And yet, AT&T wants more money because they think they have the right to charge Netflix more to pass through their tollbooth.
- it's not their 'tollbooth', it's their road. On a road you can charge different rates for different types of vehicles, this is the same situation. An eighteen wheeler can cause more damage to the road that requires more maintenance than a motorcycle, this is the same thing: a movie that needs to be streamed a million times takes up much more capacity and energy and basically uses the system much more than millions of small individual requests do.
See, I even used an appropriate car analogy.
OK, so this is AT&T's road. HOWEVER, it's customers are paying to drive whatever vehicle they want on that road. Sure, you've got millions of request from Netflix to stream a movie, but you have millions of end users paying AT&T to be able to do that. I'm on Time Warner's Roadrunner. I pay them every month to use their networks however I see fit, and there is no exemption in that agreement regarding what that content is. So why should Netflix have to pay, too? TW has already been paid once for that bandwidth.
Good idea -- otherwise, Google might miss out on some of your browsing activity if you're using another browser, use their DNS to make sure they can capture all of your activity.
As opposed to Comcast capturing all your activity?
If we had proper (bi-directional) home internet connections we wouldn't need large storage devices with us and could simply remotely access our files from home whenever we want to listen to music or transfer a report we've been working on for work/school/etc.
You have NO IDEA how much more dangerous that could potentially be than storing them at a third party site.
I think it's more likely that they can infer what you make BY WHAT CURRENT JOB YOU LIST. Someone listed as working as a lab tech somewhere is obviously going to make more than someone listed as working at McDonald's.
Fingerprints are left behind all the time so it would be trivial for someone to obtain.
That depends on the situation. If you find a phone lying on a bus seat and decide you're keeping it, then unless you lift the print from the phone itself you are just shit out of luck. If you don't even know who the phone belongs to, you're not going to be able to get a print.
Also if you steal a phone, say out of a woman's open purse, you aren't going to be able to get prints from anywhere other than the phone, either. What are you going to do, find out where she lives, break into her house, find a dirty glass and lift a print from it?
It's not like people are going to keep government secrets on their phone. If you do, you're dumb as a box of bricks. Phone security is there to keep credit card numbers from casual thieves in the event that you lose your phone. If the cops or the government have you in custody and are trying to get into your phone, you've got much bigger things to worry about.
Does it really matter if the names of the moons follow any kind of guidelines considering the fact that the planet (or dwarf planet, or whatever you want to call it) was named after a cartoon dog?
My question is if the government has the means to access encrypted material, why do we keep seeing people going to jail for refusing to hand over the password to their encrypted drives and files?
Does anyone seriously not believe the famous numbers stations as already an ultra-low-throughput form of encrypted transmission?
Whether you send the data as electrical bits, RF, carrier pigeons, or a recording of Angelina Jolie saying "zero" and "one" over and over and over really has no relevance to the underlying meaning. Either it already breaks the law, or it doesn't.
Totally true. But I've never heard a numbers station in a ham band. Hams can't just operate everywhere in the shortwave spectrum. There are certain frequency "bands" they can use. The numbers stations aren't within these bands.
I am not interested in supporting censorship, which is what you're doing when you pay your fees. See ya.
What "fees"? $15 for a 10 year license?
It's not about censorship. It's called acting civilized, having respect towards each other, and having an environment where even kids can participate.
Well depends on the type of encryption. I can read off a series of numbers that are a one time pad encrypted message and get the same effect. If they are talking about full on scramble and sounding like white noise (for more bw). Then yeah I could see how that could be an issue.
I don't know why your post was scored so low, because I see the point you are making, but you are wrong. Reading off a series of numbers from a one time pad IS illegal and exactly the same as a full on scramble of the signal. There's no difference whatsoever. The law is that you can't obscure the meaning of a message, and both of those examples do just that.
Yes the FCC will absoultly revoke your HAM license, if you make a habit of breaking the rules.
Get on Broadcastify.com, go to "Los Angeles county", and scroll down to the W6NUT repeater. Listen to that for a couple of days and tell me they will take your license for breaking the rules. That repeater has absolutely dripped with filth for decades, and nobody does anything about it. They SHOULD, and the FCC CAN, but they don't.
There's no promise that the owners of ANY social network won't give data over to the government when ordered to (or even simply asked to). Other than the whole issue of the government itself spying, facebook is actually as secure as you make it. Don't add apps. That will help control privacy. Also, you can control who sees EVERYTHING on your account other than the profile picture and "cover" image, which are always public. If you set everything to "friends" only, a non-friend can't even find your profile in a search, and can't see any information about you at all if they do find your page.
People act like facebook is such a huge security breach sharing all aspects of your life. But facebook doesn't go through your house and workplace gathering information about you... facebook can only share what YOU put on it. If you don't post bank account information, your phone number, your vacation schedule, your address, nude pictures of your wife, whatever, then there isn't going to be much to see anyway. Even the information you DO have to enter like your birthdate, gender, etc, can all be set to private where nobody but you can see it. Use it to keep in touch with family and friends, send sensitive messages as private messages like you are supposed to and put the mundane crap on your newsfeed, and there really doesn't have to be any problems.
The point that there's almost no chance the cop saw the violation is exactly why they should NOT be able to go through the device. What "probable cause" could they POSSIBLY have to think the phone caused the accident if the they didn't witness the person actually using it?
So far I've not seen anything about the always-on requirement for the internet connection.
If games ONLY save to the cloud, then that IS the always-on internet requirement. Otherwise you have to start a new game every time you put the disc in, and you can't save your progress.
There's quite a bit more to it then that. How about the feature where Netflix figures out what shows I like based on what I watch (and data about what other people watching the show watch)? I have found and watched all kinds of older TV shows that I've never heard of that are really great shows. Torrent clients don't do that either.
On the other side, there's a WHOLE LOT of stuff that Netflix doesn't carry, or that they used to carry and don't anymore. Netflix is good, but there's a lot of common stuff that they don't have.
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And yet, AT&T wants more money because they think they have the right to charge Netflix more to pass through their tollbooth.
- it's not their 'tollbooth', it's their road. On a road you can charge different rates for different types of vehicles, this is the same situation. An eighteen wheeler can cause more damage to the road that requires more maintenance than a motorcycle, this is the same thing: a movie that needs to be streamed a million times takes up much more capacity and energy and basically uses the system much more than millions of small individual requests do.
See, I even used an appropriate car analogy.
OK, so this is AT&T's road. HOWEVER, it's customers are paying to drive whatever vehicle they want on that road. Sure, you've got millions of request from Netflix to stream a movie, but you have millions of end users paying AT&T to be able to do that. I'm on Time Warner's Roadrunner. I pay them every month to use their networks however I see fit, and there is no exemption in that agreement regarding what that content is. So why should Netflix have to pay, too? TW has already been paid once for that bandwidth.
Good idea -- otherwise, Google might miss out on some of your browsing activity if you're using another browser, use their DNS to make sure they can capture all of your activity.
As opposed to Comcast capturing all your activity?
I would not run google as an ISP.
I try to avoid google; the last thing I'd want is to have them at the other endpoint of my link!
bandwidth be damned; privacy is worth more to me than that.
Implying your ISP doesn't know, and possibly log, every move you make now.
If we had proper (bi-directional) home internet connections we wouldn't need large storage devices with us and could simply remotely access our files from home whenever we want to listen to music or transfer a report we've been working on for work/school/etc.
You have NO IDEA how much more dangerous that could potentially be than storing them at a third party site.
I think it's more likely that they can infer what you make BY WHAT CURRENT JOB YOU LIST. Someone listed as working as a lab tech somewhere is obviously going to make more than someone listed as working at McDonald's.
(c) understand that having a kid is not worth the hassle, and (d) take action in avoiding procreation. It's green and helps the earth, to boot.
I'm assuming that you are glad that your parents didn't feel the same way instead of having you?
Fingerprints are left behind all the time so it would be trivial for someone to obtain.
That depends on the situation. If you find a phone lying on a bus seat and decide you're keeping it, then unless you lift the print from the phone itself you are just shit out of luck. If you don't even know who the phone belongs to, you're not going to be able to get a print. Also if you steal a phone, say out of a woman's open purse, you aren't going to be able to get prints from anywhere other than the phone, either. What are you going to do, find out where she lives, break into her house, find a dirty glass and lift a print from it? It's not like people are going to keep government secrets on their phone. If you do, you're dumb as a box of bricks. Phone security is there to keep credit card numbers from casual thieves in the event that you lose your phone. If the cops or the government have you in custody and are trying to get into your phone, you've got much bigger things to worry about.
"Has anyone else verified that the suppose hack really does work? Isn't a bit premature to claim Apple is lying off a single youtube video?"
No, but everyone is acting as if you can't fake a youtube video, so this claim must be enough for them.
Why this is deserving of an article I don't know.
It's not. I've been doing that with Chrome since it first came out.
If by "win" he means Bill Gates will finally get even richer off a Linux app, then sure he won.
It would be totally feasible to install your previous OS on your new Windows 8 machine. May not cost anything if you have the original install disc.
Does it really matter if the names of the moons follow any kind of guidelines considering the fact that the planet (or dwarf planet, or whatever you want to call it) was named after a cartoon dog?
My question is if the government has the means to access encrypted material, why do we keep seeing people going to jail for refusing to hand over the password to their encrypted drives and files?
Think of how much more interesting ham radio would be if the ARRL was anything like the NRA...
That will only happen when people find a way to start killing other people with amateur radios. Then membership numbers will skyrocket.
Does anyone seriously not believe the famous numbers stations as already an ultra-low-throughput form of encrypted transmission? Whether you send the data as electrical bits, RF, carrier pigeons, or a recording of Angelina Jolie saying "zero" and "one" over and over and over really has no relevance to the underlying meaning. Either it already breaks the law, or it doesn't.
Totally true. But I've never heard a numbers station in a ham band. Hams can't just operate everywhere in the shortwave spectrum. There are certain frequency "bands" they can use. The numbers stations aren't within these bands.
I am not interested in supporting censorship, which is what you're doing when you pay your fees. See ya.
What "fees"? $15 for a 10 year license? It's not about censorship. It's called acting civilized, having respect towards each other, and having an environment where even kids can participate.
Well depends on the type of encryption. I can read off a series of numbers that are a one time pad encrypted message and get the same effect. If they are talking about full on scramble and sounding like white noise (for more bw). Then yeah I could see how that could be an issue.
I don't know why your post was scored so low, because I see the point you are making, but you are wrong. Reading off a series of numbers from a one time pad IS illegal and exactly the same as a full on scramble of the signal. There's no difference whatsoever. The law is that you can't obscure the meaning of a message, and both of those examples do just that.
Yes the FCC will absoultly revoke your HAM license, if you make a habit of breaking the rules.
Get on Broadcastify.com, go to "Los Angeles county", and scroll down to the W6NUT repeater. Listen to that for a couple of days and tell me they will take your license for breaking the rules. That repeater has absolutely dripped with filth for decades, and nobody does anything about it. They SHOULD, and the FCC CAN, but they don't.
I assume with the turn of a screw you also void the warranty?
There's no promise that the owners of ANY social network won't give data over to the government when ordered to (or even simply asked to). Other than the whole issue of the government itself spying, facebook is actually as secure as you make it. Don't add apps. That will help control privacy. Also, you can control who sees EVERYTHING on your account other than the profile picture and "cover" image, which are always public. If you set everything to "friends" only, a non-friend can't even find your profile in a search, and can't see any information about you at all if they do find your page. People act like facebook is such a huge security breach sharing all aspects of your life. But facebook doesn't go through your house and workplace gathering information about you... facebook can only share what YOU put on it. If you don't post bank account information, your phone number, your vacation schedule, your address, nude pictures of your wife, whatever, then there isn't going to be much to see anyway. Even the information you DO have to enter like your birthdate, gender, etc, can all be set to private where nobody but you can see it. Use it to keep in touch with family and friends, send sensitive messages as private messages like you are supposed to and put the mundane crap on your newsfeed, and there really doesn't have to be any problems.
The point that there's almost no chance the cop saw the violation is exactly why they should NOT be able to go through the device. What "probable cause" could they POSSIBLY have to think the phone caused the accident if the they didn't witness the person actually using it?
So far I've not seen anything about the always-on requirement for the internet connection.
If games ONLY save to the cloud, then that IS the always-on internet requirement. Otherwise you have to start a new game every time you put the disc in, and you can't save your progress.
There's quite a bit more to it then that. How about the feature where Netflix figures out what shows I like based on what I watch (and data about what other people watching the show watch)? I have found and watched all kinds of older TV shows that I've never heard of that are really great shows. Torrent clients don't do that either.
On the other side, there's a WHOLE LOT of stuff that Netflix doesn't carry, or that they used to carry and don't anymore. Netflix is good, but there's a lot of common stuff that they don't have.
There's a big difference.
Whether you personally have a use for it is a different question.
I know I could work a bigger farm in Farmville, that's for sure.
Depends on the number of torrents you're running.
If I could seed at 1Gb/s...