I live in the San Fernando Valley, 20 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. It's a quaint 260 square mile community of 1.76 million of your closest neighbors. Two months ago I had my broadband boosted by 50% (the same 15 Mbps as the Consumerist article customer), I was given free telephone service free for a year (long distance included) and had by bill dropped by 20% as well (I am now pennies over $100/mo), without asking for any of it. My parents, living just a few miles from me, were offered the exact same thing. Does this mean that Time Warner is terrified that Los Angeles is next on the list to get Google Fiber?
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Because it is no different surfing the net with the iphone displaying the data or your laptop displaying the data. AT&T is nothing more than a provider of the conduit. They want to charge you more because you want to use a different device to display the data? That would be like the cable or satellite companies charging you more for plugging the video output of your cable box up to you computer instead of your TV. It's just unethical.
I am an AT&T wireless customer in California and currently have the ability to tether through my cell phone for internet access (but for disclosure sake, I did not buy the phone from them). I don't see how this is a technological issue, but more an accounting issue. This is a matter of AT&T making time to find the right dollar amount to add to the bill for this service that they feel is above and beyond the call of what a wireless company should offer, unless they have sold you a separate piece of hardware for this particular function.
The wireless industry in the US needs much tighter regulation by the US government. I am normally against government involvement in business, but the communication companies of the US have proven time and time again that they can not be trusted to charge a fair price to the public for service.
I have found that I am less productive now because my co-workers and managers need to know my job as well. I have to cross train someone else in my duties, who has their own already, and show everyone who touches the results of my work how I came about them so that they can recreate them if they want to. I was also informed in my last performance review that I need to document "how to maintain the network if something happens and you are not here."
Technology has created the desire for the knowledge base of one individual to be shared instantaneously with any other individual just like files can. This is unrealistic and extraordinarily time consuming. I understand the need for documentation and back up scenarios, but when it comes down to it, forcing everyone to shadow everyone else causes nothing to get done. People need to be allow to be the experts in their fields, yet replaceable by other experts in their field rather than having the ability of the janitor to fill in if the expert is out.
If it is correct that all Adrian used was a common web browser to access this information for the NYTimes web site, I relate his actions to something that I have done in the BBR.
Take the fact that you have pulled into and parked in a public parking lot of a department store. Upon exiting your vehicle your notice that the car next to you has a set of keys in the door and no one is around. You check the engine and notice that it is cool and has been parked for quite some time. You check the doors to make sure they are locked and if not, lock them. You write a note stating that the owner of the vehicle had left they car unsecured and should check with the manager of the department store for details and after leaving the note on the door, you take the keys and give them to the manager of the department store telling him/her that one of their customers had left their keys in their car door along with the details about the car to verify who the owner is when they come to claim them.
Are you not at this point guilty of illegally entering the property (the vehicle), and theft of personal property, even more egregiously, security measures for such property?
I am curious as to why those whose information was easily available on the NYTimes site are not suing the Times into oblivion? I see the bigger crime as stupidity on the NYTimes part.
But hey, I wasn't looking over Adrian's shoulder as he was doing this so I could be blowing hot air out my ass....
I had to help a friend out once with a computer he has just built. He said it would only sometimes got to POST and then would go black and reboot occasionally. I had to see this for myself, so upon arrival at his house, I found that he had used wire wraps to secure the motherboard to the case (without ANY spacers) and was shorting every soldered contact on the motherboard to each other through the mounting bracket. I couldnt see how he ever even got to POST, but after properly installing the MB his system has run without issue since. He did say that he thought it was odd that the cards wouldn't line up with the case slots after the fact.
On my own note... I did once attach a 5V power line to a hard drive controller activity light and friend half the components and melted all the shielding off of every wire from the power supply. But I guess that doesnt count as a survival story. Maybe... the hard drive survived!
Just for your information, that was not the title I submitted for the article. It had been changed by CmdrTaco probably because I didn't have a catchy enough title. It was something along the lines of 'Sony Drops New Palm PDA Bombshell' or something to that effect. A major portion of my incohernet rambalings were also removed from the article, so that it seemed to have come from a human being rather than that of a drooling zombie. Hell, I submitted it at 1:30 in the morning half asleep. With my track record for submissions, I was shocked it was even posted.
My apologies to PIC, I didn't this that this was going to spank you as hard as it did. I've seen links from here before, but this must have struck a real chord!
-- "With a curse as sharp as a knife, doomed is your soul and damned is your life!"
- Dr. Emilo Lizardo / Lord John Worfin
The SysAdmin is a little more hip than most of you are giving him credit for. He has aleady taken down the ENTIRE rest of his site just for speeds sake for/. The fastest way there is:
http://www.atariage.com
You will get all you need.
Good luck, and make sure you keep all your fingers and toes in the ride at all times (just ask Frodo!)
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I live in the San Fernando Valley, 20 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. It's a quaint 260 square mile community of 1.76 million of your closest neighbors. Two months ago I had my broadband boosted by 50% (the same 15 Mbps as the Consumerist article customer), I was given free telephone service free for a year (long distance included) and had by bill dropped by 20% as well (I am now pennies over $100/mo), without asking for any of it. My parents, living just a few miles from me, were offered the exact same thing. Does this mean that Time Warner is terrified that Los Angeles is next on the list to get Google Fiber?
It's not coming back. Sorry. Toolbar was done when 5.0 came out: http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/answer.py?answer=1342452&topic=15356
They do. Go here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/?src=api Install this. Enjoy.
Because HTML by default removes all additional spaces.To have more than one space it is necessary to type: & nbsp; (without the space) to force a non-breaking space, and even then Slashdot removes them for you anyway. Slashdot hereby mandates 1 space. You shall all now fall in line or be end-of-lined.
Because it is no different surfing the net with the iphone displaying the data or your laptop displaying the data. AT&T is nothing more than a provider of the conduit. They want to charge you more because you want to use a different device to display the data? That would be like the cable or satellite companies charging you more for plugging the video output of your cable box up to you computer instead of your TV. It's just unethical.
I am an AT&T wireless customer in California and currently have the ability to tether through my cell phone for internet access (but for disclosure sake, I did not buy the phone from them). I don't see how this is a technological issue, but more an accounting issue. This is a matter of AT&T making time to find the right dollar amount to add to the bill for this service that they feel is above and beyond the call of what a wireless company should offer, unless they have sold you a separate piece of hardware for this particular function. The wireless industry in the US needs much tighter regulation by the US government. I am normally against government involvement in business, but the communication companies of the US have proven time and time again that they can not be trusted to charge a fair price to the public for service.
Even though I am in the US, when ever I hear of Pipex I can think of only one thing:
THE HOFF - King of the Internet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jphpzjar2y4
I have found that I am less productive now because my co-workers and managers need to know my job as well. I have to cross train someone else in my duties, who has their own already, and show everyone who touches the results of my work how I came about them so that they can recreate them if they want to. I was also informed in my last performance review that I need to document "how to maintain the network if something happens and you are not here."
Technology has created the desire for the knowledge base of one individual to be shared instantaneously with any other individual just like files can. This is unrealistic and extraordinarily time consuming. I understand the need for documentation and back up scenarios, but when it comes down to it, forcing everyone to shadow everyone else causes nothing to get done. People need to be allow to be the experts in their fields, yet replaceable by other experts in their field rather than having the ability of the janitor to fill in if the expert is out.
let's all call it: Glass "The natural replacement for Broken Windows"
If it is correct that all Adrian used was a common web browser to access this information for the NYTimes web site, I relate his actions to something that I have done in the BBR.
Take the fact that you have pulled into and parked in a public parking lot of a department store. Upon exiting your vehicle your notice that the car next to you has a set of keys in the door and no one is around. You check the engine and notice that it is cool and has been parked for quite some time. You check the doors to make sure they are locked and if not, lock them. You write a note stating that the owner of the vehicle had left they car unsecured and should check with the manager of the department store for details and after leaving the note on the door, you take the keys and give them to the manager of the department store telling him/her that one of their customers had left their keys in their car door along with the details about the car to verify who the owner is when they come to claim them.
Are you not at this point guilty of illegally entering the property (the vehicle), and theft of personal property, even more egregiously, security measures for such property?
I am curious as to why those whose information was easily available on the NYTimes site are not suing the Times into oblivion? I see the bigger crime as stupidity on the NYTimes part.
But hey, I wasn't looking over Adrian's shoulder as he was doing this so I could be blowing hot air out my ass....
I had to help a friend out once with a computer he has just built. He said it would only sometimes got to POST and then would go black and reboot occasionally. I had to see this for myself, so upon arrival at his house, I found that he had used wire wraps to secure the motherboard to the case (without ANY spacers) and was shorting every soldered contact on the motherboard to each other through the mounting bracket. I couldnt see how he ever even got to POST, but after properly installing the MB his system has run without issue since. He did say that he thought it was odd that the cards wouldn't line up with the case slots after the fact. On my own note... I did once attach a 5V power line to a hard drive controller activity light and friend half the components and melted all the shielding off of every wire from the power supply. But I guess that doesnt count as a survival story. Maybe... the hard drive survived!
Just for your information, that was not the title I submitted for the article. It had been changed by CmdrTaco probably because I didn't have a catchy enough title. It was something along the lines of 'Sony Drops New Palm PDA Bombshell' or something to that effect. A major portion of my incohernet rambalings were also removed from the article, so that it seemed to have come from a human being rather than that of a drooling zombie. Hell, I submitted it at 1:30 in the morning half asleep. With my track record for submissions, I was shocked it was even posted.
My apologies to PIC, I didn't this that this was going to spank you as hard as it did. I've seen links from here before, but this must have struck a real chord!
--
"With a curse as sharp as a knife, doomed is your soul and damned is your life!"
- Dr. Emilo Lizardo / Lord John Worfin
The SysAdmin is a little more hip than most of you are giving him credit for. He has aleady taken down the ENTIRE rest of his site just for speeds sake for /. The fastest way there is:
http://www.atariage.com
You will get all you need.
Good luck, and make sure you keep all your fingers and toes in the ride at all times (just ask Frodo!)