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Cable Industry Taking Control of the Net

Tompaine.com has a piece warning of measures that cable internet providers are taking to control their users' experiences online. We've touched on this before, but this issue needs a lot of attention and it has gotten very little from the mainstream press.

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  1. Cable companies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is nothing new, unfortunately. They once handed me a beatdown for smoking. Can you imagine?

  2. My God. by Civil_Disobedient · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Holy crap, first post. My first ever! I lost my cherry! Eh... you don't care.

  3. https anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  4. GEE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dern got the first post i hope

    BEU!!!

  5. firstus postikus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ha ha ha cool ha ha coooooooooooooooooooooooooool
    i am retarded down syndrome

  6. Sen Wellstone is alive! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wellstone has been found alive in the wreckage! He claimed to have survived for the last several hours by sucking man-juice from the dying pilot.

    1 gallon of man-juice 2 gallon2 of man-juice 3 gallons of man-juice 4 gallonsa of man-juice 5 gallonsb of man-juice 6 gallonsc of man-juice 7 gallonsd of man-juice 8 gallonse of man-juice 9 gallonsf of man-juice 10 gallonsg of man-juice 11 gallonsh of man-juice 12 gallonsi of man-juice 13 gallonsj of man-juice 14 gallonsk of man-juice 15 gallonsl of man-juice 16 gallonsm of man-juice 17 gallonsn of man-juice 18 gallonso of man-juice 19 gallonsp of man-juice 20 gallonsq of man-juice 21 gallonsr of man-juice 22 gallonss of man-juice 23 gallonst of man-juice 24 gallonsu of man-juice 25 gallonsv of man-juice 26 gallonsw of man-juice 27 gallonsx of man-juice 28 gallonsy of man-juice

  7. This Was Interesting... by tealover · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I read it at Broadband.com

    I need to put together a perl script to scrape news stories from over the internet and mass submit them to slashdot. It appears everyone does that.

    --
    -- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
  8. Re:Gimme gimme gimme by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked.

  9. Considering The Grifters #@ +1, Patriotic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    currently plotting their schemes from

    Have a marijuana inspired weekend!

    Cheers,
    Woot

  10. What? by photon317 · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    It's my 400th post, so I thought I'd make a totally offtopic post on whatever topic was at the top of the page.

    Happy 400th post to me!
    Happy 400th post to me!

    Well, that doesn't even match syllables with the bidrthday song does it?

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    11*43+456^2
  11. illiterate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's not "payed off," it's "paid off."

    And besides, dumbfuck, nobody asked you to give up your gun rights. I hope you enjoy what Corporate Australia is doing to your sphincter these days.

    And what's 200 Aussie in real money anyway? $10USD? If you had a real economy, you'd have a real currency.