Try reading a little more carefully next time. No one blamed an iPad.

It's also just about the only device to come out of Redmond. Microsoft hasn't historically been in the hardware business. What are we comparing it to the Zune?

Because they have a paid advertising agreement with microsoft and microsoft is pissed and they're now in damage control mode

Came here to post this. Video doesn't need low latency at all.

The difference is it's state sponsored. The US Government doesn't use our tax money to hack into Chinese businesses and then give all the trade secrets to Microsoft or General Electric or whatever.

Because increasingly government is involved in legislation that affects technology (eg software patents, network neutrality, etc).

You're actually completely wrong.

YOU DUN REED GUD.

Absolutely agree, but it will stop the behavior and stop anyone else who might be doing something similar. Their legal, accounting and processing costs alone will be in the millions.

I will, I'll just get a second checking account and link it with CurrenC. Then I'll keep a small amount of cash in it, however much I think I need. Then if I need to add more I take out my smartphone, open my banking app and move money instantly between accounts. No big deal.

Oh Oh let me guess! By having a phone the size of a tablet so the battery is huge?

...except for all the parts where he illustrates that it's wrong.

Cool, prove me wrong. Go deliver 100/100 service to the continental US. The only way you're going to deliver bidirectional 100Mb service is by running fiber to every house in the country. You don't have to be a LEC or an MSO to run fiber. Call your municipality, get the easement agreements and the pole attach agreements and run the fiber yourself. Let me know how it turns out. If you deliver 100/100 service to my doorstep for $40/mo I'll be the first one to sign up.

About 0.1% of the world has access to those speeds. I don't know what you're smoking that you think that constitutes "basic internet service".

Now try the top 10%, per my previous post. Let's play both extremes.

If your job depends on Internet access, buy a MiFi? Unfortunately you don't have any right to stop someone else from using a public hotspot however they like.