Comment Re:Nice solution (Score 1) 105
It doesn't even sound like a good solution assuming there was a real problem.
Comment Re:Screw that (Score 1) 489
The fact is that when a service like Netflix chooses the cheapest ISP, there are consequences. Its Netflix that isnt paying the real costs of its business, and the Net Neutrality zealots have been tricked into thinking its their own ISP thats bad. No, its Netflix and its ISP thats bad.
Netflix was more than willing to provide all those ISPs with CDN hosting so that all the content could have been served from within the ISPs own datacenters. But the thing is that Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, etc. didn't want to take the deal because that would then undermine their own competing service so instead they throttled users in order to get a toll payment.
Comment Re:What you and what the FCC wants (Score 1) 489
So why then did you ever want the government, also responsible for phone tapping anyone they like, to have anything to do with your internet?
They won't. The FCC doesn't have the power or the authority to wiretap or monitor anyone's Internet usage. Your argument is fallacious.
The way you wanted it was HOW IT WORKED. Now that is not the case. Good luck with that.
Yeah, that's the way it might have worked more than a decade ago. That hasn't been true since around the time that the ISPs started buying up content companies and then started using their last-mile monopolies to try to stifle competition from Internet VOD/streaming services by throttling users of those services in exchange for toll payments.
Comment Re:Double the Outrage (Score 2) 92
1. Only $25M for that egregious violation??
2. And that is the *LARGEST* penalty ever????
Token penalties like that are equivalent to declaring a free-for-all-big-corps.
Yeah it's basically
Comment Re:So..? (Score 1) 83
Amicus, thatis.
Comment Re:So..? (Score 1) 83
Doesn't matter much since Apple isn't part of the case. They just submitted an amiscus backing Microsoft.
LG Accidentally Leaks Apple iMac 8K Is Coming Later This Year 263
An anonymous reader writes LG accidentally revealed in blog post that Apple is planning to release a 8K iMac later this year. This news comes as a surprise as the leak came from a different company rather than Apple. LG is one of Apple's biggest display partners and has already demonstrated 8K monitors at CES in Las Vegas. They note that the panel boasts 16 times the number of pixels as a standard Full HD screen.
Comment Re:A hit-piece of a submission... (Score 2) 157
Those local governments only gave them those monopolies because the ISPs demanded them to even deliver service. It's not as if the local governments just up and gave the companies those monopolies against the wishes of the ISPs.
Comment Re:Broken link (Score 1) 277
Cool story, brah. Will you also regale us with stories about how you don't own a TV as well?
Comment Re:Hahahahaha (Score 1) 58
No, my sense of humor is just fine. There were jokes I laughed at but Slashdot's have never been funny. The whole point of April Fool's is to be subtle in order to trick people by the joke. Slashdot's "jokes" on the other hand are just beating you over the head.
Comment Re:Hahahahaha (Score 1) 58
No, the references are pretty obvious. It's just not funny.
Comment Re:Remember? (Score 1) 58
No. When did that ever happen?
Comment Re:Yawn (Score 1) 179
And that was 9 years ago. Everything before or since was 99.99% stinkers.
Comment Re:Yawn (Score 2) 179
Just put Slashdot in your hosts file until tomorrow. Today's going to be a groan-worthy day of Dice.com trying too hard to be funny.
Tatooine Youth Suspected In Terrorist Attack 179
BeruHadItComing writes:
Imperial investigators are still trying to piece together what happened in last week's horrifying terrorist attack on our largest orbital defense station. Over a million loyal citizens, scientists, and medical staff lost their lives in the grisly attack while the station was being put through training exercises near the Yavin system. Billions more are in mourning, while a number of powerful senators have renewed calls to increase defense spending. Initial reports have confirmed Rebel involvement, and officials are making inquiries about a young insurgent from Tatooine with known ties to religious fundamentalists.
