The European Parliament's industry committee has postponed a vote on putting an end to roaming charges across the EU by 2015 and ensuring that telcos don't get to charge companies like Google to pay for faster interwebs. The Industry, Research and Energy committee (ITRE) was due to vote on a legislative report on roaming …

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Tuesday 25th February 2014 13:06 GMT Anonymous Coward

Fromage alimentaires singes capitulards....

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1. Tuesday 25th February 2014 13:28 GMT bpfh
  
  Wha?
  
  What instant translation tool spat out that line of crud?
  
  Singes capitulards mangeurs de fromage was probably what you were looking for, but you also forgot the bratwurst swallowing oompa band players, sangria drinking goat worriers and 24 others...
  
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  1. Tuesday 25th February 2014 14:05 GMT tirk
    
    Re: Wha?
    
    "Sangria-drinking donkey-tossers" is the accepted UKIP designation for our Iberian chums I believe.
    
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    1. Tuesday 25th February 2014 15:32 GMT Richard 120
      
      Re: Wha?
      
      What sort of tossing is that? The SFW kind or the NSFW kind?
      
      I'm afraid I get a bit confounded by daily mail rhetoric.
      
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      1. Tuesday 25th February 2014 15:43 GMT bpfh
        
        Re: Wha?
        
        I guess it's the SFW version of Muffin' the Mule. Don't tell the RSPCA ;)
        
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  2. Friday 28th February 2014 11:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Re: Wha?
    
    That was from Google Translate. Bing does it a bit better:
    
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Tuesday 25th February 2014 16:17 GMT Neil Davies 1

Next π has the value 3

They don't get statistical multiplexing do they? Even a FCFS tail drop queue is traffic management!

They *really* don't want the world in which it is a complete free for all - the resulting network dynamics (and costs) are not the ones they thought that they would get...

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Tuesday 25th February 2014 22:11 GMT Fred Goldstein

Brain-dead understanding of the Internet

Prohibiting ISPs from managing the flow of traffic is a quick way to shut the whole thing down. The Internet is not only reliant on massive oversubscription, but its TCP depends on cooperation to work, or the network will go into congestion collapse. It is not a common carrier service with fixed bit rates and shouldn't be treated as one.

Of course teevee junkies don't care, and will happily destroy it if the think they'll get a few more shows to watch in the process.

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