Category: Internet

Comcast Customer Support Is Criminal

Comcast Building Lobby Comcast Customer Support Is CriminalComcast Customer Support Is Criminal. The lobby of the Comcast Building in Philadelphia

Aaron Spain of Chicago was a Comcast customer. He found himself displeased with the product provided by the Philadelphia communications giant and tried to cancel.

He went through the sign-in garbage, got hold of a service rep and was put on hold.

He waited 3 hours and 20 minutes before trying on a different phone. What did he find? He found that the office was closed for the day.

Pretty funny, Aaron, huh?

Actually, the joke is going to be on Comcast. This isn’t the first cancellation horror story  circulating the web involving the liberal — it owns MSNBC and its campaign contributions skew heavily to Democrats— corporation.

Violating contracts leads to legal action, and fraud leads to being charged with crimes.

We suspect lawyers will soon be contacting Mr. Spain, and politically astute state attorney generals will start calling for investigations.

If you own stock in the company sell it now.

Here is the video Aaron put on on YouTube documenting his experience.

 

 Comcast Customer Support Is Criminal

Dropbox Bad Says Snowden

Dropbox Bad Says Snowden

Fourth Amendment advocate and international fugitive Edward Snowden says Dropbox, the cloud storage service, is “very hostile to privacy” reports PCWorld.com.

He is recommending that those with a need for cloud storage use companies that practice  “zero-knowledge”,  means that the data is encrypted before it reaches the cloud and the key remains with the user.

He cited Spider Oak as an example.

Of course, unlike with Dropbox, if you lose your password with Spider Oak you files are lost forever.

Dropbox Bad Says Snowden

Advertising Booms In 2014

Advertisers worldwide will spend $545.40 billion on paid media in 2014,  reports eMarketer.com.

This is a 5.7 percent increase over last year which, more than doubles the growth rate of 2. 6percent from a year ago.

It sites  the FIFA World Cup and the Winter Olympics as factors in the boom but also notes the steady increases in online and mobile advertising “as consumers globally shift their attention to digital devices.”

eMarketer notes that the US is by far the leader in total media ad spending at $180 billion.  On a per capita basis, the U.S. also leads at $565 which is $26.13 more per person than second place Norway.

 

Advertising Booms In 2014

 

Advertising Booms In 2014

Blog.BillLawrenceOnline.Com Gone Forever

The address that we have had since October 2008 — http://blog.billlawrenceonline.com/ — is gone forever.

All stories on the on the old site, however, have been archived at this site, BillLawrenceOnline.com

 

Blog.BillLawrenceOnline.Com Gone Forever

Blog.BillLawrenceOnline.Com Gone Forever

Small Business Users Support Local Economy

US internet users who pick small businesses over large companies cite support for the local economy (56.2 percent) and personal service (52.7 percent) as the primary reasons according to eMarketer.com.

Lower prices was not a factor. In fact, 61.2% of respondents said they would pay higher prices to support small businesses.

 

Small Business Users Support Local Economy

Small Business Users Support Local Economy

TISA Draft Sparks WikiLeaks Paranoia

The leaking of a draft of an international Trade in Service Agreement (TISA) by WikiLeaks is getting press.

The agreement would allow service-based companies — which include insurance, audiovisual, financial, information technology, express deliver and telecommunication firms — greater access to customers in other nations.

This would  be especially helpful to American firms.

WikiLeaks, the site founded by America-hating-whackjob  Julian Paul Assange, is quite angry about the agreement and is crying conspiracy.

A couple of questions to ponder:

When are drafts of agreements ever released to the public?

Why if it is such a big secret was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce praising the plan in a press release four months ago?

WikiLeaks can be described as a site dedicated to the selective leaking of documents designed to make the United States look bad. It has but 225 pages related to the People’s Republic of China, that bastion of sweetness and light, versus 9,720 pages to items the United States would have preferred to  have been kept under wraps.

By the way, most of the PRC stuff was leaked from the U.S.

For the conspiracy minded, WikiLeak’s TISA leak was done on June 19 and can be found here.

TISA Draft Sparks WikiLeaks Paranoia

 TISA Draft Sparks WikiLeaks Paranoia

 

Internet Now Full

Internet Now Full

There are fewer than 17 million IPv4 internet address remaining in North America,  the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) reported in April.

This means that officially the internet is full.

The IPv4 standard allows for 4.295 billion addresses worldwide. As 536 million of them are reserved, there is only about 3.7 billion usable.

There are 7 billion people in the world.

The web has reached its limit.

The solution is to advance to the IPv6 standard — IP means Internet Protocol and the “v” stands for version — which would provide 2 followed by 128 zeros worth of addresses.

The sticking point is that IPv4 and IPv6 are not compatible.

We feel it will all work out somehow.

If you think about it, it is kind of a good problem.

Internet Now Full

Internet now full and time is running out to fix the problem.

 

 

 

Charles Manson Not Paroled

Reports that America’s most twisted hippie being paroled are not true.

The story is a hoax.

Manson is not scheduled for another parole hearing until 2027.

 

 

 

Europeans Lose Trust In Web

EMarketer.com reports that a January study conducted by Loudhouse Research for Orange, showed that consumer trust in every sector monitored in Europe had fallen more than it had increased in the 12 months leading up to polling.

Social networks saw the biggest drop, with 46 percent of mobile phone owners in France, Poland, Spain and the UK saying they trusted them less. More than three in 10 said their trust in financial institutions had declined. Nearly one-fifth trusted mobile device manufacturers less, and 26 percent.

We can thank Barack Obama and his rich Silicon Valley minions.

You want to blame Bush too? Feel free, but let’s not forget that when the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 was passed Democrat Nancy Pelosi headed the House of Representatives and Democrat (and former Ku Klux Klansman) Robert Byrd ran the Senate.

 

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Cass Sunstein Internet Dream Comes True?

Cass Sunstein, the Obama confident who once headed the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has gotten his wish according to Glenn Greenwald writing at The Intercept at FirstLook.org.

Sunstein –who defended Bill Clinton against impeachment and George W. Bush for the Military Commissions Act of 2006 before working for Obama, and who believes the First Amendment should be rewritten —  notoriously proposed in 2008 having government agents infiltrate online groups and political websites to direct public opinion.

Greenwald, the journalist to whom whistleblower Eric Snowden leaked documents showing that policies were secretly changed to allow government spying on U.S. citizens, notes that the documents show that Sunstein’s plan has been implemented —  and in a way that follows rather sophisticated psychological principles with the goal of discrediting people and destroying reputations.

Like, well, Snowden’s. And Greenwald’s.

Who exactly can one trust one wonders.

In a quasi-related matter, a fellow who was using the Twitter handle @GSElevator and tweeting alleged juicy first-hand tidbit involving Goldman Sachs was found to be a resident of Texas with nothing to do with the New York-based investment banking house and cradle  of treasury secretaries and corrupt New Jersey governors.

The funny thing is that a whole lot of people in the New York financial community who are assumed to be super savvy and smart, believed him.

Just some things to mull around.

 

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