Yeah, there's always the (very faint) possibility that someone's going to use my wireless network to access kiddie-porn or bomb-making articles or some such.
But I'm willing to take the risk in order to share the wealth a bit.
And to provide plausible deniability to any illegal activies you yourself might engage in:).
Precisely. Next time I'm knocking back a forty, I'm going to pour a little on the sidewalk for the Fourth Amendment. It's been dead a long time--since at least the time when the courts upheld sobriety checkpoints. And don't even get me started on the nanny state's affront to human dignity that seatbelt laws are.
Depends on the environment. If you work in a corporation where you can have someone who plugs something with an unrecognized MAC into a jack escorted out by security, that's great. In less, um, intense environments (think college campuses), locking to MAC addresses just plain isn't going to work.
I do agree that where it can be done, it's prudent and valuable even if for no other reason than knowing what devices the company owns.
They know exactly what they're doing. They put the ability to move information around willy-nilly in the hands of end users, then sell the corporations Windows Rights Management Server to put the toothpaste back into the tube, eliminating those pesky whistleblowers and other embarrassing leaks.
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DRM. You won't be able to run new "Longhorn-enabled" apps (such as Photoshop, Office, etc.) without a TCPA-compliant machine running Longhorn. And corporations will eat this stuff up, because of ads in news magazines and trade journals touting Windows Rights Management Server. The ads use a "oops, someone emailed everyone's salary to the whole company" example--it's a short leap for even the dull corporate mind to think they can stop whistleblowers and other leaks with this.
Once it's accepted in the corporate world, non-DRM required proprietary software will dry up. And there's your killer app.
What choice would I have? And it isn't as if he hadn't already been paid many times over for it. All he succeeded in doing was turning people who had never even heard him off of his work and exposing himself as a net.kook.
He tried to force USENET providers to screen posts and allow him cancellation privileges at will. That's not just protecting his precious stale old short stories.
Intelligence and logic are not bars to insanity. Nor are they bars to desiring to deliver rulings that please those who appointed them and the party to which they belong.
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Damn it, and me without my mod points. That's a good suggestion!
Whoa . . . this registered user apparently missed the word "nearly" before "a decade."
But I'm willing to take the risk in order to share the wealth a bit.
And to provide plausible deniability to any illegal activies you yourself might engage in :).
This means the games are going to be free now, right? Because there's no way in hell I'm going to pay to have ads shoved in my face.
So does the choice to eat a high salt, high cholesterol diet. Once this line of reasoning has been breached, it's a slippery slope all the way down.
Precisely. Next time I'm knocking back a forty, I'm going to pour a little on the sidewalk for the Fourth Amendment. It's been dead a long time--since at least the time when the courts upheld sobriety checkpoints. And don't even get me started on the nanny state's affront to human dignity that seatbelt laws are.
That's what I thought.
What? And get on the list?
Yes, yes, and that's not all!
Thanks to both of you for the laughs :).
Oooooh--off-topic! Bring it on, censorhship loving shitbags. I have more karma than God.
His job at McDonalds is paid hourly.
A management contract, however corrupt its administration, isn't likely to pay as much as $50-$100 per month times each oversubscribed user.
I do agree that where it can be done, it's prudent and valuable even if for no other reason than knowing what devices the company owns.
Censorship of Internet access so the citizens don't know the cities aren't really environmentally sustainable. I'm sure Cisco will be happy to help.
What "market" is there for IE, which is either force-bundled with Windows or given away?
Actually, Asia has plenty of IPv4 space, but most of it is in spam blacklists.
Yes, they suck for doing that.
They know exactly what they're doing. They put the ability to move information around willy-nilly in the hands of end users, then sell the corporations Windows Rights Management Server to put the toothpaste back into the tube, eliminating those pesky whistleblowers and other embarrassing leaks.
Once it's accepted in the corporate world, non-DRM required proprietary software will dry up. And there's your killer app.
What choice would I have? And it isn't as if he hadn't already been paid many times over for it. All he succeeded in doing was turning people who had never even heard him off of his work and exposing himself as a net.kook.
He tried to force USENET providers to screen posts and allow him cancellation privileges at will. That's not just protecting his precious stale old short stories.
Intelligence and logic are not bars to insanity. Nor are they bars to desiring to deliver rulings that please those who appointed them and the party to which they belong.
That behavior is included in eBay's definition of keyword spamming. Not that they'll do anything about it if you report it, mind you.
Those "pigfuckers" are the reason you aren't goosestepping and eating sauerkraut. A simple "Thank you" will suffice.