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by nanairo 16y ago
I am not saying I believe there's any correlation, but I think the parents concerns do deserve a closer investigation: sure there might be no correlation, but maybe there is. That's the scientists job: let the investigate and their final wo
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by nanairo 16y ago
It is true that anything less than net neutrality is not good for Google. But it's even worse for its competitors, especially future competitors. Once you are at the top, and you got the majority of the market, your best actions (in monetar
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by nanairo 16y ago
In which countries is hate speech allowed? At least in Europe most countries I know of forbid hate speech that incite racism, violence, discrimination, etc... I am not saying I agree (I do not) but in case these things would need to be tack
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by nanairo 16y ago
I don't like Google's current modus operandi. It's not the first time that they seem to do whatever they feel like, and when eventually someone sues them they start: "But the Internet is open! Think of the open Internet", or "You are killin
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think it's important to remember though that in most countries freedom of speech explicitly excludes stuff like hate speech.
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by nanairo 16y ago
Understood... It was still not very convincing for the time length though. We are not talking of Verizon getting a phone a few months earlier but a full year. At that point most chips are not even out yet, nor is the Android OS, etc... 18 m
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by nanairo 16y ago
What? So a few years ago Google believes that wireless needs to be kept open, makes a big bet and succeeds in ensuring as much. Nowadays instead it does not require regulation because there's plenty of competition. What has changed in the l
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by nanairo 16y ago
Eh??? Paying for a faster connection??? What are you trying to say? That if I own a website then it's ok to be charged money by an ISP to get an extra chunk of the last mile to the user???
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by nanairo 16y ago
How can you reconcile this view with the new Google where "wireless is already very competitive so no need for regulations"? How is that not giving in?
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by nanairo 16y ago
However it was not a shift that Google had to take. Wasn't the whole point that FCC was gathering information to make up its mind? Who knows what would have been the _acceptable_ compromise for the FCC. Maybe if Google had kept the fight, t
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by nanairo 16y ago
Yep, that's pretty much what it is. The words "upgrade" or "in addition" are purely PR: what is the difference between slowing down website A but not B, or increasing the bandwidth for website B but not A? I'd imagine that in the USA you'll
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by nanairo 16y ago
You are correct, of course, but Latex and Word are the two main tools to write essays and such. In other words while they may be different systems, they are used in place of each other. I've never seen someone editing an essay in InDesign (
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by nanairo 16y ago
Wait, what? Are you saying that Verizon is given a final version of a mobile 18 months before it is sold? And what does the phone manufacturer do in the meantime? And wouldn't that mean that on Verizon you would get the same phone that is s
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by nanairo 16y ago
I don't think we are _teaching_ companies anything. This is the realm of PR and companies know a _lot_ more than us on PR. Also if you believe that Google didn't get any advantage out of painting itself the defender of the netizen I think y
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by nanairo 16y ago
I am not arguing that a correction is not needed. Is the speed with which you do it that creates problems.
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by nanairo 16y ago
But I am entitled to feel betrayed by someone who first pretends to be so much more ethical than the rest and then isn't. All people are asking (and I agree) is that Google should have been more honest. 3-years ago was a whole different sit
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by nanairo 16y ago
True, it allows people to buy more tomorrow with the money they have today. So what happens? They don't spend the money today waiting for tomorrow. But then tomorrow they realise that if they wait a little longer they'd spend even less. The
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by nanairo 16y ago
Personally I'd be very happy to have prioritisation based on they type of data. The point is not that VoIP goes faster than webpages, but that Verizon can make _one_ VoIP faster than competing VoIP. So yeah, I agree that if you talk of type
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by nanairo 16y ago
Not quite. First Google attempts seems to have been half-hearted to say the least. Google is not a start up: they have a lot of power, a lot of money, and a lot of connections. If they wanted to put real pressure they could. Second it was G
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by nanairo 16y ago
Which is why you need government regulations: it would be about time people wake up from their faith for the free market. Even Adam Smith talked of regulation in his work!
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by nanairo 16y ago
Look: that's an attempt to change discussion. People are not angry at Google because they made a negotiation, and are fully aware of what compromising entails. So in this area Google gets as much flak as anyone else. But on top of that ther
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by nanairo 16y ago
You are using two different logics for Google and Verizon. The main point is that Google is by far the #1 search engine, and online advertiser. Once you have the whole market (or most of it) for yourself, you can't go any further. At that p
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by nanairo 16y ago
Surely if they like unavailable men they should prefer Palm Pre: I heard there's like a couple in the whole world. ;P (it's just a joke: pity for the Pre. I kind of liked the innovative feeling they brought with them)
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by nanairo 16y ago
Exactly. The Ruby community likes to experiment and it's a bit hyperactive. Personally I quite like it because of that. That said the article was a bit of a stretch both in the example it used, and in particular the fact that the Ruby world
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by nanairo 16y ago
I may be wrong (I am not American and don't follow everything that goes over there). But I thought that the FCC was trying to push for some reform, and the reason why they got stuck was because of the massive backlash by the carriers (and o
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think back in the days there were a lot of cases. And also Google felt like the underdog taking on the hated Microsoft. Then one day we woke up and Google was massive, and doing just as much underhanded/questionable policies as the next g
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by nanairo 16y ago
Hey, don't shoot the messenger. :) What you just said was pretty much his point. By decreasing the number of hops you are speeding up the connection (maybe not, but let's say so for simplicity). His point then is that net neutrality has alw
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by nanairo 16y ago
Hey, nobody is arguing they shouldn't try to save some dollars... just that if they were going to gather more data than originally planned, they could have told us. Moreover, if it was just economic sense, and hence it was done on purpose,
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by nanairo 16y ago
The problem of storing energy is true for many renewable energies but there is work being done to solve it too. An example for solar power is the use of special salty compounds that maintain the temperature for much longer (though I'd imagi
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think he is not mixing it up... I think the main point of the article (no matter if you agree or not) is that the philosophy behind the net neutrality, e.g. the idea of maintaining a levelled field, are already history. The author suggest

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