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Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic
RasputinAXP writes "Verizon has changed their FiOS AUP effective yesterday, and added an interesting new clause to their specific examples that we're all familiar with: 'it is a violation of the Agreement and this AUP to ... post off-topic information on message boards, chat rooms or social networking sites.' At this point, every FiOS-based Slashdot user is breaking the new AUP."
I think it was a cool game. Clever plot, movie-like experience that took your breath away and huge explosions. It was sad that there wasn't more of those sneaky sniper missions however.
Multiplayer is cool with it's leveling and perks, which actually matter quite a lot. Your characters abilities are totally different based on your perks. Co-op play is also great fun.
What do you think?
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My experience with Windows ME wasn't exactly a good one. As soon as I installed a second hard drive, it would bluescreen at boot. XP was better back then (when it was first released).
Go Fu*NO CARRIER
(b) transmit uninvited communications, data or information, or engage in other similar activities, including without limitation, "spamming", "flaming" or denial of service attacks;
You people at Verizon are a bunch of asswipes.
This may be overbroad wording in response to spam comments or the like (remember the Christmas store junk that kept getting posted here over the last few weeks?). The wording is broad, but that may very well be to make sure that they can reasonably catch it all and respond.
Sorry if that's too ontopic. I guess I could help that out by copy and pasting some hot fanfic but a quick google search doesn't show any Steven Chu/Terry Tao slash.
SCUBA is an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
But the problem here is the constant Windows vs. Linux fighting. We've spend all this time fighting and completely forgot to laught at how stupid Mac OS X users are.
"[I]t is a violation of the Agreement and this AUP to[...] (b) transmit uninvited communications, data or information"
They don't even say "unwanted" or some such term. According to the letter of their AUP, discovering an old friend's email address (or Facebook page... whatever people use these days) and sending the friend a message "may lead to termination of your Service". They could replace their entire AUP with an at-will statement and it would be no less unconscionable.
Of course, cutting off anyone who sends yet another "e-card" might actually be justified, and according to AUP 2.b, they could do it. :)
Obviously, it's not likely they will enforce the AUP in an egregiously Draconian manner, but I for one would prefer having the outlandish bits *implied* rather than expressly stated. It just looks cleaner. On the other hand, they didn't quite go completely Pythonesque on us:
Raise your hand if you remember when putting "NO CARRIER" in a post was considered Rude as it could make some terminal emulators think the modem had dropped the call.
OK, get your health care aid to help you raise your hand.
Now all of you kids get off my lawn!
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do i even need to bring up the constitution here? free speech anyone?
Since it's a corporation, it's not bound by the First Amendment.
Hey, wait, that means bringing up the Constitution is off topic.
Very good.
Because now Veri$on will be able to disconnect anybody for any reason under the pretext of breaking a rule. Quite convenient. Same with government and the thousands of laws.
Not every law is applied to everybody, but when anybody becomes inconvenient, there are enough laws to take them out of the picture.
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupted the state.
I'm going straight to hell!
If you are a Verizon customer, you are already here.
Have gnu, will travel.
Seriously though - how are they going to enforce this without reading the information I'm sending over the net. Shouldn't that be Illegal?
Honestly, they don't care as long as you pay and nobody complains. This is just another case where if they get complaints from someone, they can terminate you for ToS violation. In reality, not much has changed - have you read some of them? There's usually enough insane terms to terminate anyone, any time anyway. This is just adding one more possible excuse to put on the termination notice.
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Cute. That statement amounts to giving themselves the power to inspect both the origin/destination and the content of all communications.
Better SSL up.
Damn you, it took me 7 minutes to log back in!
Never knew about NO CARRIER but I remember +++ath0 could make some modems hang up, but you had to get the user on the other end to type it in to get the modem to hang it up. If they were running a linux machine, you could craft an icmp packet, or use sendmail or ftp to echo the string back to you.
Some modems fixed this by requiring a pause.
As I just said above, all you need to do is put Wirt's leg and a book of town portal in the cube.
How DARE you break the terms of your agreement! Have we stooped so low? What next? Downloading of Movies, Music, etc?
I suspect this is just the next level of ISPs' disallowing spamming. They probably aren't planning to actively enforce it, but if it were to come to their attention that one of their accounts is being used to post 100's of more or less subtle marketing messages a day to forums, they reserve the right to cut the account off.
That said I actually have no idea, just a guess.
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Because being a Linux fanboy was too mainstream.
Wow, it takes talent to be modded offtopic on an offtopic conversation.
Some Linksys router's were even more fun (along with some Norton antivirus I think). If you sent "CHR(1)DCC SEND test 0 0 0" to IRC channel or private message, it would make the Linksys router drop all connections hence disconnecting the user from IRC too. That done in a large channel and you saw hundreds of users dropping.
IANAL. I don't even play one on TV. However, your "constitutional rights" are a list of things that the government may not do to you. While there might be some legal angle based on Verizon's status as a common carrier, public utility, etc., generally speaking a private company has no obligation to enable your freedom of speech. Think about it... does a newspaper have to print your letter to the editor? No. Same deal here.
"He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. " -- John Calvin, commenting on Genesis 1
I'm on Verizon and cannot join the discussion, you insensitive clods!
A bear walks into a bar and says "I would like a beer ... ", waits 30 seconds, then says "... and a wine cooler."
The bartender says, "OK. But why the big pause?"
The bear says, "I dunno. I've always had them"
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What Verizon (Comcast, and others) are going to learn the hard way is the liability that comes along with this. IANAL, but, from experience I understand that if you specifically say something is prohibited, but then do not enforce prohibition of it and someone causes harm to another where it would have been precluded had you enforced the prohibition of said activity, guess who's liable. :)
The Constitution only prevents that in government actions. What prevents private discrimination of recognized classes is primarily the Civil Rights Acts of 1964.
Three men walk into a bar, the fourth ducks.
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Yea, but you could usually get the same effect by posting "Hey guys, use Alt+F5 to enable the special DCC recv mode and I'll send you some {illicit data of the moment}"