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Old 08-11-2007   #21 (permalink)
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not trying to promote another forum but if u like this thread then pacsteam.pt.vu is ur place
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I figured this was inevitable: a new ISP, one that guarantees net neutrality, has begun service.

The ISP's name is Copowi (short for Community Powered Internet), and currently services 12 Western and Northern US states ("Washington, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and California", according to the article).

Although the service is a bit on the expensive side ($33.95/month for a 256Kbps DSL connection), and despite a somewhat shaky business model (Copowi leases lines from major telcos and doesn't have its own "last-mile" lines), it does show that the market can (and does) answer the demand for net neutrality.
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If companies like AT&T and whoever else (I'm not American so forgive my lack of knowledge) do impose bandwidth limits won't the overall effect be to cut the US off from the rest of the world? Surely business minded people can see the bad idea there.
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norton antivirus has no shame it steals every letter i wrote (suppossed tomorrow a S.W.A.T will rush to house and steal my com. and kill me) its like a spyware and you need formate your comp. if you want unisnltall it
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Norton Sucks... use AVG (the Free version has the Anti-virus Core program )

Bandwidth limits aren't what concerns me, Limiting my access to certain sites, or redirecting my HTTP Requests to some BS search engine or denying me access to certain internet services are what worries me.
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norton antivirus has no shame it steals every letter i wrote (suppossed tomorrow a S.W.A.T will rush to house and steal my com. and kill me) its like a spyware and you need formate your comp. if you want unisnltall it [/b]
Yeah that's why I don't use it any more. I bought this computer a few years ago in parts form (it was the daddy mac at the time... almost) I installed Windows and drivers and stuff, and then I made the mistake of installing Norton. It slowed the computer down so much it was unbearable. All of a sudden it struggled to run CounterStrike 1.6. How appalling is that? I uninstalled it and it was still everywhere. My performance was still awful. So on the first day of getting my new toy I had to install Windows twice due to Norton... wonderful.

Before you say anything, no this computer doesn't suck. Two years after buying it I can run games like BioShock, FEAR, Quake4, C&C3, etc on full settings (except the DX10 surfaces of BioShock) and get good performance. So when an apparently invisible program has that effect I think it's fair to say that it's a lame piece of software...


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You mean like we have already? I find it so infuriating when I type some address in and I get one of those placeholder websites because I used the wrong top-level domain

"Welcome to www.what-you-want.com I'm a very clever and worthwhile website because I spam a page full of unrelated adverts for you to spend 20 minutes looking at. Clever ploy eh? Thats right, I knew you meant to type .org! Muhahahaa!! Wait, no you can't click baaaac....."

Christ I hate those websites. Vile things.
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hands up every one who uses AVG

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We must save our internetz!
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"Welcome to www.what-you-want.com I'm a very clever and worthwhile website because I spam a page full of unrelated adverts for you to spend 20 minutes looking at. Clever ploy eh? Thats right, I knew you meant to type .org! Muhahahaa!! Wait, no you can't click baaaac....."[/b]

Yes... there are people and companies who buy every other domain name in existence and they make a place holder for them so when you click on them, you get a bunch of crap and adverts, sometimes to buy THAT domain name.

Now... why the hell would they buy domain names that are so close to useful sites?

1) to get you to click on their ads cause your dumb enough to (and make money for them)
2) get you to BUY that domain for money.

So the point is MONEY! Go figure... In the perfect world you would get a DNS error at the worst...

Also, you can use a proxy to get different "Perspective" on the internet and access sites you would otherwise not have access to.

An example is Google, if you use a proxy in Germany and you access Google, guess what, You'll get a Google site in GERMAN!

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Ad block plus for firefox. i haven't seen an advertisement in ages. it removes the image and anchor from the script, it will even get more complex embedded and jscript ads.
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