"Reed Hundt said he wants the FCC to focus on getting better, faster, cheaper internet to 100% of the population."

All of the above is absolutely useless if it is crippled by capricious and artificially low data caps.

They won't hit anything, they are no longer being monitored by the FTC.

Wrong, the government only has the right to do what is delineated for it in the Constitution. All other rights are exclusive to the states and the citizens.

Also, the US is not a democracy, it is a Constitutional Republic.

This makes you ignorant of civics.

Dear AC who submitted this:

Google is useful for this kind of stuff. I found program listings from Oregon State, University of Illinois-Springfield, and MANY others.

Online baccalaureate programs. Several with the option to complete in as little as 1-3 years depending on your ability. And yes, real programs with real degrees, not just those hokey certificates from Coursera or the like.

No offense, but you're a Senior Software Engineer and didn't use at least a Google search first?

Oh my.

GMOs, GMOs... leading producers of such, like DOW Chemical and Monsanto...yes, we should really be trusting such to not harm the food supply or hold it for ransom. Right.

Monsanto is still trying to claim Dioxin/Agent Orange doesn't harm humans, thus they have no responsibility for cleaning up the production sites in the southern USA or the results of that production in Vietnam.

They however, lost a class-action suit in WV this year (one of the production sites for AO amongst many other nasty chemicals).

http://wvgazette.com/News/201202230090?page=1

These are not the people we should be allowing anywhere near this type of research, let alone be granting them patents on organisms.

I am all for doing it in an ethical manner, with reasonable testing, etc. Many of these corporations doing this though, have proven many, MANY times over that they are not in the least bit ethical, and love skipping corners to boost share prices.

Silly me, and here I thought they'd need that $65k or more just to pay the licensing fees for things like libdvdcss. And yes, I know it is not just that one and that there are other free codecs they also use. But to be legal in the USA or France for that matter, unless they pony up the license fees for the codecs (mainly to MPEG-LA).

Microsoft is not about to let a media "app" without the license fees paid for those particular codecs into its appstore.

As we all know anyhow, the VLC people kind of ignore some laws anyhow. Microsoft, however, can't get away with it (at least not with the EU watching for the slightest stumble).

Put it this way...

Comcast has the most compromised user systems on their network in the USA every year since the late 1990's.

I would appreciate it if they actually WOULD do something about it.

I take it these idiots don't even comprehend that now criminals have a nice map to all kinds of legally licensed and owned weapons to steal.

The dipshit who came up with this....ugh.

Interestingly enough, my insurer asked these:

Do you drink, and how often?
Do you smoke, or use smokeless tobacco products?
When was your last physical?
Do you use intravenous drugs?
Have you ever had dialysis or a blood transfusion?

My answers got me insured in record time. Which was funny. Then again, I only drink socially (and by socially, I mean 3-4 times per year), and smoke.

I did ask them about the workout thing, and other "health discount" stuff, and my agent said they don't use any of that stuff because it's a bunk way for companies to charge people more for the same service.

That depends on your opinion of iOS and iTunes, does it not? :)

Not only that, but arguably China's economy is more capitalist than the one in the United States.

Sure, the State dips its fingers in to keep an eye on what is going on in there, but there's far more useless dos and don'ts in the US system, with not just one government sticking its nose in, but several, from the local level all the way to the federal.

I don't know what to even call the mess in the US anymore, it's not capitalist, socialist, etc. It's something altogether different.

Microsoft tried that with the first gen 360s. The damned things overheated and killed the chipsets (infamous RROD). Rev 2 and later all included fans inside of the case.

Heat sinks on anything more powerful than a "passive" machine won't cut it.

Once again, we have a State making a law that is essentially ignorant of how technology works and the loopholes and evasions around and through any such restrictions as having to tell the State one set of online credentials while having several sets of other credentials the "offenders" actually use, but don't tell them about.

SWTOR for one, people experience this issue with. Dead Space 2 is another example, along with Saint's Row the Third.

Those are just some of the games, but yes, it has to do with this problem.

Average framerates are telling you nothing, because when being monitored, the framerates never drop. There's just stuttering in the rendering of certain objects.

In the case of SWTOR: The animation when people mount/dismount from speeders, certain casting animations and particle effects, shadowed text enabled - all examples of when you will see this happen, and this is with the framerates holding at a steady 60 FPS (V-Synch enabled).

The "Metro" UI pushed out on XBoxLive is not even quite the same as the one in WinRT or Win8. It's been stripped down considerably, and seeing as how the previous recent versions of the software already used tiles (movie browsing, etc), it was not much of a change other than "new shiny".

For instance: There's no hidden ridiculous "charms" or other such nonsense in the XBoxLive version.

And yes, the paradigm change was horrendously wrong. They took two completely separate paradigms, and crunched them together into a mushy slop of a mess, that doesn't work right for either one.