The allegation is their compiler can, but deliberately does NOT, apply optimization to code if it detects the processor is AMD.

This is analogous to video game consoles refusing to use generic memory sticks or hard drives. Of course, intel will try to claim it's more like trying to attach a sata drive to an IDE port, but we all know the instruction sets for X86 are standard across both chips.

the concept of net neutrality is to legislate specifically to PREVENT abuses like the one this politician is trying to perpetrate.

Note: he still has to go through the legislature, but ISP's already do this unilaterally whenever they think they can get away with it, and in the US Comcast is suing agains the FCC to keep them from preventing Comcast from butchering traffic.

Hard-right libertarians don't seem to understand: This is not the pre-industrial era anymore! Royalty no longer controls the economy. Corporations are now SEPARATE from but EQUAL in power to the government, and the only way to keep the little guy from being crushed is to use each to put the other in check. (part of this is intelligent regulation)

We all know this kind of outrageous proposal won't fly, so what's the next "iteration" this will be compared to to make it look "reasonable"? The question is what are these people actually after?

  It seems like this is yet another maneuver to "Frame" the debate around the upcoming ACTA clauses.

If enough of these outrageous ideas are being proposed, a simple removal of service for "egregious offenders" will look tame.

Remember, you have to boil the frog SLOWLY, and part of that involves acclimating the frog to heat before it goes in the pot!

Your statement is contradictory..

if americans had to flee from (and then rebel against) this persecution, how were they "cool" before? Are we going back to the days of stone henge?

They're doing it wrong.

they should encourage p2p software use, increase the bandwidth, then everyone will stay home watching lost or house.

even that is in question. here is a really cool documenatry on stupidity on cbc.

they place some random artist, a rocket scientist, and a member of mensa before a novel problem, and the random artist is the first to solve it.

/whoosh!

/rightwing

But regulation prevents innovations like this one from verizon from getting to market! /rightwing

We dont need them. Their budgets are way too high, they pay their actors more per film than most people make in a lifetime, and for what...for them to stand around and woodenly repeat lines made by writers who are worse than your average third grader?

trek '09? terminator salvation? harry potter?
give me a BREAK!

We don't need them! The faster they die the better!

Oh I agree corporations still have way too much leverage. If they had as much as you assert, however, the healthcare bill would have been long dead already.

It's up to YOU, and all your friends to participate to get things done. I'm as cynical as you but I keep writing and sometimes calling, otherwise I become PART of the problem, a coward on the front lines.

The world has beocome increasingly complex, and people increasingly strapped for time as they slave for wages which have remained frozen for over a decade.

Either a radical shift in labor standards must be put into place to give people the spare time to do this research, or more "nanny state" is needed.

This is BAD for the public, and should be discouraged by law. The "razor and blades" model is what has bankrupted our economy. It stretches one time expenses into sustained costs, prompting horrendous debt. The irresponsibility loss-leaders encourage is easily as destructive as credit industry practices which were recently barred by regulation because they contributed to our economic collapse.

ok, i'll clarify it for you.

Corporate CEO's answer to a tiny subset of people, the majority of which are likely not even citizens of your country, and they profit from your disenfranchisement.

Politicians answer to everyone in YOUR country, including you, and, despite any transgressions you may perceive, if they even attempt to touch what corporations have managed to perpetrate on the american people they will be out on their ass.

Are government officials disgustingly opportunistic, power hungry leeches on our society? Damn straight! They're also the best we can get at the moment, and are subject to public pressure, whereas attempts to petition the CEO's of AIG will get you arrested for trespassing.

Right now, when internet goes down, even in corporate settings, it can take up to a freakin WEEK to get it back.. and that's just in every-day non-disaster type situations.

If the phone service goes out (that's a BIG if, i've only seen it happen 3 times in my entire life) it's never down for more than 3 hours.

Until they bring internet up to this level of reliability, I don't want to see it behind the one device in my whole house which is capable of summoning paramedics.