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"Comcast would go broke."

One of the Consumerist stories about Comcast: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

This is serious. Don't let the UK get ahead. The US must dominate in abusiveness!

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I have not built up an infrastructure depending on computers I don't own, don't control

I'm interested in how you eliminated dependencies on your home ISP's DHCP server

I have static IPs.

First, most home ISPs charge extra per month for that. Second, Comcast requires subscribers with a static IP to either forfeit the static IP or rent and use Comcast's modem, which reintroduces "depending on computers I don't own, don't control", and moving to an area whose cable company is not Comcast can prove cost prohibitive, particularly if your work is unrelated to your website.

I don't serve HTTPS. I'm not collecting information about you, or serving illegal or secret information.

Making even a completely public, completely static website available over cleartext HTTP and not HTTPS has three consequences. First, the most popular western web search engine will demote your site. Second, you run the risk of a rogue ISP injecting pop-up advertisements and other malware into your pages, as Comcast has done (source 1; source 2). Third, you cannot make resources on your site available for transclusion into sites that do use HTTPS due to the mixed content policy.

And without advertisement exchanges or subscription payment servers, how do you afford to keep your server powered on and connected to the Internet?

I work.

Is your work related to your website? If not, what benefit do you gain from having a website, and do you ever have to take time off your day job to keep it updated?

When many people concentrate their dependencies on something such as Amazon's cloud, when the cloud dies or is successfully attacked, everyone goes down.

The same is true of DNS or a major home ISP. Or is your argument "only those dependencies that are provably absolutely necessary, and not a single one more"?

How convenient that Mr. Pai neglected to mention that AT&T was sued in 2014 by the FTC for false advertising -- namely, describing their mobile Internet service as "unlimited" when in fact they would throttle you or cut you off after you exceeded undocumented limits.

AT&T argued that, because the package included voice service, the dispute was outside the FTC's jurisdiction and should properly have been brought by the FCC. Mindbogglingly, the 9th Circuit agreed. ( https://consumerist.com/2016/0... )

So Pai's claim about wanting to achieve regulatory harmony and improved demarcation between agencies is unvarnished bullshit. He's trying to create more opportunity for regulatory arbitrage and pitting one federal commission against another.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America. In 2014, Comcast was selected as worse than Monsanto!

Comcast is disliked so much, the company is now calling itself Xfinity.

In my experience, it is Comcast policy to be abusive to customers. One result is that Comcast employees abuse Comcast.

I wish the U.S. had a real government, instead of a help-the-rich-get-richer government. Then government policies would prevent companies from abusing their customers.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America. In 2014, Comcast was selected as worse than Monsanto!

Comcast is disliked so much, the company is now calling itself Xfinity.

In my experience, it is Comcast policy to be abusive to customers. One result is that Comcast employees abuse Comcast.

I wish the U.S. had a real government, instead of a help-the-rich-get-richer government. Then government policies would prevent companies from abusing their customers.

rather than a huge overbroad rule based on a nebulous fear of what some ISP *might* someday do

You mean were actively doing already. Surely you recall prior stories of Comcast throttling Netflix and Netflix being forced to pay what amounted to "protection money" to restore service.

I doubt net neutrality would be such a hot-button issue if ISPs were independent entities that were merely prioritizing traffic for quality of service reasons, as one of your later posts describes. Unfortunately, the reality is that many of the largest ISPs in the country also just-so-happen to be direct competitors with many of the services going over their wires. It is in their best interests to play favorites with packets based upon their source and/or demand extra money from competitors, because they wouldn't want something bad to happen to their data before it gets to the customers.

This story was also posted on The Consumerist: Tostitos ‘Party Safe’ Bags Will Detect If You’ve Been Drinking; Help You Call Uber

It doesn't 'tell you you are drunk', it merely detects the presence of alcohol on your breath. You'd need an actual breathalyzer to determine if you're above the legal limit or not.

How does purchasing power compare? I'm not a boomer, but know that I can get for almost free what would have taken half a year disposable salary to get in the past. I couldn't do my preferred senior design project and had to change it because I could not afford the electronic components. Now the full BOM can be purchansed @1hr minimum wage rate

Consumerist stories about Comcast. One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America. In 2014, Comcast was selected as worse than Monsanto!

Comcast is disliked so much, now the company is calling itself Xfinity.

It is Comcast policy to be abusive to customers. One result is that Comcast employees abuse Comcast.

I wish the U.S. had a real government, instead of a help-the-rich-get-richer government. Then government policies would prevent companies from abusing their customers.

Consumerist stories about Comcast. One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America. In 2014, Comcast was selected as worse than Monsanto!

Comcast is disliked so much, now the company is calling itself Xfinity.

It is Comcast policy to be abusive to customers. One result is that Comcast employees abuse Comcast.

I wish the U.S. had a real government, instead of a help-the-rich-get-richer government. Then government policies would prevent companies from abusing their customers.

Consumerist stories about Comcast. One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America. Comcast was selected as worse than Monsanto!

Comcast is disliked so much, now the company is calling itself Xfinity.

Consumerist stories about Comcast. One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America. Comcast was selected as worse than Monsanto!

Comcast is disliked so much, now the company is calling itself Xfinity.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America. Comcast was selected as worse than Monsanto!

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America. Comcast was selected as worse than Monsanto!

Consumerist stories about Comcast. One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

The U.S. government is very weak at helping citizens, in my opinion.

Consumerist stories about Comcast. One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

The U.S. government is very weak at helping citizens, in my opinion.

That's a new version of a "proactive recall" and "upright and ethical behavior" - when they botched the recall completely by not using the CSPC like they are supposed to, and reportedly tried to pay at least one person to stay quiet about their explodey phone, according to the New York Times.

This is, of course, after multiple convictions for bribery, tax evasion, price fixing, and collusion to the point of the CEO resigning in disgrace.

I don't know why anyone would be a "fan" of a company that has shown themselves to be a bad actor over and over again. I'd buy Sony before I buy Samsung, and I'll never own another Sony product because of their string of horseshit.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

The samsung phone may explode from normal use only - unpleasant if it happens in your pocket.

It's a bigger issue on airplanes. A spare battery on an airplane caught fire recently.

https://consumerist.com/2016/09/16/spare-electronics-battery-catches-fire-aboard-delta-air-lines-flight/

I looked into that recently. Comcast charges you the following fees on top of the quoted prices:
- box rental
- HD technology
- regional sports
- broadcast TV
- universal Connectivity (for the bundled landline)
- Regulatory Recovery (not a government fee)
- TV communications fee (some states but you wouldn't have to pay the fee if you don't have TV service)

https://consumerist.com/2016/0...

Most of these fees can be avoided if you go Internet only. Also if you want Internet without a cap, it's an additional $50 for Residential. When we move, we will be getting Comcast Business for $89 (25/10) with no caps and be buying our cable router outright.

The caps are not put in place by ISPs to make people pay for TV as the summary claims. (Why would an ISP that has no video services at all have caps if that were truly the reason? What is T-Mobile's TV service?) They're put in place to keep people who think they ought to have 100% fulltime use of a shared resource from keeping other users from getting what they are paying for.

So this is just about network management?

Comcast VP: 300GB data cap is “business policy,” not technical necessity
http://arstechnica.com/busines...

Another Broadband CEO Admits: Data Caps Have Nothing To Do With Capacity
https://consumerist.com/2016/0...

Leaked Comcast memo reportedly admits data caps aren't about improving network performance
http://www.theverge.com/smart-...

Comcast Admits Broadband Usage Caps Are A Cash Grab, Not An Engineering Necessity
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

It was a botched link, for who knows why. The link probably was to point to https://news.fastcompany.com/f...

That said, the actual article (with useful info) is actually here: https://consumerist.com/2016/0...

Because the link is to an automatic news aggregator. The FCC thing is way down the page already and the summary contains the entire linked article. The actual article is here: https://consumerist.com/2016/0...

what about having real qa & not end users and your own coders be the testes?

And the QA needs to have the rights / means to change settings and set up the environment in different ways to test out different things. Helps to have people with a QA / testing mind set there.

For some things changes how things work from an standard / the way it has been for a long time to a new default can seem like an bug / lead to bad stuff happening. Like the Gear shift confusion issue that can kill people where was QA on that one? Or did the designers thing that the old way needed to change and did not take testing in put?

https://consumerist.com/2016/0...

http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/2...

http://www.roadandtrack.com/ne...

TV stations would speed up programs to insert more commercials.

Would? They already DO!

Yes it is a bit dark as humour goes but you have to wonder as it was the first thing that popped into me head when I read how he got killed.

Turns out it may have been Jeep's convoluted electronic shifter that was to blame: https://consumerist.com/2016/06/20/jeep-recalled-for-gear-shift-issue-linked-to-star-trek-actors-death/

Hah, WORKING at a store it pretty much the worst qualification for claiming to know consumer law I have hear (well, maybe besides "I have bought lots of stuff!")

The court would almost definitely find for the store in any lawsuit - because they HAVE. Pricing errors are NOT bait and switch. Like many legal definitions, bait and switch requires INTENT.

GO look it up. Even Consumerist doesn't think it's bait and switch: https://consumerist.com/2014/0...

A dispute is the beginning of the process. A chargeback is the result of a dispute.

If you ever won a dispute, your card company issued a chargeback.

The lack of the ability to roll over on any dispute without a chargeback fee seems like a huge flaw in the system.

It sounds like you kept getting bounced up the ladder until a manager decided that he would say yes to placate you.

Or, you can show me some documentation that I'm wrong, but I couldn't find any that supported your assertion. See a random source

Yeah, but the Finnish aren't yet advanced enough to come up with the value-added innovation of shoving the mail down the storm drain.

Especially in Utah!

Actually, at least five methods in most markets for general access, and at least four if you don't count dial-up: Cable, DSL, 3/4G tether/dedicated, and Satellite. Fiber/FiOS is also available in many markets still.

Bahahahahaha. In most markets, you only have 1 cable company. But you say there is DSL. The answer is maybe you can get 20MB down and 1MB up. That's a maybe. Oh what about 3/4G tether/dedicated. That's a farce. Satellite? Sure: 15MB down and 3MB up (best case scenario) up is so much better than 30MB down and 2MB up and cheaper of cable. Or 1GB down/up with Google Fiber

A point is that the 5 methods are inherently not equal. The other point is within each of the 5, most consumers have 1 choice in their area. One choice means monopoly. For my area, there are 3 cable companies except "3" and "area" means for the entire city not for my neighborhood. In my case, that's just 1 cable company. DSL: 1 , Fiber: 0, Satellite: many choices.

Just imagine what they might try to get away with if we didn't have a free market.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

6 Things Comcast Customers Can Try To Get Some Actual Customer Service

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

6 Things Comcast Customers Can Try To Get Some Actual Customer Service

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

6 Things Comcast Customers Can Try To Get Some Actual Customer Service

Comcast is deliberately ABUSIVE. It's interesting to note that Comcast encourages employees to abuse customers, and Comcast employees interpret that as permission to also abuse Comcast.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

6 Things Comcast Customers Can Try To Get Some Actual Customer Service

Comcast is deliberately ABUSIVE. It's interesting to note that Comcast encourages employees to abuse customers, and Comcast employees interpret that as permission to also abuse Comcast.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

6 Things Comcast Customers Can Try To Get Some Actual Customer Service

Comcast is deliberately ABUSIVE. It's interesting to note that Comcast encourages employees to abuse customers, and Comcast employees interpret that as permission to also abuse Comcast.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

6 Things Comcast Customers Can Try To Get Some Actual Customer Service

Actually there are even better drawings in the other crazy idea Airbus came up with: stacking passengers.

6 Things Comcast Customers Can Try To Get Some Actual Customer Service

Those things might get you results, but they won't get you service.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

When stories like this exist, one has to wonder why they are still legally allowed to be in business. What fucking good is the Better Business Bureau when shit like this rages on for years? Seriously.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

When stories like this exist, one has to wonder why they are still legally allowed to be in business. What fucking good is the Better Business Bureau when shit like this rages on for years? Seriously.

6 Things Comcast Customers Can Try To Get Some Actual Customer Service

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.

Comcast voted the 2014 "Worst Company In America".

When there is a lot of abuse, people make distracting comments, rather than trying to stop the abuse.

Whatever the reason may be, despite the fact that infrastructure projects would not only have short-term employment benefits but the much more important benefit of actually keeping the stuff your entire economy depends on to function working past the end of the decade - they aren't being done.

The reason they're not being done is precisely because they'd employ people. It's a lot easier to abuse your employees and the lower classes in general if they're desperate. McDonald's and Wal-Marts have every incentive to keep unemployment high; how else would they charge employees for receiving their pay yet still have employees? Heck, the entire payday loan industry depends on there being a steady supply of people who have to sacrifice tomorrow to survive today.

Our economy continues being horrible because people on top benefit from horrible economy in the form of greater relative power. They'll go too far eventually and spark a revolution, but until then, they'll resist any improvement - because improving your situation would make it harder for them to play your masters.

Just look at history: the Victorian-era hardcore capitalism was somewhat humanized to halt the spread of Communism, and neoconservatism rose as Soviet Union fell and the threat was perceived to have passed. And now society is starting to come apart at the seams again. The cycle will likely repeat as long as Capitalism exists, since to end it would require abolishing social classes entirely.

Anger, probably. Two time worst company, barely lost a threepeat. EA has improved, but not enough.

http://consumerist.com/2014/03...