Posts by pakraticus

Sure it wasn't this green beverage?

Sure it isn't the green stuff used at Frankie's Ice Cream

I took a different tact with my step kids.

1) Flat out told them they could surf whatever they wanted on the web, but they would have to be prepared to explain what they were looking at to their mother or me.

2) To not do anything on myspace or facebook that would get their step mother tattling to their father.

3) Keep them busy with activities they enjoy that don't involve the computer.

We've had two incidents of stupidity from the eldest that were nowhere as bad as things I got into with a modem and a PC in the mid to late 80s.

A credit union in North Carolina has been doing this for years...

First it was video link and pneumatic tube because "There have been so many bank robberies in the area." And my response was "And it's all been some rather shafty banks and no credit unions."

Then it was check reader and cash dispenser.

I'd say it's a tossup if it improved things. Tellers are now available 7AM to 7PM 7 days a week "Unless it's a bank holiday". There is a branch manager available during normal banking hours for the more complicated account related work. And in full branches there is additional staff to handle the long drawn out things like loans and investment accounts and public notary and odd currency (IE bundle of 2 dollar bills, or roll of dollar coins). Wait time for the odd stuff is shorter. Wait time for a teller is generally shorter. But the tellers aren't as pretty as they used to be and I can't ogle their assets.

When did the offspring of the Puritans sent to North America

take over Australia?

Wilson, North Carolina has one solution...

A town of 50K in eastern NC with good broadband speeds because the town decided that broadband should be a public utility like water and sewer.

http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A259848

For their troubles, the phone companies and cable companies have sued the town and have lobbied in the state legislature to prohibit such activities.

As for the others in North Carolina complaining about broadband. AT&T uVerse *IS* being deployed ever so slowly. I do not understand their deployment strategy, but the pattern I perceive is that they are putting a higher priority on areas with a high level of affluence with aging telco gear that are close to the cable path to large subdivisions that started construction since the first uVerse deployments.

And I've been pleased with the service. The link to my house is 25M down 2M up traffic shaped to 12M data 7M iptv down and 1.5M data up.

I'm not very fond of the matter that nearly every click on my remote results in IP traffic sent to the VRAD, but they should be able to get a premium on advertising dollars since they have the data to correlate channel changes with the show or content being viewed and then correlate that to a specific demographic household. I don't know what they do with the data, but I know they have it.