They got taken over by the days where we got fed up with chicken shit companies abusing their power and losing our trust to let them have internet police powers.
I think an ISP should be able to block downstreamers who are spewing spams.
Trusting them to do so and leave alone torrents and the like, however, is another story.
Comcast cannot be trusted to not "mistake" torrent traffic for virus traffic, especially if the MAFIAA tried to either bribe OR extort them to tell their techies to look the other way before being able to tell the difference.
They've already been caught red handed screwing with torrents once before. Giving them plausible deniability with an opportunity to cover it up as virus quarantine is not a good idea.
There are certain pieces of information that are common knowledge in certain groups.
For example, everyone in the slashdot audience knows that the RIAA is a lawsuit factory, that Iran is renowned for human rights abuses, and that TCP/IP is the language of the internet.
The rudeness of demanding citations rises in direct proportion to the product of the commonality of said knowledge and its obviousness, and in inverse proportion to the square of its incredulity.
We only really started getting worried about global warming when it started causing floods and such from icecap meltings. You know, things that actually affect us.
People are selfish bastards and are not going to care about anything but themselves. All this green whoop de haw is nothing but rubbish because nobody really cares, and if it costs them to fix the earth they sure as hell won't do it unless someone forces them. It's simply too profitable to exploit the earth when you're not the one paying the bills for it.
The sad thing is that we really do care but don't know it yet. Years down the line when we drive our planet to breaking point and wind up dying off in a sick planet, we're going to look back at our ancestors and curse them for leaving us a rotten inheritance.
Unfortunately, those ancestors are us in the present day, and we're too busy partying hard and leaving fat corpses to see our (great)*grandchildren suffering in the future.
Even electrical signals, which move at close to the speed of light, have to be sent on smaller and shorter pathways in modern chips to get speedups.
They run at gigahertz speeds, which implies nanosecond timings. A flywheel with decent mass spinning a million RPM is only four orders of magnitude away from the speed of light.
Officially, it's against the rules to do that, but when resources are scarce you are going to get a black market whether you like it or not.
Organizations that are sitting on piles of addresses they didn't need when they got them are going to milk their supply for all it's worth when push comes to shove, and they aren't going to give them up without a fight.
Congress is unlikely to cut off the corporate gravy train of lobbying dollars, and SCOTUS is too backlogged as it is to take care of anything that comes across its plate.
Worse yet, FICO scores are zero for someone who has no credit history.
So someone who is smart enough to stay away from credit cards is going to lose out to the poor schmuck who's establishing a good payment history as a consumer.
I wonder if pushing FICO scores is just another way to lock wage slaves into also being credit slaves.
And if he was wrong, he'll have to live with the penalty of losing a good worker.
But...since he's got a million other candidates waiting to take your place he isn't going to care, now is he?
The only one who suffers from a case of mistaken identity on line is the poor sap who gets joe jobbed to the curb. Not the boss who was too impatient to investigate, and certainly not anyone who posted it on purpose.
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Simple.
They got taken over by the days where we got fed up with chicken shit companies abusing their power and losing our trust to let them have internet police powers.
I think an ISP should be able to block downstreamers who are spewing spams.
Trusting them to do so and leave alone torrents and the like, however, is another story.
Comcast cannot be trusted to not "mistake" torrent traffic for virus traffic, especially if the MAFIAA tried to either bribe OR extort them to tell their techies to look the other way before being able to tell the difference.
They've already been caught red handed screwing with torrents once before. Giving them plausible deniability with an opportunity to cover it up as virus quarantine is not a good idea.
It could always be randomly generated.
I believe it's already covered under false and fraudulent advertising.
If you register a corporation with a name with the intent to use said name to deceive people, then you are committing fraud.
However, if you do so for parody reasons, such as whitehouse.com vs whitehouse.gov, you're probably in the clear.
I think it just depends on intent, like many other things in the law.
With such a name though, it would be pretty hard to argue that your intent wasn't fraudulent.
Minnesota isn't just a company, it's a frigging STATE.
That a corporation actually has enough power to push sovereign entities around scares me.
Agreed.
There are certain pieces of information that are common knowledge in certain groups.
For example, everyone in the slashdot audience knows that the RIAA is a lawsuit factory, that Iran is renowned for human rights abuses, and that TCP/IP is the language of the internet.
The rudeness of demanding citations rises in direct proportion to the product of the commonality of said knowledge and its obviousness, and in inverse proportion to the square of its incredulity.
How is this new?
People have been fucking each other over for years.
Man I would hate to be on the wrong side of a broken firmware update on that one...
And why shouldn't we?
We only really started getting worried about global warming when it started causing floods and such from icecap meltings. You know, things that actually affect us.
People are selfish bastards and are not going to care about anything but themselves. All this green whoop de haw is nothing but rubbish because nobody really cares, and if it costs them to fix the earth they sure as hell won't do it unless someone forces them. It's simply too profitable to exploit the earth when you're not the one paying the bills for it.
The sad thing is that we really do care but don't know it yet. Years down the line when we drive our planet to breaking point and wind up dying off in a sick planet, we're going to look back at our ancestors and curse them for leaving us a rotten inheritance.
Unfortunately, those ancestors are us in the present day, and we're too busy partying hard and leaving fat corpses to see our (great)*grandchildren suffering in the future.
The military industrial complex probably helps conceal a lot of fraud in much the same way that lobbyists and politicians schmooze.
No politician is going to give up a cushy position at a company by burning a bridge through enforcement.
Probably less than the cost of being locked into no-shop clauses in an MS agreement.
Such a non-compete clause is most likely an anti-trust violation if TFS is correct.
And it's a catch 22, because whoever makes the rules, gets the gold.
So, it's not the corporations paying off politicians to do what they want, it's politicians taking money not to screw them over?
You mean the resources he was wasting on litigation?
GGP said flywheel, not flake.
Even electrical signals, which move at close to the speed of light, have to be sent on smaller and shorter pathways in modern chips to get speedups.
They run at gigahertz speeds, which implies nanosecond timings. A flywheel with decent mass spinning a million RPM is only four orders of magnitude away from the speed of light.
Officially, it's against the rules to do that, but when resources are scarce you are going to get a black market whether you like it or not.
Organizations that are sitting on piles of addresses they didn't need when they got them are going to milk their supply for all it's worth when push comes to shove, and they aren't going to give them up without a fight.
Sadly, it is for long term value.
In this dog eat dog world, if you make a pit stop to give your engine a tune up, you'll have already lost the race.
As long as people keep caving into settling instead of fighting back, how much are they even going to care?
For those people that are sitting on piles of class A's they don't need, there isn't a problem at all.
It's rather like sitting on an oil well when people start running out of coal.
Congress is unlikely to cut off the corporate gravy train of lobbying dollars, and SCOTUS is too backlogged as it is to take care of anything that comes across its plate.
Facebook is renowned for privacy blunders.
Even if they aren't changing their TOS to fuck you over without warning, they are still exposing stuff to hackers.
Most people prefer to pass tests.
It's just common sense self interest.
The same thing that makes employers think it's ok to snoop in the private lives of their workers.
Worse yet, FICO scores are zero for someone who has no credit history.
So someone who is smart enough to stay away from credit cards is going to lose out to the poor schmuck who's establishing a good payment history as a consumer.
I wonder if pushing FICO scores is just another way to lock wage slaves into also being credit slaves.
If your boss wants to fire you, he'll fire you.
And if he was wrong, he'll have to live with the penalty of losing a good worker.
But...since he's got a million other candidates waiting to take your place he isn't going to care, now is he?
The only one who suffers from a case of mistaken identity on line is the poor sap who gets joe jobbed to the curb. Not the boss who was too impatient to investigate, and certainly not anyone who posted it on purpose.