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The greatest part of this project is that if you ever get sued for trademark infringement, you can force their lawyers to have to explain why anyone could possi
by lostdog 4y ago
The greatest part of this project is that if you ever get sued for trademark infringement, you can force their lawyers to have to explain why anyone could possibly confuse the product of Comcast Corp. with making your internet as flakey and slow as possible.
- versale 4y agoOn the other hand projects named this way are not easily googleable.
- omoikane 4y agoCurrently it's the top result for "comcast network tool", ranked above comcast's own github page. I recall at least one other project with this kind of naming sense: https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen which was named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal and is currently the top result for "volkswagen test library".
- daviddever23box 4y agoGrinning from ear to ear on that point...!
- encryptluks2 4y agoSimple, they already know Comcast is synonymous with flakey slow Internet and shitty customer service. But they already paid off congress and know there is nothing you can do about it.
- DonHopkins 4y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHgUN_95UAw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHgUN_95UAw "So the next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie Cups with a string? We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company." -Lilly Tomlin as Ernestine
- unsignedint 4y agoTo be honest, when I looked at this title, I thought Comcast made a tool and publicized the tool to simulate suboptimal network...
- Hydraulix989 4y agoThis is the type of confusion trademark law seeks to protect against.
- chaostheory 4y agoMaybe he can rename it to “comcrap”? Jokes aside it’s probably better to use a less controversial name.
- reaperducer 4y agoMaybe he can rename it to “comcrap”? Jokes aside it’s probably better to use a less controversial name. Perhaps he should rebrand it "Xfinity." That seems like a perfectly harmless name that is in no way associated with poor products and crap customer service.
- bee_rider 4y agoSince it is designed to simulate a poor network, Xfinite would be a funny name.
- juunpp 4y ago
- CawCawCaw 4y agocomcaste
- turdnagel 4y agoTo begin with, you've got a very narrow set of people who would even discover this project. Now intersect that with the people who will reliably miss context clues ("shitty network connections") to get a joke, and the set becomes even narrower.
- the_biot 4y agoNot really, they just need to point at the trademark registration. There is nothing to explain or be embarrassed about.
- sschueller 4y agoDid they trademark the use of the mark for "simulating a bad network". I don't think so.
- alisonkisk 4y agoThat's not a product category. They have registered the trademark for computer networking.
- cedilla 4y agoI don't know why this was dead - this is how it works: trademark protection extends to whole classes of productd, so called Nizza classes.
- perbu 4y agoTrademarks are supposed to be consumer protection regulation. They aren't there to protect the corporations. If I make some brown goo and call it "Pepsi" then Pepsico can sue me because I confuse their customers and not because this will cause losses for Pepsico. At least, this was the original intention. In today's more corporation-friendly world, more emphasis is being put on the corporations interests unfortunately.
- alisonkisk 4y ago
- r_hoods_ghost 4y agoCitation? Genuinely never heard this argument before.
- kodah 4y agoThere's an old paper on that networking, by design, is not reliable or efficient - which is more cogent than ever in large scale distributed systems. What Comcast would cite would likely be that, so I doubt it would reveal the quiet part said out loud about the reliability of Comcast's services. A couple citations I liked: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2655736 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2655736 https://blog.acolyer.org/2014/12/18/the-network-is-reliable/ https://blog.acolyer.org/2014/12/18/the-network-is-reliable/
- mh- 4y ago> cogent No, comcast. :) Jokes aside, that paper is very worth reading. And HN readers will recognize one of the authors as the creator of Jepsen, of distributed database testing fame.
- karmakaze 4y agoWell Canadian Tire Corp tried to claim ownership of the domain crappytire.com and lost. Looks like the domain was eventually bought out.
- DonHopkins 4y agoIf only Comcast customers had a way of simulating non-shitty network connections...
- taf2 4y agoFrom docs it looks like you can turn off the shitty network connection by executing comcast --stop
- mtgx 4y ago
- heavyset_go 4y agoSounds expensive.
- whateveracct 4y agoYou could also rebrand this program to comcast-simulator lmao