Finland to make broadband a legal right

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Finland to make broadband a legal right

The Finnish government has enshrined the right to broadband access in law - and pledges 100Mb/s for all by 2015.
Finland - home of the mobile 'phone giant Nokia - has become the latest country to make access to broadband a legal right, ensuring that every single one of its citizens has an Internet connection of at least 1Mb/s by July 2010.

If that wasn't enough - and let's face it, 1Mb/s is pretty small potatoes these days - the Finnish government has pledged to work toward giving every single home access to a 100Mb/s connection by 2015.

As reported over on Gizmodo, the move is designed to ensure that Finnish citizens don't fall victim to the so-called "digital divide," where well-off citizens have access to all the benefits of the Internet while poorer residents are cut off from the Web and all the opportunity it offers.

While Finland was beaten to the punch by Switzerland, which has already made a similar move to enshrine a legal right to broadband Internet access by ensuring that all citizens would have access to a minimum of 600Kb/s downstream and 100Kb/s upstream by 2008, it's a smart move by the government - and puts the country miles ahead of most European countries, including the UK.

In this country, although broadband isn't yet a right by law, the government is looking to introduce a 50p per month 'phone tax on landline connections which would go to fund further development of the countries broadband infrastructure - bringing faster internet connections to smaller rural areas which would be uneconomical for the providers themselves to develop. Despite this, the project only goes to make broadband available across the country - not to actually provide broadband to UK citizens, who will still have to actually sign up and pay for a connection from a commercial entity if they want to get connected.
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Source: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2009/10/15/finland-to-make-broadband-a-legal-right/1

Moving to Finland next month. Don't mind me.
 
It's only for Finlanderish citizens.

Finlander Customs Official: "State the nature of your business in our country"
GReeN_ORB: "Uber leet 100Mb/s interwebz."
Finlander Customs Official: "F@ck off!"
 
HANDsolo said:
It's only for Finlanderish citizens.

Finlander Customs Official: "State the nature of your business in our country"
GReeN_ORB: "Uber leet 100Mb/s interwebz, and hot wimmen!"
Finlander Customs Official: "F@ck off!"
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Wrong. Fixed it though :p
 
HANDsolo said:
An R1 rifle is cheaper than a R700 rifle :)



But with uber leet 100Mb/s interwebz you can download all the pron you want :)
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The attitude of a true geek :p

Anyway, M40A3 is more accurate than the R700, so if you like precision shooting then its for you. The R700 does more dmg though, so if you don't like being tanked as often, its the one to use...
 
GReeN_ORB said:
The attitude of a true geek :p

Anyway, M40A3 is more accurate than the R700, so if you like precision shooting then its for you. The R700 does more dmg though, so if you don't like being tanked as often, its the one to use...
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Hence me using it, cause say what you want the servers all got patched with that new promod patch of Tank +100

Cause holy crap dude........... TANK TANK TANK.The other night A guy TANKED 3 SHOTS! 3 SHOTS sniper in succession from me. it was on Crossfire. He came charging down the middle, I was sniper spot back looking over that little wall. I had some okes spectating me. I shoot him, He just keeps running. I shoot him again, he just keeps running. The guyz on my team are like :confused::confused:
I shoot him a THIRD time yet he still keeps running. I gooi him with a nade and the impact on his noggin kills him ROFL.

But yeah back to point. Eventhough the M403A reloads quicker, and is more accurate, I just use the R700 to "try" and get rid of the fricken tanking :mad:
 
Here I was thinking that Internet connectivity was a nice-to-have luxury, not a Basic Need which should be protected by law.

Who pays for all of this?

Do they not have Internet Cafes?

I would think that 100Mb/s is a little excessive for even HD webTV....
mark my words, people are going to abuse this!
 
phoenix said:
Here I was thinking that Internet connectivity was a nice-to-have luxury, not a Basic Need which should be protected by law.

Who pays for all of this?

Do they not have Internet Cafes?

I would think that 100Mb/s is a little excessive for even HD webTV....
mark my words, people are going to abuse this!
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100mb/s per second as a right, damn straight im going to abuse it.
 
OmegaFenix22 said:
Whats this tanking in an FPS.
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LOl Omega. It's the term they use when you shoot somebody but he does not go down, or takes an extraorinary amount of bullets to go down.

Sometimes it borderlines on HAX as mentioned above, tanking 1 shot from a sniper is perfectly acceptable, it happens. 3 is hmmmm.......
 
GReeN_ORB said:
Surviving repeated aimed fire. I.e. 1 hit with a sniper rifle should kill a person. When it doesn't, it's referred to as a "tank".

*edit*

Snap :p
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I know what a tank is, common MMO terminology. But why does it happen in a FPS like cod? Hax?
 
OmegaFenix22 said:
I know what a tank is, common MMO terminology. But why does it happen in a FPS like cod? Hax?
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Oh, should have read more carefully...

Anyway, a number of reasons. Hax, strange rates on shooter/shootee side, bad aim, clever hitbox exploitation...

Most people call hax tho :p
 
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