And when it IS a governmental group there are lots of checks and balances to prevent misuse.
But it can (and will be) subverted from within, given enough motivation (i.e. MONEY). To site a perfect example, look at the current clusterfuck that is the NSA/AT&T/White House illegal wiretapping. The only checks and balances there were whistleblowers.
Though are you right that that is the way it should work.
They might bribe^H^H^H^H^H lobby congress-critters to pass some legislation that makes things like that a voilation of National Security or some such bullshit. Or they might poke and prod their giant guard-dog AT&T into simply dropping any traffic to or from said ISP (this is working under the assumption that AT&T controls the major pipes into and out of the US, someone please correct me if I'm wrong). Basically, they'd probably just use their money to attempt to cut it off at the perceived source. Then it would become a game of cat and mouse as a multitude of end-to-end encrypted mesh networks like TOR get set up.
Why the hell was this modded 'flamebait'? The parent is completely correct in saying that parents should be parents and therefore responsible for their what their children watch and do.
As many people have said before, Wikipedia isn't (and rightfully so) generally an accepted source for anything beyond high school, if that. I feel that Wikipedia is a good place to start research, or get an overview of a topic, but no way is it acceptable as a quoted source.
I believe that, ultimately, Wikipedia will fully recover from this and go on about its business of recording human knowledge.
As put so succinctly in an episode of Weeds (S02E11):
Sanjay: "Did you know there are amazing opportunities to be had in the exploitation of emerging third world countries?"
Conrad: "(pause) There are 370 billionares in this country and 40 million people living beneath the poverty line. Wake up 7-11, *this* is the fuckin' third world."
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And when it IS a governmental group there are lots of checks and balances to prevent misuse.
But it can (and will be) subverted from within, given enough motivation (i.e. MONEY). To site a perfect example, look at the current clusterfuck that is the NSA/AT&T/White House illegal wiretapping. The only checks and balances there were whistleblowers.
Though are you right that that is the way it should work.
--StryfeX
What do they plan on doing? "Oh look a .mp3 file, lets block it" type filter? That's retarded.
Retarded, yes, but I wouldn't put it past them. Especially in a more localized environment where people can't jump ship to another carrier.
--Stryfe
They might bribe^H^H^H^H^H lobby congress-critters to pass some legislation that makes things like that a voilation of National Security or some such bullshit. Or they might poke and prod their giant guard-dog AT&T into simply dropping any traffic to or from said ISP (this is working under the assumption that AT&T controls the major pipes into and out of the US, someone please correct me if I'm wrong). Basically, they'd probably just use their money to attempt to cut it off at the perceived source. Then it would become a game of cat and mouse as a multitude of end-to-end encrypted mesh networks like TOR get set up.
--Stryfe
Where's the "whocares" tag? Seriously...
Why the hell was this modded 'flamebait'? The parent is completely correct in saying that parents should be parents and therefore responsible for their what their children watch and do.
My guess is that the dolphins WON'T leave this time.
Or you could feel up some nice looking pixels.
... What?
Wow, to leave skid marks in the parking lot... That musta been some bad spaghetti.
--StryfeX
And that goes to show you kids. Don't do drugs.
On another note, I feel like a tool. Ah well, yay for fuzzy math!
--Stryfe
Because WEP adds 14 bits to the 40 bit key to get 64 bits, and 24 bits to the 104 bit key to get 128 bits.
I'm sure someone can offer more info, but that's what I remember off the top of my head as I'm leaving work.
--Stryfe
As many people have said before, Wikipedia isn't (and rightfully so) generally an accepted source for anything beyond high school, if that. I feel that Wikipedia is a good place to start research, or get an overview of a topic, but no way is it acceptable as a quoted source.
I believe that, ultimately, Wikipedia will fully recover from this and go on about its business of recording human knowledge.
--Stryfe
As put so succinctly in an episode of Weeds (S02E11):
Sanjay: "Did you know there are amazing opportunities to be had in the exploitation of emerging third world countries?"
Conrad: "(pause) There are 370 billionares in this country and 40 million people living beneath the poverty line. Wake up 7-11, *this* is the fuckin' third world."
--Stryfe