@coodgenducta: Well, for one thing, you don't have to keep track of a gesture, but you do have to physically locate and pick up a mouse. Also, voice commands, although you really don't need a whole peripheral for that.

@superberg: Betamax and Laserdisc were recognized as "industry standards" too at one point, but it doesn't mean you would have been better off buying them over vhs or dvd.

@BOOTS, Jesus didn't wear them: They are drm-free, and I believe that they actually jumped on that bandwagon before iTunes did.

@Kaiser-Machead: "not only does snow spontaneously appear and disappear" You mean like falling out of the sky and then melting...

@Kaiser-Machead: Can I see how you fit the snow tires in your backpack? Oh, I see, you just keep nobby tires on your roadbike all the time, and it sucks whenever there's not snow. Oh no, wait, you keep two entirely separate bikes for snow and non snow.

@ceej3: How often does tiered service result in a lowering of prices? Almost never. As far as the free market, the ISP are largely government enforced monopolies right now, not competitive markets. By why don't you keep saying "free market" and clicking your heels together and see if that makes it so.

@BrianDawg: Yes, the best policy is usually wait until something is a problem and then play catch up.

@Dougith: Yeah, it's not like comcast is has threatened to block netflix from its customers or anything...

@slevine001: If there were more than one ISP capable of 10+ mbps in most areas, that would be true. However, it isn't. But I'm sure a company like comcast would never threaten to block something like Netflix from all of its customers or anything... (HINT: they already did that once).

Simple chemistry does not necessarily mean better for the environment. Nitrogen-Oxygen molecules are generally quite poisonous themselves, and are not currently present in SRB exhaust. I would be curious to see a more detailed analysis on that point, although the small amount of rocket launches taking place probably…

@SnowSoul: Most people would, but the one guy on the block that doesn't want to deal with it can ruin it for everyone (or at least, require that the telco expensively route around him). As with all of the other utilities, if that guy doesn't want to sell the property rights, the city/county/state will come in and…

@SnowSoul: I actually meant that it's impossible to build a cable network without Eminent domain...

@SnowSoul: Are you checking the actual speeds? Because where I live you can get 1.5 meg up and 384k down for $35 a month (not introductory). The hughes net "power 150" package for $60 a month has 1.5 meg down and 250k up along with what amounts to a 9 GB per month cap (Comcast's is 250 GB per month). You wouldn't…

@SnowSoul: You're a fan of paying twice as much for the same service? Woo, look at that free market driving down prices and helping the consumer

@SnowSoul: None of the cable networks would have been built without government intervention....

@theose is nominal: A. A company won't deny service, they'll charge extra for it (see the Comcast/Level 3 debaucle). B. Aside from the idea that we have plenty of choices (we have, at most, two choices), the idea that the ISP's own all of their own networks independently is crap. They receive significant subsidies…

@NorwoodIsMyHero: I'll give you tenacious and nasty, but consumer advocates to have nearly the resources to be as unethical as corporate lobbyists.

@robotkiller: It's questionable to say that it's TW's pipes. Many of those pipes were built with heavy government subsidies, and certainly with the government enforcing Eminent Domain to get the space to lay the pipes. They are much more correctly called publicly owned pipes.

@harrismi: Sorry if I misinterpreted the phrase "these sites." yes the stated objective was to block access to classified documents, but the links are not hosted by NYT (because it is a reputable company operating within the bounds of american law) so it is possible (and even easy) to block the links without blocking…

@harrismi: PS: The New York Times (i.e. the subject of this article) is not a classified document. Please try and keep your comments on topic rather than just railing against wikileaks.