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Comment I'd love to think Social Media is a bubble (Score 1) 154

This whole concept of giving large corporations enormous amounts of information for free, which they in turn sell to advertisers, is batshit, and it's wonderful to think that in ten years, we'll all look back on this period and wonder, "What the Hell were we thinking?" but the truth is that social media works because it's essentially "hacked" various reward centers of our brain (related to gamification). So while it's likely that the specific social media sites will come and go, the phenomenon is probably here to stay. And as technology becomes more and more pervasive (see: Google Glass), so too will be the amount we voluntarily share.

Comment Victory..? (Score 3, Interesting) 149

We're getting some common carrier stuff, ISPs can't prioritize the traffic from their parent/subsidiary companies... and it sounds like high priority non-controversial "fast lanes" (I don't mind my internet running a little slower so someone can get their MRI transmitted faster) are the only ones getting the green light. So did we win? Or am I missing something?

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