I'll be excited about this when a company besides Ford does it. Yeah, I admit it; I am biased. I put aside said bias and bought a used Taurus once. It's transmission promptly died on me.

Now I'm picturing a Russel Crowe hologram waiting for the dot matrix shriek to finish before instructing the newly minted Last Son of Earth on our species' survival.

Taking all bets! I also offer video poker! -Kudos if you can name who I'm quoting.

"Many of the provisions would have the effect of treating every patent holder as a POTENTIAL patent troll." -Fixed that for you

Peering is a prime example of an argument that would not even be taking place if there were any real competition among ISPs. I know there are differing opinions about it even among net neutrality advocates; but the way I see it, if an ISP advertises a particular connection speed, it is their responsibility to ensure that users paying for it are getting that speed for any service or website they access; assuming that said service or website is providing sufficient capacity on their end, which Netflix is obviously doing. On top of that, Internet providers have no right to complain about bandwidth usage when content providers are creating a huge demand for the service that they are selling. It would be interesting to poll customers to see how many of them shelled out for faster connections purely because of streaming services such as Netflix.

Honestly, I hope they do not release a patch so that all of the sysadmins they turned into liars with the last one can get some of their credibility back.

Indeed. Everyone who has come out against net neutrality has proven to be grossly ignorant about the situation, and they use extremely vague terms without providing specifics. The saddest part is that net neutrality started out with a lot of non-partisan support; then the big Internet monopolies greased the right wheels with copious amounts of cash and BAM. Opposition to net neutrality is now the official party line for republicans. What a joke.

Is this the "competition" that is supposed to "self regulate" the internet providers once net neutrality is dead?

One could argue that the reason Intel's products have advanced as far as they have is because AMD was there to keep them on their toes. The game has changed since then, with mobile and whatnot, but I am still rooting for a comeback. Rory Read has played his cards well so far; and with Jim Keller back, it will be interesting to see what they have in store for us.

That alone is enough to show that his motivations were based on political bias and NOT actual science. The blasted politics have infested this subject for far too long.

Obama has proven to be a wolf in sheep's clothing when it comes to telecom policy. He has pushed ACTA and the Trans Pacific Partnership, and kept a low profile on SOPA/PIPA without actually coming out against it. I honestly don't think he cares that much about Net Neutrality. It was just another empty promise that helped get him elected. As for the Republicans, they have turned everything into a witch hunt. A lot of people are afraid of government overreach(not without good reason), but that has created an environment where all a corporation has to do is say "Help, big government is picking on me!" and they will immediately summon bleating hordes of conservative sheep who don't even bother to research the situation.

Republicans, Democrats, the only difference I can see between them is who they sell out to; and sometimes there is no difference there either.

I along with plenty of other people would gladly pay an obscene price for a blu-ray copy of the original, untainted trilogy. Star Wars fandom aside, this is really something that needs to be done for the sake of preserving history. Few films if any have had the kind of cultural impact that these movies did. George Lucas has astounded me with his level of selfishness and lack of empathy when it comes to this. Plenty of other films have created director's cuts and whatnot, some of which needed it because they were originally ruined by last-minute editing, but they also preserved the theatrical release along with them. I have no doubt that there are plenty of movies that Lucas loves and would be furious if their creators came along and started making ridiculous changes because they didn't turn out how they wanted. Everyone knows he protested against colorizing black and white films in the 80s. What a hypocrite. Nothing turns out just the way you originally plan. That is often how good things come about in the first place; by accident. The only thing he has proven is that if the original movies had turned out the way he wanted, they would have been awful.

I can't wait to patent my revolutionary technique of taking a dump while sitting down.

They seem to have taken a leaf from Valve's book with Team Fortress 2, but are taking it a step further by opening the development itself. If this works out well, it could have a lot of ramifications for the future of game development. I'll be happy enough as long as the lightning gun comes back. That thing made headshots so much more fun.