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Comment: Another AOL example, phone booth (Score 1) 406

by tiltowait (#39050483) Attached to: AT&amp;T On Data Throttling: Blame Yourselves

Here's a similar gem, made by Steve Case in 1997, in response to gripes from people unable to connect to swamped AOL servers after their switch to unlimited hours:

Just as you would be sensitive about using a public phone booth if others were waiting in line to use it . . . try to show some restraint at night during the next few months when we're in this transitional mode.

In other words, it's your fault for trying to use what you've paid for.

Comment: Re:Low estimate (Score 1) 70

by tiltowait (#36735230) Attached to: Study: Fair Use Drives Large Part of US Economy

Yes, point taken... "My entire profession" should be "Libraries" above.

As a reference librarian, my main goal is to be Bablyon 5. I'd love it if we succeeded in creating a powerful enough search and retrieval tool with an intuitive interface that negated the need for library user instruction. My career mission is to work towards this ideal. It would, just as how B5 succeeded in its mission so much so that it was no longer necessary, make a large part of what librarians now do obsolete.

Books

+ - [Ponies!] Vatican to Digitize Prohibited Archives-> 2

Submitted by tiltowait
tiltowait writes: [in case you want to queue up something for tomorrow... :o] Hot on the heels of their successful iPhone app and drive-through confessional, the BBC News reports that the Vatican has announced plans to digitize their pornography collection and make it available online to paying subscribers. Given what the church has planned for the project's profits, here's hoping they learn lessons from the the New York Times paywall loopholes. Is anyone in on the Indulgentia beta?
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Comment: Dancing with vacuum cleaners... (Score 3, Insightful) 296

by tiltowait (#34488098) Attached to: George Lucas to Resurrect Dead Movie Stars?

Remember all the outrage over colorizing Casablanca in the 1980s? There were even congressional hearings that warned of the dire consequences of unmitigated technology (someone even imagined at the time dead actors being re-inserted in new movies, unthinkable at the time). Sounds crazy....

The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong -- until the next person quits or is fired.

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