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Belkin Routers Route Users to Censorware Ad
The Register has a story today about
Belkin routers redirecting their users' network traffic.
To me, this seems like the logical next step after top-level domain name servers piping ads to your browser. Now the routers themselves hijack the traffic they are supposed to, uh, route -- and you'll love where they send you instead. But it's OK because you can opt out. Incidentally, the Crystal Ball Award goes to Seth Finkelstein, who in 2001 quoted John Gilmore's famous aphorism about the internet, and asked "What if censorship is in the router?"
In Verizon's incredible company aquisitions, did they strategy start eating peripheral (plus all the other crap that Belkin makes) manufacturers as well?
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Uh Clem. a former Belkin wireless router user, was perplexed to find machines on his network redirected to an ad for Belkin's new parental control system, following a software update.
The guy's name is "Uh Clem"?!
Man, he must have taken some ribbing in grade school. For a second I thought this article had been written by ignorant hayseeds from (insert state of choice here). "Uhhhh, Clem, the router t'ain't workin'."
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What's the difference between socialism and communism?
Americans won't seem to have a problem voting for socialism when they select a Democratic canidate in 2004. They will seem to miss the fact that they will be voting away the freedoms protected explicitly by the US Constitution. They will probably still bitch when the resulting government mess they voted for comes back and makes their life worse making them all look like a bunch of spoiled children.
Americans will never vote for communism, because they still want to lease a used Lexus to drive to and from the government hospital and to park outside their HUD apartment.
Is that enough of an answer for you?
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Americans won't seem to have a problem voting for socialism when they select a Democratic canidate in 2004. They will seem to miss the fact that they will be voting away the freedoms protected explicitly by the US Constitution.
I don't see where the hell you're getting the idea that socialism is inherently incompatable with Constitutional freedoms, or that Democrats are socialists.
If anything, the current gung-ho Republican fascist pograms against anything that doesn't please the corporate masters and their resulting "War on Terror" laws are whats going to put holes in the Constitution.
Time to get over the Cold War stigma of socialism already anyway. Some of our very good allies have horribly bad "red" tendancies; The Brits, the Canadians, the Swiss, etc.
The only difference between Capitalism and Socialism is who profits from who. In a socialist society everyone is asked to bend over and take it; Sometimes you get a little, sometimes you get taken up the ass. In a capitalist system it's the corporations bending everyone over; No reacharound, no Vaseline, no "Thank you!"
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Republicans are just as bad as Democrats
Agreed. It was a blatent dig at Mister GOP. Personally, I dislike all politicians equally until they do something non-idiotic, which ain't all that often.
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