quatrix
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join:2005-02-11
Davie, FL
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Enough trolling, Karl. Can we go just one day without a post that's anti-business or pro-piracy? It's far from a unanimous opinion that Comcast should publicize its caps. |
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DaSneaky1D
one wall to block them all
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join:2001-03-29
The Lou | How is this "anti-business"? |
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Yauch
join:2005-06-24 | I'm with you, I can't find any amount of opinion or social engineering in that summary anywhere. Frankly Karl's unbiased news and summaries are the only reason I come to this site. |
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Mospaw
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join:2001-01-08
The Pacific
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I'm not going to argue your opinion, nor am I going to defend Karl's choice of stories, but I'm just curious: Since Karl presumably can only post "anti-business or pro-piracy" stories, how many "pro-business or anti-piracy" stories have you found and submitted to the front page?
It's one thing to simply bitch about the quality of the stories and blast them with no contrary evidence or links, but it's quite another to actually contribute information supporting your allegations of bias. At the very least, I would think that any story so controversial and so biased would have plenty of dissenting articles you could point to.
Or are you doing this and having a contrary opinion quashed by the terrible powers that be here? |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
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said by quatrix  :Enough trolling, Karl. Can we go just one day without a post that's anti-business or pro-piracy? It's far from a unanimous opinion that Comcast should publicize its caps. So accountability is anti-business?  |
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Cod
join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC
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said by Yauch :Frankly Karl's unbiased news and summaries are the only reason I come to this site. now thats funny. |
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DaSneaky1D
one wall to block them all
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join:2001-03-29
The Lou
·Charter Pipeline
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OK, so if you want straight "news" visit the linked site. But, you don't want that. What you want is a network enthusiast slant on things.
DSLR talking about a huge player in the broadband arena cutting off service to customers without giving any fair limit of "too much usage" is news to me.
Folks here trying to protect "big business", as if big business really has their interest at heart, kills me.
Comcast is huge. Being big shines a bright spotlight on everything they do. And, considering the amount of "big businesses" out there, Comcast steps into that spotlight (in a negative way) quite a bit.
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thender2
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join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY
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said by quatrix :Enough trolling, Karl. Can we go just one day without a post that's anti-business or pro-piracy? It's far from a unanimous opinion that Comcast should publicize its caps. Eight years ago(give or take one), it was people like you saying that the only reason for 512/90 DSL connections were for piracy because media files require a lot of bandwidth.
Now, 512/90 is a joke - for driver downloads, or piracy, compared to what most broadband ISPs offer for that same $55/month.
There are many reasons for better caps, and many of them are legal. Trading sessions with a friend, higher quality legal audio/video on the net(god knows we need it, youtube looks like shit and streaming radio on tons of sites is 80k).
It's pretty damn ignorant to say the only purpose for higher bandwidth and a lack of caps is piracy. It's people like you that hinder technological progress. If people like you were on the board of directors of certain companies over the past 40 years, we'd have no VCRs, no CD/DVD burners, no tape machines, no consumer level recordable records.. it's pathetic that people still think like that.
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
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said by Yauch :I'm with you, I can't find any amount of opinion or social engineering in that summary anywhere. Frankly Karl's unbiased news and summaries are the only reason I come to this site. Unbiased? are you BLIND? You'd have to be to say that Karl isn't biased. He posts opinions in his news.. that's bias. Not to mention, this site is largely a so-called "consumers" forum... so, how is he unbiased again?
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pabster
join:2001-12-09
Waterloo, IA
·Mediacom
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"It's people like you that hinder technological progress. If people like you were on the board of directors of certain companies over the past 40 years, we'd have no VCRs, no CD/DVD burners, no tape machines, no consumer level recordable records.. it's pathetic that people still think like that."
Amen, Brother. |
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CLEVELTECH
join:2006-12-21
02107
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This issue is NOT about piracy anyway. But to every ISP's defense (including Comcast's) they do not monitor what it is that you are hitting or downloading, rather they are looking at the node and how hard it is working. That being said, it's pretty clear to me that Comcast's network CANNOT handle the number of users and the increasing loads of content.
Top 1%? Let's do the math: Comcast number of users (according to what they publicly state): 11 million subscribers
number of users booted off for network abuse: 1%= 115,000 (and growing).
Can you say Federal class-action suit happing soon and CEO/blow-hard Brian Roberts is gonna be brought back down to planet earth?
And for those of you that think invisible caps are better? Your day will come when you receive "the call" and you're on the other side of the fence on this issue. |
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Yauch
join:2005-06-24
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Ummm, find me an opinion in the summary above. I realize that not all of the headlines are free from personal opinion, but the summary at the top is nothing but a summation of someone else's article, with nothing extra thrown in. Point being, summaries like this one are why I come here. |
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