This effort on the part of the Aussies makes about as much sense as current legislative efforts by the Utah State government, and will most likely fall on it's face even harder. Big waste of Australian taxpayer money.
Net-nanny software doesn't work worth beans, what makes them think they can do the same thing at the ISP level and make it work? In short, it won't. Stupid legislation, stupid idea, waste of taxpayer money. If they want to spend that same taxpayer money wisely then they should spend it on an awareness-raising campaign aimed at parents to get them to pay attention to what their kids are doing instead of expecting the internet, the TV, and the State to raise them, damnit.
Much like the sprawl of many major metropolitan areas that weren't carefully thought and planned out decades in advance, I fear that the FCC's involvement in the greater issue of Net Neutrality, and in the more immediate issue of Comcast and it's ilk playing favorites when it comes to how it's customers choose to utilize their paid-in-advance bandwidth, is too little and too late. The big telecoms have had those decades to build up mass and velocity, and the FCC just doesn't have the delta-v to control their trajectory in truly meaningful ways. This is not to say (to continue the metaphor) that the FCC can't resort to weapons of mass destruction in a drastic and dramatic effort to force a change in course (or to fragment the target(s), if you take my meaning), but while that may prove both necessary and effective, it also runs the risk of turning into a negative-sum game for all in the end -- the consumer not being the least of the participants.
IMHO broadband providers either have their heads in the sand, or they're just trying to delay the inevitable. In surveys I've read the United States is far from being the world leader in broadband internet connectivity in speed, price, availability, or even customer service -- and I think they all know that as well as anyone else does, too. P2P isn't going away anytime soon; as we speak developers are working on ways to rewrite the bittorrent protocol to get around the DDoS attacks that companies like Comcast are using to hamstring it's users. Beyond that, the reality is that we live in a country where more and more people are using the Internet for surfing, gaming, telephone, email, downloading (completely legal, paid-for) movies, and in some cases for live-streaming content; bandwidth demands aren't going to ever go down, they're only ever going to go up, and they (ISPs) damn well know that too. Perhaps this is just their first volleys in a war they want to start, with their preferred end-result being tiered pricing based on monthly bandwidth usage, but again I say they must have their heads in the sand because nobody is going to sit still for that, either.
So a judge let him have his ill-gotten gains. He still broke into computer systems to gain the information he used in this exploit. What's to stop a criminal judge from prosecuting him for that, sending him to jail, and fining him all the profits he made on this plus what he invested in the first place plus some on top of that to drive the point home?
Gee, guess we should just give up then, eh? Bend over and grab our ankles, smile, and say "thank you sir, may I have another?" when they bugger us? I think not.
..Google virtually doing the same thing Um, Google Earth isn't in realtime like spy satellites are, dude. If they were then you could watch your hot next door neighbor while she sunbathes in the nude.
Somehow I think when you say "download" you're thinking "illegal download", where that's not necessarily the case. What about people who legitimately download movies through services like Netflix and Amazon Unbox? Are they in the 5% too? How long before they're MORE than just 5%? How long after Comcast starts assraping legitimate customers downloading legitimate content that they paid for, before those customers tell Comcast to go pound sand? It's a stupid, desperate, greedy thing Comcast is doing and I hope they FAIL.
Of course not. What a rediculous statement. I don't WANT any of the 5 (sometimes 6) machines I have at home subject to possible wireless attacks, I want them hardwired into a secure network. What idiot comes up with these ideas, marketing guys at wifi hardware manufacturers?
I'm all for free enterprise. However I put to you all that some things, like some medications, should be "open-sourced". Drugs to treat AIDS should fall into this category simply so that the worldwide AIDS problem can be controlled.
Not so much. They "outlaw" bittorrent, bittorrent will evolve or someone will come up with something to replace it. They throttle bandwidth, they'll lose business. It doesn't have to be a zero-sum or negative-sum game, it can be a positive-sum game. They just have to stop being so damned anal retentive about it.
..so why would they bite on this one? Here, you can buy this processor for really cheap, but every time you want to use it, you have to call us and pay a rental fee.
Rediculousness. Besides which, it's a no-brainer that it'd be a zero-day hack to enable all the available processing power on a given chip.
I like many black people. For instance, I always liked Richard Pryor and his tell-it-like-it-is way of expressing himself. For example: "White people can be niggers, too". Specifically in this case, fucking asshole white-supremacist lilly-livered, yellow-bellied little pussies who scream like little girls when you hit them, who display their magnificent cowardice and incredible lack of maturity by posting the word "nigger" everywhere under the guise of "Anonymous Coward".
Now, get the fuck off my lawn, nancy-boy. You're making the grass turn brown.
So, you don't cook for yourself then, you just microwave prepackaged food instead or something? I don't know about you or anyone else, but there's absolutely no WAY I'm going to trust some complete stranger to pick out produce or meat for me, in fact there aren't many people I'd trust to do that for me.
Some people could give a shit if the government and corporations track their every move, if they can save $1 on dog food.
Exactly. That's why I refuse to shop at Safeway and especially why I refuse crap like those "rewards" cards, all they're doing is jacking the price up for everyone else, selling to the "rewards card" holders for the "real" price, and tracking your every purchase. If I have no choice but to go in to Safeway I use cash whenever possible, too.
I was born here in California and have lived here all my life. Never been out of the country even once, barely even been out of the state, either. Next month I'll be 43 years old. When I was a kid, sure, there were things going on that weren't too cool, but there were still things to be proud about the country I was born and raised in. I can't say that anymore. I love my country, still, especially living in California, but I'm ashamed of my government and the things it's doing and allowing to be done, and even the mere MENTION of things like this, true or not, make me feel weary down to my very bones. I don't care to see it all destroyed, but it needs to be FIXED, and it needs to be fixed NOW before these bastards make it all come crashing down around our ears.
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This effort on the part of the Aussies makes about as much sense as current legislative efforts by the Utah State government, and will most likely fall on it's face even harder. Big waste of Australian taxpayer money.
Net-nanny software doesn't work worth beans, what makes them think they can do the same thing at the ISP level and make it work? In short, it won't. Stupid legislation, stupid idea, waste of taxpayer money. If they want to spend that same taxpayer money wisely then they should spend it on an awareness-raising campaign aimed at parents to get them to pay attention to what their kids are doing instead of expecting the internet, the TV, and the State to raise them, damnit.
Much like the sprawl of many major metropolitan areas that weren't carefully thought and planned out decades in advance, I fear that the FCC's involvement in the greater issue of Net Neutrality, and in the more immediate issue of Comcast and it's ilk playing favorites when it comes to how it's customers choose to utilize their paid-in-advance bandwidth, is too little and too late. The big telecoms have had those decades to build up mass and velocity, and the FCC just doesn't have the delta-v to control their trajectory in truly meaningful ways. This is not to say (to continue the metaphor) that the FCC can't resort to weapons of mass destruction in a drastic and dramatic effort to force a change in course (or to fragment the target(s), if you take my meaning), but while that may prove both necessary and effective, it also runs the risk of turning into a negative-sum game for all in the end -- the consumer not being the least of the participants.
I think I'll file a patent on using the word "the". Makes about as much sense.
Bittorrent == WMD (Weapon of Mass Downloading)?
In Soviet Russia, customers throttle ISPs!
IMHO broadband providers either have their heads in the sand, or they're just trying to delay the inevitable. In surveys I've read the United States is far from being the world leader in broadband internet connectivity in speed, price, availability, or even customer service -- and I think they all know that as well as anyone else does, too. P2P isn't going away anytime soon; as we speak developers are working on ways to rewrite the bittorrent protocol to get around the DDoS attacks that companies like Comcast are using to hamstring it's users. Beyond that, the reality is that we live in a country where more and more people are using the Internet for surfing, gaming, telephone, email, downloading (completely legal, paid-for) movies, and in some cases for live-streaming content; bandwidth demands aren't going to ever go down, they're only ever going to go up, and they (ISPs) damn well know that too. Perhaps this is just their first volleys in a war they want to start, with their preferred end-result being tiered pricing based on monthly bandwidth usage, but again I say they must have their heads in the sand because nobody is going to sit still for that, either.
So a judge let him have his ill-gotten gains. He still broke into computer systems to gain the information he used in this exploit. What's to stop a criminal judge from prosecuting him for that, sending him to jail, and fining him all the profits he made on this plus what he invested in the first place plus some on top of that to drive the point home?
Gee, guess we should just give up then, eh? Bend over and grab our ankles, smile, and say "thank you sir, may I have another?" when they bugger us? I think not.
..Google virtually doing the same thing
Um, Google Earth isn't in realtime like spy satellites are, dude. If they were then you could watch your hot next door neighbor while she sunbathes in the nude.
Somehow I think when you say "download" you're thinking "illegal download", where that's not necessarily the case. What about people who legitimately download movies through services like Netflix and Amazon Unbox? Are they in the 5% too? How long before they're MORE than just 5%? How long after Comcast starts assraping legitimate customers downloading legitimate content that they paid for, before those customers tell Comcast to go pound sand? It's a stupid, desperate, greedy thing Comcast is doing and I hope they FAIL.
Unless they changed it in the last year, that's not true because I've successfully run an SMTP server.
Contrary to the posted story I have not and have no intention of running under Vista.
Of course not. What a rediculous statement. I don't WANT any of the 5 (sometimes 6) machines I have at home subject to possible wireless attacks, I want them hardwired into a secure network. What idiot comes up with these ideas, marketing guys at wifi hardware manufacturers?
I'm all for free enterprise. However I put to you all that some things, like some medications, should be "open-sourced". Drugs to treat AIDS should fall into this category simply so that the worldwide AIDS problem can be controlled.
Not so much. They "outlaw" bittorrent, bittorrent will evolve or someone will come up with something to replace it. They throttle bandwidth, they'll lose business. It doesn't have to be a zero-sum or negative-sum game, it can be a positive-sum game. They just have to stop being so damned anal retentive about it.
Can't stop the signal, Mal. ;-)
Can I mod this Paul down to "-1; Blatant troll", please?
Quick, somebody call Jack Bauer, he'll know what to do!
Rediculousness. Besides which, it's a no-brainer that it'd be a zero-day hack to enable all the available processing power on a given chip.
Now, get the fuck off my lawn, nancy-boy. You're making the grass turn brown.
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Bwaahaahaa, nice try! They'll likely be all flash-based, especially considering how much abuse a shopping cart takes.
So, you don't cook for yourself then, you just microwave prepackaged food instead or something? I don't know about you or anyone else, but there's absolutely no WAY I'm going to trust some complete stranger to pick out produce or meat for me, in fact there aren't many people I'd trust to do that for me.
Exactly. That's why I refuse to shop at Safeway and especially why I refuse crap like those "rewards" cards, all they're doing is jacking the price up for everyone else, selling to the "rewards card" holders for the "real" price, and tracking your every purchase. If I have no choice but to go in to Safeway I use cash whenever possible, too.
I was born here in California and have lived here all my life. Never been out of the country even once, barely even been out of the state, either. Next month I'll be 43 years old. When I was a kid, sure, there were things going on that weren't too cool, but there were still things to be proud about the country I was born and raised in. I can't say that anymore. I love my country, still, especially living in California, but I'm ashamed of my government and the things it's doing and allowing to be done, and even the mere MENTION of things like this, true or not, make me feel weary down to my very bones. I don't care to see it all destroyed, but it needs to be FIXED, and it needs to be fixed NOW before these bastards make it all come crashing down around our ears.