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Comment Re:What has this to do with net neutrality? (Score 1) 479

A correlation but not always a meaningful one. Consider 2 customers, both of which download about 1GByte per day. One streams approx 500MBytes/hour for 2 hours during the peak period when many other domestic customers are doing the same. The other is downloading at a relatively constant rate of approx 40MBytes/hour 24x7. Even though they both download approximately the same amount each month, the first customer is probably costing the ISP considerably more than the second. If all customers were like the 2nd one then the ISP would only need 1/10 of the external capacity than if all customers were like the first one.

Comment Only while stationary (Score 2) 180

Many of these smart systems - such as entering a destination into the navigation system should be made to only work while the vehicle is stationary so as not to distract the driver. It makes sense to input the destination before starting the journey rather than 'on the go'.

Comment Go back to roots. (Score 1) 270

W3C should not be including anything like DRM. They should remember that is is HyperText Markup Language. All they need to define is the usage of the 'a' tag, and left some IETF working group define the transport type for video etc. rather than using HyperText Transfer Protocol.

Comment Re:On the other hand.... (Score 1) 338

All it means is that as well as quoting the IP address they will also have to quote the port number and an accurate time in order for the subscriber to be identified. It would also need the ISP to log the 4-tuple (Subscriber 'private' IP, External IP, External Port, TCP/UDP) for each connection as well as which private IP is allocated to each subscriber.

Comment Re:Broad Application (Score 1) 648

It *would* be a DCMA violation for you to buy/acquire a copy of a game that wouldn't run on your Xbox without said modification. Now you are "stealing" the use of someone's copyrighted work without their permission.

Is that necessarily true? What if someone wrote a game that only works on a hardware modified X-Box? Would it not be perfectly legal for the game's author to sell the game and for people to purchase and run it?

Comment Re:Well, maybe... (Score 2) 183

Part of the problem is that products that start off good and have a good reputation often lose their edge but people continue using them. I remember when Norton Utilities (or it competitor PC Tools from Central Point) was almost essential for 'power' users, and when McAfeee was amonst the best anti-virus toolkits.

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