Screwing the US by letting their own citizens get away with scams can prove to be powerful motive if diplomatic relations are sour enough.
"To catch an identity thief" revealed some scammers setting up a server in Iran specifically to take advantage of Iran's apathy and outright hostility towards US interests.
When you're on the run from someone there's not much better than to camp out on someone else's turf that hates the guy chasing you.
And with such information easily available, employers are even depending on it and starting to thumb their noses at wiseass technophobes that know better than to whore themselves out to social networks.
Let's just say I've seen a lot of experts in other areas get coopted by corporate interests. Our own congressional political system is a well known example.
To be blunt, de-ja-vu means his ignorance in a field his position would require expertise in, doesn't really pass the smell test.
Problem with 3 is that you will be crushed by the corporate owned media establishment the minute anyone gets wise to what you're up to.
Said establishment also has held captive the minds of sheeple consumers that don't give a shit about your ideals and who outnumber you a hundred to one, and who will turn on you the minute they get a whisper from their corporate overlords that you're going to ruin their way of life.
I think everyone with a qualified head knows damn well that "start your own ISP and quit whining about the monopoly" has been stomped into the ground by EVERY OTHER ENTERPRENEUR that ALREADY TRIED IT in a given market.
If capitalism is so great and bad companies also go away, then why are many places still stuck with shitty service from an ISP that's been around forever?
It's not so much that as the fact that bosses have more leverage than peons.
They get your loyalty without reciprocating simply because they have all the cards and can burn you if they want to, whereas you cannot return that favor.
Be generous and give them your standard 2 weeks notice after making DAMN SURE the job offer is solid.
Make sure the offer with the next company is firm, in writing, and they can spare you long enough to let you give your old boss the required notice.
If the new company refuses to play ball with you, take it as a sign that they're probably not going to treat you well if they can't even be bothered to get their paperwork in order or let you be courteous to your former boss.
If the old company can't handle losing you in 2 weeks, take it as a sign that their own house is probably not in order well enough, and it's easily suggestible that you're on a sinking ship anyway.
Be nice and be professional to both sides and cover your ass.
When you make unreasonable demands and threaten to fire people for not giving you what they want, you give the cheaters a head start and put honest folks at a disadvantage.
The honest folks get crowded out, and cheating becomes the standard course, and from there it's a race to the bottom as management gets more and more demanding.
When you care only about results and don't give a damn about the methods, don't be surprised if social darwinism kills the ethical side of things and lets the nastiest players get all the goodies.
The government in theory needs to allow the market to work by preventing monopolies.
However, two problems prevent this in practice:
One, corporations are big bruisers with beefy legal departments and they HAVE and WILL AGAIN sue the crap out of anyone that tries to force them to compete. For this I cite TDS vs. Monticello, a renowned case where a city begged for municipal fiber and got turned down, but then they got sued by TDS and got an injunction slapped against them. TDS built the network out under their feet while their hands had been cuffed by the court, and by the time the city won the lawsuit TDS was already entrenched and had the city froze out.
Two, politicians are renowned for their corruptibility. I think there was a case somehwere where the state legislature got pushed into making municipally provided internet illegal. That and the FCC has a big bad corrupt congress making sure it doesn't piss off special interests. If the FCC tries to do its job the way it's supposed to the politicians will intervene and pull its fangs off.
Politicians in government have veto power over regulatory actions, and corporations with an iron grip on the media they need to get elected make sure the only tune the politicians dance is theirs.
Going without internet is easy...until you find that you need it.
Internet service, with its tie-ins to keeping contact and getting jobs and doing business with the government, is fast becoming a utility as indispensable as water and electricity are not.
Psystar should have totally raped it and have it poke oodles of fun at DRM, EULAs, and stuff.
You have to agree to a laundry list of obviously ridiculous terms to install anything and you get nothing but popups when you try to run copyrighted video.
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Screwing the US by letting their own citizens get away with scams can prove to be powerful motive if diplomatic relations are sour enough.
"To catch an identity thief" revealed some scammers setting up a server in Iran specifically to take advantage of Iran's apathy and outright hostility towards US interests.
When you're on the run from someone there's not much better than to camp out on someone else's turf that hates the guy chasing you.
verisign.com has sovereign immunity because it is owned by the registry responsible for the domain it is under.
See: allodial title.
If you have any beefs with verisign's handling of the internet you'll have to take it up with ICANN.
Here's a good way to avoid that.
Require forced takedowns to be backed by affidavits signed under penalty of perjury.
Then someone who lies to the registry and causes a false takedown gets fined or locked up.
And with such information easily available, employers are even depending on it and starting to thumb their noses at wiseass technophobes that know better than to whore themselves out to social networks.
I'm all for it if it gets ICANN to terminate Verisign's .com and .net registry contract.
According to their guide here:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=security/chargeback_guide#
They leave final resolution of the chargeback at the discretion of the buyer's bank.
So it's not a case of them just being dicks for no reason.
They're just pussies who won't stand up to the buyer's credit card processor.
*notices your username, decides not to respond further*
Let's just say I've seen a lot of experts in other areas get coopted by corporate interests. Our own congressional political system is a well known example.
To be blunt, de-ja-vu means his ignorance in a field his position would require expertise in, doesn't really pass the smell test.
Problem with 3 is that you will be crushed by the corporate owned media establishment the minute anyone gets wise to what you're up to.
Said establishment also has held captive the minds of sheeple consumers that don't give a shit about your ideals and who outnumber you a hundred to one, and who will turn on you the minute they get a whisper from their corporate overlords that you're going to ruin their way of life.
People are more gullible than you think.
If he was completely ignorant there's no way he would have made it to the head of WIPO.
He knows damn FUCKING WELL about the drawbacks.
He willfully chooses to disregard them so that the people whose pockets he's in don't get pissed off.
If I find out that Apple got a patent on this I'll be furious.
If such a direct inspiration doesn't count as prior art I don't know what else would be.
And that so called "last mile" would be better off in the hands of the local city council.
I find it very telling that Monticello tried that and got sued.
Someone tried that and the ISPs sued them over it.
I think everyone with a qualified head knows damn well that "start your own ISP and quit whining about the monopoly" has been stomped into the ground by EVERY OTHER ENTERPRENEUR that ALREADY TRIED IT in a given market.
If capitalism is so great and bad companies also go away, then why are many places still stuck with shitty service from an ISP that's been around forever?
It's not so much that as the fact that bosses have more leverage than peons.
They get your loyalty without reciprocating simply because they have all the cards and can burn you if they want to, whereas you cannot return that favor.
Nice guys finish last, but the nasty ones get disqualified later by karma.
Unless the new company's offer isn't solid or falls through after you've put in your notice.
Then you're screwed.
Be generous and give them your standard 2 weeks notice after making DAMN SURE the job offer is solid.
Make sure the offer with the next company is firm, in writing, and they can spare you long enough to let you give your old boss the required notice.
If the new company refuses to play ball with you, take it as a sign that they're probably not going to treat you well if they can't even be bothered to get their paperwork in order or let you be courteous to your former boss.
If the old company can't handle losing you in 2 weeks, take it as a sign that their own house is probably not in order well enough, and it's easily suggestible that you're on a sinking ship anyway.
Be nice and be professional to both sides and cover your ass.
Simple.
When you make unreasonable demands and threaten to fire people for not giving you what they want, you give the cheaters a head start and put honest folks at a disadvantage.
The honest folks get crowded out, and cheating becomes the standard course, and from there it's a race to the bottom as management gets more and more demanding.
When you care only about results and don't give a damn about the methods, don't be surprised if social darwinism kills the ethical side of things and lets the nastiest players get all the goodies.
The government in theory needs to allow the market to work by preventing monopolies.
However, two problems prevent this in practice:
One, corporations are big bruisers with beefy legal departments and they HAVE and WILL AGAIN sue the crap out of anyone that tries to force them to compete. For this I cite TDS vs. Monticello, a renowned case where a city begged for municipal fiber and got turned down, but then they got sued by TDS and got an injunction slapped against them. TDS built the network out under their feet while their hands had been cuffed by the court, and by the time the city won the lawsuit TDS was already entrenched and had the city froze out.
Two, politicians are renowned for their corruptibility. I think there was a case somehwere where the state legislature got pushed into making municipally provided internet illegal. That and the FCC has a big bad corrupt congress making sure it doesn't piss off special interests. If the FCC tries to do its job the way it's supposed to the politicians will intervene and pull its fangs off.
Politicians in government have veto power over regulatory actions, and corporations with an iron grip on the media they need to get elected make sure the only tune the politicians dance is theirs.
Boycotts only work against monopolies when you'd rather suffer going without than put up with the monopoly.
This is why water barons in the wild west get so rich. You either cough up the dough or you die thirsty.
Going without internet is easy...until you find that you need it.
Internet service, with its tie-ins to keeping contact and getting jobs and doing business with the government, is fast becoming a utility as indispensable as water and electricity are not.
Psystar should have totally raped it and have it poke oodles of fun at DRM, EULAs, and stuff.
You have to agree to a laundry list of obviously ridiculous terms to install anything and you get nothing but popups when you try to run copyrighted video.
Then it would have constituted a satire.
Psystar shot itself in the foot by modifying OSX.
That created an unauthorized derivative work.
The GPL is unusual in that modification is allowed by the license.