Basically, Net Neutrality is about not letting internet providers (the cable companies who already overcharge and gouge people for service that is already slower than in most developed countries) make sites load more slowly unless they paid them a "fee".
This has already happened with Netflix who, mind you, actually paid up to someone and is STILL getting throttled by them <http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/netflix-performance-on-verizon-fios-dropped-another-17-percent-in-june/>. A lack of net neutrality allows internet providers to basically look at what traffic you're picking up and then extort you for better performance. Given that something like...crowd-sourced calculations are heavy on internet traffic, isn't it obvious to see what the problem will be? Companies will complain that we're using too much of their data and slow it down intentionally. Also, *Snowden* didn't cost the US Tech Sector, *the US government* did. If the government wasn't doing illegal practices to begin with (and they have been ruled illegal and unconstitutional already, which indeed *makes Snowden a whistleblower*), the US tech sector wouldn't have lost money, and rightfully so, over people terrified that their communications are being hijacked. --SystemsReady On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Max Power <[email protected]> wrote: > > What is this row over US net neutrality? > > As Alistair Cooke (or someone similar) is no longer around to explain the > nature of the problem, I am slightly at a loss as to what the row is about. > > Net Neutrality (or lack thereof) is not the greatest threat to Distributed > Computing ... at best it does not even make the top 20 reasons why > Distributed Computing is under threat (in the US or EU or the Asia-Pacific > region). > > There is at least one screen saver that hints of other problems, but it is > under development -- and its contents are volatile to change. > > http://cbc-am/dsn-at-home.scr > > Not that it is related, but it is estimated that the Snoden files cost the > US Tech Sector about 1200 million USD in Asia this past Quarter and for the > whole of 2014 may reach 3800 millions USD in losses. > > The BOINC system (client or server) is still ‘shackled to the corpse of > the x86’ but this is supposedly getting better as time goes on. The whole > technology used by BOINC may not be the same in 10 years ... but the global > finance system risks could eliminate 1/3 of all BOINC users in 6 months or > so it goes. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
