The technology to do real-time deep packet inspection is getting more and more mature. It's possible now for ISPs, if they spend the money, to differentiate P2P, Video, Gaming, VOIP et cetera type traffic in real time using rules more sophisticated than simple IP filters. It is a big investment to install the equipment and software to implement, so the ISPs want to make sure there will be no legal challenges before they start rolling it out any more blatantly.

Unlikely. AT&T and VZ are gearing up for 5G expansion which is going to require them to have denser tower footprints. They'll still need all their existing tower locations as well, and will be using those existing towers in many cases as part of their fronthaul for the new towers.

The other carriers are going to have to solve this problem as well, which is one reason T-Mobile and Sprint were looking at getting hitched.

'Wood' has fewer letters than 'Concrete' therefore you save electricity every time you type it. Don't be such a climate change denier / fossil fuel apologist.

They scaled back the effort because it was much more difficult than expected and they are losing money on it. They found out they couldn't 'disrupt' fiber into the ground and that it's expensive to provide support for thousands of residential customers. They proved their point and scared a few of their competitors into moving forward with fiber rollout, in most cases more effectively than G-Fs.

Which is exactly what Apple is trying not to do. They are trying to use their size to squeeze their suppliers and the people who contributed to the R&D behind all the current technology.

I use the fingerprint reader. It's quick enough that you wouldn't see me doing it unless you were paying attention.

...and by the time they're really integrated it will be time to roll out 5G anyway, which is likely a big driver of this merger. Without it neither will be able to afford to roll out 5G networks until long after AT&T and VZ are mostly finished.

Nobody is that interested in selling ads to virgins though.

The free market prioritizes both the buyer and seller pretty well in general. The problem here is that the 143 million people affected by this aren't really Equifax's customers. Their customers are the lenders, credit card agencies, landlords et cetera. The average person like you and me aren't really even part of the transaction and that's why the Free Market doesn't give us any recourse on it's own. We can't take our business elsewhere, because we didn't want to be in Equifax's database in the first place. Unfortunately, Equifax donated generously to both parties in 2016, especially to the eventual winning color, so they'll probably come out of this with a wrist slap.
https://www.opensecrets.org/pa...

The brand new Nokia 3310? http://gadgets.ndtv.com/nokia-...

Privacy Badger from the EFF in my case. It's currently blocking 20 trackers on this page.

They're not losing money. They don't get charged per-byte for backhaul or peering. They are doing this to allow them to delay network upgrades and to provide a competitive advantage to their own product. https://www.verizonwireless.co...

Sounds like he's a diploma-mill coder who doesn't understand such things. 3 months was probably his entire career...

Because the White House didn't want to make it seem like Bannon resigned or got pushed out as a result of what happened there. Correlation = Causation in the minds of 99% of people.

Above a certain pay grade nobody ever gets fired, they just resign. The question is; did they jump or were they pushed?