The real mother of all broadband - 1 gigabit fibre to your home
Download 10000 MP3's or 500 movies in 5 minutes*
All for only £500 a month (Fair usage limits apply**)
*From legal sources only, though everyone knows the only place you can get that amount of files is from illegal sources, even though we hate file sharers making us a bunch of 2 faced cunts.
**If you download more than 1Meg during some unspecified time limit that differs throughout the country we will limit your speed to 512k. Full speed will be reinstated after another unspecified time period. Unrestricted access is only available between the times of 01:00 - 01:10 each day.
More amusing than this story is trying to imagine what a 1970's iPod would have been like. I'm sure its "ultra portable" battery would have needed wheels but the white headphones, which would be so heavy as to break your neck, would still scream "MUG ME!".
The fact that it was necessary to display "This is what scientologists actually believe" on the screen while parodying the cult of scientology on Southpark speaks volumes. This is the show that puts a nuke up Hillary Clinton's snatch and a hamster up Mr Slaves ass in front of a class of school kids.
Don't get too smart about it, whats happening in the UK now is setting a precedent. There will be hoards of media company lawyers in the US eagerly awaiting the results of this so they get an idea just what they will be able to get away with when they plan their next move over on your side on the pond. And we all know US lawyers try and get away with anything they can: "Someone at this orphanage for homeless retarded leper children with rickets download some crappy pinball game that no one was going to buy anyway.... SUE THEM ALL! MORE MONEY! MORE MONEY"
If you were standing next to a guy with a knife as big as the one in photo on the guardian site, would you even bother to get that "my penis is smaller than his" catapult out of your pocket?
Seriously though, I don't think many western governments will be doing what this desperate Thai government is doing, not until there is rioting through the streets and they are fearful of their power. In that situation western government would probably do a lot worse than shut down websites.
Notice the (not quite so) subtle tone of sarcasm in my regional post
"don't pretend that "certifications" are somehow a replacement for an academic or vocational qualification in the same area."
Also don't pretend that academic qualifications means anything at all in the IT industry.
Not long back we had a kid who had just completed a 3-year IT degree do a 6-month work placement with us. The manager gave him the task of visiting the server rooms and acquainting himself with machines. I was with him while he was trying to find one of our AS400 servers, he walked up to one of the networking cabinets full of network switches and cat5 cables and asked me "is this the AS400?" - I rest my case - he wasted 3 years of his life.
Buy the books for CCIE and MCSE (or whatever MS call it now), one copy of each book for the entire class. Tell them if they don't pass both by the end of the year they get sent to the frontline in Iraq. If they pass that test they will be setup for a lifetime in IT.
Walk past a public CCTV camera in the UK and make an official request to get a copy of the footage on which your image is contained, as is your right under the data protection act. Wont happen, you will for one reason or another never get that video. The Data protection act doesn't mean squat in practice.
Just Install peer guardian and configure it to use the Level1 Bluetack blocklist... then your safe as this blocks the vast majority of all anti P2P organisations worldwide.
If everyone did this the BPI's job of detecting file sharers would be a WHOLE lot harder and their deal with ISP would become worthless.
On another point, I think its naive to think that if your ISP send you one of these "informative" letters that they wont pass on your personal details to the BPI, who identified your IP address in the first place. The next logical step after is you end up in court fighting a copyright infringement case against the BPI or one of its "partners".
I'm English and I refuse to use this site because I decline to have to adopt the accent of a dumb American blond in order to articulate which search engine I am using. "..and so, like, she said this is, like, really cuil". In England we say "cool", not "ku-el", although to be honest it looks more like "su-ill" to me. It should go down a treat in Scotland however.
So you're claiming that the ceiling cat created the universe? But the ceiling cat is not a real ceiling cat because any idiot can see that it's a wall cat. It's only the camera angle that makes it look like a ceiling cat. Therefore your messiah is false because you viewed the facts in a skewed way. Furthermore you smell. Lets have a religious war over who is right. I smite u're followerz and burn u're temlplz 2 da groundz. Lollersk8tes!
See the user. See the user after 1 hour. See how many bytes up and down. Check how many different IP destinations the user is connected with.
Errrr, if they are using VPN then they will have 1 IP destination, to the company that's providing the VPN (think SecureIX or Relakks)
If they aren't downloading or uploading much, why throttle?:)
well, of course, we could all just buy an overpriced brardband connection and just not use it. At all. Then we could confidently boast that our connections are never getting throttled and happily invite people to look long and hard at how fucking good we are.
As it happens, we bought our net connections for a reason.
And while Iâ(TM)m at it, does anyone notice that the same ISP's that are most inclined to throttle you (or even report you to the music industry) are the ones who *still* advertise their service by boasting how many music/video files you can download in an hour?
I mirror the feelings of veteran labour MP Tony Benn when yesterday he said "I cant believe I would see the day that Magna Carta was repealed"
The reason this got voted through was because Gordon Brown and his chief whips spent days coercing MP's to vote in his favour. This does not prove that the 42-day extension is valid, or even needed, more that Gordon Brown was able to command enough MP votes on an issue, by offering them "incentives".
It is very unlikely this will make it through the House of Lords, there are prominent libertarians there just waiting to pull this apart.
If by some crazy act this actually *does* make it past the house of lords it will be tested in the law courts and the European courts.
Its VERY unlikely this will actually make it into law.
I'm from the UK and there's something I really don't understand. Whenever I read comments on the Internets from Americans at election time I often read fantastically insightful comments and opinions about world affairs, current issues and who (and why) should/shouldn't be "the next president of the united states of America". This is especially true when I read Slashdot.
So perhaps then people here could answer a question I have had for a while: Why is it that the people in America, at least over the last couple of decades, continue to vote into office, hmmm, shall we say "substandard" presidents that appear to not have the ability to piece a sentence together, let along come up with a solid set of foreign policies?
(This is a genuine question - I am not trolling)
A Bill Hicks quote comes to mind: "...we assassinate the good presidents..."
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The real mother of all broadband - 1 gigabit fibre to your home
Download 10000 MP3's or 500 movies in 5 minutes*
All for only £500 a month (Fair usage limits apply**)
*From legal sources only, though everyone knows the only place you can get that amount of files is from illegal sources, even though we hate file sharers making us a bunch of 2 faced cunts.
**If you download more than 1Meg during some unspecified time limit that differs throughout the country we will limit your speed to 512k. Full speed will be reinstated after another unspecified time period. Unrestricted access is only available between the times of 01:00 - 01:10 each day.
More amusing than this story is trying to imagine what a 1970's iPod would have been like. I'm sure its "ultra portable" battery would have needed wheels but the white headphones, which would be so heavy as to break your neck, would still scream "MUG ME!".
The fact that it was necessary to display "This is what scientologists actually believe" on the screen while parodying the cult of scientology on Southpark speaks volumes. This is the show that puts a nuke up Hillary Clinton's snatch and a hamster up Mr Slaves ass in front of a class of school kids.
Don't get too smart about it, whats happening in the UK now is setting a precedent. There will be hoards of media company lawyers in the US eagerly awaiting the results of this so they get an idea just what they will be able to get away with when they plan their next move over on your side on the pond. And we all know US lawyers try and get away with anything they can: "Someone at this orphanage for homeless retarded leper children with rickets download some crappy pinball game that no one was going to buy anyway.... SUE THEM ALL! MORE MONEY! MORE MONEY"
If you were standing next to a guy with a knife as big as the one in photo on the guardian site, would you even bother to get that "my penis is smaller than his" catapult out of your pocket?
Seriously though, I don't think many western governments will be doing what this desperate Thai government is doing, not until there is rioting through the streets and they are fearful of their power. In that situation western government would probably do a lot worse than shut down websites.
Notice the (not quite so) subtle tone of sarcasm in my regional post
"don't pretend that "certifications" are somehow a replacement for an academic or vocational qualification in the same area."
Also don't pretend that academic qualifications means anything at all in the IT industry. Not long back we had a kid who had just completed a 3-year IT degree do a 6-month work placement with us. The manager gave him the task of visiting the server rooms and acquainting himself with machines. I was with him while he was trying to find one of our AS400 servers, he walked up to one of the networking cabinets full of network switches and cat5 cables and asked me "is this the AS400?" - I rest my case - he wasted 3 years of his life.
Buy the books for CCIE and MCSE (or whatever MS call it now), one copy of each book for the entire class. Tell them if they don't pass both by the end of the year they get sent to the frontline in Iraq. If they pass that test they will be setup for a lifetime in IT.
Walk past a public CCTV camera in the UK and make an official request to get a copy of the footage on which your image is contained, as is your right under the data protection act. Wont happen, you will for one reason or another never get that video. The Data protection act doesn't mean squat in practice.
Just Install peer guardian and configure it to use the Level1 Bluetack blocklist... then your safe as this blocks the vast majority of all anti P2P organisations worldwide. If everyone did this the BPI's job of detecting file sharers would be a WHOLE lot harder and their deal with ISP would become worthless.
On another point, I think its naive to think that if your ISP send you one of these "informative" letters that they wont pass on your personal details to the BPI, who identified your IP address in the first place. The next logical step after is you end up in court fighting a copyright infringement case against the BPI or one of its "partners".
I'm English and I refuse to use this site because I decline to have to adopt the accent of a dumb American blond in order to articulate which search engine I am using. "..and so, like, she said this is, like, really cuil". In England we say "cool", not "ku-el", although to be honest it looks more like "su-ill" to me. It should go down a treat in Scotland however.
So you're claiming that the ceiling cat created the universe? But the ceiling cat is not a real ceiling cat because any idiot can see that it's a wall cat. It's only the camera angle that makes it look like a ceiling cat. Therefore your messiah is false because you viewed the facts in a skewed way. Furthermore you smell. Lets have a religious war over who is right. I smite u're followerz and burn u're temlplz 2 da groundz. Lollersk8tes!
See the user. See the user after 1 hour. See how many bytes up and down. Check how many different IP destinations the user is connected with.
:)
Errrr, if they are using VPN then they will have 1 IP destination, to the company that's providing the VPN (think SecureIX or Relakks)
If they aren't downloading or uploading much, why throttle?
well, of course, we could all just buy an overpriced brardband connection and just not use it. At all. Then we could confidently boast that our connections are never getting throttled and happily invite people to look long and hard at how fucking good we are.
As it happens, we bought our net connections for a reason.
And while Iâ(TM)m at it, does anyone notice that the same ISP's that are most inclined to throttle you (or even report you to the music industry) are the ones who *still* advertise their service by boasting how many music/video files you can download in an hour?
howcome my original comment gets modded 1 yet a one line reply simply stating the frst comment was right gets modded 2?
I mirror the feelings of veteran labour MP Tony Benn when yesterday he said "I cant believe I would see the day that Magna Carta was repealed"
The reason this got voted through was because Gordon Brown and his chief whips spent days coercing MP's to vote in his favour. This does not prove that the 42-day extension is valid, or even needed, more that Gordon Brown was able to command enough MP votes on an issue, by offering them "incentives".
It is very unlikely this will make it through the House of Lords, there are prominent libertarians there just waiting to pull this apart.
If by some crazy act this actually *does* make it past the house of lords it will be tested in the law courts and the European courts.
Its VERY unlikely this will actually make it into law.
I'm from the UK and there's something I really don't understand. Whenever I read comments on the Internets from Americans at election time I often read fantastically insightful comments and opinions about world affairs, current issues and who (and why) should/shouldn't be "the next president of the united states of America". This is especially true when I read Slashdot.
So perhaps then people here could answer a question I have had for a while: Why is it that the people in America, at least over the last couple of decades, continue to vote into office, hmmm, shall we say "substandard" presidents that appear to not have the ability to piece a sentence together, let along come up with a solid set of foreign policies?
(This is a genuine question - I am not trolling)
A Bill Hicks quote comes to mind: "...we assassinate the good presidents..."