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• On the post: Research Shows That Published Versions Of Papers In Costly Academic Titles Add Almost Nothing To The Freely-Available Preprints They Are Based On

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2018 @ 01:44am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Moody being Moody

  Calling Richards “Dick”is such a clever insult...on Techdirt.
  
  But I've seen you explode into paroxysms of homophobia at the slightest provocation, because dicks trigger you.

• On the post: Research Shows That Published Versions Of Papers In Costly Academic Titles Add Almost Nothing To The Freely-Available Preprints They Are Based On

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2018 @ 08:03pm

  Re: Re: Moody being Moody

  Why are you so obsessed with dicks, Anono-coward?

• On the post: Research Shows That Published Versions Of Papers In Costly Academic Titles Add Almost Nothing To The Freely-Available Preprints They Are Based On

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2018 @ 01:33pm

  Moody being Moody

  When did this hack start writing for Techdirt? Man, this place has become Troll Central.

• On the post: Here's The Truth: Shiva Ayyadurai Didn't Invent Email

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2018 @ 02:04am

  Malayalees invented everything

  ...including nuclear weapons. Tamilians are just copycats.

• On the post: Leaked Trump Plan To 'Nationalize' Nation's 5G Networks A Bizarre, Unrealistic Pipe Dream

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2018 @ 05:40pm

  How quickly the winds of fashion change...

  Just last week, Bodie McBodeface was spinning fantasies to the effect that government networks are better, faster, and cheaper than commercial networks.

  But today, upon learning that his evil twin Trumpy McTrumpface wants to build the Mother of All Government Network, Bodie does a 180 and lashes out at government networks.

  Where was all the handwringing about civil liberties when the Berkman (not really "Harvard") report on the magic of munis was on the table? It's local police departments, after all, that love Stingrays best.

  You TD kids are certainly flexible.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2018 @ 07:04pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Self Esteem

  I resort to pointing our your churlish behavior because you've failed to make a substantial comment.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2018 @ 06:40pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Self Esteem

  So you dig a deeper hole for your Cowardly self by piling on some misogyny.
  
  What an impressive group intellect TD has.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2018 @ 09:34am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: the prices of AT&T, Spectrum, and Verizon.

  There's that TD homophobia again.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2018 @ 09:32am

  Re: Re: Re: Self Esteem

  It's a lot easier to go full homophobe while hiding your name, isn't it Coward?

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2018 @ 06:22pm

  Re: Self Esteem

  It takes a special kind of arrogance to believe that everyone who disagrees with you is paid for their opposition..

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2018 @ 02:09am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: the prices of AT&T, Spectrum, and Verizon.

  Right, it's like a conspiracy or something.
  
  [For the record: I don't speak for the FCC, nor do I speak under any kind of orders, suggestions, or coordination with the FCC. Anonymous Coward suffers from paranoid delusions of persecution.]

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 10:03pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: the prices of AT&T, Spectrum, and Verizon.

  “Calling Dick out” means squirming, whining, and spewing.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 03:47pm

  Re: Re: the prices of AT&T, Spectrum, and Verizon.

  Spam comment.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 03:36pm

  Re: Re: Did you miss the part where "higher" and "lower" mean you need to have at least two things to compare?

  The chart in the study shows 27 towns and omits 60% of the comparative data - the prices of AT&T, Spectrum, and Verizon.
  
  Why don't you take a look at the report?

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 03:01pm

  Re: Re: You mean, like the actual prices quoted?

  Did you miss the part where "higher" and "lower" mean you need to have at least two things to compare?

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 02:56pm

  Re: Re: Berkman hid behind an obvious misreading

  No researcher has ever been sued for taking prices from ISP websites for purposes of comparison.
  
  Berkman author Danielle Kehl did that several times for the NAF "Cost of Connectivity" reports.
  
  You're chopping off the relevant text of the phrases you quote: "systematically collect[ing] and us[ing] any Content including the use of any data mining, or similar data gathering and extraction methods"
  
  No researcher has ever been sued for taking prices from ISP websites for purposes of comparison.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 02:51pm

  Re: Re: “the report omits critical details about the underlying conditions influencing the GON prices studied.”

  Yeah.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 02:40pm

  Re: Re: utterly destroyed by careful analysis

  Sorry about that reading disability. Here's a nice paragraph for you:
  
  "As discussed in Section 2, the methodology used in the report is problematic – much more so than the authors admit. Moreover, as detailed in Section 3, the report omits critical details about the underlying conditions influencing the GON prices studied. The authors attempt to brush these failings aside as they call on private ISPs to be more forthcoming about their terms and conditions of service.9 This is pure deflection. The surface-level findings in the Berkman report should not be viewed as dispositive vis-à-vis municipal broadband offering “better” service than private broadband. Accordingly, policymakers should view the report’s findings as flawed (the authors admit as much) and endeavor instead to ask hard questions about its methodology and other aspects of the analysis. Doing so reveals a number of key shortcomings that undermine the report’s takeaways."
  
  Any questions?

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 02:38pm

  Re: Re: Re: Techdirt rerunning old posts now?

  Of course you are.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  Richard Bennett ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 02:35pm

  Ars Technica's article - by Brodkin - is garbage

  Berkman hid behind an obvious misreading of the Ts & Cs of the website's TOU to preserve its erroneous claims.

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