Right now, the people who own the phone and cable lines that pipe in the internet to our homes have a neutral stance on how these websites are transmitted, but the times may be changing.

NPR: Opinion Page: Network Neutrality on the Internet

Specifically referring to the Comcast 250GB limit that has recently come under fire from Netflix and others now that its Xfinity TV app on Xbox 360 skirts the cap entirely, Aragon noted cable companies have the pipe and the bandwidth and can restrict competing services.

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Such copper pipe now connects telephones, cable television, computers and all manner of other information processing gear.

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The AP1000 has half the valves, 35% fewer safety-grade pumps, 80% less pipe and 85% less cable than existing plants.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In ranging, they withdraw the drill pipe and put down an electrical cable and actually try and sense the magnetic field around the wellbore.

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The coming switch from analogue to digital would liberate industries that had been constrained by the limit on the number of cable channels that can be bunged down a pipe, or the handful of broadcast channels that can fit into the airwaves allocated to television.

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We understand that the cable operators don't want to become dumb pipe providers, but the truth is that's what's best for consumers.

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To activate the altered neurons, they usually use a laser tuned to the proper wavelength and pipe the beam through a fiber-optic cable implanted in the brain tissue.

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All over the world, telecoms and cable companies are fighting to provide people's houses with a broadband pipe that can pump in a high-speed Internet feed and the whole digital future.

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