Posts by Jeff Flanadoo

AT&T savages Google Voice

Let 'em sue

As much as I hate ATT and the big Telco's, they are really shooting themselves in the foot here from a legal perspective. The reason that GV doesn't connect to some numbers is because there is a small subset of local carriers that have ridiculous connect charges, and GV doesn't want to pay them. IANAL but if ATT wants to argue *for* net neutrality, which it has argued against in the past, then go for it. The same arguments that they use to win this case *will* be used against them and other Telco's such as comcast when they decide that they want to filter/throttle their IP traffic based on protocol(ala bittorrent), or even doing less nefarious things, such as DNS redirects to their search page (which a lot of them currently do). So go ahead ATT and sue... it'll be the first time in the history of your company you would actually be doing something that is helping your customer base instead of hurting it.

Let air passengers smoke dope, say Denver potheads

DIA Sucks

I think the real reason that DIA is a hotbed of angry drunks is because the airport is horrible. Every flight out I have to wait to taxi (last time it was one hour on the tarmac). Every flight in I have to wait for a gate to clear up. That doesn't even mention the constantly malfunctioning trains that take you to/from the terminal or the bad layout of the main hall area. The saddest thing about DIA is that it's one of the newest airports in the US and it still has all these issues.