I think what he meant to say was that small telcos (CLEC's, etc) are required to provide landlines to everyone in the area they serve (not that too many people use landlines anymore). As far as ISP's go, they aren't "required" to serve anyone...

It's good enough for me at $7.99 USD / month. I can stream LOTS of different TV shows that I grew up watching and probably wouldn't have had the chance to watch otherwise (unless I wanted to go buy every season on DVD for $30.00 per season at best). I'm perfectly satisfied with what Netflix offers as far as streaming goes. Let's keep one thing in mind here. It's a business and they're in it to make money. I think $7.99 a month is perfectly fair for what they offer and I see new titles show up all the time.

Am I going to be able to search for any movie I want and stream it to my TV? No, and I shouldn't be able to for that price.

Not sure what this guy means by "not good enough" and I did RTFA.

It's dependable as well. I watch shows just about EVERY night and never have any problems with the streams not keeping up.

I'm well satisfied with the service personally. If you don't like it, don't pay for it. Simple.

I didn't reaed ./ or this story yesterday and though today was the 18th. Argh!

I would go even a step further than my subject line suggests and create a guest account and lock it down as much as you can. Turn off all the browser features as well.

A guest shouldn't be doing anything except for browsing the web and checking web based email. Turning the browsers security settings on "high" (which would generally mean disabling scripting, cookies, etc) will keep them from doing too much there.

Also, as I said above, let them use the guest account and lock it down tight. You didn't mention which version of Windows you are running, but if it's fairly new you could use the Local Security Policy MMC and prevent them from running applications.

This on top of your standard AV and the other precautions that I'm assuming you are talking about should do it.

I watched the following happen. T-mobile launched "pay per use" web service and were putting the service on customers' phones without notice. All phones (like any other computer) is going to try and use a network connection if it has one. Customers with flip phones would call in and have a $10.00 data bill. It was discouraged to credit the money back.

It was a _requirement_ of your job to push features to customers EVERY time they called in and your metrics were based on whether or not you sold them anything. I'm sure lots of the "top sellers" were adding features onto people's accounts without authorization from the customer.

Here's the best part : If you call in and ask for a manager, your'e given the run around. If you ask to have the call pulled (since they are all supposed to be recorded), expect to wait at least two weeks and most of the time you won't get a call back ever.

Want to cancel your account? Fine. You will be credited NOTHING and will have to pay your contract termination fees. The entire call structure is built around NOT giving you access to a manager to talk to about the problem. The manager is in the background telling the rep your'e on the phone with to sell you EVEN MORE as you're complaining about being robbed. It is completely ridiculous.

Racing destruction set was great! Building your own tracks with lots of jumps and "Lunar" gravity.

(rant on) Some people will fall for anything. Red Bull does nothing more for you than a plain old caffinated soda (the taurine and other "supplements" have NO effect whatsoever). People hear things on the news, read articles in magazines, or hear through word of mouth that there's some new miracle herb or supplement that's gonna change their lives and they waste hundreds to thousands of dollars a year on crap.
Want to be healthy? EAT RIGHT and EXERCISE. Period. (rant off)

I used to work at a telco and 2 of us supported about 100 users. It got WAY out of hand because they would just call us or email us if they had a problem. There was no way to prioritize the work that had to be done. If you got a call in the morning on a problem that would take most of the day, and then got calls for things that were minor (in terms of TTR), a lot of time was wasted. I now do basically the same thing at another company and we use a ticketing system. We rarely, if ever, run into those problems. Even if we did, we'd have more time to deal with it, because everyone MUST put in a ticket when they have an issue. If you aren't using a system like this now it will require that you talk to some higher-ups about getting a system implemented and there will be policy change at the company, but the people that you are pushing the idea to should immediately see the benefits.