Unless they lock the MAC down to a specific port on the switches. Sure it doesnt prove it was "you", but using your MAC in your room is sort of hard to deny.
A more viable defence is that you were hacked/virus/trojaned. Since this happens every day it makes sense..
In todays world with all this municipal free wifi, libraries, coffee shops, if i run across an *unsecured* access point it woud be perfectly logical to assume its free for me to use.
If i was expected to come in and buy something first, they they needed to either encrypt it, or put some sort of login page before you get 'access'.
Id say this needs to be appealed and run up the flag pole all the way to the US Supreme court, if needed.
I do fully understand the concept of supply and demand.
The problem is that oil has become less of a commodity and more of a staple due modern life. It shifts the balance somewhat away from traditional economic concepts. There are also virtual monopolies in play here and *unoffical* price fixing going on. ( i say unoffical as i dont subscribe to the paranoids that think its all a conspiracy. Well, not beyond the basic 'lets screw them for as much $ as we can' that is )
People that dont understand this and try to apply traditional supply/demand concepts to expain what is going on are somewhat misguided.
1 - no im not 2 - regardless of who wins, the stakes ARE high. We are talking about basic freedoms here. Not just some IP thing. Think outside the box here. 3 - time will tell who wins i dont think its going to blow over this time. Microsoft on one side trying to screw us, RIAA on the other. Its going to get ugly before it gets better.
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For that sort of price you can go and get commercially rated devices ready made.
Unless they lock the MAC down to a specific port on the switches. Sure it doesnt prove it was "you", but using your MAC in your room is sort of hard to deny.
A more viable defence is that you were hacked/virus/trojaned. Since this happens every day it makes sense..
Why be suprised? THe RIAA was going to cost them money and colleges today are not the same as they were decades ago.
There are plenty of other students in line to get in.
Who recorded the crash? If it wasnt them, then the DMCA does not even apply.
Be very afraid.
This is not good for our rights and freedoms. The money they will have at their disposal to attack us with will be mind boggling.
I am when im on my laptop in a parking lot of some coffee house.
Hold on, someone is at my window, 'yes officer?' * click *
And she will stop laying those golden eggs.
I cant get to the site in question that might explain WTF is going on here.
Why would Microsoft be held liable for its distribution system?
In todays world with all this municipal free wifi, libraries, coffee shops, if i run across an *unsecured* access point it woud be perfectly logical to assume its free for me to use.
If i was expected to come in and buy something first, they they needed to either encrypt it, or put some sort of login page before you get 'access'.
Id say this needs to be appealed and run up the flag pole all the way to the US Supreme court, if needed.
To use something that is given away freely?
WTF?
If you are on the list, or remotely resemble someone who is, you cant be a consumer on Amercian soil.
Make every fast food store, or gastation, or even walmart spend the extra manpower carding EVERYONE in the country for every purchase.
Its somewhat stupid to refuse business ( revenue ) from *legitimate* and *legal* businesses. But, its their right to do so.
Its also my right not to do business with companies that advertise there, due to their rules.
Want to identify all your data, your applications, your media files, the path you take to get to the office...
What about those of us with farily recent Palm devices?
We just screwed ' go buy a new device, have a nice day'?
I do fully understand the concept of supply and demand.
The problem is that oil has become less of a commodity and more of a staple due modern life. It shifts the balance somewhat away from traditional economic concepts. There are also virtual monopolies in play here and *unoffical* price fixing going on. ( i say unoffical as i dont subscribe to the paranoids that think its all a conspiracy. Well, not beyond the basic 'lets screw them for as much $ as we can' that is )
People that dont understand this and try to apply traditional supply/demand concepts to expain what is going on are somewhat misguided.
35 MPG.
No non essential trips.
Its just bad timing, not a bad idea. The public isnt ready yet for wifi to become another 'utility'.
Give it 5 more years.
If the oil companies would reduce what they are charging for oil, then this wouldn't be happening in the first place.
But no, record profits isnt enough for them.
1 - no im not
2 - regardless of who wins, the stakes ARE high. We are talking about basic freedoms here. Not just some IP thing. Think outside the box here.
3 - time will tell who wins i dont think its going to blow over this time. Microsoft on one side trying to screw us, RIAA on the other. Its going to get ugly before it gets better.
And eventually, no network conection to the rest of the world.
They CAN be cut off. So unless you actually live there, the lack of IP 'rights' wont mean much.
He just might eat you.
Dangerous game we are playing, calling their bluff. The stakes are pretty damned high.
Can the lines be serviced? If so, they cant completely withstand really creative and patient terrorists.
If any human is involved, it can be attacked.
That's today, tomorrow its 13, then 14..
They have to start somewhere, get you used to the idea then slowly expand it as technology improves.
Hes either a liar, or has selective memory.
In a twisted way he was right, since they stole the codebase and created NT from it, which has morphed into 2000, XP and now vista.