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Comment Re: It's malice, not stupidity - here's proof (Score 1) 358

If you read the AT&T writeup on what to do with annoying calls here http://contact.bellsouth.com/acc/ you will see that every branch of this decision tree ends with "you should change your phone number", "you should notify FCC or authorities" or "it may be annoying, but it is probably completely legal and we can do any thing about it". This connotes that the decision was made by AT&T to basically tell it's customers, "it's your problem, not ours".

Comment Bottom Line - They MUST disclose! (Score 1) 425

Exactly. Comcast is doing this without disclosing it. It is selling a product and not disclosing it's limitations to the buyer, while still claiming it is 'unlimited'. As a Comcast customer (no other viable choice), I feel that they can throttle all they want, but MUST tell me exactly what is limited (BT, FTP?, Netflix?, iTunes?) so that I can make an informed decision if I want to keep this service. Right now I can only speculate what is limited.

Who knows, maybe they are selectively limiting bandwidth to particular sites, thus making them look bad. Maybe it's other on demand movie sites, which would be a REALLY shifty competitive practice, as they cant seem to offer a decent on demand movie product themselves.

Bottom line, they must disclose the particulars of their filtering/shaping to their customers.
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Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted 799

kidcharles writes "The Washington Post reports that in the midst of an investigation by the U.S. Congress into the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys by the Department of Justice, numerous White House e-mails have been lost. Among them are communications from presidential adviser Karl Rove. Parallels are being drawn with the infamous '18 minutes' missing from the Nixon Watergate tapes. Also at issue is the use of Republican National Committee e-mail domains (such as gwb43.com and georgewbush.com) rather than the official White House domain. This is a violation of the Presidential Records Act."

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