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Could this legally be construed as creating a derivative work under copyright law? As a site owner, could I prosecute Comcast for infringing on my rights by altering the content of my pages?
Unfortunately, expect to see more of this happening with the useful idiot Pai running the FCC.
J. Livingood (a Comcast VP) responded to the OP: > [JL] We are not trying to sell you a new one. If you own your modem we're informing you that it is either end of life (EOL) or that you are about to get a speed upgrade that the modem will be unable to deliver. Incidentally, Livingood is a co-author of IETF RFC 6108, which he has conveniently linked. From the RFC's general requirements numero uno: > R3.1.1. Must Only…
This should be ILLEGAL, I don't give a crap about "getting the government out of our lives", well guess what, they need to step in and prevent these slimy "business" practices from happening or punish the corporations trying to exploit their captive audience.
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Then why do Americans in large urban centers not have greater choice of ISPs? If it's all about physical distance, why is there still no competition in dense areas? I live in Washington DC, in the city, and I only really have one choice where I live, Comcast.
Cities grant franchise rights and determine rates charged for access to city poles and cable vaults.
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You're wildly OT, I suggest Wikipedia.
Huh? Not even close to wildly OT. The RFC was mentioned above.
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You were able to switch in 5 minutes because nothing actually changed except who sent you the bill. In the US this isn't possible because whoever owns the physical wire/fiber into your place gets to bill you, exclusively.
Yes, there is one cable and everyone has to share it, by law. I thought that AT&T was split once in the past to differentiate backbone and service providers - why not in the case of fiber?
So called unbundling was done, but in exchange, the backbone provider got a legal monopoly. Almost everywhere AT&T or Verizon lies fiber has competition, usually with a local cable company.
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Huh? Not even close to wildly OT. The RFC was mentioned above.
"What is a RFC?", "What happens to the comments?", OK a specific RFC is the topic but it's like asking "What is the internet?". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments is much more appropriate resource for that level of question IMO.
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If you're rewording something someone else said, even if you're keeping it very close to the original words, don't use quotation marks. Quotes say "this is literally what was said". I got bit by this a bunch when I first got on HN; it was surprising to me how seriously it was taken. But it is, and it's not hard to work around.
That's a weird HN-ism, though, not how writing or paraphrasing works anywhere else. The goal is understandable and laudable but 'redefining the meaning of quotes' is a thing only hardcore lispers can love.
> not how writing or paraphrasing works anywhere else
That's simply false. If you want to use Reddit et al as your standard reference on the use of language and punctuation, have at it. But you can't reasonably expect every other forum to use that lowest common denominator. Railing against simple, longstanding house rules like this is just pointless contrarianism.
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> Why traffic injection instead of mail pieces? I mean, I open all of mine, even the 75%+ that are upsells I don't want, on the off chance one of them will tell me something I need to know. Lots of reasons, including years of experience with response rates for particular types of messages / calls to action. Clearly one particular communications channel won't work for everyone - each person has their own preferences.…
People don't want your crap injected into their pages and working with the IETF aint gonna change that. The fact that Comcast has and abuses its monopoly is bad enough. That you would try to standardize your abusive behavior is appaling.
I'm annoyed by this on several levels. The biggest issue is that I'm using an Arris SB 6121 and I'm getting notifications that my modem is EOL. However, the SB6121 is listed as a supported modem for my speed level on their supported modems page. If I go to their supported modem page, I literally get a page where my current modem is shown as not supported, and the exact same modem is shown next to it as "supported." I…
There is a reason they are doing this. After signing up for Xfinity I noticed that the modem we were leasing was broadcasting a public access point with no way to disable it. I purchased my own modem immediately. Then some time later they rolled out their mobile services, which you guessed it, rely’s on those open access points and Sprint as a fall-back. So now customers are paying monthly to host Xfinity mobile serv…
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People don't want your crap injected into their pages and working with the IETF aint gonna change that. The fact that Comcast has and abuses its monopoly is bad enough. That you would try to standardize your abusive behavior is appaling.
And then there's this guy. I suppose someone has to be.