Microsoft is clearly not living in the real world here. The whole computer costs less than standalone Windows.
The the very worst part is that because Windows won't fit, Microsoft's solution is to suggest (demand) that they fix the PC. And fix it by adding cost, complication, and vulnerability to the elements. Those are the actions of a bully.
Even if they fix their envelopes, they're still benefiting from using the low cost delivery provided by the federally subsidized postal service.
NO!!! I'm benefiting by getting Netflix service cheaper than I wold be getting it otherwise.
Also, if you not, even medium cities have a local Netflix depot, meaning most Netflix movies are only a local delivery both ways, although they pay the same price if the UPSP had to deliver and return them across across the country. That's a savings for the fixed price USPS.
In my short tenure in the post office in the area where freshly received mail would be brought in for processing, we would have to manually remove the netflix envelopes
At least they made them easy to find. I can spot a Netflix subscriber a block away as they're walking with their return to the nearest post box.
Postal Service Surcharge Could Force Netflix To Change Their Packaging *Again* or Postal Service Surcharge Could Force Netflix To Copy Bockbuster Packaging
Or, Postal Service Surcharge Could Force Netflix To Improve on Bockbuster Packaging.
Q: Is there any benefit to password protecting your home Wifi network? I have IT friends that say the only real benefit is that multiple users can slow down the connection, but they state that there is no security reason. Is this correct?
A: I run an open wireless network at home. There's no password, and there's no encryption. Honestly, I think it's just polite. Why should I care if someone on the block steals wireless access from me? When my wireless router broke last month, I used a neighbor's access until I replaced it.
Bruce, you obviously don't have Comcast as your ISP. The problem with an open WiFi is that others can run you over the unstated limits traffic limits in your intentionally vague ToS on your "unlimited" broadband plan, and suddenly you're stuck on your neighbor's WiFi for good. A much more realistic danger than than a Drive-By, Child Porn sharing, hacker.
Klausner has won on two previous occasions with this patent.
If they've won on this issue before, then this shouldn't come as any big surprise to anyone.
As for East Texas juries, their state should be ashamed of them, and they should be ashamed of themselves. The RIAA would probably file all their cases there, if they could.
Welcome to the Garden State. Never let it be said local officials were ever too happy about having their judgment questioned. When it comes to mayors, school boards, and township committees, N.J. is a hotbed for corruption, and whenever someone calls someone else out,
The subpoena for all of Billsaur's contact information, IP address, MAC address, ISP information, MP3 files shared, Slashdot posts, previews, e-mail addresses, and preference settings will be arriving in 5...4...3...2...
anonymous Pamphleteering. As I recall the common law is that you can do so anonymously. But there's also no right to that anonymity. That is, the Government or whom ever is not prevented from piercing your anonymity if they can.
The government "solved" this problem by forcing printer and copier manufacturer's -- especially color printer manufacturers -- to embed identifying printer information (e.g. brand, model, serial number) in the background of the images. If you want to protest safely and anonymously, don't you dare print any of your tracts on any printer that can be tied to you.
Obligatory: In Soviet Russia, they registered and kept samples of your typewriters.
He was telling me that Comcast topedoes VPN connections to business entities that originate from residential accounts after four minutes of uptime. Cox does no such thing.
Several years ago Comcast prohibited VPN usage from home accounts. There was no good reason for it. VPN is just data -- 1's and 0's -- like anything else, but they wanted to force you to a higher (read more expensive and unnecessary) business plan. That was dropped at least a couple years back. Your friend should check the current ToS applicable to his account, and if that prohibition isn't in there, call up and give then hell about it.
Whenever Comcast tech support doesn't want to answer a question, a question they well know about (e.g. how do I enable the 30-second forward skip in my Comcast supplied Motorola DVR?) they give you the same B.S. answer:
That wasn't covered in our training.
They may know the answer. They may have been asked it a dozen other times today already, but if it's not in their script you're not going to get any help!
I can't wait for some real competition to arrive because my tiny little corner of Comcast is always the last to be upgraded. For example, we still only get about 200 free On Demand movies, while people from other areas get a thousand, or more -- yet our monthly bill is the same, or higher, than FiOS areas! TiVo DVR's and DOCSIS 3 modems? Ha! I'll be lucky to see all of that 5 years from now, maybe.
If she wants other games than already exist in the family collection, that's reasonable. But if she just wants her own copy of a game her brother already has, a firm "No" is necessary.
Better to have her learn at a young age the difference between reasonable, and unreasonable, demands. Fail here, and you'll pay an ever more expensive price each year for decades to come.
Perhaps you should send that post to the AG Oregon and thank him for seeing that proper legal procedures are followed?
If the Oregon AG is at the top of his game, he's already reading all the comments here from some of the most technologically knowledgeable, and pissed off, people in the country. It would be the true waste of a resource to not be doing so.
At this point in Oregon the RIAA has no case because:
An IP address and a timestamp does not identify a particular computer. It might, at most, point to a cable modem, dsl modem, wireless router, none of which store or share files.
Adding a screen snapshot of a list of files of unknown content doesn't improve in that identification.
An IP address and a timestamp and a screen shot of file names doesn't identify an individual.
None of the above shows that any copyrighted work was ever distributed illegally.
Finding copyrighted music files on a hard drive is no evidence of illegal downloading.
To recap, the RIAA has:
No way to identify an individual.
No way to identify a computer or tie it to an individual.
No proof, or ability to get proof, of illegal downloading.
No proof, or ability to get proof without having tapped internet connections of any distribution to anyone but their own investigators, who frankly don't count legally.
No case at all to justify their invasion of a user's privacy, and the extortion attempts to follow as they insist through their lying mouths, "We have already secured the information necessary to win against you in court!
The RIAA also has yet to prove in nearly all these cases that they are the current copyright holders of the very songs they seek to sue over, often presenting original copyright certificates in the names of companies that are no longer even in existence, and individual artists who have since died.
Yes, the courts need to put a direct and firm end to all this nonsense.
(Note to file sharers: Don't use your own personal, or nick, name as your KaZaA handle.)
So, just as cable responds to current fiber installations with DOCSIS 3, fiber leaps ahead again. They're just making it easier and easier to get rid of Comcast.
How does NX affect performance? I've not heard of any performance hit for using it, unless it's interrupting all the time due to attempts to execute data.
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The the very worst part is that because Windows won't fit, Microsoft's solution is to suggest (demand) that they fix the PC. And fix it by adding cost, complication, and vulnerability to the elements. Those are the actions of a bully.
NO!!! I'm benefiting by getting Netflix service cheaper than I wold be getting it otherwise.
Also, if you not, even medium cities have a local Netflix depot, meaning most Netflix movies are only a local delivery both ways, although they pay the same price if the UPSP had to deliver and return them across across the country. That's a savings for the fixed price USPS.
At least they made them easy to find. I can spot a Netflix subscriber a block away as they're walking with their return to the nearest post box.
Or, Postal Service Surcharge Could Force Netflix To Improve on Bockbuster Packaging.
What we need is Postal Network Neutrality, and we need it now!
I can. He wants to charge you extra for a right you already have. That's not aligning with my own personal interests.
Bruce, you obviously don't have Comcast as your ISP. The problem with an open WiFi is that others can run you over the unstated limits traffic limits in your intentionally vague ToS on your "unlimited" broadband plan, and suddenly you're stuck on your neighbor's WiFi for good. A much more realistic danger than than a Drive-By, Child Porn sharing, hacker.
Not even by the RIAA?
If they've won on this issue before, then this shouldn't come as any big surprise to anyone.
As for East Texas juries, their state should be ashamed of them, and they should be ashamed of themselves. The RIAA would probably file all their cases there, if they could.
Actually, I'd hate to see any of the incumbent telcos/wireless companies get their hands on this. I want a new competitor here.
That's an awful low bar to ask them to meet. If I only need to make a C to get a scholarship, that's likely only as hard as I'm going to work for it.
The subpoena for all of Billsaur's contact information, IP address, MAC address, ISP information, MP3 files shared, Slashdot posts, previews, e-mail addresses, and preference settings will be arriving in 5...4...3...2...
The government "solved" this problem by forcing printer and copier manufacturer's -- especially color printer manufacturers -- to embed identifying printer information (e.g. brand, model, serial number) in the background of the images. If you want to protest safely and anonymously, don't you dare print any of your tracts on any printer that can be tied to you.
Obligatory: In Soviet Russia, they registered and kept samples of your typewriters.
Several years ago Comcast prohibited VPN usage from home accounts. There was no good reason for it. VPN is just data -- 1's and 0's -- like anything else, but they wanted to force you to a higher (read more expensive and unnecessary) business plan. That was dropped at least a couple years back. Your friend should check the current ToS applicable to his account, and if that prohibition isn't in there, call up and give then hell about it.
So I end up with Comcast East and Comcast West. How much better will my life really be?
That wasn't covered in our training.
They may know the answer. They may have been asked it a dozen other times today already, but if it's not in their script you're not going to get any help!
I can't wait for some real competition to arrive because my tiny little corner of Comcast is always the last to be upgraded. For example, we still only get about 200 free On Demand movies, while people from other areas get a thousand, or more -- yet our monthly bill is the same, or higher, than FiOS areas! TiVo DVR's and DOCSIS 3 modems? Ha! I'll be lucky to see all of that 5 years from now, maybe.
Better to have her learn at a young age the difference between reasonable, and unreasonable, demands. Fail here, and you'll pay an ever more expensive price each year for decades to come.
If you give it away,
they will come.
If the Oregon AG is at the top of his game, he's already reading all the comments here from some of the most technologically knowledgeable, and pissed off, people in the country. It would be the true waste of a resource to not be doing so.
An IP address and a timestamp does not identify a particular computer. It might, at most, point to a cable modem, dsl modem, wireless router, none of which store or share files.
Adding a screen snapshot of a list of files of unknown content doesn't improve in that identification.
An IP address and a timestamp and a screen shot of file names doesn't identify an individual.
None of the above shows that any copyrighted work was ever distributed illegally.
Finding copyrighted music files on a hard drive is no evidence of illegal downloading.
To recap, the RIAA has:
No way to identify an individual.
No way to identify a computer or tie it to an individual.
No proof, or ability to get proof, of illegal downloading.
No proof, or ability to get proof without having tapped internet connections of any distribution to anyone but their own investigators, who frankly don't count legally.
No case at all to justify their invasion of a user's privacy, and the extortion attempts to follow as they insist through their lying mouths, "We have already secured the information necessary to win against you in court!
The RIAA also has yet to prove in nearly all these cases that they are the current copyright holders of the very songs they seek to sue over, often presenting original copyright certificates in the names of companies that are no longer even in existence, and individual artists who have since died.
Yes, the courts need to put a direct and firm end to all this nonsense.
(Note to file sharers: Don't use your own personal, or nick, name as your KaZaA handle.)
Take the semtex out of the battery casing and blame any problems on China. Sorry guys, but that's the wrong kind of plastic.
So, just as cable responds to current fiber installations with DOCSIS 3, fiber leaps ahead again. They're just making it easier and easier to get rid of Comcast.
I suggest Keith Richards for the first one.
Poltergeists.
How does NX affect performance? I've not heard of any performance hit for using it, unless it's interrupting all the time due to attempts to execute data.