darthlurker - Slashdot User

Comment Call them Rovers (Score 2, Funny) 210

by darthlurker on Thursday August 05, 2010 @12:13AM (#33146844) Attached to: Giant Balloons Could Solve Space Junk Problem

They were able to keep #6 in the village so they should be good at collecting the space junk.

Comment Will work if they get enough fools to pay for it. (Score 1) 454

by darthlurker on Thursday May 27, 2010 @02:03PM (#32365256) Attached to: UK Newspaper Websites To Become Nearly Invisible

"The papers are betting that loyal readers will covet access to scarce content."

Sounds like Scientology's business model.

Submission + - What is up with my Internet connection?

Submitted by darthlurker on Sunday May 16, 2010 @03:50PM

darthlurker writes: At least once a year I find I can't browse sites. Pages will partially load but most never complete. Images never load. For example trying to view porn^H^H^H^h Google maps is impossible because there's never a complete load of the page. (My ISP is a major one.)

This generally means spending an hour or so talking with level 1 support (delete cookies, yank cables, and so forth) until I talk with someone in level 2 support who says they "need to rebuild my network connection."

In 12 to 24 hours after this "rebuild" my browsing experience is back to normal. The dance with my provider's customer support is annoying enough. But no one there can explain what is causing this behavior.

Anybody at ./ have an idea what's going on?

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