engadget.com— Anyway, we must be doing something right, because here's the message users get when trying to post anything to Cingular's customer forums with the word "engadget" in it:
Sep 13, 2006View in Crawl 4
Whiners,try this:EiiDGADGET:<a class="user" href="http://tinyurl.com/389wn">http://tinyurl.com/389wn</a>Or like some guy did, encode the URL in a different format. I tried DWORD obscuring but it seems the Endgadget site is multi-homed (!!!)And we supposed to be 1337 H4xors?!?
I got a load error 413 on my mobile cingular browser, not to mention 48kb of data!! for not even displaying a page! WTF ? I browsed via Opera Mini on my mobile, Engadget opened right up only 20kb of data ! I'd suggest all of you download opera mini<a class="user" href="http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/campaign/">http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/campaign/</a>or point your phones browser to mini.opera.com/It's Free, just data usage, which is clearly less than via cingulars wap siteit is simply a great service for mobile!! btw, I don't work for opera.
Imagine what would happen if Cingular/AT&T got their way with a two-tiered system. Will they throttle bandwidth to those sites they disagree with? Please push for Net Neutrality legislation.
This is why I keep saying that businesses really think too highly of themselves. They abuse their position in society and utilize it for their own gain instead of improving the human condition. Any improvement of the human condition by them is largely incidental and if it's too advantageous (ie. saves people money, makes them informed customers, etc...) they strive to find a way to stamp those benefits out. That's exactly what this is. It's idiotic and I personally invite every business person in the world to my door step so I can personally punch your lights out. (Please forward this on to every CEO in your address book)
@bozzel:"Actually Freedom of speech only referes to speech against the government. It is also definately not protected on a private, corprately owned forum."You know, I keep hearing this. I am starting to think that perhaps freedom of speech protections should be expanded outside of government.For example, we expect people not to shoot us, even if they are not from the government. Imagine if we had a law that said, "it's not OK for a govt representative to shoot anyone, but all bets are off when it comes to people not affiliated with the govt"? I'm exaggerating to make a point.I wouldn't make protection freedom of speech absolute, but I think there should be some areas outside of government where freedom of speech is also protected by the law.
cerejotaSep 13, 2006
Whiners,try this:EiiDGADGET:<a class="user" href="http://tinyurl.com/389wn">http://tinyurl.com/389wn</a>Or like some guy did, encode the URL in a different format. I tried DWORD obscuring but it seems the Endgadget site is multi-homed (!!!)And we supposed to be 1337 H4xors?!?
4ndr01dSep 13, 2006
I got a load error 413 on my mobile cingular browser, not to mention 48kb of data!! for not even displaying a page! WTF ? I browsed via Opera Mini on my mobile, Engadget opened right up only 20kb of data ! I'd suggest all of you download opera mini<a class="user" href="http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/campaign/">http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/campaign/</a>or point your phones browser to mini.opera.com/It's Free, just data usage, which is clearly less than via cingulars wap siteit is simply a great service for mobile!! btw, I don't work for opera.
cxavierSep 13, 2006
Imagine what would happen if Cingular/AT&T got their way with a two-tiered system. Will they throttle bandwidth to those sites they disagree with? Please push for Net Neutrality legislation.
astrotrainSep 13, 2006
Snakes on a Engadget...
vincenoirSep 13, 2006
This is why I keep saying that businesses really think too highly of themselves. They abuse their position in society and utilize it for their own gain instead of improving the human condition. Any improvement of the human condition by them is largely incidental and if it's too advantageous (ie. saves people money, makes them informed customers, etc...) they strive to find a way to stamp those benefits out. That's exactly what this is. It's idiotic and I personally invite every business person in the world to my door step so I can personally punch your lights out. (Please forward this on to every CEO in your address book)
aeooSep 14, 2006
@bozzel:"Actually Freedom of speech only referes to speech against the government. It is also definately not protected on a private, corprately owned forum."You know, I keep hearing this. I am starting to think that perhaps freedom of speech protections should be expanded outside of government.For example, we expect people not to shoot us, even if they are not from the government. Imagine if we had a law that said, "it's not OK for a govt representative to shoot anyone, but all bets are off when it comes to people not affiliated with the govt"? I'm exaggerating to make a point.I wouldn't make protection freedom of speech absolute, but I think there should be some areas outside of government where freedom of speech is also protected by the law.