I'm not too sure where you guys got your facts, but where in any of these articles, does it say that the Free-PC program failed?
There was a merger, and the new company, decided to discontinue the program. How does this indicate that the program actualy failed? How many projects/ventures have been discontinued because efforts could be focused on something more productive or profitable. That doesn't necessarily denote that the forsaken project has failed, IMO.
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Since it was posted 5 minutes after the initial story, He would have to type the whole thing fairly quickly. Now that may seem not like a big challenge in our circles to type 60+ words a minute, but how many of you can key up a post this big and make 1st? Coincidence?
Minty Toothbrush
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The business that they are in relies on the eventual click leading to an impulse sale, etc.
This model has been proven successful.
These systems have been hacked to remove such integrated spam.
pro for end user: a free dial up connection pro for advertiser/provider: generated revenue con for end user: integrated spam con for advertiser/provider: hacks to system rendering it spamless; majority of bandwidth wasted (this is built into the service they provide, though)
Should these providers find their niche, they will be a blight on future generations.
Minty Toothbrush
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If an infinite number of monkeys typed at an infinte number of
Could they not just route napster (or any bandwidth hogging packets) through a separate gateway? Could the offending network IPs (i.e.. seen connecting to a napster server) not be moved to another gateway, which would eventually choke down to a molasses like crawl.
This would enable the legality issue to be skirted, and penalize network disrupters.
Or the network admin could just face reality, and upgrade their network to cope with increased use.
I don't ever envision the day when we won't be plagued with bandwidth bottlenecks. I am sad. That is until the world net will be taken over by the sort of AI "Matrix" portrayed. They will have the sense to overbuild the damn thing to encompass any possible network sortcomings. At least they will be able to trade mp3s & frag to their cold-heart's content.
Minty Toothbrush
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I'm not too sure where you guys got your facts, but where in any of these articles, does it say that the Free-PC program failed?
There was a merger, and the new company, decided to discontinue the program. How does this indicate that the program actualy failed? How many projects/ventures have been discontinued because efforts could be focused on something more productive or profitable. That doesn't necessarily denote that the forsaken project has failed, IMO.
If an infinite number of monkeys typed at an infinte number of
Someone moderate this anti /. parent down! Squash the indignant!
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Just curious, but how is this trolling?
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I completely agree with the President.
There should be more porn on the internet. And animal sex.
Minty Toothbrush
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If an infinite number of monkeys typed at an infinte number of
I would imagine that these are the real financial reasons behind the FBI's hard core investigation of this event.
Minty Toothbrush
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If your day trading were really important to you, you would plan for this eventuality, and invest in a $30 56K modem.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Minty Toothbrush
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I knew I should have stipulated that with "It's just a joke/theory".
Maybe the smiley face wasn't big enough...
Minty Toothbrush
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Maybe it wasn't a group of 31337 H4X085.
Maybe someone messaged AOL members that Yahoo, ebay, (etc) had a fix for AOL 5.
All these members, desperate for a repair for AOL 5, inundated these web sites with Gigabytes per second of traffic.
It could happen...
Minty Toothbrush
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This whole reply was prepared in advance.
Since it was posted 5 minutes after the initial story, He would have to type the whole thing fairly quickly. Now that may seem not like a big challenge in our circles to type 60+ words a minute, but how many of you can key up a post this big and make 1st? Coincidence?
Minty Toothbrush
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Norway wasn't hasn't put anyone to death since 1948, but did not finaly abolish the death sentance for all crimes until 1979.
For those of you who don't want to click on the above link.
Pretty good record, anyway.
Minty Toothbrush
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Hong Kong.
Oh wait... scratch that.
This would have been funny a year ago.
Minty Toothbrush
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If an infinite number of monkeys typed at an infinte number of
The business that they are in relies on the eventual click leading to an impulse sale, etc.
This model has been proven successful.
These systems have been hacked to remove such integrated spam.
pro for end user: a free dial up connection
pro for advertiser/provider: generated revenue
con for end user: integrated spam
con for advertiser/provider: hacks to system rendering it spamless; majority of bandwidth wasted (this is built into the service they provide, though)
Should these providers find their niche, they will be a blight on future generations.
Minty Toothbrush
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Don't kid yourself.
Kurt is the real pope.
Minty Toothbrush
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Speaking of idiots...
c able.regs.idg/index.html
This 01/13/00 article scares me more than AOL's half assed browser-ware.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/01/13/aol.
AOLers at cable speed! Yikes!
If an infinite number of monkeys typed at an infinte number of computer keyboards, they would all be logged into AOL.
Minty Toothbrush
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Perhaps they should not ban napster at all.
Could they not just route napster (or any bandwidth hogging packets) through a separate gateway? Could the offending network IPs (i.e.. seen connecting to a napster server) not be moved to another gateway, which would eventually choke down to a molasses like crawl.
This would enable the legality issue to be skirted, and penalize network disrupters.
Or the network admin could just face reality, and upgrade their network to cope with increased use.
I don't ever envision the day when we won't be plagued with bandwidth bottlenecks. I am sad. That is until the world net will be taken over by the sort of AI "Matrix" portrayed. They will have the sense to overbuild the damn thing to encompass any possible network sortcomings. At least they will be able to trade mp3s & frag to their cold-heart's content.
Minty Toothbrush
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You two should trade names. :)
Minty Toothbrush
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