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The New Wireless Wars

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the always-declaring-war dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BusinessWeek has a story on the coming wireless wars. It's a look at how the upcoming government auction of wireless spectrum will open the door to a new crop of competitors. The new players, from Google and Microsoft to Intel and Craig McCaw's Clearwire, will compete in new wireless voice services and in wireless broadband. Look out Cingular, Verizon Wireless, and Sprint-Nextel."

13 of 87 comments (clear)

  1. holy butt fuck by Asshat_Nazi · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    smoke my first post dildos!

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    1. Re:holy butt fuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What good is a first post, when you get rated below threshold?

    2. Re:holy butt fuck by Da_Weasel · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Must not be below your threshold...otherwise you wouldn't have seen it...

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  2. Re:YOU ARE A FAG IF YOU DO NOT BROWSE AT -1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hello,

    Seeing your history, what's the difference between your user and anonymous coward in terms of IP bans?

    thanks.

  3. The Government by dazlari · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Oh No... not the Government again!!

    Hang on. What Government? Oh phew.. that other one.

  4. I just remembered my password! by villageidiot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I registered this username back in 1999 (proof: look at the low username # and the fact that this is my first post) and finally remembered the password! It just came to me out of nowhere.

    Damn, but I don't wanna be the village idiot. Anybody wants a 5-digit username?

    Hmm, maybe I should put it up on ebay.

    1. Re:I just remembered my password! by i.of.the.storm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Wow, very nice. I must take a moment to congratulate you. There. This has got to be one of the funniest things I have seen on /.

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    2. Re:I just remembered my password! by TopSpin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I did something similar. Many moons ago I created this account and promptly forgot about it for many years while using another account. One day it dawned on me that the account I was using was 'temporary' due to having lost the password for the first. I took a chance and 'recovered' the original account; luckily I still had the email address used during registration, and here I am, 3 digit UID. :)

      I suspect most of the sub-1000 UIDs are accounts created and forgotten by whomever. I rarely see any activity. Perhaps they grew up...

      I dunno.

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    3. Re:I just remembered my password! by villageidiot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You're very kind sir.

      I just have this desperate need for attention and waited seven damn fucking years for my moment.

      Thank you for your kind words. I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

    4. Re:I just remembered my password! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Or maybe all the low number subscribers are now dead ??? Maybe CmdrTaco et al are actually zombie vampires (this would explain some of the editing that goes on...) who are slowly going through the subscriber list eating us in strict ID order.

      As it's taking them quite a while to get through the lower orders maybe this shows that there aren't as many "editors" as we thought ? or maybe they just didn't expect the site to become this popular (which would also explain some of the editing ;)

      Mummy... I'm scared.

  5. Re:sdg by DA-MAN · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My Mini crashes every other day. My Dell with XP, not once in seven months.

    Maybe if you ran OSX on your mini it wouldn't crash so much. Just because XP runs on a Mac these days, doesn't mean it will run well. :)

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  6. Re:YOU ARE A FAG IF YOU DO NOT BROWSE AT -1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    User's don't get banned, they only get low post limits. Parent post account can only post once in any given 24 hour period, so I can't post again with that account for 24 hours.

    IPs (class c subnets to be exact) are what get banned. I haven't really tried to figured out the pattern but it seems that if you post strictly down-modded posts, you get banned quicker and for increasing longer periods. If you mix karma posting with good accounts and trolling/crap flooding with minus one accounts you can keep the subnet from being banned altogther. I think maybe it is an additive thing. As long as the trend is upward moderation, it seems fine. Whatever the equation is, I am sure CmdrTaco worked it out with a crayon and a circle of paper between tossing Zonk's salad and beating off to anime.

    Anyway, once your account is at -1 default post, you don't get modded down much. I am pretty much convinced that it is only the editors with their unlimited mod points that mod me down. Come on...who would waste one of only five mod points to mod down a post that is already at minus one?

    Oh and regardless of what they say, sock-puppet accounts are tied together some how. Once you do what ever it is you do to trigger a mod ban, none of your accounts will ever get mod points again. I have a couple of accounts that have had max karma for five years that have never, ever received mod points. I haven't had mod points since 2001.

  7. Re:hardwired, the 'new' winless wars? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did someone let the Time Cube dude out of his cage again? I mean seriously, what the fuck does this post say?