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Sun Nov 22
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11/20/09
Something like this would blow Phillip K. Dick's mind.
11/20/09
THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
BEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEP
THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
BEEEP BEEEP BEEEEEEEEEP
THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
BEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEP
THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPnd so that's how I ended up in a jacuzzi with nine naked supreme court justices and Tim Schafer's dog.
11/19/09
Edit: I'd be really fucking pissed if I were in the middle of a match or game and it got interrupted so that they could test their new toy. If I hadn't read it here, I'd also be pretty freaked out for the first few moments, thinking it is a serious alarm. =/
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11/19/09
Fuck Tornados, like hard!
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11/20/09
I don't want my family to know the last thing I did in life was get trounced by a 13 year old girl.
11/19/09
TORNADO WARNING
"Sweet! I got another achievement!"
*house is blown down* :p
Seriously though, this is a great idea... I guess you'd have to have your billing info on file so they know your location though, since guessing by IP address isn't always accurate?
11/19/09
I'm curious how they'd avoid sending this to the wrong people.
I'd be pissed, and I'm sure a few others would be, if i kept getting a tornado warning for somewhere outside of my own country.
Interestingly I was just thinking about this considering how little i watch of live television or especially radio (read: not at all).
11/19/09
The problem with people receiving the warnings when they don't apply is that they learn to ignore them.
Being annoying is nowhere near as much of a problem as being ineffective.
11/20/09
11/19/09
Thanks government.
11/19/09
Player1: "Uh, dude... that sounds like an emergency broadcast..."
Player2: "No, it's... uh, you know... just a tornado. C'mon, let's win this match and-"
Player1: "No man! You have to quit!
09/14/09
Thanks AT&T for still being the lumbering beast that had to be killed in the 80s.
09/15/09
09/14/09
You define broadband by download speed, upload speed, and latency, amongst other things.
Both parties are obfuscating matters by addressing this issue in terms of services.
09/14/09
Nothing is obfuscated, this is just the means to how the end is described.
09/14/09
I wish, then, that the article would provide what sort of UL/DL speeds AT&T considers to be "broadband". But maybe AT&T didn't go into that.
09/14/09
Don't fool yourself; if most telecoms could get away with only providing web browsing and nothing else, they'd do it in a heartbeat. The more a service actually uses bandwidth, the less they like it, and that extends directly to the people using it.
And gaming eats up a lot of bandwidth.
09/14/09
way to go once again Bush administration for letting this bully back on the block.
but all of that being said basic email and websurfing overall are prolly more important to the general public than gaming but gaming should be right behind these "basics" as it still is (and will only get bigger) a major reason a LOT of people get high speed internet and a lot of people work in the gaming industry (like myself) and use it for work related functions, which just so happen to be gaming and testing.
09/14/09
Americans love monopolies now. I blame the board game.
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"The Commission must send to Congress its National Broadband Plan—a set of recommendations for making sure that everybody in the United States has access to broadband."
Here is the thing... your greedy, world destroying, puppy raping businesses already have access to broadband. It's not about how we will manage to get an STM-256x line installed in every walmart, but how to get serviceable internet on par with the rest of the world to people who aren't currently able to access the service. So, without dragging on, they're basically trying to figure out what's the lowest amount of service we can give some family living in a trailer in the Ozarks and still mange to say "we gave them broadband access."
Yes it is about greed in part since they are trying to do it as cheaply as possible, but that's not the point of what's going on. Seven Billion dollars may seem like a lot, but when it comes down to it that's a great deal of work in upgrading or replacing the infrastructure, and the US is a large country with exceptionally low population density throughout basically the middle 2/3 of the country. That $7bn isn't going to stretch very far once all is said and done if you're trying to lay an OC3 to every person in Montana.
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09/14/09
no, what the FCC really should be looking at is the US's competitiveness compared to other online nations. South Korea (ZERG RUSH KEKEKE) and a good portion of Japan are now beating the pants off of any US broadband provider. if the US wishes to maintain economic competitiveness in *anything* internet related, the FCC must not listen to the empty braying of companies like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and the like, who all would prefer to take federal dollars without having to actually develop their own infrastructures. at lease Verizon is making some sort of effort with FiOS, but it's not enough.
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Lately, using Netflix through 360 has become regular in my house. How would AT&T define this? Gaming? I'm sure they aren't happy with me watching movies so cheaply instead of charging me for On Demand movies.