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Comment: Re:Next they'll turn off the power (Score 4, Informative) 149

by Gription (#39866295) Attached to: BART Defends Mobile Service Shutdown

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Honestly, transit (air and subway) is one of the few places you could get some peace and quiet.

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You've never been on BART have you?
BART is the loudest subway I've ever seen and goes over 100 decibels repeatedly.
After riding on quality systems in other places such as Munich I find that BART is just a technical embarrassment.

As far as turning off the cell data coverage... BART consistently has the worst station announcements and the worst station signage. Without the data coverage the only way I can figure out which station I'm at half the time is to get the station map up on the cell and count stops from an identifiable station. I'm really at a loss how a system that big isn't internally audited for simple things like clarity and volume of station announcements. And the lack of clear, obvious, unmistakable station signage is just stupid negligence or apathy on the management's part. 5 minutes on the S-Bahn in Munich will show you how worse then just "Bad" BART is.

Comment: Re:Confused (Score 4, Interesting) 124

by Gription (#39595367) Attached to: Pirate Bay Promotion Attracts Over 5000 Artists
This kind of points out why the RIAA and the MPAA (who are incestuous siblings) will now have to seriously up the ante in their attacks on the Pirate Bay.
There isn't any way that they can allow competition in a market that their cartel controls. Dammit!!! They paid good money for their monopoly so their senators better get cracking to wipe them out.

Comment: Re:Oldster? (Score 2) 387

by Gription (#39595331) Attached to: Online Services: The Internet Before the Internet
We used to have to explain to customers that had run out to get 56K modems that the faster speeds would only work if their local phone company had switches that would support it. This was particularly rampant in the south. When 56K modems had started to become pretty common Bell South still didn't own a switch that would support the faster speeds. If I remember correctly there was a class action relating to either Bell South's part in it or maybe it was the retailers that were selling them.

Comment: Re:How I first got introduced to the Internet (Score 4, Informative) 387

by Gription (#39595285) Attached to: Online Services: The Internet Before the Internet

Bullshit.

9600 didn't show up until the mid 1980s. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-29.html

If you're gonna lie, at least do some research first so that those of us from that era might believe you for a sec.

Bzzzzzt thankyouforplaying...
AT&T supplied 9600 baud data lines for the ARPANET way back in the late 60s. And yes... They used modems!!!
Almost all of the endpoints for the ARPANET were universities. That would make someone that claiming to use a 9600 baud terminal in the late 70s easily accurate and using a technology that was at least a decade old.

So I suspect two things: (1) You weren't there. (2) You are an anonymous idiot who can't Google.

Comment: Not exactly... (Score 3, Informative) 387

by Gription (#39595203) Attached to: Online Services: The Internet Before the Internet

This Wikipedia article shows the modem types and years released. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem

The Wikipedia article lists the release years of modems conforming to various V.xx standards.
There were modems available that exceeded that timeline by quite a bit. Telebit made their TrailBlazer series that uses quite a different scheme to encode the data on the line from the ITU-T V series schemes. Telebit used what they called PEP which stood for Packetized Ensemble Protocol. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telebit#Models
They exceeded the speeds of the commonly available "Hays compatible" modems by a huge margin. PEP still works faster on very noisy phone lines then today's commonly available modems. In situations where a 56K modem will only hook up at 1200 baud the Telebits will generally connect at 9600+.

Comment: Easily solved... (Score 3, Funny) 474

by Gription (#39573707) Attached to: Arizona Attempts To Make Trolling Illegal
I assume this bill is on the AZ legislature's website which is an electronic medium.

I find this type of assault on the first amendment blatantly obscene. And I am very offended.
Voting to pass this makes it the voice of everyone that voted Yes on it. Let the first round of class 1 misdemeanors begin.

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