Hiding the 3 letter extension started with win95. Prior to this, Win3.1(1) had the file manager MDI interface, which showed extensions, and did not show pretty decorated icons.
Win95a was a radical departure from the program manager interface, and had all the pretty high color icon eye candy, and the start menu interface. It is also when they started hiding file types in the new Explorer filesystem browsing program. ( WinNT4 did have the start menu interface and all that jazz before win95, but did NOT hide extensions or folders by default, IIRC.) It pissed me off to no end, so I would always turn veiwing extensions back on-- which windows would always throw hands up and say "But you could hurt your computer seeing those!", which was a load of bull. This is the "Hide the scissors" approach, and does not teach people to be responsible.
It has been a consistent "Feature" of windows ever since, and Microsoft keeps moving the "No, TURN THE EXTENSIONS ON AND STOP HIDING SHIT!" option deeper and deeper into the labyrinth one has to walk to take the mittens off.
Put the wiimote on the podium facing the screen, so the wiimote's sensor can detect your laser pointer. Then point at the screen where you want to draw.
It's a wiii homebrew, so you need a hacked wii--- but otherwise, this looks pretty damned low cost.
Nichelle Nichols (Comm officer Uhura) got there before he did.
Maybe the bridge crew can reverse the temporal polarity and send a tightbeam subspace transmission back to starfleet now that Spock is there! Afterall, they have the doctor, AND the chief engineer there too!
Welcome to the horrid movie plot generator! Is this a sequel? [y/n] y To which classic movie or series? [list for options] Bladerunner What is the path for the entropy source?/dev/urandom Quality level? [list for options] list Passable Ok Meh Bad Terrible Hollywood Quality level? [list for options] Hollywood ************* WARNING! You have selected "Hollywood"-- This will skip the rest of the configuration section, and set Hollywood defaults! Are you sure? [y/n] y
Getting Bladerunner script from repository......Done Training Markov chain engines......Done Loading Hollywood_Sequel rules and preset defaults Done Confabulating plot synopsis............Done
Review generated plot blurb before full scriipt generation? [y/n] y ------ After escaping from Tyrell towers with Rachel, Deckard attempts to flee the Earth with her to live on one of the remote colonies, fearing that another Blade Runner would submit Rachel to a "Voight-Kampff" test, and positively identify her as a replicant at some point if the pair remained on Earth. Rachel, now pregnant with Deckard's love child, must help Deckard fight their way off world as nosy officials and investigators attempt to detain them for their involvement in the events in Blade Runner leading to Tyrell's death, and the possibility that the replicants may have been successful in appropriating a means of circumventing their expiration dates and clandestinely transmitted the information offworld. Fearing the worst if Rachel is discovered, She and Deckard secretly depart earth aboard a cargo freighter headed for the Vega colony. There, he and Rachel welcome the birth of their half-replicant son, David, who is born with enhanced physical speed and strength. Many years later, Rachel begins to show signs of unanticipated complications of her replicant physiology due to being alive for so long. The three return to earth seeking answers from the archives of the financial remains of the once mighty Tyrell corporation, which has since fallen under the control of one of Earth's other mega-corporations; One specializing in military hardware and wetware. While on Earth, David makes hip, edgy teenage friends on the rough streets of LA, who help him and his father after the two help them resolve a long-standing gang turf war. ------- Continue with script generation? [y/n] n Delete all temporary files and evidence?[y/n] y Done
You wont find MFM inside a portable, unless it was a custom job. MFM drives had to be "married" to a controller with a low-level format, which meant that if you changed out the drive, you had some work ahead of you. (easy if you know what to do, but i digress.) They also tended to be clunky, bulky, and power hungry.
IDE drives were smaller, sleeker, integrated the drive controller right onto the drive (So you never had to low-level format ever again), and used a tiny fraction of the power.
When I say "Early 90s", I mean 1990 - 1992. (Mid 90s is 1993-1996, and late 90s is 1997-1999.)
Remember, computer equipment was fabulously expensive back then. People would buy a computer and try to keep it chugging for awhile. Seeing HDD-less portables was a common occurrence in the early 90s, which is why there were peripheral makers who made drive enclosures to sit on the LPT port for them.
I even have an example of such an early laptop. NEC Ultralte SX/20
It debuted in 1991, and had a 40mb internal HDD. The PREVIOUS model released, The NEC Ultralite, was released just a few years earlier in 1988. That's late 80s, but was still commonly found in the early 90s. It did NOT feature an internal HDD, but was the first "Notebook" sized portable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
The comaq LTE came out a year later in 1989, with a 20mb drive.
But again, remember-- those were brand new machines with big honking price tags. Only people with serious bankroll were cruising around with them. The older equipment stuck around awhile.
Even with VERY mature stem cell based regenerative medicine, there is going to be problems with the buildup of neurotoxic metabolites within the brain over time, This is essentially what alzheimer's disease is (but the jury is still out on weather the creation of amyloid beta plaques and/or tau tangles is causal or symptomatic.)
The brain does not seem to have a very good elimination system for the purging of toxic metabolic biproducts, which causes slow, cumulative damage over time.
You are going to have to do some rather invasive interventions with genetically engineered glial cells and other neural progenitor cells to prop up human brains if you intend to have biological immortality.
Though I suppose the operative word here is "Laptop". You would be lucky to have a hard drive at all in early 90s portable equipment. Mid 90s equipment would be IDE.
I have NEVER seen an MFM drive smaller than 3.5 inch form factor. However, I HAVE seen MFM to LPT enclosures for the 3.5 inch form factor intended for use with early 90s portables. It really was the dark ages back then. (They were REALLY RARE though.)
No. No ancient aliens. ESDI was in use in server equipment from that era. 200mb ESDI interface drives were pretty common inside IBM PS/2 series towers of that era.
MFM and ESDI technology didn't get much beyond the 600-700mb before it was completely eliminated, but you CAN find drives that large with that interface type.
The issue with renting the telephone, (and this being the reason why modems were all accoustically coupled, and hobbled at 300 baud!) was because BELL TELEPHONE, a PRIVATE COMPANY, held a NATIONAL MONOPOLY. This was a Bell Telephone corporate policy, not a government mandated requirement. Bell telephone refused to service any device that did not have their brand on it. This is similar to the approach nintendo took with the NES, with the NES10 chip, and the Nintendo Seal of Quality--- the major difference being that Nintendo had competition. Bell Telephone had NO competition. It was untouchable. It could shit on customers with impunity-- They had nowhere else to go. This was entirely the reason for the comedy skit for the fictional telephone operator played by Lilly Tomlin, "Ernestine."
Obligatory Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (Note how "Ernestine" quips about not being subject to city, state, or federal regulations. Approximately 2:00 in.)
It was *NOT*, I repeat, *NOT*, because of government regulation!
Once Bell Telephone's monopoly was busted, the new "baby bells", had to compete with each other, and in addition to this, Title II regulation forced those baby bells to allow any tom, dick, and harry telephone service to operate on their wires.
Title II was a stock part of the US telecommunications act of 1934, and WAS NOT REPEALED, and TELEPHONE COMPANIES WERE NOT EXCEMPTED FROM IT AFTER BELL's DIVESTMENT.
The boom in competition was BECAUSE of regulation, NOT deregulation. The regulation in particular, was antitrust regulation.
While there was a major push for deregulation during the reagan administration, such deregulation was predominantly geared toward industrial and manufacturing companies, along with oil compnies, especially in regard to environmental protection policy and import policy.
Why would I be surprised by that? The Universal Access Fee for POTS telephone was levied to subsidise the costs of regulation, and to support the enforcement of regulation on the telecom industry to assure the availability of telephone services in rural areas.
This kind of action is very similar, but does not, nor is it intended to, provide universal access to the internet. Instead, it just puts restrictions on what ISPs are allowed to do with traffic passing through.
The question is weather the small tax is better than the extortion. I believe it is.
The FCC, once given regulatory authority, has the regulatory authority, and can make or amend regulations as it sees fit, having been given the authority.
And yet you contine to be bent out of shape about it. Fancy that.
----
I already addressed this. TWICE.
The option is binary. Either the webmail server has the keys, or the messages are decrypted on the client side using keys stored on the client side for presentation.
If the keys are stored on the wemail server, the NSA can demand them.
If the keys are stored on the client, then the main feature of webmail is broken.
They keys have to be stored SOMEPLACE for the messages to be encrypted and decrypted. The primary statement in my postings has been that properly secured encrypted email is not compatible with the use case of webmail. Webmail's use case is "email access that is independant on client platform, as long as a suitable browser is present" As soon as you put the keys on the client side, this goes away, because now the browser has to probe the local filesystem for the key store, or the browser itself has to have the keystore. This has all the problems of Enigmail for Thunderbird, (Or the GPG plugins for any of the other capable mail clients out there.) The keys are stored on a trusted workstation, that you cant just lug around with you-- OR-- if stored on a keyfob, accessing those keys requires extra steps above and beyond just logging in and checking your mail. This breaks the use case for webmail.
Rather than being an argumentative troll, you could explain your position instead of arguing impotently. Instead, you chose to complain about spelling mistakes, confabulate, and hurl ad-hominems.
To return your trite quip, I already knew that this is what you would do. Resorting to arguments about improper grammar, spelling mistakes, or improper word use is the hallmark of somebody with nothing of real substance to contribute, who instead just likes to feel superior. Congratulations.
I like the concept of the ACA, but not the implementation. (which as you correctly stated, is currently little more than compulsory spending.) There are better methods than the one used by the ACA to achieve the goal of universal healthcare. I would have rather it had taken one of those other forms. It didnt. That's the way it is now.
Rather than try to read some party slant into the comparison, instead see it from a foriegner's point of view-- somebody with little to no invested interest in government pork in the USA, but who has interests as a member of the global community, and the power the US Govt has internationally.
I noted that recently, the republican party has been obstructing anything and everything it considers as a possible threat to earning potential of large corporations (and religious matters that it really has no business being involved with, but still does anyway.). This takes the form of everything from regulations intended to help combat global climate change and pollution in general, laws covering the safety and efficacy of medications, immigration and labor markets, and- That's right, Rent seeking vs net neutrality.
Without exception, the GOP has been obstructionist to a very high degree, with obamacare (the ACA) being the crown jewel in feats of obstruction. I could very well have pointed to the GOP's massive campaign of misinformation, outright smear tactics, and political engineering concerning the public's understanding of global climate change instead, but the ACA had more parallels, which is why I used it.
Again, not because of any intrinsic political slant.
(The Democrats are equally dirty, with their affiliations with the MPAA, the RIAA, bids for censorship "For the children", and many other unsavory things. They just haven't gone off the deep-end with obstruction like the GOP have.)
Precisely. Since the regulations the FCC have in mind have yet to be implemented, regulatory capture is still an unknown. I WORRY about capture, because it leads to hell, as you pointed out.
I said this decision "Sounds good"-- Regulation is better than no regulation, as you correctly stated.
Our goals are perfectly aligned in this matter.
I was noting the seemingly short level of resistance that the political group with the most incentive to cause regulatory capture problems has put up. To me, this suggests that the strategy they will attempt involves capturing the regulator, and thus gain more control than they would have held if no regulatitory body was active. (Hell.)
It is my greatest hope that the FCC tells such people where they can shove it, and enacts correct, fair, and effective regulations in the public's interests-- and not regulations that are bankrupt, intentionally defective, and aligned with some OTHER group's interests.
That's not entirely truthful, from what I remember reading.
The links were allowed to become congested alright, because Verizon and Comcast refused to upgrade them when they did upgrades elsewhere, and told Netflix in no uncertain terms that they would not upgrade them unless the extortion payment was met.
It also glosses over what I read, in that neflix offered co-location of local cache servers INSIDE those networks, to reduce the effects of congested links, whch both verizon and comcast refused.
The pedant pedant's antecedant was to see the point but fail to heed it.
Or
How getting bent out of shape over a simple and common mispelling exposes you as little more than a jackass that cant parse slightly malformed inputs.
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The government most certainly does track that messages were sent, and to what mail servers. (That's what they get at the backbone level). However, actually reading the messages sent requires a key. Correctly providing keys for security purposes implies a secure method of delivery-- such as sneakernet. Something that unless the government has developed ESP, they will not be able to obtain without a warrant, which requires probable cause/evidence to have issued, which would require that they have readable documentation and evidence for a specific criminal activity. Simply transmitting and recieving encrypted data is not a crime, and so they shouldnt be able to get one for that purpose.
The NSA and pals like to abuse national security letters to get things that they cant get warrants for, like fishing expeditions like the proposed problem. They would have to issue a national security letter to the key holder (The person sending the messages!) to get the keys, which would of course, alert that person that they were being investigated, which is counter-intuitive to their investigational process.
Basically, while they can hoover up the encrypted message bodies, unless they have the keys, they have to invest considerable resources to decrypt the messages. When coupled with widespread adoption, this makes the bulk collection methodology too costly to be viable, which is the whole point.
Putting the keys on the webmail server allows the NSA to send that central point of contact a single national security letter demanding those keys, without alerting the users of that service that their security has been compromised. This is against the purpose of having secure communication.
The first way, it prevents companies from extorting money from the public.
The second way, it prevents companies from treating the public like a second class customer, and forces providers to improve service globally, when they offer improvements in connectivity.
I fail to see the downside, unless you think that people with shittons of money should get treated differently than people without shittons of money.
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Hiding the 3 letter extension started with win95. Prior to this, Win3.1(1) had the file manager MDI interface, which showed extensions, and did not show pretty decorated icons.
Win95a was a radical departure from the program manager interface, and had all the pretty high color icon eye candy, and the start menu interface. It is also when they started hiding file types in the new Explorer filesystem browsing program. ( WinNT4 did have the start menu interface and all that jazz before win95, but did NOT hide extensions or folders by default, IIRC.) It pissed me off to no end, so I would always turn veiwing extensions back on-- which windows would always throw hands up and say "But you could hurt your computer seeing those!", which was a load of bull. This is the "Hide the scissors" approach, and does not teach people to be responsible.
It has been a consistent "Feature" of windows ever since, and Microsoft keeps moving the "No, TURN THE EXTENSIONS ON AND STOP HIDING SHIT!" option deeper and deeper into the labyrinth one has to walk to take the mittens off.
Testdisk.
I find adding "FOSS" to the search term instead of "Free" makes a huge difference.
There's also the potential to use a wii with a VGA projector.
http://johnnylee.net/projects/...
Put the wiimote on the podium facing the screen, so the wiimote's sensor can detect your laser pointer. Then point at the screen where you want to draw.
It's a wiii homebrew, so you need a hacked wii--- but otherwise, this looks pretty damned low cost.
This seems like a no-brainer.
You just need a networked simple paint program, that works with large touch screens.
Booya. Distributed network fingerpainting.
"No"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Damn my myopia!
She's still on this side of the anomaly! Well-- That explains why contacting the other side is so difficult!
Well--
Nichelle Nichols (Comm officer Uhura) got there before he did.
Maybe the bridge crew can reverse the temporal polarity and send a tightbeam subspace transmission back to starfleet now that Spock is there! Afterall, they have the doctor, AND the chief engineer there too!
(This almost begs for a cameo fan episode.)
No, that would be Deforest Kelly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
And he's already dead.
$ sh ./horridplotgen.sh
Welcome to the horrid movie plot generator! /dev/urandom
Is this a sequel? [y/n] y
To which classic movie or series? [list for options] Bladerunner
What is the path for the entropy source?
Quality level? [list for options] list
Passable Ok Meh Bad Terrible Hollywood
Quality level? [list for options] Hollywood
*************
WARNING!
You have selected "Hollywood"-- This will skip the rest of the configuration section, and set Hollywood defaults!
Are you sure? [y/n] y
Getting Bladerunner script from repository ......Done ......Done ............Done
Training Markov chain engines
Loading Hollywood_Sequel rules and preset defaults
Done
Confabulating plot synopsis
Review generated plot blurb before full scriipt generation? [y/n] y
------
After escaping from Tyrell towers with Rachel, Deckard attempts to flee the Earth with her to live on one of the remote colonies, fearing that another Blade Runner would submit Rachel to a "Voight-Kampff" test, and positively identify her as a replicant at some point if the pair remained on Earth. Rachel, now pregnant with Deckard's love child, must help Deckard fight their way off world as nosy officials and investigators attempt to detain them for their involvement in the events in Blade Runner leading to Tyrell's death, and the possibility that the replicants may have been successful in appropriating a means of circumventing their expiration dates and clandestinely transmitted the information offworld. Fearing the worst if Rachel is discovered, She and Deckard secretly depart earth aboard a cargo freighter headed for the Vega colony. There, he and Rachel welcome the birth of their half-replicant son, David, who is born with enhanced physical speed and strength. Many years later, Rachel begins to show signs of unanticipated complications of her replicant physiology due to being alive for so long. The three return to earth seeking answers from the archives of the financial remains of the once mighty Tyrell corporation, which has since fallen under the control of one of Earth's other mega-corporations; One specializing in military hardware and wetware. While on Earth, David makes hip, edgy teenage friends on the rough streets of LA, who help him and his father after the two help them resolve a long-standing gang turf war.
-------
Continue with script generation? [y/n] n
Delete all temporary files and evidence?[y/n] y
Done
You wont find MFM inside a portable, unless it was a custom job. MFM drives had to be "married" to a controller with a low-level format, which meant that if you changed out the drive, you had some work ahead of you. (easy if you know what to do, but i digress.) They also tended to be clunky, bulky, and power hungry.
IDE drives were smaller, sleeker, integrated the drive controller right onto the drive (So you never had to low-level format ever again), and used a tiny fraction of the power.
This whole tangent is making me feel old.
Mid to late 80s you mean.
When I say "Early 90s", I mean 1990 - 1992. (Mid 90s is 1993-1996, and late 90s is 1997-1999.)
Remember, computer equipment was fabulously expensive back then. People would buy a computer and try to keep it chugging for awhile. Seeing HDD-less portables was a common occurrence in the early 90s, which is why there were peripheral makers who made drive enclosures to sit on the LPT port for them.
I even have an example of such an early laptop.
NEC Ultralte SX/20
It debuted in 1991, and had a 40mb internal HDD. The PREVIOUS model released, The NEC Ultralite, was released just a few years earlier in 1988. That's late 80s, but was still commonly found in the early 90s. It did NOT feature an internal HDD, but was the first "Notebook" sized portable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
The comaq LTE came out a year later in 1989, with a 20mb drive.
But again, remember-- those were brand new machines with big honking price tags. Only people with serious bankroll were cruising around with them. The older equipment stuck around awhile.
No. The human brain is not made to last.
http://cercor.oxfordjournals.o...
Even with VERY mature stem cell based regenerative medicine, there is going to be problems with the buildup of neurotoxic metabolites within the brain over time, This is essentially what alzheimer's disease is (but the jury is still out on weather the creation of amyloid beta plaques and/or tau tangles is causal or symptomatic.)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...
The brain does not seem to have a very good elimination system for the purging of toxic metabolic biproducts, which causes slow, cumulative damage over time.
You are going to have to do some rather invasive interventions with genetically engineered glial cells and other neural progenitor cells to prop up human brains if you intend to have biological immortality.
Though I suppose the operative word here is "Laptop". You would be lucky to have a hard drive at all in early 90s portable equipment. Mid 90s equipment would be IDE.
I have NEVER seen an MFM drive smaller than 3.5 inch form factor. However, I HAVE seen MFM to LPT enclosures for the 3.5 inch form factor intended for use with early 90s portables. It really was the dark ages back then. (They were REALLY RARE though.)
I dont know if you are serious or not--
No. No ancient aliens. ESDI was in use in server equipment from that era. 200mb ESDI interface drives were pretty common inside IBM PS/2 series towers of that era.
Specifically, found inside IBM PS/2 model 60 systems.
http://ps-2.kev009.com/pcpartn...
These featured an MCA ESDI hard disk interface in the later models. (Early models had MFM controllers.)
If you suspect aliens, please inform the person selling this 680mb ESDI drive on Ebay.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/MICROSC...
MFM and ESDI technology didn't get much beyond the 600-700mb before it was completely eliminated, but you CAN find drives that large with that interface type.
No aliens involved.
I have personally seen 200mb and larger ESDI drives in vintage PS/2 systems.
You seem to be confused here AC.
The issue with renting the telephone, (and this being the reason why modems were all accoustically coupled, and hobbled at 300 baud!) was because BELL TELEPHONE, a PRIVATE COMPANY, held a NATIONAL MONOPOLY. This was a Bell Telephone corporate policy, not a government mandated requirement. Bell telephone refused to service any device that did not have their brand on it. This is similar to the approach nintendo took with the NES, with the NES10 chip, and the Nintendo Seal of Quality--- the major difference being that Nintendo had competition. Bell Telephone had NO competition. It was untouchable. It could shit on customers with impunity-- They had nowhere else to go. This was entirely the reason for the comedy skit for the fictional telephone operator played by Lilly Tomlin, "Ernestine."
Obligatory Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(Note how "Ernestine" quips about not being subject to city, state, or federal regulations. Approximately 2:00 in.)
It was *NOT*, I repeat, *NOT*, because of government regulation!
Obligatory wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Once Bell Telephone's monopoly was busted, the new "baby bells", had to compete with each other, and in addition to this, Title II regulation forced those baby bells to allow any tom, dick, and harry telephone service to operate on their wires.
Title II was a stock part of the US telecommunications act of 1934, and WAS NOT REPEALED, and TELEPHONE COMPANIES WERE NOT EXCEMPTED FROM IT AFTER BELL's DIVESTMENT.
The boom in competition was BECAUSE of regulation, NOT deregulation. The regulation in particular, was antitrust regulation.
While there was a major push for deregulation during the reagan administration, such deregulation was predominantly geared toward industrial and manufacturing companies, along with oil compnies, especially in regard to environmental protection policy and import policy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
That might work.. However, nothing prevents the webmail javascript from reporting your passphrase back to the mothership.
Why would I be surprised by that? The Universal Access Fee for POTS telephone was levied to subsidise the costs of regulation, and to support the enforcement of regulation on the telecom industry to assure the availability of telephone services in rural areas.
This kind of action is very similar, but does not, nor is it intended to, provide universal access to the internet. Instead, it just puts restrictions on what ISPs are allowed to do with traffic passing through.
The question is weather the small tax is better than the extortion. I believe it is.
You misunderstand AC.
The FCC, once given regulatory authority, has the regulatory authority, and can make or amend regulations as it sees fit, having been given the authority.
Capture is a very real threat.
And yet you contine to be bent out of shape about it. Fancy that.
----
I already addressed this. TWICE.
The option is binary. Either the webmail server has the keys, or the messages are decrypted on the client side using keys stored on the client side for presentation.
If the keys are stored on the wemail server, the NSA can demand them.
If the keys are stored on the client, then the main feature of webmail is broken.
They keys have to be stored SOMEPLACE for the messages to be encrypted and decrypted. The primary statement in my postings has been that properly secured encrypted email is not compatible with the use case of webmail. Webmail's use case is "email access that is independant on client platform, as long as a suitable browser is present" As soon as you put the keys on the client side, this goes away, because now the browser has to probe the local filesystem for the key store, or the browser itself has to have the keystore. This has all the problems of Enigmail for Thunderbird, (Or the GPG plugins for any of the other capable mail clients out there.) The keys are stored on a trusted workstation, that you cant just lug around with you-- OR-- if stored on a keyfob, accessing those keys requires extra steps above and beyond just logging in and checking your mail. This breaks the use case for webmail.
Rather than being an argumentative troll, you could explain your position instead of arguing impotently. Instead, you chose to complain about spelling mistakes, confabulate, and hurl ad-hominems.
To return your trite quip, I already knew that this is what you would do. Resorting to arguments about improper grammar, spelling mistakes, or improper word use is the hallmark of somebody with nothing of real substance to contribute, who instead just likes to feel superior. Congratulations.
You misunderstand my political affiliation.
I am unaffiliated. (and centrist)
I like the concept of the ACA, but not the implementation. (which as you correctly stated, is currently little more than compulsory spending.) There are better methods than the one used by the ACA to achieve the goal of universal healthcare. I would have rather it had taken one of those other forms. It didnt. That's the way it is now.
Rather than try to read some party slant into the comparison, instead see it from a foriegner's point of view-- somebody with little to no invested interest in government pork in the USA, but who has interests as a member of the global community, and the power the US Govt has internationally.
I noted that recently, the republican party has been obstructing anything and everything it considers as a possible threat to earning potential of large corporations (and religious matters that it really has no business being involved with, but still does anyway.). This takes the form of everything from regulations intended to help combat global climate change and pollution in general, laws covering the safety and efficacy of medications, immigration and labor markets, and- That's right, Rent seeking vs net neutrality.
Without exception, the GOP has been obstructionist to a very high degree, with obamacare (the ACA) being the crown jewel in feats of obstruction. I could very well have pointed to the GOP's massive campaign of misinformation, outright smear tactics, and political engineering concerning the public's understanding of global climate change instead, but the ACA had more parallels, which is why I used it.
Again, not because of any intrinsic political slant.
(The Democrats are equally dirty, with their affiliations with the MPAA, the RIAA, bids for censorship "For the children", and many other unsavory things. They just haven't gone off the deep-end with obstruction like the GOP have.)
Precisely. Since the regulations the FCC have in mind have yet to be implemented, regulatory capture is still an unknown. I WORRY about capture, because it leads to hell, as you pointed out.
I said this decision "Sounds good"-- Regulation is better than no regulation, as you correctly stated.
Our goals are perfectly aligned in this matter.
I was noting the seemingly short level of resistance that the political group with the most incentive to cause regulatory capture problems has put up. To me, this suggests that the strategy they will attempt involves capturing the regulator, and thus gain more control than they would have held if no regulatitory body was active. (Hell.)
It is my greatest hope that the FCC tells such people where they can shove it, and enacts correct, fair, and effective regulations in the public's interests-- and not regulations that are bankrupt, intentionally defective, and aligned with some OTHER group's interests.
That's not entirely truthful, from what I remember reading.
The links were allowed to become congested alright, because Verizon and Comcast refused to upgrade them when they did upgrades elsewhere, and told Netflix in no uncertain terms that they would not upgrade them unless the extortion payment was met.
It also glosses over what I read, in that neflix offered co-location of local cache servers INSIDE those networks, to reduce the effects of congested links, whch both verizon and comcast refused.
The pedant pedant's antecedant was to see the point but fail to heed it.
Or
How getting bent out of shape over a simple and common mispelling exposes you as little more than a jackass that cant parse slightly malformed inputs.
------------
The government most certainly does track that messages were sent, and to what mail servers. (That's what they get at the backbone level). However, actually reading the messages sent requires a key. Correctly providing keys for security purposes implies a secure method of delivery-- such as sneakernet. Something that unless the government has developed ESP, they will not be able to obtain without a warrant, which requires probable cause/evidence to have issued, which would require that they have readable documentation and evidence for a specific criminal activity. Simply transmitting and recieving encrypted data is not a crime, and so they shouldnt be able to get one for that purpose.
The NSA and pals like to abuse national security letters to get things that they cant get warrants for, like fishing expeditions like the proposed problem. They would have to issue a national security letter to the key holder (The person sending the messages!) to get the keys, which would of course, alert that person that they were being investigated, which is counter-intuitive to their investigational process.
Basically, while they can hoover up the encrypted message bodies, unless they have the keys, they have to invest considerable resources to decrypt the messages. When coupled with widespread adoption, this makes the bulk collection methodology too costly to be viable, which is the whole point.
Putting the keys on the webmail server allows the NSA to send that central point of contact a single national security letter demanding those keys, without alerting the users of that service that their security has been compromised. This is against the purpose of having secure communication.
This is good in both interpretations.
The first way, it prevents companies from extorting money from the public.
The second way, it prevents companies from treating the public like a second class customer, and forces providers to improve service globally, when they offer improvements in connectivity.
I fail to see the downside, unless you think that people with shittons of money should get treated differently than people without shittons of money.