Comcast back to cheat customers

Today I get a flyer (junk mail) from Comcast advertising a new and upgraded cable modem service. If I pay $10 more each month I can enjoy a 16 MBits per second. Wow! cool! great!, but hey!!!!!!!!!! they go on to say the $10 also gets me home networking for upto 5 computers. Now just what does this imply? I thought I can have as many computers inside my house networked in any manner as I wish them to be. How the hell does my home network concern Comcast?

Is Comcast implying that they determine or will charge customers according to the number of computers they have? Is this legal? Maybe its time for comptetion to enter the cable business.

Then I take a lok at the fine print and not to my surprise I see more information supporting teh fact that Comcast is trying to cheat its customers. The fine print states that the speeds are not guaranteed.... so lets get this straight... they want $10 more for what?????

Chinese Railways don't wish to be left behind

Previously I posted an article on how the spam industry and corruption in China had manage to infiltrate the Chinese Air Traffic Control computers. Well the Chinese railways are proud to say that they too have joined the elite Chinese Technology Corps of sending spam to the world.

I recently received an email which was directing me to
http://fastandeazy.com/. The site was located at IP: 61.234.140.198 which using APNIC whois revealed the following:

% [whois.apnic.net node-1]
% Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
inetnum: 61.232.0.0 - 61.237.255.255
netname: CRTC
country: CN
descr: CHINA RAILWAY TELECOMMUNICATIONS CENTER
admin-c: LQ112-AP
tech-c: LM273-AP
status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE
changed: ipas@cnnic.net.cn 20030121
mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP
source: APNIC
person: LV QIANG
nic-hdl: LQ112-AP
e-mail: crnet_mgr@chinatietong.com
address: 22F Yuetan Mansion,Xicheng District,Beijing,P.R.China
phone: +86-10-51892106
fax-no: +86-10-51890674
country: CN
changed: ipas@cnnic.net.cn 20050823
mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP
source: APNIC
person: liu min
nic-hdl: LM273-AP
e-mail: crnet_tec@chinatietong.com
address: 22F Yuetan Mansion,Xicheng District,Beijing,P.R.China
phone: +86-10-51848796
fax-no: +86-10-51842426
country: CN
changed: ipas@cnnic.net.cn 20041208
mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP
source: APNIC
inetnum: 61.232.0.0 - 61.237.255.255
netname: CRTC
country: CN
descr: CHINA RAILWAY TELECOMMUNICATIONS CENTER
admin-c: LQ112-CN
tech-c: LM273-CN
status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE
changed: ipas@cnnic.net.cn 20030121
mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP
source: CNNIC
person: LV QIANG
nic-hdl: LQ112-CN
e-mail: wangpei@chinatietong.com
address: 22F Yuetan Mansion,Xicheng District,Beijing,P.R.China
phone: +86-10-51890499
fax-no: +86-10-51890674
country: CN
changed: shenzhi@cnnic.cn 20050623
mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP
source: CNNIC
person: liu min
nic-hdl: LM273-CN
e-mail: crnet_tec@chinatietong.com
address: 22F Yuetan Mansion,Xicheng District,Beijing,P.R.China
phone: +86-10-51848796
fax-no: +86-10-51842426
country: CN
changed: ipas@cnnic.net.cn 20041208
mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP
source: CNNIC

This once again makes me wonder as to how come the Chinese wish to dictate what Internet content enters their borders but not the shit they send out.