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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. What ads? by Animats · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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