Re: net neutrality and it's implications for websites like this...
God damn this has been pissing me off for ages. It's freakin disgusting, the internet is one of the few places in the world where the little guy has almost the same chances as the big corporate machines. Down with the interweb!
Re: net neutrality and it's implications for websites like this...
Doan worry, be happy.
There has only ever been kinda/sorta net neutrality to begin with.
I worked on a little project several years ago and wound up calling it PNOTS.
Working in the industry, you have to have a catchy acronym for cool chit right? - Like TWAIN.
Anyway, PNOTS stands for Peer Networks Off The Shelf.
This was a corporate fail-over network system using native wireless/wired networks to connect nodes through the addition of openly available GNU software.
The idea was if an outside hardware/software vendor pulled the plug on your established network in any way for whatever reason - like M$ "licensed" software that the rent had run out on, Verizon deciding to jack your rates to um, err, improve network stability, yeah, that's the ticket and hey, haven't you noticed increased incidents of outages? or Apple deciding to remotely kill an app on your brand new shiny Jebus phone because el BlowJobo (what, you never noticed his resemblance to el Diablo?) isn't getting enough of the FanBoy dinero - you would switch the nodes over to PNOTS mode and keep on keeping on over your own wires/wireless bandwidth.
Well, the company didn't bite on it but many others have. In fact, do a little searching around for private peer networking software and you'll find there are prepackaged suites available.
Use them at your own discretion though- I'm not going to say more one way or another.
If the innertube gets locked down into more of a pay for play mode, be prepared to start seeing wireless peer network solutions suffer Whack-A-Mole syndrome because after all, those unregulated networks could degrade vital infrastructure and we can't have that now can we?
There has never been an information medium going all the way back to clay tablets that has not in the end been regulated by the powers that be.
You're kidding yourself if you think this medium isn't already headed that way.
Think I'm wrong?
Here's an idea - does anyone want to try Googling "Free Tibet" from an internet kiosk at the Olympics?
Re: net neutrality and it's implications for websites like this...
Oh yes, it's pretty much definitely going to happen one way or another. I'm just kinda disappointed that I work as an interweb developer now as it appears that the interweb I love will shortly be gone.
And you're right about the cleavage, I paid much more attention to that bit...
net neutrality and it's implications for websites like this...
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