPs have warned that if the FCC re-classifies the internet as telecommunications, then innovation would slow or halt and network upgrades would be unaffordable. 'Under Title II, new service offerings, options, and features would be delayed or altogether foregone. Consumers would face less choice, and a less adaptive and responsive Internet. An era of differentiation, innovation, and experimentation would be replaced with a series of 'Government may I?' requests from American entrepreneurs.' They add, 'even the potential threat of Title II had an investment-chilling effect by erasing approximately 10% of some ISPs' market cap.' Ars Technica highlights earlier doomsday predictions by AT&T. The FCC is scheduled to vote May 15 on the chairman's recent proposal encompassing this reclassification option that the ISPs vehemently oppose." Reader Bob9113 adds that a protest is planned for the same day by those who oppose the FCC's plans.

Comment Re:Not the Opposite of Reality (Score 1) 282

All of their customers

going to their local governments and demanding an end to the franchise agreements that have locked them into a crappy duopoly (at best).

Finished That For You.

This actually happened years ago where I live. The problem is you just get one monopoly replaced with another (in all honestly, just slightly better & much more expensive) monopoly. We will never really have choice & competition until the "last mile" is regulated as a public utility.

Comment Re:Awful (Score 1) 293

The thing would not download updates. It would just say "Downloading updates..." and stall for hours at a time. I searched as much as I could online and only found barely any help. Most of it involved stopping the windows update agent service, and then deleting cached update files. But then it would just freeze again when I started it again. After a whole bunch of attempts, I noticed it was filling up the cache folder again after every time I restarted the update service, and that if I waited a bit, and then rebooted the computer, it would apply a few patches.

I've seen several XP sytems do something very similar, but it kept processor usage around 90%-100% the whole time it was downloading. The hotfix that was supposed to fix the issue was useless, all you could really do was not use the PC while it was updating. After a certain point / update this behavior would stop. Was never sure which update fixed it because I didn't have time do one update at a time.

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