The real problem is that bandwidth is too expensive in this country
What about all that dark fiber that was laid before the dot.com bust? Can they be required to either light it, or sell it? There's all kinds of bandwidth waiting to be turned on when needed. But too many players would rather keep the Internet limited -- and expensive. Seems to me they're subject to government regulation. Would this qualify as gouging?
This is clearly a PC (Politically Correct, not Personal Computer) attempt at slamming Microsoft by creating public outrage wherever possible. Now MS may deserve to be slammed over this. I'm only pointing out the tactic used here of attempting to stir up public pressure through exposure on Slashdot of an activity that outranged the submitter.
A side benefit of *not* using the bundled email service that comes with your broadband, is portability - if and when you do ever have the option to get faster and/or cheaper broadband, there will be one less thing keeping you tied to your current one.
Did you RTFA? The whole thrust of the original article is that permanent, vanity if you prefer, e-mail addresses aren't being accepted by Comcast from various services that host them. The addresses in question are already portable. However, when you're already paying for Comcast broadband and Comcast multiple e-mail addresses, you really would like to get your e-mail delivered where you're already paying to receive it.
The biggest problem in another MMORG competing with WoW is that any player has to start at Level 1 all over again. Who wants to go back to pharming to level up to something reasonable with good equipment all over again?
If that really is you idea of phun, WoW already has you covered anyway since you can start multiple new characters with them. The problem with leaving WoW is that all the game specific knowledge you have is worthless anywhere else, and you invested a lot of time and money gaining it.
It's like going to another gaming console where all the buttons and conventions are in different places.
That's no solution at all. Verizon is just another ISP who may be imposing the same blocks as Comcast. AT&T was also doing it. Don't think Verizon won't now, or in the future.
If spam to one domain with a couple of hundred addresses on it, can seriously degrade a 6-meg fiber connection, then imagine what huge ISPs are having to deal with.
You know, compute power these days is insanely cheap. The price for CPU cycles continues to fall like a stone, as it has for 30 years. I don't believe for a moment that some more intelligent filtering scheme would be possible, affordable, and much better than this outright blocking.
you have to keep your @comcast.com email address since it is not portable?
If you'd bothered to read the f???ing article summary you would know that I already have a portable e-mail address, and Comcast is refusing to let me use it, and refusing to even talk to me about why they're refusing to let me use it.
Not to be snarky, but there's your problem right there.
Hopefully, you have some sort of alternative broadband provider.
Dear Mr. Snarky,
Don't you think if I had a good, other alternative that I would have just gone to them instead of complaining to Slashdot. I don't have a good alternative. My other ISP, AT&T, pulled exactly the same crap a few months ago and that's why I left them. This is the problem with a monopoly. I'm 27,000 feet from the Qwest CO, and until someone magically drops a DSLAM next to me I'm rather SOL on DSL. WiMAX ain't here yet either.
And even if I do switch again, there's nothing to say that my new ISP won't pull the same thing next month.
"Nah, that's just too much work, let's just start daylight saving time earlier!"
(Lives in AZ, uses CFLs everywhere)
And doesn't obey daylight savings time at all.
(For those of you not in the know, AZ does not have daylight savings time. They're way too conservative to have to change their VCR clocks twice a year.)
"For those of you in Rio Linda..." You're a fucking idiot. You've never been here and you don't have any reason to be disrespectful. Go be a Limbaugh parrot somewhere else.
Actually, you don't know anything at all of where I've been, what I've seen, and whether or not I have a valid standing to make that remark. And it's exactly that kind of reaction from you that keeps us in this position of disrespect.
If I were President, a 2am strike with bunker-buster JDAMs dropped from B-2's, and I'd never say a word, or respond to a question, about it afterwards.
It's going to support the 802.11b and 802.11g wireless standards, have a 30GB hard drive, support music, movies, and photos, and have a 3-inch screen. Is this finally enough to unseat Apple?"
Why support the now quite obsolete 802.11b standard, unless that support isn't already automatically incorporated into the 802.11g standard? Are there tons of 802.11b standard MP3 players already running around out there that Zune needs to be compatible with?
And if 802.11b standard support is part of the 802.11g standard, then why bother to mention it separately?
And if you don't enable WAP on your connection, will the RIAA sue you for filesharing un-DRMed
music?
Considering that Pluto orbits both inside and outside of Neptune's more circular orbit, even if on a slant to the ecliptic, what are the chances they could collide someday? Is there a common point both celestial bodies (note how cleverly I've avoided the use of the now obsolete term 'planet') have both passed through at some 4th dimensional offset (time for those of you in Rio Linda) from each other?
Here's another case where you're guilty because of the lack of evidence. Clearly the RIAA did not have conclusive proof before they filed the case, could not get conclusive proof from the defendant, and won anyway! This has just got to get stopped at some point.
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What about all that dark fiber that was laid before the dot.com bust? Can they be required to either light it, or sell it? There's all kinds of bandwidth waiting to be turned on when needed. But too many players would rather keep the Internet limited -- and expensive. Seems to me they're subject to government regulation. Would this qualify as gouging?
2: Sue them under the DMCA for reverse-engineering and breaking the technological protection method used to protect your content.
Use either, or both, as appropriate.
This is clearly a PC (Politically Correct, not Personal Computer) attempt at slamming Microsoft by creating public outrage wherever possible. Now MS may deserve to be slammed over this. I'm only pointing out the tactic used here of attempting to stir up public pressure through exposure on Slashdot of an activity that outranged the submitter.
Opened up the HTML code behind it? Just how hard is it to View Source?
Did you RTFA? The whole thrust of the original article is that permanent, vanity if you prefer, e-mail addresses aren't being accepted by Comcast from various services that host them. The addresses in question are already portable. However, when you're already paying for Comcast broadband and Comcast multiple e-mail addresses, you really would like to get your e-mail delivered where you're already paying to receive it.
If that really is you idea of phun, WoW already has you covered anyway since you can start multiple new characters with them. The problem with leaving WoW is that all the game specific knowledge you have is worthless anywhere else, and you invested a lot of time and money gaining it.
It's like going to another gaming console where all the buttons and conventions are in different places.
For starters, referring to them as girls and boys is not a good start. Shows an unprofessional bias on the part of the submitter.
That's no solution at all. Verizon is just another ISP who may be imposing the same blocks as Comcast. AT&T was also doing it. Don't think Verizon won't now, or in the future.
You know, compute power these days is insanely cheap. The price for CPU cycles continues to fall like a stone, as it has for 30 years. I don't believe for a moment that some more intelligent filtering scheme would be possible, affordable, and much better than this outright blocking.
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Like I wouldn't have already done this if that option existed?????
If you'd bothered to read the f???ing article summary you would know that I already have a portable e-mail address, and Comcast is refusing to let me use it, and refusing to even talk to me about why they're refusing to let me use it.
Hopefully, you have some sort of alternative broadband provider.
Dear Mr. Snarky,
Don't you think if I had a good, other alternative that I would have just gone to them instead of complaining to Slashdot. I don't have a good alternative. My other ISP, AT&T, pulled exactly the same crap a few months ago and that's why I left them. This is the problem with a monopoly. I'm 27,000 feet from the Qwest CO, and until someone magically drops a DSLAM next to me I'm rather SOL on DSL. WiMAX ain't here yet either.
And even if I do switch again, there's nothing to say that my new ISP won't pull the same thing next month.
Your apology is accepted.
When you can't compete with them -- sue 'em!
(Lives in AZ, uses CFLs everywhere)
And doesn't obey daylight savings time at all.
(For those of you not in the know, AZ does not have daylight savings time. They're way too conservative to have to change their VCR clocks twice a year.)
And where can this thesis be read?
What's really amazing here is that Djoymi Baker is female. Die-hard ST fans weren't known often for being of the fairer sex.
I need my phone to automatically seek out 'linksys'.
It's hard to take someone's comments seriously when they display such an obvious lack of spelling and grammar.
Or are we supposed to be doing this naked? That's an M-Rating for sure.
Actually, you don't know anything at all of where I've been, what I've seen, and whether or not I have a valid standing to make that remark. And it's exactly that kind of reaction from you that keeps us in this position of disrespect.
Now you know why I'm not President.
We really really Really REALLY mean it this time. Pretty please stop.
Why support the now quite obsolete 802.11b standard, unless that support isn't already automatically incorporated into the 802.11g standard? Are there tons of 802.11b standard MP3 players already running around out there that Zune needs to be compatible with?
And if 802.11b standard support is part of the 802.11g standard, then why bother to mention it separately?
And if you don't enable WAP on your connection, will the RIAA sue you for filesharing un-DRMed music?
Considering that Pluto orbits both inside and outside of Neptune's more circular orbit, even if on a slant to the ecliptic, what are the chances they could collide someday? Is there a common point both celestial bodies (note how cleverly I've avoided the use of the now obsolete term 'planet') have both passed through at some 4th dimensional offset (time for those of you in Rio Linda) from each other?
Here's another case where you're guilty because of the lack of evidence. Clearly the RIAA did not have conclusive proof before they filed the case, could not get conclusive proof from the defendant, and won anyway! This has just got to get stopped at some point.