On 11/12/2010 01:21 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 13:03 -0700, Von Fugal wrote: >> Oh, I don't know, because they PROVIDE the SERVICE?? >> >> If you don't like what they block, then pay someone else, like XMission. > > You know, it's really too bad the electric companies weren't more > forward thinking. They should have fought for the right to approve what > type of appliances could be plugged into the electric grid. Just think > how much progress we could have made as a society! Perhaps even flying > cars and teleportation. But because they didn't see what was coming, now > all I have is a crappy dishwasher, high def tv, and a mac book.
Precisely. I only see this debate getting more heated as IPv6 (finally!) gets rolled out. ARIN guidelines require ISPs to assign no smaller than a /64 (one subnet) to a user, and recommend they hand out as much as a /48 (65k subnets). The possibilities of what to do with those are endless. > Oh well, I guess it give me more time to live in a the fantasy world in > my head where government regulation makes competition possible. Government regulation clearly has a role, but just as clearly as it can have negative effects. It's all about striking the right balance. Corey
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