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Broadband Bermuda Triangle

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the man-overboard dept.

An anonymous coward sent in: "Mike from Techdirt has written an article in Salon.com about how he is the bermuda triangle of broadband, and how the government should kick him out of the country if they really want to save the broadband industry. Apparently, he's been kicked off 4 or 5 different broadband networks in the past year alone as each company went bankrupt or gave up the business."

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  1. Come on by matp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This was a link to an advert. Could you not link directly to the article :(

    1. Re:Come on by matp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Ok, fair enough...

      , but this kind of thing really pi**es me off. Despite comments to the contrary, it's not the physical effort of clicking through. It's the thought that /. get paid (more) to post articles with unavoidable adverts, and I'm somehow contributing to paying for a new car some sales guy@salon.

      Is it me, or is it becoming more and more prevelant or /. Is this new policy?

    2. Re:Come on by Zaknafein500 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Give it up already. People have to pay the bills. Bandwidth isn't free you know. Sheesh people. Just because you don't pay for it, doesn't mean nobody else has to.

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    3. Re:Come on by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      It's the thought that /. get paid (more) to post articles with unavoidable adverts, and I'm somehow contributing to paying for a new car some sales guy@salon.

      What do people who work for salon not deserve to drive or something? If you don't want to contribute to the salon.com employee automotive fund, then don't visit salon. If you don't like the ads you can pay salon to turn them off.

      Finaly, slashdot has no control over this, its something salon is doing on there own.

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    4. Re:Come on by OhPlz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yes, bandwidth isn't free so lets force some huge graphic advertisements in everyones' faces. What I want to know is how they got M$ to take out the option to not automatically download graphics.

      I wonder about advertising. Does anyone ever click on the banners? Do they ever buy anything? I'd bet the figure is 1%. Is online advertising really paying for anything or is it just eating up more bandwidth and pissing people off?

  2. Wow! Buzzwords! by jd · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    No sooner had I posted the rules, and some gaming cards, for Slashdot Buzzword Bingo, and a whole bunch of buzzwords turn up at once!


    (The rules & the first three cards are in the thread on Quantum Holography)


    I'll add a couple more cards here, in case anyone else wants to join in. (It's relevent, cos there's a whole bunch in the intro!)


    Card 4: Salon, Bermuda Triangle, Aliens, Black Holes, Conspiracy, Broadband, Kuro5hin, Sourceforge, Server51


    Card 5: Bankrupt, Depression, Afghanistan, Luddites, Identity Card, Homeland Security, Virus, Outlook, Keystroke Monitor

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  3. ahh, broadband, how I remember thee... by Vidmaster_Steve · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    This is slightly OT, but I've no peers that have the cable modem setup, and I can't get a word in edgewise in the other @home-related strings.

    For the past week or so, I've been running dog slow, like 8kb/s downstream slow. To test the waters, I downloaded something from windowsupdate, and off of a server that I typically get ~750kB/s off of, I was getting a whopping 2.2kB/s.

    What's up with this? Anybody in the Northern Nevada (Charter Pipe) area having similar problems?

    Thanks in advance, if you need me, I'll be waiting for the page to load...

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  4. Now Salon for non-stories too? by Shivetya · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is /. being paid to pass on their drivel?

    Its bad enough using Salon as some kind of fact filled reference behind a story, but now /. just plans on driving people to their site?

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  5. What ads? by Animats · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I didn't see any ads. Oh, that's right, I have WebWasher.