So lets say that several ISPs do this. You're then locked into them. If they decide to jack their rates up 50%, guess what?
I bet money that they'll soon put something in the contract about you having to lease the service for ten years, or you pay for the cost of install. You signed the contract, and are most likely going to be responsible for ALL charges incurred during the installation. God knows its going to be $5k for the install if you ever cancel.
Its still very illegal. Google probably couldn't be prosecuted, but they should wonder if something is up when people are posting $700 body-only cameras for $200 with a lens and accessories and a free MP3 player. They're always #1 in the adwords.
There is a such thing as a limit, even online. There's a finite amount of bandwidth available to every person, and a finite amount of storage space.
It doesn't matter if there's 1 copy or 10 billion copies, as long as someone can copy/paste it and is well enough connected to get those copies out.
Just like viruses, and life in general. As long as there are two humans, they can reproduce and multiply, then the children can multiply, so on and so fort. Just like in West Virginia.
I'm 24 and nap through half of my lunch hour. Its right after you get some food in you and are looking to do some resting. People snicker at it, but they have no idea what its like for it to be 4PM and feel great instead of pulling their hair out because its almost time to go but not quite.
It was probably due to other circumstances. Similar to how 3d shooting games caused school shootings, and how emo music causes suicides.
The gaming probably did not kill him. He was probably pretty bad-off to begin with. Imagine if he had some illness that prevented him from working, so he went there. And he died because he wasn't getting enough rest. Three days is about right for a lot of bacterial infections.
"Your pacemaker couldn't be verified by Windows Genuine Advantage. Please contact your Microsoft representative to acquire a legal licence. Pacing has been disabled."
Its a well-known fact that all cell phone companies, unless you have the unlimited plan and are squarely within their range, will rape you on data charges.
Sprint is ten cents per kilobyte. I made the mistake of checking google maps (I downloaded onto my phone practically as soon as I got it) without the data plan. Instant $20-30 charge. Thankfully they took it off, and I purchased the data plan..since I use that and other options.
But as for the amount of bandwidth, maybe they were seeding a torrent from their phone..it'd be the trendy thing to do at least.
Talk about a fucking monumental waste of time..imagine putting it on a semi.
"He's running for it! He's heading for Texas! Stop him!"
Ten hours later.
"Nope..wasn't him..it was a fucking semi. We just wasted thousands and thousands of dollars and its our own fault. And we can't even bitch at him or he'll sue us."
Considering that there are probably multiple bugs in Windows that allow this to be installed with no interaction from its victims, I think that Microsoft should be fined a large amount and promised jail time the next time this happens.
After all, viruses like this wouldn't be able to propogate if Windows weren't insecure immediately out of the box. Hell, if you connect a pre-SP2 Windows XP box to the internet for a few minutes, it'll be crawling with worms.
I'm not just talking about pirates, either. Regular people. Doctors. Lawyers. Garbage collectors. Most of them don't 'play on the computer' enough to realize what an impact they're having. And most of them leave their computers on all day and night! Someone needs to be held responsible, and its not going to really be the coders.
The problem is when everyone decides that bandwidth is too expensive. The solution isn't to add infrastructure, but its to raise prices instead. You could claim supply and demand, but there's not much stopping them from spending a little cash and doubling their supply.
Once they start getting all of that increased revenue that they had to actually do nothing to receive, they aren't going to want to do much more than barely maintain a minimum level of bandwidth. They can spend a few million and make a few million less each year, or they can not spend a few million and make a few million more each year. Market forces will do very little, if anything at all, to relieve this.
Imagine a world where your email is last priority, and total bandwidth is at 90-100% at all times because no one will upgrade to meet demand. Now imagine paying 50% more for the privilige of waiting more than an hour for your email to get somewhere.
Data is the future, and they've just been told that there's nothing wrong with making plans and conspiring to bend everyone over that wants a little bit of it.
Sometimes its genetic. Sometimes a cosmic ray hit one of the stem cells crawling down to develop the original. Sometimes the mother's alcohol intake interfered with the proper acquisition of nutrients and scaffolding to build it properly.
Have I been drinking and driving? What if I had two beers? Or a beer an hour ago?
Define a beer. Pint? 8oz? 12oz?
This is why you can't just say 'don't drink and drive'. The best you can really do to assure that more people are able to drive is to give them numbers. Instead of using a confusing term like drink, use a term like 'unit of alcohol'. All alcoholic beverages will have a unit of alcohol count per serving. Bars are forced to keep unit of alcohol listings..maybe make them print it on the receipt along with what time it was ordered.
Then someone can't say, "I'm so not drunk. I had one beer 6 six hours ago. It was only three gallons, but was only one drink."
Instead, say it was 10 units of alcohol, so I would have had to wait 10 hours for that to be removed from my body. Say the legal limit is 3 units of alcohol. Seven hours to drive.
Who do you turn to when the courts and states themselves are playing corporate favoritism? Can you sue the state, or is it time to bring out the soap box/ballot box/ammo box?
They'll most likely be targeting phished accounts used to fraud people into sending them money..then people that set up accounts specificially for fraud..and they'll probably be monitoring for large amounts of stolen goods, too.
This is the shit we have to deal with. This is why even if you go only to trusted websites, you need to be careful. Use an alternative browser (that's not IE) or OS. Don't open email attachments, install toolbars, or anything that you haven't checked to make sure is ok.
All it takes is one 'yes' to have your computer pulled out from under you and put to work by some bastard that's probably not even in the business anymore.
Business is about generating money. If you sell your shirt for $5, and it cost you $5, you have gained nothing (well, lets forget about quality/deteroiration/etc). But if you sell it for $6, you've just profitted. Now the person could have went to the local store and bought it for $5, but you exploited the fact that he was no where near the store, and was apparently uninformed.
Now, the store wouldn't sell you the shirt for $5, unless it cost them $4 to buy from the manufacturer. And the manufacturer wouldn't sell it for $4 unless it cost them $2 to produce. They wouldn't be able to produce them for $2 if they weren't paying people ten cents an hour to crank out 20 shirts/hour each.
The whole point of business is to profit. To profit, you want as much as you can get for as little as you can give. Trading is somewhat different..personally I try to find a deal where both parties are happy. As do many others. I wouldn't go to a yardsale and offer $50 for a $100 item I knew was worth $500. I'd give them their $100 and be off with it.
MOST companies have no problems with exploiting people.
The whole basis of business is making money off of exploiting people. A 'good' business can exploit people and make them feel thankful for being exploited.
Movie studios exploit directors/writers/actors to make movies. Lawyers exploit the law and/or their clients. Car dealerships exploit their customers, and car dealerships are exploited by the manufacturers.
If a business treats me well, then I will treat the business well. I will not, however, go out of my way to support a business. I know they would not do the same for me.
The only exception is if you're involved with the business..as in..close to the top.
This could be one of the first, and certainly not the last, case of people using security devices against the people whom they were designed to protect.
How are those net-enabled security cameras working out for you?
They'll probably let you go home if you're sick, but a shocking percentage of workers think they'll get chastized/fired if they miss work due to genuine illness..and some companies do this.
Some companies require a fucking doctor's note or they'll count each absense against you. That's at least $20 every time you're out, or else..and standing in line with a bunch of other sick people, etc.
That's exactly what happened. They took the money, rolled out broadband for a small percentage of their customers, and the rest went to the shareholders. Now they're bitching that its too expensive to service everyone.
Those tax breaks are probably paying for someone's yacht right now.
The government should sue them for the total cost, plus interest, of the breaks/benefits they gave those companies, or some kind of pro-rated amount. Can't pay it? Tough. And no you aren't going to raise rates to make the consumers pay for it.
Other countries don't know how downright evil some of the companies from the US are. I'm sure AT&T employs workers by buying out local farmers and then paying everyone in food..but not much. Keep them hungry and wanting to do overtime.
What's stopping them? Nothing at all. Better to pay a single USD for 10 pounds of food, and give it to 30 workers, than each worker ten cents.
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So lets say that several ISPs do this. You're then locked into them. If they decide to jack their rates up 50%, guess what?
I bet money that they'll soon put something in the contract about you having to lease the service for ten years, or you pay for the cost of install. You signed the contract, and are most likely going to be responsible for ALL charges incurred during the installation. God knows its going to be $5k for the install if you ever cancel.
Similar to what cell phone companies do today.
When all the children are dead, of course!
Its still very illegal. Google probably couldn't be prosecuted, but they should wonder if something is up when people are posting $700 body-only cameras for $200 with a lens and accessories and a free MP3 player. They're always #1 in the adwords.
Everytime I search for digital cameras to do price checks, I get a bunch of fraud/spam sites in the Adwords.
Every fucking time.
I would nail Google to the wall for hosting scam/fraud sites if I could.
There is a such thing as a limit, even online. There's a finite amount of bandwidth available to every person, and a finite amount of storage space.
It doesn't matter if there's 1 copy or 10 billion copies, as long as someone can copy/paste it and is well enough connected to get those copies out.
Just like viruses, and life in general. As long as there are two humans, they can reproduce and multiply, then the children can multiply, so on and so fort. Just like in West Virginia.
I'm 24 and nap through half of my lunch hour. Its right after you get some food in you and are looking to do some resting. People snicker at it, but they have no idea what its like for it to be 4PM and feel great instead of pulling their hair out because its almost time to go but not quite.
Just like with doctors, schools get paid from various publishers to use their books.
The schools usually own the bookstore, too.
Anyone who doesn't see a problem with this is usually on the 'profitable' side of this loop.
It was probably due to other circumstances. Similar to how 3d shooting games caused school shootings, and how emo music causes suicides.
The gaming probably did not kill him. He was probably pretty bad-off to begin with. Imagine if he had some illness that prevented him from working, so he went there. And he died because he wasn't getting enough rest. Three days is about right for a lot of bacterial infections.
I have Rez on my PS2. Got it at a country flea market type of thing for like $5 still sealed. One of the funnest games I've played..
:D
Will the 360 version come with the pack-in device that came with the Japanese PS2 version? Then it might be worth it for you guys with girlfriends
"Your pacemaker couldn't be verified by Windows Genuine Advantage. Please contact your Microsoft representative to acquire a legal licence. Pacing has been disabled."
Its a well-known fact that all cell phone companies, unless you have the unlimited plan and are squarely within their range, will rape you on data charges.
Sprint is ten cents per kilobyte. I made the mistake of checking google maps (I downloaded onto my phone practically as soon as I got it) without the data plan. Instant $20-30 charge. Thankfully they took it off, and I purchased the data plan..since I use that and other options.
But as for the amount of bandwidth, maybe they were seeding a torrent from their phone..it'd be the trendy thing to do at least.
Why not just put them on someone else's car?
Talk about a fucking monumental waste of time..imagine putting it on a semi.
"He's running for it! He's heading for Texas! Stop him!"
Ten hours later.
"Nope..wasn't him..it was a fucking semi. We just wasted thousands and thousands of dollars and its our own fault. And we can't even bitch at him or he'll sue us."
Considering that there are probably multiple bugs in Windows that allow this to be installed with no interaction from its victims, I think that Microsoft should be fined a large amount and promised jail time the next time this happens. After all, viruses like this wouldn't be able to propogate if Windows weren't insecure immediately out of the box. Hell, if you connect a pre-SP2 Windows XP box to the internet for a few minutes, it'll be crawling with worms. I'm not just talking about pirates, either. Regular people. Doctors. Lawyers. Garbage collectors. Most of them don't 'play on the computer' enough to realize what an impact they're having. And most of them leave their computers on all day and night! Someone needs to be held responsible, and its not going to really be the coders.
Companies that do this aren't the problem.
The problem is when everyone decides that bandwidth is too expensive. The solution isn't to add infrastructure, but its to raise prices instead. You could claim supply and demand, but there's not much stopping them from spending a little cash and doubling their supply.
Once they start getting all of that increased revenue that they had to actually do nothing to receive, they aren't going to want to do much more than barely maintain a minimum level of bandwidth. They can spend a few million and make a few million less each year, or they can not spend a few million and make a few million more each year. Market forces will do very little, if anything at all, to relieve this.
Imagine a world where your email is last priority, and total bandwidth is at 90-100% at all times because no one will upgrade to meet demand. Now imagine paying 50% more for the privilige of waiting more than an hour for your email to get somewhere.
Data is the future, and they've just been told that there's nothing wrong with making plans and conspiring to bend everyone over that wants a little bit of it.
Sometimes.
Sometimes its genetic. Sometimes a cosmic ray hit one of the stem cells crawling down to develop the original. Sometimes the mother's alcohol intake interfered with the proper acquisition of nutrients and scaffolding to build it properly.
I had one beer six hours ago.
I drive to the store and get pulled over.
Have I been drinking and driving? What if I had two beers? Or a beer an hour ago?
Define a beer. Pint? 8oz? 12oz?
This is why you can't just say 'don't drink and drive'. The best you can really do to assure that more people are able to drive is to give them numbers. Instead of using a confusing term like drink, use a term like 'unit of alcohol'. All alcoholic beverages will have a unit of alcohol count per serving. Bars are forced to keep unit of alcohol listings..maybe make them print it on the receipt along with what time it was ordered.
Then someone can't say, "I'm so not drunk. I had one beer 6 six hours ago. It was only three gallons, but was only one drink."
Instead, say it was 10 units of alcohol, so I would have had to wait 10 hours for that to be removed from my body. Say the legal limit is 3 units of alcohol. Seven hours to drive.
Who do you turn to when the courts and states themselves are playing corporate favoritism? Can you sue the state, or is it time to bring out the soap box/ballot box/ammo box?
They'll most likely be targeting phished accounts used to fraud people into sending them money..then people that set up accounts specificially for fraud..and they'll probably be monitoring for large amounts of stolen goods, too.
This is the shit we have to deal with. This is why even if you go only to trusted websites, you need to be careful. Use an alternative browser (that's not IE) or OS. Don't open email attachments, install toolbars, or anything that you haven't checked to make sure is ok.
All it takes is one 'yes' to have your computer pulled out from under you and put to work by some bastard that's probably not even in the business anymore.
That's not business. That's trading.
Business is about generating money. If you sell your shirt for $5, and it cost you $5, you have gained nothing (well, lets forget about quality/deteroiration/etc). But if you sell it for $6, you've just profitted. Now the person could have went to the local store and bought it for $5, but you exploited the fact that he was no where near the store, and was apparently uninformed.
Now, the store wouldn't sell you the shirt for $5, unless it cost them $4 to buy from the manufacturer. And the manufacturer wouldn't sell it for $4 unless it cost them $2 to produce. They wouldn't be able to produce them for $2 if they weren't paying people ten cents an hour to crank out 20 shirts/hour each.
The whole point of business is to profit. To profit, you want as much as you can get for as little as you can give. Trading is somewhat different..personally I try to find a deal where both parties are happy. As do many others. I wouldn't go to a yardsale and offer $50 for a $100 item I knew was worth $500. I'd give them their $100 and be off with it.
MOST companies have no problems with exploiting people.
The whole basis of business is making money off of exploiting people. A 'good' business can exploit people and make them feel thankful for being exploited.
Movie studios exploit directors/writers/actors to make movies. Lawyers exploit the law and/or their clients. Car dealerships exploit their customers, and car dealerships are exploited by the manufacturers.
If a business treats me well, then I will treat the business well. I will not, however, go out of my way to support a business. I know they would not do the same for me.
The only exception is if you're involved with the business..as in..close to the top.
This could be one of the first, and certainly not the last, case of people using security devices against the people whom they were designed to protect.
How are those net-enabled security cameras working out for you?
Hell no they don't.
They'll probably let you go home if you're sick, but a shocking percentage of workers think they'll get chastized/fired if they miss work due to genuine illness..and some companies do this.
Some companies require a fucking doctor's note or they'll count each absense against you. That's at least $20 every time you're out, or else..and standing in line with a bunch of other sick people, etc.
That's exactly what happened. They took the money, rolled out broadband for a small percentage of their customers, and the rest went to the shareholders. Now they're bitching that its too expensive to service everyone.
Those tax breaks are probably paying for someone's yacht right now.
The government should sue them for the total cost, plus interest, of the breaks/benefits they gave those companies, or some kind of pro-rated amount. Can't pay it? Tough. And no you aren't going to raise rates to make the consumers pay for it.
Other countries don't know how downright evil some of the companies from the US are. I'm sure AT&T employs workers by buying out local farmers and then paying everyone in food..but not much. Keep them hungry and wanting to do overtime.
What's stopping them? Nothing at all. Better to pay a single USD for 10 pounds of food, and give it to 30 workers, than each worker ten cents.