However having a lock doesn't mean you wont be broken into what if someone inadvertently causes a vulnerability in the system? Users are still the most common security threat to any system.
I piggy back all the time when bittorrenting! Serves people right for no securing their connections Thats pretty harsh not everyone knows how to secure their connection in fact most people know very little about security.
I don't think an IP address should ever be grounds for accusation its not like my IP address identifies my computer it only goes to my router there are many other computers and users behind it.
Nearly as bad doesn't cut it. As much as I agree that they're bastards, these guys don't kill for profit Wait till they start lobbying for the death penalty!
"You see, intellectual "property" is really nothing like physical property. Physical property can be stolen, and then someone always loses something. With IP, making a copy does not always result in a loss of sale. Very, very different." Making copies results in sales it how they make millions of dollars.
A band playing on stage get paid for the gig but a band who plays ONCE can just make copies and get paid for each one.
The argument against copying is hypocritical we should change the laws so that you only get paid for what you produce not what you copy a million times.
If you RTFA, the fee Apple is pushing is $20 and you keep the music as long as you keep the device. No word on CDs but I would expect that music would continue to play through iTunes, even if you sold the device. Are the files mp3? or an incompatable proprietary format?
I don't think you understand what your talking about.
That was THEN this is NOW.
There is a big difference, the systems we use now would not cope without the Internet because it is now an integral part of the system, you cannot simply flick a switch and change the way companies operate.
Do you people even read your TOS? You are not guaranteed anything without an SLA. Doesn't matter there should still be consumer protection laws in place to protect customers.
Its not going to be a replacement for ADSL and cable but it is an alternative for places where broadband is not available via cable.
I know a few people on remote properties that could benefit from this, the furthest being 120KMs from town. While that's out of range it would be possible to link the routers to the other two properties forming a relay back to the town or even extend to the two road houses that are another 50 or KM from town. 6 Mbit between 3-5 properties still isn't bad and these arnt the sorts of people who sit on the net all day either so I don't think bandwidth is going to be a problem unless they use voIP and are all on at the same time.
Not to mention you could also add more routers closer to the town to alleviate the bottle neck if it really came to that.
I'm not terribly happy seeing nuclear weapons plans on the internet. Even if all this stuff is theoretically "already known," I'd be happy with a layer of security through obscurity; it's now "known" to about half a billion more people than it had been. But how many people actually understood it? I was disappointed with the plan I really was expecting something better.
I've been telling all you whiners to do exactly that, and yet here we are on slashdot with our internet bravado and our childish threats. "Waaa! I'm going to take my bandwith hogging ass back to my basement unless I get what I paid for!" I fixed the sentence for you.
I personally think that 99.99999% of the reason ISP's are coming round to the idea of punishing file sharers is that doing so will cut their costs, thus extending the profitable lifetime of their current levels of infrastructure. After all, they need to make room for this new media on demand thing.
I don't for a second think it's because they are concerned about copyrights. I doubt they'd admit this though. Of course they aren't going to admit to their fraudulent business.
I use RBLs and they are pretty good but over the weekend they seem to have suddenly failed I think ive just been hit with a new wave that hasnt yet found its way into RBLs but overall I think solutions such as spamhaus are the way to go.
I realize you're just shooting off at the mouth, but you could be the one that ends up in jail with psychotic posts like that. My advice: See a shrink and figure out how to let it go. It's only junk mail. ONLY?!?! there is no ONLY about Spam.
Tell you what, Seattle is only about 70 miles from where I'm at. Let me have him and I'll imprison him in my tool shed where I'll butcher him alive. Putting the video on youtube as a warning to would be scammers.;) I know, wishful thinking... I only hope that they don't go soft on this asshole and put him in jail where he'll be butt fucked regularly by the general population... Where should I send my donations?
I say we can the copyright laws look at all the trouble people like the RIAA, MPAA cause if we simply canned copyright it would save us all this trouble and we could move on.
Out of curiosity, how does/. feel about Earthlink? I understand that they don't throttle bittorrent. Anyone who doesn't censor the Internet is ok in my book.
The $1.9 million restitution agreement is in addition to the almost $35 million the FTC is collecting from the person the FTC considers the ringleader of this scam, Willoughby Farr of Nationwide Connections. They're confiscating the full amount, plus fining them an additional $1.9M. So, the guilty parties will have lost at least $2M on the deal once legal costs, etc. are accounted for. How is that not a deterrent? These days you'd think scammers would have the sense to use Swiss bank accounts.
How can the phone companies, or any company, be fined so little when the actual theft was far more? I mean, a $1.9 million dollar fine for $30 million worth of fraudulent charges? In western society we call it justice.
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Thats a good point.
However having a lock doesn't mean you wont be broken into what if someone inadvertently causes a vulnerability in the system? Users are still the most common security threat to any system.
~Dan
No I'm just pointing out not everyone is educated you prove that yourself.
~Dan
Serves people right for no securing their connections Thats pretty harsh not everyone knows how to
secure their connection in fact most people know very little about security.
I don't think an IP address should ever be grounds for accusation its not like my IP address identifies my computer it only goes to my router there are many other computers and users behind it.
~Dan
The RIAA is all about music so no.
Torrent sites are the ultimate Video stores offering on demand movies with no DRM.
Customer satisfaction is something the studios have never caught onto.
~Dan
~Dan
A band playing on stage get paid for the gig but a band who plays ONCE can just make copies and get paid for each one.
The argument against copying is hypocritical we should change the laws so that you only get paid for what you produce not what you copy a million times.
~Dan
I don't think you understand what your talking about.
That was THEN this is NOW.
There is a big difference, the systems we use now would not cope without the Internet because it is now an integral part of the system, you cannot simply flick a switch and change the way companies operate.
Change takes time!
~Dan
~Dan
Its wipeing out there competition.
Arnt there any fair tradeing acts againsed that in the United States?
~Dan
Bandwidth that the customer paid for!!!!
~Dan
The whole point of broadband is to get fast downloads maybe you should consider switching to a decent provider, slow p2p would drive me nuts.
Its not going to be a replacement for ADSL and cable but it is an alternative for places where broadband is not available via cable.
I know a few people on remote properties that could benefit from this, the furthest being 120KMs from town. While that's out of range it would be possible to link the routers to the other two properties forming a relay back to the town or even extend to the two road houses that are another 50 or KM from town. 6 Mbit between 3-5 properties still isn't bad and these arnt the sorts of people who sit on the net all day either so I don't think bandwidth is going to be a problem unless they use voIP and are all on at the same time.
Not to mention you could also add more routers closer to the town to alleviate the bottle neck if it really came to that.
~Dan
~Dan
~Dan
I don't for a second think it's because they are concerned about copyrights. I doubt they'd admit this though. Of course they aren't going to admit to their fraudulent business.
~Dan
I use RBLs and they are pretty good but over the weekend they seem to have suddenly failed
I think ive just been hit with a new wave that hasnt yet found its way into RBLs but overall I think solutions such as spamhaus are the way to go.
atleast for now
~Dan
~Dan
~Dan
I say we can the copyright laws look at all the trouble people like the RIAA, MPAA cause if we simply canned copyright it would save us all this trouble and we could move on.
All our problems would be resolved.
~Dan
I see no problem with that if I can't wear a mask in public then No One should be allowed to wear masks in public.
~Dan
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~Dan
But what good is this 100 gigs if you can only pay for it but not use it?
~Dan