First. Is that still a thing here?

Of course it is.

With faster download speeds and greater bandwidth streaming video is an option-- no need for huge amounts of storage past room for a decent sized buffer.

Pay attention to the end of that paragraph: "except as authorized under regulations made pursuant to law". It's public commons. It's authorized.

Agreed. Not only is low-latency a problem, but not crashing your seed when one million people try to start watching a feed all within a few seconds is probably a problem. Not to mention if you want HD, too!

Already said... http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=222890&cid=180 48588
-1 Redundant :-D

It's true with time each one of us learn enought about ourselves to use the right techniques. We also have a good base to learn more and more complicated stuff. But we can't forget that children in primary school use a lot of thier energy for that: school. Once in highschool they use some of that energy for sex, and since I would say that keeps going on during life, maybe I would say while bing really young is that we learn more and better.

That link went to an Op-Ed, which is, er, an EDITORIAL. Here's a definition for you: "A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor."

Expression of the views of the editor! Oh My! I'm all for fact-checking the New York Times, but editorials are opinion-pieces, not unbiased reporting.