So what you're saying is that an ISP is creating a "fast lane". I'm sure that this is for everyone's benefit, and will continue to encourage them to increase their overall support capacity while ignoring the monetization/influence effects it might have.

Suddenlink just cut all of Viacom last month because negotiations broke down too.

You missed that this is the point. It legitimizes their damages claim.

If Nixon could have just asked everyone to destroy the recordings, we might have been able to avoid watergate too.

I got mine setup through what is now Google Apps for Business while the bottom tier was still free. Their current cheapest pricing isn't bad if you don't have a lot of email addresses for what you're getting.

Our university uses CAS SSO by JASIG. https://wiki.jasig.org/display... . It's nice because anyone can use it without having to get IT involved for their own pet projects and they never get a secret to maintain or permissions to setup like with AD or LDAP.

I hope they qualify what "free" & "broadband" mean. That could mean ad-supported, capped at 40 hours, and dialup speeds. In fact, why don't we just hand out AOL trial disks every month like food stamps and call the problem solved?

Google recently announced they were switching their Google for Education members to unlimited storage as well. This seems like Microsoft trying to one-up Google to me.

Single threaded processes don't necessarily need the latest generation processors because they just keep adding cores. Instead of trying to buy a new server, why not just accept a donation of a 3ish year old dell/hp/supermicro server. Lots of businesses & universities have a hardware rotation cycle for really good hardware. I've bought perfectly good poweredge servers that were a few years old for under $50 before at a university computer auction.

So how many of these countries have already sharded the internet behind their government firewalls, i.e. China/Russia? And we believe that all other governments are less corrupt and self serving than the US? I'm not a fan of the US Panopticon and stranglehold on critical infrastructure, but honestly, it's worked for several decades now why break it up? At least the US influence that conforms with the military influence we already have. It would be great if a multinational panacea existed to control it, but the closest thing we have to that today is the UN. It doesn't have a strong track record for being the most effective governing body out there. Corruption and government go hand-in-hand; one feeds the other.

Finally, I'm getting closer to owning a Mr. Fusion!

Cisco has pulled stuff like this for a while, but VMware this year did the same shenanigans. I'm seeing this being a growing trend for larger company certifications.

Good luck getting all your devices on a stable connection over 600mb. It is technically possible, but the topology and composition of your home coupled with the quality of your device adapters/antenna may prevent sufficient signal for those speeds. It's hard to beat CAT5e+ when it comes to Gb connectivity. You can get all the parts and tools you need to wire and terminate it all at your local big box hardware store (i.e. Lowes, Home Depot, etc).

I bet everyone gets a 2 month subscription to some junk AT&T service like being able to track your family's phones through their proprietary app.

Put plywood up on your walls for surface mount things like 110 or 66 blocks and any surface mount equipment. From a product standpoint, I've found the b-line flextray cable management system to be very nice and easy to install. I'd also invest in any kind of vertical flange cable management for your 2 post racks just to help keep from waterfalling your cables over the equipment.