No surprise in this. This is the New York Times. They've done far worse. Snowden intentionally didn't go to them because their collusion with the government was well known, even publicly. The NYT trades integrity for access, that's what they do.
Not that you shouldn't be outraged. You should be, and you should never buy their paper or visit their site. Propaganda journalism should not be tolerated.
My only conclusion is that the frequent bailouts they've received has allowed them to institutionalize failures in their business models. We need to stop "Saving" industries/businesses.
Interesting, then, that you cite the Asian and Middle Eastern airlines as examples of the "right" way, as many of them are heavily subsidized.
Good point, I have no idea if the airlines I flew were bailed out as well.
I do know, that despite being bailed out, ours are still complete and total shit.:-)
All this fuss, because the victims were famous. If someone posted naked pictures of any of us on the internet, the police would laugh at us. Would the FBI get involved? Would subreddits get deleted? Hell no... If there's any great tragedy in this whole mess, it's that it highlights the class divide in this country. If you're famous, you get more rights than the rest of us.
Thousands of people have their nude photos leaked to the net every day. Reddits FULL of them. Suddenly now it's a big deal. I've no sympathy for these people, not because it's their fault, but because this is just a small dose of what it's like to be normal. Cry me a river.
... After 3 to 6 attempts, your account requires additional authentication to login. You automatically get sent to Iforgot.apple.com for all new requests.
It wasn't a brute force attack nor was it recently patched unless you think 'years ago' is recent.
Yes, it was a brute force attack. Apples now trying to cover it up by claiming "If only you had a better password." Which may be true, if their passwords had been 50 characters long it would have taken the brute force attack a lot long to complete. But the fact of the matter is, Apple forgot to put in an X number of wrong attempts = account locked, procedure in... or it wasn't working properly and people exploited it.
I used to think that... then I flew through Asia and the Middle East. Plenty of leg room, free dinner that was actually tasty, free drinks, the flight attendants treated you like royalty. But most importantly: The tickets were cheaper.
So one has to question whats wrong with airlines here... why can't they make money? My only conclusion is that the frequent bailouts they've received has allowed them to institutionalize failures in their business models. We need to stop "Saving" industries/businesses. Failure is good for the system.
It seems like everyone here thinks Microsoft has some obligation to give our government money. Have you seen what our government does with that money? Do you want them to have more tanks, guns bombs? More spying equipment? To continue the war on drugs? To imprison more than 1% of the population?
You can rationalize it all you want, but tax "avoidance" really is the same concept as tax evasion.
One is illegal, one is not.
If you think there is some sort of moral obligation to give the government your money, then you're the one with the strange point of view, not Microsoft.
I kind of do my own non-profit buisness of building computers for everyone I know or am related to. So I've got a small business account with newegg and do about $25k in computers a year. Asus was my board of choice for years, but about 3yrs ago they just went to shit. I've no idea why but suddenly I had massive failures, massive compatibility issues, etc... When a computer I build actually catches fire, that worries me. Asus was decent about the RMAs... which actually worried me more. A MB manufacturer will rarely take a return with scorch marks on it unless they know there's an issue. When the RMA boards I got back from them started blowing caps as well, I knew something was terribly wrong.
Also on my banned list: Gigabyte - I had several Gigabyte MB and Gigabyte Video cards. They would not work with each other and Gigabyte claimed it was a capability issue and not their problem, despite having put their names on both the card and the board! This was purely a customer service issue, they should have shipped me a different card to make things right.
Zotac - For 2yrs I shipped the same video card back to them over and over again. They just kept replacing it with defective cards. Some came to me dirty, or with blown components. You can't just dig around in the RMA'd parts bin and ship some other broken piece of crap back to me. I'm currently awaiting about the 4th RMA on that card and my warranty will run out. At least they're paying for the shipping.
Anyways, I'm done building computers for people. Components are just too unreliable now. I don't need to be spending half my life in the UPS shipping office.
Since nobody reads TFA, Phoronix killed an MSI X99S, and LR lost an Asus X99 Deluxe. It was also different RAM (Corsair vs G.Skill).
However, both reported the burn was near the VRMs (Phoronix also reported a second event near the northbridge). The two mobos might be using identical parts for that, but I was unable to find out for sure.
I've had 7 Asus motherboards burn up in the past 4yrs. 2 actually caught fire. So that's no suprise to me, Asus is on my banned list.
MSI, however, has been nothing but good to me. They don't generally have the fastest or most feature rich boards available, but reliabilities been their strong suit over the years.
I don't hate them. I will not support them, why should I? to make the stockbuyer happy??lol nope. To send my money to another country to save a few bucks nope. I will not buy anything from them as I would prefer my US money stay in the US as mush as I possibly can. so I wont be switching to alibaba ever. And im betting a few million Americans think the same way I do.
If American business's employed Americans, I might agree with you. But they don't. Do you think it's even possible to buy a Stereo or Cellphone made by a US citizen? No... except the ones I build myself and they aren't for sale:-)
they have not integrated bukkit/craftbukkit into their products. his DMCA takedown is based on the GPL violation that has existed all along because craftbukkit could never have been legally GPL because it is built off essentially pirated decompiled mojang minecraft server code.
mojang has always looked the other way with server mod software working this way even before they bought rights to the bukkit name and hired some of the top devs (not including wolverness hence his butthurt)
I was into the game back when Bukkit was written. Mojang participated and helped them with it. It was a collaborative effort by the Devs and the modding community. I never understood why they didn't just write their own modding API. They certainly have the money and resources.
I don't know what all that means legally, I'm not a lawyer, but Mojang made their beds. Vanilla Minecraft isn't that popular, it's all the mods that are making them the money. They left that in the hands of the community and made no attempt to control it... surprise surprise, it turned on them.
All I see here is a bunch of hate for Alibaba. I do not understand it. Alibaba is basically the chinese/hong kong version of ebay. I buy stuff off their all the time and it's great. But you have to know what it is to get any use out of it. It's mostly grey market and refurbed stuff. Also, if it's shipping from Hong Kong it's going to take about 2 weeks to get to you. If it's mainland china, it can literally take 2 months. It's not just for cheap stuff, there are things you can get on there that just aren't sold in the US.
As a hobby I build a lot of stuff... electronics, tools, whatever... I can get prefabbed circuit boards off there for a few dollars. For example, a few years ago I built my own stereo, and wanted it to have bluetooth. I got a blutooth receiver board and a D/A converter for it for about $15, and that sort of thing just didn't exist in the US at the time.
Every seller I've dealt with on there's been great. I've not gotten ripped off. I've returned things, gotten support, etc... I'm sure there are bad sellers on there, I've not run into one though.
No ones every managing them. These things are like domain names... they cost pennies and last for years... so despite their importance they fall to the bottom of businesses radar. A place I worked at a few years ago let their multi-million dollar domain expire. The registrar had been sending emails to an employee that had no longer worked there for quite a while...
The end result? It went down on a Sunday, and one of our hourly tech support guys (Making about $10/hr at the time) figured out what happened and registered the domain on his personal credit card and redirected it because he didn't know who to call. He got dinner out with the president of the company who shook his hand, asked him politely if he'd mind transferring the domain back to the company, which he did.
That guy, years later, ended up being my boss and making six figures. It pays to be clever on occasion. He always joked that the company could have sued him for what he did to get the domain back anyway but he was impressed the president thanked him and asked for it back personally.
All certs effectively do is provide encryption. The whole "provides identity" thing is a myth because there is *no* way to ensure such a thing. There's about a zillion ways to fake that identity. Encryption is guaranteed. Unbreakable encryption is not. That's all you get. That's all you'll *ever* get.
Browser "trust" warnings are nothing more than scare tactics designed by the cert manufacturers, in collusion with browser manufacturers, designed to build a completely unnecessary industry for scamming web site owners out of a huge amount of completely wasted money. Wasted other than funding the cert provider parasites, that is.
Using your reasoning, I could very well be living my life in an NSA created virtual world, so any conversation I have in any capacity at all could be monitored at any time. Even my thoughts! So there is no reason for any of this security what-so-ever and it's all a scam by evil virtual corporations to steel my fake virtual money. Right?
And for the record, no man made GM food has ever harmed a bee.
Citation needed.
Searching for "gmo harming bees" gives: http://www.globalresearch.ca/d... It is said that Terminator seeds provokes something similar to cancer to bees.
Um yea...
Despite presenting itself as a source of scholarly analysis, Globalresearch mostly consists of polemics many of which accept (and use) conspiracy theories, pseudoscience and propaganda. The prevalent conspiracist strand relates to global power-elites (primarily governments and corporations) and their New World Order. Specific featured conspiracy theories include those addressing 9/11,vaccines,genetic modification, Zionism, HAARP, global warming. Bosnian genocide denialism and David Kelly.
Which hit the earth with the force of about 500kilitons of TNT Here's some video footage in case you're not terrified yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
From what I'm reading, this asteroid is going even faster, but it's hard to tell how fast it will be going if it actually hit us.
I am not some anti-GMO freak, although I think it is hubris to assume that we can tinker with genomes without unintended consequences. This quote:
Without a genome, we couldn't do any real advanced research on coffee that would allow us to improve it — not in this day and age.
Is pure shite. It is called selective breeding, and it has been done for centuries. While that may not be advanced enough for you tastes, it works, and it improves plant varietals. You do not have to splice DNA to make improvements.
One day we may just go to far and drop like honeybees in a Monsanto cornfield.
Don't you think selective breeding would be a tad easier if you knew what you were breeding for? Not all GMO is done by chemically modifying the genome. You can identify your target gene, select seeds that contain the desired genes, pollinate them with plants that contain only those genes.
I know there's a lot of movies that demonize this process, but in reality what they are doing is not any different than what happens in nature. It's just that instead of getting random mutations over and over until we get what we want, we just go strait to the goal. If anything it's probably safer. When doing it with selective breeding we get tens of thousands of undesired variants before we get the plant we want. How many of those could have been the plague bringer? When we chemically modify the gene, we're only rolling the dice a single time.
And for the record, no man made GM food has ever harmed a bee. Quite to the contrary, many GM plants were designed to need less pesticides and fertilizers, which definitely do harm bees. The one downside of GM plants in regards to bees is that they allow farmers to plant large monocultures with less of a chance of disease killing those plants. Bees are healthier in more diverse environments, so it would be better if they diversified their crops rather than just plant what has the highest price this year.
Try and look up a video of a modern mushroom farm. This is damn near appatizing compared to the way they're normally grown. After I saw it first hand, I started vigorously cleaning all mushrooms I got from the market.
A couple of nut jobs does not equal "Egyptian Muslims"
I could use the same logic to say "American Christians lynch blacks!" or "American leftists bomb universities!"
The Muslim religion is the largest in the world, and the vast majority of Muslims don't murder, rape, terrorize, etc... I suspect that in 50yrs time people will look back on this time in Muslim history in the same way we now look back on the civil rights movement. The only difference will be, American Christians killed a lot more people in a lot more barbaric ways.
This nonsense about ISP monopolies has to end. There are areas where there is only 1 ISP, that's true. But they're all rural and there's only 1 ISP because it's very expensive to serve the area. There's no competition because there's no one that wants to compete. It's not profitable. Anywhere were the population density is high enough to make internet service popular there are at least TWO options... the local Cable and Telecom companies. If your towns large enough like Atlanta, there's likely dozens of options.
Too damn hard? I don't even know how to begin to reply to that.
My wife doesn't want to switch our ISP because her main e-mail address uses that at the domain name, and maybe a thousand friends, business contacts, and acquaintances have it as her contact info.
Yes, she could change to a gmail account, and after a while the people who need to contact her would change the address in their address books. Eventually. Most of them.
* (She's a freelancer. In general, when they fail to get in contact with a freelancer, customers usually just go to a different one rather than bother to spend the time to look up the new address.)
I work for an ISP. That's intentional. In fact, it's the only reason ISPs sitll offer email. It's a nightmare to maintain and has no other benefit to the ISP other than to make customers "sticky"
You're assuming they don't already have interlocks built in. If they had such a system, it would behoove them to refrain from revealing the system until you absolutely had to. If there were a system like that and it was well known, ISIS would seek other weapons systems and equip themselves. As it is, they're heavily reliant on our equipment, and as far as we know, those systems could be full of microphones, GPS tags, weapons interlocks, even self destruct devices just waiting for the US to invoke them during an invasion. Using them now would make their existence obvious, and limit their potential. Triggering them during a firefight, when the user might not even realize what happen, would have the maximum affect and potentially even keep their existence secret.
You think the media publishers type up each individual request?
I used to have a job where I handled them. They are pretty much auto-generated by companies that charge the content owners for each notice. Most are fake and it's a massive scam to steal money from them. We ended up deleting most of them as the data in them was clearly made up. Basically they are required by law to do "something" about DMCA complaint, and you're seeing it. The net effect will probably be nothing. We rarely got to then in under a week, so I suspect they will take even longer. By then, the threads would be dead anyway.
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No surprise in this. This is the New York Times. They've done far worse. Snowden intentionally didn't go to them because their collusion with the government was well known, even publicly. The NYT trades integrity for access, that's what they do.
Not that you shouldn't be outraged. You should be, and you should never buy their paper or visit their site. Propaganda journalism should not be tolerated.
My only conclusion is that the frequent bailouts they've received has allowed them to institutionalize failures in their business models. We need to stop "Saving" industries/businesses.
Interesting, then, that you cite the Asian and Middle Eastern airlines as examples of the "right" way, as many of them are heavily subsidized.
Good point, I have no idea if the airlines I flew were bailed out as well.
I do know, that despite being bailed out, ours are still complete and total shit. :-)
All this fuss, because the victims were famous. If someone posted naked pictures of any of us on the internet, the police would laugh at us. Would the FBI get involved? Would subreddits get deleted? Hell no... If there's any great tragedy in this whole mess, it's that it highlights the class divide in this country. If you're famous, you get more rights than the rest of us.
Thousands of people have their nude photos leaked to the net every day. Reddits FULL of them. Suddenly now it's a big deal. I've no sympathy for these people, not because it's their fault, but because this is just a small dose of what it's like to be normal. Cry me a river.
... After 3 to 6 attempts, your account requires additional authentication to login. You automatically get sent to Iforgot.apple.com for all new requests.
It wasn't a brute force attack nor was it recently patched unless you think 'years ago' is recent.
Yes, it was a brute force attack. Apples now trying to cover it up by claiming "If only you had a better password." Which may be true, if their passwords had been 50 characters long it would have taken the brute force attack a lot long to complete. But the fact of the matter is, Apple forgot to put in an X number of wrong attempts = account locked, procedure in... or it wasn't working properly and people exploited it.
I used to think that... then I flew through Asia and the Middle East.
Plenty of leg room, free dinner that was actually tasty, free drinks, the flight attendants treated you like royalty.
But most importantly: The tickets were cheaper.
So one has to question whats wrong with airlines here... why can't they make money? My only conclusion is that the frequent bailouts they've received has allowed them to institutionalize failures in their business models. We need to stop "Saving" industries/businesses. Failure is good for the system.
It seems like everyone here thinks Microsoft has some obligation to give our government money. Have you seen what our government does with that money? Do you want them to have more tanks, guns bombs? More spying equipment? To continue the war on drugs? To imprison more than 1% of the population?
Thank you Microsoft.
You can rationalize it all you want, but tax "avoidance" really is the same concept as tax evasion.
One is illegal, one is not.
If you think there is some sort of moral obligation to give the government your money, then you're the one with the strange point of view, not Microsoft.
I kind of do my own non-profit buisness of building computers for everyone I know or am related to. So I've got a small business account with newegg and do about $25k in computers a year. Asus was my board of choice for years, but about 3yrs ago they just went to shit. I've no idea why but suddenly I had massive failures, massive compatibility issues, etc... When a computer I build actually catches fire, that worries me. Asus was decent about the RMAs... which actually worried me more. A MB manufacturer will rarely take a return with scorch marks on it unless they know there's an issue. When the RMA boards I got back from them started blowing caps as well, I knew something was terribly wrong.
Also on my banned list:
Gigabyte - I had several Gigabyte MB and Gigabyte Video cards. They would not work with each other and Gigabyte claimed it was a capability issue and not their problem, despite having put their names on both the card and the board! This was purely a customer service issue, they should have shipped me a different card to make things right.
Zotac - For 2yrs I shipped the same video card back to them over and over again. They just kept replacing it with defective cards. Some came to me dirty, or with blown components. You can't just dig around in the RMA'd parts bin and ship some other broken piece of crap back to me. I'm currently awaiting about the 4th RMA on that card and my warranty will run out. At least they're paying for the shipping.
Anyways, I'm done building computers for people. Components are just too unreliable now. I don't need to be spending half my life in the UPS shipping office.
Since nobody reads TFA, Phoronix killed an MSI X99S, and LR lost an Asus X99 Deluxe. It was also different RAM (Corsair vs G.Skill).
However, both reported the burn was near the VRMs (Phoronix also reported a second event near the northbridge). The two mobos might be using identical parts for that, but I was unable to find out for sure.
I've had 7 Asus motherboards burn up in the past 4yrs. 2 actually caught fire. So that's no suprise to me, Asus is on my banned list.
MSI, however, has been nothing but good to me. They don't generally have the fastest or most feature rich boards available, but reliabilities been their strong suit over the years.
I don't hate them. I will not support them, why should I? to make the stockbuyer happy??lol nope. To send my money to another country to save a few bucks nope. I will not buy anything from them as I would prefer my US money stay in the US as mush as I possibly can. so I wont be switching to alibaba ever. And im betting a few million Americans think the same way I do.
If American business's employed Americans, I might agree with you. But they don't. Do you think it's even possible to buy a Stereo or Cellphone made by a US citizen? No... except the ones I build myself and they aren't for sale :-)
they have not integrated bukkit/craftbukkit into their products. his DMCA takedown is based on the GPL violation that has existed all along because craftbukkit could never have been legally GPL because it is built off essentially pirated decompiled mojang minecraft server code.
mojang has always looked the other way with server mod software working this way even before they bought rights to the bukkit name and hired some of the top devs (not including wolverness hence his butthurt)
I was into the game back when Bukkit was written. Mojang participated and helped them with it. It was a collaborative effort by the Devs and the modding community. I never understood why they didn't just write their own modding API. They certainly have the money and resources.
I don't know what all that means legally, I'm not a lawyer, but Mojang made their beds. Vanilla Minecraft isn't that popular, it's all the mods that are making them the money. They left that in the hands of the community and made no attempt to control it... surprise surprise, it turned on them.
All I see here is a bunch of hate for Alibaba. I do not understand it. Alibaba is basically the chinese/hong kong version of ebay. I buy stuff off their all the time and it's great. But you have to know what it is to get any use out of it. It's mostly grey market and refurbed stuff. Also, if it's shipping from Hong Kong it's going to take about 2 weeks to get to you. If it's mainland china, it can literally take 2 months. It's not just for cheap stuff, there are things you can get on there that just aren't sold in the US.
As a hobby I build a lot of stuff... electronics, tools, whatever... I can get prefabbed circuit boards off there for a few dollars. For example, a few years ago I built my own stereo, and wanted it to have bluetooth. I got a blutooth receiver board and a D/A converter for it for about $15, and that sort of thing just didn't exist in the US at the time.
Every seller I've dealt with on there's been great. I've not gotten ripped off. I've returned things, gotten support, etc... I'm sure there are bad sellers on there, I've not run into one though.
hackers, start your engines...
No ones every managing them. These things are like domain names... they cost pennies and last for years... so despite their importance they fall to the bottom of businesses radar. A place I worked at a few years ago let their multi-million dollar domain expire. The registrar had been sending emails to an employee that had no longer worked there for quite a while...
The end result? It went down on a Sunday, and one of our hourly tech support guys (Making about $10/hr at the time) figured out what happened and registered the domain on his personal credit card and redirected it because he didn't know who to call. He got dinner out with the president of the company who shook his hand, asked him politely if he'd mind transferring the domain back to the company, which he did.
That guy, years later, ended up being my boss and making six figures. It pays to be clever on occasion. He always joked that the company could have sued him for what he did to get the domain back anyway but he was impressed the president thanked him and asked for it back personally.
Anyone but self-signed Certificate providers.
All certs effectively do is provide encryption. The whole "provides identity" thing is a myth because there is *no* way to ensure such a thing. There's about a zillion ways to fake that identity. Encryption is guaranteed. Unbreakable encryption is not. That's all you get. That's all you'll *ever* get.
Browser "trust" warnings are nothing more than scare tactics designed by the cert manufacturers, in collusion with browser manufacturers, designed to build a completely unnecessary industry for scamming web site owners out of a huge amount of completely wasted money. Wasted other than funding the cert provider parasites, that is.
Using your reasoning, I could very well be living my life in an NSA created virtual world, so any conversation I have in any capacity at all could be monitored at any time. Even my thoughts! So there is no reason for any of this security what-so-ever and it's all a scam by evil virtual corporations to steel my fake virtual money. Right?
I don't think that "extraordinarily fast" is as extraordinary as you think it is, given our two examples.
And for the record, no man made GM food has ever harmed a bee.
Citation needed.
Searching for "gmo harming bees" gives:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/d...
It is said that Terminator seeds provokes something similar to cancer to bees.
Um yea...
Despite presenting itself as a source of scholarly analysis, Globalresearch mostly consists of polemics many of which accept (and use) conspiracy theories, pseudoscience and propaganda. The prevalent conspiracist strand relates to global power-elites (primarily governments and corporations) and their New World Order. Specific featured conspiracy theories include those addressing 9/11,vaccines,genetic modification, Zionism, HAARP, global warming. Bosnian genocide denialism and David Kelly.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/G...
Also, juts go to that sites front page... The nature of the site because quite evident just reading the headlines: http://www.globalresearch.ca/
You might as well be quoting the Time Cube guy.
Check your sources next time.
An asteroid the size of a house would have to be going extraordinarily fast to pose much of a threat to the planet as a whole.
It's about the same size as the Chelyanbinsk meteor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Which hit the earth with the force of about 500kilitons of TNT
Here's some video footage in case you're not terrified yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
From what I'm reading, this asteroid is going even faster, but it's hard to tell how fast it will be going if it actually hit us.
I am not some anti-GMO freak, although I think it is hubris to assume that we can tinker with genomes without unintended consequences. This quote:
Without a genome, we couldn't do any real advanced research on coffee that would allow us to improve it — not in this day and age.
Is pure shite. It is called selective breeding, and it has been done for centuries. While that may not be advanced enough for you tastes, it works, and it improves plant varietals. You do not have to splice DNA to make improvements.
One day we may just go to far and drop like honeybees in a Monsanto cornfield.
Don't you think selective breeding would be a tad easier if you knew what you were breeding for? Not all GMO is done by chemically modifying the genome. You can identify your target gene, select seeds that contain the desired genes, pollinate them with plants that contain only those genes.
I know there's a lot of movies that demonize this process, but in reality what they are doing is not any different than what happens in nature. It's just that instead of getting random mutations over and over until we get what we want, we just go strait to the goal. If anything it's probably safer. When doing it with selective breeding we get tens of thousands of undesired variants before we get the plant we want. How many of those could have been the plague bringer? When we chemically modify the gene, we're only rolling the dice a single time.
And for the record, no man made GM food has ever harmed a bee. Quite to the contrary, many GM plants were designed to need less pesticides and fertilizers, which definitely do harm bees. The one downside of GM plants in regards to bees is that they allow farmers to plant large monocultures with less of a chance of disease killing those plants. Bees are healthier in more diverse environments, so it would be better if they diversified their crops rather than just plant what has the highest price this year.
Try and look up a video of a modern mushroom farm. This is damn near appatizing compared to the way they're normally grown. After I saw it first hand, I started vigorously cleaning all mushrooms I got from the market.
Egyptian Muslims have already called for the destruction of the pyramids and the sphinx, juts like the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
A couple of nut jobs does not equal "Egyptian Muslims"
I could use the same logic to say "American Christians lynch blacks!" or "American leftists bomb universities!"
The Muslim religion is the largest in the world, and the vast majority of Muslims don't murder, rape, terrorize, etc... I suspect that in 50yrs time people will look back on this time in Muslim history in the same way we now look back on the civil rights movement. The only difference will be, American Christians killed a lot more people in a lot more barbaric ways.
Based on your last post, you live in Atlanta.
There are TEN PAGES of ISPs in your area:
http://www.yelp.com/search?cfl...
Give me a break.
This nonsense about ISP monopolies has to end. There are areas where there is only 1 ISP, that's true. But they're all rural and there's only 1 ISP because it's very expensive to serve the area. There's no competition because there's no one that wants to compete. It's not profitable. Anywhere were the population density is high enough to make internet service popular there are at least TWO options... the local Cable and Telecom companies. If your towns large enough like Atlanta, there's likely dozens of options.
Too damn hard? I don't even know how to begin to reply to that.
My wife doesn't want to switch our ISP because her main e-mail address uses that at the domain name, and maybe a thousand friends, business contacts, and acquaintances have it as her contact info.
Yes, she could change to a gmail account, and after a while the people who need to contact her would change the address in their address books. Eventually. Most of them.
* (She's a freelancer. In general, when they fail to get in contact with a freelancer, customers usually just go to a different one rather than bother to spend the time to look up the new address.)
I work for an ISP. That's intentional. In fact, it's the only reason ISPs sitll offer email. It's a nightmare to maintain and has no other benefit to the ISP other than to make customers "sticky"
You're assuming they don't already have interlocks built in. If they had such a system, it would behoove them to refrain from revealing the system until you absolutely had to. If there were a system like that and it was well known, ISIS would seek other weapons systems and equip themselves. As it is, they're heavily reliant on our equipment, and as far as we know, those systems could be full of microphones, GPS tags, weapons interlocks, even self destruct devices just waiting for the US to invoke them during an invasion. Using them now would make their existence obvious, and limit their potential. Triggering them during a firefight, when the user might not even realize what happen, would have the maximum affect and potentially even keep their existence secret.
I think I'll be getting a cheap phone and putting it in my 6yr old's backpack.
You think the media publishers type up each individual request?
I used to have a job where I handled them. They are pretty much auto-generated by companies that charge the content owners for each notice. Most are fake and it's a massive scam to steal money from them. We ended up deleting most of them as the data in them was clearly made up. Basically they are required by law to do "something" about DMCA complaint, and you're seeing it. The net effect will probably be nothing. We rarely got to then in under a week, so I suspect they will take even longer. By then, the threads would be dead anyway.