If it gets implemented fairly widely it would drive home the point every time they get online from work. Very imaginative and potentially effective action!

Maybe they'll rethink their support.

That's awesome

it involved money and manipulation?

That is what a respectable democratic president would do.

notice how the compromises only seem to go in one direction?

If only we could see counter-actions like this in other realms.

Life in jail or some mysterious death......

Is that from the Star Trek:TNG Ferengi?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi


Or from the original Asian word? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi#Etymology)

The Star Trek Ferengi are particularly appropriate to today's capitalists. They've gone far beyond the tycoons of previous centuries.

Note his use of Latinum in the last sentence of my snip. It's a currency used in the online game Star Trek by the Ferengi Alliance.

I literally choked on my coffee when I read his statement!

In my defense I haven't watched ST:TNG since first run.

I have played the online game though. Which was the only reason I caught it.

They are selling their services too cheaply. They should at least ask enough to buy a Ferrari.

(Although I can now see why the Ferengi plan is apt---I had no idea what it meant.

I like the way they think.
We should ask all the other ISPs to do this.

but also gives one pause that someone can just do that

I'm getting at least 45 kb, sometimes 46.67 kb on my dial-up. I've never attained anything like the promised 56 kb.

To anyone who started out with 75, that's luxurious !

It was a luxury. I think I spend like $200 on it. The big jump was two years later to 1200 (though I never got that speed consistently - always hovered around 720). Hayes modem, made of metal, if I remember correctly.

Seemed like a rocket at the time. Could download a HUGE game file of 1 Meg in less than an hour!

My oh my, how times have changed

Righteous.

Thanks for the thread, jayfish.

Glad you're back, I almost posted a thread in GD asking about you.

I hope you're doing well.

but it can't last long. The scripts will easily show ID in their logs, then it will be no trick for them to reroute a workaround.

Giving them a taste~ !

In fact, it's one of the chief ways spammers are (somewhat) stymied. It's a cool gimmick, but it doesn't actually address the technical question of network neutrality...

What people are warning about, that is, the ability of carriers to slow down traffic they don't like carrying, is already completely legal, and would remain legal if anything short of common carrier were enacted (network neutrality is short of common carrier, and nobody wants to enact common carrier, because of for example spammers).

We've gotten where we are today by a deliberately vague and untested legal situation (net neutrality was never required by the FCC or IANA or anybody else, only vaguely agreed to by the various carriers), and it's usually always problematic when those finally get articulated.