4 down and 1 up is fast enough dagnabbit!!!

[silvarios]

Industry arguing 4/1 is a perfectly acceptable tier for base Internet. 10Mbps is way to gosh darn fast to be the base speed. Who needs competition, am I right?
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/09/...is-enough/

[Chakravartin]

...And who needs more than 640k of RAM?

[deckeda]

Ars continues to be great at covering this political issue.

(I maintain that any related "net neutrality" and ISP/cellular business be discussed on our political side, because the activities and impact of what these companies do and offer us are more politically controlled than they are market-driven. Corporate lobbyism works because the good guys have no public celebrity to rally around.)

AT&T wrote:
Consumer behavior strongly reinforces the conclusion that a 10Mbps service exceeds what many Americans need today to enable basic, high-quality transmissions.

And it's a self-fulfilling prophesy that slower speeds are all anyone needs, when it's all they can get or afford, or are used to having.

The FCC is still being conservative here, not a leader. Instead of 10 it should be more like what Wheeler said, 25 at least. Look at Table 2 from the story. The examples shown are for 1 person doing each activity. Reality is more like anyone above the age of 6-7 is consuming higher data rates, that's gonna be 3-4 people, not 1 per household, needing real bandwidth.

[cbelt3]

There is futureproofing, and then there is denying the future. This is the latter.

Oh well... with pot getting legalized all over the place, those pixelated streams will look... coool, man !

[BCam]

I suggest the 1/5 amendment to this Bill. Any Congressman can only appear on TV one time during (andi I use the term loosely) their 5 day work week. That should be enough exposure for them in any one week.

[cbelt3]

BCam wrote:
I suggest the 1/5 amendment to this Bill. Any Congressman can only appear on TV one time during (andi I use the term loosely) their 5 day work week. That should be enough exposure for them in any one week.

I would recommend a slightly different model. With Citizen's United, change the rules so that any one "individual" can only donate a sum equivalent to the US poverty line for an individual to ALL political causes for the year.

http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/14poverty.cfm

So, because they live in the 48 contiguous states and DC, each Kook Brother can only donate $11,670 per year.

That should be enough, right ? Maybe politicians will need to on food stamps. But that would be okay.

[jdc]

Chakravartin wrote:
...And who needs more than 640k of RAM?

#3 =)

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/7-famous-...+ericlimer

[mattkime]

i guess we're not interested in being competitive on the world stage

[silvarios]

Feel free to migrate to the political side.