Exactly. People may be more prolific on FB than say writing old fashion letters to friends, but both could be used as evidence in court. The only change I see is that FB posts are easier to find and subpoena, but the privacy of the conversation hasn't changed at all.
The ONLY thing keeping metered billing at bay is that nobody wants to step up and be the first to implement it across the board.
No- whats keeping it at bay is: Nobody wants to actually sell metered service. Then they risk losing their guaranteed $40 for people who only use 100M/month.
Lets take current rates, and say 250G is worth $40 (what I actually pay). A gig of data is worth $0.16. You really think Comcast wants to get in that game? I'd love to see it...
Metered service runs both ways- unless they use their monopoly and lobbying power to squeeze more money for less service out of their subjects.
It dumps it on the market and artificially lowers the price.
If the US destroyed their surplus or charged exorbinet prices you'd be in here complaining about rest of the world starving when the US had the means to feed them.
This is only a problem because the government pays farmers to overproduce. If they didn't you couldn't complain about the US destroying third word farmers, but there also would no longer be enough food produced in the world to feed everyone. This is only 'evil' if the US makes everyone dependent on them for food, and then refuses to sell unless they fall in line- let me know when the US starts their 'Food Embargo' policy that results in people starving to death.
The China corollary is them dumping their super cheap manufactured goods on the US market, not China withholding key raw materials. To be clear- I'm not upset about either of those things. I wish everyone would play nice, but its never going to happen.
You do work for Comcast, and you do hijack all my dns queries, so yeah you're a shill.
I tried to opt out of your dns tampering, but it never worked, and I tired of talking to your support. If you guys are actually rolling something out that prevents you from intercepting and forging my dns queries I'm all for it. It'll be the first honest thing I've seen comcast do since my account was sold to them almost a decade ago.
If I ever have another broadband option Kabletown is getting the boot.
Have a nice day- hopefully you'll find a job somewhere that doesn't rape people financially via government backed monopoly.
I meant to mention the Roku- I'm on the verge of getting one just because they're so cheap. Only thing I'm not sure of is their support of local network media, no clear answers I can find, and their 'app store' seems to be a mess.
Netflix/Amazon support alone is probably worth the current price though.
Lets say I didn't spring for the extra $350 for an addon to my $500 tv...
I don't have an xbox or a PS3, and no plans to get one. No intention of buying bluray disks, so don't have one of those samsungs 'with apps' and not likely to get one.
I'm looking for a single purchase that will play my media, netflix, and (less important) the other odds and ends- pandora, amazon, itunes. I do this currently with a OSX box, but its: relatively big, hot and noisy, requires maintenance, and has a bunch of different sub-standard UIs.
I use boxee, and its mediocre. I use myth, and its a great dvr, and a decent media player, but no netflix or other 'apps'.
Until you want to watch netflix... and then you're sunk.
I have an osx machine running myth as the main interface, and then start boxee/hulu/frontrow as needed. It works, but having 5 different UIs, none of which are all that good is a pain.
I recently ditched cable, which drastically cuts myths usefulness. I still use it to playback local video, since boxee sucks horribly at that. Actually- boxee doesn't do anything very well. The netflix app is buggy, and has the near fatal flaw of not listing episodes in the right order- that bug has been open for 9m now with no action. The other apps are nice, but nothing special. No plans to get a boxee-box.
I'm hoping that either: -the appletv comes out with an appstore or -the googletv is sufficient
Right now nothing is 100%, and the boxee-box is about the last choice imo.
Thats my point though- silverlight (netflix) has been reliable on all machines (that run osx, no linux obviously:-( ). Flash is steaming pile in similar use cases.
As far as using my tv company- I gave them the boot. I certainly don't consider their POS set top box reliable, and its not worth $80/m for cable programming.
For playing DRM'd video content- silverlight works a hell of a lot better than flash...
I wish: -I didn't have to play DRM'd content to watch recent tv legally -that flash didn't choke and stutter on the same quality level as silverlight, because I _really_ don't like the idea of being locked into MS products
I suppose its also possible that _every_ DRM flash site is doing something horrible, and its their fault... The trend is clear though.
Add to the above- I wish _no one_ used flash or silverlight for anything.
Sure- but if they intended to take the pictures _that_ is the criminal intent. They don't have to know the act is criminal, they just have to intentionally carry out the act.
If it was any other way ignorance would always be the number one legal defense.
Add to that- I'm certainly not at the peak of my mental and physical abilities when I'm commuting to and from work, and I doubt anyone else is. If the standard for non-impaired driving is some mythical 'peak abilities', then I'd wager _everyone_ whos ever driven has driven impaired.
And all of it could have been avoided if Childs actually knew what being a system/network administrator actually meant.
More importantly the four year sentence could have been avoided if the courts actually upheld the constitution and laws of this country. Instead its much more common for the 'authorities' in any branch to react on a personal level, and really stick it to the people they don't like regardless of whether or not its appropriate. THAT is the real crime here. Personally I keep that in mind- and stay out of trouble. It bothers me a lot that people in power are allowed to act is such a petty and spiteful manner and are given a pass because 'the guy was a jerk'. Right, cause its only ok to be an asshole when you're in charge...
So 4 years is just and appropriate because he was a shitty admin and had a bad attitude?
I may not personally feel sorry for him (haven't given that aspect much thought), but this is clearly a gross miscarriage of justice, and that outrages me regardless of the target.
So you're suggesting not having any FB friends, and only communicating with people who have public profiles? I admittedly haven't tried that, but it doesn't seem like it'd work too well.
solution is not put yourself in a compromising position where cameras are present
Although my post may have implied they were compromising- they're not. I totally agree that cameras are everywhere, and avoiding being photographed (especially if someone is trying to do it secretly) is pretty much impossible these days. That still doesn't mean I want pictures of myself tagged with my name and profile plastered all over the internet.
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Exactly. People may be more prolific on FB than say writing old fashion letters to friends, but both could be used as evidence in court. The only change I see is that FB posts are easier to find and subpoena, but the privacy of the conversation hasn't changed at all.
The ONLY thing keeping metered billing at bay is that nobody wants to step up and be the first to implement it across the board.
No- whats keeping it at bay is: Nobody wants to actually sell metered service. Then they risk losing their guaranteed $40 for people who only use 100M/month.
Lets take current rates, and say 250G is worth $40 (what I actually pay). A gig of data is worth $0.16. You really think Comcast wants to get in that game? I'd love to see it...
Metered service runs both ways- unless they use their monopoly and lobbying power to squeeze more money for less service out of their subjects.
For example, the people I know are more commonly Java developers, whereas maybe you know more Objective-C developers.
And the lesson is: be more careful about choosing friends?
It dumps it on the market and artificially lowers the price.
If the US destroyed their surplus or charged exorbinet prices you'd be in here complaining about rest of the world starving when the US had the means to feed them.
This is only a problem because the government pays farmers to overproduce. If they didn't you couldn't complain about the US destroying third word farmers, but there also would no longer be enough food produced in the world to feed everyone. This is only 'evil' if the US makes everyone dependent on them for food, and then refuses to sell unless they fall in line- let me know when the US starts their 'Food Embargo' policy that results in people starving to death.
The China corollary is them dumping their super cheap manufactured goods on the US market, not China withholding key raw materials. To be clear- I'm not upset about either of those things. I wish everyone would play nice, but its never going to happen.
Comcast must have a pretty active presence here- modded to oblivion because I engaged their rep in a public forum.
You do work for Comcast, and you do hijack all my dns queries, so yeah you're a shill.
I tried to opt out of your dns tampering, but it never worked, and I tired of talking to your support. If you guys are actually rolling something out that prevents you from intercepting and forging my dns queries I'm all for it. It'll be the first honest thing I've seen comcast do since my account was sold to them almost a decade ago.
If I ever have another broadband option Kabletown is getting the boot.
Have a nice day- hopefully you'll find a job somewhere that doesn't rape people financially via government backed monopoly.
OK- I guess I should have started...
I get the idiom- I think its sad that taking a break after 2.5 is worthy of the phrase... Is 2.5 hours of concentrating outside the realm of normal?
They 'need to come up for air' every 2.5 hours? I don't know where to start.
I know you're probably joking, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the RCC has already hashed this out (other than the test).
I meant to mention the Roku- I'm on the verge of getting one just because they're so cheap. Only thing I'm not sure of is their support of local network media, no clear answers I can find, and their 'app store' seems to be a mess.
Netflix/Amazon support alone is probably worth the current price though.
Lets say I didn't spring for the extra $350 for an addon to my $500 tv...
I don't have an xbox or a PS3, and no plans to get one. No intention of buying bluray disks, so don't have one of those samsungs 'with apps' and not likely to get one.
I'm looking for a single purchase that will play my media, netflix, and (less important) the other odds and ends- pandora, amazon, itunes. I do this currently with a OSX box, but its: relatively big, hot and noisy, requires maintenance, and has a bunch of different sub-standard UIs.
I use boxee, and its mediocre. I use myth, and its a great dvr, and a decent media player, but no netflix or other 'apps'.
Until you want to watch netflix... and then you're sunk.
I have an osx machine running myth as the main interface, and then start boxee/hulu/frontrow as needed. It works, but having 5 different UIs, none of which are all that good is a pain.
I recently ditched cable, which drastically cuts myths usefulness. I still use it to playback local video, since boxee sucks horribly at that. Actually- boxee doesn't do anything very well. The netflix app is buggy, and has the near fatal flaw of not listing episodes in the right order- that bug has been open for 9m now with no action. The other apps are nice, but nothing special. No plans to get a boxee-box.
I'm hoping that either:
-the appletv comes out with an appstore
or
-the googletv is sufficient
Right now nothing is 100%, and the boxee-box is about the last choice imo.
Likewise
huh- my doctor does rounds at the hospital with his iphone...
I wonder how many people he's killed?
Thats my point though- silverlight (netflix) has been reliable on all machines (that run osx, no linux obviously :-( ). Flash is steaming pile in similar use cases.
As far as using my tv company- I gave them the boot. I certainly don't consider their POS set top box reliable, and its not worth $80/m for cable programming.
For playing DRM'd video content- silverlight works a hell of a lot better than flash...
I wish:
-I didn't have to play DRM'd content to watch recent tv legally
-that flash didn't choke and stutter on the same quality level as silverlight, because I _really_ don't like the idea of being locked into MS products
I suppose its also possible that _every_ DRM flash site is doing something horrible, and its their fault... The trend is clear though.
Add to the above- I wish _no one_ used flash or silverlight for anything.
Sure- but if they intended to take the pictures _that_ is the criminal intent. They don't have to know the act is criminal, they just have to intentionally carry out the act.
If it was any other way ignorance would always be the number one legal defense.
I'll add -since I apparently don't know when to leave it alone (surprisingly _i"m not in prison!):
The big mistake was ever letting the guy have even the smallest amount of meaningful responsibility.
Then why isn't the person responsible, manager/department head/whoever, rotting in jail next to him?
Childs wasn't just a jerk. He was an incompetent.
Are still on that?
If being incompetent in IT is a felony, we need a hell of a lot more prisons.
He certainly sounds incompetent, but he's in jail because hes a jerk- and thats _wrong_.
Add to that- I'm certainly not at the peak of my mental and physical abilities when I'm commuting to and from work, and I doubt anyone else is. If the standard for non-impaired driving is some mythical 'peak abilities', then I'd wager _everyone_ whos ever driven has driven impaired.
And all of it could have been avoided if Childs actually knew what being a system/network administrator actually meant.
More importantly the four year sentence could have been avoided if the courts actually upheld the constitution and laws of this country. Instead its much more common for the 'authorities' in any branch to react on a personal level, and really stick it to the people they don't like regardless of whether or not its appropriate. THAT is the real crime here. Personally I keep that in mind- and stay out of trouble. It bothers me a lot that people in power are allowed to act is such a petty and spiteful manner and are given a pass because 'the guy was a jerk'. Right, cause its only ok to be an asshole when you're in charge...
Frisco's policy in this case is: "Punish what you can't understand".
Kind of funny for a bunch of progressives, don't you think?
So 4 years is just and appropriate because he was a shitty admin and had a bad attitude?
I may not personally feel sorry for him (haven't given that aspect much thought), but this is clearly a gross miscarriage of justice, and that outrages me regardless of the target.
So you're suggesting not having any FB friends, and only communicating with people who have public profiles? I admittedly haven't tried that, but it doesn't seem like it'd work too well.
solution is not put yourself in a compromising position where cameras are present
Although my post may have implied they were compromising- they're not. I totally agree that cameras are everywhere, and avoiding being photographed (especially if someone is trying to do it secretly) is pretty much impossible these days. That still doesn't mean I want pictures of myself tagged with my name and profile plastered all over the internet.
I appreciate your use of the '.'.
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