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  1. #31
    Larry
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    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote in news:elmop-
    [email protected]:

    > and you'll find that AT&T has never restricted features on

    phones only
    > to SELL those features back to you for a monthly fee.
    >


    Notice I didn't say anything about it was ATT. It's iTunes, in
    this case. Stevie Jobs thinks that you should pay HIM for ever
    tune you ever play on HIS equipment.

    Appleware has a long history of PROPRIETARY built into it....
    Look at the connectors...(c;

    **** off

    Larry
    --
    Merry Christmas!
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_NhFS4xEE



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  2. #32
    Larry
    Guest

    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote in news:elmop-
    [email protected]:

    > and you'll find that AT&T has never restricted features on

    phones only
    > to SELL those features back to you for a monthly fee.
    >


    Notice I didn't say anything about it was ATT. It's iTunes, in
    this case. Stevie Jobs thinks that you should pay HIM for ever
    tune you ever play on HIS equipment.

    Appleware has a long history of PROPRIETARY built into it....
    Look at the connectors...(c;

    **** off

    Larry
    --
    Merry Christmas!
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_NhFS4xEE



  3. #33
    Todd Allcock
    Guest

    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    At 10 Dec 2007 00:02:31 +0000 Larry wrote:

    > SELLphone more accurately describes the devices' functions, to
    > SELL you some "function" the phone already had in it before the
    > SELLphone carrier locked it out in hopes of SELLing it back to
    > you.
    >
    > Wouldn't you agree?


    No, not really. That might be the M.O. of Verizon or maybe Alltel, but it
    isn't an industrywide thing.

    Of course you already know that, and choose to use a more restrictive
    company because they provide better coverage in your neck of the woods.
    That's the free market in action- you're free to choose the "open" company
    with less coverage, or the restrictive company with more.


    > Case in point....We all now have GPS receivers built into our
    > phones so the Illuminati's government bureaucrats can track us
    > more accurately, even if we don't make a call to 911, the cover
    > story.



    No- you have a GPS-like system relying, in part, on proprietary data that
    belongs to the cell company that they paid for to comply with a federal
    regulation.

    > Can you see your GPS' most basic data, latitude and longitude on
    > your SELLphone's display? Why not? You already paid for that
    > receiver and should be able to at least read its basic output,
    > right?


    No, because it doesn't have a "real" GPS. It has a limited-view (small #
    of channels) GPS radio receiver that's data gets sent to the carrier and is
    combined with tower location data to compute your position OUTSIDE the
    handset. Unlike a real GPS, your handset doesn't "know" where it is. The
    carrier knows where it is.

    > No, not in the eyes of the SELLphone company. You need
    > to pay us $10/month to have access to YOUR receiver's data.



    No, you pay $10 for the licensed map data and their service computing your
    location.

    If you used an "open" provider, you could buy a cellphone with a real GPS
    in it (some Blackberries, Nokias or WinMo phones,) and use your choice of
    free or commercial software with it.


    > What a pure line of bull****! SELLphone didn't provide the data,
    > the US Taxpayers did! The phone's MINE...as pointed out to me
    > every time it stops working! Why can't I use MY phone's GPS
    > receiver....FOR FREE?!


    Because it doesn't have one!

    > Why doesn't my phone's GPS receiver
    > Bluetooth pair with my computer so IT can use MY GPS receiver's
    > data?


    Because it doesn't have one!
    > I had to buy ANOTHER GPS receiver for that. Why??
    >



    Because it doesn't have one.

    > I don't think I'm the only one this pisses off, am I?



    Nope- there's certainly hobbl9ng going on, but your "GPS" isn't part of it.

    > If you don't like it.....**** OFF!



    Ironically, that's exactly how your cellular carrier feels about you (or
    any of us...)





  4. #34
    Todd Allcock
    Guest

    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    At 10 Dec 2007 00:02:31 +0000 Larry wrote:

    > SELLphone more accurately describes the devices' functions, to
    > SELL you some "function" the phone already had in it before the
    > SELLphone carrier locked it out in hopes of SELLing it back to
    > you.
    >
    > Wouldn't you agree?


    No, not really. That might be the M.O. of Verizon or maybe Alltel, but it
    isn't an industrywide thing.

    Of course you already know that, and choose to use a more restrictive
    company because they provide better coverage in your neck of the woods.
    That's the free market in action- you're free to choose the "open" company
    with less coverage, or the restrictive company with more.


    > Case in point....We all now have GPS receivers built into our
    > phones so the Illuminati's government bureaucrats can track us
    > more accurately, even if we don't make a call to 911, the cover
    > story.



    No- you have a GPS-like system relying, in part, on proprietary data that
    belongs to the cell company that they paid for to comply with a federal
    regulation.

    > Can you see your GPS' most basic data, latitude and longitude on
    > your SELLphone's display? Why not? You already paid for that
    > receiver and should be able to at least read its basic output,
    > right?


    No, because it doesn't have a "real" GPS. It has a limited-view (small #
    of channels) GPS radio receiver that's data gets sent to the carrier and is
    combined with tower location data to compute your position OUTSIDE the
    handset. Unlike a real GPS, your handset doesn't "know" where it is. The
    carrier knows where it is.

    > No, not in the eyes of the SELLphone company. You need
    > to pay us $10/month to have access to YOUR receiver's data.



    No, you pay $10 for the licensed map data and their service computing your
    location.

    If you used an "open" provider, you could buy a cellphone with a real GPS
    in it (some Blackberries, Nokias or WinMo phones,) and use your choice of
    free or commercial software with it.


    > What a pure line of bull****! SELLphone didn't provide the data,
    > the US Taxpayers did! The phone's MINE...as pointed out to me
    > every time it stops working! Why can't I use MY phone's GPS
    > receiver....FOR FREE?!


    Because it doesn't have one!

    > Why doesn't my phone's GPS receiver
    > Bluetooth pair with my computer so IT can use MY GPS receiver's
    > data?


    Because it doesn't have one!
    > I had to buy ANOTHER GPS receiver for that. Why??
    >



    Because it doesn't have one.

    > I don't think I'm the only one this pisses off, am I?



    Nope- there's certainly hobbl9ng going on, but your "GPS" isn't part of it.

    > If you don't like it.....**** OFF!



    Ironically, that's exactly how your cellular carrier feels about you (or
    any of us...)





  5. #35
    Steve Sobol
    Guest

    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.cellular.verizon.]
    On 2007-12-09, Miles <[email protected]> wrote:

    > 2) I used a non-AT&T unlocked Nokia 6260 on their network for 3 years
    > without difficulty, but was told that I could only have one sim card,
    > therefore only one operational phone at a time -- of course, the sims
    > could be transferred to another phone without difficulty -- as I did a
    > few times when the 6260 was down.


    Uh? Wasn't the 6260 a TDMA phone? Back in the 90's it was pretty easy to
    identify Nokia technology by the last two digits of the model number, and
    xx60 used to be 850MHz TDMA.

    --
    Steve Sobol, Victorville, CA PGP:0xE3AE35ED www.SteveSobol.com
    Geek-for-hire. Details: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevesobol




  6. #36
    Todd Allcock
    Guest

    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    At 10 Dec 2007 01:04:37 +0000 Larry wrote:

    > > Only Verizon. Not so with anything Cingular/AT&T has ever

    > sold.
    > >
    > >

    >
    > Is that why iPhones:
    >
    > Don't act like USB hard drives so you can copy songs, videos,
    > pictures to them and PLAY THEM because they're YOURS?



    To be fair, there's a difference between a _carrier_ crippling a phone and
    a manufacturer doing it.

    There's no "uncrippled, unlocked" iPhone to compare the AT&T version to.
    The lack of UMS (USB Mass Storage) support is all Apple's doing.

    > Don't allow external software to run on them so we can sell you
    > some web-based subscription crapware that STILL won't let you run
    > the songs, videos and pictures you finally got copied to them?



    Again, Apple. There are plenty of AT&T phones that support 3rd-party apps,
    file transfer, etc. I even own some (that I unlocked to use on T-Mo.)

    > Don't have common browser plugins used to STREAM video to
    > computers over the internet for free?


    Again, blame the manufacturer- AT&T doesn't write the browser software.

    > What you say may have been true before iPhone....but no more.
    > iPhone prevents bandwidth usage on ATT, and is hobbled to do so.


    But it's no different than the O2-version sold in Britan, the Orange (and
    unlocked) in France, or the T-Mo version sold in Germany- all hobbled by
    APPLE exactly the same way. Probably to enrich Apple, not the carrier!


    Grab any Motorola, Nokia, HTC, etc. T-Mo or AT&T phone, and it's a lot
    different than what you put up with on the US CDMA carriers.





  7. #37
    Todd Allcock
    Guest

    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    At 10 Dec 2007 01:04:37 +0000 Larry wrote:

    > > Only Verizon. Not so with anything Cingular/AT&T has ever

    > sold.
    > >
    > >

    >
    > Is that why iPhones:
    >
    > Don't act like USB hard drives so you can copy songs, videos,
    > pictures to them and PLAY THEM because they're YOURS?



    To be fair, there's a difference between a _carrier_ crippling a phone and
    a manufacturer doing it.

    There's no "uncrippled, unlocked" iPhone to compare the AT&T version to.
    The lack of UMS (USB Mass Storage) support is all Apple's doing.

    > Don't allow external software to run on them so we can sell you
    > some web-based subscription crapware that STILL won't let you run
    > the songs, videos and pictures you finally got copied to them?



    Again, Apple. There are plenty of AT&T phones that support 3rd-party apps,
    file transfer, etc. I even own some (that I unlocked to use on T-Mo.)

    > Don't have common browser plugins used to STREAM video to
    > computers over the internet for free?


    Again, blame the manufacturer- AT&T doesn't write the browser software.

    > What you say may have been true before iPhone....but no more.
    > iPhone prevents bandwidth usage on ATT, and is hobbled to do so.


    But it's no different than the O2-version sold in Britan, the Orange (and
    unlocked) in France, or the T-Mo version sold in Germany- all hobbled by
    APPLE exactly the same way. Probably to enrich Apple, not the carrier!


    Grab any Motorola, Nokia, HTC, etc. T-Mo or AT&T phone, and it's a lot
    different than what you put up with on the US CDMA carriers.





  8. #38
    Todd Allcock
    Guest

    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    At 10 Dec 2007 00:15:11 +0000 Larry wrote:

    > Nonsense. It's not done to SELL you more SELLphone
    > product...another number, another account, another charge.



    Back in the analog days, Cingular used to let you add extra phones to your
    number- at $20/month/phone. All phones rang simultaneously and which ever
    you answered first, took the call. They couldn't offer this service with
    digital due to the way the authorization system worked. (This was in the
    days before family plans.)


    > The phones aren't tied to your cell number. They each have a MAC
    > address, just like your Ethernet card. They can each be
    > addressed, all at once, unless we can force you to pay more
    > money.


    Except the systems only allow one addressable device per number, ostensibly
    to limit fraud.

    I agree that if carriers WANTED to, they could create a system to address
    multiple phones per number, as Cingular once did. You don't think they'd
    do it for FREE though, do you? And why, in an age when you can have a
    whole 2nd phone with unique number for $10/extra a month, would you pay $x
    for an "extension" that was limited in functionality (i.e. couldn't call
    the other handsets sharing the number?)
    Again, you want an extension? Pay $10 for a family line, conditionally
    forward one number to the other, or a Grandcentral.com number to auto-ring
    both simultaneously (first to answer wins.)

    Cellphone companies' services are not obligated to work like you think
    they should work (which is apparently "like Skype works.")

    If you have a better way to do it, feel free to bid at the upcoming 700MHz
    auction! ;-)





  9. #39
    Todd Allcock
    Guest

    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    At 10 Dec 2007 00:15:11 +0000 Larry wrote:

    > Nonsense. It's not done to SELL you more SELLphone
    > product...another number, another account, another charge.



    Back in the analog days, Cingular used to let you add extra phones to your
    number- at $20/month/phone. All phones rang simultaneously and which ever
    you answered first, took the call. They couldn't offer this service with
    digital due to the way the authorization system worked. (This was in the
    days before family plans.)


    > The phones aren't tied to your cell number. They each have a MAC
    > address, just like your Ethernet card. They can each be
    > addressed, all at once, unless we can force you to pay more
    > money.


    Except the systems only allow one addressable device per number, ostensibly
    to limit fraud.

    I agree that if carriers WANTED to, they could create a system to address
    multiple phones per number, as Cingular once did. You don't think they'd
    do it for FREE though, do you? And why, in an age when you can have a
    whole 2nd phone with unique number for $10/extra a month, would you pay $x
    for an "extension" that was limited in functionality (i.e. couldn't call
    the other handsets sharing the number?)
    Again, you want an extension? Pay $10 for a family line, conditionally
    forward one number to the other, or a Grandcentral.com number to auto-ring
    both simultaneously (first to answer wins.)

    Cellphone companies' services are not obligated to work like you think
    they should work (which is apparently "like Skype works.")

    If you have a better way to do it, feel free to bid at the upcoming 700MHz
    auction! ;-)





  10. #40
    4phun
    Guest

    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    On Dec 10, 5:55 am, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]>
    wrote:
    > In article <[email protected]>,
    >
    > Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
    > > Notice I didn't say anything about it was ATT. It's iTunes, in
    > > this case. Stevie Jobs thinks that you should pay HIM for ever
    > > tune you ever play on HIS equipment.

    >
    > Really?
    >
    > So you've never used iTunes or an iPod, yet you don't have a problem
    > ranting about them despite your sheer ignorance of how they work.
    >
    > There's no paying Apple for every tune you ever play on an iPod or in
    > iTunes. Where the **** did you get THAT idea?
    >
    > Take your ignorance back to your shack in the woods.


    You are right Elmo. I have a hundred and fifty GB of audio in iTunes
    and I haven't spent dime one at the Apple Store. I use the Apple Store
    to help locate and manage PodCasts and my wife likes the Internet
    Radio feature. I pick up a couple of gigs of new free video each day
    also from Video podcasting. I also snag the occasional YouTube Video
    or a clever one from Manaic.com for download to my iTouch.



  11. #41
    Larry
    Guest

    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:63998c56-c073-48e1-
    [email protected]:

    > On Dec 10, 5:55 am, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <el...

    @nastydesigns.com>
    > wrote:
    >> In article <[email protected]>,
    >>
    >> Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> > Notice I didn't say anything about it was ATT. It's iTunes,

    in
    >> > this case. Stevie Jobs thinks that you should pay HIM for

    ever
    >> > tune you ever play on HIS equipment.

    >>
    >> Really?
    >>
    >> So you've never used iTunes or an iPod, yet you don't have a

    problem
    >> ranting about them despite your sheer ignorance of how they

    work.
    >>
    >> There's no paying Apple for every tune you ever play on an

    iPod or in
    >> iTunes. Where the **** did you get THAT idea?
    >>
    >> Take your ignorance back to your shack in the woods.

    >
    > You are right Elmo. I have a hundred and fifty GB of audio in

    iTunes
    > and I haven't spent dime one at the Apple Store. I use the

    Apple Store
    > to help locate and manage PodCasts and my wife likes the

    Internet
    > Radio feature. I pick up a couple of gigs of new free video

    each day
    > also from Video podcasting. I also snag the occasional YouTube

    Video
    > or a clever one from Manaic.com for download to my iTouch.
    >


    I'm just so proud of you fine boys I could.......puke.

    M:\ROCK> COPY *.MP3 L:\ROCK [RETURN]

    Doesn't that suck? That line copies over 2200 MP3 files to my
    8GB SD card for the N800 to play. No begging one at a time, no
    reporting to Crapple what I play, it just copies files that play,
    as fast as the damned card can store them, ready to be played by
    one of many MP3 players.

    N:\MOVIES> COPY *.AVI L:\MOVIES

    That one put 63 DivX movies on another 8GB drive labeled MOVIES
    so I can swap 'em. No funny business. No screwing around with
    webpages and permission from some Crapple bureaucrat and his
    ****ty software.

    Question: How long does it take to load 2200 songs into an iPod
    or iPhone or iAnything? How many keystrokes if you want 'em all?

    I've never owned ANY "player", either audio or video, that
    required me to use some proprietary bull**** to install playable
    files onto any device, not just Crapple's. I never will....(c;

    I've never owned ANY "player", either audio or video, that I
    couldn't copy those files OFF the device onto something else
    either locked out by the manufacturer or requiring some
    proprietary bull**** to filter what I take off the device to move
    some license nonsense to the other device, some hidden files from
    some locked up, hidden directories. I never will......(c;

    To pay for a locked up device is just STUPID!....

    Larry
    --
    Merry Christmas!
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_NhFS4xEE



  12. #42
    Larry
    Guest

    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:63998c56-c073-48e1-
    [email protected]:

    > On Dec 10, 5:55 am, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <el...

    @nastydesigns.com>
    > wrote:
    >> In article <[email protected]>,
    >>
    >> Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> > Notice I didn't say anything about it was ATT. It's iTunes,

    in
    >> > this case. Stevie Jobs thinks that you should pay HIM for

    ever
    >> > tune you ever play on HIS equipment.

    >>
    >> Really?
    >>
    >> So you've never used iTunes or an iPod, yet you don't have a

    problem
    >> ranting about them despite your sheer ignorance of how they

    work.
    >>
    >> There's no paying Apple for every tune you ever play on an

    iPod or in
    >> iTunes. Where the **** did you get THAT idea?
    >>
    >> Take your ignorance back to your shack in the woods.

    >
    > You are right Elmo. I have a hundred and fifty GB of audio in

    iTunes
    > and I haven't spent dime one at the Apple Store. I use the

    Apple Store
    > to help locate and manage PodCasts and my wife likes the

    Internet
    > Radio feature. I pick up a couple of gigs of new free video

    each day
    > also from Video podcasting. I also snag the occasional YouTube

    Video
    > or a clever one from Manaic.com for download to my iTouch.
    >


    I'm just so proud of you fine boys I could.......puke.

    M:\ROCK> COPY *.MP3 L:\ROCK [RETURN]

    Doesn't that suck? That line copies over 2200 MP3 files to my
    8GB SD card for the N800 to play. No begging one at a time, no
    reporting to Crapple what I play, it just copies files that play,
    as fast as the damned card can store them, ready to be played by
    one of many MP3 players.

    N:\MOVIES> COPY *.AVI L:\MOVIES

    That one put 63 DivX movies on another 8GB drive labeled MOVIES
    so I can swap 'em. No funny business. No screwing around with
    webpages and permission from some Crapple bureaucrat and his
    ****ty software.

    Question: How long does it take to load 2200 songs into an iPod
    or iPhone or iAnything? How many keystrokes if you want 'em all?

    I've never owned ANY "player", either audio or video, that
    required me to use some proprietary bull**** to install playable
    files onto any device, not just Crapple's. I never will....(c;

    I've never owned ANY "player", either audio or video, that I
    couldn't copy those files OFF the device onto something else
    either locked out by the manufacturer or requiring some
    proprietary bull**** to filter what I take off the device to move
    some license nonsense to the other device, some hidden files from
    some locked up, hidden directories. I never will......(c;

    To pay for a locked up device is just STUPID!....

    Larry
    --
    Merry Christmas!
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_NhFS4xEE



  13. #43
    4phun
    Guest

    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    On Dec 10, 9:11 pm, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:

    > To pay for a locked up device is just STUPID!....
    >
    > Larry


    Larry where do you get the theory that the iPod is locked. I can put
    my audio on an iPod and I can copy it off the iPod to another
    computer. I dare say there are at least thousands that can do the same
    thing.

    Yes to the uninformed, such as yourself iPods appear to be only DRM
    audio/video but in fact you can put anything on it. I have absolutely
    nothing that has DRM in it nor would I ever buy anything like that.
    And as for putting files on and off the music device iTunes has an
    amazing programmable interface called SMART PLAYLISTS that almost
    anyone can work with after a little thought. Using SMART PLAYLISTS you
    can automat addition and deletion of files. I have the ability to add
    or replace files on a variety of MP3 devices. I would rather work with
    programmable snippets than sit and manually make decisions to copy one
    or a group of files using the native file OS.

    There is such a large user base to iPods and Apple products there
    isn't much anyone wants to do that can't currently be done. All you
    have to do is look and learn how. That is one of the factors that make
    the Apple products so neat.

    There is even a simple hack to beat the 3 play rule built into the
    ZUNE for shared files. And that is one locked up DRM product - big
    time.

    So don't even bother bad mouthing the MS media product either.






  14. #44
    Larry
    Guest

    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:10848371-eb6e-4a33-
    [email protected]:

    > Larry where do you get the theory that the iPod is locked. I

    can put
    > my audio on an iPod and I can copy it off the iPod to another
    > computer. I dare say there are at least thousands that can do

    the same
    > thing.
    >
    >


    My parameters are quite simple.....

    Can this player, whatever player, be plugged into any USB port,
    and loaded with any simple file manager of any files on the
    drives, then played without hacking or begging the player to play
    them? Then, can this player, plugged into ANY other USB port on
    any other computer, copy or move these files to that computer,
    using that computer's simplest of file managers, without
    destroying the file or refusing to copy/move certain types of
    files.

    There's no reason to buy a player that must be hacked to play ANY
    file. If that company, any company, chooses to hobble its
    equipment in cooperation with RIAA or MPAA or USGA (the golf
    people) or NASCAR or USMC, they do not want our business. I only
    buy from companies who have MY interest at heart. MY interest is
    to be able to play ALL the files, ALL the time. I'm sure yours
    are, too.

    I don't drive cars under the remote control of some cops. I
    certainly am not going to drive electronic entertainment devices
    under similar remote controls by the music cops.

    If a majority of the music listeners would simply refuse to buy
    this ****.....it would all go away. I don't know how old you are
    or how long you've been playing with PCs, but we went through a
    terrible period where every program you were licensed to play had
    this goddamned "dongle" that had to be plugged into all the other
    dongles on a serial port to make SURE you didn't steal it. Lots
    of them simply wouldn't play, dongle or no dongle. The computer-
    buying public had had enough. It stopped buying ANY programs
    that required some kind of hardware or software key before the
    program would run. Software companies went down the tubes for a
    while until they FINALLY got the message we, the computer public,
    wasn't going to put up with their ****. Software suddenly, as
    they starved for cash, came out without the protective nonsense.

    I think Billy Gates, multi-billionaire, is feeling this effect
    with his new electronic-dongled Vista OS, right now! I'm one who
    won't buy it. I didn't buy XP for years because of its locks. I
    don't buy software with dongles of any kind, either....no matter
    how wonderful it is.....

    We're going to see another dongle period very soon. The FCC, in
    cooperation with the media money mongers, has allowed them to put
    dongles in all your new, wonderful digital TVs! Isn't that
    wonderful? Every TV is as addressable as your cable modem. Even
    the over-the-air broadcasters, who like the AMPS carriers never
    had control of what system your AMPS phone would connect to until
    these PRL dongles were invented, has individually-addressable
    control of your new TV...right over its transmitter. Wanna watch
    the Dallas game on HDTV? Call 1-800-Feed-Me-Money and have your
    credit card ready! This is coming, people, PAY OVER-THE-AIR
    BROADCASTING they wanted since Dumont put the knobs on the front.
    You don't think NASCAR and NFL are going to let you watch it for
    free, do you? Not if they can help it.

    No ZUNE or other "them" machines, here. No thank you! You still
    have a choice....please choose freedom.

    We'll now hear from the Sheeple side of the newsgroups....(c;

    Larry
    --
    Merry Christmas!
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_NhFS4xEE



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    Larry
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    Re: AT&T flings network wide open- don't have to sign a contract

    4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:10848371-eb6e-4a33-
    [email protected]:

    > Larry where do you get the theory that the iPod is locked. I

    can put
    > my audio on an iPod and I can copy it off the iPod to another
    > computer. I dare say there are at least thousands that can do

    the same
    > thing.
    >
    >


    My parameters are quite simple.....

    Can this player, whatever player, be plugged into any USB port,
    and loaded with any simple file manager of any files on the
    drives, then played without hacking or begging the player to play
    them? Then, can this player, plugged into ANY other USB port on
    any other computer, copy or move these files to that computer,
    using that computer's simplest of file managers, without
    destroying the file or refusing to copy/move certain types of
    files.

    There's no reason to buy a player that must be hacked to play ANY
    file. If that company, any company, chooses to hobble its
    equipment in cooperation with RIAA or MPAA or USGA (the golf
    people) or NASCAR or USMC, they do not want our business. I only
    buy from companies who have MY interest at heart. MY interest is
    to be able to play ALL the files, ALL the time. I'm sure yours
    are, too.

    I don't drive cars under the remote control of some cops. I
    certainly am not going to drive electronic entertainment devices
    under similar remote controls by the music cops.

    If a majority of the music listeners would simply refuse to buy
    this ****.....it would all go away. I don't know how old you are
    or how long you've been playing with PCs, but we went through a
    terrible period where every program you were licensed to play had
    this goddamned "dongle" that had to be plugged into all the other
    dongles on a serial port to make SURE you didn't steal it. Lots
    of them simply wouldn't play, dongle or no dongle. The computer-
    buying public had had enough. It stopped buying ANY programs
    that required some kind of hardware or software key before the
    program would run. Software companies went down the tubes for a
    while until they FINALLY got the message we, the computer public,
    wasn't going to put up with their ****. Software suddenly, as
    they starved for cash, came out without the protective nonsense.

    I think Billy Gates, multi-billionaire, is feeling this effect
    with his new electronic-dongled Vista OS, right now! I'm one who
    won't buy it. I didn't buy XP for years because of its locks. I
    don't buy software with dongles of any kind, either....no matter
    how wonderful it is.....

    We're going to see another dongle period very soon. The FCC, in
    cooperation with the media money mongers, has allowed them to put
    dongles in all your new, wonderful digital TVs! Isn't that
    wonderful? Every TV is as addressable as your cable modem. Even
    the over-the-air broadcasters, who like the AMPS carriers never
    had control of what system your AMPS phone would connect to until
    these PRL dongles were invented, has individually-addressable
    control of your new TV...right over its transmitter. Wanna watch
    the Dallas game on HDTV? Call 1-800-Feed-Me-Money and have your
    credit card ready! This is coming, people, PAY OVER-THE-AIR
    BROADCASTING they wanted since Dumont put the knobs on the front.
    You don't think NASCAR and NFL are going to let you watch it for
    free, do you? Not if they can help it.

    No ZUNE or other "them" machines, here. No thank you! You still
    have a choice....please choose freedom.

    We'll now hear from the Sheeple side of the newsgroups....(c;

    Larry
    --
    Merry Christmas!
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_NhFS4xEE



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