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Comment Re:more reason for the FCC's Internet neutrality r (Score 1) 153

Until you are adequately informed, you should not comment on law or regulation. It seems you haven't heard about various ISP's (particularly Charter) shutting down Torrents when they detect the data flow. They also have throttled various other applications at times when their network is not busy, so it is not "network management". So there have been abuses. Wake up.

Comment more reason for the FCC's Internet neutrality rule (Score 5, Insightful) 153

With a few large, unregulated companies sourcing and directly distributing much of the Internet's traffic, the potential for self interested mischief grows. The FCC needs to set rules that create a neutral, flat playing field for all agents on the Internet - regardless of size or their role.

Comment trade offs (Score 1) 412

Think very dispassionately about the 10 year revenue generation from A. an independent company, B. a product inside MegaCorp. Get outside help on this question. It is very hard for a small company to generate a long term growing stream of revenue. It is also common for large companies to completely mess up sales incentives and marketing for a small product in the total scheme of their big business. Forget about profit in this analysis - that will come if the revenue grows a lot. Then trade that picture off with your team's preferences about small/independent/"risky big bang or nothing" versus large/bureaucratic/"take some money now". People's personalities can fit one or the other of these risk scenarios, but the financial stakes can push the team one way or the other - despite personalities.

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Submission + - Pokemon could be bad, & other fatwa's

virchull writes: "The highly reputed Foreign Policy magazine has listed the world's stupidest fatwa's. Among them, Pokemon has been banned in Saudi Arabia because "The kingdom's senior cleric, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, protested that most of the cards figure symbols such as "crosses, sacred for Christians and triangles, significant for Freemasons". A cleric in the United Arab Emirates added that Pokemon "is based on the theory of evolution, a Jewish-Darwinist theory that conflicts with the truth about humans and with Islamic principles." Poor Pokemon, the impact is only entertainment. A central Pakistani group had to over-rule a local fatwa that banned polio inoculations because they were "aimed at sterilizing Muslim children to stop the growing Muslim population". And on a more personal level, Ezzat Atiya at the al-Azhar Islamic University in Cairo said that if a working woman breast feeds a man, it is a work-around to get around a religious ban on working together without a chaperone."

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