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Please note that experiments of this sort will be far more expensive and sometimes be outlawed if government goes ahead with its plan to declare internet as "ut
by tn13 12y ago
Please note that experiments of this sort will be far more expensive and sometimes be outlawed if government goes ahead with its plan to declare internet as "utility"by masquerading it as "net neutrality".
Experiments like these could be more feasible if large cos like FB, Google invest in it with greater control.
- BinaryIdiot 12y ago> sometimes be outlawed if government goes ahead with its plan to declare internet as "utility" They're only discussing this for wired broadband so no worries there.
- tomaskafka 12y agoOf course. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing
- RegW 12y agoA better explanation in "Yes, Prime Minister": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX_d_vMKswE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX_d_vMKswE ... and perhaps relevant to the discussions of states tampering with other people's satellites.
- tn13 12y agoDoes not really matter. Each economic recession sees vast expansion of government powers and we lose economic freedom. But the boom does not see the opposite. The knife that is being put into hear will not be taken out, more will follow.
- tfinniga 12y agoI don't see how that follows. My understanding of net neutrality was that the source of the packet couldn't be allowed to affect the delivery of the packet. In this case, if the satellite connection is more expensive, the user will pay that higher cost. The price is for the uplink, not depending on what bits flow across it. How is that at all affected by net neutrality?
- danielweber 12y agoTo be fair, even on HN there are many different meanings of Net Neutrality (some of which I agree with, some which I don't).