Comcast wants the FCC to match OCED in defining broadband at 256kbps download. The FCC has previously defined broadband at 200kbps in either direction; in March 2009 they voted to change the lower limit to 768kbps and call the lowest tier "basic broadband". 200kbps to 768kbps is supposed to be called "first generation data". http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9898118-7.html

The rollout of the new definition does not seem to be going well, as recent FCC documents are continuing to use old definitions. From september 2009: http://www.fcc.gov/Forms/Form477/477inst.pdf

One problem: most of it is tiny, even microscopic. The primary deposit is likely about 100 feet deep with a typical maximum concentration of about 0.004 gram per square meter near surface level. There is also likely a much greater concentration on the ocean floor.

This is not going to be something easily fixed.

In the real world it would be opt-out. And you would have to mail a certified letter that contained your social security number for identity verification to do so. Your social security number would be noted in the opt-out database as the primary key. And you would be charged a maintenance fee when you did. You would probably never get a response. Even if you did get a response, the program would not be controllable and the opt-out is supposed delete your data after it iss collected. Except the delete mechanism is broken because it was never implemented due to budget concerns and incompetence. Even before the program started your demographics have already been sold to countless people.

"free" credit reports?

It meant yesterday he didn't need any data space to represent the zero times he has rooted for Real. Today, a one-bit integer is necessary (which has possible values zero and one) since the times he has rooted for Real is no longer zero. Therefore he is has now rooted for Real one time. On the subject of correlation vs causation, he did not specify that this article is the impetus but it can be reasonably inferred.

The real question is what will this brave new world mean for the future of Nielsen? Will the fate of TV programs in the future be based on real, directly measurable, viewership numbers? I think the networks in general underestimate the benefit of in-house market research that promises to be amazingly accurate.

9:1 contention ratios wouldn't be a problem when only 1% of the users are consuming most of the bandwidth. 50:1 is a more realistic ratio for the real world for Tier 3 networks at least. Tier 1 networks have no significant cost difference between different bandwidth usage levels. Internet peering and interconnects are mind-bogglingly complicated since everything is privately owned.

It's not really that hard; for example: just fill out the form http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi

The proceeding is 09-51
Document type is already COMMENT

either
  -upload a file and convert to PDF if necessary
  -type a comment directly on the form

make sure to address specific statutory sections where applicable (when giving comments in regard to specific laws for example) and give your comment some amount of organization at least similar to the notice of inquiry (especially if it is long)

It's a tiring semantic issue that exists because of ambiguously descriptive terms. IE plugins including toolbars are technically add-ons since add-on (more common than "add-in") is the superset of plugin and extension. Plugins have much greater restriction on functionality than extensions. ActiveX is another subset of add-on distinctive from both plugin and extension.

The market for efficient cars is already full of 6 year old used ones, why do you think everyone can suddenly afford new cars when a used one will get over 40mpg, cost a couple thousand dollars, and run for another 10 years? Thanks in part to W. Edwards Deming, modern cars are just too reliable.