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Grumpy Old Geeks

98: Live Long & Prosper

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2015

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The geeks get sad as news that Leonard Nimoy has passed hits mid-podcast; Net Neutrality wins until the lawsuits hit; that damn dress & those silly llamas break the internet; big storage & big data; Tesla & uBeam, House of Cards & the three little pigs. Show notes http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/98 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo

0:07.5

discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:11.7

Hey Brian, it is a great day for the internet, isn't it though?

0:21.0

The FCC has passed their net neutrality ruling and everything is great.

0:25.3

We're going to have competition.

0:27.2

It's going to be amazing.

0:28.8

The future is so bright.

0:31.8

And then Comcast says they're just going to go ahead and sue the shirt out of everybody

0:34.2

to slow it back down.

0:35.5

Yeah, I saw that one coming.

0:37.3

Yeah, that's that was pretty quick.

0:38.9

It's like, I mean, it's it's good.

0:41.8

The FCC finally did something smart and it's awesome, but this is going to be years and

0:47.8

years of battles and we're still probably going to lose anyways.

0:50.9

Corporations are going to do what they're going to do.

0:52.7

We're going to fight it goes back and forth, but we need the corporations because they're

0:56.6

the ones that give us the internet, but that's what the, you know, the whole opening

1:00.4

of the competition spaces.

1:02.6

But we'll see how it we'll see how it plays out right now.

1:05.2

My internet works.

1:06.2

I'm okay.

1:07.2

Everything's fine.

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