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<description><![CDATA[Matt posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/264898" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=264898');">elray</a>:</small><br><br>Not that anyone "needs" cable TV or internet.<br> </div>Try telling that to me when I don't get my weekly Mythbusters fix. :)<br><small>--<br><A HREF="http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/">Linux Haters Unite!</a></small>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[elray posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/373609" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=373609');">espaeth</a>:</small><br><br><div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/202656" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=202656');">csiemers</a>:</small><br><br>It always amazes me how some people want to dictate how I use my connection! I'm the one paying for it, NOT YOU! :p</div>Until you start using more than the break-even amount of bandwidth on shared infrastructure.  Than my bill starts to go to subsidize your usage.<br><br>It's like welfare, only we subsidize the greedy instead of the needy.<br> </div>Um, isn't that already standard practice at all cable companies?<br><br>I have to pay for your ESPN, even though I would never watch it, if I want to get any cable-tv channels at all.<br><br>Not that anyone "needs" cable TV or internet.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[fiberguy posted : .. got a contract for us to read where you or anyone was guaranteed "unlimited broadband" for life?]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[anon posted : well keep going over 250gb and you wont have too worry about it anymore,because you might lose it]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[anon posted : if he was using over 250gb he was abusing it]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[dnoyeB posted : Where there is sufficient competition, Comcast.  If there is not sufficient competition, those citizens are hosed anyway.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[I pos rep posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/594412" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=594412');">ThrowDemsOut</a>:</small><br><br><div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/843138" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=843138');">Matt</a>:</small><br><br>This is not surprising at all and exactly what most people thought was going on.<br> </div>And the "WE THE PEOPLE" crowd are now getting what they demanded - an announced & marketed hard cap. And instead of 1,000/mo of the very worst abusers getting booted, Comcast gets to boot many many more within a couple months of Oct 1(new rules give an extra 30 days beyond 1st month before termination). So say around Dec 1 or thereabouts, we can start reading all the woeful stories about how "I was not an abuser, but just an advanced user backing up my terabytes of disk storage".<br><br>Moral of story: "Beware of what you wish for - you may get it."<br> </div>The cap is by far better than kicking people without giving an explanation of acceptable usage. Nobody told me when I signed up with Comcast I could not use 6 petabytes a day if I wanted. Therefore they should not even have the right to kick them off in the first place. I hate all these TOS that are vague and give the corporation unlimited rights. "We can boot you because we shoved a dick up our ass and feel like it" should not be allowed period. At least now the consumers actually know about the limits and can choose whether or not to support that company.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[viperlmw posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/141383" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=141383');">Karl Bode</a>:</small><br><br><div class="bquote">It wasn't the average consumer demanding it. They weren't affected and were not aware of any problem. It was the well above average abusers demanding the clarification and a hard cap.</div>A strawman point and completely irrelevant. A significant number of customers, the Florida Attorney General and the FCC have proven Comcast was lying to customers, yet here you are, claiming whatever happens is those customers fault for .... what .... demanding honesty?<br><br>Your logic consistently both astounds and terrifies.<br> </div>Karl, you don't understand.  You are being painted as 'elitist', by being a "well above average" user.  It's the only way they can sell their goods, by fear.  Fear of the elite.  Fear of taxes.  Fear of regulations.  Fear of equality.  Make the other guy scary.  That's how decisions are made by some.  'I can't win by being right, I'll win with FEAR']]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[hopeflicker posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/594412" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=594412');">ThrowDemsOut</a>:</small><br><br><div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/141383" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=141383');">Karl Bode</a>:</small><br><br>Your logic consistently both astounds and <b>terrifies</b>.<br> </div>&raquo;<A HREF="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/879688/people_afear_alarm_terrify_fright/" >www.metacafe.com/watch/879688/pe&middot;&middot;&middot;_fright/</A><br> </div>OMG!!! stop the press.<br>TK posts a link to copyrighted material!!<br><br>Ohhh the humanity<br><small>--<br>You can call people morons, jackasses, or dumbasses here in these forums, but NEVER call them a troll. You will be  warned by a moderator for Blatant flaming.</small>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ThrowDemsOut posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/141383" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=141383');">Karl Bode</a>:</small><br><br>Your logic consistently both astounds and <b>terrifies</b>.<br> </div>&raquo;<A HREF="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/879688/people_afear_alarm_terrify_fright/" >www.metacafe.com/watch/879688/pe&middot;&middot;&middot;_fright/</A>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[yolarry posted : Damn Give me some of that 250GB cap.<br><br>My cap only goes 375MB a day  :(]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Caddyroger posted : Guess who will be paying the fine.  ;)<br><small>--<br>Caddy</small>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Rob posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/202656" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=202656');">csiemers</a>:</small><br><br>Then it sounds like the company need to improve it's shared infrastructure.<br><br>Fortunately I'm with an ISP that doesn't cap.<br> </div>This post made me chuckle. Is your ISP Earthlink? ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[funchords posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/373609" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=373609');">espaeth</a>:</small><br><br><div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/340409" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=340409');">funchords</a>:</small><br><br>Dave Winer was an abuser?  How so?</div>He was warned weeks before they cut him off, [...]<br><br>IMO, this one is a stalemate. </div>I agree that a warning does help, but it doesn't color Dave Winer as an abuser. <br><small>--<br>Robb Topolski -= <A HREF="http://funchords.com/">funchords.com</a> =- Hillsboro, Oregon<br>More features, more fun, <i><A HREF="/join/new/">Join BroadbandReports.com</a></i>, it's free... <br></small>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[csiemers posted : Then it sounds like the company need to improve it's shared infrastructure.<br><br>Fortunately I'm with an ISP that doesn't cap.<br><small>--<br>&raquo;<A HREF="http://www.wwiivehicles.com" >www.wwiivehicles.com</A><br><br>World War II Vehicles and Advanced Squad Leader</small>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[espaeth posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/340409" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=340409');">funchords</a>:</small><br><br>Dave Winer was an abuser?  How so?</div>He was warned weeks before they cut him off, and he's clearly tapped into online news to have drawn a reasonable conclusion about what the caps were.<br><br>True, Comcast official comments to him about usage were vague, but he would have needed to have been living in a cave (which is contradictory to his tech-savvy persona) to have not seen enough data to reasonably estimate the caps.<br><br>IMO, this one is a stalemate.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[S_engineer posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/1564987" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=1564987');">NOZIREV</a>:</small><br><br>what is a "a decent broadband policy!" in your eyes just curious since you seem to be a fairly intelligent human being? 25 TB's for 42.95$??<br> </div>there are ways to push the stagnation we're in. In addition, there are also ways to enforce the contracts the businesses have with their customers. My suggestion is not fines (because the consumer pays that), but go after licenses. It's not the consumers fault that Comcrap doesn't like the contract that they themselves wrote!]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[funchords posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/594412" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=594412');">ThrowDemsOut</a>:</small><br><br><div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/141383" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=141383');">Karl Bode</a>:</small><br><br>Yes Tom, it's consumers who demand clarity and accountability that are the problem. Clearly.  :uhh:<br> </div>It wasn't the average consumer demanding it. They weren't affected and were not aware of any problem. It was the well above average abusers demanding the clarification and a hard cap. Well now they get to pay for what they wanted and got.<br> </div>Dave Winer was an abuser?  How so?  <br><br>There's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that anyone who has been kicked off of the service abused it.  <br><br>It was the top 1,000 users of bandwidth.  This list was from across the system, <b>not just from nodes with trouble reports, or highly-congested segments, or from observed complaints from other systems to the abuse@comcast desk!</b>  The only thing that kind of system protects is Comcast's loss from such a consumer -- and that's perfectly fine, but it has to be disclosed. <br><br>There was nothing in the TOS that covered kicking off users for being one of the top 1,000 users of bandwidth.  Comcast didn't even check if they interfered with or impacted anybody == so they can't use that excuse.<br><small>--<br>Robb Topolski -= <A HREF="http://funchords.com/">funchords.com</a> =- Hillsboro, Oregon<br>More features, more fun, <i><A HREF="/join/new/">Join BroadbandReports.com</a></i>, it's free... <br></small>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[S_engineer posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/594412" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=594412');">ThrowDemsOut</a>:</small><br><br><div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/1458955" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=1458955');">S_engineer</a>:</small><br><br> </div> then the service providers will just raise prices to cover the costs of all the other regulations. And then the real whining to the politicians will commence.<br> </div>This company will raise the rates anyway. Do you actually think it won't be the customers paying this fine ?<br>If unchecked, these abuses will continue and when caught,  The AG might as well just fine the customer.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[espaeth posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/202656" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=202656');">csiemers</a>:</small><br><br>It always amazes me how some people want to dictate how I use my connection! I'm the one paying for it, NOT YOU! :p</div>Until you start using more than the break-even amount of bandwidth on shared infrastructure.  Than my bill starts to go to subsidize your usage.<br><br>It's like welfare, only we subsidize the greedy instead of the needy.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Karl Bode posted : <div class="bquote">It wasn't the average consumer demanding it. They weren't affected and were not aware of any problem. It was the well above average abusers demanding the clarification and a hard cap.</div>A strawman point and completely irrelevant. A significant number of customers, the Florida Attorney General and the FCC have proven Comcast was lying to customers, yet here you are, claiming whatever happens is those customers fault for .... what .... demanding honesty?<br><br>Your logic consistently both astounds and terrifies.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[csiemers posted : It always amazes me how some people want to dictate how I use my connection! I'm the one paying for it, NOT YOU! :p<br><small>--<br>&raquo;<A HREF="http://www.wwiivehicles.com" >www.wwiivehicles.com</A><br><br>World War II Vehicles and Advanced Squad Leader</small>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[NOZIREV posted : what is a "a decent broadband policy!" in your eyes just curious since you seem to be a fairly intelligent human being? 25 TB's for 42.95$??<br><small>--<br>"Citius, Altius, Fortius" [Faster, Higher, Stronger]</small>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ThrowDemsOut posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/1458955" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=1458955');">S_engineer</a>:</small><br><br>Now maybe if we had a politician paying attention to this, maybe regulations can produce what "competition" clearly is not....a decent broadband policy!<br> </div>The end result of what you are suggesting is not just regulation of TOS & transparency, but price controls. Because if that isn't part of the regulations, then the service providers will just raise prices to cover the costs of all the other regulations. And then the real whining to the politicians will commence.<br><small>--<br><A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/bqv2h"><b>My BLOG ..</b></a><A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/2a9xcb"><i> .. Internet News ..</i></a><A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/yz8xto"><b> .. My Web Page</b></a><br>Ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?</small>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[S_engineer posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/594412" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=594412');">ThrowDemsOut</a>:</small><br><br><div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/141383" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=141383');">Karl Bode</a>:</small><br><br>Yes Tom, it's consumers who demand clarity and accountability that are the problem. Clearly.  :uhh:<br> </div>It wasn't the average consumer demanding it. They weren't affected and were not aware of any problem. It was the well above average abusers demanding the clarification and a hard cap. Well now they get to pay for what they wanted and got.<br> </div>i disagree. I think the above average users were complaining because some were getting access stopped on their "unlimited" contract. While this is clearly a case of "be careful what you wish for", Comcrap was wrong for selling unlimited contracts to people when they had no plans for a truly "unlimited" access.<br>I also think that this is just an excuse to introduce metered billing. With applications changing and becoming bigger in size, this is the new business model for the telcos/cablecos. <br>Now maybe if we had a politician paying attention to this, maybe regulations can produce what "competition" clearly is not....a decent broadband policy!]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[badtrip posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/594412" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=594412');">ThrowDemsOut</a>:</small><br><br>So say around Dec 1 or thereabouts, we can start reading all the woeful stories about how "I was not an abuser, but just an advanced user backing up my terabytes of disk storage".<br> </div>Although you are being somewhat sarcastic, that is truly what we will start seeing.  I have no idea how much bandwidth my household uses but I can tell you its probably alot with 3 ppl , two who telecommute and a teenager.<br><br>If the company I work for treated it's customers with the same contempt that Comcast treats their customers, we'd be out of business fast.  Lucky for Comcast they have a near monopoly and don't have to worry about "satisfied customers".]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:03:24 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[funchords posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/594412" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=594412');">ThrowDemsOut</a>:</small><br><br>And instead of 1,000/mo of the very worst abusers getting booted, Comcast gets to boot many many more </div>No.  You've got it wrong. <br><br>Read both the Comcast website and the Florida agreement and then you'll see that it's BOTH, not either/or.  <br><br>The language in the Florida AG settlement document is<blockquote>2. Comcast may continue to notify any residential high speed Internet service subscriber whose bandwidth usage use exceeds the Threshold (as determined by Comcast in its sole discretion) that the subscriber's service may be, or will be, terminated as the result of excessive use. However, no residential high speed Internet service subscriber shall be notified of a breach of Comcast's excessive use restrictions unless the subscriber's bandwidth usage exceeds the previously disclosed Threshold.</blockquote><br><br>The "top users" language from the Comcast page:<blockquote>    This is the same system we have in place today. The only difference is that we will now provide a limit by which a customer may be contacted. As part of our pre-existing policy, we will continue to contact the top users of our high-speed Internet service and ask them to curb their usage. If a customer uses more than 250 GB and is one of the top users of our service, he or she may be contacted by Comcast to notify them of excessive use. At that time, we'll tell them exactly how much data per month they had used. We know from experience the vast majority of customers we ask to curb usage do so voluntarily.</blockquote><br><br><small>--<br>Robb Topolski -= <A HREF="http://funchords.com/">funchords.com</a> =- Hillsboro, Oregon<br>More features, more fun, <i><A HREF="/join/new/">Join BroadbandReports.com</a></i>, it's free... <br></small>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:02:48 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[anon posted : no they need to expand to new customers first before they add more speed and bandwidth to currant customer's.using more than 250 GB is completely ridiculous.they ought to just cut you off<br><br>all i get is 200mb a day if that's all you had you would appreciate the 250 cap  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:29:54 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[JTRockville posted : No one I've seen ever <i>demanded</i> a cap. The plea was, that IF there is a cap, it shouldn't be super-secret.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:27:09 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ThrowDemsOut posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/141383" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=141383');">Karl Bode</a>:</small><br><br>Yes Tom, it's consumers who demand clarity and accountability that are the problem. Clearly.  :uhh:<br> </div>It wasn't the average consumer demanding it. They weren't affected and were not aware of any problem. It was the well above average abusers demanding the clarification and a hard cap. Well now they get to pay for what they wanted and got.<br><small>--<br><A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/bqv2h"><b>My BLOG ..</b></a><A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/2a9xcb"><i> .. Internet News ..</i></a><A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/yz8xto"><b> .. My Web Page</b></a><br>Ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?</small>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:23:10 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[RadioDoc posted : Now come on Karl.  You know that customers are just a necessary evil, to be handled like cattle.<br><br>This makes me proud to be a Florida taxpayer.  Go get 'em Bill.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:18:50 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Karl Bode posted : Yes Tom, it's consumers who demand clarity and accountability that are the problem. Clearly.  :uhh:]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:15:51 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[hopeflicker posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/594412" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=594412');">ThrowDemsOut</a>:</small><br><br><div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/843138" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=843138');">Matt</a>:</small><br><br>This is not surprising at all and exactly what most people thought was going on.<br> </div>And the "WE THE PEOPLE" crowd are now getting what they demanded - an announced & marketed hard cap. And instead of 1,000/mo of the very worst abusers getting booted, Comcast gets to boot many many more within a couple months of Oct 1(new rules give an extra 30 days beyond 1st month before termination). So say around Dec 1 or thereabouts, we can start reading all the woeful stories about how "I was not an abuser, but just an advanced user backing up my terabytes of disk storage".<br><br>Moral of story: <b>"Be honest with your customers in the first place."</b><br> </div>fixed for YOU<br><small>--<br>You can call people morons, jackasses, or dumbasses here in these forums, but NEVER call them a troll. You will be  warned by a moderator for Blatant flaming.</small>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:11:34 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ThrowDemsOut posted : <div class="bquote"><small>said by <a href="/profile/843138" onClick="this.blur(); return popup(event,'/uidpop?ajh=1&uid=843138');">Matt</a>:</small><br><br>This is not surprising at all and exactly what most people thought was going on.<br> </div>And the "WE THE PEOPLE" crowd are now getting what they demanded - an announced & marketed hard cap. And instead of 1,000/mo of the very worst abusers getting booted, Comcast gets to boot many many more within a couple months of Oct 1(new rules give an extra 30 days beyond 1st month before termination). So say around Dec 1 or thereabouts, we can start reading all the woeful stories about how "I was not an abuser, but just an advanced user backing up my terabytes of disk storage".<br><br>Moral of story: "Beware of what you wish for - you may get it."<br><small>--<br><A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/bqv2h"><b>My BLOG ..</b></a><A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/2a9xcb"><i> .. Internet News ..</i></a><A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/yz8xto"><b> .. My Web Page</b></a><br>Ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?</small>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:08:10 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[inferno posted : Comcast is a complete joke... Just upgrade your old CRAPPY equipment and let the customers use as much bandwidth as we want!  UPGRADE YOUR OLD CRAPPY EQUIPMENT COMCAST AND WE WOULDN'T HAVE THE STUPID BANDWIDTH PROBLEMS!!<br><br>Also... comcast get rid of your entertainment sections, I see you are selling movies directly from your site.  Start thinking about upgrading your old crappy system before you start making sites that sell movies...  there are other better sources for that type of content... UPGRADE YOUR OLD CRAPPY EQUIPMENT COMCAST!!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:53:53 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Matt posted : This is not surprising at all and exactly what most people thought was going on.<br><small>--<br><A HREF="http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/">Linux Haters Unite!</a></small>]]></description>
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