Yeah, a lawyer wouldn't make the mistake of assuming that there is no civil remedy available for a crime victim.
Title XVIII of the US Code has civil and criminal penalties for tampering with computers (taking one and using it is "tampering" as defined by the act) and it is an example of a federal act reaching this problem. Most states have state causes of action for computer tampering and many of these have attorney's fees and costs of repair of the computer included as damages.
If you and your attorney do the hard work for the prosecutor - tracking down the computer and suing the individual(s) for replevin/conversion/computer tampering and you win... Well, then it becomes a short case for your DA/Prosecuting Attorney/US Attorney to charge and prosecute.
As for the "what are taxes for" argument - that answer is simple: this type of crime doesn't warrant the use of the scarce resource of public sector law enforcement. Why else would state legislatures put attorney fee recovery into the civil causes of action? It is called a "private attorney general" act - to encourage the private sector to take legal action in these matters.
Quark's rented Holodeck had Chief O'Brien's personal stories in place - battles with invading hordes from the north in ancient Celtic times - one episode shows O'Brien and Bashir dressed in bearskins and leggings with broadswords - entering the bar and O'Brien and Bashir have a Scotch and an Ale, respectively, over a fallen friend - and then were about to reenter the holodeck when the story started - it was the teaser to begin an episode and never mentioned again.
Then there were Worf's battle programs....what professional would dare write a Klingon battle simulation? You might offend a Klingon and get killed. Nope, I'm certain that Worf wrote his own battle programs.
I never saw Firefly - Joss Weadon's oat-opera in space until I was turned onto it by a friend and bought the DVD's. Since then, my wife and I have accumulates all of Whedon's work - Buffy & Angel. We have all of the Brit detective and court series from Poirot to Morse to Life on Mars to Rosemary & Thyme to the incomparable Horace Rumpole.
Now my wife and I are following director's careers - I started early with Akira Kurosawa - and have followed Clint Eastwood's excellent work. Ridley Scott, Kubrick and at least a dozen others are part of our collection or soon will be when all of their work is released.
Yeah, I'd have to agree, that cable or broadcast hold little of value- until the election conventions and post-convention coverage.
And, every book, play and television show was available on the computer.
The Tablet-computer that Jake Sisko used to write his stories in DS9 presumably had access to the entire collection of literature of all Federation Planets - and a substantial body of that work exists as plays and teleplays - justas it does here on Earth today.
Where did the sets and set-pieces come from for the Holodeck in TNG? Conan Doyle's Holmes - or, at least Moriarty featured in one episode. Also, Patrick Stewart's character liked "hard-boiled" detective narratives - they must have been drawn from prior art....
Dump Faux News. Change the networks' news divisions back to what they were - investigative agencies with journalists (fancy word for a person who went to college and learned how to research and write about the news - few exist in captivity and fewer still are seen on TV) placed in "bureaus" around the globe.
Avoid "imbedding" journalists (actually, no Journalist would put up with being "imbedded" - but six-figure salary Reporters are not so concerned with facts - just their pay) and while we are at it - dump 100% of the commentary - left, right and center. That's what EDITORIAL PAGES are for.
It isn't that an attorney may use an insecure server - YOU are the employer / client and most states require some statement like this:
"The Missouri Bar Disciplinary Counsel requires all Missouri lawyers to notify all recipients of e-mail that (1) e-mail communication is not a secure method of communication; (2) any e-mail that is sent to you or by you may be copied and held by various computers it passes through as it goes from me to you or vice versa; (3) persons not participating in our communication may intercept our communications by improperly accessing your computer or my computer or even some computer unconnected to either of us which the e-mail passed through. I am communicating to you via e-mail because you have consented to receive communications via this medium. If you change your mind and want future communications to be sent in a different fashion, please let me know AT ONCE."
So, your problem is within your control.
Meanwhile, the poor man's GPS - an IP address - will bite you in the a** if the attorney and "expert" computer geek can put you at the girl/boy - friend's apartment when your daughter graduates.
The attorney isn't necessarily stupid - you are if you accept email that isn't protected by PGP.
Eudora - my old friend, won't load any of that crap and can be set to respond to a "return receipt" request from Outlook as "now" "later" "Never" - always had fun with that feature....
But, seriously - if you are using a mail application that does "blindly" support HTML and resides on your desktop/laptop the weasel sending you email will have your MAC and IP address. Consider being in your "lover's" home / business when that email hits your laptop - now the spouse has you located.
The Feds and some state police agencies are capable of tracking your cell - but a 1 pixel image buried in your email is the poor man's homing beacon. They will know close to where you are and when you opened the message.
Perhaps web-based email like Gmail (accessing it through SSL) is the only real defense if you have to be able to read email with images imbedded in the message.
The people of the US are distinctly separate from the oligarchy in power. IF we can recover from the damage that they have done it will take years.
CCTV in the UK is an abomination - but Orwell got there first - just picked the wrong year.
Loonies in the US who think their puny popguns will stop a military siege of their homes are - well, loony. And, now we have a surfeit of people trained in urban war.... many without adequate medical care. How many more for Bush's war?
People attending the Olympics in China are (unless family of athletes / staff) filthy rich. Aside from the exempted classes, EVERY American attending will have a net worth well over a million. The estimates for decent housing and decent air travel (NYC or LA) to the games exceeds $50k/person. If you can afford to take the spouse for a $100k jaunt to China - you have disposable income,
Targets? Don't you see those big targets on their backs?
Contemplate the wealth of those from other nations - the poorer the nation the higher the net wealth of the attendee. OTOH, they will have their personal security details along.
I wouldn't be " ashamed upon the passing of the amendment to ban gay marriages in 2004" - because we dems managed to put that amendment on the primary vote and that kept the knuckle-draggers from coming out in force in the general election that November. It was a straw-man deal designed to inflame the religious reich from the start. I smelled Rove.
Claire is from KC as is Congressman Cleaver. St. Louis is a solid labor/dem town but KC always votes dem, too. Becky Carnahan is a great Secretary of State and has, by all reports, received from her bout with breast cancer.
You know what I call Mel Carnahan these days? A man of the earth....(ducks). (Damn shame that the pilot lost the horizon and apparently wasn't too good with IFR.)
It was your broad statement - I just asked if you were part of the Missouri genus of right wingnut. Apparently your wingnuttery diverges from the Missouri wingnuts.
By the terms of this law, an anonymous political statement (anonymity is a fundamental right in political speech) could be charged as either an A misdemeanor or a D felony.
Consider a pro-choice push poll. That would offend about 110% of Missouri wingnuts. Several of the wingnut prosecutors would love to can the opposition.
Consider a pro-Iran invasion push poll = the left wingnuts would be offended and if prosecutors were so inclined they would love to can the opposition.
Who lumped you in? Are you a member of Missouri's General Assembly? The Blunt administration? John Ashcroft's law firm?
The twits who proposed these bills are grandstanding. They have no interest in anything but getting reelected.
This follows a long pattern:
The Missouri General Assembly and then Gov. Kit Bond claimed a copyright in state law and regulations (purportedly the "intellectual property" of the legislators) and attempted to make a profit on the sale of the state's laws (in digital form, no less)! When the Revisor of Statutes was advised that no copyright can attach to law the response was, "Washington, D.C. is a long way away. Pay the price." That baloney ended with a brief federal lawsuit.
The same wizards created a statute that declared "slasher" films a violation of the state's constitution - and that idiotic law was struck.
The State Constitution was amended to declare life begins at conception. Ok, so what does that mean? An early case of a minor in possession of alcohol was defended on the grounds that he was actually 9 months older than his birthdate due to the Constitutional Amendment - but the Courts refused to add nine months to the kid's age and he lost.
When the sex crime statute was amended last the law bans sex for everybody. It is so poorly worded that married couples cannot engage in lawful intercourse! Has the law been amended? No. The Courts just ignore that part of the law.
Missouri has a statute establishing "Covenant Marriage" a special type of marriage that makes divorce nearly impossible. Swift idea where Missouri has a very high divorce rate (approaching 50%).
John Ashcroft was the governor - but as a member of The Assemblies of God he believes dancing is sinful. So, he played the piano at his inaugural ball(s) - but didn't dance.
So, are you claiming membership in this sorry lot? Or, perhaps you really don't know what REAL right wingnuts are. Missouri has a bumper crop. They make Kansas look rational.
Matt Blunt, the Gov. has been described as the worst governor in the US. The state's general assembly is dominated by right-wingnuts opposed to evolution, education and healthcare. The state is in a freefall economically and Roy Blunt (the Gov's father) was bragging about his opposition to the SCHIP bill at CPAC - when that act would have made a massive difference in the medical care available to the children in his district in Southwest Missouri (Springfield/Branson). Roy was Delay's K-Street project leader.
Let's not forget John Ashcroft -
Trust somebody who has watched these weasels - these laws are mere window dressing for their sponsor's reelection campaigns. Pure, unadulterated sophistry.
Change the mail app to the open source Eudora. Email is stored as plain text and easily recovered.
Back to my Mac doesn't work unless I'm on the same subnet. Use another program - I use Timbuktu Pro. Version 8.7 works fine with Leopard and I have five Macs and an XP box running Timbuktu and I can access all of them any time FROM ANYWHERE. Timbuktu will even use Bonjour where the machines are close enough.
As for Mr. Limbaugh's hearing - he did it to himself through his opiate abuse. If I were Apple, I'd revoke his license to use OSX 10.5 (*READ THE EULA - it can be done*) and he can turn his Macs into Windoze boxes. This should be done purely as a preventative step to avoid a lawsuit from the "Excellence In Broadcasting" Network that the Mac is a machine that facilitates dopers and, specifically Rush's dope habits. Rush always has somebody else to blame - better to nip this one in the bud and take his computers' OS away. It is that or dust off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
FWIW - I've been using Macs a lot longer than the Big Fat Idiot - I still have a working LISA.
Fiber bandwidth approaches infinity. Fiber does not oxidize or otherwise decay.
Replacing routers and terminal equipment is an ongoing cost. Municipal WiFi will further lower costs.
Consider the cell telephone model - costs decreased as penetration increased. Of course, there is competition....
There are very high usage cell accounts - and I have one of those as well. But, once again - the effects of competition play out in favor of the consumer and the efficient business. Sloppy business relies upon monopoly or cartel strictures to remain profitable.
Consider the OIL industry: Record Profits at a time of Record Well-Head Barrel prices. That CAN'T HAPPEN in a free market! But, it has. Because the Oil Industry operates as a cartel within the US borders.
The costs of Internet access decrease as infrastructure increases. My first ISDN line cost me $300.00 a month and a T-1 was $1,500/mo. I have seen my bandwidth increase and my costs decrease as the industry matures - but, the TW folks want to reap profits that they can only command through monopolistic business practices.
Let's start this discussion with something we are missing: the cost of the goods sold and the bandwidth available. We know neither. I know that my office has a fiber mux about 30 meters away. Bandwidth for the active group of users (businesses) in and around my office is never an issue.
I contracted for a BUSINESS account and I pay according to the contract terms. Before they change those terms I want to know if this is a legitimate cost of doing business or the effect of a monopoly extracting more money.
How about you? Ready to take Time Warner at its word without the slightest doubt, or shred of evidence, that they really have a bandwidth issue?
Better still - if TW has a bandwidth problem - why start in TEXAS? Don't you think that Seattle, San Francisco, NYC and Washington, D.C. have much, much higher usage than east bumfu*k TEXAS? But, the consumers and businesses in those places SUE. Better not go someplace where the population is educated, has money and access to lawyers, legislators and the guts to take on TW.
Texas, where the dumb and dumber go to get gouged. Our national laboratory in bad government. Yep, if I were picking a place to test market price gouging I'd choose Texas or Alabama or remote aspects of Alaska (all of Alaska is remote).
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Yeah, a lawyer wouldn't make the mistake of assuming that there is no civil remedy available for a crime victim.
Title XVIII of the US Code has civil and criminal penalties for tampering with computers (taking one and using it is "tampering" as defined by the act) and it is an example of a federal act reaching this problem. Most states have state causes of action for computer tampering and many of these have attorney's fees and costs of repair of the computer included as damages.
If you and your attorney do the hard work for the prosecutor - tracking down the computer and suing the individual(s) for replevin/conversion/computer tampering and you win... Well, then it becomes a short case for your DA/Prosecuting Attorney/US Attorney to charge and prosecute.
As for the "what are taxes for" argument - that answer is simple: this type of crime doesn't warrant the use of the scarce resource of public sector law enforcement. Why else would state legislatures put attorney fee recovery into the civil causes of action? It is called a "private attorney general" act - to encourage the private sector to take legal action in these matters.
Quark's rented Holodeck had Chief O'Brien's personal stories in place - battles with invading hordes from the north in ancient Celtic times - one episode shows O'Brien and Bashir dressed in bearskins and leggings with broadswords - entering the bar and O'Brien and Bashir have a Scotch and an Ale, respectively, over a fallen friend - and then were about to reenter the holodeck when the story started - it was the teaser to begin an episode and never mentioned again.
Then there were Worf's battle programs....what professional would dare write a Klingon battle simulation? You might offend a Klingon and get killed. Nope, I'm certain that Worf wrote his own battle programs.
Geez I'm showing serious trek-geek here....
Harlan Ellison had a better term than "Idiot Box:" "The Glass Teat."
I never saw Firefly - Joss Weadon's oat-opera in space until I was turned onto it by a friend and bought the DVD's. Since then, my wife and I have accumulates all of Whedon's work - Buffy & Angel. We have all of the Brit detective and court series from Poirot to Morse to Life on Mars to Rosemary & Thyme to the incomparable Horace Rumpole.
Now my wife and I are following director's careers - I started early with Akira Kurosawa - and have followed Clint Eastwood's excellent work. Ridley Scott, Kubrick and at least a dozen others are part of our collection or soon will be when all of their work is released.
Yeah, I'd have to agree, that cable or broadcast hold little of value- until the election conventions and post-convention coverage.
And, every book, play and television show was available on the computer.
The Tablet-computer that Jake Sisko used to write his stories in DS9 presumably had access to the entire collection of literature of all Federation Planets - and a substantial body of that work exists as plays and teleplays - justas it does here on Earth today.
Where did the sets and set-pieces come from for the Holodeck in TNG? Conan Doyle's Holmes - or, at least Moriarty featured in one episode. Also, Patrick Stewart's character liked "hard-boiled" detective narratives - they must have been drawn from prior art....
Dump Faux News. Change the networks' news divisions back to what they were - investigative agencies with journalists (fancy word for a person who went to college and learned how to research and write about the news - few exist in captivity and fewer still are seen on TV) placed in "bureaus" around the globe.
Avoid "imbedding" journalists (actually, no Journalist would put up with being "imbedded" - but six-figure salary Reporters are not so concerned with facts - just their pay) and while we are at it - dump 100% of the commentary - left, right and center. That's what EDITORIAL PAGES are for.
Anybody who wants to know what one type of Journalism looked like - the First Person Interview - need only check out this University of Texas archive from the late 1950's: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/film/holdings/wallace/
It isn't that an attorney may use an insecure server - YOU are the employer / client and most states require some statement like this:
"The Missouri Bar Disciplinary Counsel requires all Missouri lawyers to notify all recipients of e-mail that (1) e-mail communication is not a secure method of communication; (2) any e-mail that is sent to you or by you may be copied and held by various computers it passes through as it goes from me to you or vice versa; (3) persons not participating in our communication may intercept our communications by improperly accessing your computer or my computer or even some computer unconnected to either of us which the e-mail passed through. I am communicating to you via e-mail because you have consented to receive communications via this medium. If you change your mind and want future communications to be sent in a different fashion, please let me know AT ONCE."
So, your problem is within your control.
Meanwhile, the poor man's GPS - an IP address - will bite you in the a** if the attorney and "expert" computer geek can put you at the girl/boy - friend's apartment when your daughter graduates.
The attorney isn't necessarily stupid - you are if you accept email that isn't protected by PGP.
Your cell ESN is problematic.
Eudora - my old friend, won't load any of that crap and can be set to respond to a "return receipt" request from Outlook as "now" "later" "Never" - always had fun with that feature....
But, seriously - if you are using a mail application that does "blindly" support HTML and resides on your desktop/laptop the weasel sending you email will have your MAC and IP address. Consider being in your "lover's" home / business when that email hits your laptop - now the spouse has you located.
The Feds and some state police agencies are capable of tracking your cell - but a 1 pixel image buried in your email is the poor man's homing beacon. They will know close to where you are and when you opened the message.
Perhaps web-based email like Gmail (accessing it through SSL) is the only real defense if you have to be able to read email with images imbedded in the message.
Web bugs in email - just what you want in an attorney's email.
Well argued EEPROMS.
The people of the US are distinctly separate from the oligarchy in power. IF we can recover from the damage that they have done it will take years.
CCTV in the UK is an abomination - but Orwell got there first - just picked the wrong year.
Loonies in the US who think their puny popguns will stop a military siege of their homes are - well, loony. And, now we have a surfeit of people trained in urban war.... many without adequate medical care. How many more for Bush's war?
You couldn't pick a better group of marks!
People attending the Olympics in China are (unless family of athletes / staff) filthy rich. Aside from the exempted classes, EVERY American attending will have a net worth well over a million. The estimates for decent housing and decent air travel (NYC or LA) to the games exceeds $50k/person. If you can afford to take the spouse for a $100k jaunt to China - you have disposable income,
Targets? Don't you see those big targets on their backs?
Contemplate the wealth of those from other nations - the poorer the nation the higher the net wealth of the attendee. OTOH, they will have their personal security details along.
This is a black-hat hacker Christmas.
Said that this was a bad idea more than 30 years ago. So did Kit Pedler & Jerry Davis "Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters"
and, all of them are legal files - video depos and pleadings.
The file-format boy to shove it.
$urely you don't mean to impugn the hone$ty and integrity of the fine people who brought u$ Watergate?
Think of all the good the Nixon Admini$tratuion has brought u$:
(1) Ethic$ exam$ for law $tudents.
(2) Jerry Ford'$ Pardon.
(3) Ronald Reagan'$ pardon$.
(4) GHWBu$h'$ pardon$.
Rummy, Cheney and a $hitload of other retred$ from the Ford Admini$tration.
At lea$t we can be happy that Ben $tein didn't continue his political career!
I doubt that it would fit history of science - it was called "creationism" then.
It doesn't fit philosophy because it is a carve-out designed to beat existing legal determinations of science.
It would fit in a contemporary legal history class....
It'$ a My$tery to Me, why Ben $tein $hould $hame himself in $uch a $hoddy film.
I wouldn't be " ashamed upon the passing of the amendment to ban gay marriages in 2004" - because we dems managed to put that amendment on the primary vote and that kept the knuckle-draggers from coming out in force in the general election that November. It was a straw-man deal designed to inflame the religious reich from the start. I smelled Rove.
Claire is from KC as is Congressman Cleaver. St. Louis is a solid labor/dem town but KC always votes dem, too. Becky Carnahan is a great Secretary of State and has, by all reports, received from her bout with breast cancer.
You know what I call Mel Carnahan these days? A man of the earth....(ducks). (Damn shame that the pilot lost the horizon and apparently wasn't too good with IFR.)
Check out Firedupmo at http://www.firedupmissouri.com/
The proposed law is over broad as written and would be as applied. It's just pandering to the frightened loonies of the reich.
The Oxbow Incident. Then:
Consider the mob that crushed its own at the Who concert.
The Rodney King riot.
The Detroit Riots.
The Chicago riots.
Mob rule - just slightly worse than Cheney & Bush.
It was your broad statement - I just asked if you were part of the Missouri genus of right wingnut. Apparently your wingnuttery diverges from the Missouri wingnuts.
The key issue is this incredibly stupid bill introduced in the General Assembly - and here is the proper link to SB 818 http://www.senate.mo.gov/08info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=147/
By the terms of this law, an anonymous political statement (anonymity is a fundamental right in political speech) could be charged as either an A misdemeanor or a D felony.
Consider a pro-choice push poll. That would offend about 110% of Missouri wingnuts. Several of the wingnut prosecutors would love to can the opposition.
Consider a pro-Iran invasion push poll = the left wingnuts would be offended and if prosecutors were so inclined they would love to can the opposition.
Are ye for or agin it?
Who lumped you in? Are you a member of Missouri's General Assembly? The Blunt administration? John Ashcroft's law firm?
The twits who proposed these bills are grandstanding. They have no interest in anything but getting reelected.
This follows a long pattern:
The Missouri General Assembly and then Gov. Kit Bond claimed a copyright in state law and regulations (purportedly the "intellectual property" of the legislators) and attempted to make a profit on the sale of the state's laws (in digital form, no less)! When the Revisor of Statutes was advised that no copyright can attach to law the response was, "Washington, D.C. is a long way away. Pay the price." That baloney ended with a brief federal lawsuit.
The same wizards created a statute that declared "slasher" films a violation of the state's constitution - and that idiotic law was struck.
The State Constitution was amended to declare life begins at conception. Ok, so what does that mean? An early case of a minor in possession of alcohol was defended on the grounds that he was actually 9 months older than his birthdate due to the Constitutional Amendment - but the Courts refused to add nine months to the kid's age and he lost.
When the sex crime statute was amended last the law bans sex for everybody. It is so poorly worded that married couples cannot engage in lawful intercourse! Has the law been amended? No. The Courts just ignore that part of the law.
Missouri has a statute establishing "Covenant Marriage" a special type of marriage that makes divorce nearly impossible. Swift idea where Missouri has a very high divorce rate (approaching 50%).
John Ashcroft was the governor - but as a member of The Assemblies of God he believes dancing is sinful. So, he played the piano at his inaugural ball(s) - but didn't dance.
So, are you claiming membership in this sorry lot? Or, perhaps you really don't know what REAL right wingnuts are. Missouri has a bumper crop. They make Kansas look rational.
Politicians is worth a warm bucket of spit. http://www.firedupmissouri.com/
Matt Blunt, the Gov. has been described as the worst governor in the US. The state's general assembly is dominated by right-wingnuts opposed to evolution, education and healthcare. The state is in a freefall economically and Roy Blunt (the Gov's father) was bragging about his opposition to the SCHIP bill at CPAC - when that act would have made a massive difference in the medical care available to the children in his district in Southwest Missouri (Springfield/Branson). Roy was Delay's K-Street project leader.
Let's not forget John Ashcroft -
Trust somebody who has watched these weasels - these laws are mere window dressing for their sponsor's reelection campaigns. Pure, unadulterated sophistry.
Change the mail app to the open source Eudora. Email is stored as plain text and easily recovered.
Back to my Mac doesn't work unless I'm on the same subnet. Use another program - I use Timbuktu Pro. Version 8.7 works fine with Leopard and I have five Macs and an XP box running Timbuktu and I can access all of them any time FROM ANYWHERE. Timbuktu will even use Bonjour where the machines are close enough.
As for Mr. Limbaugh's hearing - he did it to himself through his opiate abuse. If I were Apple, I'd revoke his license to use OSX 10.5 (*READ THE EULA - it can be done*) and he can turn his Macs into Windoze boxes. This should be done purely as a preventative step to avoid a lawsuit from the "Excellence In Broadcasting" Network that the Mac is a machine that facilitates dopers and, specifically Rush's dope habits. Rush always has somebody else to blame - better to nip this one in the bud and take his computers' OS away. It is that or dust off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
FWIW - I've been using Macs a lot longer than the Big Fat Idiot - I still have a working LISA.
Electrons wear out?
Fiber bandwidth approaches infinity. Fiber does not oxidize or otherwise decay.
Replacing routers and terminal equipment is an ongoing cost. Municipal WiFi will further lower costs.
Consider the cell telephone model - costs decreased as penetration increased. Of course, there is competition....
There are very high usage cell accounts - and I have one of those as well. But, once again - the effects of competition play out in favor of the consumer and the efficient business. Sloppy business relies upon monopoly or cartel strictures to remain profitable.
Consider the OIL industry: Record Profits at a time of Record Well-Head Barrel prices. That CAN'T HAPPEN in a free market! But, it has. Because the Oil Industry operates as a cartel within the US borders.
The costs of Internet access decrease as infrastructure increases. My first ISDN line cost me $300.00 a month and a T-1 was $1,500/mo. I have seen my bandwidth increase and my costs decrease as the industry matures - but, the TW folks want to reap profits that they can only command through monopolistic business practices.
REGULATION!!!
Let's start this discussion with something we are missing: the cost of the goods sold and the bandwidth available. We know neither. I know that my office has a fiber mux about 30 meters away. Bandwidth for the active group of users (businesses) in and around my office is never an issue.
I contracted for a BUSINESS account and I pay according to the contract terms. Before they change those terms I want to know if this is a legitimate cost of doing business or the effect of a monopoly extracting more money.
How about you? Ready to take Time Warner at its word without the slightest doubt, or shred of evidence, that they really have a bandwidth issue?
Better still - if TW has a bandwidth problem - why start in TEXAS? Don't you think that Seattle, San Francisco, NYC and Washington, D.C. have much, much higher usage than east bumfu*k TEXAS? But, the consumers and businesses in those places SUE. Better not go someplace where the population is educated, has money and access to lawyers, legislators and the guts to take on TW.
Texas, where the dumb and dumber go to get gouged. Our national laboratory in bad government. Yep, if I were picking a place to test market price gouging I'd choose Texas or Alabama or remote aspects of Alaska (all of Alaska is remote).
This deal stinks on ice.