From reading the summary I found it mildly amusing that the "Team High Crime" that found this botnet was in the Netherlands, with the agency abreviated to THC.
I honestly don't care what wins as long as I can install anything on my phone that I want without needing to get "approval" from some corporate app store with "Christian" morals as part of their app approval policy. Personally, I'd buy a technically inferior product if it was open and the makers didn't try to shove restrictions down my throat.
The way I feel about it is: It's my phone, I payed for it, if you don't like what I'm doing with my own property, well, that's just too bad for you.
As much as I'm against filtering at all, if your country/government doesn't like what's said in another country, it's up to your country to filter it out.
We aren't going to bend to your will or around your laws when on our soil, Mr. Dickhead in the UK. Don't like my opinion and what I have to say? Know what that sounds like? It sounds like a tough break for you.
Sometimes value isn't practically measured just by numbers/benchmarks. I think this is one of those cases.
I think personal enjoyment and your user experience trumps data of Performance per dollar from a chart. If updating your PC to use SSD storage signifigantly improves your user experince on a day to day basis, it's probably worth it.
As an example, what's the difference between a $10 bottle of wine and a $20 one? You could compare alchol levels, etc., but in the end the taste, and palate (ie. user experience) is what matters. Sometimes it's not really possible to put a value on these things using charts and graphs. Your own opinion and what the value is for that convenience/experince is the true measure.
"If an ISP in a case says ‘this is what we tried to do, we tried to deal with notices and these are the systems we use. We cant deal with every one' - let's assume [the ISP] get 100 of these notices per week and tried to process 25 percent of them.
"So they come to court and say ‘this is our reasonable response'. That may be one thing," Bannon hypothesised.
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"But in circumstances where they do nothing, where they say they can't send a single notice to anybody....
I dislike the ridiculous movie / music industry groups as much as anybody but...
You didn't RTFA. The above italic is from the article. They are upset because when notification of infringement is sent they essentially send it to the circular file and do nothing at all. All they are asking for is that when the infringed party reports copyright infringement, the ISP actually investigates it In all honesty, this does seem reasonable, provided they don't flood their offices with garbage reports..
The comparisons you are making have nothing to do with the above either, in all of those cases the individual/company has purchased a product and is not providing a continuing service. You can buy a car and then never talk to the manufacturer/dealer of the car again, including if it needs repairs. An Internet connection is a continuing service relationship. You pay a company monthly (in most cases) for a connection. When it goes out, you contact your provider, and don't talk to a 3rd party shop, etc. Apples to oranges.
....In fact, wiretaps could probably be rendered useless if the connection between the switches and law enforcement are overwhelmed with useless data....
Is it me or does this kinda read as: "If there is nothing useful going through the line, there is nothing to tap". Well no shit. If the caller can't complete the call or communicate with the person on the other end because of system overload, guess what, you won't be able to gather anything because the conversation never happened.
However, now the burden of proof is on the provider part.
This means I want detailed billing telling me exactly what you are biling me for. When the downloads took place down to the minute/second, how many bytes were transfered. Legally, if they are charging your on a per use basis, they need to be able to document everything they are billing you for.
Dear Telco/Cableco, I'll take my 409 page printout monthly. Thanks, and enjoy the postage.
Wait... so what you are saying, is that there are dishonest people in the world who will steal or invade your privacy if they feel they won't get caught?
I mean...a men's only club doesn't mean they hate women, they just aren't welcome in the club. A private club should be able to decide on what they want in their membership, no?
True, however when they start taking PUBLIC funds they are no longer a PRIVATE group. When the Boy Scouts accept TAXPAYERS sponosorship for their jamborees by recieving free access to military bases as meeting grounds, then they cease to be a soley private club.
It really is simple, if they want to discriminate with their memborship, fine, as long as they NEVER take ANY public money in ANY form whatsoever. If they cost the taxpayer 1 measly cent, then they should be REQUIRED to open up their membership to ANYONE who wants to be in.
AIG also backs close to half a trillion dollars in collateralized debt obligations, and more than 10% of that has sub-prime influence. The holders of the CDOs are not just in the US, but also scattered across Europe and Asia as well. If AIG goes under, its backing becomes worthless, and all of those CDOs become almost impossible to move, and the bonds get shaky, and the entire world's financial industry takes a massive hit.
Oh well, thats just a tough break if they 'take a hit'. Maybe, the AIG bigwigs should have though about the consequences of lending out money irresponsibly? They made their bed, they can fucking sleep in it. It's not my responsibility as a taxypayer to fund the bail out of private for profit industries. Let them declare bankruptcy like most other failed PRIVATE business ventures, then watch as their vultureesque competitors pick the meat of their corporate corpse.
Someone needs to slip a satellite based internet uplink in with their media gear. Even an old school MoDem hooked to a sat-phone would be sufficient if enough are used in parallel, then share the internet connection through a distributed wireless network to anyone nearby. Let the Chinese people get a taste of the other 98% of the internet they are missing out on.
Your moral relativism must make your head explode at night. Sure, there are grey areas where that statement is true, but surely you don't think laws about murder and child abuse are simply culture-specific.
I didn't say I agree with it. I think it's a bit crap that he will be prosecuted for what I feel is a basic right.
I prefer to base my actions on the way the world really works, as opposed to the way I'd like it to work.
What this man was convicted of may have been a crime in his country, but in the United States, Europe, Canada and most other places in the free world what he did would be protected under freedom of speech.
Tastelss? Perhaps. Illegal? Not where I live.
Not everyone lives where you live. You need to follow the laws of the locality you are doing business in, when inside of those localities. It is not google's place to determine what laws are "just" and "unjust".
By your logic, someone from Amsterdam should be allowed to setup a shop next door to you selling illegal drugs (in the US) and it should be OK... because after all, where they live it's legal.
The numbers work too. Assuming 100M broadband connections in the US, that's 6 billion per year just for digital, and the overhead plummets.....The music industry would have more cashflow than they have today, with less overhead. That's a win in anybody's book.
Unless you are one of the MANY internet users like me and at least one of these things apply..
A) Don't download music over the internet.
B) Don't listen to RIAA music.
C) Don't feel like paying a "fee" for copyright violation that you take no part in.
It seems like people forget that the music industry is a for profit PRIVATE entity. They aren't a regulatory agency. Let them take their gripes to CIVIL court where they belong.
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From reading the summary I found it mildly amusing that the "Team High Crime" that found this botnet was in the Netherlands, with the agency abreviated to THC.
I honestly don't care what wins as long as I can install anything on my phone that I want without needing to get "approval" from some corporate app store with "Christian" morals as part of their app approval policy. Personally, I'd buy a technically inferior product if it was open and the makers didn't try to shove restrictions down my throat.
The way I feel about it is: It's my phone, I payed for it, if you don't like what I'm doing with my own property, well, that's just too bad for you.
Yeah, we wouldn't want people to think too hard, that might be "dangerous".
/rollseyes
There's no money kickbacks generated to govt. cronies by solving rape crimes. Simple really.
There is a crack, a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
As much as I'm against filtering at all, if your country/government doesn't like what's said in another country, it's up to your country to filter it out.
We aren't going to bend to your will or around your laws when on our soil, Mr. Dickhead in the UK. Don't like my opinion and what I have to say? Know what that sounds like? It sounds like a tough break for you.
Sometimes value isn't practically measured just by numbers/benchmarks. I think this is one of those cases.
I think personal enjoyment and your user experience trumps data of Performance per dollar from a chart. If updating your PC to use SSD storage signifigantly improves your user experince on a day to day basis, it's probably worth it.
As an example, what's the difference between a $10 bottle of wine and a $20 one? You could compare alchol levels, etc., but in the end the taste, and palate (ie. user experience) is what matters. Sometimes it's not really possible to put a value on these things using charts and graphs. Your own opinion and what the value is for that convenience/experince is the true measure.
"If an ISP in a case says ‘this is what we tried to do, we tried to deal with notices and these are the systems we use. We cant deal with every one' - let's assume [the ISP] get 100 of these notices per week and tried to process 25 percent of them.
"So they come to court and say ‘this is our reasonable response'. That may be one thing," Bannon hypothesised.
v "But in circumstances where they do nothing, where they say they can't send a single notice to anybody....
I dislike the ridiculous movie / music industry groups as much as anybody but...
You didn't RTFA. The above italic is from the article. They are upset because when notification of infringement is sent they essentially send it to the circular file and do nothing at all. All they are asking for is that when the infringed party reports copyright infringement, the ISP actually investigates it In all honesty, this does seem reasonable, provided they don't flood their offices with garbage reports..
The comparisons you are making have nothing to do with the above either, in all of those cases the individual/company has purchased a product and is not providing a continuing service. You can buy a car and then never talk to the manufacturer/dealer of the car again, including if it needs repairs. An Internet connection is a continuing service relationship. You pay a company monthly (in most cases) for a connection. When it goes out, you contact your provider, and don't talk to a 3rd party shop, etc. Apples to oranges.
because the only chips in my vacuum cleaner are doritos that fell on the floor.
....In fact, wiretaps could probably be rendered useless if the connection between the switches and law enforcement are overwhelmed with useless data....
Is it me or does this kinda read as: "If there is nothing useful going through the line, there is nothing to tap". Well no shit. If the caller can't complete the call or communicate with the person on the other end because of system overload, guess what, you won't be able to gather anything because the conversation never happened.
However, now the burden of proof is on the provider part.
This means I want detailed billing telling me exactly what you are biling me for. When the downloads took place down to the minute/second, how many bytes were transfered. Legally, if they are charging your on a per use basis, they need to be able to document everything they are billing you for.
Dear Telco/Cableco, I'll take my 409 page printout monthly. Thanks, and enjoy the postage.
Wait... so what you are saying, is that there are dishonest people in the world who will steal or invade your privacy if they feel they won't get caught?
Thanks for this new and amazing "research".
Do they come coated in a powdered cheese? If so, I'll probably go through at least 3 dozen of them.
I mean...a men's only club doesn't mean they hate women, they just aren't welcome in the club. A private club should be able to decide on what they want in their membership, no?
True, however when they start taking PUBLIC funds they are no longer a PRIVATE group. When the Boy Scouts accept TAXPAYERS sponosorship for their jamborees by recieving free access to military bases as meeting grounds, then they cease to be a soley private club. It really is simple, if they want to discriminate with their memborship, fine, as long as they NEVER take ANY public money in ANY form whatsoever. If they cost the taxpayer 1 measly cent, then they should be REQUIRED to open up their membership to ANYONE who wants to be in.
.... the four corners of the earth...
Because spheroids have corners right?
I heard that 21% of black people are actually white.
True story.
Do you own any bonds?
No
Do any of your investments own bonds?.
No
AIG also backs close to half a trillion dollars in collateralized debt obligations, and more than 10% of that has sub-prime influence. The holders of the CDOs are not just in the US, but also scattered across Europe and Asia as well. If AIG goes under, its backing becomes worthless, and all of those CDOs become almost impossible to move, and the bonds get shaky, and the entire world's financial industry takes a massive hit.
Oh well, thats just a tough break if they 'take a hit'. Maybe, the AIG bigwigs should have though about the consequences of lending out money irresponsibly? They made their bed, they can fucking sleep in it. It's not my responsibility as a taxypayer to fund the bail out of private for profit industries. Let them declare bankruptcy like most other failed PRIVATE business ventures, then watch as their vultureesque competitors pick the meat of their corporate corpse.
Capes and super-hero uniforms.
Yes, that someone being the Royal Bank of Scotland.
I prefer 2B:1G:A5:5B:00:B5
Someone needs to slip a satellite based internet uplink in with their media gear. Even an old school MoDem hooked to a sat-phone would be sufficient if enough are used in parallel, then share the internet connection through a distributed wireless network to anyone nearby. Let the Chinese people get a taste of the other 98% of the internet they are missing out on.
Yeah, way to go Frito. great idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware_(malware)
The crypting your files and extort has been around since 1989 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Cyborg_Trojan
I prefer to base my actions on the way the world really works, as opposed to the way I'd like it to work.
Not everyone lives where you live. You need to follow the laws of the locality you are doing business in, when inside of those localities. It is not google's place to determine what laws are "just" and "unjust".
By your logic, someone from Amsterdam should be allowed to setup a shop next door to you selling illegal drugs (in the US) and it should be OK... because after all, where they live it's legal.
Unless you are one of the MANY internet users like me and at least one of these things apply..
A) Don't download music over the internet.
B) Don't listen to RIAA music.
C) Don't feel like paying a "fee" for copyright violation that you take no part in.
It seems like people forget that the music industry is a for profit PRIVATE entity. They aren't a regulatory agency. Let them take their gripes to CIVIL court where they belong.