Jaymoon85's comments

- PBS Passport : $5/month

- PBS Kids* : $4.99/month

- PBS Masterpiece* : $5.99/month

- PBS Living* : $2.99/month

$19/month for all of these, is still better than $50 for Youtube TV, if all you care about is PBS programming.

* Requires Amazon Prime

Except the discovery of said works would give IPFS the advantage. If a website is taken down or removes the works, finding it somewhere else becomes the challenge, even though it still exists elsewhere.

With IPFS however, anyone with the file makes it available to anyone looking for it, regardless of who has it, or how many copies there are.

Is it still considered to be throttling when it's in the service agreement?

I have Cricket wireless, and they tell me I am limited to 3mbps speed, which is exactly what reflects in all speed tests I've tried. I am totally OK with that, in exchange for having an "unlimited" data usage plan.

All streaming video I've tried (Youtube, Netflix, DirecTV Now) seem to work and look just fine. They all look no different from when I'm streaming on my 100mbps Wi-Fi.

You could forward all mail from a Gmail address to Fastmail, and then use [email protected] for each service you use. Might be considered security through obscurity, but if nobody knows your actual email domain except for the Gmail address, less likely to have it attacked. Goes without saying to protect that Gmail account at all costs though.

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> 'unregulated'

In the sense of 'government regulation'. They are the ones who can arbitrarily enforce rules, pick and choose winners, and complicate the barrier to entry so much to discourage competition ...all within the law mind you.

> ...ISPs, who are driven by profits and literally nothing else

They live by the profits, and die by them too. That's how free market works.

But who's fault is that really? If a local city council or county commissioners, decide to allow a single provider to control the territory (or selectively restrict competitors)[1], why do the people affected not exercise their voting power to allow more competition?

The abuse of public right-of-ways, franchise negotiations, and unreasonable permitting processes have much more of a negative impact to broadband expansion.

[1] https://ibhc.com/right-of-way-what-you-need-to-know/

I agree. Nobody is considering the problems an FCC-regulated internet brings to the table. With the exception of the telegram and cinema (those controlled by Western Union and Hollywood), the feds regulate the telephone, radio, and television. The internet is just the latest thing government bureaucrats want control over.

> With the fate of a major Internet policy in the balance, Pai's proposal may lend momentum to U.S. lawmakers who have proposed replacing the current FCC rules with congressional legislation. Republican members of Congress have said they are ready to craft a bill that enshrines some of the existing regulations permanently into law. But that effort is expected to stall without support from Democrats, such as Sens. Edward J. Markey (Mass.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.) who argue the FCC can and should regulate ISPs more heavily. [1]

In regards to Facebook, Twitter, etc. creating their own modern walled gardens, let them. They'll soon see the demise that others have, 10-20 years ago.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/04/26...

No one should... but that doesn't mean the don't/can't.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-08-17/wayback-machi...

Meanwhile, try to purchase a copy of a Humble Bundle for yourself, and one as a gift to a friend using the same card, and suddenly STOP! DO NOT PASS GO.

Not that anyone cares about follow up to obvious click-bait, but the LAT issued an apology admitting the headline was misleading.

www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0320-drought-explainer-20150320-story.html

I notice that too when it pops up. I wonder if they make it confusing by design, to ensure you carefully read it, and not just blindly click through?

Amazing how whoever broke in only stole name/address/SSN information. But didn't touch the protected medical records?

https://www.noagendaplayer.com/listen/694/2-19-54

It's a ploy from the rail companies to have the tax payer foot the bill to build these high-speed rail lines, knowing full and well that there is just not enough demand at the price (per trip) they are proposing.

Sure there will be the occasional passenger train to warrant keeping it around, but the long term goal is to have the rail companies step in and say "See, no demand for passengers, but since you have all of these tracks built, we'll gladly use them to haul our freight."