Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic 560
RasputinAXP writes "Verizon has changed their FiOS AUP effective yesterday, and added an interesting new clause to their specific examples that we're all familiar with: 'it is a violation of the Agreement and this AUP to ... post off-topic information on message boards, chat rooms or social networking sites.' At this point, every FiOS-based Slashdot user is breaking the new AUP."
Re:My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2 (Score:4, Informative)
I LIKE TURTLES.
Why they may have done so (Score:2, Informative)
This may be overbroad wording in response to spam comments or the like (remember the Christmas store junk that kept getting posted here over the last few weeks?). The wording is broad, but that may very well be to make sure that they can reasonably catch it all and respond.
Sorry if that's too ontopic. I guess I could help that out by copy and pasting some hot fanfic but a quick google search doesn't show any Steven Chu/Terry Tao slash.
Forget (e) offtopic, how about (b)? (Score:5, Informative)
"[I]t is a violation of the Agreement and this AUP to[...] (b) transmit uninvited communications, data or information"
They don't even say "unwanted" or some such term. According to the letter of their AUP, discovering an old friend's email address (or Facebook page... whatever people use these days) and sending the friend a message "may lead to termination of your Service". They could replace their entire AUP with an at-will statement and it would be no less unconscionable.
Of course, cutting off anyone who sends yet another "e-card" might actually be justified, and according to AUP 2.b, they could do it. :)
Obviously, it's not likely they will enforce the AUP in an egregiously Draconian manner, but I for one would prefer having the outlandish bits *implied* rather than expressly stated. It just looks cleaner. On the other hand, they didn't quite go completely Pythonesque on us:
Re:Windows ME (Score:3, Informative)
To open the secret cow level, all you need to do is put Wirt's leg and a tome of book portal in the cube.
Re:haha that's funny (Score:4, Informative)
Never knew about NO CARRIER but I remember +++ath0 could make some modems hang up, but you had to get the user on the other end to type it in to get the modem to hang it up. If they were running a linux machine, you could craft an icmp packet, or use sendmail or ftp to echo the string back to you.
Some modems fixed this by requiring a pause.
Re:My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2 (Score:3, Informative)
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
You need to be root to perform this command.
Re:haha that's funny (Score:5, Informative)
Some Linksys router's were even more fun (along with some Norton antivirus I think). If you sent "CHR(1)DCC SEND test 0 0 0" to IRC channel or private message, it would make the Linksys router drop all connections hence disconnecting the user from IRC too. That done in a large channel and you saw hundreds of users dropping.
Re:Riiight, constitution doesn't apply. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Windows ME (Score:3, Informative)
Re:My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2 (Score:3, Informative)
Useful to know, when needing to repel the occasional turtle-loving zombie [uproxx.com].
Re:My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2 (Score:1, Informative)
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