Nothing person A does wrong excuses any actions of person B. No matter how many people Stalin killed, Hitler is still Hitler. No matter how incompetent and sleazy Trump is, Clinton is still who she is and has done what she has done, and that's why she'll never be President.

There is definitely a battery backup at the telco CO. If your service goes down when you have power issues in your area, it is more likely you are being served by a small cabinet or pole-mounted DSLAM which does not have a backup battery string or generator.

I paid 20% down on my first home, and got a 15 year mortgage. That means that I didn't have to pay mortgage insurance for my FHA loan so my payments aren't that much higher than if I had opted for a 30 year. It's possible to do the smart thing, you just have to tune out the noise.

Can there be a better example? How about if they had actually blocked the site on their network? This is just a knee jerk take-down letter. Yawn.

Nokia isn't struggling. Apple isn't a competitor. The issue took 6 months to resolve. Nokia got what they were asking for, there wasn't much settling done here. Apple was trying to use their size to squeeze Nokia, Qualcomm and Blackberry on license costs, and the smaller companies didn't blink.

I have two normal eyes and can see that 3D effects look like shit. Showing a movie exclusively in 3D is a great way to exclude me from buying a ticket.

...like Goldman Sachs?

I would guess it frees up real estate for things that cannot be remote. It also paves the way to have multiple airports controlled by centralized large control centers, and also failing over to a geographically diverse location if needed.

It was also pretty juvenile and myopic if they think that Comey and Gingrich are part of 'Trump's team'. Comey was investigating his Russian ties and Gingrich is calling for Comey to testify publicly about his firing. I think this is another example of people conflating everyone they don't like as being somehow magically the same person.

Those cues aren't necessary if the joke is funny.

Sorry, but I have to be pedantic. In correct English (En-USA), it's spelled etymology. Also beer is not dispensed with electricity. It's dispensed with pressurized CO2, with the exception of Beer Engines which are pumps and getting rare even in the UK from my understanding.

That's like saying you're not in favor of seat belts because we need more guardrails.

56 Marietta is in Atlanta. 1950 Stemmons is in Dallas. On my first pot of coffee.

I'm not sure you understand how the Internet works. I'll explain it to you, in case you want to learn. I'm an optimist.

Caches are a symbiotic relationship between the content provider and the ISP. By streaming high-demand content more locally the load on the ISPs Internet Drains and Peering Links is dramatically reduced. Drains are typical billed per byte, so having 10s of thousands of customers each streaming the latest GoT episode can get expensive. Peering is not billed, but it still requires a serious investment in transport from the ISPs residential users back to the nearest IXP like 350 Cermak in Chicago or 56 Marietta in Dallas. Caching moves that high demand content out to the local offices so the episode only has to be downloaded once across the transport. Google does it, Netflix does it, and any ISP that isn't trying to push their own video offering embraces these caches because it reduces the load on their network without them having to invest in more transport. Anyone can do this, even the little guy by going through a 3rd party such as Akamai which sells this functionality as a service. The content isn't prioritized across the actual access network. It's not given higher CoS or dedicated infrastructure. It's just moved closer to save money and improve customer experience.

Youtube doesn't own dark fiber. Google does own dark fiber, although it's not dark because they're actually using it. This is because Google's volume of traffic is so high that it's cost effective for them to build their own transport network. This doesn't link to every ISP in the planet, it only links to major IXPs and NAPs. ISPs also come to these locations to peer and buy transit.
I can also put content up on Youtube. I'm not sure what you think this has to do with anything.

This has nothing to do with credentials. It will be a separate SSID, a separate routing and NAT instance, and a separate WAN interface on a different VLAN than the one used for the subscriber traffic. With the correct QoS configuration, it might as well be a different device.