your traffic is somehow identified as being responsible
People are missing the point; it's easy enough to set the maximum upload/download speed in P2P applications. Their escape clause is the word "somehow" that in effect neither explain how you're identified (for a company that can't find its own ass to pull its own head out of, with both hands and a mirror, their ability to identify bandwidth hogs on their network is at best questionable) nor are you offer a way to defend yourself if they decided to finger you.
The man is clearly a sociopath that does not give a flying f_ck about what he done to others. There's no cure for people like that, and the only benefit they can provide for the planet is as fertilizer. If our legal system pursued spammer with the same vigor as copyright violators, we would've rid them some time ago.
Found that Verizon has been shipping that kind of routers for more than 5 years and so far no hack has been found. So I removed my second line of defense. Looks like it is a prudent idea to buy a more capable modern router and protect the machines from possible future hacks.
You're acting as if that router is some kind of silver bullet. There is no such thing. Security measures should always be layered; never count on one measure to deflect attacks against you. Make penetration of the system more hassle than it's worth (to the attacker) is the right path. Hoping that somehow the code running in that router is perfect (because rest assured that it isn't,) is at best foolish.
... new regulations could hinder the development of the Internet
We have already spent man hours developing... features that would cripp... smothe... smooth out traffic flow, and you're about to regulate the (perceived) market away.
...but I think that a class action suit with everyone who got this incredibly lame marketing campaign isn't such a bad idea.
Actually it is. The lawyers will walk away with bulk of the money and the participants will each get $5 coupon off their next Toyota purchase. What should happen is the douche bags in Toyota get long jail time in pound-me-in-the-ass prison, things don't always happen the way they should...
What happens after that? To where do they get... 'exported' again once they are... 'retired' in those third world country? It's very likely that electronics disposal regulations in those third world countries are nearly as strict as they should be. So really what then?
Another pile of steaming turd excuse about how integration details are hidden would magically make the system more secure. Time and again that's been proven to be unreliable at best, yet it persists.
Applied Science Fiction was the first company to successfully market this as a 'dust and scratches' solution. Same idea, taken to a new level. Now, I hope HP's management is smart enough to get out of the way and bring this to market. It should definitely sell a few more scanners.
Quoting a certain Francis Ford Coppola flick -- "I love the smell of (lawsuits) in the morning. You know, one time we had a (HP sued), (logging untold number of billable hours.) When it was all over, I (finally looked) up (the patent.) We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' (violation). The smell, you know that (sulfur) smell, the whole (office.) Smelled like... (heck.)"
Coming from the group that just recently announced their paying customers should not expected DRM encumbered music already paid for to work indefinitely, their follow up announcement of yet another new format surely isn't inspiring any confidence.
Please, when did a corporation last value principles over profits?
They are surely a corporation of principles. Yemen was just... filtering to... protect their children. Please, won't somebody please think of the children!?
Good! This is one of those cases where the pharmaceutical companies should be held accountable over and above the slap on the wrist the FDA will give them - if that.
Except that nobody is really being held accountable, unless you're talking about SERIOUS jail time for the officers and forfeiture of profit + interest (at credit card rate no less.) Let's be honest here, the worse that can be expected is that FDA will slap some fine on the companies, and the companies will just happily pass the cost onto its paying customers (you and I.) There is NO ACCOUNTABILITY.
And Now they expect you to only lease hardware as well?
Let's be honest here; they do charge you by the button press on your game pad if they can get away with it. With the way things are shaping up of late, I would be surprise if they aren't in another decade.
As Time Robbins said in the flick "Yeah. The funny thing is - on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook." I fear we'll be turning a whole generation into crooks for mild infractions.
I didn't realize armadillo's could fly at all, much less suborbitally.
You put enough speed behind anything, and it'll fly. Now it might burn up due to friction with the atmosphere, but rest assure that it will fly (until there's nothing left of it.)
But the new version will be buggy and Zunes will only implode.
But because Microsoft choose to implement the implosion using a gravitational singularity, it has the unfortunate side effect of taking the planet and a few other planetary bodies nearby with it when the bug^H^H^H feature is triggered.
Son, we live in a world that has (iPhones) and those (iPhones) need to be guarded by (corporate thugs). Who's gonna do it? You? You, (Mr. I want my iPhone)? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for (Sun Danyong) and curse (Foxconn); you have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that (Sun Danyong's) death, while tragic, probably saved (Apple) and that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves (western capitalism). You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about (on) parties (lines) you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like (patents), (trade secrets), (copyrights). We use them as the backbone of a life trying to defend something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who (surfs) and (phones) under the blanket of the very (iPhone) I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you," and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest that you pick up a (baseball bat) and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
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People are missing the point; it's easy enough to set the maximum upload/download speed in P2P applications. Their escape clause is the word "somehow" that in effect neither explain how you're identified (for a company that can't find its own ass to pull its own head out of, with both hands and a mirror, their ability to identify bandwidth hogs on their network is at best questionable) nor are you offer a way to defend yourself if they decided to finger you.
The man is clearly a sociopath that does not give a flying f_ck about what he done to others. There's no cure for people like that, and the only benefit they can provide for the planet is as fertilizer. If our legal system pursued spammer with the same vigor as copyright violators, we would've rid them some time ago.
Of course, I had expected from someone that rants for a living would be able to distinguish the difference between 'then' and 'that'.
You're acting as if that router is some kind of silver bullet. There is no such thing. Security measures should always be layered; never count on one measure to deflect attacks against you. Make penetration of the system more hassle than it's worth (to the attacker) is the right path. Hoping that somehow the code running in that router is perfect (because rest assured that it isn't,) is at best foolish.
We have already spent man hours developing... features that would cripp... smothe... smooth out traffic flow, and you're about to regulate the (perceived) market away.
to use green backs. Also cultivate the habit of not spending the money you don't have...
MPAA/RIAA, to name a few (that we love to hate.)
...once they ship his scamming ass off to Federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison.
Pardon me the ignorance here, but what is 'cold atom'?
Since sales of e-books on Amazon's Kindle can be retroactively rescind.
In 21st century, you have no rights; your corporate overlords owns you.
Does it contain self defense mechanism against theft and dismemberment? Will it use deadly force to assure its own continued existence? Oh wait...
What happens after that? To where do they get... 'exported' again once they are... 'retired' in those third world country? It's very likely that electronics disposal regulations in those third world countries are nearly as strict as they should be. So really what then?
Another pile of steaming turd excuse about how integration details are hidden would magically make the system more secure. Time and again that's been proven to be unreliable at best, yet it persists.
Quoting a certain Francis Ford Coppola flick -- "I love the smell of (lawsuits) in the morning. You know, one time we had a (HP sued), (logging untold number of billable hours.) When it was all over, I (finally looked) up (the patent.) We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' (violation). The smell, you know that (sulfur) smell, the whole (office.) Smelled like... (heck.)"
Coming from the group that just recently announced their paying customers should not expected DRM encumbered music already paid for to work indefinitely, their follow up announcement of yet another new format surely isn't inspiring any confidence.
How can a term within a contract survive the termination of the contract itself?
They are surely a corporation of principles. Yemen was just... filtering to... protect their children. Please, won't somebody please think of the children!?
Except that nobody is really being held accountable, unless you're talking about SERIOUS jail time for the officers and forfeiture of profit + interest (at credit card rate no less.) Let's be honest here, the worse that can be expected is that FDA will slap some fine on the companies, and the companies will just happily pass the cost onto its paying customers (you and I.) There is NO ACCOUNTABILITY.
Let's be honest here; they do charge you by the button press on your game pad if they can get away with it. With the way things are shaping up of late, I would be surprise if they aren't in another decade.
As Time Robbins said in the flick "Yeah. The funny thing is - on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook." I fear we'll be turning a whole generation into crooks for mild infractions.
You put enough speed behind anything, and it'll fly. Now it might burn up due to friction with the atmosphere, but rest assure that it will fly (until there's nothing left of it.)
Dammit, you've just posted the info on a public forum accessible to all the(ir) terrorists. I think this counts as Aiding and Abiding?
Quoting a certain Hollywood flick --
Son, we live in a world that has (iPhones) and those (iPhones) need to be guarded by (corporate thugs). Who's gonna do it? You? You, (Mr. I want my iPhone)? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for (Sun Danyong) and curse (Foxconn); you have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that (Sun Danyong's) death, while tragic, probably saved (Apple) and that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves (western capitalism). You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about (on) parties (lines) you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like (patents), (trade secrets), (copyrights). We use them as the backbone of a life trying to defend something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who (surfs) and (phones) under the blanket of the very (iPhone) I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you," and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest that you pick up a (baseball bat) and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.