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Living Room / Re: TrueCrypt is Now Abandonware?!
« Last post by rgdot on May 30, 2014, 09:53 AM »I lost the race to 40hz 
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It may shock some to hear that I'm not opposed to the abstract *concept* of having super-heavy bandwidth services (like netflix) pay more. But I completely agree that the likely end result of this is that small organizations get shafted and big corporations can once again buy their way to dominance. And the ISPs get more and more powerful and rich and entrenched.Detractors of the new proposal fear that ISPs will simply charge escalating fees for direct access and continue to stall upgrading their outdated communications infrastructure, meaning slow lanes will end up even further behind the fast lanes
This is why I think that a compromise proposal should have been something like allowing ISPs to charge more for heavy high-speed bandwidth, but at the same time require that the SLOWEST speed for normal priced access was no slower than 50% of the high speed. That way the high speed folks would be subsidizing the rest.
Having said that, and at the risk of injecting politics, my personal preference would be to wipe the for profit internet service provider corporations off the face of the earth (along with the for-profit health care and health insurance corporations, but thats a topic for the basement) and nationalize the internet.-mouser (May 16, 2014, 01:14 PM)
On the issue of delivering a physical product we should be very careful if we are willing to let kickstarter (or anybody else) off the hook. Dangerous path here.But kickstarter isn't delivering a physical product. The campaign organizer is. And should be held to some sort of accountability. Especially if he just disappeared.-rgdot (May 06, 2014, 05:00 PM)-wraith808 (May 06, 2014, 05:10 PM)
Ceding accountability anywhere in the supply chain is a slippery slope that will be exploited, if not by kickstarter then by another.-rgdot (May 06, 2014, 05:35 PM)
How is kickstarter part of the supply chain?-wraith808 (May 06, 2014, 05:59 PM)
On the issue of delivering a physical product we should be very careful if we are willing to let kickstarter (or anybody else) off the hook. Dangerous path here.But kickstarter isn't delivering a physical product. The campaign organizer is. And should be held to some sort of accountability. Especially if he just disappeared.-rgdot (May 06, 2014, 05:00 PM)-wraith808 (May 06, 2014, 05:10 PM)
-rgdot (April 30, 2014, 04:00 PM)
looks interesting-tomos (April 30, 2014, 05:12 PM)
