Not suggesting that. If Mueller discovers there was in fact collusion and therefore Trump can't legitimately be POTUS, I'd hope that they'd throw out his entire cabinet and force a special election. It'd be a huge mess but it'd be better than Pence as POTUS, at least in the long run. Problem is there's no precedent for any of that, so who knows how it'd be handled? With the GOP still holding a majority in Congress, they'd fight as hard as they possibly could to keep Pence around -- which would be far, far worse for the country than Trump has been, in ways I don't even want to think about (spoiler: Pence is a Dominionist). Also it may take another year or two for Mueller's investigation to come to it's conclusion. Most likely scenario is the Trump Administration doesn't do much of anything for 4 years, the GOP keeps fighting with itself for 4 years, and in 2020 we end up with a Democrat back in the Whitehouse and the GOP back in the minority, as the needle swings back towards the left, as everyone realizes what a gigantic mistake and disaster their choices in 2016 were.
Eh, give Mueller a chance, he's just starting to build up momentum. Just cross your fingers that we don't end up with Pence as POTUS, that'd be much worse than you imagine.
Seems to me you can complete quite a few MitM attacks in three minutes. Wonder how many people were compromised and/or how many websites were compromised? Or was this just a 'dry run' for a larger attack? Guess we won't know until the other shoe drops.
The cruel fact of the matter is homelessness is a choice.
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I don't think you've EVER talked to any legitimately homeless people so you have NO IDEA what you're talking about. Get the blinders off, you head out of your ass, and GET REAL.
Agreed. People think the Equifax databreach was bad? Just wait until every single American has their information stolen straight from the federal government, because some shitty 'cloud service' was incompetent.
So-called 'health insurance' only really benefits you if you become seriously ill or injured. Otherwise all it does is suck money out of your pocket every month and give you nothing in return. In my opinion, if the average person spent money every month on physical activities and eating healthier instead of spending that money on so-called 'health insurance', they'd find that they don't need 'health insurance'. They'd be stronger, more resistant to injury and illness, lower chance of cancers or heart disease, and little chance (if any) of conditions like obesity or diabetes. Probably be less neurotic and overall happier more of the time than they'd be otherwise, too.
Furthermore, I think Facebook users, who are having their accounts and many other things scraped and datamined by Facebook every single day, should be paid for their data -- and don't tell me "they're being paid by being given free access to the site", because that's bullshit, what Facebook gets from it's users pays them orders of magnitude more than it costs to run the site, hence the huge amount of money Zuckerberg has. Facebook users should have an 'account' that shows them exactly how much money they've accrued from Facebook as compensation for their privacy being invaded, which can be withdrawn at any time, or allowed to accumulate and paid interest at the going rate for a typical savings account at a bank. It's not like there isn't precedent for this; don't people on YouTube get money from advertising clicks? Not much different.
I was under the impression that wine glasses (which by the way are different shapes for use with different varieties of wine) were the size they are to allow space for the 'nose' of the wine poured to develop, and that there was an olfactory component to the experience of drinking wine. Of course if you're talking about bottles of Two Buck Chuck or Night Train, then I guess a disposable red plastic cup is good enough -- if you don't just swill it straight from the bottle, that is.
Listen, buddy: If someone is legitimately breaking the law, then sure, let's arrest them and give them due process. But demonizing all of the homeless, because of some bad actors? That's just being a jerk. Are you aware that the majority of the homeless don't want to be? Or are suffering from mental illness of some sort? Or are drug addicts, and since there's no mechanism to get them off drugs, they're stuck in an endless downward spiral? What about honorably discharged veterens who are homeless? They served their country, now they're just scum so far as you or some others are concerned? What about homeless children? Should they just be 'shooed away' and forgotten, too?
Here's an idea that you'll probably like: why not just put them all up against a wall, men, women, children, all of them, and just shoot them dead? We'll make them dig their own graves first, even. Then no more homeless! You'll be happy then, right? </extreme_sarcasm>
For what is supposedly the greatest and most powerful nation on Earth, I think it's absolutely shameful that we have any homeless problem whatsoever. Instead of demonizing the homeless, we should be working to solve the problem -- and I don't mean "ship them off somewhere else", either. We treat ANIMALS better than we treat the homeless.
Power companies should charge AT&T for use of their power lines based on bandwidth, and charge extra for certain websites/domains that want to traverse their network of power lines. That'll teach 'em.
Wouldn't there have to be bridges at substations to retransmit the signals, because they'd get filtered out by the transformers? Or is this topologically-speaking closer to DSL, where there's a 'transceiver' or some sort on local neighborhood circuits? What about at your house? X10 signals, which are comparatively low frequency, get stopped at breaker boxes. Or would there be a modem of some sort installed right where public grid power enters the building?
I need you to power-cycle your modem; turn your entire house off, wait 15 seconds, then turn your entire house back on again
The emergency communication issue is irrelevant because of mobile cell towers
Yeah, sure, because machines with more moving parts and higher complexity never break down, do they, and they're always easy to fix, right? </sarcasm>
The Internet never has problems!
Cell towers are 100% reliable!
Cellular service never gets overloaded when there's an emergency!
'Old fashioned' analog radio communications is for LUDDITES, anything serious has to be NEW and SHINY, everybody knows that!
Are you trolling, or are you really this damned stupid? You are an AC, so it's a toss-up.
How about the 'environmental consequences' of date-rape when some desperate dude with a weak moral compass to begin with just can't stop himself from keeping his hands off some woman? Some people I'd rather be fapping to internet porn in the privacy of their homes rather than roaming the streets looking for a piece.
Why would you want to own nasty old physical media when you can just rent the data instead? It's better for the environment! Think of the children! </sarcasm>
What a bunch of bullshit. OF COURSE corporations and copyright holders don't want physical media in the hands of consumers! Then they can't make you pay, pay, PAY continually for the same thing, forever. E-books, 'streaming' services, etc. You don't actually own anything, you're just renting it. Even if you buy a 'digital' copy of something, they can revoke your 'license' to use it anytime they want, or just conveniently 'lose' your purchase, too bad! You'll have to PAY for it again, nothing you can do! Or better yet, they go belly-up on you, and you lose everything you 'bought'!
Come on, people, don't be chumps and fall for this crap.
Refusing to pay when you've agreed to in writing makes you the bad guy; calling and cancelling your service sends a clear, unmistakable message: I don't like your company and will not be giving you my money anymore. If 50% of Comcasts customers called up and did that in the space of even a year, they'd completely and totally PANIC.
*shrug* that's why I'm mentally preparing for a world where I don't have Internet at home anymore. It may come to the point where it's just not practical to be paying for something that is too expensive for what it provides, on top of surveilling the living daylights out of me. Here in the U.S. we already pay way too much for way too little compared to so many other 1st-world countries, and it's very likely it's just going to get worse after this. Continuing to pay them just validates bad behavior, and if that's the way it goes why would they change anything?
That's a nice thought, but what will more likely happen, is that big companies like Comcast will hostile takeover smaller ISPs, gobble them up, to prevent competition like that. Or they'll tell the politicians they've bought and paid for to make what they're doing illegal under some sort of antitrust statute or something. Look at a company like Facebook; how evil have they become all because it's a private company and they're technically not breaking any laws? The Internet has become too important to allow a few bad actors to do whatever they please and screw everyone else if they don't like it, and that's what the stage is being set for here.
It's the local governments that aren't allowing competition.
Sure. Because the big ISPs like Comcast and AT&T and Verizon lobby the living hell out of them, make huge contributions to electoral campaigns, therefore they OWN politicians, who then do their will. So we have what see here today.
I actually had this thought, too: If big, well-funded-and-connected companies like Google, Netflix, Amazon, and so on, got together, they could build Internet 3.0, and leave the current ISPs behind. Who knows how evil they'd get though.
Get a Public Library card; you're going to need it. Researching just about anything won't be easy, you'll have to go there to do it. Everything you buy will now have to be done in-person, or over the telephone. No more social media (and nothing of value was lost, anyway). Companies like Redbox will do well, and probably expand their inventory and market penetration of kiosks, since that's how many more people will be renting movies to watch. We'll go back to mailing paper checks to pay bills, and carrying cash to make purchases (because no doubt there will be extra fees imposed on POS EFT purchases). If you have a DVR like I do, you'll probably end up not being able to use it, due to no Internet access to update program guide data; I suppose if dialup still works you could get a landline and use that. And so on.
It won't be easy, it's going to suck if it comes to that, but it's survivable. If ISPs become universally evil and Internet is no longer viable unless you like getting ass-raped every month, and there's no recourse to make them behave, then bailing on them and the Internet in general may be the only way to effectively protest and fight back: hit them in the revenue stream. I'm hoping it doesn't come to that.
Don't forget the Nuclear Option; we bail on the Internet and go back to a life where we just do without. It won't be pleasant but if it gets bad enough that might be the only way to protest that actually has an effect; if half the country decided to stop having Internet service at home because it's just too expensive and restrictive, things would either have to change for the better or there wouldn't be an Internet anymore.
Better prepare your Internet exit strategies, folks. If the dark prophecies of Walled Gardens comes to pass, that may be the only effective form of protest available to rank-and-file citizenry. Small ISPs seem to have to piggyback on the larger ones' last-mile lines just to exist, so they likely wouldn't be any help, and while talk about creating our own Internet 3.0 is a nice fiction, that's all it is really; it'd take billions of dollars to get it started, thousands of people you could count on, and ISPs somehow not noticing, sueing the daylights out of us all, and/or just buying up any startups in hostile takeovers, the dismantling the whole thing -- assuming that is they don't outright lobby legislators to somehow prevent it. Continuing to pay ISPs who behave badly because "the Internet is essential" is just rewarding them for being evil. After the 2020 elections (if not sooner; Mr. Mueller, I'm looking at you when I say that) we'll likely not have a Republican in the Whitehouse anymore, but it'll take years for all the damage done, this included, to be reversed and repaired, and it's going to be a rough ride for all concerned in the meantime. If we somehow end up with a Republican until at least 2024, there may not be an Internet left to save. If someone else has any bright ideas how to mitigate evil behavior incoming from ISPs (because they will take full advantage of this, believe you me), I'm all ears.
You're assuming that facts and logic have anything to do with any 'decision' that orange-headed jackass makes. The way he operates seems to indicate he believes that being POTUS means being an authoritarian dictator or a king, and that whatever he says will happen or heads will be severed from necks.
We're still mainly driven by instincts hardwired into our primitive primate brains, which is why we treat each other so poorly. Coin flip whether we survive as a species long enough to evolve out of acting like animals, or whether endless war and endless predation of our own species kills us off.
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Not suggesting that. If Mueller discovers there was in fact collusion and therefore Trump can't legitimately be POTUS, I'd hope that they'd throw out his entire cabinet and force a special election. It'd be a huge mess but it'd be better than Pence as POTUS, at least in the long run. Problem is there's no precedent for any of that, so who knows how it'd be handled? With the GOP still holding a majority in Congress, they'd fight as hard as they possibly could to keep Pence around -- which would be far, far worse for the country than Trump has been, in ways I don't even want to think about (spoiler: Pence is a Dominionist). Also it may take another year or two for Mueller's investigation to come to it's conclusion. Most likely scenario is the Trump Administration doesn't do much of anything for 4 years, the GOP keeps fighting with itself for 4 years, and in 2020 we end up with a Democrat back in the Whitehouse and the GOP back in the minority, as the needle swings back towards the left, as everyone realizes what a gigantic mistake and disaster their choices in 2016 were.
Eh, give Mueller a chance, he's just starting to build up momentum. Just cross your fingers that we don't end up with Pence as POTUS, that'd be much worse than you imagine.
Seems to me you can complete quite a few MitM attacks in three minutes. Wonder how many people were compromised and/or how many websites were compromised? Or was this just a 'dry run' for a larger attack? Guess we won't know until the other shoe drops.
The cruel fact of the matter is homelessness is a choice.
{CITATION NEEDED}
I don't think you've EVER talked to any legitimately homeless people so you have NO IDEA what you're talking about. Get the blinders off, you head out of your ass, and GET REAL.
Agreed. People think the Equifax databreach was bad? Just wait until every single American has their information stolen straight from the federal government, because some shitty 'cloud service' was incompetent.
Get off the Micro$oft treadmill. Also take back your privacy.
So-called 'health insurance' only really benefits you if you become seriously ill or injured. Otherwise all it does is suck money out of your pocket every month and give you nothing in return. In my opinion, if the average person spent money every month on physical activities and eating healthier instead of spending that money on so-called 'health insurance', they'd find that they don't need 'health insurance'. They'd be stronger, more resistant to injury and illness, lower chance of cancers or heart disease, and little chance (if any) of conditions like obesity or diabetes. Probably be less neurotic and overall happier more of the time than they'd be otherwise, too.
Furthermore, I think Facebook users, who are having their accounts and many other things scraped and datamined by Facebook every single day, should be paid for their data -- and don't tell me "they're being paid by being given free access to the site", because that's bullshit, what Facebook gets from it's users pays them orders of magnitude more than it costs to run the site, hence the huge amount of money Zuckerberg has. Facebook users should have an 'account' that shows them exactly how much money they've accrued from Facebook as compensation for their privacy being invaded, which can be withdrawn at any time, or allowed to accumulate and paid interest at the going rate for a typical savings account at a bank. It's not like there isn't precedent for this; don't people on YouTube get money from advertising clicks? Not much different.
I was under the impression that wine glasses (which by the way are different shapes for use with different varieties of wine) were the size they are to allow space for the 'nose' of the wine poured to develop, and that there was an olfactory component to the experience of drinking wine. Of course if you're talking about bottles of Two Buck Chuck or Night Train, then I guess a disposable red plastic cup is good enough -- if you don't just swill it straight from the bottle, that is.
Listen, buddy: If someone is legitimately breaking the law, then sure, let's arrest them and give them due process. But demonizing all of the homeless, because of some bad actors? That's just being a jerk. Are you aware that the majority of the homeless don't want to be? Or are suffering from mental illness of some sort? Or are drug addicts, and since there's no mechanism to get them off drugs, they're stuck in an endless downward spiral? What about honorably discharged veterens who are homeless? They served their country, now they're just scum so far as you or some others are concerned? What about homeless children? Should they just be 'shooed away' and forgotten, too?
Here's an idea that you'll probably like: why not just put them all up against a wall, men, women, children, all of them, and just shoot them dead? We'll make them dig their own graves first, even. Then no more homeless! You'll be happy then, right? </extreme_sarcasm>
For what is supposedly the greatest and most powerful nation on Earth, I think it's absolutely shameful that we have any homeless problem whatsoever. Instead of demonizing the homeless, we should be working to solve the problem -- and I don't mean "ship them off somewhere else", either. We treat ANIMALS better than we treat the homeless.
Power companies should charge AT&T for use of their power lines based on bandwidth, and charge extra for certain websites/domains that want to traverse their network of power lines. That'll teach 'em.
I need you to power-cycle your modem; turn your entire house off, wait 15 seconds, then turn your entire house back on again
I dunno about this.
The emergency communication issue is irrelevant because of mobile cell towers
Yeah, sure, because machines with more moving parts and higher complexity never break down, do they, and they're always easy to fix, right? </sarcasm>
The Internet never has problems!
Cell towers are 100% reliable!
Cellular service never gets overloaded when there's an emergency!
'Old fashioned' analog radio communications is for LUDDITES, anything serious has to be NEW and SHINY, everybody knows that!
Are you trolling, or are you really this damned stupid? You are an AC, so it's a toss-up.
How about the 'environmental consequences' of date-rape when some desperate dude with a weak moral compass to begin with just can't stop himself from keeping his hands off some woman? Some people I'd rather be fapping to internet porn in the privacy of their homes rather than roaming the streets looking for a piece.
Why would you want to own nasty old physical media when you can just rent the data instead? It's better for the environment! Think of the children! </sarcasm>
What a bunch of bullshit. OF COURSE corporations and copyright holders don't want physical media in the hands of consumers! Then they can't make you pay, pay, PAY continually for the same thing, forever. E-books, 'streaming' services, etc. You don't actually own anything, you're just renting it. Even if you buy a 'digital' copy of something, they can revoke your 'license' to use it anytime they want, or just conveniently 'lose' your purchase, too bad! You'll have to PAY for it again, nothing you can do! Or better yet, they go belly-up on you, and you lose everything you 'bought'!
Come on, people, don't be chumps and fall for this crap.
Refusing to pay when you've agreed to in writing makes you the bad guy; calling and cancelling your service sends a clear, unmistakable message: I don't like your company and will not be giving you my money anymore. If 50% of Comcasts customers called up and did that in the space of even a year, they'd completely and totally PANIC.
*shrug* that's why I'm mentally preparing for a world where I don't have Internet at home anymore. It may come to the point where it's just not practical to be paying for something that is too expensive for what it provides, on top of surveilling the living daylights out of me. Here in the U.S. we already pay way too much for way too little compared to so many other 1st-world countries, and it's very likely it's just going to get worse after this. Continuing to pay them just validates bad behavior, and if that's the way it goes why would they change anything?
That's a nice thought, but what will more likely happen, is that big companies like Comcast will hostile takeover smaller ISPs, gobble them up, to prevent competition like that. Or they'll tell the politicians they've bought and paid for to make what they're doing illegal under some sort of antitrust statute or something. Look at a company like Facebook; how evil have they become all because it's a private company and they're technically not breaking any laws? The Internet has become too important to allow a few bad actors to do whatever they please and screw everyone else if they don't like it, and that's what the stage is being set for here.
It's the local governments that aren't allowing competition.
Sure. Because the big ISPs like Comcast and AT&T and Verizon lobby the living hell out of them, make huge contributions to electoral campaigns, therefore they OWN politicians, who then do their will. So we have what see here today.
I actually had this thought, too: If big, well-funded-and-connected companies like Google, Netflix, Amazon, and so on, got together, they could build Internet 3.0, and leave the current ISPs behind. Who knows how evil they'd get though.
Get a Public Library card; you're going to need it. Researching just about anything won't be easy, you'll have to go there to do it. Everything you buy will now have to be done in-person, or over the telephone. No more social media (and nothing of value was lost, anyway). Companies like Redbox will do well, and probably expand their inventory and market penetration of kiosks, since that's how many more people will be renting movies to watch. We'll go back to mailing paper checks to pay bills, and carrying cash to make purchases (because no doubt there will be extra fees imposed on POS EFT purchases). If you have a DVR like I do, you'll probably end up not being able to use it, due to no Internet access to update program guide data; I suppose if dialup still works you could get a landline and use that. And so on.
It won't be easy, it's going to suck if it comes to that, but it's survivable. If ISPs become universally evil and Internet is no longer viable unless you like getting ass-raped every month, and there's no recourse to make them behave, then bailing on them and the Internet in general may be the only way to effectively protest and fight back: hit them in the revenue stream. I'm hoping it doesn't come to that.
Don't forget the Nuclear Option; we bail on the Internet and go back to a life where we just do without. It won't be pleasant but if it gets bad enough that might be the only way to protest that actually has an effect; if half the country decided to stop having Internet service at home because it's just too expensive and restrictive, things would either have to change for the better or there wouldn't be an Internet anymore.
Better prepare your Internet exit strategies, folks. If the dark prophecies of Walled Gardens comes to pass, that may be the only effective form of protest available to rank-and-file citizenry. Small ISPs seem to have to piggyback on the larger ones' last-mile lines just to exist, so they likely wouldn't be any help, and while talk about creating our own Internet 3.0 is a nice fiction, that's all it is really; it'd take billions of dollars to get it started, thousands of people you could count on, and ISPs somehow not noticing, sueing the daylights out of us all, and/or just buying up any startups in hostile takeovers, the dismantling the whole thing -- assuming that is they don't outright lobby legislators to somehow prevent it. Continuing to pay ISPs who behave badly because "the Internet is essential" is just rewarding them for being evil. After the 2020 elections (if not sooner; Mr. Mueller, I'm looking at you when I say that) we'll likely not have a Republican in the Whitehouse anymore, but it'll take years for all the damage done, this included, to be reversed and repaired, and it's going to be a rough ride for all concerned in the meantime. If we somehow end up with a Republican until at least 2024, there may not be an Internet left to save. If someone else has any bright ideas how to mitigate evil behavior incoming from ISPs (because they will take full advantage of this, believe you me), I'm all ears.
You're assuming that facts and logic have anything to do with any 'decision' that orange-headed jackass makes. The way he operates seems to indicate he believes that being POTUS means being an authoritarian dictator or a king, and that whatever he says will happen or heads will be severed from necks.
We're still mainly driven by instincts hardwired into our primitive primate brains, which is why we treat each other so poorly. Coin flip whether we survive as a species long enough to evolve out of acting like animals, or whether endless war and endless predation of our own species kills us off.