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There is an ongoing debate in France about children's school weeks between a 4-day week (full days) and a 5-day week (either a day off in the middle of the week, or only mornings on Wednesdays and Saturdays). I invite you to look for different opinions on this debate if you're interested in this article's subject. I understand children pace is barely comparable with grown-ups', however the arguments would be similar. Question is, when are our so-called modern societies going to achieve the transition between human-based and robot-based mass production, leaving people freed from Maslow's hierarchy of needs' lower levels, and (therefore?) from the tyranny of performing something all day long without any benefit for the mind...


Both might be the right answer... :s


Actually "net neutrality" is a philosophy. Just a philosophy. The only aspect of it that is currently a law refer to "content of [the end-users'] choice" as long as it does not "harm the network".

However, as rickmb pointed out earlier [1]: "[...] virtually all display ads violate European privacy laws because of cross-site user tracking without explicit permission." Which rightfully points that ads may "harm the network" by breaking the secrecy of correspondence ("harm" is not restricted in any sense, and anyway the higher Europen Convention on Human Rights talks about that required respect secrecy), and that they may not be the result of "end-users' choice" (did you ever asked for a specific ad to be displayed?).

Net neutrality versus secrecy of correspondence. Round 2 probably... well, not far from now. :)

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006887 or just scroll up to the first comment ;)


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