So, the answer is, contact a lawyer for a possible class action law suit against Comcast for deceptive billing. I'd bet this is just about the OP's only option, since most people would assume network overhead isn't counted. If it is, litigation is likely the only recourse.
Hopefully his lawyer will say "Yes, by all means let's sue Comcast because AT&T is overbilling."
have a more important question:
Why should it be illegal that I do?
It isn't. It's news, i.e., an accurate depiction of reality that cannot and definitely should not be censored. Some authoritative law enforcement douchebags are making the claim that it could lead to prosecution, but that doesn't magically change the reality of what is actually legal or not.
I liken the situation to the American cops who arrested people that videotaped them beating black folks. They also made certain claims that have no basis in fact.
* As an aside, that mother's maiden name "security" question on the forms? Let's just say that the TSA provides more security than this does.
Mother's maiden name is a terrible security question anyway. It's often quite easy to find that data by checking geneology sites like Ancestry.com, or by the judicious use of Google. Marriage and funeral notices often include members of the entire family, and their relationships.
Not to mention the many "people finder" type sites that will sell you all the personal information you could hope for on a person for a nominal fee.
The problem with the current CAPTCHAs is that they are prone to a Mechanical Turk attack.
That's a problem with CAPCTHAs, not the only one. I've encountered several that I couldn't solve, even after trying several times, eventually leaving me no choice but to give up and go elsewhere.
It's a problem when your human detector fails to detect humans.
I guess this needs to be reported, but, is it news anymore?
Yes. It is huge news for anyone who seeks medical care in the US. Your supposedly confidential records are not confidential. It's criminal and I hope to see everyone responsible for mismanaging medical records prosecuted.
The scope of the problem isn't clear, the goal is ill-defined. What, exactly, are trolls winning?
I think the entire premise that trolling is a problem is wrong, and to find out that "researchers" are studying ways to combat it is highly amusing, if also a little disturbing.
Even to suggest that one side is "winning" implies that another side is losing. This is a false dichotomy, fabricated for no apparent reason, and it makes me wonder about the motives behind it.
The end game of NSA is a perfect one-way mirror: They have all information about your activities, and you have zero information about their activities.
Note that this is the opposite of what the American public needs to make an informed decision during elections.
Unless I'm mistaken, one of the few remaining samples of smallpox is located in Atlanta.
There's some in the storage closet in Maryland. Might be some in Atlanta, too. Who knows. The reason they call it smallpox is because it's so hard to see. Makes it difficult to keep track of.
While it's not treason, it sounds like multiple felonies to me.
Quite correct. It is espionage, which like treason, is a death penalty offense. I don't care what label you use to hang 'em, just as long as the end result is the same.
That would put a heavy dent in the income of the organizations that manage the prison systems (which are mostly cronies of the politicians).
Everyone making money off the status quo will fight tooth and nail to maintain it. That's a given. New crimes are being defined all the time, the one that pops into my mind first is unauthorized use of computers. And just try to exercise your first amendment right to protest within earshot of the president.
Since Orwell's 1984 has been spot on so far, my guess is that the next activity to be made illegal is any attempt to maintain privacy. Seems to be the way the winds are blowing, anyway.
Randomly speeding up or slowing down, and changing lanes without signalling is called "Massachusetts Mode".
It's just in the Boston area where that happens. Once you get to Western Mass, driving becomes more or less normative.
Still, I've done my share of Boston driving. The most annoying maneuver I've encountered is when you are making a left hand turn and the car behind you cuts you off making the turn before you thereby gaining the positional advantage.
I would cast further aspersions upon Boston drivers but one time I was hopelessly lost in the heart of Boston and realized I was driving the wrong way down a one way street. So, sometimes I'm the douchebag, I guess.
My experience is that Google took my fake name from YouTube and created a Google+ account with it. I can't really see how they can get butthurt about the use of a fake name on Google+ when I didn't sign up for, don't use, nor even want to use the service.
That being said, YouTube comments work best when they are not taken seriously. There whole "redesign" of the comment section failed spectacularly because they didn't understand what motivates people to comment in the first place. It's supposed to be fun, not a pain in the ass.
Aren't there like three actual sins against humanity, all of them including domination of the weak or innocent?.... is there a third?
Sure, the abuse of government warrantless searches in spite of that being directly prohibited by the Fourth Amendment. Let's call that number three and for a fourth let's take the paramititarized police forces using extrajudicial methods to suppress dissent from ordinary American citizens.
Obviously, what the world needs is a suite of server-less, p2p communication protocols that would cover our basic communication needs without any centralized points of failure (like NSLable mail server operators) and with all communication encrypted.
We have one, it's called Freenet. The technology exists, but people aren't using it.
Unfortunately, there is a countdown timer telling them the light will change to yellow in 4 seconds, so they know they need to speed up to make it through.
But a yellow light does not mean speed up, it means slow down and prepare to stop, as the light is about to turn red.
If drivers reinterpret the meaning of traffic signals to mean the opposite of what is intended then you are going to have some problems.
It was only after he was repeatedly blocked from doing that by wireless access (being blocked should have been a clue to him) that he snuck into the closet.
OOoooh. Did he sneak in on his belly like a cobra or on tippy-toes like the spy-vs-spy cartoon? Seems like that would just draw undo attention. Or maybe he just walked in, and you are making shit up.
He could have downloaded the data from his own desk in his own office. Instead he went to the library and entered a wiring closet that was clearly not supposed to be open to the public.
If you were going to download a lot of data, would you choose a node with many hops to the server or just a few? I would pick the one closest to the server.
Slashdot Mirror
So, the answer is, contact a lawyer for a possible class action law suit against Comcast for deceptive billing. I'd bet this is just about the OP's only option, since most people would assume network overhead isn't counted. If it is, litigation is likely the only recourse.
Hopefully his lawyer will say "Yes, by all means let's sue Comcast because AT&T is overbilling."
have a more important question: Why should it be illegal that I do?
It isn't. It's news, i.e., an accurate depiction of reality that cannot and definitely should not be censored. Some authoritative law enforcement douchebags are making the claim that it could lead to prosecution, but that doesn't magically change the reality of what is actually legal or not.
I liken the situation to the American cops who arrested people that videotaped them beating black folks. They also made certain claims that have no basis in fact.
* As an aside, that mother's maiden name "security" question on the forms? Let's just say that the TSA provides more security than this does.
Mother's maiden name is a terrible security question anyway. It's often quite easy to find that data by checking geneology sites like Ancestry.com, or by the judicious use of Google. Marriage and funeral notices often include members of the entire family, and their relationships.
Not to mention the many "people finder" type sites that will sell you all the personal information you could hope for on a person for a nominal fee.
The problem with the current CAPTCHAs is that they are prone to a Mechanical Turk attack.
That's a problem with CAPCTHAs, not the only one. I've encountered several that I couldn't solve, even after trying several times, eventually leaving me no choice but to give up and go elsewhere.
It's a problem when your human detector fails to detect humans.
I guess this needs to be reported, but, is it news anymore?
Yes. It is huge news for anyone who seeks medical care in the US. Your supposedly confidential records are not confidential. It's criminal and I hope to see everyone responsible for mismanaging medical records prosecuted.
These people have experienced enough to doubt anything they've been told by the authorities, and rightfully so.
Not sure whether you are talking about Africa or America...
Wait ... what the fuck was in it before?
Only the finest, !00% natural, meat-bearing animals.
The scope of the problem isn't clear, the goal is ill-defined. What, exactly, are trolls winning?
I think the entire premise that trolling is a problem is wrong, and to find out that "researchers" are studying ways to combat it is highly amusing, if also a little disturbing.
Even to suggest that one side is "winning" implies that another side is losing. This is a false dichotomy, fabricated for no apparent reason, and it makes me wonder about the motives behind it.
The end game of NSA is a perfect one-way mirror: They have all information about your activities, and you have zero information about their activities.
Note that this is the opposite of what the American public needs to make an informed decision during elections.
Or Kate, if it's a girl. And Emacs if you're not quite sure what the hell it is.
The fact that some people stupidly left some pathogens lying around a long time ago has pretty much nothing to do with this case.
Only if you believe there are no stupid people now, which I frankly am having trouble believing.
Unless I'm mistaken, one of the few remaining samples of smallpox is located in Atlanta.
There's some in the storage closet in Maryland. Might be some in Atlanta, too. Who knows. The reason they call it smallpox is because it's so hard to see. Makes it difficult to keep track of.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/07/08/smallpox-discovered-sitting-in-maryland-storage-room/
While it's not treason, it sounds like multiple felonies to me.
Quite correct. It is espionage, which like treason, is a death penalty offense. I don't care what label you use to hang 'em, just as long as the end result is the same.
That would put a heavy dent in the income of the organizations that manage the prison systems (which are mostly cronies of the politicians).
Everyone making money off the status quo will fight tooth and nail to maintain it. That's a given. New crimes are being defined all the time, the one that pops into my mind first is unauthorized use of computers. And just try to exercise your first amendment right to protest within earshot of the president.
Since Orwell's 1984 has been spot on so far, my guess is that the next activity to be made illegal is any attempt to maintain privacy. Seems to be the way the winds are blowing, anyway.
Randomly speeding up or slowing down, and changing lanes without signalling is called "Massachusetts Mode".
It's just in the Boston area where that happens. Once you get to Western Mass, driving becomes more or less normative.
Still, I've done my share of Boston driving. The most annoying maneuver I've encountered is when you are making a left hand turn and the car behind you cuts you off making the turn before you thereby gaining the positional advantage.
I would cast further aspersions upon Boston drivers but one time I was hopelessly lost in the heart of Boston and realized I was driving the wrong way down a one way street. So, sometimes I'm the douchebag, I guess.
Youtube comments are notoriously atrocious.
My experience is that Google took my fake name from YouTube and created a Google+ account with it. I can't really see how they can get butthurt about the use of a fake name on Google+ when I didn't sign up for, don't use, nor even want to use the service.
That being said, YouTube comments work best when they are not taken seriously. There whole "redesign" of the comment section failed spectacularly because they didn't understand what motivates people to comment in the first place. It's supposed to be fun, not a pain in the ass.
Aren't there like three actual sins against humanity, all of them including domination of the weak or innocent? .... is there a third?
Sure, the abuse of government warrantless searches in spite of that being directly prohibited by the Fourth Amendment. Let's call that number three and for a fourth let's take the paramititarized police forces using extrajudicial methods to suppress dissent from ordinary American citizens.
Apparently, nobody has ever done a single environmental impact assessment or a performed an inspection related to a fracking operation.
Why bother? There's no point to it. The oil and gas companies have explicit exemptions and exceptions to most EPA oversight.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exemptions_for_hydraulic_fracturing_under_United_States_federal_law
It matters not a whit how damaging their actions are to the environment when there is no possible recourse available.
Obviously, what the world needs is a suite of server-less, p2p communication protocols that would cover our basic communication needs without any centralized points of failure (like NSLable mail server operators) and with all communication encrypted.
We have one, it's called Freenet. The technology exists, but people aren't using it.
Unfortunately, there is a countdown timer telling them the light will change to yellow in 4 seconds, so they know they need to speed up to make it through.
But a yellow light does not mean speed up, it means slow down and prepare to stop, as the light is about to turn red.
If drivers reinterpret the meaning of traffic signals to mean the opposite of what is intended then you are going to have some problems.
For the record, that video shows him walking casually into the room, not "sneaking" into it. You might see something nefarious going on, but I don't.
He also was a criminal with criminal intent in every action he took.
Or he was practicing non-violent civil disobedience, which until recently was considered a virtuous American value and taught to school children.
Do you revile Henry David Thoreau as much as you do Aaron Schwartz?
It was only after he was repeatedly blocked from doing that by wireless access (being blocked should have been a clue to him) that he snuck into the closet.
OOoooh. Did he sneak in on his belly like a cobra or on tippy-toes like the spy-vs-spy cartoon? Seems like that would just draw undo attention. Or maybe he just walked in, and you are making shit up.
He could have downloaded the data from his own desk in his own office. Instead he went to the library and entered a wiring closet that was clearly not supposed to be open to the public.
If you were going to download a lot of data, would you choose a node with many hops to the server or just a few? I would pick the one closest to the server.
And the Irwin Mainway Bag O' Glass.