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Tell Commander Posts: 859 Joined: Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:59 pm IGN: tell276 Location: East USA
FCC approves net neutrality!
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by Tell » Thu Feb 26, 2015 3:37 pm
http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/26/fcc-net-neutrality/
What would have happened if they voted No:
Well let's say your service provider is Comcast. Comcast owns NBC Universal and a bunch of other entities. If you want to stream some SNL clips from Hulu (with commercials), Comcast will pass it through at full speed. But let's say you want to spend some time on your gaming forum. Comcast doesn't make any money off that, so they'll slow it down to the point where you'll get frustrated and say "fuck it, I'll just watch SNL clips on Hulu."
And the worst part is, because of the way the networks work, this won't just affect their own customers but anyone downstream also trying to access the gaming forum.
Anyways,
Vinyl Fleet Admiral Posts: 3217 Joined: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:54 pm Affiliation: Hexalan IGN: PCaptainRexK Location: Hexalan
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by Vinyl » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:57 pm
cats wrote: I literally cannot be wrong about this fictional universe
cats Rear Admiral Posts: 1853 Joined: Wed Dec 05, 2012 10:03 pm
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by cats » Thu Feb 26, 2015 6:50 pm
The only thing that's changed is that people on the internet will be disproportionately happy for a small period of time.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad-hoc plot device"
— David Langford
Tau Admin Posts: 750 Joined: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:58 am Affiliation: Futureville Mafia IGN: TehPwnzor7306 Location: Ancapistan
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by Tau » Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:32 pm
Yeah. Soon it'll be back to our usual collective bitterness and memeslinging.
Speaking of,
how does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?
Vinyl wrote: "RP" and gaming and homosexuality is what's keeping [the forum] afloat.
Ivan2006 Fleet Admiral Posts: 3021 Joined: Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:10 pm Affiliation: [redacted] IGN: Ivan2006 Location: In a universe.
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by Ivan2006 » Fri Feb 27, 2015 2:35 am
Mercury Steam wrote: The only thing that's changed is that people on the internet will be disproportionately happy for a small period of time.
That's kinda the point.
That things have, in fact, not changed, although there was a dangerously high chance of them changing.
Quotes:
Spoiler:
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Solar112 Captain Posts: 1044 Joined: Fri Jan 10, 2014 2:19 pm IGN: Solar112
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by Solar112 » Fri Feb 27, 2015 4:21 pm
We just need to survive the impending lawsuits.