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Ricochet Bounces Back, Cautiously
SimHacker writes: "An article in salon.com reports that the Ricochet wireless network will be bouncing back from the dead! Aerie Networks, who purchased Metricom's Ricochet network for $8.25 million, is going to offer the service in markets where it was popular, like Southern California and the Bay Area. They're also planning to lower the price of the modem from $300 to $100, and lower the monthly flat rate fee from $80 to $50. Ricochet is hardly the perfect wireless network, but it's much faster and more reliable than CDPD, so I'm really looking forward to signing back up."
Ricochet
(with apologies to Paul Simon)
When I think back on all the crap I read on Slashdot
... photographs
... photographs
It's a wonder I can think at all
And though my frequent links to goatse.cx
Haven't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
Ricochet
You give us those nice fast downloads
You give us the warez and Napster
Makes you think all the world's a fast freeway, oh yeah!
I got a Sony laptop
I love to look at
So Mama, don't take my Ricochet away
If you took all the sites I read
When I was "working"
And brought them all together for one spell
I know they'd never match
one brilliant round of trolling...
And everything looks worse on DSL
Ricochet
You give us those nice fast downloads
You give us the warez and Napster
Makes you think all the world's a fast freeway, oh yeah!
I got a Sony laptop
I love to look at
So Mama, don't take my Ricochet away
Mama, don't take my Ricochet away
Mama, don't take my Ricochet away
Mama, don't take my Ricochet away
Mama, don't take my Ricochet
Mama, don't take my Ricochet
Mama, don't take my Ricochet (away)
Mama, don't take my Ricochet
Mama, don't take my Ricochet
Mama, don't take my Ricochet (away)
Mama, don't take my Ricochet
(Make your boy just pay and pay)
Mama, don't take my Ricochet (away)
sulli
RTFJ.
Lol Hi Issac,
/. that this kind of shit happens here. The moderation system truly does not work, obviously n6mod deserves some moderation points too, yet the moderators don't bother browsing above 2.
:P
Well tech support mainly dealt with stupid user questions, unlike n6mod who I think is a REAL technician. The kind of guy they would tell "Go hunt down this stolen laptop with these special scanners and antenna's!" Really big difference between what we do. You guys are right, I have absolutely no understanding about the network on the level you two do with all your shortwave experience.
I got a +5 on this comment the last time I posted it.
It's sort of a slap in the face to
It's making me think of starting a new kind of troll to overthrow the system. *DEVILISH LOOK* You two are smart enough, here's how you can help.
The current troll purposefully tries to go against the slash moderation system to achieve their goal. They use disgusting links to nefarious sites, act like children really.
What I propose is the karma troll. The karma troll must be smarter than the average troll, because they would have to catalog and sort high modded comments for later "recycling" to recieve karma.
Yes I know it sounds silly, but I think I've figured out the TRUE psychology of slashdot, time to go dig and catalog all those +5 comments