Hmm... so that's why they couldn't dupe the Medeco key from my old apartment. Nothing nefarious, I just lost the thing and it cost $25 for a replacement.
There's a difference between exploiting flaws and using an available system as it's meant to be used....or is sending "HTTP/1.1 GET/" to a port 80 that's not patched against the "running a web server on the Internet" bug considered an exploit now?
I don't recall if it was a local story or something from an aggregator like/., but I recall hearing a while back that people were up-in-arms because someone was using the public library's Wifi through the walls after the library was closed.
It ended up rather sanely, no charges IIRC, and the library just turned off their equipment at night. For that matter, though, who really cares if they didn't.
Unfortunately, this is a negative social norm to people who want to leave their APs open for public use. What's more, it's negating the technical considerations put into the standards that more simply dictated the opposite of what this developing norm would. So, is it so wrong to go down with a fight?
The thing is, even the slightest reading of the manual on most modern consumer-targeted wifi stations, or using any sort of setup short of "plug 'er in and turn 'er on" will find warnings about security and instructions on securing the AP.
Maybe I'm out of touch, but I'm actually quite surprised to still see as much open wifi around as I do.
Excuse me. Did you just attempt to send communication through my postal access-point without my explicit permission? You just hax0red my mailbox-- your address is right on it!
At the point when I'm the one complaining because my computer got onto your network, you can tell me to STFU and lock down my network. That's rarely the case, except if someone's running a honeypot to gather info from WiFi passers-by (in which case, I still say "You play with fire, you get burned" and "When on the road, encrypt and firewall.").
OTOH, if people are looking for enemies, openly laying down censorship is giving them one on a silver platter. It makes a "righteous oppressed against the big cruel world" stance all that much easier to justify. What's more, if discussion is prematurely squelched (or it fades away from lack of counterpoint) among the public, impressionable people with poor ideas given in hushed back alley meetings are less likely to meet with discussion of better ideas when they come back out into the light.
Compuserve was better-- 6 disks in a MacOS set. I got to the point where they were UPSing me boxes of floppies. I don't think I bought a single disk for a span of 2 or 3 years.
Termination fees and contract lengths make sense to me. I agree that in some cases it can be anticompetitive (if exorbitant termination fees are used to mask poor service quality), but in many cases they are in lieu of a connection fee for initial labor or hardware, and it allows the customer not to get hit with overwhelming initial costs, but still lets the company bank on recouping their initial expenses-- It's recouped bit-by-bit, but still as good as guaranteed.
Maybe there's bias, maybe there's not, but more often than not, when people complain about kneejerk downmodding, there's a significant component of their own arguments being unsound or nothing more than simple statements without backing. Perhaps there's less of a threshold of soundness for ideas that do go with Slashdot's commonly accepted opinions, but if your argument is given eloquently, and based on sound and well-stated ideas, it's rare to get downmodded for opinion only.
How do I know? I'm vocally pro-Copyright. I do get counter-arguments (and I volley right back), but I rarely get downmods.
Key: if you want to have argument, you've got to bring argument. There was no "why" or supporting information there, so one must fill in the blanks themselves. Therefore, I can only assume that your "moderation supports leftists" stance is based on the widely-held (but clearly incorrect) theory that the Slashdot comment moderation tags (Insightful, Flamebait, etc.) contain letter patterns that subliminally incline the Slashdot reader toward a left-leaning riotous frenzy.
Since this theory has long been proven false time and time again, bringing that hackneyed idea up again is an obvious Troll, if not Flamebait, which was demonstrated in your moderation.
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Hmm... so that's why they couldn't dupe the Medeco key from my old apartment. Nothing nefarious, I just lost the thing and it cost $25 for a replacement.
What about the fact, though, that you're not buying the money from and selling the money to the same people? (Anyone?)
There's a difference between exploiting flaws and using an available system as it's meant to be used. ...or is sending "HTTP/1.1 GET /" to a port 80 that's not patched against the "running a web server on the Internet" bug considered an exploit now?
I don't recall if it was a local story or something from an aggregator like /., but I recall hearing a while back that people were up-in-arms because someone was using the public library's Wifi through the walls after the library was closed.
It ended up rather sanely, no charges IIRC, and the library just turned off their equipment at night. For that matter, though, who really cares if they didn't.
For a lot of places, that's overkill. Just slap on an open hotspot with the name of the joint, and put it somewhere where it'll reach all the tables.
Unfortunately, this is a negative social norm to people who want to leave their APs open for public use. What's more, it's negating the technical considerations put into the standards that more simply dictated the opposite of what this developing norm would. So, is it so wrong to go down with a fight?
The thing is, even the slightest reading of the manual on most modern consumer-targeted wifi stations, or using any sort of setup short of "plug 'er in and turn 'er on" will find warnings about security and instructions on securing the AP.
Maybe I'm out of touch, but I'm actually quite surprised to still see as much open wifi around as I do.
Excuse me. Did you just attempt to send communication through my postal access-point without my explicit permission? You just hax0red my mailbox-- your address is right on it!
His PC? The feds seized that hours ago.
How about an "OPEN" sign? Perhaps I'm a neon collector?
They're closest to internet servers
And that's a scary analogy going the other way, if it gets picked up.
"They hacked my private directory!"
"What was so private about it?"
"There weren't any links from my website to it!"
At the point when I'm the one complaining because my computer got onto your network, you can tell me to STFU and lock down my network. That's rarely the case, except if someone's running a honeypot to gather info from WiFi passers-by (in which case, I still say "You play with fire, you get burned" and "When on the road, encrypt and firewall.").
OTOH, if people are looking for enemies, openly laying down censorship is giving them one on a silver platter. It makes a "righteous oppressed against the big cruel world" stance all that much easier to justify. What's more, if discussion is prematurely squelched (or it fades away from lack of counterpoint) among the public, impressionable people with poor ideas given in hushed back alley meetings are less likely to meet with discussion of better ideas when they come back out into the light.
The idea of having your cake, and being able to eat it in your car, too.
Yes, but a CD is digital, and is not dependent upon the strength of a given bit as long as the bit is even minimally discernable.
Really, if you want to get the best archival, you'll want digital encoding and output onto simple punchcards.
One thing is true: vinyl will outlast CD in durability
When the apocolypse comes, give me a pin, a piece of cardboard, something to use as a spindle, and a steady finger. I'll still be rockin'.
It was implied. Acronyms aren't the only way to save time and keystrokes, you know.
Compuserve was better-- 6 disks in a MacOS set. I got to the point where they were UPSing me boxes of floppies. I don't think I bought a single disk for a span of 2 or 3 years.
Unfortunately, they still have more guns.
Step 1: Read service reviews.
Step 2: Read the fine print.
Step 3: Run!
(Opt. Step 4: Realize there's a broadband monopoly or that only one company's interested in serving your area. Slink back. Take it.)
It could be a PITA charge-- they either have cost or difficulty involved in handling phone charges, so they mark it up to discourage it.
Termination fees and contract lengths make sense to me. I agree that in some cases it can be anticompetitive (if exorbitant termination fees are used to mask poor service quality), but in many cases they are in lieu of a connection fee for initial labor or hardware, and it allows the customer not to get hit with overwhelming initial costs, but still lets the company bank on recouping their initial expenses-- It's recouped bit-by-bit, but still as good as guaranteed.
Maybe there's bias, maybe there's not, but more often than not, when people complain about kneejerk downmodding, there's a significant component of their own arguments being unsound or nothing more than simple statements without backing. Perhaps there's less of a threshold of soundness for ideas that do go with Slashdot's commonly accepted opinions, but if your argument is given eloquently, and based on sound and well-stated ideas, it's rare to get downmodded for opinion only.
How do I know? I'm vocally pro-Copyright. I do get counter-arguments (and I volley right back), but I rarely get downmods.
Key: if you want to have argument, you've got to bring argument. There was no "why" or supporting information there, so one must fill in the blanks themselves. Therefore, I can only assume that your "moderation supports leftists" stance is based on the widely-held (but clearly incorrect) theory that the Slashdot comment moderation tags (Insightful, Flamebait, etc.) contain letter patterns that subliminally incline the Slashdot reader toward a left-leaning riotous frenzy.
Since this theory has long been proven false time and time again, bringing that hackneyed idea up again is an obvious Troll, if not Flamebait, which was demonstrated in your moderation.
Once I've bought it, I'm not going to take it back to the store because of the drivers.
If the drivers don't drive 'er, I certainly would.