Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Internet service provider
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- initialism Internet Initialism of
Internet service provider . (This is a company that provides Internet access for afee ) - initialism programming Initialism of
interface segregation principle . (It is one of the fiveSOLID principles of programming.)
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Examples
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The result: more and more naive consumers are already claiming that ISPs are discriminating against online video because it competes with their own offerings (at least when the ISP is a cable company) or leveraging market power.
TWC’s $150 Unlimited Broadband: New Way to Fleece Customers 2009
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And our ISP is a cable company (we use them for both internet and phone, just not cable.)
The Real Fight Over Fake News - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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In accordance with the OECD, we need to create real competition in ISP markets, which means creating a plurality of ISP ownership types, including municipal and community/non-profit ISPs.
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I wonder what ISP is giving out personal information of its customers
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The ISP is going to have a real problem assessing some of these, so the pressure will be to over-remove even if the safe harbor is supposed to be pretty nuanced.
Archive 2009-01-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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But an opened e-mail has a lower expectation of privacy because the 3rd party ISP is merely acting as an agent to store the (presumably) read e-mail.
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But, adds TorrentFreak, “The Usenet provider confirmed to TorrentFreak that the ISP is indeed listed as a client, but they were not aware of its torrent caching practices or that they were hosting a BitTorrent tracker.”
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Which ever ISP is giving out information would quickly stop when they loose 50,000 customers. blog comments powered by Disqus
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The ISP is halfway through a nine-month public trial of IPv6 that has attracted 7,000 of its business and residential customers nationwide.
Comcast: We will meet our IPv6 deadline Carolyn Duffy Marsan 2010
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Stacey … your relentless push for unlimited flat rate service at a loss for an ISP, is just as clueless as demanding flat rate unlimited electricity rates from your local power company.
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