While I'm sure you enjoy pop-up ads promising you BIGGER, HARDER, LONGER ERECTIONS taking up most of your screen and flashing like a neon sign, many of us do not, which is why things like Adblock and Flashblock were developed and are so widely used, and the mention of NoScript here is specious at best, since NoScript is intended to help defend our computers from attacks. The point is that if web ads weren't obnoxious and intrusive to start with, we wouldn't even be having this conversation, but advertisers can't seem to control themselves.
You think you're making a joke, but it's possible to do it that way. With some additional hardware a hydrogen fuel cell can run off of propane or natural gas or any number of other hydrogen-rich fuel sources.
What I'm really concerned about here is the price. At over $60000, they won't be selling many of these.
..friend, you need to put your glasses on, since you can't seem to see past the end of your own nose. We're not talking about trivial little 'service' issues, we're talking about the future of how the entire Internet in the U.S. will be governed.
If, through one means or another, Comcast becomes the de-facto Internet in the U.S., it won't matter what they 'agree to publicly', they will be able at that point to do whatever the hell they want with it, and it'll take an 'act of God'-level effort to dislodge them.
..no, in 'summary' you've been called out and embarassed by your lack of technical knowledge of the Internet, so you pretend that the whole thing doesn't matter and that nothing I presented has any merit, because your only other alternative is to kill yourself.
You don't seem to understand the basics of the Internet: You have to have a basic connection to do ANYTHING. If they had their way and you had to have a 'license' to have that, they'd obviously be monitoring everything everyone is doing as well. Any encrypted traffic would be flagged and scrutinized. Inevitably they'd find a way to detect a pattern that would indicate usage of something like Tor or your 'Freenet', and the police would come knocking on your door with a warrant, sure that you're Up To No Good. Seriously, you people are not paranoid enough, and you need to take off the rose-colored glasses, and you need to stop thinking you're all smarter than everyone else, because you're not. If organizations like the RCMP got their way, there would be NO freedom-of-anything on the Internet.
..no, I'm faily confident that you don't understand what they're suggesting, which is that no one would be allowed to access the Internet without a 'license', and any activity, no matter how you tried to hide it, would lead back to that 'license', and therefore your actual, legal identity. Things like your 'Freenet' and Tor would not be allowed, and attempting to use them or anything like them would be considered illegal activity, and at the very least your Internet license would be suspended or revoked, at worst there would be criminal charges. The Internet would become the penultimate 'walled garden', where all access is tightly controlled, censorship would become the rule, and no services that were not explicitly permitted by the government would be considered illegal and subject to immediate shutdown and seizure. But of course this isn't going to happen, not in Canada let alone the rest of the Internet. All the RCMP has done is reveal themselves to be incredible assholes who don't care about little things like 'freedom of speech/expression'.
If there was any one thing that would degrade and destroy the Internet permanently for everyone, it would be THIS. Also, good luck trying to get the rest of the world to go along with it, you jackasses, and thanks so much for essentially saying 'oh, your country doesn't believe in free speech and the Internet is your only way to be heard? Tough shit'. And they say we here in the U.S. are the assholes. I thought Canadians were supposed to be polite to a fault.
News stories I've read lately seem to indicate that the Tor exit nodes have been and still are being compromised by organizations and some oppressive governments. What are you doing about this?
Oh for fuck's sake don't be an asshole jumping to conlclusions. I'd prefer the Internet remain Neutral and not get taken over by the Corporations, and damnit, I've commented to the FCC AND to Obama to that effect more than once -- but my life is not going to be made or broken by the gods-be-damned Internet, either. If it all fell apart tomorrow, I'd be just fine; they can't hold the Internet hostage and make me do anything because of it. If you or anyone else can't say the same thing then maybe you'd better re-examine your life priorities and consider some adjustments. Would it suck? Sure it would. Would it KILL you? It shouldn't.
Of course as others are saying, in two years the next president, who will likely be Republican after Obama and the DNC have made such a mess of things, will likely gut Net Neutrality altogether and usher in the Walled Garden Internet. *shrug* Don't know about the rest of you but at least my life won't be made or broken by that.
The average person, bluntly put, really isn't all that smart. They struggled through High School math (if they even made it that far), barely understood any science-based classes they were forced to take, and otherwise believes more of what their local religious leadership says than any random guy in a lab coat being interviewed on television. At best the average person would want you to demonstrate how this 'global warming' thing works. At worst, they'll assume it's some world-wide scam to make them pay more money for everything. Of course I'm talking about the average person in first-world countries; people in countries below that level aren't even talking about anything as high-falutin' as 'global warming', they have their hands full just trying to put food on the table and/or keeping the local warlord from killing them and/or 'recruiting' them into their 'army' to fight some other local warlord. In a first-world country, telling the average person that their life is going to become more expensive and less convenient for them because of XYZ reasons that they can't even begin to wrap their heads around is pretty much a non-starter. If it's religious folks we're talking about, especially the more fundamentalist-Christian types, then they literally don't give a damn about it, so far as they're concerned the world is going to end at some point anyway and they'll all be Raptured into Heaven, so who cares if the environment is fucked up anyway? All those 'scientists' are doing Satans' work anyway, right?
I think it turned to shit some time ago. Of course they must be new at it, because they're doing it wrong: If they want to appeal to the Vore fettishists, they need to have the anaconda eat a girl.
Mod parent up infinitely. I want the place I hang my hat and sleep to be secure against intrusions on my privacy. What one does or says in their own home should be their business and their business alone.
I'm not going to become a martyr over the 'internet of things', I MAY become a martyr over 'total loss of privacy' because I'll be fucking god-damned if I'm going to sit back and allow myself to be treated like an animal in a cage, or a prisoner in a cell, watched 24/7/365. Fuck that shit, and fuck you and anyone else who thinks it's OK to live that way.
No shit, that's exactly what may happen. Standard equipment in ALL new vehicles, with criminal charges leveled at you if you disable it. Fuck them and their tracking tech sideways with a rusty chainsaw. It happens in my lifetime? I guess I become a martyr in prison.
It knows when you're sleeping and where you're sleeping, it knows when you're awake and where you go. It provides enough extremely personal data so that, when coupled with your online data trail and banking records, can provide a very accurate picture of every move you make, all you activities, your beliefs, proclivities, and any potentially illegal activities you engage in. How long until they have an implantable, body-powered version, and it's mandated by the government that every citizen has one? For their own safety, of course; the government would never want to keep track of it's citizens like you keep track of small children, animals, or criminals, no sir!
Here's a tip for you: You're a CHUMP if you buy one of these and wear it everywhere. Enjoy being under a microscope 24/7/365.
This whole 'H1B' thing is becoming an outright crime against the people of the U.S.. All you hear is 'the U.S. economy is rebounding' but people are still out of work and the people who are working are still scratching to get by. Meanwhile asshole companies cry that they 'can't find qualified workers in the U.S.' as an excuse to hire foreign workers who will work for a fraction of what a U.S. citizen would be paid, all so their bottom line looks better. Drag these bastards out into the streets and shoot them like the dogs they are, for fucking over their own country.
Oh, sure, I see what you did there. Very effing clever. I am not a Nazi, OK? They're humans. Just very dumb humans. Unfortunately the world seems to be chock full of 'em.
"Mmm, excuse me, would you mind stopping this whole slavery thing? Here are the reasons it offends me on a personal level..." can be very persuasive, though, if you've got the right firearms or ordnance pointed in the right directionw when you say it, though.;-)
So long as it has a steering wheel, accelerator pedal, brake pedal, and an immutable 'OFF' switch, they can put it in any car they want, but I will NEVER own any car that is just a box I have no manual control over. Ever. Not even once.
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Translation: I'm a worthless freeloader.
While I'm sure you enjoy pop-up ads promising you BIGGER, HARDER, LONGER ERECTIONS taking up most of your screen and flashing like a neon sign, many of us do not, which is why things like Adblock and Flashblock were developed and are so widely used, and the mention of NoScript here is specious at best, since NoScript is intended to help defend our computers from attacks. The point is that if web ads weren't obnoxious and intrusive to start with, we wouldn't even be having this conversation, but advertisers can't seem to control themselves.
You think you're making a joke, but it's possible to do it that way. With some additional hardware a hydrogen fuel cell can run off of propane or natural gas or any number of other hydrogen-rich fuel sources.
What I'm really concerned about here is the price. At over $60000, they won't be selling many of these.
..friend, you need to put your glasses on, since you can't seem to see past the end of your own nose. We're not talking about trivial little 'service' issues, we're talking about the future of how the entire Internet in the U.S. will be governed.
If, through one means or another, Comcast becomes the de-facto Internet in the U.S., it won't matter what they 'agree to publicly', they will be able at that point to do whatever the hell they want with it, and it'll take an 'act of God'-level effort to dislodge them.
..no, in 'summary' you've been called out and embarassed by your lack of technical knowledge of the Internet, so you pretend that the whole thing doesn't matter and that nothing I presented has any merit, because your only other alternative is to kill yourself.
You don't seem to understand the basics of the Internet: You have to have a basic connection to do ANYTHING. If they had their way and you had to have a 'license' to have that, they'd obviously be monitoring everything everyone is doing as well. Any encrypted traffic would be flagged and scrutinized. Inevitably they'd find a way to detect a pattern that would indicate usage of something like Tor or your 'Freenet', and the police would come knocking on your door with a warrant, sure that you're Up To No Good. Seriously, you people are not paranoid enough, and you need to take off the rose-colored glasses, and you need to stop thinking you're all smarter than everyone else, because you're not. If organizations like the RCMP got their way, there would be NO freedom-of-anything on the Internet.
..no, I'm faily confident that you don't understand what they're suggesting, which is that no one would be allowed to access the Internet without a 'license', and any activity, no matter how you tried to hide it, would lead back to that 'license', and therefore your actual, legal identity. Things like your 'Freenet' and Tor would not be allowed, and attempting to use them or anything like them would be considered illegal activity, and at the very least your Internet license would be suspended or revoked, at worst there would be criminal charges. The Internet would become the penultimate 'walled garden', where all access is tightly controlled, censorship would become the rule, and no services that were not explicitly permitted by the government would be considered illegal and subject to immediate shutdown and seizure. But of course this isn't going to happen, not in Canada let alone the rest of the Internet. All the RCMP has done is reveal themselves to be incredible assholes who don't care about little things like 'freedom of speech/expression'.
If there was any one thing that would degrade and destroy the Internet permanently for everyone, it would be THIS. Also, good luck trying to get the rest of the world to go along with it, you jackasses, and thanks so much for essentially saying 'oh, your country doesn't believe in free speech and the Internet is your only way to be heard? Tough shit'. And they say we here in the U.S. are the assholes. I thought Canadians were supposed to be polite to a fault.
News stories I've read lately seem to indicate that the Tor exit nodes have been and still are being compromised by organizations and some oppressive governments. What are you doing about this?
Oh for fuck's sake don't be an asshole jumping to conlclusions. I'd prefer the Internet remain Neutral and not get taken over by the Corporations, and damnit, I've commented to the FCC AND to Obama to that effect more than once -- but my life is not going to be made or broken by the gods-be-damned Internet, either. If it all fell apart tomorrow, I'd be just fine; they can't hold the Internet hostage and make me do anything because of it. If you or anyone else can't say the same thing then maybe you'd better re-examine your life priorities and consider some adjustments. Would it suck? Sure it would. Would it KILL you? It shouldn't.
Of course as others are saying, in two years the next president, who will likely be Republican after Obama and the DNC have made such a mess of things, will likely gut Net Neutrality altogether and usher in the Walled Garden Internet. *shrug* Don't know about the rest of you but at least my life won't be made or broken by that.
The average person, bluntly put, really isn't all that smart. They struggled through High School math (if they even made it that far), barely understood any science-based classes they were forced to take, and otherwise believes more of what their local religious leadership says than any random guy in a lab coat being interviewed on television. At best the average person would want you to demonstrate how this 'global warming' thing works. At worst, they'll assume it's some world-wide scam to make them pay more money for everything. Of course I'm talking about the average person in first-world countries; people in countries below that level aren't even talking about anything as high-falutin' as 'global warming', they have their hands full just trying to put food on the table and/or keeping the local warlord from killing them and/or 'recruiting' them into their 'army' to fight some other local warlord. In a first-world country, telling the average person that their life is going to become more expensive and less convenient for them because of XYZ reasons that they can't even begin to wrap their heads around is pretty much a non-starter. If it's religious folks we're talking about, especially the more fundamentalist-Christian types, then they literally don't give a damn about it, so far as they're concerned the world is going to end at some point anyway and they'll all be Raptured into Heaven, so who cares if the environment is fucked up anyway? All those 'scientists' are doing Satans' work anyway, right?
I think it turned to shit some time ago. Of course they must be new at it, because they're doing it wrong: If they want to appeal to the Vore fettishists, they need to have the anaconda eat a girl.
Mod parent up infinitely. I want the place I hang my hat and sleep to be secure against intrusions on my privacy. What one does or says in their own home should be their business and their business alone.
I'm not going to become a martyr over the 'internet of things', I MAY become a martyr over 'total loss of privacy' because I'll be fucking god-damned if I'm going to sit back and allow myself to be treated like an animal in a cage, or a prisoner in a cell, watched 24/7/365. Fuck that shit, and fuck you and anyone else who thinks it's OK to live that way.
No shit, that's exactly what may happen. Standard equipment in ALL new vehicles, with criminal charges leveled at you if you disable it. Fuck them and their tracking tech sideways with a rusty chainsaw. It happens in my lifetime? I guess I become a martyr in prison.
What it boils down to is censorship, plain and simple, and possibly a lawsuit against them as it's leveraged to drop competitors' search results.
Yeah, I knew it sounded like that.. but more like an evil Santa Claus. Closer to Black Peter, really.
It knows when you're sleeping and where you're sleeping, it knows when you're awake and where you go. It provides enough extremely personal data so that, when coupled with your online data trail and banking records, can provide a very accurate picture of every move you make, all you activities, your beliefs, proclivities, and any potentially illegal activities you engage in. How long until they have an implantable, body-powered version, and it's mandated by the government that every citizen has one? For their own safety, of course; the government would never want to keep track of it's citizens like you keep track of small children, animals, or criminals, no sir!
Here's a tip for you: You're a CHUMP if you buy one of these and wear it everywhere. Enjoy being under a microscope 24/7/365.
If they want to kill the Internet in Hungary permanently, then by all means go ahead and find another way to do this, because that's what'll happen.
I'll stick with an antenna and TiVo and skip the ads, TYVM.
This whole 'H1B' thing is becoming an outright crime against the people of the U.S.. All you hear is 'the U.S. economy is rebounding' but people are still out of work and the people who are working are still scratching to get by. Meanwhile asshole companies cry that they 'can't find qualified workers in the U.S.' as an excuse to hire foreign workers who will work for a fraction of what a U.S. citizen would be paid, all so their bottom line looks better. Drag these bastards out into the streets and shoot them like the dogs they are, for fucking over their own country.
Oh, sure, I see what you did there. Very effing clever. I am not a Nazi, OK? They're humans. Just very dumb humans. Unfortunately the world seems to be chock full of 'em.
"Mmm, excuse me, would you mind stopping this whole slavery thing? Here are the reasons it offends me on a personal level..." can be very persuasive, though, if you've got the right firearms or ordnance pointed in the right directionw when you say it, though. ;-)
So long as it has a steering wheel, accelerator pedal, brake pedal, and an immutable 'OFF' switch, they can put it in any car they want, but I will NEVER own any car that is just a box I have no manual control over. Ever. Not even once.