Regardless of the legal ramifications and waivers there is still a responsibility of the server host to provide software that is free of damging components, say for instance someone sells you a car knowing that the car has major carbon monoxide emissions problem with seepage into the cabin, and has faulty brake lines that are just barely kept together... welcome to the Lemon Law, most judges will have the dealer buy back the car for the cost it was sold for, not the off-the-lot price, well if someone were to take gamespy to court under the auspices that they provided software which did the damages that it is well known for, yes there is really no legal remedy at hand to provide any kind of relief for the plaintiff, however it would prove that they are responsible for the files they serve from their webservers.
Just food for thought
You are absolutely correct, but remember the media assumes that most readers are on the average of 8th-11th grade reading skills with a 50 percent chance of graduation in high school, remember they are primarily the ones who fuel the mass hysteria that is the internet and make it the "dangerous" place it is today.
Hackers (crackers really) are not the problem, it is the media trying to describe the exploration of the general internet and networks that connect to it willingly (note I said willingly). And blame the entire technically savvy populace for the actions of the few bad apples who do actual harm to their precious "business network".
Enough of my rant, I will let the moderators decide if this is so offtopic.
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Well if you are constantly getting that response then you have two options... move... or ask the ILEC for a different wired pair. Telco's like verizon are attempting to make the situation better and expand their services to people who complain like yourself by extending their Loop Length limitations, if you have EVER seen a Mechanical line test between a DSL modem and the Central Office at 2000, 3000, 10000, and 18500 you would see a drastic difference in the quality and the ability of the lines to handle the higher frequencies occupied by the DSL service.
The distance covered by copper lines in general areas are limited by the geographical orientation and also pre-existing obstacles such as buildings, as well as varying interference caused by city signs and other types of EMI. This is all but uncontrollable by Verizon and ILEC's alike because of the fickle nature of copper over long distances and the physics involved.
Overall I would honestly suggest waiting for the DSL to become available in your area... or risk the eternal slowdown of cable as the users in your area begin to build upon each other until there is no more bandwidth left to share, trust me I know because I am a charter pipeline user.
sure there are some system administrators who would rather not reveal themselves as having an insecure network, for the fear of having more security violations or even, god forbid, having to fess up to a mistake, however we all make mistakes and protecting the commerce of your website and payment processing system should be top priority while disclosing to your customers the potential of the intrusion as well as informing them that there is a fix in the works, otherwise the check and balance system that any worker must follow, as well as trust would be violated in the process.
Really, do you honestly think that there is any credence in that particular comment.
Sure there are a lot of conspiracies that have subverted many different people's and cultures I will admit, but to defend a regime who may possibly oppress it's people... and give it false pretenses in which to believe their lies... is like going with the Big Brother approach really... you look at it and you see everything that is said, is reversed, and everything that was, has been overtly removed, I am sorry but dictators who refuse to give their power back to the people deserve exactly what they get, subversion, not terrorism... if we were terrorists then we would deserve the bullets in our skulls... but we are not and the organizations that work to protect us, do the best they can given on the situation.
and if you want to reveal the "truth" I would suggest actually bringing some hard evidence to the table.
I would have to agree there aren't many companies who acutally listen to the general public. A company who decides to do so goes pretty far, whereas the majority of companies who don't listen to public scrutiny at all have tended to collapse in on themselves. Nice show.
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Regardless of the legal ramifications and waivers there is still a responsibility of the server host to provide software that is free of damging components, say for instance someone sells you a car knowing that the car has major carbon monoxide emissions problem with seepage into the cabin, and has faulty brake lines that are just barely kept together... welcome to the Lemon Law, most judges will have the dealer buy back the car for the cost it was sold for, not the off-the-lot price, well if someone were to take gamespy to court under the auspices that they provided software which did the damages that it is well known for, yes there is really no legal remedy at hand to provide any kind of relief for the plaintiff, however it would prove that they are responsible for the files they serve from their webservers. Just food for thought
You are absolutely correct, but remember the media assumes that most readers are on the average of 8th-11th grade reading skills with a 50 percent chance of graduation in high school, remember they are primarily the ones who fuel the mass hysteria that is the internet and make it the "dangerous" place it is today. Hackers (crackers really) are not the problem, it is the media trying to describe the exploration of the general internet and networks that connect to it willingly (note I said willingly). And blame the entire technically savvy populace for the actions of the few bad apples who do actual harm to their precious "business network". Enough of my rant, I will let the moderators decide if this is so offtopic.
Well if you are constantly getting that response then you have two options... move... or ask the ILEC for a different wired pair. Telco's like verizon are attempting to make the situation better and expand their services to people who complain like yourself by extending their Loop Length limitations, if you have EVER seen a Mechanical line test between a DSL modem and the Central Office at 2000, 3000, 10000, and 18500 you would see a drastic difference in the quality and the ability of the lines to handle the higher frequencies occupied by the DSL service.
The distance covered by copper lines in general areas are limited by the geographical orientation and also pre-existing obstacles such as buildings, as well as varying interference caused by city signs and other types of EMI. This is all but uncontrollable by Verizon and ILEC's alike because of the fickle nature of copper over long distances and the physics involved.
Overall I would honestly suggest waiting for the DSL to become available in your area... or risk the eternal slowdown of cable as the users in your area begin to build upon each other until there is no more bandwidth left to share, trust me I know because I am a charter pipeline user.
sure there are some system administrators who would rather not reveal themselves as having an insecure network, for the fear of having more security violations or even, god forbid, having to fess up to a mistake, however we all make mistakes and protecting the commerce of your website and payment processing system should be top priority while disclosing to your customers the potential of the intrusion as well as informing them that there is a fix in the works, otherwise the check and balance system that any worker must follow, as well as trust would be violated in the process.
Really, do you honestly think that there is any credence in that particular comment.
Sure there are a lot of conspiracies that have subverted many different people's and cultures I will admit, but to defend a regime who may possibly oppress it's people... and give it false pretenses in which to believe their lies... is like going with the Big Brother approach really... you look at it and you see everything that is said, is reversed, and everything that was, has been overtly removed, I am sorry but dictators who refuse to give their power back to the people deserve exactly what they get, subversion, not terrorism... if we were terrorists then we would deserve the bullets in our skulls... but we are not and the organizations that work to protect us, do the best they can given on the situation.
and if you want to reveal the "truth" I would suggest actually bringing some hard evidence to the table.
I would have to agree there aren't many companies who acutally listen to the general public. A company who decides to do so goes pretty far, whereas the majority of companies who don't listen to public scrutiny at all have tended to collapse in on themselves. Nice show.