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Broadband Crackdown
MrPeach writes: "In a move unsurprising to those of us who have had interactions with their so-called customer support, AT&T Broadband and Excite@Home are indefinitely filtering all incoming traffic on http port 80 for residential customers. They could have cut access to those running compromised servers, but instead chose to deny the ability to run a web server to all subscribers to their service. DSL anyone?" DSL won't save you. Verizon is apparently also blocking port 80 for their DSL customers, in addition to blocking outgoing port 25 and requiring use of Verizon's SMTP servers to send email. Verizon is also cheerfully paying fines for screwing over their competitors - the fines will be much less than the extra profit they can squeeze out once their competition is gone.
"We're going to close the intersection of Pine and Elm because there are too many accidents there."
Exactly. How stupid. That's like grounding all flights of a certain aircraft because it crashed once. Oh wait....
No thanks. I don't smoke anymore.
In 2001,worm was happening.
Customer1: What happen?
Customer2: Somebody set up us the port filter.
Computer: We get mail. Customer1: What?
Customer2: Email client turn on.
Customer1: It's you !!!
Cable Provider: How are you, gentlemen ???
Cable Provider: All your TOS are belong to us !!!
Customer1: What you say???
Cable Provider: You have no chance to host, make your time.
Cable Provider: Ha ha ha !!!
Customer1: Move boxen.
Customer2: You know what you are doing?
Customer1: For great serving,
Custoemr1: Move every boxen.
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I am an @Home subscriber in Seattle. Here is the truly hilarious service they provide.
- As an @Home user you are not supposed to do anything business related, including someting as simple as sending email to your office.
- If you want to do business, you can easily upgrade your cable @Home connection to an "Excite@Work" DSL connection. Except that @Work simply isn't available over most of the @Home coverage area.
So they tell you to upgrade to a product they can't sell you. Hilarious.
I would happily pay more for @Home CABLE service if they would give me a fixed IP and not block servers. Not that they are at the moment, but I smell trouble on the horizon. That Qwest DSL with the month-to-month pricing is looking better all the time.
I thought people WANTED those two worms squished!
There's more than one way to squish a worm.
If your neighbor used hydrogen bombs to get the cockroaches out of his apartment (and guess what -- it would get 'em out of yours too), I bet you would complain about it, instead of saying "Thanks for killing my cockroaches."
He said 'incoming port 80'. Yeah that'd be swell, blockign outgoing port 80.
First time I read it I thought he meant to write asinine which in this context means the same thing :)
Never attribute to stupidity what can be construed as a monopoly preservation tactic.