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Stepford, CA | Hello...Fact Checking Please! [...]most ISPs reserve the right to make TOS changes with little more than a website announcement about the news. Using the AP as any kind of definitive source on anything is always a bad idea as evidenced by the above referenced statement. At best, the information barely scratches the surface. Further, if the DSLR writer of the byline bothered to conduct any kind of basic checking whatsoever, then s/he would have determined that mere website notification of any new changes in the TOS contract has been previously ruled as insufficient by the Ninth Circuit. 
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| said by major marco:[...]most ISPs reserve the right to make TOS changes with little more than a website announcement about the news. Using the AP as any kind of definitive source on anything is always a bad idea as evidenced by the above referenced statement. At best, the information barely scratches the surface. Further, if the DSLR writer of the byline bothered to conduct any kind of basic checking whatsoever, then s/he would have determined that mere website notification of any new changes in the TOS contract has been previously ruled as insufficient by the Ninth Circuit. I hate to break it to you but the news are usually a bunch of recent college grads on a mission. They don't make much money but it is a cause. If Bush was impeached, the NY Times staff would be so drunk they couldn't put out a newspaper the next day. Serious journalism has disappeared in lieu of news that make you feel good (or bad). Little Jessica fell into a well because he mom was in the house banging the cable guy, but let's spend 36 hours covering the hole she's in then 360 hours analyzing how they got her out. "It was dangerous for us (the trained rescue workers that can save people off of a boat in a hurricane but can't make it down a well)." "The girl was just covered in mud and crying." Gee, really? I thought she'd come out and say, "I'm so grateful they saved me so I can continue my toddlership with my goal of being President, er, winning American Idol." Of course, every year we have to relive Princess Diana's death. Gee, Elton John got over it, why can't you? News has become stupid because America has become stupid. If you differ, why do we have plastic shoes? America decides a President based on his appearance. You can't be too slick just ask Mitt Romney and John Edwards.
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Stepford, CA | said by supergirl:I hate to break it to you but the news are usually a bunch of recent college grads on a mission. Which only goes to underscore that the AP is useless. |
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| said by major marco:said by supergirl:I hate to break it to you but the news are usually a bunch of recent college grads on a mission. Which only goes to underscore that the AP is useless. I'd agree they fall somewhere between useless & perfect. |
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Aren't you "Mr. Perfect." I consider myself pretty well informed, and I live in the 9th District. But I didn't know that fact, either.
Comcast did exactly that on January 25th -- posted a new TOS without any notice to customers, whatsoever. I had a "Change Detection" plug-in running, so I noticed. I quietly waited about 10 days, then I turned it over to the guys at Free Press (et. al.) since the changes primarily involved their Sandvine interference. Once caught, of course, Comcast lied about it -- telling the press that "Millions" of customers noticed it because of front-page notices seen when they logged on to the www.Comcast.net website. Google cache had the evidence to the contrary, though.
(I did finally get a mailed copy sometime in mid or late March.)
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