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internets

Cable Companies Are Like Bi-Polar Buffet Owners

An article over at LightReading questions how cable companies can get away with advertising speeds they can't provide and then using caps to limit people trying to actually take advantage of the advertised bandwidths:
An MSO talking 100 Mbit/s out of one side of its mouth and usage caps out the other is like a bi-polar buffet restaurateur. They continue adding more entrees to an all-you-can-eat spread, and then reduce the size of the plates and tell diners they only have 10 minutes to chow. It's a recipe for dissatisfaction. The buffet looks bigger and tastier - so the patron's hunger grows - and then they are asked to practice portion control.
(Photo: BILLBINNS)

5:07 PM on Fri Feb 1 2008
By Ben Popken
3,789 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: @sardonicbastard: ...because we, who use so much, want to keep using so much, rather than be capped. How is it my fault that there isn't a non-capped plan (FYI, they either don't enforce them here, or they are insanely high)? more »

verizonmath

Solve This Math Problem, Verizon


Considering their ability to convert cents to dollars, Verizon should have no trouble solving this equation. More »

6:22 PM on Tue Dec 12 2006
By Ben Popken
6,868 views, 21 comments

aol

AOL Research Closes

According to Greg Linden, founder of Findory and search industry professional, the AOL subdivision for releasing the user search histories has folded. More »

9:59 AM on Tue Sep 5 2006
By Ben Popken
58 views, Comment

america online

AOL Just Wanted to Help Out The Elbow-Patch Jacket Set

The AOL user search queries data leaked on the internet were apparently posted by a technician who uploaded the data without vetting it through in-house privacy department, company spokesman Andrew Weinstein told WP. More »

10:17 AM on Tue Aug 8 2006
By Ben Popken
75 views, 6 comments

america online

AOL Apologizes For Splooging Your Searches

A boon for search engine researches quickly tumbled into a privacy snafu as AOL released search query results for 650,000+ users. AOL expression contrition and dismay in the quotes provided by spokesman Andrew Weinstein who said: More »

6:08 PM on Mon Aug 7 2006
By Ben Popken
76 views, 1 comment

america

AOL User 231392 Illuminated

aoprivacy150.jpgHere's another AOL user who should definitely be manacled to a rusty pole and beaten with barb wire. Dirty thoughts! Dirty! Dirty! More »

4:43 PM on Mon Aug 7 2006
By Ben Popken
481 views, 10 comments

america online

Portait of AOL Search as a Young, Strange, Man

This research paper, authored by the same people listed as authors in the AOL data's README, reveals what AOL had hoped for people to do with the data. More »

2:06 PM on Mon Aug 7 2006
By Ben Popken
63 views, 2 comments

weekly

Top 5 Posts of the Week

Here's your favorite stories of the week, as determined by sexy robots. More »
freebies

'The Corporation' for Free on Google Video

We haven't yet watched the documentary 'The Corporation, although it's sitting in our Netflix queue right below The Odd Couple. So while we'd love to make a comment about watching the movie for free being some sort of ironic comeuppance for the companies they're railing against, we don't actually know if The Corporation is critical of corporations at all. It could be that the movie praises the intellectual property and copyright laws to which many of our largest companies are tethered, which would make it a little bit sad that someone has uploaded the whole three-hour thing to Google Video, where you can watch it for free. More »

9:06 AM on Tue Dec 27 2005
By consumerist.com
470 views, 3 comments

Latest by Director: Just a couple of comments. Sorry to disappoint, but I have no idea what that image above is or where it came from. It's not in The Corporation. Also, The Corporation is no longer available on Google Video. We asked them more »

analysis

Slate Rates Magazine Wish Lists

Brendan I. Koerner, a filthy, treacherous rogue if ever one set lies to paper, disembowels a staple of the publishing world's holiday half-assing it: Holiday Gift Guides. It's an idea very similar in execution to our stunning, fully-assed efforts here at The Consumerist in our "The Bathroom Scale" series—eerily similar. More »

4:10 PM on Wed Dec 14 2005
By consumerist.com
18 views, Comment

analysis

All-Star Rants Showcase: Boycott Boycotts

While we're riding Metafilter like the magical pony on a journey to its navel that it is, let's extract this bit of fried gold and take it along for the ride. In response to a fan of The Family Guy, outraged about Fox's scheduling problems and proposes a boycott, Lore Sjoberg writes:
I'm already boycotting my cable company. Can I, you know, sub-boycott? Or do I have to end my boycott of Comcast so that I can get Family Guy and not watch it?
More »

9:22 AM on Mon Dec 12 2005
By consumerist.com
56 views, Comment

analysis

For That Ads: Honda's "Impossible Dream"

Honda's new ad campaign highlights not their newest technical accomplishments, but instead the long history of mechanical innovation across a variety of powered vehicles—all set to the tune of 'The Impossible Dream.' It would seem that Honda is trying to remind us of its standing as an engineering giant, rather than another discount Asian import. Oddly enough, it worked on us. We had a moment of shock when we realized we would be just as likely to purchase an old Honda S600 to tool around in as we would be to purchase a British roadster, like an Austin Healey. More »

9:13 AM on Mon Dec 12 2005
By consumerist.com
112 views, 1 comment

Latest by Rick: Just take a look at their Indy Racing League engine and you'll see the engineering genius. 10,300 RPM's, 650 Horsepower, Methanol engine. more »

analysis

'Dell Hell' as Marketing Metric

We have avoided posting about the "Dell Hell" marketing analysis all day, for many reasons, only one of which involves alcohol. Another is that Jeff Jarvis mentions us in the same post, and we were afraid that our whirring circle jerk might send parts careening off the internet. But you know, we can only be sent a link so many times before we capitulate. (Keep that in mind when next you have a product to hawk via email). More »

2:03 PM on Thu Dec 8 2005
By consumerist.com
285 views, Comment