I would give Rogers another try. It seems that eversince the Comcast ordeal went live, they stopped throttling their traffic, at least for me? I`m not getting a full 800Kb/sec download 24/7 on torrents.
Because of this, I ended up going over monthly limit and they sent me a "friendly" reminded that I should consider buying their faster/higher allowance package and guess what, I will!! I`m glad to pay more if I can get more! This is how it should work. Comcast should take notice and so should the other ISP's.
But I still don't think that answers GP's question: why is this happening now instead of back when IRA blew up bomb and killed people pretty much weekly?
Because people wouldn't put up with it back then. The government needed a catalyst for propell this Orwellian state onto people. 9/11 did the job quite nicely. If you look closely, all this "total control" has been creeping into our lives quite slowly over the last 50 years, but it really accelerated after 9/11.
If the U.S./UK governments are responsible for 9/11 is beyond the scope of this reply, but you at least have to marvell at the inguinity of it all, and how it all seemleslly fell into place. Problem-Reaction-Solution, the rest is up to you to figure out people. That is all.
I agree 100% with you... unfortunately the government has no intention of listening in on your conversation in Second Life. This is done to spread fear, and the uncertain feeling that someone *MIGHT* be listening to your in Second Life (or on the phone, or in your emails, or in your letters, etc.. etc..) this creates a sense of uncertainty and some degree of fear, making sure nobody gets out of line, or even attempts at making a group of people to stage a protest, to share information (9/11 was an inside job, impeach bush, vote Ron Paul). It keeps everybody in check and always thinking there's somebody watching over your shoulder, making sure you don't "get out of line" without the government actually doing anything.
Next week they`ll release a statement saying they`ll be watching for people waving flags, so now nobody waves flags because god forbid someone thinks you're a terrorrist. Sooner or later, nobody has the guts to do anything... mission accomplished.
Omg... Get your tinfoil hat hating ass out of here. This is slashdot! Everything is a conspiracy! Iran is being slowly disconnected from the internet so that the US can bomb them and nobody will know! Because reporters couldn't ever tell us about it without the interwab!
Sheesh.
Uhmm no, that's not why they would cut the lines. It's not to stop reporters from reporting (since they will only report what you want to hear), but it's mostly to stop Iranian people from crying for help or posting pictures and video's on their blogs of what is happening (if anything should actually happen).
I had a job working for Computer City in Canada back in the day when it was owned by Future Shop. Did we "peek" at what people had on their computers when it was in service? Sure.. sometimes we did, sometimes we didn't. If he had a folder on the desktop called "here's me having sex with my wife" - who wouldn't want to open it and see what's inside?
And yes sometimes there was porn (typical 18+ stuff), but even if I had found child porn I would stay out of this affair. It's really none of my bussiness of how he got it or what the circumstances are. It his is private property and I have no right to help myself into his files, that's an illegal search, and I would never want it done to myself by someone else.
I was just going to say that entire societies and civilizations have fought with blood to free themselves from being slaves by tagging them, and here you have some ignorant fools WISHING it upon themselves.
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it."
Well, the whole point of having devices like this, is that, if you can directly detect somebody trying to smuggle in a nuke or even a backpack bomb, you don't need to spy on the whole country because you are afraid someone might.
Riiiiight... because once they have this in place, they`ll stop spying on your phone calls right? I mean.. thats what it's for isn't it.. if no nukes/bombs can get into the country then we don't need to spy on our citizens because nobody has bombs right?!.. No ofcourse it's wrong, the Orweillian state will such continue growing uncontrollably, no matter what "breakthrough" they have and no matter how safe they tell you everything is, it's just never enough. Humans are too dumb to take care of themselves nowawadays I guess, so they have to be spied on to keep them safe.
But we also count on judges to both regulate what evidence is presented to the jury and overturn convictions where "what is said in a statute" is not met.
Uhmmm, did you just say that the jury doesn't have the last word? You're wrong. The jury decides the final verdict, regardless of what anybody else thinks, even if it's against the written law. The jury is ABOVE THE LAW.
"The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy." John Jay, 1st Chief Justice
United States supreme Court, 1789 "The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts." Samuel Chase, U.S. supreme Court Justice,1796, Signer of the unanimous Declaration
"The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact." Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. supreme Court Justice, 1902
"The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided." Harlan F. Stone, 12th Chief Justice,U.S. supreme Court, 1941
"The pages of history shine on instance of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge..." U.S.vs Dougherty, 473 F 2nd 113, 1139, (1972)
I totally agree.. here's a little snippet from a free book you can read in PDF, unfortunately I forgot the name of it, I`m sure someone here will know the name of the book. This pertains to a similiar situation which happened many years ago, where some "hacker" kid stole a document from a telcom company and they claimed an outragous price on it. Here's how it went down and how they priced it, so everyone get's an idea of how they come out with these prices.
The E911 Document was also proving a weak reed. It had originally
been valued at $79,449. Unlike Shadowhawk's arcane Artificial
Intelligence booty, the E911 Document was not software -- it was written
in English. Computer-knowledgeable people found this value -- for a
twelve-page bureaucratic document -- frankly incredible. In his
"Crime and Puzzlement" manifesto for EFF, Barlow commented: "We
will probably never know how this figure was reached or by whom,
though I like to imagine an appraisal team consisting of Franz Kafka,
Joseph Heller, and Thomas Pynchon."
As it happened, Barlow was unduly pessimistic. The EFF did, in fact,
eventually discover exactly how this figure was reached, and by whom
-- but only in 1991, long after the Neidorf trial was over.
Kim Megahee, a Southern Bell security manager, had arrived at the document's
value by simply adding up the "costs associated with the production"
of the E911 Document. Those "costs" were as follows:
1. A technical writer had been hired to research and write the E911
Document. 200 hours of work, at $35 an hour, cost : $7,000. A
Project Manager had overseen the technical writer. 200 hours, at $31
an hour, made: $6,200.
2. A week of typing had cost $721 dollars. A week of formatting had
cost $721. A week of graphics formatting had cost $742.
3. Two days of editing cost $367.
4. A box of order labels cost five dollars.
5. Preparing a purchase order for the Document, including typing and
the obtaining of an authorizing signature from within the BellSouth
bureaucracy, cost $129.
6. Printing cost $313. Mailing the Document to fifty people took fifty
hours by a clerk, and cost $858.
7. Placing the Document in an index took two clerks an hour each,
totalling $43.
Bureaucratic overhead alone, therefore, was alleged to have cost a
whopping $17,099. According to Mr. Megahee, the typing of a twelve page
document had taken a full week. Writing it had taken five weeks,
including an overseer who apparently did nothing else but watch the
author for five weeks. Editing twelve pages had taken two days.
Printing and mailing an electronic document (which was already available
on the Southern Bell Data Network to any telco employee who needed
it), had cost over a thousand dollars.
But this was just the beginning. There were also the *hardware
expenses.* Eight hundred fifty dollars for a VT220 computer monitor.
*Thirty-one thousand dollars* for a sophisticated VAXstation II computer.
Six thousand dollars for a computer printer. *Twenty-two
thousand dollars* for a copy of "Interleaf" software. Two thousand five
hundred dollars for VMS software. All this to create the twelve-page
Document.
Plus ten percent of the cost of the software and the hardware, for maintenance.
(Actually, the ten percent maintenance costs, though mentioned,
had been left off the final $79,449 total, apparently through a
merciful oversight).
I must admit I didn't read the full story but I wasn't that far from the truth. It seemed a bit strange to me to be writing up a license when there was no Machinima ever used in a commercial setting where people made money off of it, at least none that I'm aware of.
Do they really expect some 16 year old kid to go out and get a license before he makes some 5min movie with his buddies in WoW ?!... They've gotta be joking if they think anybody will actually respect their wishes. You've paid for the game, and you record yourself playing the game a certain way.. licenses? No thanks!
Because companies like AT&T and Haliburton either are presently, or have been in the past run by people who were high up in the government tree at one point (or vice-versa). Dick Cheney left Haliburton in 2000 to become Goerge'e Bushes mate. It's not about companies, it's who runs them and who's connected.. they're all buddies and pals and I bet Google isn't friends with any of them and they're scared.
America needs more people like you. It's what the country was founded upon and believed by so many. Yet now everyone seems to be a passive pussy just ready to take whatever BS they are being fed. I look at you with a bit of hope.. a hope that there's more people out there like yourself.
I immigrated from Poland to Canada.. but it seems like I have more drive to fix your country then some people living there. I wish you can convince others to follow your lead and take back your own country from the criminals and traitors in the government.
Kind of like what GameShark did for the Playstation.. The playstation would load up Gameshark because it was valid "software" and then Gameshark would eject itself after being validated by the PS2 and let you load any other copied game, using GameShark as a "gateway".
The same thing happened with vinyls that is now happening with CD's. Why do they not recognize their own history?!
With the advent of music downloads in the early 2000s and the introduction of the iTunes Music Store in 2003, the CD is decreasing in popularity yearly as music downloads experience rapid growth. The convenience of music downloads in combination with digital audio players like Apple's iPod leave little reason to keep CDs and a CD player.
I remember reading a comment by someone on slashdot about this subject previously, and I can see the logic in his reasoning. He basically said that this whole "net neutrality" thing would actually be a very bad thing to the ISP's. The reason being.. is that other ISPs and content providers will show up advertising that they DO NOT control how your service is delivered, making people switch to those provider who do not shape your bandwidth. Eventually those ISPs who wish to impose their rules on you will be forced to go back to the concept of open internet because they will see that people will be flocking to those ISP's who offer a truly free and open internet.
The charge is invalid because it flouts privacy laws. Under the fourth amendment the expectation of privacy is not reasonable at such public places as automobile thoroughfares.
EFF is already suing AT&T, so if anybody ever wanted to support them, now is the perfect time to send in a donation. If there's anybody who even has a chance at winning against the government (or their corprorate slaves) then I think EFF are the ones.
Ok, so you've told me what you think his personality is like.. now how about listing off all the bad things he's actually done or voted for?
I don't see any other candidate vowing to get rid of the illegal IRS and Income tax, do you? No matter what your political agenta, I`m sure everybody in the U.S. would benefit from that.
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I would give Rogers another try. It seems that eversince the Comcast ordeal went live, they stopped throttling their traffic, at least for me? I`m not getting a full 800Kb/sec download 24/7 on torrents.
Because of this, I ended up going over monthly limit and they sent me a "friendly" reminded that I should consider buying their faster/higher allowance package and guess what, I will!! I`m glad to pay more if I can get more! This is how it should work. Comcast should take notice and so should the other ISP's.
Because people wouldn't put up with it back then. The government needed a catalyst for propell this Orwellian state onto people. 9/11 did the job quite nicely. If you look closely, all this "total control" has been creeping into our lives quite slowly over the last 50 years, but it really accelerated after 9/11.
If the U.S./UK governments are responsible for 9/11 is beyond the scope of this reply, but you at least have to marvell at the inguinity of it all, and how it all seemleslly fell into place. Problem-Reaction-Solution, the rest is up to you to figure out people. That is all.
So basically you're against censorship, unless it's something you don't like - then it's to censor it.
I agree 100% with you... unfortunately the government has no intention of listening in on your conversation in Second Life. This is done to spread fear, and the uncertain feeling that someone *MIGHT* be listening to your in Second Life (or on the phone, or in your emails, or in your letters, etc.. etc..) this creates a sense of uncertainty and some degree of fear, making sure nobody gets out of line, or even attempts at making a group of people to stage a protest, to share information (9/11 was an inside job, impeach bush, vote Ron Paul). It keeps everybody in check and always thinking there's somebody watching over your shoulder, making sure you don't "get out of line" without the government actually doing anything.
Next week they`ll release a statement saying they`ll be watching for people waving flags, so now nobody waves flags because god forbid someone thinks you're a terrorrist. Sooner or later, nobody has the guts to do anything... mission accomplished.
Uhmm no, that's not why they would cut the lines. It's not to stop reporters from reporting (since they will only report what you want to hear), but it's mostly to stop Iranian people from crying for help or posting pictures and video's on their blogs of what is happening (if anything should actually happen).
I had a job working for Computer City in Canada back in the day when it was owned by Future Shop. Did we "peek" at what people had on their computers when it was in service? Sure.. sometimes we did, sometimes we didn't. If he had a folder on the desktop called "here's me having sex with my wife" - who wouldn't want to open it and see what's inside?
And yes sometimes there was porn (typical 18+ stuff), but even if I had found child porn I would stay out of this affair. It's really none of my bussiness of how he got it or what the circumstances are. It his is private property and I have no right to help myself into his files, that's an illegal search, and I would never want it done to myself by someone else.
I was just going to say that entire societies and civilizations have fought with blood to free themselves from being slaves by tagging them, and here you have some ignorant fools WISHING it upon themselves.
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
You're a /.'er and never heard of VLC Player ?! Shame on you!!
Riiiiight... because once they have this in place, they`ll stop spying on your phone calls right? I mean.. thats what it's for isn't it.. if no nukes/bombs can get into the country then we don't need to spy on our citizens because nobody has bombs right?!.. No ofcourse it's wrong, the Orweillian state will such continue growing uncontrollably, no matter what "breakthrough" they have and no matter how safe they tell you everything is, it's just never enough. Humans are too dumb to take care of themselves nowawadays I guess, so they have to be spied on to keep them safe.
Uhmmm, did you just say that the jury doesn't have the last word? You're wrong. The jury decides the final verdict, regardless of what anybody else thinks, even if it's against the written law. The jury is ABOVE THE LAW.
"The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy."
John Jay, 1st Chief Justice
United States supreme Court, 1789
"The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts."
Samuel Chase, U.S. supreme Court Justice,1796, Signer of the unanimous Declaration
"The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. supreme Court Justice, 1902
"The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided."
Harlan F. Stone, 12th Chief Justice,U.S. supreme Court, 1941
"The pages of history shine on instance of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge..."
U.S.vs Dougherty, 473 F 2nd 113, 1139, (1972)
I totally agree.. here's a little snippet from a free book you can read in PDF, unfortunately I forgot the name of it, I`m sure someone here will know the name of the book. This pertains to a similiar situation which happened many years ago, where some "hacker" kid stole a document from a telcom company and they claimed an outragous price on it. Here's how it went down and how they priced it, so everyone get's an idea of how they come out with these prices.
The E911 Document was also proving a weak reed. It had originally
been valued at $79,449. Unlike Shadowhawk's arcane Artificial
Intelligence booty, the E911 Document was not software -- it was written
in English. Computer-knowledgeable people found this value -- for a
twelve-page bureaucratic document -- frankly incredible. In his
"Crime and Puzzlement" manifesto for EFF, Barlow commented: "We
will probably never know how this figure was reached or by whom,
though I like to imagine an appraisal team consisting of Franz Kafka,
Joseph Heller, and Thomas Pynchon."
As it happened, Barlow was unduly pessimistic. The EFF did, in fact,
eventually discover exactly how this figure was reached, and by whom
-- but only in 1991, long after the Neidorf trial was over.
Kim Megahee, a Southern Bell security manager, had arrived at the document's
value by simply adding up the "costs associated with the production"
of the E911 Document. Those "costs" were as follows:
1. A technical writer had been hired to research and write the E911
Document. 200 hours of work, at $35 an hour, cost : $7,000. A
Project Manager had overseen the technical writer. 200 hours, at $31
an hour, made: $6,200.
2. A week of typing had cost $721 dollars. A week of formatting had
cost $721. A week of graphics formatting had cost $742.
3. Two days of editing cost $367.
4. A box of order labels cost five dollars.
5. Preparing a purchase order for the Document, including typing and
the obtaining of an authorizing signature from within the BellSouth
bureaucracy, cost $129.
6. Printing cost $313. Mailing the Document to fifty people took fifty
hours by a clerk, and cost $858.
7. Placing the Document in an index took two clerks an hour each,
totalling $43.
Bureaucratic overhead alone, therefore, was alleged to have cost a
whopping $17,099. According to Mr. Megahee, the typing of a twelve page
document had taken a full week. Writing it had taken five weeks,
including an overseer who apparently did nothing else but watch the
author for five weeks. Editing twelve pages had taken two days.
Printing and mailing an electronic document (which was already available
on the Southern Bell Data Network to any telco employee who needed
it), had cost over a thousand dollars.
But this was just the beginning. There were also the *hardware
expenses.* Eight hundred fifty dollars for a VT220 computer monitor.
*Thirty-one thousand dollars* for a sophisticated VAXstation II computer.
Six thousand dollars for a computer printer. *Twenty-two
thousand dollars* for a copy of "Interleaf" software. Two thousand five
hundred dollars for VMS software. All this to create the twelve-page
Document.
Plus ten percent of the cost of the software and the hardware, for maintenance.
(Actually, the ten percent maintenance costs, though mentioned,
had been left off the final $79,449 total, apparently through a
merciful oversight).
I must admit I didn't read the full story but I wasn't that far from the truth. It seemed a bit strange to me to be writing up a license when there was no Machinima ever used in a commercial setting where people made money off of it, at least none that I'm aware of.
Pardon my jumping to conlusions.
Do they really expect some 16 year old kid to go out and get a license before he makes some 5min movie with his buddies in WoW ?!... They've gotta be joking if they think anybody will actually respect their wishes. You've paid for the game, and you record yourself playing the game a certain way.. licenses? No thanks!
Here's the link to the video which shows the arm in action and talks a little about how it is made.
Because companies like AT&T and Haliburton either are presently, or have been in the past run by people who were high up in the government tree at one point (or vice-versa). Dick Cheney left Haliburton in 2000 to become Goerge'e Bushes mate. It's not about companies, it's who runs them and who's connected.. they're all buddies and pals and I bet Google isn't friends with any of them and they're scared.
America needs more people like you. It's what the country was founded upon and believed by so many. Yet now everyone seems to be a passive pussy just ready to take whatever BS they are being fed. I look at you with a bit of hope.. a hope that there's more people out there like yourself.
I immigrated from Poland to Canada.. but it seems like I have more drive to fix your country then some people living there. I wish you can convince others to follow your lead and take back your own country from the criminals and traitors in the government.
Kind of like what GameShark did for the Playstation.. The playstation would load up Gameshark because it was valid "software" and then Gameshark would eject itself after being validated by the PS2 and let you load any other copied game, using GameShark as a "gateway".
I remember reading a comment by someone on slashdot about this subject previously, and I can see the logic in his reasoning. He basically said that this whole "net neutrality" thing would actually be a very bad thing to the ISP's. The reason being.. is that other ISPs and content providers will show up advertising that they DO NOT control how your service is delivered, making people switch to those provider who do not shape your bandwidth. Eventually those ISPs who wish to impose their rules on you will be forced to go back to the concept of open internet because they will see that people will be flocking to those ISP's who offer a truly free and open internet.
The charge is invalid because it flouts privacy laws. Under the fourth amendment the expectation of privacy is not reasonable at such public places as automobile thoroughfares.
EFF is already suing AT&T, so if anybody ever wanted to support them, now is the perfect time to send in a donation. If there's anybody who even has a chance at winning against the government (or their corprorate slaves) then I think EFF are the ones.
...that there is still news in this world that is good news for the small people.
Ok, so you've told me what you think his personality is like.. now how about listing off all the bad things he's actually done or voted for?
I don't see any other candidate vowing to get rid of the illegal IRS and Income tax, do you? No matter what your political agenta, I`m sure everybody in the U.S. would benefit from that.