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omerida on "Mozilla Weave - cool PHP app"

2009-10-09T14:56:42-04:00

Thanks Jaone - I'd just followed the link the article.

Jason Lefkowitz on "Mozilla Weave - cool PHP app"

2009-10-09T14:50:04-04:00

Your link points to an out-of-date version of Weave Server, it's up to v0.5 now. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/0.5/Setup/Storage

omerida on "Can the government impose Net Neutrality?"

2009-09-22T10:57:09-04:00

I guess I'm more in the camp that agrees with this piece by Julian Sanchez, http://techliberation.com/2009/09/22/net-neutrality-and-architecture-avoidance/ "I want to clarify that I fully agree some of the ISP behaviors that net neutrality proponents have identified as demanding a regulatory response really are seriously problematic. My point of departure is that I’d rather see if there are narrower grounds for addressing the objectionable behaviors than making sweeping rules about network architecture."

omerida on "Can the government impose Net Neutrality?"

2009-09-22T10:50:40-04:00

Sandy, my only ambivalence is if we need new/more regulations or if the regulations already on the books are sufficient. I'm not too up to date on that all, need more info.

Sandy on "Can the government impose Net Neutrality?"

2009-09-22T09:35:05-04:00

The reason I support net neutrality regulation is that most of the providers in question have government-granted and -controlled monopolies, or at most have a competing technology that is also a government-controlled monopoly. It's not like you have a choice of cable or telephone providers (even if you have a fake choice of telephone companies, the wires are still maintained by one company who gets money whether or not you get network services from them, and they are the ones who would be implementing discriminatory service). Until we get actual telephone and cable competition, if telecom providers want to be treated as common carriers, they need to treat packets indiscriminately. There is no problem if they implement rate limiting or other quality of service network manipulation, as long as they don't favor one set of bits over another. That way, for example, nonprofits who argue against government monopolies and subsidies won't find themselves being served up very slowly while politically-connected nonprofits' websites are treated favorably.