While I love the idea of banners posted by content providers about this, clearly it has been proven that the FCC (politicians) are only listening to the ISPs (conspiracy theorist part of me says the bribes paid to politicians). Maybe its time for the content providers (Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Netflix, and throw in Cloudflare) to send a different message. In addition to the banners, why not slow down all traffic between the content providers and .gov to the 56k range?

This might drive home the point that while the ISPs and the .gov control the highway, its the content providers that own the service stations. If the FCC makes it legal to speed up/slow down traffic, then it sounds like it'd be perfectly legal to turn their own rules against them.

I guess it depends on what job you're going to be doing. If you job is interface design, then maybe an LA degree might be useful. When I look at a LA degree it says to me the person didn't know what they wanted to do, couldn't figure it out while they were in college, and paid enough money to academia to get some kind of degree to justify the expense. I've met entirely too many people with LA degrees that weren't qualified to do anything useful. To be fair, I'm in a more analytical/scientific field.

In my world, creative thinking, and problem solving are paramount, but in the end you needs results, not just pretty graphs.

Comcast (and indeed other ISPs) doesn't guarantee speed. They are very clear to point that out in the teeny tiny fine print. They only real guarantee you get is a bill. Since there are no SLAs on home service, just be glad you get a connection at all. The "free" market says they have to make a reasonable effort to keep connections up and running, else they would lose customers. With Comcast 'growing' like they are, they have less incentive to keep the systems running.

keep in mind that the core infrastructure used by the power grid makes up a sizable chunk of the internet. not only is it used for commercial and residenrial Internet access but it is used for things like traffic light timing systems. with that in mind it can't just be unplugged. it has to br properly firewalled and segregated. hopefully that is being done and it has to be constantly monitored.

Robin,

Pretty well written, and looking at papers like the NY Times that are distributed all over the damn world, you'd think they would know how to leverage the internet to augment the lack of interest by most people under the age of 50 who are not in the financial business.

I work for a company in the financial industry and we ge the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal every day. Oddly, its only read by one person... maybe two. For the most part, our staff goes to their web sites to read what is in the papers.

By far, the complaint i get the most is that a registration is required. this isn't a money problem, its a logistical one. My users are quite lazy and don't want to have to be bothered to log into another web site to read the news. Thankfully, they're finding that they can get the same articles, and often from those papers from Google News, and Yahoo Finance.

If these papers want to avoid the fate of the dinosaur, as you said, they need to focus on advertising are an income source, not charging the people that actually would like to read what they have to say.