Thats like saying for the government you dont have to obey the rules of the road because you bought a car (private property) but everywhere you use it on the roads is public property.
Basically they've been given money to build infrastructure and keep it up to date... If they cant handle streaming video and torrents and what not then obvious they've failed to keep it up to date. Maybe a legislative smackdown telling them they cant fiddle with throttling will encourage them to upgrade the infrastructure once again rather than milk it for all its worth like Comcast in the states.
Regulation is there for when the free market fails... In the presence of a duopoly indicates a failure in the free market when both of them can make secret backroom deals to do things like say throttle internet connections.
What both companies are doing or are planning on doing is throttling the connections of the ISPs that they sell bandwidth to. Currently the only ISPs that are NOT throttling connections are 3rd party ISPs and by the big two making a back room deal to throttle their connections as well as those of the ISPs they sell capacity to then they can effectively force everyone to be throttling... Now if the free market was actually working they would have to compete with these ISPs they sell capacity to and therefore would sooner or later have to unthrottle their own connections or be relegated to the role of Wholesaler only because noone would buy throttled connections unless it was either much cheaper than an unthrottled connection.
I mean just this day I got a notice INSERTED into the front page of Slashdot informing me that I hit 75% of my 60GB capacity on Rogers. I dont know about you but if they're inserting their own messages into my webpages, whats to stop them from doing things like MITM attacks on sites I request?
When was the last time Homeland Security Advisory System had a day that was listed as Green or Blue?... I'll give you a hint, theres never been a day that ends in Y that's seen either of those two.
I never said taking action was foolish... Just taking action that is disproportionate to the real threat is foolish... After all you wouldn't call the SWAT team to take down someone who's late on their parking tickets now would you? Why does ever tom dick and harry need to take off their shoes when going through airport security because one idiot thought 'hey I'll try to light my shoes on fire and blow up the plane'...
Honestly, sit back and wait for it... Its not like they're gonna steal more planes and run them into buildings. The whole 'Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me' will prevent that... Besides passengers are now more apt to fight back with hijackers nowadays than they were before 9/11... which is one good thing that came out of all of that.
Hell I dont care anymore now... The only real thing you can do to stop the terrorists is to stop being afraid. 9/11 happened *1* time and in *1* place... The odds of you dying in a terrorist attack are infinitesimally small... You'd have a better shot at winning the lottery.
The only thing you can do is be smart and sensible about security.
What golden rule? He who has the gold makes the rules? Sorry but that might have flown back in the day when we had to kiss the kings feet...
Now if you're talking about do unto others... well maybe some people would wish to give away their things for free (look at Linux) because they think that by giving things away someone will take it and improve on it and in turn give it away too.
In a more perfect world thats how things would work...
Unfortunately this is the real world where the little guy does not have the access or exposure to set these politicians on fire. Look at all these bullshit political ads that come up around election time... Unless you can afford to air this around the clock 24/7 in commercials you're boned because noone will see your message.
And if you think the media is gonna give a damn... they're in bed with Hollywood and the Politicians, they're not gonna buck a good thing. Wikileaks is what journalism SHOULD be.
Oh dont worry about them linking to each others stuff... They're a Cartel. Cartel's dont shoot their own, they only shoot other people trying to get in on their own action.
Unfortunately, the corporations got a bit of power... Then they in turn began to influence the governments to give themselves more power. That is the problem...
Now if the public wants to remove these corporations power they have to do it by boycotting everything really because theres so many companies and subsidiaries and what not that if you try to boycott say... Sony over the rootkit fiasco, well theres plenty of things you may end up buying that will end up having to not buy a whole lot since theres so many unrelated things that end up routing money back to Sony... And when they lose profits because of stuff they ask the government for subsidies and hand-outs to keep them alive (See the Airline Industry as a prime example)
Anti-Virus on a network device is pretty useless if someone uses a SSH or VPN connection since it wont be able to do the Deep Packet Inspection required to scan the packets for viruses.
No matter how good your security firewalls and the like are, theres just no replacement for an AV on an individual system because things can and do get past firewalls.
Unfortunately I dont think England is a signatory to the European Union treaties. Therefore the European Court probably doesnt have jurisdiction and cant enforce anything on England.
Someone should try taking Comcast to court over it since identity theft or hacking is criminal... And the courts have already decided that an IP Address can identify someone for something serious like child porn or atleast enough for a 'fishing expedition' warrant.
Really I mean if Comcast is forging RST packets the next logical step is to ask what else are they willing to forge? You cant really trust their network anymore since they'll be happily impersonating you if they feel it in their own best interests.
Although the least likely to happen is to check for hardware keyloggers first. They're in meatspace so it should be pretty damn easy to spot. Next would be booting from a Linux Live CD like Knoppix or something and using that instead of the potentially compromised computer.
Lastly, the guy should divorce her. If she's spying on him its to find grounds for a divorce that will net her a nice chunk of change in the settlement. Probably saying something stupid like he's surfing porn (what guy doesnt?) is the same as cheating or some other bullshit that a judge might accept to throw the book at him and have him paying alimony for the rest of his life.
Yeah anytime I try to do anything encrypted over the net (including bittorrent) my connection grinds to a halt.
The good thing about this is if they're forced to remove the throttling from wholesalers connections... They they will either be forced to remove the throttling from their own services or be relegated to merely a supplier of internet capacity. This is why they have went out of their way to throttle their wholesaler's connections because they were having to throttle their own connections.
Hopefully the CRTC wont eat the garbage they spit up infront of them and actually put their foot down and decree the Net Neutrality principles (or common carrier) as having precedence over their bottom line.
Which they can bypass by going to the library or by going to a friends house or by going to school or if you suck by loading a linux live CD for bootup.
At 12+ kids should be responsible (mostly) to use the internet. If they abuse it then you remove it until they learn not to. The internet at that age is a privilege not a right.
Locking things away from kids is what leads to this sort of outburst anyway. The whole Nanny-State where if god forbid a kid falls off a swing and breaks their arm they suspect child abuse first. It seems unacceptable for kids to be allowed to have negative experiences. But Newsflash, kids that had negative experiences growing up end up as teenagers and adults who are better equipped to deal with this crap that the real world has to offer, and it aint pretty.
Take them to court anyways... They might deem the 'no criticize' clause as unconscionable... Meaning no person in their right mind would sign it and throw that clause out.
Actually buying things is part of it. The other part is making you feel good about your purchases after the fact and maintaining that 'brand loyalty'... So if you're sitting on the couch watching the Hockey Game with your favorite beer in your hand and the commercial for it comes on, dont you feel better about buying your beer?
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And the lines are run through public property.
Thats like saying for the government you dont have to obey the rules of the road because you bought a car (private property) but everywhere you use it on the roads is public property.
Basically they've been given money to build infrastructure and keep it up to date... If they cant handle streaming video and torrents and what not then obvious they've failed to keep it up to date. Maybe a legislative smackdown telling them they cant fiddle with throttling will encourage them to upgrade the infrastructure once again rather than milk it for all its worth like Comcast in the states.
Regulation is there for when the free market fails... In the presence of a duopoly indicates a failure in the free market when both of them can make secret backroom deals to do things like say throttle internet connections.
What both companies are doing or are planning on doing is throttling the connections of the ISPs that they sell bandwidth to. Currently the only ISPs that are NOT throttling connections are 3rd party ISPs and by the big two making a back room deal to throttle their connections as well as those of the ISPs they sell capacity to then they can effectively force everyone to be throttling... Now if the free market was actually working they would have to compete with these ISPs they sell capacity to and therefore would sooner or later have to unthrottle their own connections or be relegated to the role of Wholesaler only because noone would buy throttled connections unless it was either much cheaper than an unthrottled connection.
I mean just this day I got a notice INSERTED into the front page of Slashdot informing me that I hit 75% of my 60GB capacity on Rogers. I dont know about you but if they're inserting their own messages into my webpages, whats to stop them from doing things like MITM attacks on sites I request?
When was the last time Homeland Security Advisory System had a day that was listed as Green or Blue?... I'll give you a hint, theres never been a day that ends in Y that's seen either of those two.
I never said taking action was foolish... Just taking action that is disproportionate to the real threat is foolish... After all you wouldn't call the SWAT team to take down someone who's late on their parking tickets now would you? Why does ever tom dick and harry need to take off their shoes when going through airport security because one idiot thought 'hey I'll try to light my shoes on fire and blow up the plane'...
Honestly, sit back and wait for it... Its not like they're gonna steal more planes and run them into buildings. The whole 'Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me' will prevent that... Besides passengers are now more apt to fight back with hijackers nowadays than they were before 9/11... which is one good thing that came out of all of that.
Wont care anymore?
Hell I dont care anymore now... The only real thing you can do to stop the terrorists is to stop being afraid. 9/11 happened *1* time and in *1* place... The odds of you dying in a terrorist attack are infinitesimally small... You'd have a better shot at winning the lottery.
The only thing you can do is be smart and sensible about security.
What golden rule? He who has the gold makes the rules? Sorry but that might have flown back in the day when we had to kiss the kings feet...
Now if you're talking about do unto others... well maybe some people would wish to give away their things for free (look at Linux) because they think that by giving things away someone will take it and improve on it and in turn give it away too.
He's your husband if you live in Alabama or Utah.
In a more perfect world thats how things would work...
Unfortunately this is the real world where the little guy does not have the access or exposure to set these politicians on fire. Look at all these bullshit political ads that come up around election time... Unless you can afford to air this around the clock 24/7 in commercials you're boned because noone will see your message.
And if you think the media is gonna give a damn... they're in bed with Hollywood and the Politicians, they're not gonna buck a good thing. Wikileaks is what journalism SHOULD be.
Oh dont worry about them linking to each others stuff... They're a Cartel. Cartel's dont shoot their own, they only shoot other people trying to get in on their own action.
Unfortunately, the corporations got a bit of power... Then they in turn began to influence the governments to give themselves more power. That is the problem...
Now if the public wants to remove these corporations power they have to do it by boycotting everything really because theres so many companies and subsidiaries and what not that if you try to boycott say... Sony over the rootkit fiasco, well theres plenty of things you may end up buying that will end up having to not buy a whole lot since theres so many unrelated things that end up routing money back to Sony... And when they lose profits because of stuff they ask the government for subsidies and hand-outs to keep them alive (See the Airline Industry as a prime example)
Tell them to call the cops, meanwhile wipe all your computers and run Linux that'll teach'em.
Anti-Virus on a network device is pretty useless if someone uses a SSH or VPN connection since it wont be able to do the Deep Packet Inspection required to scan the packets for viruses.
No matter how good your security firewalls and the like are, theres just no replacement for an AV on an individual system because things can and do get past firewalls.
This would be a DRM fanatic's wet dream come true...
Just deny everyone the right to make their own programs while you're at it and you kill the open source movement along with it.
Unfortunately I dont think England is a signatory to the European Union treaties. Therefore the European Court probably doesnt have jurisdiction and cant enforce anything on England.
Sure you can because its the truth. Even though it may or may not be offensive.
Someone should try taking Comcast to court over it since identity theft or hacking is criminal... And the courts have already decided that an IP Address can identify someone for something serious like child porn or atleast enough for a 'fishing expedition' warrant.
Really I mean if Comcast is forging RST packets the next logical step is to ask what else are they willing to forge? You cant really trust their network anymore since they'll be happily impersonating you if they feel it in their own best interests.
Although the least likely to happen is to check for hardware keyloggers first. They're in meatspace so it should be pretty damn easy to spot. Next would be booting from a Linux Live CD like Knoppix or something and using that instead of the potentially compromised computer.
Lastly, the guy should divorce her. If she's spying on him its to find grounds for a divorce that will net her a nice chunk of change in the settlement. Probably saying something stupid like he's surfing porn (what guy doesnt?) is the same as cheating or some other bullshit that a judge might accept to throw the book at him and have him paying alimony for the rest of his life.
Yeah anytime I try to do anything encrypted over the net (including bittorrent) my connection grinds to a halt.
The good thing about this is if they're forced to remove the throttling from wholesalers connections... They they will either be forced to remove the throttling from their own services or be relegated to merely a supplier of internet capacity. This is why they have went out of their way to throttle their wholesaler's connections because they were having to throttle their own connections.
Hopefully the CRTC wont eat the garbage they spit up infront of them and actually put their foot down and decree the Net Neutrality principles (or common carrier) as having precedence over their bottom line.
but without DPI how will the NSA spy on the world?
Which they can bypass by going to the library or by going to a friends house or by going to school or if you suck by loading a linux live CD for bootup.
At 12+ kids should be responsible (mostly) to use the internet. If they abuse it then you remove it until they learn not to. The internet at that age is a privilege not a right.
Locking things away from kids is what leads to this sort of outburst anyway. The whole Nanny-State where if god forbid a kid falls off a swing and breaks their arm they suspect child abuse first. It seems unacceptable for kids to be allowed to have negative experiences. But Newsflash, kids that had negative experiences growing up end up as teenagers and adults who are better equipped to deal with this crap that the real world has to offer, and it aint pretty.
Fuck no... more legislation is not what the country needs.
Most of Yahoo's users run Windows anyways so they're basically the same users.
Take them to court anyways... They might deem the 'no criticize' clause as unconscionable... Meaning no person in their right mind would sign it and throw that clause out.
Actually buying things is part of it. The other part is making you feel good about your purchases after the fact and maintaining that 'brand loyalty'... So if you're sitting on the couch watching the Hockey Game with your favorite beer in your hand and the commercial for it comes on, dont you feel better about buying your beer?
Yeah unless you're caught doing steroids then you're banned for life!
About the same time as they actually put in a Canadian version of the DMCA.