Easy. With the exception of Verizon*, they can charge extra for things like tethering your phone. I'm sure there are other examples as well, but there's a starting point.
(* VZ got their hands slapped for charging extra for tethering. They got slapped because VZ is using some spectrum which, thanks to Google's playing in the auction, has a net neutrality string attached to it. The other three carriers are not bound by this provision)
The password you use to get onto a WiFi network will keep the rabble out of that network but anyone who is let onto that network will be able to read any packet on that network, because the password is used as a symmetric crypto key.
In short, if you want to avoid using public wifi because it doesn't use a password, you're avoiding it for the wrong reason. That said, using a VPN or TOR can mitigate most of that risk.
You will be disappointed to learn that the disablement of the speaker and mic are done in a fly-by-wire manner. I became aware of this firsthand when I discoverd that a bad audio driver was allowing the audio I was listening to to go both to my headphones and my speakers. I wasn't aware of it until a co-worker tapped me on the shoulder. Fixing the mixer settings caused the audio not to go to the speakers.
Further to that, BT is an even bigger fly-by-wire. With BT, you are essentially putting an additional sound card onto your machine, and choosing to use it (via software) instead of the built in one. The built-in one is still there, however, and still availble to any software that chooses to use it. There exists no mechanism through which BT presence can cause a not-software-overridable hard interrupt of audio to the speakers and from the mic.
I would advocate for there to be a switch installed on every laptop that, when flipped, interruptes, in a hardware-based, analogue manner, the connection of the speakers and mic to the sound hardware. Open the circuit in a way that no software can close it.
Well, the 'fuck everyone else' view is needlessly polarizing. I was more trying to make the point that we should choose our allies with care. To expand on the example, I don't need Rush or Moore in my life, because they are both part of the same problem, but someone like Amy Goodman, who is unabashedly liberal, yet tries to get both sides of an issue represented on her show, is good; similarly, I believe that Dennis Prager, equally unabashedly conservative, is acting in generally good faith. Why? Both will hear an argument from the other side without shouting it down.
Your view is offensive and unfounded, and clearly you lack testicular fortitude, because you are hiding your identity. It is this manner of classism that will keep us, as a society, divided, thus enabling The Powers That Be to continue their conquest. Kindly extract you cranium from your rectum.
You can still get this almost completely basic thermostat and they last forever. If you install one today, it will still be working 40-60 years from now, barring someone beating it up.
I am not going to be one who claims that left and right parties are the same, however, I will say that the points on which the fights are usually picked are not generally relevant.
I put it to you: left vs. right; liberal vs. conservative; Democrat vs. Republican: all of these dichotomies are put before us to keep our eyes off the ball. The most revolutionary thing we can do is build bridges, because doing so breaks the "divide" part of "divide and conquer."
Rush LImbaugh and Michael Moore both serve the same purpose, even if inadvertently. Get emotion out of it; THINK!!. Most importantly, ask yourself what each thing these assholes are doing does to or for you personally and reward only those who act in your best interest. Show the rest of them the door.
What privacy issues would be raised? This is a little vague...
If a system is switched, then it is necessarily true that some device upstream from your set-top box is aware of what channel you are watching. This information can be harvested and used to profile you.
The only thing that can combat the current business model is Congress/FCC. And neither of them have decided that this is important enough to tackle
Worse, the FCC chairman is a former cable lobbyist. What is currently going on with net neutrality points to the FCC not working in our best interests.
You could put all the force-bundled channels around channel 9000+ while the featured channels are in the 1-100 range . . .
Also, if your system was cable or IPTV based, you could use switching to ensure that no bandwidth was used by the unwatched channels at any given moment. Of course, this raises the usual privacy issues.
For that matter, if you knew what channels were being watched or not, you could use that in your negotiations with the network owners. Call them on their bullshit.
Putting the TOR Browser Bundle on a thumb drive or a CD might be a usable solution. Take the flash/CD out when you're done using it and it leaves nothing on the computer, assuming there is no keystroke logger.
If there is concern that there might be a keystroke logger, then TAILS is the way to go. Boot from the removable media, and remove the media when you are done. Just make sure it's not found.
I did the math before I bought. I saved $300 over the next two years by choosing a contract over buying the phone outright. This is because the provider sells the service at the same price regardless of whether I am under contract or not; only the price of the phone changed. Since I typically keep a phone for 3-4 years, this made sense.
How to get a job with no transportation? Move to the job, you say? How to get an apartment with no job? We're not talking city here, we are talking over a mile to your nearest neighbour.
Some, but not many, mostly because I haven't got the resources. Now, that said, I did just buy a truck for one of my nephews because I see a spark in him that shows some potential.
More to the point, however, the status quo has beat any ambition out of most of them.
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Easy. With the exception of Verizon*, they can charge extra for things like tethering your phone. I'm sure there are other examples as well, but there's a starting point.
(* VZ got their hands slapped for charging extra for tethering. They got slapped because VZ is using some spectrum which, thanks to Google's playing in the auction, has a net neutrality string attached to it. The other three carriers are not bound by this provision)
Sucks to be you.
HTML5 comes immediately to mind, since it has a <video> tag.
You're sorta wrong.
The password you use to get onto a WiFi network will keep the rabble out of that network but anyone who is let onto that network will be able to read any packet on that network, because the password is used as a symmetric crypto key.
In short, if you want to avoid using public wifi because it doesn't use a password, you're avoiding it for the wrong reason. That said, using a VPN or TOR can mitigate most of that risk.
You will be disappointed to learn that the disablement of the speaker and mic are done in a fly-by-wire manner. I became aware of this firsthand when I discoverd that a bad audio driver was allowing the audio I was listening to to go both to my headphones and my speakers. I wasn't aware of it until a co-worker tapped me on the shoulder. Fixing the mixer settings caused the audio not to go to the speakers.
Further to that, BT is an even bigger fly-by-wire. With BT, you are essentially putting an additional sound card onto your machine, and choosing to use it (via software) instead of the built in one. The built-in one is still there, however, and still availble to any software that chooses to use it. There exists no mechanism through which BT presence can cause a not-software-overridable hard interrupt of audio to the speakers and from the mic.
I would advocate for there to be a switch installed on every laptop that, when flipped, interruptes, in a hardware-based, analogue manner, the connection of the speakers and mic to the sound hardware. Open the circuit in a way that no software can close it.
Yeah, I kind of blew that one, didn't I? My bad.
Well, the 'fuck everyone else' view is needlessly polarizing. I was more trying to make the point that we should choose our allies with care. To expand on the example, I don't need Rush or Moore in my life, because they are both part of the same problem, but someone like Amy Goodman, who is unabashedly liberal, yet tries to get both sides of an issue represented on her show, is good; similarly, I believe that Dennis Prager, equally unabashedly conservative, is acting in generally good faith. Why? Both will hear an argument from the other side without shouting it down.
Your view is offensive and unfounded, and clearly you lack testicular fortitude, because you are hiding your identity. It is this manner of classism that will keep us, as a society, divided, thus enabling The Powers That Be to continue their conquest. Kindly extract you cranium from your rectum.
You can still get this almost completely basic thermostat and they last forever. If you install one today, it will still be working 40-60 years from now, barring someone beating it up.
"I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked 'brightness' but it don't work, does it?" http://standupcomedyportal.com/quotes/Gallagher
It matters not.
I am not going to be one who claims that left and right parties are the same, however, I will say that the points on which the fights are usually picked are not generally relevant.
I put it to you: left vs. right; liberal vs. conservative; Democrat vs. Republican: all of these dichotomies are put before us to keep our eyes off the ball. The most revolutionary thing we can do is build bridges, because doing so breaks the "divide" part of "divide and conquer."
Rush LImbaugh and Michael Moore both serve the same purpose, even if inadvertently. Get emotion out of it; THINK!!. Most importantly, ask yourself what each thing these assholes are doing does to or for you personally and reward only those who act in your best interest. Show the rest of them the door.
It also sounds like a good way to "accidentally" eliminate some "uncomfortable" research.
If a system is switched, then it is necessarily true that some device upstream from your set-top box is aware of what channel you are watching. This information can be harvested and used to profile you.
Worse, the FCC chairman is a former cable lobbyist. What is currently going on with net neutrality points to the FCC not working in our best interests.
That is true, though a quick inspection of the keyboard cord should reveal one.
Because Qualcomm owns the IP on the baseband hardware for CDMA.
Because this is Slashdot.
You could put all the force-bundled channels around channel 9000+ while the featured channels are in the 1-100 range . . .
Also, if your system was cable or IPTV based, you could use switching to ensure that no bandwidth was used by the unwatched channels at any given moment. Of course, this raises the usual privacy issues.
For that matter, if you knew what channels were being watched or not, you could use that in your negotiations with the network owners. Call them on their bullshit.
Putting the TOR Browser Bundle on a thumb drive or a CD might be a usable solution. Take the flash/CD out when you're done using it and it leaves nothing on the computer, assuming there is no keystroke logger.
If there is concern that there might be a keystroke logger, then TAILS is the way to go. Boot from the removable media, and remove the media when you are done. Just make sure it's not found.
You probably shouldn't play Poker, then. Or Monopoly or Chess, either, for that matter. Or checkers. Fuck it, maybe just don't play games.
I did the math before I bought. I saved $300 over the next two years by choosing a contract over buying the phone outright. This is because the provider sells the service at the same price regardless of whether I am under contract or not; only the price of the phone changed. Since I typically keep a phone for 3-4 years, this made sense.
It seems like it would be one of those degenerate cases that might warrant a -1 Informative.
Fuck you. Who said anything about male? This is most of the family in this bind.
That's okay. Sympathy is a renewable resource.
How to get a job with no transportation? Move to the job, you say? How to get an apartment with no job? We're not talking city here, we are talking over a mile to your nearest neighbour.
Some, but not many, mostly because I haven't got the resources. Now, that said, I did just buy a truck for one of my nephews because I see a spark in him that shows some potential.
More to the point, however, the status quo has beat any ambition out of most of them.