we'll give you gobs of bandwidth!
How is this different then Apple screaming "we play music!"? What is the definition of bandwidth or are you assuming bandwidth includes P2P.
That is why the US mail, and Telephone calls are protected by federal laws. The mail man can not open your mail. (again all illegal wiretapping crap aside). The internet however is not protected by these laws. While it would be nice if the laws would carry over to the internet sadly they do not.
Well you could take me to the BBB or you could blame yourself or assuming that you could get Channel 62. I do not purchase an ipod and expect it to play.wma's do i? No I don't, I do some research. If I did buy an ipod I return it and demand my money back. I do not sue Apple because I assumed something that was not stated. Just like with comcast you cancel your service and you tell them why. You sue them to get your money back not because they blocked the content that you assumed would work.
Telephone lines have common carrier status, so they can't do that. Internet lines were denied the same designation
Check the law before you post. You know all that spam blocking that gets done with e-mail. Yeah is that not modifying the packet. It is blocking it and if you think about it from a high level view the packet is modified. It was being sent one second and the next it is destroyed to nothing.
means that it's reasonable to think of Comcast as a contracted public utility rather
But they are not a public utility. You still have the option of dial up. High speed internet is not a right. It is something people with extra money laying around can purchase. If it was a right then every house would be wired just like the electricity or city water. You can always choose to not have internet.
In any case, the correct response to poor behavior by a cable or DSL provider is simply to complain to the city or town.
If you rent a TV from me you can not go put stickers all over the TV because I still own it. However, if I mail you a sticker and tell you to place the sticker on the TV you rented from me I can. If you do not like the sticker you tell me to f-off and hand me the TV back and tell me you will rent from someone else. You do not OWN the network you are just renting it. If you owned the network the government would have to hand you a warrant to request YOUR permission to monitor your phone calls. (Leave the illegal wiretapping out of this that is a different story I am just saying you do not own the network). As to where it ends I do not know. I think it ends when customers get tired of this crap. Or it ends when you get it specifically in your contract that your ISP will not monitor your network traffic. If the company does not put that in their contract guess what...don't use them. Simple as that. If they are the only ISP in your area well stay off the grid or play by someone else's rules.
Sue them. Then leave them as a customer and go someplace else. I wonder how they will prove this case? I know sometimes with my P2P it can mess up but it was later related to a firewall issue. Or will they request Comcasts' internal documents? If that is the case I bet they are going to just started shredding everything non stop.
Well it just sounds like you are getting f-ed by every company in your area. Lets see we are talking about a privacy article, You mention the NSA and AT&T. You also mention how you like free stuff because you are talking about Verizon and Vonage. What company out there would make you happy? Or will Ron Paul fix everything?
Look man life sucks some companies suck but you know what pick the one that sucks the least and go with that one. Or do not pick any and just live off the grid. I know people who do not have high speed internet they still have dial up or no internet at all.
It is like you want new tennis shoes because you WANT them but you hate how both Nike and Reebok use child labor. You know what you do in that case. Don't purchase the tennis shoes and purchase something else.
I think people are going to pick what cost less and what is convenient. I personally drive to the closest store to get stuff and the one with the lowest price. Unless it is a wal-mart then I go to Target. So I would not call the public uneducated. They are just trying to save a buck so maybe that is the educated thing to do when your cable company offers all the features you want (or know about). Also, the average Joe does not read slashdot.
A later anonymous statement created confusion when it linked the Mona Lisa to a portrait of Francesco del Giocondo himself -- perhaps the origin of the controversial idea that it is the portrait of a man.
Dr. Lillian Schwartz of Bell Labs suggests that the Mona Lisa is actually a self-portrait. She supports this theory with the results of a digital analysis of the facial features of Leonardo's face and that of the famous painting. When flipping a self-portrait drawing by Leonardo and then merging that with an image of the Mona Lisa using a computer, the features of the faces align perfectly.
I think people save in.doc because most places use that. Now if I am not giving the file to someone else they may still tend to save it as.doc just because you never know how and when you will use that file. Also, the open office format can only be opened by OO. The.doc format can be opened by OO, google's office thing, and anything by MS. Just like you may not always want to save an image file as a uncommon standard but rather opt to save it as common standard (even if it is not an elected standard).
Translation: In a Democrat controlled congress the Democrats could not convince their own people to reject this bill. Thus the bill passed with the help of some Democrats voting for this bill.
Do you never watch Dallas Swat or something like that? They get a page that says where to go and what to do etc. So they probably sent a page out to all the guys in the swat team with something made up. The swat guys did what they were trained to do. So they responded. Also this could have been to the computer system inside the cars. It could have been to a dispatch agent who called it out over the radio.
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I thought common carrier only applied to phone companies and phone conversations. Not high speed internet.
How is this different then Apple screaming "we play music!"? What is the definition of bandwidth or are you assuming bandwidth includes P2P.
That is why the US mail, and Telephone calls are protected by federal laws. The mail man can not open your mail. (again all illegal wiretapping crap aside). The internet however is not protected by these laws. While it would be nice if the laws would carry over to the internet sadly they do not.
Well you could take me to the BBB or you could blame yourself or assuming that you could get Channel 62. I do not purchase an ipod and expect it to play .wma's do i? No I don't, I do some research. If I did buy an ipod I return it and demand my money back. I do not sue Apple because I assumed something that was not stated. Just like with comcast you cancel your service and you tell them why. You sue them to get your money back not because they blocked the content that you assumed would work.
Check the law before you post. You know all that spam blocking that gets done with e-mail. Yeah is that not modifying the packet. It is blocking it and if you think about it from a high level view the packet is modified. It was being sent one second and the next it is destroyed to nothing.
But they are not a public utility. You still have the option of dial up. High speed internet is not a right. It is something people with extra money laying around can purchase. If it was a right then every house would be wired just like the electricity or city water. You can always choose to not have internet.
In any case, the correct response to poor behavior by a cable or DSL provider is simply to complain to the city or town.
Yes that is about all you can do.
If you rent a TV from me you can not go put stickers all over the TV because I still own it. However, if I mail you a sticker and tell you to place the sticker on the TV you rented from me I can. If you do not like the sticker you tell me to f-off and hand me the TV back and tell me you will rent from someone else. You do not OWN the network you are just renting it. If you owned the network the government would have to hand you a warrant to request YOUR permission to monitor your phone calls. (Leave the illegal wiretapping out of this that is a different story I am just saying you do not own the network). As to where it ends I do not know. I think it ends when customers get tired of this crap. Or it ends when you get it specifically in your contract that your ISP will not monitor your network traffic. If the company does not put that in their contract guess what...don't use them. Simple as that. If they are the only ISP in your area well stay off the grid or play by someone else's rules.
Sue them. Then leave them as a customer and go someplace else. I wonder how they will prove this case? I know sometimes with my P2P it can mess up but it was later related to a firewall issue. Or will they request Comcasts' internal documents? If that is the case I bet they are going to just started shredding everything non stop.
Or they are stashed away from little Timmy for Christmas or a birthday. You know get the iphone before the x-mass rush.
Well it just sounds like you are getting f-ed by every company in your area. Lets see we are talking about a privacy article, You mention the NSA and AT&T. You also mention how you like free stuff because you are talking about Verizon and Vonage. What company out there would make you happy? Or will Ron Paul fix everything?
Look man life sucks some companies suck but you know what pick the one that sucks the least and go with that one. Or do not pick any and just live off the grid. I know people who do not have high speed internet they still have dial up or no internet at all.
It is like you want new tennis shoes because you WANT them but you hate how both Nike and Reebok use child labor. You know what you do in that case. Don't purchase the tennis shoes and purchase something else.
Yes like my porn, and that order for my new wife.
Just so you know the M$ joke is over. It just makes you look retarded when you put M$.
I think people are going to pick what cost less and what is convenient. I personally drive to the closest store to get stuff and the one with the lowest price. Unless it is a wal-mart then I go to Target. So I would not call the public uneducated. They are just trying to save a buck so maybe that is the educated thing to do when your cable company offers all the features you want (or know about). Also, the average Joe does not read slashdot.
Quit bitching and get out and vote. Or better yet, move to a new country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa/
You have to trust myth busters and all, but I will take a TV show with a grain of salt.
You did't get the first post...I did.
So will we ever know if it is a man or not?
It's a Man BABY!!
I think people save in .doc because most places use that. Now if I am not giving the file to someone else they may still tend to save it as .doc just because you never know how and when you will use that file. Also, the open office format can only be opened by OO. The .doc format can be opened by OO, google's office thing, and anything by MS. Just like you may not always want to save an image file as a uncommon standard but rather opt to save it as common standard (even if it is not an elected standard).
The Dems control congress so SOME dems had to vote for this bill to get it passed. It is simple math.
Translation: In a Democrat controlled congress the Democrats could not convince their own people to reject this bill. Thus the bill passed with the help of some Democrats voting for this bill.
Don't know but i may wipe your butt :)
if I have to hack things just to get them to work the first time
Thats the same problem I have with my wife.
Do you never watch Dallas Swat or something like that? They get a page that says where to go and what to do etc. So they probably sent a page out to all the guys in the swat team with something made up. The swat guys did what they were trained to do. So they responded. Also this could have been to the computer system inside the cars. It could have been to a dispatch agent who called it out over the radio.
Good now I am going to go tell my boss to @#$% off and give me a raise!
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-targeting-clinton-on-phone-call-snooping-2007-10-16.html/