skywolf3 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:As an American, I would like to know (Score 2, Informative) 227

by skywolf3 on Friday April 04, 2008 @06:01PM (#22968500) Attached to: Bell Wants to Dump Third-Party ISP's Entirely

I do know that here in Atlanta AT&T has been making it very difficult for third-party ISPs to operate. With AT&T trying to hard to kick Comcast in the ass, they are now giving priority to AT&T's on demand video, I often get disconnected or get smacked with high latency at peak times. My neighbors who use AT&T's own dsl, don't have these issues. I'm just waiting for the day when AT&T says enough and just boots them. I really don't know what I would do. Comcast filters, AT&T plays mean kid on the block lol. Besides, my third-party ISP actually has employees who answer the phone, speak english, live in the same town as me and KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT!!

Submission + - Top Australian ISP removes OpenOffice.org 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 26, 2007 @09:43PM

An anonymous reader writes: Australia's biggest ISP Bigpond, part of the largest telco Telstra, has removed all OpenOffice.org downloads from their free downloads mirror Bigpond Files Library. The Library main page indicates that the reason for this was to promote their new Java-based hosted office suite Bigpond Office, adding that "BigPond has launched a number of new applications that provide similar functionality to some existing application files in the file library and therefore those files have been removed". With the OO.o files no longer available as free downloads, Bigpond OO.o users will be forced to download from other locations and have those downloads count against their quota. Bigpond's quotas are among the most severe in the world according to a recent OECD report (30 KB XLS) , and with typical OO.o downloads amounting to over half the quota of Bigpond's least expensive (and most popular) plan, download costs of about AUS$15 for OO.O are possible.

Submission + - 700MB of MediaDefender internal emails leaked (torrentfreak.com) 2

Submitted by qubezz on Friday September 14, 2007 @11:46PM

qubezz writes: The company MediaDefender which works with the RIAA and MPAA against piracy (setting up fake torrents and trackers and disrupting p2p) had earlier set up a fake internet video download site designed to catch and bust users. They denied the entrapment charges. Now 700MB of internal emails from the company from the last 6 months leaked onto BitTorrent trackers detail their entire plan, how they intended to distance themselves from the fake company they set up, future strategies, and reveal other company information such as logins and passwords, wage negotiations, and numerous other aspect of their internal business! torrentfreak.com details some of the jems!

Submission + - DIRECTV freaks out and blocks everything (typepad.com) 1

Submitted by eagl on Thursday August 30, 2007 @11:32PM

eagl writes: It seems as if DIRECTV has jumped on the DRM bandwagon in a big way. Wil Wheaton finds himself with 57 channels (plus or minus a few hundred) and nothing on, quite literally. Is the inevitable result of forcing restrictive standards that do not benefit consumers?

Submission + - First Actual Case of Cyber Terrorism? (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

IANAT

on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @08:49PM

IANAT writes: "In what may be the first actual case of cyber terrorism, someone hacked the video cameras of a Wal-Mart and called in a bomb threat. With the store under their control, they demanded that $10,000 be wired to their account, then demanded that all store patrons disrobe. There's no word yet on whether Wal-Mart has offered counseling to those forced to look at naked Wal-Mart patrons due to this incident."

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