Wow - I'm not sure you should be using the sample of bad existing code as an argument against PHP and FOR perl. Yikes.

Obviously. (rolling eyes)

There is the classification of ISPs as common carriers - which we don't have.

Once you have the classification, you have the rules that govern common carrier ISPs - which we also do not have.

We need both. Simply reclassifying them as common carriers isn't going to do much, because we need the rules that govern them to specify exactly what they are and aren't allowed to do, and how to measure and enforce this, and what the penalties are for violations.

Classification as common carrier, and true net neutrality rules (the level of net neutrality most people actually want) based on that are two different things. We've never had both of those at the same time. And unless and until they're reclassified as common carriers, net neutrality is a non-starter.

I very much disagree that simply because we don't now, and have never had true net neutrality, that means we can't ever have it. We can have it, but we have to fight for it.

There is no current authority by the FCC (which they recently admitted) that allows them to enforce net neutrality. Even before that admission, what they had in place would not have worked as net neutrality, and was certainly never legally challenged and upheld in any court to cement it. Until ISPs are classified as common carriers, the FCC will not have the authority to enforce any level of net neutrality - which a former FCC chairman has recently stated. I have not said, and do not believe, that we have ever had any level of net neutrality. I am advocating FOR true net neutrality. That doesn't mean that what Verizon is supposedly doing doesn't violate the spirit of what people want net neutrality protection against, however.

Because it would be illegal, and they would be subject to legal repercussions, unlike now. What part of this do you find confusing?

The entity Snowden is blowing the whistle on is the same entity responsible for deciding if he should be prosecuted (or persecuted). This is an egregious conflict of interest that doesn't happen when someone blows the while on a corporation.

The first step towards the inevitable anti-Hydrogen Economy, yay!

You seem to have no idea why IE6 was the big problem it was. It's not possible for Chrome to be "the new IE6", since:

1) It's not tied into Windows
2) It auto-updates silently, and new version adoption is VERY high among Chrome users.
3) vendor prefixes are not much of a problem compared to not implementing features at all, or implementing them badly.

Nice troll attempt, though.

Yeah, 7-digit lusers are the worst!

Ah, good point. I haven't skimped on the PSU in 15 years. It's the dumbest piece of a machine to skimp on.

"UPS didn't quite come up in time"? WTF? I've never had a UPS do that, and I"m on my third one in 12 years.

Unless we provide them with access to old games, how will they ever sympathize with the pain we went through? Trying to kill the pterodactyl in Joust, or the robot dragon boss at the end of Super Zaxxon?! Or the absolute terror upon seeing Sinistar appear on the screen, "RUN, COWARD!" "I HUNGER. *RAWWWWR!*"

Unless we make them experience these things for themselves, it'll be just like when the vets returned from VietNam, "You don't know man, you weren't there!"

I didn't bother getting an account at first as there wasn't any benefit to it. Then the "first post" shitheads started up and I figured it was worth a shot. Unfortunately, the initial moderation system was the last time they tried innovating anything at /. :(