It's a Google/Facebook suckup, like everything he writes. The errors of fact and significant omissions are legion. Read the story I mentioned to see a coherent and factual account.
This is hilarious. In Bode-speaking, providing customers with the service they've purchased from you is "screwing" them. Because companies are supposed to give customers what they want not what they signed up for. Glad we've got that settled.
FirstNet. That's the nationwide mobile network for firefighters and other first responders. Why doesn't the Santa Clara County fire department use it, haven't they heard of it?
Good ole Bode, no matter what happens he always knows who's to blame.
Techdirt's comment code is absurdly limited, denying commenters the ability to correct typos and delete comments. The "community" is dominated by surly anonymous commenters and most comments simply scream "daddy issues!"
Of all the web sites in all the world, this is not the one to be preening about civility.
If you actually read the Gizmodo blog by Dell Cameron that Bodey McBodeface cribs, you'll see a link to Bray's post.
It looks something like this: medium[dot]com/@davidbray/while-i-am-currently-executive-director-for-the-people-centered-internet-c oalition-previously-four-93ce38f272e
The Gizmodo post is quite long and very confused, as one would expect.
This is a typical Bode troll, all spew and no facts. Go read David Bray's Medium post, "On People and Service in Turbulent Environments."
A couple of key points: Dell Cameron, the Gizmodo troll who manufactured the story, lied when he claimed to have reached out to Bray.
There as either a DDoS attack or such incompetent use of the comment system API as to mimic one.
Taking Gigi Sohn's technical analysis of the 2014 DDoS attack as gospel is about as absurd as counting on Bode to deliver something like straight reporting; just not in the person's skill set.
But keep on nurturing your conspiracy theories, that's what Techdirt is for.
Here's the Bode of the day: "As the recent Securus and LocationSmart scandal highlights, wireless carriers pretty routinely sell your location data to a laundry list of companies, governments, and organizations with only fleeting oversight."
Nope. Cell carriers sell location data on individual users only to companies who serve it up to law enforcement pursuant to warrants. Yes, the LocationSmart web site had a bug in it, but to jump from a bug to a full-blown conspiracy is the kind of thing only a troll would do.
His had me rolling on the floor: "The ISP narrative being parroted about is that the FTC is somehow better suited to police net neutrality than an FCC custom-built by Congress for the purpose."
Um, the FCC was created in 1934, but there wasn't an Internet of any kind before 1969 (ARPANET) or 1983 (TCP/IP flag day). The 1996 update to the Communications Act only mentioned the Internet in relation to porn, and the fight over Title II shows how little direction the law gives FCC on net neutrality.
This article - and the letter from Merkley and Toomey - is nothing but theatrics. The names on the comments to the FCC are utterly unimportant because only the ideas in the comments matter. The FCC is not supposed to make decisions on the basis of popularity, it's supposed to rely on technical and economic analysis.
Pests like Techdirt simply gin up outrage for the sake of traffic and only serve to delay progress.
"But there's simply no legitimate reason for Verizon to even be hinting at usage caps."
Actually, there is a legitimate reason and I think it doesn't take much thought to figure it out. Verizon believes, rightly in my view, that consumers should have an idea of how much data they're sending and receiving.
This will help cord cutters figure out whether it's reasonable for them to drop DSL service and go all-in for a wireless alternative.
Bodey McBodeface is a big fan of DSL (he was founding editor of DSL Reports, a pirate's guide to ISPs), but to most of America it's an anachronism.
See motherboard.vice[dot]com/en_us/article/59j7v8/the-race-to-5g-is-just-mindless-marketing-bullshit for the original screed.
In neither story does Bodey McBodeface justify his claim that 5G is just marketing bullshit with anything more serious than some weak merger arguments.
In reality, 5G is a radically different approach to wireless network design than the one used in the other G's: the main advance is radical densification with small cells supplementing today's macros. 5G also includes new bands, aggregation, substantially lower latency, and 100x higher speeds.
This is what technology revolutions look like. It's hard for professional trolls to admit it, but 5G opens a new chapter in mobile networking that makes pretty much all of today's networks - both wired and wireless - obsolete.
It would be a shame to remain so firmly stuck in whining about today's carrier market that you can't appreciate what's coming. Yes, there's some hype, but hype is a fact of life.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bode's story is a complete disgrace.
As I said, "False Alarm: Verizon’s Fire Department Customer Service Fail Has Nothing to Do with Net Neutrality"
Too many words?
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Re: Re: Re: Bode's story is a complete disgrace.
It's a Google/Facebook suckup, like everything he writes. The errors of fact and significant omissions are legion. Read the story I mentioned to see a coherent and factual account.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Read this to find out what really went down at the SCC FD
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Re: Re: Read this to find out what really went down at the SCC FD
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Read this to find out what really went down at the SCC FD
Bode's story is a complete disgrace.
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Grasping at straws
FirstNet. That's the nationwide mobile network for firefighters and other first responders. Why doesn't the Santa Clara County fire department use it, haven't they heard of it?
Good ole Bode, no matter what happens he always knows who's to blame.
On the post: Yet Another Website Kills Comments, Despite Study Showing You Can Have Civil Comments If You Give A Damn
Most hilarious post ever!
Of all the web sites in all the world, this is not the one to be preening about civility.
On the post: E-Mails Show FCC Made Up DDOS Attack To Downplay The 'John Oliver Effect'
Here's a run down
Check out my story for the actual, you know, boring facts:
FOIA Inquiry on FCC DDoS Attacks Comes up Empty
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Re: Re: Re: Re: How about a little fact-checking
Oh, you mean like this: Proof that Dell Cameron and Bodey McBodeface are lying
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Re: Real Story
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Bray's post
It looks something like this: medium[dot]com/@davidbray/while-i-am-currently-executive-director-for-the-people-centered-internet-c oalition-previously-four-93ce38f272e
The Gizmodo post is quite long and very confused, as one would expect.
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Bray
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Re: Re: How about a little fact-checking
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Re: Re: How about a little fact-checking
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How about a little fact-checking
A couple of key points: Dell Cameron, the Gizmodo troll who manufactured the story, lied when he claimed to have reached out to Bray.
There as either a DDoS attack or such incompetent use of the comment system API as to mimic one.
Taking Gigi Sohn's technical analysis of the 2014 DDoS attack as gospel is about as absurd as counting on Bode to deliver something like straight reporting; just not in the person's skill set.
But keep on nurturing your conspiracy theories, that's what Techdirt is for.
On the post: Wireless Carrier Abuse Of Location Data Makes The Facebook, Cambridge Scandal Look Like Amateur Hour
Today's Big Lie
Nope. Cell carriers sell location data on individual users only to companies who serve it up to law enforcement pursuant to warrants. Yes, the LocationSmart web site had a bug in it, but to jump from a bug to a full-blown conspiracy is the kind of thing only a troll would do.
Try again, Karl.
On the post: No, The FTC Is Not Going To Do A Good Job Policing Net Neutrality
Today's Big Lie
Um, the FCC was created in 1934, but there wasn't an Internet of any kind before 1969 (ARPANET) or 1983 (TCP/IP flag day). The 1996 update to the Communications Act only mentioned the Internet in relation to porn, and the fight over Title II shows how little direction the law gives FCC on net neutrality.
Try again, Karl.
On the post: Senators Ask FCC Why It Did Nothing To Stop Their Names From Being Fraudulently Used During Net Neutrality Repeal
Liberal hysteria
Pests like Techdirt simply gin up outrage for the sake of traffic and only serve to delay progress.
On the post: Verizon Begins 'Testing' DSL Usage Caps It Refuses To Call Usage Caps
Today's Big Lie
Actually, there is a legitimate reason and I think it doesn't take much thought to figure it out. Verizon believes, rightly in my view, that consumers should have an idea of how much data they're sending and receiving.
This will help cord cutters figure out whether it's reasonable for them to drop DSL service and go all-in for a wireless alternative.
Bodey McBodeface is a big fan of DSL (he was founding editor of DSL Reports, a pirate's guide to ISPs), but to most of America it's an anachronism.
On the post: The 'Race To 5G' Is Largely Just Marketing Nonsense
This is a recycled Motherboard story
In neither story does Bodey McBodeface justify his claim that 5G is just marketing bullshit with anything more serious than some weak merger arguments.
In reality, 5G is a radically different approach to wireless network design than the one used in the other G's: the main advance is radical densification with small cells supplementing today's macros. 5G also includes new bands, aggregation, substantially lower latency, and 100x higher speeds.
This is what technology revolutions look like. It's hard for professional trolls to admit it, but 5G opens a new chapter in mobile networking that makes pretty much all of today's networks - both wired and wireless - obsolete.
It would be a shame to remain so firmly stuck in whining about today's carrier market that you can't appreciate what's coming. Yes, there's some hype, but hype is a fact of life.
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