I honestly think this is one case where your ultra-paranoid right-wing "all regulation is always inherently bad and packed with lies and subterfuge" view of things can't possibly live up to what reality will eventually pan out to be. Personally, due to the existing state of things, I *can't* actually suffer one bit more due to the outcome of this action by the FCC one way or another, because I'm *already* paying extra for business-class internet at my home just to avoid these types of shenanigans so that I can get real work done. I'm *already* in the worst-case scenario. Maybe *after* the FCC steps up and actually starts *doing their job* I won't be anymore.
And yea, I'm known as the MOST PARANOID of my people. So me telling you that you're irrational here means something.
Ironically, they actually let you SEND mail. They just don't let you *receive* it, so while what you're saying is technically accurate, its actually also completely irrelevant to my argument.
Oh, so its ok then if your ISP blocks it as an anti-competition measure and claims its "for your protection?" That's the exact type of crap to which Title II is meant to put a stop.
There are still tech companies doing stuff that require high-paid expertise, but website design isn't one of those things. So much of the work has been already outsourced to third world countries there's no point anymore in trying when your next cheapest competition is willing to work for 5$ per week. Just get out of the web. Its no longer a high-paid or even respected career choice. You can make better money at Starbucks.
...my genome (which is information) stays with me. It's not open for replication outside my own body.
I think you'll find this statement is factually inaccurate. The human body sheds all kinds of material (like hair and dead skin cells) that contain this data all day long as a normal process of living. Unless you live your life in a cleanroom suit you would find it actually quite difficult to fully restrict the spreading of your genome data.
In these same terms there's also zero proof that smoking causes lung cancer, but honestly the circumstantial evidence in both situations is fairly overwhelming.
Some of us are doing quite a lot ourselves, actually. Starting a couple years ago I actually started refusing to commute to do work that can be done just as well over the internet. Sure, it meant turning down some jobs, but it also cut my total miles driven per year (at low speed in stop-and-go traffic no less) by thousands, and my total gasoline consumption by a factor of over 90%, and though I didn't plant a tree (I don't own any land to plant it on), I did plant an herb garden on my balcony.
I am not a greenie and I don't tell others what they should or should not do but...
I don't consider myself a "greenie" either honestly, but I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that you totally just did tell us all what we should and should not do. I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying we should and should not do either, I'm just saying you did tell us exactly that, and you're not the only one doing it. There are lots of us, and the numbers are quietly growing. The telecommuting revolution is long overdue.
DID they? DID they really? And NONE of their employees happened to do it on the side "unofficially?" I'd love to see THAT part proven in a court of law.
No, I think you both still miss the point. I was "first post" before this article, Snowden, or anyone else. I was saying this was happening before even Slashdot's founding. I simply guessed it, well over a decade ago by following the money. Only then I wasn't rated "+5 Insightful" I was rated by my peers as "-5 crazy for saying the emperor is naked."
I am not 100% sure I trust Google in their place in this endeavor, but I am 100% sure its a smart direction to take, and its a smart direction for the rest of the industry to follow, and I'm also 100% sure I'm jealous of Puerto Ricans for the first time ever.
I am sorry to say you can't blame this just on the most recent iteration of cookie-cutter presidents. This shit all reached critical mass when we stopped listening to Ross Perot.
I would go so far as to say its basically theft, since in doing this (along with so many similar actions) they've basically done the exact opposite of the task to which they were assigned when we handed over our tax dollars to fund them.
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A lot of rural regions in the U.S. are not only fairly sparsely populated but also aren't really that much better off economically than Cuba.
I honestly think this is one case where your ultra-paranoid right-wing "all regulation is always inherently bad and packed with lies and subterfuge" view of things can't possibly live up to what reality will eventually pan out to be. Personally, due to the existing state of things, I *can't* actually suffer one bit more due to the outcome of this action by the FCC one way or another, because I'm *already* paying extra for business-class internet at my home just to avoid these types of shenanigans so that I can get real work done. I'm *already* in the worst-case scenario. Maybe *after* the FCC steps up and actually starts *doing their job* I won't be anymore.
And yea, I'm known as the MOST PARANOID of my people. So me telling you that you're irrational here means something.
Ironically, they actually let you SEND mail. They just don't let you *receive* it, so while what you're saying is technically accurate, its actually also completely irrelevant to my argument.
Ironically, they actually let you SEND mail. They just don't let you *receive* it.
The point being that it will be illegal to make standard usage against the terms of service going forward.
Oh, so its ok then if your ISP blocks it as an anti-competition measure and claims its "for your protection?" That's the exact type of crap to which Title II is meant to put a stop.
Where nothing was actually blocked?? Bullshit. You never tried hosting a mail server on a Comcast residential cable modem, did you?
The real lesson is "don't jog." Ask any +70 year old who has had to have double knee-replacement surgery.
Oh wait, he still won't be old enough. Nevermind. I should have done something cool with my childhood... sigh.
There are still tech companies doing stuff that require high-paid expertise, but website design isn't one of those things. So much of the work has been already outsourced to third world countries there's no point anymore in trying when your next cheapest competition is willing to work for 5$ per week. Just get out of the web. Its no longer a high-paid or even respected career choice. You can make better money at Starbucks.
...my genome (which is information) stays with me. It's not open for replication outside my own body.
I think you'll find this statement is factually inaccurate. The human body sheds all kinds of material (like hair and dead skin cells) that contain this data all day long as a normal process of living. Unless you live your life in a cleanroom suit you would find it actually quite difficult to fully restrict the spreading of your genome data.
No.
Or is the layout just broken again?
In these same terms there's also zero proof that smoking causes lung cancer, but honestly the circumstantial evidence in both situations is fairly overwhelming.
Some of us are doing quite a lot ourselves, actually. Starting a couple years ago I actually started refusing to commute to do work that can be done just as well over the internet. Sure, it meant turning down some jobs, but it also cut my total miles driven per year (at low speed in stop-and-go traffic no less) by thousands, and my total gasoline consumption by a factor of over 90%, and though I didn't plant a tree (I don't own any land to plant it on), I did plant an herb garden on my balcony.
I am not a greenie and I don't tell others what they should or should not do but...
I don't consider myself a "greenie" either honestly, but I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that you totally just did tell us all what we should and should not do. I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying we should and should not do either, I'm just saying you did tell us exactly that, and you're not the only one doing it. There are lots of us, and the numbers are quietly growing. The telecommuting revolution is long overdue.
It would sure beat any other form of public transportation...
DID they? DID they really? And NONE of their employees happened to do it on the side "unofficially?" I'd love to see THAT part proven in a court of law.
No, I think you both still miss the point. I was "first post" before this article, Snowden, or anyone else. I was saying this was happening before even Slashdot's founding. I simply guessed it, well over a decade ago by following the money. Only then I wasn't rated "+5 Insightful" I was rated by my peers as "-5 crazy for saying the emperor is naked."
No, its not because I was first post. All the others are redundant.
I am not 100% sure I trust Google in their place in this endeavor, but I am 100% sure its a smart direction to take, and its a smart direction for the rest of the industry to follow, and I'm also 100% sure I'm jealous of Puerto Ricans for the first time ever.
I am sorry to say you can't blame this just on the most recent iteration of cookie-cutter presidents. This shit all reached critical mass when we stopped listening to Ross Perot.
I would go so far as to say its basically theft, since in doing this (along with so many similar actions) they've basically done the exact opposite of the task to which they were assigned when we handed over our tax dollars to fund them.
My sentiments exactly. This post deserves to be heard. It deserves more than a 0 score.
Is he sorry that they created a monster or is he just sorry that they got caught and now their credibility is in the trash can?
"probably a hardware bug" is code for "well, we bought new hardware and threw out all the old stuff, sorry"