Us schmoes with our mortgages are under iron clad obligations to pay down to the last penny.
On the contrary: this is why debtor's prisons were abolished in favor of bankruptcy laws. The elites realized that it's more efficient to keep the schmoes working instead of locking them up when they (inevitably!) default.
In the case of TOR, the site already knows you're accessing from a TOR exit node. At that point, making your browser indistinguishable from every other instance of the TOR Browser is probably good enough.
There are those who say you need to use RequestPolicy and Ghostery and AdBlock and NoScript (and some other stuff, like a cookie blocker) to catch everything....
It's not artificial because of the details of the technical implementation, it's artificial because it's a scarcity that would not be expensive or difficult to resolve.
Yes, and it's artificial because Verizon made a deliberate choice not to resolve it (rather than it being unresolved only due to ignorance).
I was under the impression that "the Ukraine" was a similar special case, in a way having nothing to do with whether it was a part of the USSR or an independent country.
The problem is that the FCC has limited regulatory power unless it reclassifies Internet access as a telecommunications service, which is considered the "nuclear option."
At this point, reclassification is exactly what pretty much every pro-net-neutrality group (and therefore, every citizen who uses their automated comment-submission systems) is asking the FCC to do.
For example... I worked with a woman who insisted on wearing what I considered *very* suggestive clothes to work just about every day. Personally I found her attire unprofessional and demeaning to women in general (and I'm a man), but to each their own. I know she got lots of attention from the males in the area who would often ask "Who is she?" and make it clear that they noticed her. The really sad part of this story is that she had HR on speed dial because she was always filing sexual harassment complaints. One guy told me that she made a cottage industry of sorts out of it. Using the treat of filing the complaint to try and get her way. But I ask you what did she expect to happen when she dressed like that? Ladies, dress modestly and professionally, It may be your right to wear what you want, but why put a spot light on the target or invite trouble.
The lesson I learn from this is that men should file sexual harassment claims against women who dress less than professionally as a preemptive strike.
No. In other words, the market is distorted by the existence of a government-sanctioned monopoly, so the normal rules of supply and demand DO NOT APPLY.
What is unethical is that Comcast has BRIBED the government to enshrine themselves in a privileged position, where the threat of physical violence is used to support their business model. For example, if I attempted to run cable down the street in order to compete with Comcast, men brandishing legal authority and firearms (i.e., the police) would come and physically restrain me from doing so.
it might be fun to say "Why I'm cancelling is none of your damned business. I will pay no more bills. Remember when your robot told me this call would be recorded?"
That's way too polite. I've once told a Comcast rep something to the effect of the following:
Me: "the answer to your question is 'because I said so'. I am not obligated to give a reason; however, you ARE obligated to accept my response and do what I'm telling you to do. Now, do what I asked you to do and DO NOT ask me the question or any similar question again! Do you understand?
Rep: "But..."
Me (interrupting): "Do you understand?"
Rep: "But..."
Me (interrupting): "DO YOU UNDERSTAND, YES OR NO?"
Rep: "Yes, but..."
Me (interrupting): "DO NOT ASK THE QUESTION AGAIN!"
Rep: "...ok"
This is the way that anyone who has gone through Comcast's training and still consents to work there deserves to be treated. If I manage to torment the rep to the point that he reconsiders his choice of vocation, I consider myself to have done him a service!
Back when I last had Comcast (around 2005 or 2006) the quality of PBS over the cable was so much worse than OTA. It was full of compression artefacts, dropped frames, audio distortion.
In my area they can't even bother to get the aspect ratio correct for PBS! Unless you pay to rent a HD set-top-box, you end up with that channel being letterboxed (or maybe "windowboxed" -- I can't quite remember since I cut the cord months ago). The commercial channels, however, display in correct widescreen 480p; it's only the public station that Comcast doesn't give a shit about.
Are you ready and willing to answer a subpoena from, say, Iraq or Indonesia?
That depends if you're ready and willing to have your Iraqi or Indonesian facilities shut down and your Iraqi or Indonesian employees jailed for defying a court order.
You don't like it? Don't do business in Iraq or Indonesia (or the USA, if it's the USA's rules you don't like).
Then whatever employees are located in the jurisdiction where the warrant was issued are screwed: they are ruled to be in contempt and thrown in jail indefinitely.
Technical fix: Have overseas headquarters operations revoke access. Don't be the dude with a subpoena in one hand and revoked access in the other. Don't be legally based in the USA.
The only real "fix" is "don't do business in the USA, at all, period" because the government could serve a warrant to any employee or asset.
I know in my case and some others, its the frustration of the self-fulfilling prophecy. You slow down coming to a stale light, and it changes, so you're satisfied with yourself because you didn't waste energy. Problem is, in some cases, if you had stayed with your speed or upped it a little you would have made the light
He wasn't talking about a stale green, he was talking about a light that had already turned yellow or red. There are lots of people who like to zoom up to red lights for no good reason.
The judge made the assumption that anyone who wants to be untraceable to law enforcement must be a criminal, which is actually not such a huge stretch.
"Not a huge stretch"...for a totalitarian, sure. But that sort of thing was supposed to have been off Austria's agenda since 1945.
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On the contrary: this is why debtor's prisons were abolished in favor of bankruptcy laws. The elites realized that it's more efficient to keep the schmoes working instead of locking them up when they (inevitably!) default.
In the case of TOR, the site already knows you're accessing from a TOR exit node. At that point, making your browser indistinguishable from every other instance of the TOR Browser is probably good enough.
Plus, you can install Ubuntu on your Chromebook and have the [best|worst] of both worlds!
There are those who say you need to use RequestPolicy and Ghostery and AdBlock and NoScript (and some other stuff, like a cookie blocker) to catch everything....
Yes, and it's artificial because Verizon made a deliberate choice not to resolve it (rather than it being unresolved only due to ignorance).
I was under the impression that "the Ukraine" was a similar special case, in a way having nothing to do with whether it was a part of the USSR or an independent country.
Yep. The main selling point of "natural" gemstones these days is that the lab-made ones are "too perfect!"
You forgot about the other 545 people we also need to impeach. (One vice president, 9 supreme court justices, 100 senators, and 435 representatives.)
Since when was Obama a progressive? Sure, he campaigned as one, but his actions upon taking office revealed that to be a blatant lie.
At this point, reclassification is exactly what pretty much every pro-net-neutrality group (and therefore, every citizen who uses their automated comment-submission systems) is asking the FCC to do.
The lesson I learn from this is that men should file sexual harassment claims against women who dress less than professionally as a preemptive strike.
No. In other words, the market is distorted by the existence of a government-sanctioned monopoly, so the normal rules of supply and demand DO NOT APPLY.
What is unethical is that Comcast has BRIBED the government to enshrine themselves in a privileged position, where the threat of physical violence is used to support their business model. For example, if I attempted to run cable down the street in order to compete with Comcast, men brandishing legal authority and firearms (i.e., the police) would come and physically restrain me from doing so.
That's way too polite. I've once told a Comcast rep something to the effect of the following:
This is the way that anyone who has gone through Comcast's training and still consents to work there deserves to be treated. If I manage to torment the rep to the point that he reconsiders his choice of vocation, I consider myself to have done him a service!
I did this when I cancelled my Comcast TV service.
...Until you sit down ready to play your game and it decides to download a big patch instead of letting you log in.
In my area they can't even bother to get the aspect ratio correct for PBS! Unless you pay to rent a HD set-top-box, you end up with that channel being letterboxed (or maybe "windowboxed" -- I can't quite remember since I cut the cord months ago). The commercial channels, however, display in correct widescreen 480p; it's only the public station that Comcast doesn't give a shit about.
You are truly living up to your username. Why would you ever consider intentionally creating such a consciously unequal system to be a good thing?
That depends if you're ready and willing to have your Iraqi or Indonesian facilities shut down and your Iraqi or Indonesian employees jailed for defying a court order.
You don't like it? Don't do business in Iraq or Indonesia (or the USA, if it's the USA's rules you don't like).
Then whatever employees are located in the jurisdiction where the warrant was issued are screwed: they are ruled to be in contempt and thrown in jail indefinitely.
The only real "fix" is "don't do business in the USA, at all, period" because the government could serve a warrant to any employee or asset.
He wasn't talking about a stale green, he was talking about a light that had already turned yellow or red. There are lots of people who like to zoom up to red lights for no good reason.
Because the FCC hasn't been completely bought by the industry... yet.
Go read about "civil forfeiture" and be very, very upset.
"Not a huge stretch" ...for a totalitarian, sure. But that sort of thing was supposed to have been off Austria's agenda since 1945.
Because now Google is censoring people's emails without a court order if the entity demanding the censorship is rich and powerful enough!