Cox is doing the same thing, sending out reset messages to kill the connection for seeders. According to DSL Reports, they starting doing this sometime in Mid-November. I haven't tried to use P2P in a while, but I just tried to download something over P2P yesterday and couldn't break 60kB/s on a well seeded torrent. I have been able to get up to 500kB/s in the past. I'm down in San Diego.
"If all it took was a fake profile and someone she'd never met in real life, it sounds to me like she was ready to jump already."
You make what they did seem pretty harmless, but this fake profile was broadcasting "Megan Meier is cruel to her friends, Megan Meier is a slut" and other such remarks not just to the little girl, but to all her friends too. Try to remember what being a teenager was like, when our worlds were as small as our high schools. Know that suffering from clinical depression makes such situations even worse. The kicker is that it was a parent of a friend of the girl that started all this, a full grown adult who should know better.
I'm not completely convinced if the neighbor should be charged with anything. I don't think they should server prison time, but having to fork over some money to the family of the deceased girl sounds like a fair reparation to me. I do feel that the unmasking of the neighboring parent's identity and the resulting national public shame they will have to deal with is definitely karmic. After all, if it isn't illegal to send someone messages over the internet calling them a cruel person and a slut, then it shouldn't be illegal for someone to send someone messages over the phone, via mail, etc, calling them murderers, evil people, neglectful parents or a shame to all of humanity.
I'm too lazy to research this, but I am curious: is this a sale of the rights to use the spectrum or is it a lease? More specifically, once a company has purchased the rights do they get to keep it until they decide to sell it (i.e. they OWN the rights and no one can take it away from them), or once a company has purchased the rights, do they get to keep it for a set period of time (ex. 99 years) and then it goes up for bidding again at which time they will have to re-bid for the rights?
Without knowing the answer, I feel it would be stupid for the gubment to just make as much money as they can to do a one-time sale, when they could "rent" the spectrum for a lengthy but limited period of time and then sell the rights all over again. After all, a right that may be worth $11B today may be worth $100B in 20 years.
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Cox is doing the same thing, sending out reset messages to kill the connection for seeders. According to DSL Reports, they starting doing this sometime in Mid-November. I haven't tried to use P2P in a while, but I just tried to download something over P2P yesterday and couldn't break 60kB/s on a well seeded torrent. I have been able to get up to 500kB/s in the past. I'm down in San Diego.
"If all it took was a fake profile and someone she'd never met in real life, it sounds to me like she was ready to jump already."
You make what they did seem pretty harmless, but this fake profile was broadcasting "Megan Meier is cruel to her friends, Megan Meier is a slut" and other such remarks not just to the little girl, but to all her friends too. Try to remember what being a teenager was like, when our worlds were as small as our high schools. Know that suffering from clinical depression makes such situations even worse. The kicker is that it was a parent of a friend of the girl that started all this, a full grown adult who should know better.
I'm not completely convinced if the neighbor should be charged with anything. I don't think they should server prison time, but having to fork over some money to the family of the deceased girl sounds like a fair reparation to me. I do feel that the unmasking of the neighboring parent's identity and the resulting national public shame they will have to deal with is definitely karmic. After all, if it isn't illegal to send someone messages over the internet calling them a cruel person and a slut, then it shouldn't be illegal for someone to send someone messages over the phone, via mail, etc, calling them murderers, evil people, neglectful parents or a shame to all of humanity.
I'm too lazy to research this, but I am curious: is this a sale of the rights to use the spectrum or is it a lease? More specifically, once a company has purchased the rights do they get to keep it until they decide to sell it (i.e. they OWN the rights and no one can take it away from them), or once a company has purchased the rights, do they get to keep it for a set period of time (ex. 99 years) and then it goes up for bidding again at which time they will have to re-bid for the rights? Without knowing the answer, I feel it would be stupid for the gubment to just make as much money as they can to do a one-time sale, when they could "rent" the spectrum for a lengthy but limited period of time and then sell the rights all over again. After all, a right that may be worth $11B today may be worth $100B in 20 years.