I purchased a domain name for our WoW guild from Bluehost. They only wanted $56 per year, and gave WAY more then i could ever need for a forums.... Due to suspected botting (i guess they thought we were a scammer?) they had me call to verify my identity. They did not ask for SSN or anything else that really ID me as me. I guess talking to a real person was more then enough for them. On the flip side, I used web.com for my personal space a long time ago... They charge me $19.99 a month (239.88/year) for less bandwidth, less space, less SQL DBs, and 1 FTP account. Where am i going with this you may ask? I have no idea.... both domains were TLD .COM. Just a vast difference in pricing, and the cheaper one seemed to do more to ensure i was real, then the more expensive one.

I think Government / User should start thinking Internet as "Road" in real life. It should be a government's job to make sure the road is good, and free for everyone (from tax). No private company should dictate how many time you can walk on the "Road" (Internet) and how popular you're (such as Youtube). If that's the case, then New York City should start charging all retail store or company that attract so much tourist into Manhattan for the "Road" that they maintains.

Actually I believe it will be Opera Maxi for the iPad.

I thought I had ads disabled.

Yeah ditto on that weirdness vibe. Kind of makes one wonder how they handle something like America's Sex Offender registry.

You'll get websites saying you need to download this codec to watch this video, and people will do it. With a standard codec, if a site does that, users can be educated that they shouldn't download ANY codec.

Even if delvers better sound and video? Significantly improved compression?

Closed captioning, secfond channel audio or other benefits?

Tell me why the geek thinks the web should be permenently bound to whatever codec he - and perhaps he alone - thinks is "technologically superior" or "politically correct."

Why there should be no competition, no room for experiment.

Where is the "I don't know & I don't care" option ?

I'd rather go the other way, and have a 120Mbit file. Bits are the fundamental unit of information.

Unless the inventors work for a company with the legal and financial muscle to compete. I'm really jaded (especially in presentation), but the system really is set up so that innovation can be stifled so that large entities who could be destroyed (in whole or in part) by rapid market innovation don't have to worry. I know the system is set up in such a way that it's supposed to protect the very people it stifles from having their ideas stolen instead of bought, but the practice of overly-broad generic patents on basic concepts in many fields has created litigious loopholes which allows the giants to reverse the tables on the small innovator, forcing them to sell the idea or face a patent suit that will bankrupt them before discovery is finished. (Holy run-on sentence Batman!) I don't like that setup, I'd rather let market forces subject only to anti-collusion and anti-price-fixing regulations reach a similar end effect in the marketplace independent of the litigation.

Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa..... This is not my batman glass...

Oh, its real! And so is The Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, and Duke Nukem Forever!!!

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Works in M$ Live search crap...