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There is still ISDN in the US and it's still there to uphold artificial scarcity and price fixing. Broadband in the US is basically neutered to ensure that the ISPs can buy cheaper equipment and maintain high pricing.
It's also why they wanted to remove network neutrality, so they also could gouge small data centres and make backroom deals with big tech giants.
I know you may hate the word "data centre", but if the small ones can't compete, say goodbye to any form of competition.
The word data centre is primarily a problem if its used in the context of AI.
Yeah, my daughter was complaining about data centers, and I pointed out she meant AI hypserscaler data centers, and that I work in a data center, a small old fashioned one that just runs internet and TV for people.
Xfinity must have got to them.
Ah yes. In Germany we call this "Technologieoffenheit" and do not consider internet speeds, but car's.
Today’s abolitionists aren’t nearly as cool.
As soon as I hear "FCC" I ignore it as it's nothing more than the old "money/power/control" triumvirate that currently exists within and amongst the trump regime. The people still have the real power. Look at how ABC now has some spine after the people bit hard into their collective subscription coin-gathering process.
Turtles are great and all, but dammit I want my pipes fast.
So they're in favor of net neutrality?!
Did they get paid by a POTS modem maker? Is someone trying to resurrect US Robotics?
I doubt it, major shift with most carriers to get rid of old switching gear. New gear isn’t being made, old gear is expensive to maintain, and FFC has been changing a lot of rules around the service. Its now, near impossible to get new POTS traditional services anymore. Today it’s mostly POTS in a box; 5G wireless to a ATA device, with battery backup for survivability.
I've always wondered if an old modem would work through VOIP. But it might rely on some frequencies that aren't encoded.
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Read the article...?
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I'm not entirely upset at this. It seems like any advances in computing and network speed these days are used as an excuse to collect more data and make software more inefficient. Also from a global warming perspective, if you're into that, it may be time we start looking at things from a sufficiency standpoint rather than efficiency.
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My dad got grumpy when I told him I used an app to do my laundry instead of a sack of quarters. Then he got real grumpy when I explained it was better in every. single. way.
This is that, in policy form. (EDIT: This is the important part, not how I do my laundry)
The main disadvantage that I see is the quarter-laundry machines were pretty easy to modify so that you didn't need to pay them. The whole app thing appears to be a lot more difficult to hack, the coin machines can be disabled with a screwdriver.
I do not miss broken laundry rooms. They never stopped at disabling the quarter machine, lets get them quarters that are in there! "Oops, we bent the frame and the door doesn't close until someone comes to fix it." Good times. These good guy hackers you remember running around dispensing free gas and blowing up ATMs never existed.
BTW, there's still a quarter machine for people that want it.
These good guy hackers you remember running around dispensing free gas and blowing up ATMs never existed.
My building mysteriously had the wonky coin payment system bypassed after the landlord began to truly embrace his inner pos and stopped fixing them. I feel the other tenants enjoyed the benefits of having the only functional pair of machines in the complex at the low, low cost of press the button more than I did.
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