I replied to the part you emphasised via italics. That's not a strawman. The person I suggested using a VPN to made the assertion that metadata collection by ISPs is something the customer cannot mitigate.. He was wrong, and you then made an issue of the cost of the mitigation, emphasis yours, not mine. No need to start flailing around now. Have a good day.
That's right. The post I initially replied to asserted the power to mitigate this data collection was outside the capability of the ISP customer, which is false. I never said it would be free, although if you're broken up over $5 a month... I dunno what to say to that.
I pay less than $5/month for a VPN I trust (enough) with multiple optional exit nodes; that's not near what my ISP charges for bandwidth, and it works from coffee shops as well as home.
You can choose a provider whose policies you agree with, or host your own on any of the numerous cloud services out there, or like 99% of the people who are already tracked by Twitbook, Flitter, Scroogle, etc. just live with it. The point is that if you care, you can mitigate it, and if you don't you're already probably tracked out the wazoo anyway.
I use an ESXi server and several VMs hosted there for dev work, and a fairly basic workstation with a great keyboard and a couple large monitors to remote into the dev machines. I have a VPN set up so I can VPN into the ESXi based machines from virtually anywhere, but I get the most work done from the quiet of my home. My time in the office is mostly about meetings and interacting with coworkers, but I don't get most of my coding done there.
If rights holders would reap the profits for a decade or MAYBE two and then our cultural artifacts would enter the public domain, as the system was intended to work, people in general would likely respect copyright a lot more. As it is rights holders have perverted the law to the point where the goal of the enforcement of the right of first sale (to ensure the public can enjoy the arts) is no longer even widely recognized as the goal. We have what should be illegal extensions of copyright terms, schemes that restrict and/or outlaw the consumers right to second sale, and all sorts of other infringements promulgated and implemented by a corrupt system.
No wonder people don't respect copyright restrictions any more.
When the robot drops the next vinyl record for me and brings the tonearm over to start playing, whose job did it take and what should the tax be? Also, how did we make it through the last 60 years without taxing this job stealing demon? Everything from dishwashing machines to jukeboxes to traffic signals is a 'job stealing robot' but I don't see that taxing them is a particularly brilliant idea.
Well that's funny, since I'm also quite, um, experienced in life shall we say.;) What I meant is that a VCR is an appliance, not the media. A VCR box is a large cardboard box FOR the VCR appliance to be shipped in. I guess the VCR media would be VHS (or BETA) right? Also, I'll work on being more clear in the future. Sure I will.
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Pretty sure people have always talked on planes. I'd like it if they'd ban that but banning one and not the other seems a little silly.
I replied to the part you emphasised via italics. That's not a strawman. The person I suggested using a VPN to made the assertion that metadata collection by ISPs is something the customer cannot mitigate.. He was wrong, and you then made an issue of the cost of the mitigation, emphasis yours, not mine. No need to start flailing around now. Have a good day.
I can mitigate it....
That's right. The post I initially replied to asserted the power to mitigate this data collection was outside the capability of the ISP customer, which is false. I never said it would be free, although if you're broken up over $5 a month ... I dunno what to say to that.
I pay less than $5/month for a VPN I trust (enough) with multiple optional exit nodes; that's not near what my ISP charges for bandwidth, and it works from coffee shops as well as home.
You can choose a provider whose policies you agree with, or host your own on any of the numerous cloud services out there, or like 99% of the people who are already tracked by Twitbook, Flitter, Scroogle, etc. just live with it. The point is that if you care, you can mitigate it, and if you don't you're already probably tracked out the wazoo anyway.
VPN.
I use an ESXi server and several VMs hosted there for dev work, and a fairly basic workstation with a great keyboard and a couple large monitors to remote into the dev machines. I have a VPN set up so I can VPN into the ESXi based machines from virtually anywhere, but I get the most work done from the quiet of my home. My time in the office is mostly about meetings and interacting with coworkers, but I don't get most of my coding done there.
If rights holders would reap the profits for a decade or MAYBE two and then our cultural artifacts would enter the public domain, as the system was intended to work, people in general would likely respect copyright a lot more. As it is rights holders have perverted the law to the point where the goal of the enforcement of the right of first sale (to ensure the public can enjoy the arts) is no longer even widely recognized as the goal. We have what should be illegal extensions of copyright terms, schemes that restrict and/or outlaw the consumers right to second sale, and all sorts of other infringements promulgated and implemented by a corrupt system. No wonder people don't respect copyright restrictions any more.
It's just too easy to get a drivers license in the USA.
It was supposed to my day off watching for this stuff. Sorry.
In what way does it beg the question?
I agree - anything worth having should be renewed after being reconsidered.
No, but he loved figs, so there's that.
Pretty sure that guy sits a few cubes over.
Or maybe run the climate control a bit to keep the inside from being a furnace when you return to the car.
Let alone whip or chop.
When the robot drops the next vinyl record for me and brings the tonearm over to start playing, whose job did it take and what should the tax be? Also, how did we make it through the last 60 years without taxing this job stealing demon? Everything from dishwashing machines to jukeboxes to traffic signals is a 'job stealing robot' but I don't see that taxing them is a particularly brilliant idea.
Not for that guy, though. His future looks pretty good to me.
Well that's funny, since I'm also quite, um, experienced in life shall we say. ;) What I meant is that a VCR is an appliance, not the media. A VCR box is a large cardboard box FOR the VCR appliance to be shipped in. I guess the VCR media would be VHS (or BETA) right? Also, I'll work on being more clear in the future. Sure I will.
Wall of DVD boxes maybe, VCR boxes doesn't make sense.
It would certainly make the task of downsizing their department a lot faster & simpler.
Avoidance is legal and in some cases arguably required, if not legally then morally. Evasion is illegal and immoral.
Some words should definitely exist.
Because the higher taxed locales would put local businesses at a disadvantage and thus encourage them to migrate away? Like the opposite of Ireland.
Tax avoidance is not the same as tax evasion.