MithraPride

Alya Mizar (Tsybil) wrote:

Asphe wrote:You can just leave your iPhone on standby for a month and end up paying data charges for it.

Which happens to be fraud and someone has called them on it.

Those companies we used to call telcos (telephone companies) are beyond slimy. My experiences with Qwest's customer service have all been pleasant. But their billing department RELIES on out and out fraud.

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And yet I did testing. Comcast gives the same amount of bandwidth on Tiers 1 through 3. I've used them all. There is no speed difference, just a price tag difference. Without FCC Control on the Tier systems, companies are doing what Comcast is, lying about the service tiers to make money. There is no regulation with or without Net Nuetrallity. All it is, is an uncontrolled money making scheme. Why can't we find a way to at least regulate these companies so they can't Rob Peter to Pay Paul.

By the way, my comcast runs SLOWER on all tiers since their instation. My net used to run so much faster back in the day when they first took over Media One.

Did you check the changes they made in routing? Their costs go down, our bills go up... unless you're a business customer with a big wallet. Then you're golden. I probably pay 10% of what a residential customer pays for the same bandwidth with about 33% less hops too. Maybe neighbourhoods or cities can band together and get even better deals. Kinda reminds you of the crap Enron pulled, manufacturing the electricity problems in California.

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I remember buying LD calls at .43/min as a residential customer... or .18/min as a business customer. This was reversed in the NY zip-codes so I had calls rerouted based on that. I really don't know if more regulation is the answer. Part of me wants to say, 'let the chips fall where they may' and just let all the providers do what they want. But this business is too hard for small timers to break in, even outfits like Virgin are being pressured into behaving the same way. In places where we think this is 'done right', it was government subsidies that brokered the way.

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AT&T's data plan? They are being sued. But think of how long those alaskans had to wait for before they won their case against the Exxon Valdez spill? (and they lost the appeal incidentally). They could've just given everyone a $3 monthly rebate to more than cover it and get lots of goodwill in the process... but no... Hard to blame AT&T... how many of the current customers know... or even care.

LOL... I miss IBM. Sometimes they did things right (other times, they charged 10x normal and messed it up).


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So... why do you need unlimited 20MB plan vs 5MB plan? 4 times faster right? Nope. They are covered on this against misleading advertising but thank goodness the 'unlimited' part is so far air-tight. Unless you're Canadian.

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Unlimited plans... you know what they are pulling now? You do get unlimited but they crash your latency and connectivity. Which is a technical way of capping you... just legally. Like those p2p throttling/etc. (so you're a heavy bandwidth user? You're a pirate then and I can cap you! Hah!) aka 'collective punishment' lol. Have to keep suing them or they'll keep slipping it in. Other countries are doing away with cable/copper voice and going to VOIP/VOD... There are already more internet users in the PRC...

Comcast is one of the worst internet/cable companies out there and everyone knows it. I read an article once called "How not to run a company successfully." Comcast has played games too much over the years and their Xfinity whitewash isn't helping either. But back on track here.

Sony fails to understand that by having linux support back on the ps3 that gives them MORE CUSTOMERS. People think it's a small niche, but considering the lack of quality games on the PS3, the linux community makes up for it in sales of the console. If Sony wants to drive their fans away like Microsoft is doing with their piece of crap XBL, than their complete morons. Sony c hose to sink half their business into the PS3 where-as MS still has Windo.....Excuse me while I burst out laughing here.

Sony made a bonehead move and they know it. But they won't admit it publically, they'll play the blame game to make themselves look like an innocent victim. To sony "Anti-Piracy" is a buzz word. Explain to me how I'm pirating games that I privately rip from my Sega Genesis Carts (I own the Super Magic Drive so I can do it) and play them on my PSP w/o uploading them, Sony. How is that piracy? The law states that emulators may be owned on consoles that are not in production and making money. So Sony's Anti-Piracy claim is now shot to hell. I think it's all about what it was from the dawn of time.... Money. God forbid sony loses money.

The law states that emulators may be owned on consoles that are not in production and making money.

Actually, no. At least not in the USA. Thank the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

rip from my Sega Genesis Carts

But in order to do that you have to break security measures (legally even the pin-outs on a cart / cart shape can be considered a security measure) which makes it illegal in the eyes of the DMCA - and yes it sucks. Thank a corporation, and your neighborhood republican (though lets not argue that here).

Since you are one of the VERY few that actually has access to a ripper, things are different for you than 99.99% of the people playing with emulators as they must download ROMs off of the internet.

What really affects Sony is people using HDD loaders to 'install' rented / borrowed / downloaded games to the PS3's HDD, or to a PSP's memory card. That's the killer. Granted Sony did a cock-up that made most of their security coding worthless, but since someone had to manipulate data to 'discover' the keys it was legally secure (even if the lock is a piece of scotch tape, it counts as a lock legally).

Sony fails to understand that by having linux support back on the ps3 that gives them MORE CUSTOMERS

I had linux on my 60gig. Bluntly, it sucked ass. No one coded any video codecs of worth for it or bothered to optimize media players for it. It only had 192MB of RAM available to the OS (the 256MB on the video card was mounted as a HDD swap file) and was plainly unloved by all but a few educational institutions who wanted cheap access to a CELL-based CPU for straight number crunching. I'd wager 99.999% of PS3 owners have no clue what linux is, yet alone that it was in a PlayStation2, or PlayStation3.

considering the lack of quality games on the PS3

Ok, now I'm just going to have to throw something in your direction, like a shoe, or a cat. Granted it's my console of choice, mainly because I use it to stream anime to my TV, though not being able find anything worth playing on my Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii, GBA, NES, Super Famicom, or TurboExpress might also have something to do with it. :-/

Also, down with cellphone companies, land-line phone companies, and stupid laws that give corporations more 'rights' than living people.