Comments on: CIPPIC net neutrality on Twitter: Day I

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:30:11 +0000

“Maybe people can read from the bottom up instead?”

(!!)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:15:06 +0000

Maybe people can read from the bottom up instead?

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:36:01 +0000

“Jon, you should invert the order”

I’m already cutting and pasting by hand. I’ll try and remember to do it backwards next time.

Cheers!

By: Name (optional)

Name (optional) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:38:03 +0000

“CIPPIC net neutrality on Twitter: Day I”
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“Sign in to Twitter”

One of the reasons I love *this place* is the fact I do not have to login to something obscure. Like Twitter…

P.s.
Thanks Jon

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:39:18 +0000

Jon, you should invert the order so that we can read from top to bottom.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:05:31 +0000

ah-ha!
That’s one of the “gotchya’s”

Bell wants it cut of the movie/music pie.

Download a movie from wal-mart (or where ever) and Bell wants 4$ from that. What did Bell give you in return? Nothing except an electronic invoice (2$ more for a paper bill).

Fuck Bell. Everyone should leave them.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:54:07 +0000

If my ISP started charging per byte, I’d likely stop using paid services. Movie rentals via my Xbox 360 is one example. No sense paying for something twice (once for the rental and a second for the bandwidth used). No more listening to internet radio too. I would really have to start using a bandwidth monitor and make sure everything is read from a cached source whenever possible to keep from paying repeatedly for multiple refreshes of the same page. Better make my home page blank just to be sure I’m not being charged every time I launch my web browser. Not sure what I’d do about e-mail seeing as my ISP uses IMAP and that requires downloading the full message (pictures and all) every time it is read. Spam will start costing me money. I’d also have to turn off automatic updates I guess. There is a ton of bandwidth leakage from Windows and many of the programs installed that would need to be shored up. I suppose a software firewall set to block all except for when I’m surfing would help. Wow, I can really see why ISP’s would like to do this type of billing. It would allow them to nickel and dime you to death. I could see an ISP begin to offer it’s own alternatives exempt from charge-per-byte billing (the aforementioned movie rentals for example). All part of their master plan to kill off the competition and take it’s place I’ll bet. I foresee DPI being used to help further that goal. Make things like Bittorrent suck so bad you have no choice but to use ISP approved services. Man, imagine how rich you would be if you got just one penny every time someone in the world opened their web browser.