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Comment Re:No Way! (Score 1) 261

Then call it 'Simulated 3D'. It has to be called 3D because it isn't 3D. We don't call TVs 2D because they are 2D and it would be redundant. This is pretending to be 3D and so has to be called 3D to distinguish it from normal 2D sets.

No amount of hashing will change the fact that the set you're watching is a 2D image manipulated to make you're brain *think* it's seeing a 3D image. That's not 3D, that's Simulated 3D with all the downsides of trying to make 3D simulation on a 2D medium.

Comment Re:"Commercially unreasonable" (Score 1) 182

Agreed. It would be nice to have such competition. It's basically how Europe is providing cellphone coverage. A utility network that everybody uses - you can switch providers with ease.

Unfortunately our entrenched monopolies have fought municipal ISPs tooth and nail because they know that when another option exists, people will leave them in droves.

Comment Re:"Commercially unreasonable" (Score 1) 182

For every other major household service the last mile is a 'utility'. Specifically because you don't want 14 sets of gas lines, water lines, electric lines running all over your city.

Providing service to homes is a natural monopoly and why it needs to be a government provided, or heavily regulated, utility.

The tricky part is electric, gas and water delivery doesn't really change much over decades, and internet does. Not sure we've figured out exactly how to do that yet, but what we are doing was good to build out the network. It just doesn't work well for maintaining it as it gives a monopoly.

Hell in New Jersey, Verizon was *supposed* to be providing far more service across the state a decade ago than they currently do. And yet, NJ just decided that since Verizon is providing 4G wireless access, that will count as completing the work. Wireless != Wired...period. Verizon shouldn't be given another franchise agreement to be the monopoly provider when they haven't met their original goals at all.

Comment Re:Just declare them common carriers (Score 5, Insightful) 182

I loved how the ISPs were quoted as saying common carrier status would 'force them to spend less on infrastructure and be less innovative'. Uh, no, that's what a 'monopoly' does...and what most ISP are. Yes there are also generally franchise agreements but those have far less teeth than actual competition for their customers...

Comment Re:Tears of a clown (Score 1) 149

The case you describe would be plausible but relatively intermittent. You could of course say that well maybe it was just too much traffic at the choke point continually.

Except that people have actually confirmed ComCast was deliberately degrading Netflix. Hell, Level 3 squarely pointed the finger at Comcast. Comcast has been just selectively letting it's peer connections languish to 'punish' certain peers. Level 3 specifically since it's part of Netflix's CDN...

Comment Re:Tears of a clown (Score 2) 149

Yes he has it backwards. He's claiming that different service tiers are akin to 'fast lanes'. They aren't. They are just how fast he's allowed to 'consume' any content he requests. Netflix's connection speed is irrelevant to his connection tier.

If I'm getting data significantly faster from my ISP's streaming service than from Netflix or Youtube, then something is configured to provide different service levels...and that's the problem.

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