Considering that advertising is the lifeblood of internet commerce, targeted ads that I might actually want to look at are better than random spammy popups.
FCC traffic getting priority would seem to be standards compliant because it would qualify as "Internetwork Control" which is the same level that BGP runs at.
Which is really how it should be. If you want to use qos and traffic management, follow the damn rfc.
Ok, so the school district let itself get bilked 4 times by incompetent IT sharks, and figured it didn't matter cuz they coudl take it out of the supervisor's pockets anyway?
Failure to check taskmgr when CPU is spiking is what I would consider professional malpractice and if anything the guy that got fired should be able to take back something from the first 4 auditors who may have screwed up the audit on purpose because......I wonder if those first four tech co's were paying kickbacks to whoever canned the supervisor.
Spam may be an economic problem, but it has political complications. The credit card industry, which btw has a VERY powerful lobby, makes a tidy profit on credit card purchases from spammed products.
We should not just let spammers get away with it though.
Why aren't we?...that's a good question actually, and I think I might have a few answers.
Spammers will always have safe harbor in countries that hate the US...countries that might actually be happy to let the spammers do the dirty work of flipping the bird to the americans for them.
Also, all the advertisers pushing their products by spam obviously are profiting or they wouldn't be using spam as a medium of advertising.
Not to mention that exchange fees net the credit card co's a handsome profit...and they also have a powerful lobby machine, at least one good enough to push through their pet changes to the bankruptcy laws.
ISPs that sign pink contracts can profit handsomely from spammers as well.
So there's quite a few people with a vested interest in the deluge of spam continuing, some of which can quite effectively hold enforcement actions hostage.
How about we start paying down that debt of ours so that China doesn't have a club to beat us with?
Uncle Sam's biggest bill in the future is going to be interest if he doesn't go on a diet. Interest that won't be going anywhere except the pockets of the wealthy investors.
But has history has consistently revealed, all the writing in the world don't mean diddly-squat if someone ever becomes powerful enough to ignore it with impunity.
Which is why the US constitution has checks and balances in it.
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Loading fbcon has a couple of ugly side effects
1. Since we're pushing pixels instead of cells, things slow down an order of magnitude or two
2. Once the console drivers have bound onto fbcon and off of vgacon, there's no way to get vgacon back without rebooting.
1. Their wires, their rules.
2. They are a powerful monopoly so nobody would dare try to stop them anyway.
Since they own the wires you're using you can't very well say it is hacking.
It MIGHT though be fraud based on the fact that their tampering is preventing you from obtaining the service you paid for.
Considering that advertising is the lifeblood of internet commerce, targeted ads that I might actually want to look at are better than random spammy popups.
Yes.
However, ATI, NVidia, and Intel have all three decided to deprecate the VGA text console if used with KMS enabled.
So if you use KMS with one of those cards, kiss text mode goodbye becasue the powers that be refuse to support it.
Maybe this is where religion comes in.
You may have only 1 life but a continue is pretty nice ;)
Congratulations MS, you are now getting your just deserts after what you pulled on Tom Tom.
Kernel Mode Switching is great except for the fact that all 3 major video card vendors decided to nix VGA console support.
FCC traffic getting priority would seem to be standards compliant because it would qualify as "Internetwork Control" which is the same level that BGP runs at.
Which is really how it should be. If you want to use qos and traffic management, follow the damn rfc.
Because it's opt-in and doesn't hijack your DNS unless you tell it to?
I don't use it myself though sicne I run bind and do my own DNS caching.
The earth actually has PLENTY of resources to feed everyone quite well.
It's only thanks to fuckups (both malignant and benign) at the top of the totem pole that they aren't getting distributed properly.
Ok, so the school district let itself get bilked 4 times by incompetent IT sharks, and figured it didn't matter cuz they coudl take it out of the supervisor's pockets anyway?
Failure to check taskmgr when CPU is spiking is what I would consider professional malpractice and if anything the guy that got fired should be able to take back something from the first 4 auditors who may have screwed up the audit on purpose because... ...I wonder if those first four tech co's were paying kickbacks to whoever canned the supervisor.
Repeatedly calling you out is a combination of two things
1. De facto abandonment of the law by refusing to enforce it generally
2. A bill of attainder by singling you out.
I think there's a supreme court case that deals with "stale laws" effectively being null and void through non-enforcement.
What makes them cowards is that they attack the weak and defenseless.
Spam may be an economic problem, but it has political complications. The credit card industry, which btw has a VERY powerful lobby, makes a tidy profit on credit card purchases from spammed products.
We should not just let spammers get away with it though.
Why aren't we? ...that's a good question actually, and I think I might have a few answers.
Spammers will always have safe harbor in countries that hate the US...countries that might actually be happy to let the spammers do the dirty work of flipping the bird to the americans for them.
Also, all the advertisers pushing their products by spam obviously are profiting or they wouldn't be using spam as a medium of advertising.
Not to mention that exchange fees net the credit card co's a handsome profit...and they also have a powerful lobby machine, at least one good enough to push through their pet changes to the bankruptcy laws.
ISPs that sign pink contracts can profit handsomely from spammers as well.
So there's quite a few people with a vested interest in the deluge of spam continuing, some of which can quite effectively hold enforcement actions hostage.
Ahh, the courtroom.
Ye olde coliseum, where we swing lawsuits instead of swords, and people bleed dollars instead of blood. ...We haven't really changed much have we?
They might even get friction from PRO-meat cartels.
As with any industry, the big boys don't like competition.
Even if that were a good idea (which it isn't), the retail lobby would never let it fly.
More generally, politics means things are never simple.
Indeed.
What is being stolen during a hack is the victim's access to the game that they DID pay for with real life money.
Actually there is, it's just not officially sanctioned.
I use it myself and for an "unstable" product it's performed remarkably well.
They even added plugin support recently. I got my youtube back.
Abandoning the windows market is suicide. I'm actually proud of google for not leaving linux completely in the dust.
How about we start paying down that debt of ours so that China doesn't have a club to beat us with?
Uncle Sam's biggest bill in the future is going to be interest if he doesn't go on a diet. Interest that won't be going anywhere except the pockets of the wealthy investors.
I believe one time an ancient architect had his son strapped on top of an obelisk he was hoisting for the Pharaoh.
Pretty good motivation not to screw it up.
In theory the constitution should be enough.
But has history has consistently revealed, all the writing in the world don't mean diddly-squat if someone ever becomes powerful enough to ignore it with impunity.
Which is why the US constitution has checks and balances in it.
It's tragedy of the commons.
You see, everyone wants to have a healthy planet, but nobody wants to be stuck holding the bag if they're the only ones restraining their consumption.
It's more like an act of war.
The target was military.
Considering the recent cyber-attacks from China...
Naturally of course NOT backing down once a threat is realized as not there is bullshit.