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Disagreeing with Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft

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Elliot Lee
on 6/18/2006
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The weakest aspect of the neutrality case is that the dangers it alleges are speculative. It seems unlikely that broadband providers will degrade Web services that people want and far more likely that they will use non-neutrality to charge for upgrading services that depend on fast and reliable delivery, such as streaming high-definition video or relaying data from heart monitors. If this proves wrong, the government should step in. But it should not burden the Internet with preemptive regulation.

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Can’t Print Blank Page

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Elliot Lee
on 6/18/2006
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I noticed that I can’t “print” a blank page with my Epson Stylus Color 480SXU. I open Microsoft Word, just have a blank document, and click print. The print status window pops up, as if it’s going to print, but then it seems to complete while the printer doesn’t print out a blank page. I wanted to do this because the rollers seem to be dirty: it put black spots at regular intervals on my past printout. If I type something in the document, say, just ‘a’, it prints, and one whole page goes through. I thought this used to work. Oh well.