Everyone Gets a Bonus from Obama »
Posted By JSilver 9 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsBuried deep in President Barack Obama's American Reinvestment and Recovery Act is a line that should bring a smile to your face -- and a scowl to phone and cable industry lobbyists.
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Endoscopy9 months, 2 weeks ago
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This sucks. The big problem that the broadband ISP have is twofold.
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Botnets created by people hijacking other peoples computers and controlling them without the knowledge of the person owning the computer. There are many millions of computers hijacked this way. The person controlling them will issue spam from them and initiate attacks against a target to try and bring that server down and hopefully get in at that point. This causes huge amounts of traffic on the ISP.
Another problem is the people who use P2P methods of getting music and movies free. A lot of these people rack up a lot of bandwidth on the ISP to service these people.
What the ISP is selling is bandwidth. When there are bandwidth hogs out there then everybody suffers until the ISP spends more money to have more computers to handle the bandwidth. This bill speaks to the ignorance of the problem. It is ALL illegal activity but now the ISP is just supposed to ignore it. -
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obiefrommuskogee9 months, 2 weeks ago
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I'm sure people like Wolfie can find a way to have their access to the Internet limited and what they can download controlled by some corporation and have their content filtered by another corporation, if they really want it that way.
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tadair9199 months, 2 weeks ago
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are we blind?
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how is giving billions to telco companies and telling them that they can't spend it on anything un-neutral, going to help the net neutrality? (read: we are giving money directly to the telcos who want to filter packets for profit in the first place!)
but isn't this is exactly what we tried to do with AIG? and then what happened? we gave them money and they abused it. the obama administration is now asking for regulatory powers over banks as to prevent "unfair" bonuses from ever being given out again. (read: government control.) but that's the point.
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holhowle9 months, 2 weeks ago
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yes, President Obama please tell us about your plan to lower the deficit tremendously while raising the more than 3 trillion debt owed now. We'd love for you to explain it to us backard southerners because of course we'll believe anything if it comes out of a democrats mouth.
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Ratskii9 months, 1 week ago
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A lot of you may be too young to remember the breakup of the phone monopoly. While not everything has gone perfectly since that happened, I remember how much it cost to make long distance calls before the breakup. Even not accounting for inflation it costs lest to talk long distance now than it did then. If you add in inflation the cost is less than 5% what it was in the 60s.
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paramale9 months, 1 week ago
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Right on !!! I'm usually up on the news but do occasionally take a break. I thought net neutrality had already been established as a matter of law. I do remember the fight. Anything but net neutrality wouldn't pass the straight face test. President Obama is doing a good job.
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