Skype Technical Issues, Amsterdam Exile, Comcast Business Upgrades
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 476 from Amsterdam and Silicon Valley. Technical difficulties with Skype lead to a discussion about internet reliability and the potential need for a Comcast Business upgrade. The hosts reference the history of phone companies interfering with early internet service providers in the 1990s.
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00:00 Calgary, here I come. Adam Curry, John C. Devorah. It's Sunday January 6th 2013 time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 476! This is no agenda. Becoming an alcoholic in the lowlands of Gitmo nation day 32 living in exile in Amsterdam In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry Hello? That was hilarious you had to have heard the way that worked And your name is? Oh, I'm sorry. From Northern Silicon Valley, I am John C. DeBore. Nailed it! Excellent, excellent. Good job
00:49 So you went offline. I did not go offline, you went offline! Yeah no no you went offline sure and then but your mind... You were screaming and yelling in the way you normally do which is where we start to show And then it was you hear Skype going I can't take it anymore! Skype actually said to you I can't take it anymore? That was a message No What was the message? I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE Well, I think this was great and as far as i can tell the stream didn't go away. Everyone could hear the entire opening sequence from my end so once again it's your stuff that is not working No, its Skype
01:31 Okay, Skype. Skype unhooked all my stuff! Dude you have no idea it's your stuff You just need to bite the bullet and upgrade to Comcast business thing whatever they're trying to sell you because they'll keep jiggling The wires on you this is their strategy. Hey there on the air what are gonna do Bill watch this Hey, that was a hilarious opening. Good job good job we screwed him up again Yeah That's funny because in the olden days when they were having to win the phone companies had to deal with you know Open pipes as it were and they had these competitors come in for early internet service yeah And this was in the in the 90s there There was common complaint because they had to use the same
02:18 buildings that the phone companies were in and these guys would always complain that the phone companies would come there just pull their wires out of this. Oh yeah, I don't know. Hey screw you! You punk! No out of those big strips... What are you gonna do about it? Remember those big strips? The-the-the big plastic things he had a special tool and could push the wires in there Yeah. Yeah oh yeah no of course Of course that's the way to go Don't do anything like that Anyway so uh I'm becoming an alcoholic Well, you better stop drinking man. I don't drink... I'm drunk already. You could be drunk already but you're not quite. Okay, I'm not. I thought admitting it was the first step in the right direction but i understand you know? I kind of take back what I've said about certain about the Brits
