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I think eventually the answer is to move away from centralized and for-profit providers and network architecture, both for the hardware side of the network and the software side. http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan
Noncommercial internet. Original style. Make the internet more like the telephone network, not the TV network. People do not like to be hounded by telemarketers day and night.
Does anyone know if this applies to iPad-only customers? That's my only Verizon account, but the opt-out link requires a phone number to log in. (Ditto for the "forgot user id" form.)
Neither Google nor Facebook sell user data, they hold it close and sell ads against it.
Thanks for the PSA. While I understand why these things tend to be opt-out by default, I'm surprised there was no email from Verizon updating users about these new settings with a link to opt-out if they wanted to. I used to think that the telecom industry is a lot more regulated than social network companies like Facebook, but I guess that's not really true!
They are definitely more regulated than social network companies, fortunately though they've captured the regulator as predicted by economics so they get to seek rent instead of worrying about regulators. The telecom industry has so effectively captured their regulator that when they are caught tapping phones without warrant they are exempted from lawsuits instead of prosecuted vigorously. If you offered a non-compli…
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256 characters, IIRC
Why? Just to be like twitter, but different, with no comprehension of why the Twitter limit exists?
The service won't actually be used for "micro-blogging" unless users are constrained by some limit, but 144 is too damn small. Nobody would ever have picked it if they weren't forced to, and these days they aren't.
What infinitesimal fraction of modern Twitter users in App.net's target market do you imagine use the service via SMS? The limit a legacy of an irrelevant use case.
I'd probably have gone a bit higher than 256 myself (disregarding attachment to powers of two), but it's an improvement.
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Why are you so creeped out that they sent you a piece of advertising by mail after you gave them your address? It'd hardly be surprising these days if you received spam after giving away your e-mail address.
It is still abusive, to represent that they need it for transactional purposes and then to spam you with it instead.
How is this isolated example of snail-mail marketing at all creepy? As long as it's Verizon and not a third party, it isn't strange at all.
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I am already looking forward to the upcoming VPN witch hunt. When US provider are really going through with the six strikes "warning" system [1], VPNs will become more and more mainstream. It is going to be interesting which kind of CP/Terrorism yadayada they are going to pull this time. As a VPN user for closed to ten years nw (yes, I am that paranoid/live in a tough-on-downloads region) I can honestly say, that its…
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always had the understanding that VPN providers would give you up to the feds in an instant if they came knocking on their door with a court order for suspected criminal activity. I'm in the process of looking for a solid VPN provider myself, and this is the impression I'm getting after reading the terms & conditions for services like Private Internet Access and VyprVPN.
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Noncommercial internet. Original style. Make the internet more like the telephone network, not the TV network. People do not like to be hounded by telemarketers day and night.
The telephone network IS houndd by telemarketers. That is the term's origin.
With TV, it's a lost cause.