Thursday, February 26, 2015

Plan B makes a pretty damned good burger.

They are expensive but they are most certainly good.

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So the FCC finally got around to voting on whether or not the internet would remain non-competitive and neutral. Fortunately for us, they voted on neutrality.

The idea here is that the internet has a limited bandwidth. Only so much data can flow through it at any given time and some providers started talking about charging for that bandwidth. The concept was simple, if there is a bandwidth of 100 units and Netflix wants to provide it's users with a "better viewing experience", it would be able to buy 25 units, leaving 75 units for the rest of the world.

What net neutrality means is that the 100 units is not going to be divided up into units. It will remain at 100 and first come, first served is the way of the world. Netflix can't take 25% of the internet leaving the rest of us 25% slower.

Good for the FCC.

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