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offline Anus_Presley on 2005-08-26 03:28 [#01706793]
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Well, minus say 'internet tax'?


 

offline EVOL from a long time ago on 2005-08-26 04:23 [#01706848]
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it already is... find someone with a wireless network in
your area and piggyback!


 

offline DeLtoiD from Ontario on 2005-08-26 04:25 [#01706849]
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free of bullshit? never.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-08-26 04:32 [#01706854]
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It'll never be free of Ads unfortunately -- their disease is
spreading daily -- now the corporations think they're one of
us and you get them joining myspace.com or making skins for
Winamp... here's a message to them : fuck off and die.


 

offline cie jiks mawp from motion to descend (Australia) on 2005-08-26 04:34 [#01706856]
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I boosted my neighbors wireless connection for a few weeks.
Then I tryed to forward ports to azureus in their modem
settings and they must have figured something was up because
it suddenly became password protected.

In Korea it's like 90% of households have hi-speed as a
standard fitting.

It should be free, as should communications and transport.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2005-08-26 04:34 [#01706858]
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yes, it's becoming that way.

Metropolitan WLANs (wireless LANs that cover a whole city)
are popping up - google and intel have started setting them
up all over the place in America.

I saw an article on slashdot about bullet trains and trams
in japan becoming internet-enabled with wireless 100mbit
access, provided by satellites.

it'll be a while before it pops up over here though, i
imagine. for the meantime, be thankful you aren't stuck on
56k.


 

offline thatne from United States on 2005-08-26 04:46 [#01706872]
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Amen Brother


 

offline ymenard on 2005-08-26 05:07 [#01706901]
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Yeah big corporations actually *wish* for it to be
widespread, free and fucking fast, so they can deliver their
own propagand.. errr products right to your face.


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2005-08-26 05:17 [#01706912]
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in first class on the some of the newer GNER trains that run
from London all the way up to Glasgow, there are signs up
saying that they have wireless enabled.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2005-08-26 05:19 [#01706916]
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deeaaaaaadly.


 

offline uzim on 2005-08-26 06:43 [#01706972]
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depends what do you mean by "free"...

free as in not paying? maybe... (i'd have said "yes, sure" -
but now that i think of it, telephone and tv still aren't
free nowadays)

free as in where you can say and do really anything
you want without any censorship of any kind? well, it
already is kinda like that... but it probably won't stay
this way for long, unfortunately. : /


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2005-08-26 07:17 [#01706988]
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They are indeed ruining the internet. Personally, I dread
the day a skype-type service replaces the telephone. We can
expect it to be rendered useless by constant telesales
calling as spammers sell lists of people's contact details
running into the scores of millions and no one is put off by
the normal costs involved in making a phonecall.

With spam, I can just about deal with/tolerate 9 out of 10
messages not to actually be for me. If it was over the
telephone? I'd "do a virginpusher" and chuck the bloody
thing out of the window.


 

offline ymenard on 2005-08-26 08:41 [#01707056]
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"They are indeed ruining the internet."

...

But are they ruining... the... internets?




 

offline avart from nomo' on 2005-08-26 09:55 [#01707082]
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But - it´s easy to block? I have no ads whatsoever since
getting a blocking app for my computer. Fantastic! (you can
even block stuff until there´s only text left - great when
on 56k line)


 

offline avart from nomo' on 2005-08-26 09:56 [#01707083]
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oops, that was a follow up to marlowe [#01706854]


 

offline OK on 2005-08-26 13:16 [#01707209]
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nope. it will be more and more expensive tho.


 

offline avart from nomo' on 2005-08-26 13:20 [#01707213]
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yeah, like everything else that get´s more and more spread
and accessible... :D


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2005-08-26 13:21 [#01707215]
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Free, yes.
BTW, we've got access to two wireless networks..... HA!


 

offline OK on 2005-08-26 17:25 [#01707314]
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yeah like TV right? in wich you have to PAY to see something
decent. idiot.


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2005-08-26 17:48 [#01707319]
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do you? or do you just have to pay to see the "fashionable"
programmes?


 

offline OK on 2005-08-27 00:05 [#01707392]
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Was I talking to you?


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2005-08-27 00:11 [#01707395]
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no, but i was talking to you.


 

offline avart from nomo' on 2005-08-27 02:53 [#01707413]
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haha, that was funny - which internet do you use? I can
choose my own content. And internet is free in a lot of
places (but you`ll need wi-fi and that and computers aren´t
free, as most other things - but the access to the internet
is free of charge, it´s the tools that cost...)



 

offline avart from nomo' on 2005-08-27 02:54 [#01707415]
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(follow up to: OK on 2005-08-27 02:25 [#01707314] )


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-08-27 03:50 [#01707441]
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avart : pop-ups aren't the only kind of ads - there are
plenty of embedded ads on the internet, some of which have
fucking sound which can totally ruin a track you're
listening to etc -- hell, even if you were sitting in
silence they are still annoying as fuck. It just sucks that
NOWHERE is safe from advertisers any more - those insidious
ruinous cunts.


 

offline Exaph from United Kingdom on 2005-08-27 05:51 [#01707483]
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The Internet is free. Tim Berners Lee never patented it
because he wanted to be this way, a decent bloke basically.
All you pay for is your phone line. The Internet is free.
It's BT et al who are the nasty bastards.


 

offline avart from nomo' on 2005-08-27 06:55 [#01707505]
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I didn´t mean pop-ups, I mean those ads embedded in
webpages (and yes those with sound are the most evil
ones...)

On my macs I use Safari (therefore no pop ups) together with
"Pithelmet" which adds additional blocking - no ads
whatsoever! I´ve just used this combo a few weeks, but
it´s amazingly effective already (got a message that
pithelmet has blocked 4000 ad-sites by now)

There got to be apps who takes ALL ads away on the Windows
platform too?

(All adverts around us in the daily environment bothers me
more, they are harder to block away...)



 

offline Vin3islih from United Kingdom on 2005-08-28 04:29 [#01707944]
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let's see.. people can download music, video, software ..
games for free off the net, now people want to have the
Internet itself free? LOL.. natural born thieves. Have
pity on the poor saps of days past who had to do the hard
work and shoplift stores and probably end up in jail.


 

offline Exaph from United Kingdom on 2005-08-28 09:41 [#01708137]
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the internet is free.


 

offline Vin3islih from United Kingdom on 2005-08-29 14:09 [#01709447]
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what?


 


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