This is the government wanting more intrusive access into your phone. This doesn't have a damn thing to do with theft. Android already has a "where the ****" is my phone, as well as wiping features exposed through Google's device manager service. If you want another party to have access to such functionality you can make that party administrator of your phone such as is often done when connecting your phone to your company's Exchange server.

Sounds like extortion and for that matter a bald faced lie. When the hell did I ever get "smooth" access to Netflix over Crapcast's network?

Ok, how about this. Select a handful of countries with nice pipes and emulate what they did to get to where they are.

The part that I find a little funny is that:

Why would anyone decline restitution unless there's a bit more to the story of how the fire started?

Partly right. If they don't want transmission lines then perhaps they should answer "NIMBY" by using wireless microwave transmission instead?

Do you really think that any cost savings would be passed on to the consumer? They want is to be a 1990's AOL style provider where everything you do exists within the Crapcast ecosystem and then charge you a premium for the favor of restricting your choises.

Looking at the coverage maps, I'd say CenturyLink is really the only direct competitor of consequence for any of them. They are the only ones that seem to have a presence in most of the same markets. Each of the other players seem to have settled down in the respective territories purposefully avoiding one another.

The FCC was/is more interested in pageantry than anything. In typical fashion they avoided strategically valuable hills and planted "Net Neutrality" flags atop indefensible positions that ensured their fighting forces minimal casualties. In fact, the FCC played the impotent coward and completely ignored "Common Carrier" hill--the one hill that would have ensured a decisive, and lasting victory for the consumers--simply because it had some scary people with money guarding it.

I don't claim to hold qualifications such that I may tell the community how to build them nor the full details of how they work. I just get the impression that obtaining larger colliders is going to be beyond the limits of government will. Invention might be easier than persuasion.

I can't help but wonder if there isn't a better (read efficient/economical) way to achieve the same thing without these sprawling accelerator loops. Even something as stupid as firing the particles around the loop a few times. I'm sure it would be technically hard, but is it harder than obtaining these increasingly larger colliders?

Any cord cutter that actually cares to watch the non-OTA proceedings will probably not care too much about whether they watch it from a foreign stream and/or sources of questionable legality.

Have you never heard of Tachyons?

Is it time to brush up on our Japanese?

OMG Ponies would be preferable to the beta.