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VoIP Gets A Big Backer And Another Lawsuit
Ungrounded Lightning writes "Time Warner Cable has announced plans to roll out a VoIP telephone service. I see two implications. First: ISPs providing VoIP phone service have a competitive advantage over third-party VoIP/PSTN providers (such as Vonage), who must ride on top of a separate broadband subscription for the packet transport. This could lead to consolidation of this industry segment in the hands of ISPs. Second: Cable ISPs have an advantage over Telco DSL operations - where a VoIP offering would cannibalize their own POTS and short-range long-distance revenue. This implies rollout on cable providers first, followed by harder times for telcos, long-distance companies, and third parties."
chipperdog writes "In this article it is mentioned that the small rural phone companies in North Dakota are filing a complaint against a local VoIP provider, CallSmart. Interesting to see how this one works out, given what happened in Minnesota a few months ago."
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So far, the slashdot answer to trolls is to limit AC posting, ban subnets, require 2 minutes between posts, and a lameness filter. Notice that they don't stop trolls, but they do affect normal users.
Rob Malda has stated (see the last slashdot IRC interview at slashnet) that trolls are the same as people that piss in the pool. I think he's wrong. The same reason he's wrong is the same reason there are so many trolls.
Some people troll/crapflood/etc to be assholes, but the root cause is the slashdot hierarchy itself. Trolling is a phenomena with more and more popular support and Slashdot readers generally believe in openess and equlity - Open Source, democracy, communism, etc.
Slashdot is run as a dictatorship. There is no room for questioning or dissent. The editors (I use the term looser than goatse's asshole) are arrogant. They can't be bothered to spellcheck or even fact check stories. And they sure don't seem to read (or reply to) user comments.
The second problem is the moderation system. The people that are allowed to moderate are the ones who recieve high scores from other moderators. This naturally leads to a system where moderators think, act, and post alike, and karma considerations affect what someone will post. This group-think atmosphere leads people to post shit in rebellion.
So what would I do if I ran the zoo?
1) allow democracy in story selection. Instead of the editors picking which stories to run, have the editors weed out the shit from submissions, and let subscribers vote on which ones should go on the front page
2) have semi-annual slashdot interviews with the staff. Allow users to ask 10 questions, let the staff answer them.
3) moderation/karma needs to be redone. Obviously, some posts are higher quality than others, and some posters are higher quality than others, and the size of slashdot prevents a lot of ideal solutions (like k5, where everyone can moderate every comment). Perhaps if everyone with karma over X was given 5 moderator points a day and m2 was dropped entirely. instead of having the moderation controls on the page, there would be a "moderate" link right next to "reply". And allow moderators to post in the story, so they can add a note like "link redirects to microsoft.com, moderated accordingly".
4) revamp the moderation qualifiers. drop overrated/underrated. the difference between interesting/informative/insightful is limited, as is the difference between troll and flamebait. Why not combine them? have +1, +1 funny, and -1, let readers figure out why.
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i am paying for a so called cable "advance package" whish has a 128k up and a lot down. i have a hard time getting 40k upstreem. what is a person to do? who can i complain to, my isp does not listen. i need at least 64k up for voip. so i am fuked. i guess.......... and the aup says no server's. (yeah fuking right) so what is a person to do....
Off topic -
I've always thought about getting rid of my landline but among the many problems with that is the fact that I've yet to hear a cellphone that doesn't sound like your on a cellphone. Some people can live with the fact, I can't.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
so ill repaste it just in case.
WARNING, SLASHDOT NOW TIES AC COMMENTS WITH USER
When you are logged in,
Please *log out* AND use another browser before making your AC comments.
Your UID is being tracked, it's not Anonymous. Lots of people post lots of things to Slashdot as AC only because they believe it is really anonymous - it isn't. They hunt "trolls" (non-karma whores and non-group thinking bots) down.
This is true. I used to be a bit more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.
Big brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.
They also revoke moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if your karma is capped.
Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate. You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak" of an editor.
FACT: This is in Slashcode CVS
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So AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the ass. So now all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE. And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about anonymity.
Also, sometimes when certain information becomes an active thread, they bitchslap the thread much later so that people think its "safe" to participate and the whole thing gets slapped.
Protect yourself. Try and use proxies or a super good second browser with proxies that you never log into such as Opera (which makes it very easy to delete all private data). Thank you.
There is a presumption ANONYMOUS means something. They LIE LIKE RUGS to the posting publick by using ANONYMOUS. Its not. They brazenly lie though and the un-assumingposter is having everything he says correlated with him and stored in a computer just waiting to be subpoenaed by the people that /. claims to hate but works for.
They work for the fascist components of the US government. I like the US, but there are things you need to do to protect yourself. Slashdot, in lying about AC, unprotects its posting public.
YOU ARE THE NEW FASCISTS. NEVER BITCH ABOUT SCO, MSFT, RIAA or MPAA you FUCKING SLASHDOT EDITORS. YOU WORK FOR THE SAME EVILS THAT THEY DO. BASTARDS!.
They have NO ethics and it all starts with logging and limiting AC.