I like your ideas, now... how are you going to convince a politician to implement these? As a voter you offer very little money to their coffers and lets me honest, you are not going to get enough fellow voters to remove them from office for this issue alone. In fact this issue is not even going to register in any meaningful way for the next 30 years. The politician is going to take the money from the businesses and regulate them as they agree to be regulated.
I am going to just go with history and make the bet that we consumers get screwed again. Better to have no regulation and control what my browser does with scripts before they gain/bribe enough regulatory power/influence to get government to agree that they have a default "right to my data" as a government blessed and regulated monopoly or oligopoly.
So yea, if we could send the message to them that these are the ONLY regulations allowed, then it would be great! but that is just not going to happen.
Regulations do not always result in criminal prosecution.
And in the case of business regulatory agency... talking to the burglars and traffickers is pretty much 'exactly' what they do when they amend regulation.
Oh, and before I do forget, it actually might be genuinely a good idea to talk to those criminals before amending criminal law. You do understand that many of the laws in place actually increase recidivism rates instead of reducing them. After all, the more you treat petty criminal like a major criminal, the more they will feel like they cannot get a break and will return to their former life style or worse. If you talk to them, they might give you a clue on what might actually cause them to stop their criminal ways... but its not like you care or anything right? They are just criminals that need to be taught a lesson and never deserving of any forgiveness and most certainly not deserving of being listened too...
I would take many of those criminals as fellow citizens before someone like you. The moment I made a mistake you would try to crucify me... at least they might be a bit for forgiving... after having be screwed by a system with logic like this.
just think about the problem and it should come to you. But like most other voters, thinking about anything but the next reality TV show is verboten. You just want to hear some smooth sounding politician to say "we go this" right?
Here is just a small reason why it is a bad idea. Once the government can force a business to be interoperable... then all businesses will have to become interoperable. Big businesses with money will quickly increase the complexity of this interoperability so that it will not be easy or cheap for competitors to be interoperable making it easy to squash them and simultaneously raise the barrier of entry. Not only that, but you will become universally tracked by default. Everything about the interoperability will most definitely be used to track everything you do and fed to the government... in case you are a terrorist, or a malcontent that needs to be monitored, or someone that did something bad that can be used against you in a court of law next time you need to fight a custody battle with your spouse or fight off a litigious business or individual.
It might even become bad enough that only certain businesses will be allow even have websites on the internet because before you can be allowed to register, you have to prove that you are "interoperable" before getting a domain.
Say hello to universal ID and Zero anonymity on the internet. I hope you are the first person in court fighting for your life after someone steals your identity and does something illegal with it.
I hear nowadays just being accused of certain crimes destroys your future... no one will even wait until you go to trial to find out if you are innocent... you are automatically guilty... even if you eventually get a "not-guilty" verdict.
Identity theft is about to get a lot worse after someone like you gets a hold of the problem.
And no, data migration is NOT easy. Businesses spend ass loads of money on migrations all year round with many of them either resulting in failures or projects that did manage to finish but are only limping along.
Just talk to a few systems admins and engineers... they will be happy to tell you how broken a lot of shit is.
This will go down just like the the telecoms and the FCC.
An agency will be established to oversee these businesses. These businesses will place a revolving door between them and the regulators. These businesses will use that revolving door to bribe and encourage regulators to write regulations is such a way that it looks good to regular voters, but actually help keep the big players entrenched.
Why else do you think these "regulations" are being asked for by the very players that will be regulated by them?
At first the regulations will look good... then they will fail... because they will be designed to fail and because the regulators are going to be lax on enforcement because it benefits them to not enforce them. Why? Because once they fail, voters are going to ask for more regulation. This gives regulators more reason to regulate and more reason to increase the speed of that revolving door and the amount of campaign donations.
Meanwhile... all of the voters that cheered for these regulations will not be saved one single iota of trouble. They will still be tracked, data mined, and treated like a product.
the only thing these regulations are going to do is grant these business government favor when the regulators "decided" that tracking you is justifiable just to do business. another potential side effect may be licensing... as in business must seek licenses to operate, like radio stations and broadcasters. You see... why shouldn't they? The funds from these licenses will go toward paying for the agency. And of course... this will raise the barrier of entry into the market, which is what these businesses want. Why? Because once they can make it harder for competition to spring up, the more they can abuse YOU without fear!
the results will be, browsers will be required to do everything a website says, including obey DRM, run scripts to access your computer, and able to run Ads whether you like them or not. It might even become that running "illegal browsers" will become a thing, and yes, just like people in jail for fucking jaywalking and joints people will be in jail for using illegal browsers.
You already do not own your own cell phones, your carrier do, and now you will find even less control over how you consume the internet because you are going to be forced to use only "regulator approved" services and browsers.
This will not happen all at once. It will slowly happen over time, perhaps even after some of you are already long dead, but happen it will. Just like how no one wants to say that a suspected pedo has rights out of fear of people saying they are also supporting pedo's instead of supporting due process. Under the guise of regulation, you will continue to lose even more freedom as it is traded in for temporary safety.
And if you trade liberty for safety, you deserve neither.
Sorry, but this is not the stock market where you can make the disclaimer of "past performance is no guarantee of future results". More than enough of those predictions have failed quite spectacularly to make all of the other yet to be reach future predictions highly suspect.
In Science we need past performance to be accurate to be "reasonably certain" of those future predictions... why? Because if we are correct about the "known's" then we are also going to be correct or at least pretty close about the "predictions". And since the predictions that have past, have not only be wrong, but VERY wrong... I am willing to stake the future of the planet on them STILL being wrong as long as those solutions are tied to shady political wealth redistribution plans. It will only make the rich, richer in ways we probably cannot even understand yet.
When they do make correct predictions about the major points THEN you can get me to pay more attention to THAT person and what they have to say about this. Until then, I am going to think that these doomsday predictions will be every bit as accurate as 100% of all the past doomsday predictions that have been made.
You want to be alarmist, go ahead, but be warned that you will only damage your position when you become wrong and the next "sky is falling" claim after that will only be that much harder to be believed. As a proponent of climate change you will make more believers if you can get the Al Gore's to also stop hypocritically riding around in Jets, living in super huge mansions, and generally being everything their base claims to hate about the rich. Yes, I have heard some of them even create low foot print mansions and I applaud that, but I also do not see them running around trying to make renewable energy easily available on the market through legislation or subsidy... why? Because the power providing utility companies make too many donations to their campaigns. We have more than enough tech out there to start putting solar on top of "existing" buildings and roofs to make a very big impact on our energy consumption and to create a fairly distributed energy network so a disaster cannot easily take out millions of people energy in one go like Irma did in the Caribbean. Where is the drive for that? Where is the political motivation for it? About as empty as the heads making these insane predictions... that is where!
Heck, I am all for chasing renewable energy, just in case you guys are right... but I am not okay with forcing legislative action to tell people that carbon, a basic and essential component of life is now a toxin... it is not and never will be. We are carbon based life forms after all.
Sorry, but the hoax is NOT "Global Warming" it is the agenda behind it.
According to you, we should have melted Ice Caps and lots of land under water. Additionally, back in the 70's it was Global Cooling too. Do you know how many times eggs have been added and removed to the do not eat/do eat list? It's Science... we keep updating out understandings of things, but with people like you, it is treated like it is some "Holy Crusade".
By the way... how it it working out for you by calling everyone "fucking stupid" if they don't eat the same garbage you do about this? You can even look at several polls that show very few people are really that concerned about "global warming".
Correlation does not equal Causation, and people are actually allowed to draw a different conclusion than you when looking at the same data.
I don't disbelieve in Climate Change, I don't specifically disbelieve in the "anthroprogenic" parts either. What I do not believe is trusting you or the rest of the agenda setting sciences "how much" we are to blame because not a single fucking prediction you have had has come true yet. When you prediction models stop being all over the place, I will begin to trust that "THAT PERSON" might finally know what is going on and listen to them! Certainly NOT someone like YOU!
You have only fallen into his trap. You cannot allow yourself to be put on the defensive. You automatically lose. Instead go after his message.
When they make the claim, it's not what you said, it's how you said it... take a break. They just admitted that you are right but they still cannot let it stand because as Jim Carrey said to the judge in "Liar Liar"
Fletcher: Your honor, I object! Judge Stevens: And why is that, Mr. Reede? Fletcher: It's devastating to my case!
The truth is not the objective, controlling the narrative and using any excuse to marginalize what you said is. So in short, just being in favor of the 2nd Amendment means that no matter what or how you say it... you have already run afoul of their content filters.
Diplomacy is the art of telling your enemies to go to hell in such a way as to make them look forward to the trip.
I think there is a problem when the focus is more on how you said something rather than what you said. Does it really matter if someone can come up with a nifty way to insult you? It is an insult all the same and vilifying people if they stated a truth in a way you did not like is tantamount to shooting the messenger.
At the end of the day, the universal lesson is... the more you try to silence the opposition, the louder they get. And when you have taken every measure, every step to silence them... they will eventually understand that communication is no longer possible with the end result being violence... because after all... you are no longer listening to them.
It seems that we have had more than enough of peace and are now coming up with more and more excuses so that we can to do violence to one another.
Any attempt to control the conversation is the same as "not listening" or attempting to "silence them".
Ahem, this is not free-enterprise... and it is pretty disingenuous to outright intentional misleading to advance the notion. There is nothing free-enterprise about the Telecommunications landscape bribing regulators for practically a century. The sector is heavily regulated and there are several monopolies littered about the scape in multiple ways.
But I will say that you are right about this part.
"The American Dream works, just not for people like you."
The problem is that allowing the FCC to regulate this sector as natural monopolies is what causes that effect in this situation. But you will find many people do not understand that and still think that regulation will work despite us looking right into the face of failed regulator agency.
So sure, regulation could work, but not "this kind" of regulation. Regulations must be anti-monopoly and anti-trust to have any real effect or you just get this game we have here where the regulated businesses just install a revolving door between themselves and regulators upon the backs of the citizens that regulators were originally intended to protect the interests off. The foxes are guarding the hen house and are smart enough to only kill the number of hens necessary to get what they want but not attract enough notice to cause sufficient outrage to have the problem dealt with.
This is the usual "feel good" politics designed to distract people from the real action and the real problem. Sadly it works all too well.
There is only one comment period... and they are all called elections. Remember that congress has always had the power to tell the FCC and other regulatory agencies exactly what to do and or remake or destroy them when they turn into capture and the fact that they don't means that elected politicians know that they were successful in getting citizens to ignore congress and focus on the agencies instead allowing congress to largely get a pass on actually having to deal with the corruption in agencies. People are going to be too busy worried about which letter got voted in, over petty politics, instead of which letters actually did or are doing anything about the many problems. Empty platitudes along with ineffective or counter productive action is the order of the day.
And since the ole regulation/deregulation arguments have become so nebulous and meaningless in context no one is really saying anything. Someone says regulation and congress or the agencies interpret the calls as "moar rules" even when those rules wind up helping businesses and hurting consumers. And then after those rules get put in everyone goes home like the problem is solved only to come back in another couple of years wondering why it is still a problem, rinse and repeat.
Sesta is not only about children, or are you dumb enough to think adults cannot be trafficked? I also brought up DMCA, and even mentioned "other laws" like them. I also brought up people "being consider guilty until proven innocent" which you just participated in.
You appear to be part and parcel of what is wrong with people these days. More than willing to commit libel without any thought to what could happen to you if someone tried to do anything about it.
Just imagine what kind of trouble you might be in if I were a member of law enforcement after making that claim? Just imagine that the next time you say something like that someone is law enforcement and YOU get put on the "guilty until proven innocent" chopping blocked just because they can. Karma is real, I would recommend that you pay heed.
Sesta DMCA and plenty of other laws will run everyone off of the platform once the inevitable legal issues arise.
It will be relegated to a dark place on the web with a bed reputation where law enforcement will take YOU to jail for accidentally hosting something they don't like.
Good luck explaining the problem to a jury in such a way that they will not think you are up to no good. We have long since forgotten the principles of innocent until proven guilty and have fallen back to the old day of guilty until proven innocent and just exercising your legal rights is more often then not regarded as a sign of guilt on it's own. I do not expect this to go very far before it implodes due to external forces.
Your post only proves mine. Public opinion can "easily" be bought. Poorer people have given more to Buffet than Buffet will ever return.
Would you also herald my name should I destroy a few people and build you a world scale zoo? What does it take to buy your admiration? Apparently Buffet has found that price.
In the end... everything they did to gain all of those riches and now that they feel the knock of death approach they have only just learned what the poor have known all along, but oddly, envied the rich for never having known.
A wise person knows of a great many things a person can aspire to in life that are far higher than a charitable foundation as the only purpose of a charitable foundation is only to buy public opinion and though cheap as it comes, the ask is never ending.
"Wrong. Free markets evolve towards consolidation and the only thing that prevents that is government regulation."
This is not actually true. You are blaming free-market for something that greed through "capitalism" is guilty of. If you are going to blame something blame the right thing instead of the wrong thing.
Additionally, the FCC is defacto on record as stating that they are going to regulate telco's as natural monopolies. This has the opposite effect of regulation preventing the monopoly and instead it is now blessing these monopolies. And now that the government approves of the monopoly the government is not going to challenge them anymore. This leaves the monopolies with loads of money and power to subvert the regulatory agencies just as it did the FCC and Ajit Pai.
The take away here is that, through regulation you jumped right to approving of monopoly while saying you need regulation in place to "prevent" them. See right through you, we do!
"The takeaway here is that the concept of an unrestricted free market fundamentally stabilizes on a highly undesirable state of affairs from a societal point of view."
Two things, you are falsely equivocating with the fact that a free-market and what he said. He did not mention free market anywhere in the post, he just said your methods strengthened "an oligopolistic environment where the consumer ultimately suffers." which is true.
The FCC for decades has never challenged the Monopolies, in fact none of the democrats challenge the monopolies from time to time any more than the republicans. Rarely to either ever attempt to dismantle the monopolies they just try to control them in different ways.
Both sides share more than enough blame here. No matter which party is in power more and more mergers like this are becoming possible.
Did you go and watch any of the Marvel Movies? Intellectual Properties that Disney purchased? Disney is silently becoming a mega merged movie and entertainment powerhouse. I bet your money is not where your mouth is and you give Disney your money. ATT is a bit different, some people only have ATT for their provider and can't do anything about it or just get no connectivity, but reading that link should tell you that your turds smell too.
The system is openly corrupt, they do not even try to hide it, yet people seem to not really care.
This will enable them to "out high frequency trade" other "high frequency traders" not able to process at their speed.
Instituting a required 1 day post processing of all orders in the order they were received would go a long way towards mitigating market volatility caused by this. This will only drive inflation up as those with the fastest systems can out game other systems, leaving the losing systems looking for way to recoup their losses... usually upon the backs of the standard hard working commoner classes.
A greater divide in wealth will continue to trend upward and the wall street casino will adjust it's odds increasingly in favor of the house. They will talk to the common man about long term holdings, diversification, and 401k's, while sneaking off to their "high frequency trading" backrooms shortly after to make money off of these transactions occurring.
Ok, full disclosure... not a republican but a big fan of free-market.
yes, this is actually just fine and yes I am a Systems Engineer that has more than a decade of infrastructure experience and can code in several languages to varying degrees, though I am by no means an expert in coding, however, I am an expert in infrastructure.
If I bid on a job and they tried to undercut me with a 3rd world labor I would just tell them good luck and wish them well. When they come back with a failed 3rd world job, I will tell them that my rate has gone up. It is nothing personal, but now I will have to overcome the failures or mess those guys left behind. Live and learn.
Quality speaks for itself for obvious reasons. Yes businesses are constantly relearning this lesson, and no... this lesson never sticks... hence folks like you looking for excessive unnatural government controls on everything that will actually cause the opposite effect you expect. The cost only goes up... not down!
Socialism... a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Socialism is about how people and their governments choose to run society as a whole... NOT an interconnected collection of networks, computers, or devices.
Take this article itself for example... is Venezula blocking TOR really a product of "socialism" or is it a product of a dictator taking advantage of a nation full of socialists? There really is a difference!
for the most party society has zero say over how the internet works... just just have a say on where they go on it. You do not get to vote, or tell businesses how they must operate either. You can call up a senator and give them ideas, but that is not really socialism. The moment a small group of people decide the rules Socialism has failed... which means by that virtue a Government "always composed of by a small group of people" cannot be socialist ever. Socialism in actual practice is utopian and much closer to libertarian or anarchy, and I think we all know how well that works based on human history.
A small group of people always want to control the majority and they will do, say, or try to get you to believe in any "ism" they can dream up to get you to go along with it.
Only a true direct democracy has the possibility of being an actual socialist society, and given the number of people on the internet with some serious Dunning-Kruger psychosis going on... well we all know that would be a fast failure!
he is using the "no true Scotsman" fallacy but is not entirely wrong either. The only thing he is wrong about is the idea of "true neutrality". He is right they were never for it, but actual neutrality by definition means NO rules in reality or it would not be neutral, it would instead by pro or anti something.
Net Neutral had Zero-Rating in it and was a huge loophole that would allow content owning ISP's to favor their content services over others effectively making NN a weak to pointless affair on that front.
Now, lets also look at some of the other things... enforcement. NN had provisions that allowed the FCC to nebulously decide what was and was not a violation of NN rules. This is not fair at any level, kinda like the illegal to be black on a Friday night cops types of unfair. Rules need to be well defined for very obvious reasons and they failed to do that.
Pai is just another crony over zealous "regulate all the things" crowd has indirectly invited in. Well meaning people have little desire to take on these kinds of responsibilities so when you create them, you are going to more often than not attract a specific kind of crowd that are definitely interested in these things and they are likely not going to care about the little guy along the way because why would they? They don't get anything but a thank you from you at best and a hefty amount of cash and perks from the industry on the other hand.
Which would you take? Most people would not be able to resist going the route Pai has gone and most would be able to justify why they are doing it in their own minds. It was already clear that most people are more than willing to sacrifice some ideals just by the simple fact that we had an Election where two of the worst humans on the face of the planet were running for President in a face off. That actually says quite a lot about the state of politics in America right now!
"With complete DNS control of your banks domain they can obtain certificates and pose as a secure copy of your banks website and steal your credentials that way."
yea, um no... you can't "just get a certificate" like that.
You have to get a publicly trusted CA to issue you a Certificate for a domain you don't own and a CA is not going to do that unless they want to risk going out of business or becoming untrusted defeating the entire purpose of being a CA. And if you go an create your own, well how are you going to get the victim's own system to trust it without a root signer they already trust? Systems do not accept certificates blindly!
You are going to have to trick someone to give you a certificate or find a way to compromise their Certificate or find a way to illegitimately obtain a proper certificate like finding some dumbass admin that left a cert laying around on an easy to access network drive with its private key and an easy to guess password (likely also stored in a txt file right next to it) protecting it.
Don't even DARE to come up with the idea that browsers should be performing these functions. The browser needs to do only one thing... trust the DNS server that gave it data because the USER or Admins configured it... OTHER more suitable tools (like inline network devices/services) should be doing this security. It is NOT just about what will or will not break with this, it is also about the thought of Google, Microsoft, Firefox, and Opera deciding what is good or bad DNS and then also dealing with false positives and bugs that is going to definitely come with attempting this. Not only that but this kind of functionality will now be tested on browsers and become included in their "security profiles".
It's just a terrible terrible idea, like putting a governor in every car connected to GPS to make sure it NEVER goes over the speed limit.
Hackers would waste NO TIME in compromising this garbage in a browser and system would become even less secure just having it in them NOT MORE secure.
I cannot expound on how terrible the idea you just had is!
"Any expert here who actually did proper research and is aware of his own ideologies and social conditioning?"
If you cannot understand how intellectually bankrupt that question is then you probably cannot understand why people cannot fix things without applying their childish ideologies.
People are fearful creatures, they will never break away from it and sadly yes... they can be ruled quite easily through that fear. Nothing you listed is a fear based ideology. They are all just ideologies, the fear comes from the humans participating in them and there is not a single ideology in existence free of fear's influence. In fact the very formation of a group identity is a fear based survival mechanic that is as natural as loving your own mother. There are fearful, ambivalent, and fearless people in every ideology. Problems arise when there is no balance between these persons.
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I like your ideas, now... how are you going to convince a politician to implement these? As a voter you offer very little money to their coffers and lets me honest, you are not going to get enough fellow voters to remove them from office for this issue alone. In fact this issue is not even going to register in any meaningful way for the next 30 years. The politician is going to take the money from the businesses and regulate them as they agree to be regulated.
I am going to just go with history and make the bet that we consumers get screwed again. Better to have no regulation and control what my browser does with scripts before they gain/bribe enough regulatory power/influence to get government to agree that they have a default "right to my data" as a government blessed and regulated monopoly or oligopoly.
So yea, if we could send the message to them that these are the ONLY regulations allowed, then it would be great! but that is just not going to happen.
This is a non-sequitur.
Regulations do not always result in criminal prosecution.
And in the case of business regulatory agency... talking to the burglars and traffickers is pretty much 'exactly' what they do when they amend regulation.
Oh, and before I do forget, it actually might be genuinely a good idea to talk to those criminals before amending criminal law. You do understand that many of the laws in place actually increase recidivism rates instead of reducing them. After all, the more you treat petty criminal like a major criminal, the more they will feel like they cannot get a break and will return to their former life style or worse. If you talk to them, they might give you a clue on what might actually cause them to stop their criminal ways... but its not like you care or anything right? They are just criminals that need to be taught a lesson and never deserving of any forgiveness and most certainly not deserving of being listened too...
I would take many of those criminals as fellow citizens before someone like you. The moment I made a mistake you would try to crucify me... at least they might be a bit for forgiving... after having be screwed by a system with logic like this.
just think about the problem and it should come to you. But like most other voters, thinking about anything but the next reality TV show is verboten. You just want to hear some smooth sounding politician to say "we go this" right?
Here is just a small reason why it is a bad idea. Once the government can force a business to be interoperable... then all businesses will have to become interoperable. Big businesses with money will quickly increase the complexity of this interoperability so that it will not be easy or cheap for competitors to be interoperable making it easy to squash them and simultaneously raise the barrier of entry. Not only that, but you will become universally tracked by default. Everything about the interoperability will most definitely be used to track everything you do and fed to the government... in case you are a terrorist, or a malcontent that needs to be monitored, or someone that did something bad that can be used against you in a court of law next time you need to fight a custody battle with your spouse or fight off a litigious business or individual.
It might even become bad enough that only certain businesses will be allow even have websites on the internet because before you can be allowed to register, you have to prove that you are "interoperable" before getting a domain.
so Yea, very bad idea...
Say hello to universal ID and Zero anonymity on the internet.
I hope you are the first person in court fighting for your life after someone steals your identity and does something illegal with it.
I hear nowadays just being accused of certain crimes destroys your future... no one will even wait until you go to trial to find out if you are innocent... you are automatically guilty... even if you eventually get a "not-guilty" verdict.
Identity theft is about to get a lot worse after someone like you gets a hold of the problem.
And no, data migration is NOT easy. Businesses spend ass loads of money on migrations all year round with many of them either resulting in failures or projects that did manage to finish but are only limping along.
Just talk to a few systems admins and engineers... they will be happy to tell you how broken a lot of shit is.
This will go down just like the the telecoms and the FCC.
An agency will be established to oversee these businesses.
These businesses will place a revolving door between them and the regulators.
These businesses will use that revolving door to bribe and encourage regulators to write regulations is such a way that it looks good to regular voters, but actually help keep the big players entrenched.
Why else do you think these "regulations" are being asked for by the very players that will be regulated by them?
At first the regulations will look good... then they will fail... because they will be designed to fail and because the regulators are going to be lax on enforcement because it benefits them to not enforce them. Why? Because once they fail, voters are going to ask for more regulation. This gives regulators more reason to regulate and more reason to increase the speed of that revolving door and the amount of campaign donations.
Meanwhile... all of the voters that cheered for these regulations will not be saved one single iota of trouble. They will still be tracked, data mined, and treated like a product.
the only thing these regulations are going to do is grant these business government favor when the regulators "decided" that tracking you is justifiable just to do business.
another potential side effect may be licensing... as in business must seek licenses to operate, like radio stations and broadcasters. You see... why shouldn't they? The funds from these licenses will go toward paying for the agency. And of course... this will raise the barrier of entry into the market, which is what these businesses want. Why? Because once they can make it harder for competition to spring up, the more they can abuse YOU without fear!
the results will be, browsers will be required to do everything a website says, including obey DRM, run scripts to access your computer, and able to run Ads whether you like them or not. It might even become that running "illegal browsers" will become a thing, and yes, just like people in jail for fucking jaywalking and joints people will be in jail for using illegal browsers.
You already do not own your own cell phones, your carrier do, and now you will find even less control over how you consume the internet because you are going to be forced to use only "regulator approved" services and browsers.
This will not happen all at once. It will slowly happen over time, perhaps even after some of you are already long dead, but happen it will. Just like how no one wants to say that a suspected pedo has rights out of fear of people saying they are also supporting pedo's instead of supporting due process. Under the guise of regulation, you will continue to lose even more freedom as it is traded in for temporary safety.
And if you trade liberty for safety, you deserve neither.
Sorry, but this is not the stock market where you can make the disclaimer of "past performance is no guarantee of future results". More than enough of those predictions have failed quite spectacularly to make all of the other yet to be reach future predictions highly suspect.
In Science we need past performance to be accurate to be "reasonably certain" of those future predictions... why? Because if we are correct about the "known's" then we are also going to be correct or at least pretty close about the "predictions". And since the predictions that have past, have not only be wrong, but VERY wrong... I am willing to stake the future of the planet on them STILL being wrong as long as those solutions are tied to shady political wealth redistribution plans. It will only make the rich, richer in ways we probably cannot even understand yet.
When they do make correct predictions about the major points THEN you can get me to pay more attention to THAT person and what they have to say about this. Until then, I am going to think that these doomsday predictions will be every bit as accurate as 100% of all the past doomsday predictions that have been made.
You want to be alarmist, go ahead, but be warned that you will only damage your position when you become wrong and the next "sky is falling" claim after that will only be that much harder to be believed. As a proponent of climate change you will make more believers if you can get the Al Gore's to also stop hypocritically riding around in Jets, living in super huge mansions, and generally being everything their base claims to hate about the rich. Yes, I have heard some of them even create low foot print mansions and I applaud that, but I also do not see them running around trying to make renewable energy easily available on the market through legislation or subsidy... why? Because the power providing utility companies make too many donations to their campaigns. We have more than enough tech out there to start putting solar on top of "existing" buildings and roofs to make a very big impact on our energy consumption and to create a fairly distributed energy network so a disaster cannot easily take out millions of people energy in one go like Irma did in the Caribbean. Where is the drive for that? Where is the political motivation for it? About as empty as the heads making these insane predictions... that is where!
Heck, I am all for chasing renewable energy, just in case you guys are right... but I am not okay with forcing legislative action to tell people that carbon, a basic and essential component of life is now a toxin... it is not and never will be. We are carbon based life forms after all.
Sorry, but the hoax is NOT "Global Warming" it is the agenda behind it.
According to you, we should have melted Ice Caps and lots of land under water. Additionally, back in the 70's it was Global Cooling too. Do you know how many times eggs have been added and removed to the do not eat/do eat list? It's Science... we keep updating out understandings of things, but with people like you, it is treated like it is some "Holy Crusade".
By the way... how it it working out for you by calling everyone "fucking stupid" if they don't eat the same garbage you do about this? You can even look at several polls that show very few people are really that concerned about "global warming".
Correlation does not equal Causation, and people are actually allowed to draw a different conclusion than you when looking at the same data.
I don't disbelieve in Climate Change, I don't specifically disbelieve in the "anthroprogenic" parts either. What I do not believe is trusting you or the rest of the agenda setting sciences "how much" we are to blame because not a single fucking prediction you have had has come true yet. When you prediction models stop being all over the place, I will begin to trust that "THAT PERSON" might finally know what is going on and listen to them! Certainly NOT someone like YOU!
You have only fallen into his trap. You cannot allow yourself to be put on the defensive. You automatically lose. Instead go after his message.
When they make the claim, it's not what you said, it's how you said it... take a break. They just admitted that you are right but they still cannot let it stand because as Jim Carrey said to the judge in "Liar Liar"
Fletcher: Your honor, I object!
Judge Stevens: And why is that, Mr. Reede?
Fletcher: It's devastating to my case!
The truth is not the objective, controlling the narrative and using any excuse to marginalize what you said is. So in short, just being in favor of the 2nd Amendment means that no matter what or how you say it... you have already run afoul of their content filters.
Diplomacy is the art of telling your enemies to go to hell in such a way as to make them look forward to the trip.
I think there is a problem when the focus is more on how you said something rather than what you said. Does it really matter if someone can come up with a nifty way to insult you? It is an insult all the same and vilifying people if they stated a truth in a way you did not like is tantamount to shooting the messenger.
At the end of the day, the universal lesson is... the more you try to silence the opposition, the louder they get. And when you have taken every measure, every step to silence them... they will eventually understand that communication is no longer possible with the end result being violence... because after all... you are no longer listening to them.
It seems that we have had more than enough of peace and are now coming up with more and more excuses so that we can to do violence to one another.
Any attempt to control the conversation is the same as "not listening" or attempting to "silence them".
They have become a blight on the gaming community and are very big copyright maximalists.
If you care about the gaming economy, stop buying Nintendo.
Ahem, this is not free-enterprise... and it is pretty disingenuous to outright intentional misleading to advance the notion. There is nothing free-enterprise about the Telecommunications landscape bribing regulators for practically a century. The sector is heavily regulated and there are several monopolies littered about the scape in multiple ways.
But I will say that you are right about this part.
"The American Dream works, just not for people like you."
The problem is that allowing the FCC to regulate this sector as natural monopolies is what causes that effect in this situation. But you will find many people do not understand that and still think that regulation will work despite us looking right into the face of failed regulator agency.
So sure, regulation could work, but not "this kind" of regulation. Regulations must be anti-monopoly and anti-trust to have any real effect or you just get this game we have here where the regulated businesses just install a revolving door between themselves and regulators upon the backs of the citizens that regulators were originally intended to protect the interests off. The foxes are guarding the hen house and are smart enough to only kill the number of hens necessary to get what they want but not attract enough notice to cause sufficient outrage to have the problem dealt with.
This is the usual "feel good" politics designed to distract people from the real action and the real problem. Sadly it works all too well.
There is only one comment period... and they are all called elections. Remember that congress has always had the power to tell the FCC and other regulatory agencies exactly what to do and or remake or destroy them when they turn into capture and the fact that they don't means that elected politicians know that they were successful in getting citizens to ignore congress and focus on the agencies instead allowing congress to largely get a pass on actually having to deal with the corruption in agencies. People are going to be too busy worried about which letter got voted in, over petty politics, instead of which letters actually did or are doing anything about the many problems. Empty platitudes along with ineffective or counter productive action is the order of the day.
And since the ole regulation/deregulation arguments have become so nebulous and meaningless in context no one is really saying anything. Someone says regulation and congress or the agencies interpret the calls as "moar rules" even when those rules wind up helping businesses and hurting consumers. And then after those rules get put in everyone goes home like the problem is solved only to come back in another couple of years wondering why it is still a problem, rinse and repeat.
And you are now a monument to my post.
Sesta is not only about children, or are you dumb enough to think adults cannot be trafficked?
I also brought up DMCA, and even mentioned "other laws" like them. I also brought up people "being consider guilty until proven innocent" which you just participated in.
You appear to be part and parcel of what is wrong with people these days. More than willing to commit libel without any thought to what could happen to you if someone tried to do anything about it.
https://www.unilad.co.uk/crime...
https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/02...
there are stupid people... and then there is you.
Just imagine what kind of trouble you might be in if I were a member of law enforcement after making that claim? Just imagine that the next time you say something like that someone is law enforcement and YOU get put on the "guilty until proven innocent" chopping blocked just because they can. Karma is real, I would recommend that you pay heed.
Sesta DMCA and plenty of other laws will run everyone off of the platform once the inevitable legal issues arise.
It will be relegated to a dark place on the web with a bed reputation where law enforcement will take YOU to jail for accidentally hosting something they don't like.
Good luck explaining the problem to a jury in such a way that they will not think you are up to no good. We have long since forgotten the principles of innocent until proven guilty and have fallen back to the old day of guilty until proven innocent and just exercising your legal rights is more often then not regarded as a sign of guilt on it's own. I do not expect this to go very far before it implodes due to external forces.
Your post only proves mine. Public opinion can "easily" be bought. Poorer people have given more to Buffet than Buffet will ever return.
Would you also herald my name should I destroy a few people and build you a world scale zoo? What does it take to buy your admiration? Apparently Buffet has found that price.
In the end... everything they did to gain all of those riches and now that they feel the knock of death approach they have only just learned what the poor have known all along, but oddly, envied the rich for never having known.
A wise person knows of a great many things a person can aspire to in life that are far higher than a charitable foundation as the only purpose of a charitable foundation is only to buy public opinion and though cheap as it comes, the ask is never ending.
"Wrong. Free markets evolve towards consolidation and the only thing that prevents that is government regulation."
This is not actually true. You are blaming free-market for something that greed through "capitalism" is guilty of. If you are going to blame something blame the right thing instead of the wrong thing.
Additionally, the FCC is defacto on record as stating that they are going to regulate telco's as natural monopolies. This has the opposite effect of regulation preventing the monopoly and instead it is now blessing these monopolies. And now that the government approves of the monopoly the government is not going to challenge them anymore. This leaves the monopolies with loads of money and power to subvert the regulatory agencies just as it did the FCC and Ajit Pai.
The take away here is that, through regulation you jumped right to approving of monopoly while saying you need regulation in place to "prevent" them. See right through you, we do!
"The takeaway here is that the concept of an unrestricted free market fundamentally stabilizes on a highly undesirable state of affairs from a societal point of view."
Two things, you are falsely equivocating with the fact that a free-market and what he said. He did not mention free market anywhere in the post, he just said your methods strengthened "an oligopolistic environment where the consumer ultimately suffers." which is true.
The FCC for decades has never challenged the Monopolies, in fact none of the democrats challenge the monopolies from time to time any more than the republicans. Rarely to either ever attempt to dismantle the monopolies they just try to control them in different ways.
Sorry, but your entire post is a bunch of divisive know nothing.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/0...
Both sides share more than enough blame here. No matter which party is in power more and more mergers like this are becoming possible.
Did you go and watch any of the Marvel Movies? Intellectual Properties that Disney purchased? Disney is silently becoming a mega merged movie and entertainment powerhouse. I bet your money is not where your mouth is and you give Disney your money. ATT is a bit different, some people only have ATT for their provider and can't do anything about it or just get no connectivity, but reading that link should tell you that your turds smell too.
The system is openly corrupt, they do not even try to hide it, yet people seem to not really care.
This will enable them to "out high frequency trade" other "high frequency traders" not able to process at their speed.
Instituting a required 1 day post processing of all orders in the order they were received would go a long way towards mitigating market volatility caused by this. This will only drive inflation up as those with the fastest systems can out game other systems, leaving the losing systems looking for way to recoup their losses... usually upon the backs of the standard hard working commoner classes.
A greater divide in wealth will continue to trend upward and the wall street casino will adjust it's odds increasingly in favor of the house. They will talk to the common man about long term holdings, diversification, and 401k's, while sneaking off to their "high frequency trading" backrooms shortly after to make money off of these transactions occurring.
Ok, full disclosure... not a republican but a big fan of free-market.
yes, this is actually just fine and yes I am a Systems Engineer that has more than a decade of infrastructure experience and can code in several languages to varying degrees, though I am by no means an expert in coding, however, I am an expert in infrastructure.
If I bid on a job and they tried to undercut me with a 3rd world labor I would just tell them good luck and wish them well. When they come back with a failed 3rd world job, I will tell them that my rate has gone up. It is nothing personal, but now I will have to overcome the failures or mess those guys left behind. Live and learn.
Quality speaks for itself for obvious reasons. Yes businesses are constantly relearning this lesson, and no... this lesson never sticks... hence folks like you looking for excessive unnatural government controls on everything that will actually cause the opposite effect you expect. The cost only goes up... not down!
Your comment is a non-sequitor.
Socialism...
a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Socialism is about how people and their governments choose to run society as a whole... NOT an interconnected collection of networks, computers, or devices.
Take this article itself for example... is Venezula blocking TOR really a product of "socialism" or is it a product of a dictator taking advantage of a nation full of socialists? There really is a difference!
for the most party society has zero say over how the internet works... just just have a say on where they go on it. You do not get to vote, or tell businesses how they must operate either. You can call up a senator and give them ideas, but that is not really socialism. The moment a small group of people decide the rules Socialism has failed... which means by that virtue a Government "always composed of by a small group of people" cannot be socialist ever. Socialism in actual practice is utopian and much closer to libertarian or anarchy, and I think we all know how well that works based on human history.
A small group of people always want to control the majority and they will do, say, or try to get you to believe in any "ism" they can dream up to get you to go along with it.
Only a true direct democracy has the possibility of being an actual socialist society, and given the number of people on the internet with some serious Dunning-Kruger psychosis going on... well we all know that would be a fast failure!
he is using the "no true Scotsman" fallacy but is not entirely wrong either. The only thing he is wrong about is the idea of "true neutrality". He is right they were never for it, but actual neutrality by definition means NO rules in reality or it would not be neutral, it would instead by pro or anti something.
Net Neutral had Zero-Rating in it and was a huge loophole that would allow content owning ISP's to favor their content services over others effectively making NN a weak to pointless affair on that front.
Now, lets also look at some of the other things... enforcement. NN had provisions that allowed the FCC to nebulously decide what was and was not a violation of NN rules. This is not fair at any level, kinda like the illegal to be black on a Friday night cops types of unfair. Rules need to be well defined for very obvious reasons and they failed to do that.
Pai is just another crony over zealous "regulate all the things" crowd has indirectly invited in. Well meaning people have little desire to take on these kinds of responsibilities so when you create them, you are going to more often than not attract a specific kind of crowd that are definitely interested in these things and they are likely not going to care about the little guy along the way because why would they? They don't get anything but a thank you from you at best and a hefty amount of cash and perks from the industry on the other hand.
Which would you take? Most people would not be able to resist going the route Pai has gone and most would be able to justify why they are doing it in their own minds. It was already clear that most people are more than willing to sacrifice some ideals just by the simple fact that we had an Election where two of the worst humans on the face of the planet were running for President in a face off. That actually says quite a lot about the state of politics in America right now!
"With complete DNS control of your banks domain they can obtain certificates and pose as a secure copy of your banks website and steal your credentials that way."
yea, um no... you can't "just get a certificate" like that.
You have to get a publicly trusted CA to issue you a Certificate for a domain you don't own and a CA is not going to do that unless they want to risk going out of business or becoming untrusted defeating the entire purpose of being a CA. And if you go an create your own, well how are you going to get the victim's own system to trust it without a root signer they already trust? Systems do not accept certificates blindly!
You are going to have to trick someone to give you a certificate or find a way to compromise their Certificate or find a way to illegitimately obtain a proper certificate like finding some dumbass admin that left a cert laying around on an easy to access network drive with its private key and an easy to guess password (likely also stored in a txt file right next to it) protecting it.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!
Don't even DARE to come up with the idea that browsers should be performing these functions. The browser needs to do only one thing... trust the DNS server that gave it data because the USER or Admins configured it... OTHER more suitable tools (like inline network devices/services) should be doing this security. It is NOT just about what will or will not break with this, it is also about the thought of Google, Microsoft, Firefox, and Opera deciding what is good or bad DNS and then also dealing with false positives and bugs that is going to definitely come with attempting this. Not only that but this kind of functionality will now be tested on browsers and become included in their "security profiles".
It's just a terrible terrible idea, like putting a governor in every car connected to GPS to make sure it NEVER goes over the speed limit.
Hackers would waste NO TIME in compromising this garbage in a browser and system would become even less secure just having it in them NOT MORE secure.
I cannot expound on how terrible the idea you just had is!
"Any expert here who actually did proper research and is aware of his own ideologies and social conditioning?"
If you cannot understand how intellectually bankrupt that question is then you probably cannot understand why people cannot fix things without applying their childish ideologies.
People are fearful creatures, they will never break away from it and sadly yes... they can be ruled quite easily through that fear. Nothing you listed is a fear based ideology. They are all just ideologies, the fear comes from the humans participating in them and there is not a single ideology in existence free of fear's influence. In fact the very formation of a group identity is a fear based survival mechanic that is as natural as loving your own mother. There are fearful, ambivalent, and fearless people in every ideology. Problems arise when there is no balance between these persons.