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    secmaven
    Aug 26 12:43 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Home prices in July were down 7.1% over the previous year? In Orange County CA the prices are down 25%. I don't Case Shiller would back up the 7.1% decline. Something is wrong here. Bring back Eli. Reply
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    wsigler
    Aug 26 12:06 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Eli fan club???!!! I've got news for you....SA isn't aimed at groupies fawning over any particular writer. We're just looking for solid, well-rsearched info. Why don't you spill your love affair over to someone else...Jessica Simpson sounds about like your speed....

    Wayne     Reply
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    wallyjm
    Aug 26 11:59 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    beauty rules! Reply
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    RightinSanFr
    ancisco
    Aug 26 11:39 AM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    No offense intended to Ms Granby, but this is the Eli fan club. For many of us, he is the best reporter of financial information that we have found in years of reading.
    On the housing front, the "months' supply" declined in July, and Freddie Mac is able to borrow money. Plus, the number and magnitude of bank failures is modest by the standard of past recessions. We may not have reached the bottom yet in terms of home prices or credit availability (spreads are still very high), but it would seem that the risk of another big step down is fast receding. Plus, the dollar is up; oil seems to have found its range.
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    wsigler
    Aug 26 11:33 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Quit your crying, babies...Rachael writes just as well and is much more attractive!

    Wayne     Reply
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    Dennis Byron
    Aug 26 09:48 AM
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    We Need a Digital Bill of Rights [view article]
    Eric

    Re: your digital bill of rights idea, the current one does the job just fine, thanks.

    When you say "We need..." and then talk about the U.S. election, I assume you are talking about the US and not some "oneworld" idea you have blogged about previously. I'm sorry to see such European Union communalism (seekingalpha.com/artic...) infecting SV. So much for starting a company in your garage and waking up one morning with a 12-meter ocean racer in the Bay.

    Specifically you say,

    "When the economics of scarcity no longer apply, consumers start to behave differently. They copy and reuse content in unforeseen ways. The pendulum has swung so far that normal consumer behavior has now been criminalized."

    That's typical EU blogobull. Taking some one else's digitized intellectual property is no different than sneaking into the movie theater through the fire escape or shoplifting in the video store. I agree it's no big deal. But it's wrong.

    As for what Amazon and Apple can do with/to content you purchased and put on their service-delivery device is their prerogative. You affirmatively chose to abide by the Ts&Cs of their service. You didn't buy a product from them; drop their service if you object. You can't screw up regular utilities either with some appliance you purchase.

    As for net neutrality, I never heard that anyone was proposing to take away the free flow of information. I thought they just want to offer services that make the flow faster if I want to pay for it. I may be wrong on my understanding of the issue but the current laws would protect me given anything I can think of Verizon or Comcast doing. In fact, the bigger risk is the one that you're proposing: letting the government get too involved.

    In your last paragraph, it sounds like you want a "do not email" list. Why do we need to change the bill of rights to do that?

    Finally nothing is better protected by the current Bill of Rights than privacy. Got an issue; make a federal case out of it. You don't need a new law to do that. By the way, I assume you are not proposing to go through that awkward constitutional protocol of getting your rights enshrined through an amendment.     Reply
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    petyaczar
    Aug 26 09:23 AM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    What happener to Eli?
    When will he be back?     Reply
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    User 26737
    Aug 26 09:08 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    why is eli only contributing?? Reply
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    golfman
    Aug 18 12:10 PM
    Cable is Cornering the Broadband Market [view article]
    Excuse me fanfare, but research is my business. The FiOS product with fiber to the home will certainly generate unlimited bandwidth. That though, isn't the only technoligy that generates bandwidth. DOCISS 3.0 for the cable world will generate the necessary bandwidth to compete with out the huge capital outlay needed to rebuild their infrastructure. True, new cable modems will be required, but thy can be purchased with normal operating capital. The way technoligy changes, who knows what's coming down the pipe next, but I wouldn't count the cable companies out just yet. Reply
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    fanfare
    Aug 16 03:47 AM
    Cable is Cornering the Broadband Market [view article]
    Excuse me Golfman, but it sure looks like you are the one shilling for a company. Your comment about 'cable and phone companies soon being on a pretty level playing field' shows you don't really know much about network/telecom infrastructure. The facts are that cable will have to spend an incredible amount of money upgrading their networks before they would be able to offer anything similiar to FiOS. Don't believe me .. .do a little research. Reply
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    golfman
    Aug 15 12:34 PM
    Cable is Cornering the Broadband Market [view article]
    It looks to me that NormP is a Verizon employee, probably even management. It's true that Verizon's FiOS will be a good product and a formidible foe in the broadband game, but with technoligy changes happening quickly, cable and the phone companies will soon be on a pretty level playing field. Customer service will win this game, and in my area that's Comcast.
    It's true there have been customer service problems, but against the pure number of customers and transactions, the number of bad experiences are relitively small. In my opinion, the customers that do have problems speak the loudest, and that seems to be all you hear. I've had outstanding customer service with Comcast and everyone I know has as well.
    Go Comcast!     Reply
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    NormP
    Aug 14 02:58 PM
    Cable is Cornering the Broadband Market [view article]
    Comcast is frightened to death of Verizon and they post childish, deceptive and assinine commercials against Verizon on TV.
    I have Verizon's DSL, it works superbly and have no desire to switch to Comcast's service which is in my area pretty poor.
    Verizon's FIOS is the victor and the last word. Of course the average person is reluctant to change from the devil he knows to the devil he does not know, but if the average Comcast customer saw a FIOS demonstration he would ditch Comcast in a New York minute.
    Go Verizon !!!     Reply
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    stupid head
    Aug 13 11:25 AM
    Cable is Cornering the Broadband Market [view article]
    I left Qwest not for faster speeds but because of the shady cell phone deal they pulled. Reply
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    bkinn
    Aug 12 12:20 PM
    Cable is Cornering the Broadband Market [view article]
    Talk about being blinded by statistics. Cable posts high gains in broadband sign ups and you seek to bolt to the conclusion that Cable wins and VZ/T loses. I've been watching this contest for many years and I don't think anyone has been able to call a winner definitely. There have been times where it looked as though cable was going to pull out ahead, but there have been times when the opposite held true. Telecom/network engineers have held long ended debates about the strengths and weaknesses of each contender ... the variables are extensive and are only getting more numerous, industry leaders puzzle over who will own the "master pipe" in the end ..., yet you in your wisdom have concluded that cable will now step forth a winner; simply because they managed to sign up a large number of broadband users in a quarter.

    I suppose you missed the fact that most of those new sign ups came from current cable users. In fact, Comcast had a reduction in new users this last quarter. VZ and T had higher numbers in new user sign ups for video. Cable is likely to enjoy a period of migration to broadband as long as they still hold the most overall customers for video. Naturally we should expect them to sign up existing customers to broadband since most of those customers don't even have access to dsl let along FiOS or U-Verse. I have cable, but if I could get FiOS .. I would switch in a minute. In fact, I would switch to dsl in a second as well because it is a superior service (cable has distributed bandwidth speeds, I never recieve the bandwidth that was advertised). As more and more video is distributed via on-net, people will begin the see the necessity of 'sustained rates' of bandwidth and cable will either need to upgrade their infrastructure, or sit by and watch as telecom carriers begin to erode their customer base in similair fashion to the way wireless and VoIP are eroding traditional POTS lines.     Reply
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    User 189845
    Aug 11 09:01 PM
    Cable is Cornering the Broadband Market [view article]
    also think your jumping the gun! att iptv just in its infancy, let's see what happens after its completely rolled out! penetration by att isn't even probably but 30-40 per cent built! they have stopped their dsl build to concentrate on their video!!!! Reply

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