Don't know if anyone cares, but demanding employees hand-over Passwords violates multiple Maryland laws in the Constitution.
- That no man ought to be compelled to give evidence against himself in a criminal case.
- That the liberty of the press ought to be inviolably preserved; that every citizen of the State ought to be allowed to speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege.
- That all warrants, without oath or affirmation, to search suspected places, or to seize any person or property, are grievous and oppressive. And all general warrants to search suspected places, or to apprehend suspected persons, without naming or describing the place, or the person in special, are illegal, and ought not to be granted.
- That the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and of this State, apply as well in time of war, as in time of peace. And any departure therefrom, or violation thereof, under the plea of necessity, or any other plea, is subversive of good Government, and tends to anarchy and despotism.
- This enumeration of Rights shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the People.
>>>This is just some retarded prosecutor thinking a clip of someone using dirty words in front of children is the same as a clip of someone actually fucking the children. This is just moronic.
Not it's tyrannic.
Death to tyrants. Death to the prosecutor. Remind his replacement that the SAME thing can happen to him, if he suppresses the liberty of the People. It is a position of HONOR and these people should not be allowed to stain it by acting like modern-day versions of the Emperor Nero.
The prosecutor, the arresting officer, the officers that entered the home, and the lawyers in the courtroom (excepting the lawyer defending the victim) would automatically be sentenced to 1 month in prison for violating Amendments 1, 4, 9, and 14 of the Supreme Law of the land, as well as violating the Michigan Constitution, and their oaths.
PLUS the State would be required to give this victim $10,000 as recompense for his inconvenience of time spent in jail, his house ransacked, plus any lost wages incurred as a result of not being able to report to work. And of course pay for his court fees.
Failure to pay the monies to the victim would be considered contempt-of-court, and the responsible persons sent to 1 year additional jailtime.
>>>If you have a Facebook account, you've already failed my job interview.
That's good. You sound like an old codger with close-minded aptitude. I'd sooner work for someone whose brain is not calcified into rock & incapable of embracing new ideas. (In other words, do us all a favor grandpa and make room for the young generation. You no longer have anything to contribute to society, with Catholic-like attitude..)
That's true, but that doesn't mean the FCC should not regulate ISP monopolies at all. The regulate the CATV monopolies (such as requiring local stations be carried), so why not the internet half of the equation too?
>>>it was part and parcel of the AOL client. ("AOL is the Internet and so much more!")
I've been an AOL customer since 1985, long before they started offering internet. Back then it was purely a Commodore BBS with full graphics, AOL-generated content, etc.
Then when the web came-along in 1993 they offered access to it, but it cost extra. Then they eliminated the charge, but it was filtered (i.e. couldn't access playboy.com unless you first proved you're an adult).
It wasn't until 1996 or so that they finally took the "neutral" position and let subscribers see everything.
>>>what do you think would happen when a bunch of "cops" burst into an ISP in the middle of a revolution and the folks that are working there are refusing to comply? >>>
Probably the same thing that happens during US drugs raids, when cops burst into private homes:
- man shot (and killed) - man thinks cop is intruder (cops is dressed like thug, so it's understandable), shoots cop in self-defense, then spends rest of life in jail - little grandaughter shot (and killed) - pet dog shot - Christian preacher beat to unrecognizable condition, because he bars door and refuses to let cops enter unless they show him the warrant first (as it turned out, they found nothing, and they had no warrant) - pet cat shot - pet rabbit shot - woman shot in leg - loses it.
YES you're right that we have more freedom than the Egyptians do, but we still don't have enough, otherwise we wouldn't have jackbooted thugs breaking into private homes 3x daily, and pets, persons, children getting beat or killed
No wait. I'm wrong. You think that's okay, so I'm just wasting my breath.
Well. You're wrong. The central government's FCC cannot exercise a power that is already Reserved to the Member States by the 10th amendment. The FCC might be able to regulate trade as it passes over borders, but internal monopolies *created by the State Legislature* remain part of the legislature's juris diction.
>>>All of South Korea gets faster internet than any US city
"People may think you are stupid, but there's no point opening your mouth and proving it." - Abraham Lincoln. In other words I'm saying your statement is flat fucking false:
S. Korea == 38.5 Mbit/s Pembroke MA == 38.5 Mbit/s Bridgeport WA == 39.55 Mbit/s Vincentown NJ == 47.2 Mbit/s Orange NJ == 45.5 Mbit/s Swedesboro NJ == 43.0 Mbit/s Holmdel NJ == 39.6 Mbit/s Kingston RI == 53.6 Mbit/s Olean NY == 36.5 Mbit/s Lakeview OR == 40.8 Mbit/s La Jolla CA == 53.5 Mbit/s Standford CA == 41.6 Mbit/s . and on . and on . and on
The Navy is they are trying to "laser" a hole in an enemy ship and make it sink. Certainly more efficient than the old method of using a torpedo or missile.
The list is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all 75 US and EU states (I don't feel like typing that many names). What matters is this. We're number 2 in comparison to other continent-spanning countries/federations.
12.3 Russian Federation 10.3 US 10.0 EU 9.3 Canada 8.0 Australia 5.7 Saudi Arabia 4.8 Brazil 3.8 China 3.4 Mexico
Interstellar Internet: http://www.analogsf.com/0607/interstellar.aspx - "One of the most original, believable, thoroughly thought-out, and utterly fascinating visions ever of what interstellar contact might really be like." â" Stanley Schmidt, Editor of Analog magazine
"One thing led to another ⦠soon I was pondering a comm network that functioned across the light-years. And, we homo saps being a tad competitiveâ"about interstellar cyber attacks..... Herewith, a few of Lernerâ(TM)s Laws for Artificially Intelligent Trade Agents:
1. Agents run only inside mutually agreed upon containment: the sandbox. The sandbox protects: - a. The secrets of the agent from the locals. - b. The local infosphere from the agent. 2. Sandbox code is fully disclosed and fully agreed upon across the interstellar community. (ETsâ"one more argument for open source software!) 3. Access to/from the interior of a sandbox is only by messages. 4. An agent, its software entirely proprietary to its patron species, is transmitted encrypted across interstellar space. - a. It unwraps itself inside a sandbox provided by the host species. - b. It self-destructs, its secrets undisclosed, if the purported sandbox deviates in any way from expectations. 5. Trade waresâ"intellectual propertyâ"travel encrypted between solar systems, and are unwrapped in secrecy by the sequestered AI agent. Goods are sold (or not) and bought (or not) as the agent negotiates within its authorized-from-home parameters. 6. Agents buy and sell information using the host speciesâ(TM) banking system. Credits not spent locally may be transmitted, securely encrypted, between solar systems."
Well if we're talking 8 bit processors, the #1 selling computer from 1978 to 81 used a 6800. It was Tandy-Radio Shack's TRS-80.
I had forgotten about that machine but it has an important part in history. Even now it still holds the record as the third-best selling computer ever made (behind C=64 and C= Amiga 500).
>>>nothing at all would take its place on a national scale.
That's not true. Several of the freight companies are now profitable enough that they want to extend into Passenger lines, but the government monopoly outlaws them from doing so. (Just as the government monopoly outlaws FedEx or UPS from delivering letters.)
From my viewpoint ANY monopoly is bad, whether it's private or government.
I don't understand why everyone always says "the US sucks" and "other countries are better" (or words to that effect). Is this a case of thinking the Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence?
Because it isn't true. Here is how the US compares to other continent-spanning nations/federations. Maybe I'm biased but I don't think second place is a bad place to be: Mbit/s 12.3 Russian Federation 10.3 US 10.0 EU 9.3 Canada 8.0 Australia 5.7 Saudi Arabia 4.8 Brazil 3.8 China 3.4 Mexico
Mbit/s (EU versus US member states): 29 Lithuania 26 Latvia 24 Romania 23 Netherlands, Sweden 18 Portugal 17 Germany 16 Bulgaria, Denmark 15 DE, Belgium 14 Luxembourg, MA, RI, VA, WA, Hungary, MD, France 13 NY, Finland, NJ 12 NH, MN, Estonia 11 Austria 10 Slovakia, Czech, UK, Spain 8 Slovenia, Malta 7 Poland 6 Ireland, Georgia, Greece, Turkey 5 Cyprus 4 Italy 3 Greenland
Not really. It's the State Legislature that regulates other monopolies like the Electric utility, Water utility, Natural Gas utility, and so on. There's no reason the State Legislature can't extend that regulation to the Internet utility as well.
>>>history has shown that truly free markets will lead us directly to monopolies.
Actually history shows the exact opposite. Even when monopolies existed, they were very, very brief as new competitors rose-up and undercut the monopoly. - For example the Standard Oil Monopoly had its back broken in less than ten years when new competitors arose in Texas, Alaska, and overseas. - Another example is Microsoft Explorer which has seen its share plummet from 95% downto approximately 45%. Microsoft Windows is also in a downward trend.
Government has a monopoly on National Passenger Rail service. That means you have ONE choice - Amtrak.
In contrast National Freight Rail has dozens of choices from many different companies, because freight rail is a "free market". i.e. Government == One. Free market == many. Being a pro-choice person I prefer many.
>>>"I will obey, because the government will jail or possibly kill me and my family if I don't".
And this is different from refusing a search in the EU or US - how? I don't know about Europeans, but I've read about several Americans jailed for refusing to assent to a search, or changing their mind and trying to leave the airport, or refusing to open their car trunk at random police stops (et cetera).
You act as if we somehow have more "freedom" just because we elect our dictator (sorry - Mubarak calls himself "president").
>>>The main manufactures pretty much used a 650x or an 808x processor.
Also Motorola's 68000 series, which was the basis for the PC's main competition: Apple Macintosh, Atari ST, and Commodore Amiga. And Sega Genesis. The computers eventually migrated from the 68060 (last in the line) to Motorola/IBM's new PowerPC.
6502 was a bit of a deadend. It had a LOT of use in the 70s and 80s, but never moved higher than 16 bit (in the Super Nintendo and Apple GS). That was a shame.
>>>That was in the days when you used the POTS system and dialed into some provider. There was actually a ton of choices for this access.
Then that's what we need to recreate. - Is it true that on DSL I can choose any provider I want, and I'm not stuck with Verizon? Is the same true with FiOS?
It is? What was wrong with the FCC's latest rules? I didn't see anything objectionable about them, and I'm usually anti-government. The rules seemed reasonable - block ISPs from discriminating against sites or charging extra to reach them.
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Don't know if anyone cares, but demanding employees hand-over Passwords violates multiple Maryland laws in the Constitution.
- That no man ought to be compelled to give evidence against himself in a criminal case.
- That the liberty of the press ought to be inviolably preserved; that every citizen of the State ought to be allowed to speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege.
- That all warrants, without oath or affirmation, to search suspected places, or to seize any person or property, are grievous and oppressive. And all general warrants to search suspected places, or to apprehend suspected persons, without naming or describing the place, or the person in special, are illegal, and ought not to be granted.
- That the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and of this State, apply as well in time of war, as in time of peace. And any departure therefrom, or violation thereof, under the plea of necessity, or any other plea, is subversive of good Government, and tends to anarchy and despotism.
- This enumeration of Rights shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the People.
>>>This is just some retarded prosecutor thinking a clip of someone using dirty words in front of children is the same as a clip of someone actually fucking the children. This is just moronic.
Not it's tyrannic.
Death to tyrants.
Death to the prosecutor.
Remind his replacement that the SAME thing can happen to him, if he suppresses the liberty of the People. It is a position of HONOR and these people should not be allowed to stain it by acting like modern-day versions of the Emperor Nero.
Too bad I'm not a judge.
The prosecutor, the arresting officer, the officers that entered the home, and the lawyers in the courtroom (excepting the lawyer defending the victim) would automatically be sentenced to 1 month in prison for violating Amendments 1, 4, 9, and 14 of the Supreme Law of the land, as well as violating the Michigan Constitution, and their oaths.
PLUS the State would be required to give this victim $10,000 as recompense for his inconvenience of time spent in jail, his house ransacked, plus any lost wages incurred as a result of not being able to report to work. And of course pay for his court fees.
Failure to pay the monies to the victim would be considered contempt-of-court, and the responsible persons sent to 1 year additional jailtime.
>>>If you have a Facebook account, you've already failed my job interview.
That's good.
You sound like an old codger with close-minded aptitude. I'd sooner work for someone whose brain is not calcified into rock & incapable of embracing new ideas. (In other words, do us all a favor grandpa and make room for the young generation. You no longer have anything to contribute to society, with Catholic-like attitude..)
That's true, but that doesn't mean the FCC should not regulate ISP monopolies at all. The regulate the CATV monopolies (such as requiring local stations be carried), so why not the internet half of the equation too?
>>>it was part and parcel of the AOL client. ("AOL is the Internet and so much more!")
I've been an AOL customer since 1985, long before they started offering internet. Back then it was purely a Commodore BBS with full graphics, AOL-generated content, etc.
Then when the web came-along in 1993 they offered access to it, but it cost extra. Then they eliminated the charge, but it was filtered (i.e. couldn't access playboy.com unless you first proved you're an adult).
It wasn't until 1996 or so that they finally took the "neutral" position and let subscribers see everything.
>>>what do you think would happen when a bunch of "cops" burst into an ISP in the middle of a revolution and the folks that are working there are refusing to comply?
>>>
Probably the same thing that happens during US drugs raids, when cops burst into private homes:
- man shot (and killed)
- man thinks cop is intruder (cops is dressed like thug, so it's understandable), shoots cop in self-defense, then spends rest of life in jail
- little grandaughter shot (and killed)
- pet dog shot
- Christian preacher beat to unrecognizable condition, because he bars door and refuses to let cops enter unless they show him the warrant first (as it turned out, they found nothing, and they had no warrant)
- pet cat shot
- pet rabbit shot
- woman shot in leg - loses it.
YES you're right that we have more freedom than the Egyptians do, but we still don't have enough, otherwise we wouldn't have jackbooted thugs breaking into private homes 3x daily, and pets, persons, children getting beat or killed
No wait. I'm wrong. You think that's okay, so I'm just wasting my breath.
Well. You're wrong. The central government's FCC cannot exercise a power that is already Reserved to the Member States by the 10th amendment. The FCC might be able to regulate trade as it passes over borders, but internal monopolies *created by the State Legislature* remain part of the legislature's juris diction.
>>>All of South Korea gets faster internet than any US city
"People may think you are stupid, but there's no point opening your mouth and proving it." - Abraham Lincoln. In other words I'm saying your statement is flat fucking false:
S. Korea == 38.5 Mbit/s
Pembroke MA == 38.5 Mbit/s
Bridgeport WA == 39.55 Mbit/s
Vincentown NJ == 47.2 Mbit/s
Orange NJ == 45.5 Mbit/s
Swedesboro NJ == 43.0 Mbit/s
Holmdel NJ == 39.6 Mbit/s
Kingston RI == 53.6 Mbit/s
Olean NY == 36.5 Mbit/s
Lakeview OR == 40.8 Mbit/s
La Jolla CA == 53.5 Mbit/s
Standford CA == 41.6 Mbit/s
.
and on
.
and on
.
and on
>>>Who needs to burn through 20 feet of steel?
The Navy is they are trying to "laser" a hole in an enemy ship and make it sink. Certainly more efficient than the old method of using a torpedo or missile.
>>>that list looks like it's been made based on the advertised rate
No it came from speedtest.net, which collects aggregate data from actual file transfers across the wires. It is the most accurate database available.
The list is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all 75 US and EU states (I don't feel like typing that many names). What matters is this. We're number 2 in comparison to other continent-spanning countries/federations.
12.3 Russian Federation
10.3 US
10.0 EU
9.3 Canada
8.0 Australia
5.7 Saudi Arabia
4.8 Brazil
3.8 China
3.4 Mexico
Interstellar Internet: http://www.analogsf.com/0607/interstellar.aspx - "One of the most original, believable, thoroughly thought-out, and utterly fascinating visions ever of what interstellar contact might really be like." â" Stanley Schmidt, Editor of Analog magazine
"One thing led to another ⦠soon I was pondering a comm network that functioned across the light-years. And, we homo saps being a tad competitiveâ"about interstellar cyber attacks..... Herewith, a few of Lernerâ(TM)s Laws for Artificially Intelligent Trade Agents:
1. Agents run only inside mutually agreed upon containment: the sandbox. The sandbox protects: - a. The secrets of the agent from the locals. - b. The local infosphere from the agent.
2. Sandbox code is fully disclosed and fully agreed upon across the interstellar community. (ETsâ"one more argument for open source software!)
3. Access to/from the interior of a sandbox is only by messages.
4. An agent, its software entirely proprietary to its patron species, is transmitted encrypted across interstellar space. - a. It unwraps itself inside a sandbox provided by the host species. - b. It self-destructs, its secrets undisclosed, if the purported sandbox deviates in any way from expectations.
5. Trade waresâ"intellectual propertyâ"travel encrypted between solar systems, and are unwrapped in secrecy by the sequestered AI agent. Goods are sold (or not) and bought (or not) as the agent negotiates within its authorized-from-home parameters.
6. Agents buy and sell information using the host speciesâ(TM) banking system. Credits not spent locally may be transmitted, securely encrypted, between solar systems."
Well if we're talking 8 bit processors, the #1 selling computer from 1978 to 81 used a 6800. It was Tandy-Radio Shack's TRS-80.
I had forgotten about that machine but it has an important part in history. Even now it still holds the record as the third-best selling computer ever made (behind C=64 and C= Amiga 500).
>>>nothing at all would take its place on a national scale.
That's not true. Several of the freight companies are now profitable enough that they want to extend into Passenger lines, but the government monopoly outlaws them from doing so. (Just as the government monopoly outlaws FedEx or UPS from delivering letters.)
From my viewpoint ANY monopoly is bad, whether it's private or government.
Looks like the average is somewhere around 2000 kbit/s.
Good to know my 1000k line is slower but not significantly slower than typical.
I don't understand why everyone always says "the US sucks" and "other countries are better" (or words to that effect). Is this a case of thinking the Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence?
Because it isn't true. Here is how the US compares to other continent-spanning nations/federations. Maybe I'm biased but I don't think second place is a bad place to be:
Mbit/s
12.3 Russian Federation
10.3 US
10.0 EU
9.3 Canada
8.0 Australia
5.7 Saudi Arabia
4.8 Brazil
3.8 China
3.4 Mexico
Mbit/s (EU versus US member states):
29 Lithuania
26 Latvia
24 Romania
23 Netherlands, Sweden
18 Portugal
17 Germany
16 Bulgaria, Denmark
15 DE, Belgium
14 Luxembourg, MA, RI, VA, WA, Hungary, MD, France
13 NY, Finland, NJ
12 NH, MN, Estonia
11 Austria
10 Slovakia, Czech, UK, Spain
8 Slovenia, Malta
7 Poland
6 Ireland, Georgia, Greece, Turkey
5 Cyprus
4 Italy
3 Greenland
>>>then sue the state for damages.
Not really. It's the State Legislature that regulates other monopolies like the Electric utility, Water utility, Natural Gas utility, and so on. There's no reason the State Legislature can't extend that regulation to the Internet utility as well.
>>>history has shown that truly free markets will lead us directly to monopolies.
Actually history shows the exact opposite. Even when monopolies existed, they were very, very brief as new competitors rose-up and undercut the monopoly. - For example the Standard Oil Monopoly had its back broken in less than ten years when new competitors arose in Texas, Alaska, and overseas. - Another example is Microsoft Explorer which has seen its share plummet from 95% downto approximately 45%. Microsoft Windows is also in a downward trend.
Free markets break monopolies.
Random Example:
Government has a monopoly on National Passenger Rail service. That means you have ONE choice - Amtrak.
In contrast National Freight Rail has dozens of choices from many different companies, because freight rail is a "free market". i.e. Government == One. Free market == many. Being a pro-choice person I prefer many.
AOL's not dead.
I still use their Netscape-branded dialup for $6 a month - http://isp.netscape.com/
>>>"I will obey, because the government will jail or possibly kill me and my family if I don't".
And this is different from refusing a search in the EU or US - how? I don't know about Europeans, but I've read about several Americans jailed for refusing to assent to a search, or changing their mind and trying to leave the airport, or refusing to open their car trunk at random police stops (et cetera).
You act as if we somehow have more "freedom" just because we elect our dictator (sorry - Mubarak calls himself "president").
>>>The main manufactures pretty much used a 650x or an 808x processor.
Also Motorola's 68000 series, which was the basis for the PC's main competition: Apple Macintosh, Atari ST, and Commodore Amiga. And Sega Genesis. The computers eventually migrated from the 68060 (last in the line) to Motorola/IBM's new PowerPC.
6502 was a bit of a deadend. It had a LOT of use in the 70s and 80s, but never moved higher than 16 bit (in the Super Nintendo and Apple GS). That was a shame.
>>>That was in the days when you used the POTS system and dialed into some provider. There was actually a ton of choices for this access.
Then that's what we need to recreate.
- Is it true that on DSL I can choose any provider I want, and I'm not stuck with Verizon? Is the same true with FiOS?
>>>This is a good thing.
It is? What was wrong with the FCC's latest rules? I didn't see anything objectionable about them, and I'm usually anti-government. The rules seemed reasonable - block ISPs from discriminating against sites or charging extra to reach them.