Not only did I read the summery, I read the article. But thanks for not reading the parent post who asked if this would hurt or help Geek Squad's business.
The answer to this as I stated is that a lot of people do not think they have anything to worry about because "if you have nothing to hide" and they will be oblivious about this article and its implications when they take their computers into best buy to get them fixed..The people in the know, are people who already would go somewhere else or do it themselves so it wouldn't likely affect their business at all.
If you have nothing to hide, why should it matter either way?
Actually, it will likely not impact them at all because anyone who gives a fuck and knows about this likely wouldn't be taking their computers to the geek squad in the first place.
More interesting though might be a labor claim that Best Buy might have against these employees if they pocketed the cash and where working on the clock while doing the FBI's bidding. I don't know how it would be different than a company claiming ownership of a program you wrote on their resources while on the clock at their job.
Why would it be contempt of court? Was he ordered not to publish them?
You can only be in contempt of court if you disobey or fail to faithfully follow an order issued by the court. There is no such thing as an implied order either.
The cops likely wanted the photos before the story behind them could be written and once the cops had them, it would become part of a trial and therefore public record if used as evidence. Doing it like this would be giving any news organization the right to publish the photos without paying royalties. This guys real reason seems to be motivated by monetary losses and not the stated reasons. If the events played out like he says, he is in no more of a position of confidence than a tourist or random stranger. He had no special access to witness the fight. The only difference is that he won't get paid for the use of the photos if they become evidence.
Exactly, and this kind of general warrant that never expires was a prime reason for the 4th amendment. It was to specifically protect from these kinds of things that were common at the time.
It's concrete. They will not pour it all at once. Damns aren't even made that way because it would never harden correctly. The hoover dam for instance is 726 feet high with tubing behind and through it.
But we are talking the depths of several orders deeper. It's more like 69-70 atmospheres at 700 meters. This isn't virgin territory though. We have DSVs or Deep-submergence vehicles capable of going deeper with humans on board too.
A simple way to build this would be to set some barges up, use them to float it, build it in sections and lower the sections as they become heavy to allow the displacement of water to lighted the load a bit. All the pipes and tubing can be added as this goes on in a relatively easy fashion. It wouldn't be overly complicated. It then get floated to the destination, dropped and anchored, then wired up.
Firefox's problem is that they do not listen to actual users and their social agenda which many find distrusting (the entire Brendan Eich thing and the SJW rules in rust code of conduct).
I somewhat stopped evangelizing it a bit earlier when it became bloaty and started straying from the light and fast browser it used to be. Chrome filled the gap nicely and I became use to it from various android devices so I didn't need to relearn or re-familiarize myself with the layout every other release. Right now, I will use either, but if asked, I recommend Chrome over Firefox because of it's default on other devices and I know the agenda with google (you are the product not consumer).
Why would they build it underwater? It could be built at the water's surface or even on dry land and floated to the location. All they would need to do is sink it then anchor it to the bottom or whatever depth they wish to keep it.
Although a slightly different set of complexities, it wouldn't be much different than building a boat or submarine.
Oil and coal power generation is usually always base load with natural gas or some other fuel including hydroelectric adding demand capacity where available.Of course hydroelectric also provides base load too. You do not really see powering up and down of coal/nuclear facilities outside of maintenance.
I do not disagree with your premise though. This storage of energy fills a need just as you describe as well as preserving energy that would otherwise be lost if generated when not needed. That is one of the more complicated parts of wind and solar- having a need for the produced energy when the energy is produced or being able to store it for when it is needed. If this works out, it can go a long ways to making alternative energies more competitive on reliability and wouldn't need to be confined to just off shore farms as the same power lines to move the water can also return the power when it is in reverse and should be able to run as far as the service area of the generating stations. This makes it somewhat viable to create energy stores in the American Midwest with the great lakes servicing on shore wind and solar farms.
You are comparing the king of a third world country to the meager existence of a poor person with no assets trying to get by on Social Security. It doesn't matter that you used words like King- it is still the same shit experience sometimes. We are not the third world and we become accustomed to better qualities of life. It really is that simple. Even in prison in the US, people live better quality of life than some third world people have it.
As for Prison medical care, for the working poor in the US, it can still be better or more medical care then they currently receive. Even with Obamacare, the plans have deductibles so high that almost no one uses it to the point of benefiting them unless something major happens. They either walk it off or wait until they cannot ignore it any more just like they did before Obamacare except now they either pay for something they do not use or have their tax refunds confiscated for the privilege of being a citizen. Prison medical care is likely more than they get currently or no different than they would normally receive.
Obamacare did little to change access to care for a lot of working people. It mostly changed access to coverage which in some cases hurt more than it helped.
A 60 year old couldn't touch anything other than a run down trailer sitting on some mud-hole they rent for 4k. More likely it would be ten times that amount for an old 3 bedroom A frame that costs more to heat in the winter than your mortgage payment.
The problem here is that when they (and I) were young, minimum wages jobs were only stepping stones held by teenagers looking for extra cash and people needing to prove or establish their work ethics and move on to bigger and better paying jobs. They were not careers you worked your entire life at or expected to work without raises for 10 or more years. There used to be jobs available that an unskilled worker could obtain and be trained on the job and work their way up in pay. It was expensive to train people so someone who has held the same job for a year or two in good standing was prefered over someone who has had 15 jobs in the last 3 years or no prior job experience. This isn't true as much any more for a variety of reasons but the better jobs aren't as available primarily due to offshoring and increased costs of doing business from regulatory and taxing costs.
It's is false to say more money that gets hoarded by the top X%, the less that flows into buying things like houses, cars, clothes, vacations, gadgets, etc. That assumes that money and wealth is finite and it has to be shared among existing people. First, the top X% doesn't hoard their money under a mattress or in a hole by the shed. They invest it into other ventures and loans for a return. When theses ventures create wealth at a value, more money is essentially created in that either more money is printed to match the value of the dollar or the value actually increases (deflation).
If your job is essentially providing a service that take wealth from one place and moves it to another, it creates only value and not wealth (fast food employee, lawyer, accountant, regulatory compliance and so on) . If your job is taking trees and processing them into sticks of lumber that in turn build things, it is creating wealth as well as value (although at the expense of natural resources). So is building the houses and so on.
What needs to change is not how much money people at the top hoard, get taxed, or how much the people at the bottom are required to be paid, but how the entire system is currently working. What needs to change is that more jobs need to create wealth instead of just value. This entire situation corrects itself in short order when that happens. Every generation can likely look back and find times when things were better, when nostalgia says we need a return to when it was great again. When there were more opportunities for higher paying jobs, when you didn't need to work 90 hours a week to maintain being in the middle class. Every generation can find times similar to this and one thing in common is that a lot of the jobs created wealth- they made a tangible product whether is was taking raw steel or aluminum and ending up with a car, digging holes in the ground mining coal, or building houses, picking cotton and turning it into a shirt or window treatment or whatever. While it is still found, it is a lot less than it used to be.
If only a US social security recipient lived in the third world.... Well that would be kind of pointless because if it didn't exist, the third world country would be recreated within a sub part of the US.
As for the " white bread upbringing".. You must be delusional. Sure people have gone up but it doesn't mean everyone has. I have had more opportunities when I was younger to find work than kids today mostly due to increased regulation and child labor laws and general work ethics. Even then, I know a lot of people who didn't make out as well as I did and will be relying on the old SSI and the lottery for their retirement if they live long enough.
Doctors aren't really an issue either. In my 40+ years of life, I have only went to a doctor for broken bones and stitches until recently when I decided to control my blood pressure and sugar. Prison doctors can handle that just fine and it will likely be more than they get now without a charge.
Access to firearms do not suggest any sizable increase in suicide rates. It seems that areas with some really strict gun restrictions have higher suicide rates than countries like the US. There are also some correlation to social and societal differences but even those have some mixed results.
You knowing people who failed to do the job is probably typical but not a counter argument to the availability of guns. It would seem that it doesn't matter a whole lot and other factors are far more influential.
It's an idiot's crime unless it is your retirement plan. Wait until you are 65 or so or cannot keep a job any longer, Go on bank robbing spree, spending and enjoying yourself until you get caught, then have the state give you 3 hots and a cot for the rest of your natural life. If they release you earlier, rinse and repeat.
Truthfully, its a more sound retirement strategy than social security and the lottery that a lot of people rely on. You will likely have a better quality of life in the process if you don't mind a girlfriend named Chad.
You are talking about one person of hundreds or perhaps thousands. If the code is getting updated, someone who uses it will wonder what X- added last week does and will it impact his use of the code. You can be the 30,000th person 5 years later to use the code and if you can use google, you can find someone sounding the alarm. This code will be scrutinized very well considering where it came from and the already skeptical approach so many people are taking with it..
Your point is lost on the fact that there is nothing illegal about being religious if you do not commit illegal acts. People are responsible for their own actions but the question is not of an action but of a choice which might not be valid depending on how they are brainwashed into their belief systems. Religion is often not a choice at all for some people unless you can somehow undo the brainwashing with your own.
Your judgement should be different specifically because religion is not illegal and it would take a constitutional amendment in order to make it so. This country was founded on the belief that you can have whatever religious beliefs you wanted and it is enshrined in the first protections against government intrusion right there with the freedom of speech. For you to discriminate against someone for any legal act they participate in is still discrimination just the same as it would be to deny services to gays or blacks or some other minorities.
Neither did those people. As far as I know, it isn't legal in Iran either but even if it was, does the threat of it stop more people from being victims of it or the legality/illegality of it?
Let me ask you another question, how many times does a mother have to tell a child a stove is hot? Some children will need told once while some will have to touch it and find out for themselves. Does the consequences of the action deter the behavior for those who take someone's word for it?
"The code represented here is the sole property in origination of acts commissioned by the United States government and thereby not owned or copyrighted by anyone else at the time of original posting unless documented within the code listed."
Now the difference between this type of code with your license verses windows or mac or anything else is that they have already asserted copyright over the works in question. All we have at this government site is works claimed not to be copyright-able or public domain in which you couldn't attach a license to legally without otherwise expressing ownership in some way. Declaring it's origination as a public domain stops anyone from copyrighting or trying to and claiming to be the originator of the code (to sneak in a copyright in a foreign land that by treaty could be asserted). Or in other words, it is completely different to claim I own something you have already copyrighted than it is to assert a copyright on something without a copyright yet. So with international copyright rules (even US rules), an implied copyright is granted at origination of the work and this would specify the origination preempting others from trying to do so.
It would still need a statement of origination of some sort implying copyright or ineligibility for others to copyright it to some degree.
Otherwise, I could take the code, claim copyright, then go back and sue everyone else who mistakenly used it. Perhaps I can convince a judge I own the copyright perhaps not. Copyright is an artificial right granted by law that doesn't make exceptions for when you thought you were legally in the clear because someone else gave you permission. It is entirely possible people would rather pay a royalty than fight the claim. It is how trolls survive.
You will be able to see and detect changes and determine what they do. But you cannot add back doors to the code in my possession simply by putting it on a website that I at one time in the past - pulled the code from.
If I take a piece of code, add to it, then use it, there is no reason to return to the original code other than to see what changes there are and determine if I want to incorporate those changes into my version of the program. All it takes is a diff to see whats been added. If you cannot understand what was added, you probably won't be using the code and using someone else version of it anyways. but back doors being added should be spotted quickly and easily if people are actually using the code.
You obviously have no clue about religion. People born into some religions have absolutely no choice in the matter and not only do they face whatever consequences they were brainwashed to believe if they disobey it, they can also face physical harm and even death by changing their religion.
Just because you happened to grow up in a time and place where you are not honor killed for disobeying some skywizzard or the teachings of an illiterate pedophile trying to spread the word of Christianity and fucking it up into a third branch of of the jewish faith that hates other jews for not being bullshit enough doesn't mean that real people in other circumstances don't have mortal fears involved with it.
And yes, you are promoting discrimination. You are no different than the klan member who will not give a business loan or scholarship or job to anyone with an address in the hood (because they chose to live in a poor part of town with a lot of minorities). You are no different than the redneck who wants you to drink from a different fountain or enter the restaurant through the side door so his appetite isn't spoiled by knowing you are near when they chose to get uppity and expect to be treated equally. It is discrimination by definition, just because you don't care about that kind of discrimination doesn't make it any different. Separate but equal was the law of the land at one time. Thankfully, a lot of people stopped thinking like you.
At my local cable office, its just a 20 minute drive and 10 minutes at the window. I'm not sure why you think it will be 3-4 hours but the tech support numbers you call usually do not dial into the local office but some call center. Maybe finding the local office number and calling them direct might help you.. Otherwise, pay the rental fee I guess- there is nothing it seems you are willing to do to avoid it.
I was told that if you cannot dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit. I'm guessing you couldn't tell the two apart if you were flipping a coin trying to be correct 50% of the time.
All morons will have to suffer the rule of the "elite learn-ed" so why do they not deserve a say in what will impact their lives? Who cares if they picked something other than what you think they should, it means nothing more than you were not smart enough to convince a moron by your own definition that your way is best. IS this what all this animosity is about? Do you hate the world because you realized you are not as good as you thought you were due to the fact that you couldn't convince what you thought was morons to do something you think they should have?
So MR learned person, here is a question about the US constitution and the bill of rights ( the Universal Declaration of Human Rights means shit in this respect) for you, where does it say it protects the right to abortions? If you can actually answer that- which I doubt you can, you will see how it is a largely misleading and an outdated association which can be easily or eventually undone due to Obamacare and the insistence of government provided medical care (single payer which this all seems to be leading to).
Had a similar situation at a customer's location in the US a while back (about 9 years ago). In my case, I called the state public utilities commission who actually came out and ran a few tests of their own, then insisted on the telco returning and validating their checks with his. Turns out they installed a bridge tap on the line which caused issues with the ADSL. The PUCO person knew what was up right off the bat but had to give the telco a chance to discover it or something. The telco was given 3 days to remedy the situation or face fines but they had it up and running by the end of the day.
The Telco is not always they last option. I'm not sure about the structure in Canada with Telus but there should be a local and higher regulatory governance board overseeing the telco's operation as it pertains to the public interest. Don't be afraid of going to them or even telling Telus that you are going to start making complaints to them if it isn't fixed properly. Well, that is assuming Canada has something like this within their system. In the US, every state and often local municipalities have this as well as the federal government. The closer to home you start, the more likely you will get action from someone on your behalf. But you will have to find what avenues are available to your own circumstances.
In my area, when charter took over and labeled it spectrum, you needed to replace your cable modem to get the better speeds. This invoked the modem rental fee. Of course there are recommended cable modems you can purchase but you need to ensure it complies with docsis 3.0 and likely want to ensure it has a built in gigabit router for wireless and other connectivity. Something like the NetGear CM600 would do.
Call your local office or just stop into it. I guess I'm lucky and live in an area that cable hasn't even reached yet (stops just half mile down the road) but I've dealt with cable internet for quite a while now. I guess my area is still small enough that I can actually reach people and I have some numbers for their techs programmed in my phone when I log into the modem and see signal strengths out of whack which usually required a trip from a tech to fix cabling or a spliter or something..
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Not only did I read the summery, I read the article. But thanks for not reading the parent post who asked if this would hurt or help Geek Squad's business.
The answer to this as I stated is that a lot of people do not think they have anything to worry about because "if you have nothing to hide" and they will be oblivious about this article and its implications when they take their computers into best buy to get them fixed..The people in the know, are people who already would go somewhere else or do it themselves so it wouldn't likely affect their business at all.
If you have nothing to hide, why should it matter either way?
Actually, it will likely not impact them at all because anyone who gives a fuck and knows about this likely wouldn't be taking their computers to the geek squad in the first place.
More interesting though might be a labor claim that Best Buy might have against these employees if they pocketed the cash and where working on the clock while doing the FBI's bidding. I don't know how it would be different than a company claiming ownership of a program you wrote on their resources while on the clock at their job.
Why would it be contempt of court? Was he ordered not to publish them?
You can only be in contempt of court if you disobey or fail to faithfully follow an order issued by the court. There is no such thing as an implied order either.
The cops likely wanted the photos before the story behind them could be written and once the cops had them, it would become part of a trial and therefore public record if used as evidence. Doing it like this would be giving any news organization the right to publish the photos without paying royalties. This guys real reason seems to be motivated by monetary losses and not the stated reasons. If the events played out like he says, he is in no more of a position of confidence than a tourist or random stranger. He had no special access to witness the fight. The only difference is that he won't get paid for the use of the photos if they become evidence.
Exactly, and this kind of general warrant that never expires was a prime reason for the 4th amendment. It was to specifically protect from these kinds of things that were common at the time.
It's concrete. They will not pour it all at once. Damns aren't even made that way because it would never harden correctly. The hoover dam for instance is 726 feet high with tubing behind and through it.
But we are talking the depths of several orders deeper. It's more like 69-70 atmospheres at 700 meters. This isn't virgin territory though. We have DSVs or Deep-submergence vehicles capable of going deeper with humans on board too.
A simple way to build this would be to set some barges up, use them to float it, build it in sections and lower the sections as they become heavy to allow the displacement of water to lighted the load a bit. All the pipes and tubing can be added as this goes on in a relatively easy fashion. It wouldn't be overly complicated. It then get floated to the destination, dropped and anchored, then wired up.
Firefox's problem is that they do not listen to actual users and their social agenda which many find distrusting (the entire Brendan Eich thing and the SJW rules in rust code of conduct).
I somewhat stopped evangelizing it a bit earlier when it became bloaty and started straying from the light and fast browser it used to be. Chrome filled the gap nicely and I became use to it from various android devices so I didn't need to relearn or re-familiarize myself with the layout every other release. Right now, I will use either, but if asked, I recommend Chrome over Firefox because of it's default on other devices and I know the agenda with google (you are the product not consumer).
Why would they build it underwater? It could be built at the water's surface or even on dry land and floated to the location. All they would need to do is sink it then anchor it to the bottom or whatever depth they wish to keep it.
Although a slightly different set of complexities, it wouldn't be much different than building a boat or submarine.
Oil and coal power generation is usually always base load with natural gas or some other fuel including hydroelectric adding demand capacity where available.Of course hydroelectric also provides base load too. You do not really see powering up and down of coal/nuclear facilities outside of maintenance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I do not disagree with your premise though. This storage of energy fills a need just as you describe as well as preserving energy that would otherwise be lost if generated when not needed. That is one of the more complicated parts of wind and solar- having a need for the produced energy when the energy is produced or being able to store it for when it is needed. If this works out, it can go a long ways to making alternative energies more competitive on reliability and wouldn't need to be confined to just off shore farms as the same power lines to move the water can also return the power when it is in reverse and should be able to run as far as the service area of the generating stations. This makes it somewhat viable to create energy stores in the American Midwest with the great lakes servicing on shore wind and solar farms.
You are comparing the king of a third world country to the meager existence of a poor person with no assets trying to get by on Social Security. It doesn't matter that you used words like King- it is still the same shit experience sometimes. We are not the third world and we become accustomed to better qualities of life. It really is that simple. Even in prison in the US, people live better quality of life than some third world people have it.
As for Prison medical care, for the working poor in the US, it can still be better or more medical care then they currently receive. Even with Obamacare, the plans have deductibles so high that almost no one uses it to the point of benefiting them unless something major happens. They either walk it off or wait until they cannot ignore it any more just like they did before Obamacare except now they either pay for something they do not use or have their tax refunds confiscated for the privilege of being a citizen. Prison medical care is likely more than they get currently or no different than they would normally receive.
Obamacare did little to change access to care for a lot of working people. It mostly changed access to coverage which in some cases hurt more than it helped.
A 60 year old couldn't touch anything other than a run down trailer sitting on some mud-hole they rent for 4k. More likely it would be ten times that amount for an old 3 bedroom A frame that costs more to heat in the winter than your mortgage payment.
The problem here is that when they (and I) were young, minimum wages jobs were only stepping stones held by teenagers looking for extra cash and people needing to prove or establish their work ethics and move on to bigger and better paying jobs. They were not careers you worked your entire life at or expected to work without raises for 10 or more years. There used to be jobs available that an unskilled worker could obtain and be trained on the job and work their way up in pay. It was expensive to train people so someone who has held the same job for a year or two in good standing was prefered over someone who has had 15 jobs in the last 3 years or no prior job experience. This isn't true as much any more for a variety of reasons but the better jobs aren't as available primarily due to offshoring and increased costs of doing business from regulatory and taxing costs.
It's is false to say more money that gets hoarded by the top X%, the less that flows into buying things like houses, cars, clothes, vacations, gadgets, etc. That assumes that money and wealth is finite and it has to be shared among existing people. First, the top X% doesn't hoard their money under a mattress or in a hole by the shed. They invest it into other ventures and loans for a return. When theses ventures create wealth at a value, more money is essentially created in that either more money is printed to match the value of the dollar or the value actually increases (deflation).
If your job is essentially providing a service that take wealth from one place and moves it to another, it creates only value and not wealth (fast food employee, lawyer, accountant, regulatory compliance and so on) . If your job is taking trees and processing them into sticks of lumber that in turn build things, it is creating wealth as well as value (although at the expense of natural resources). So is building the houses and so on.
What needs to change is not how much money people at the top hoard, get taxed, or how much the people at the bottom are required to be paid, but how the entire system is currently working. What needs to change is that more jobs need to create wealth instead of just value. This entire situation corrects itself in short order when that happens. Every generation can likely look back and find times when things were better, when nostalgia says we need a return to when it was great again. When there were more opportunities for higher paying jobs, when you didn't need to work 90 hours a week to maintain being in the middle class. Every generation can find times similar to this and one thing in common is that a lot of the jobs created wealth- they made a tangible product whether is was taking raw steel or aluminum and ending up with a car, digging holes in the ground mining coal, or building houses, picking cotton and turning it into a shirt or window treatment or whatever. While it is still found, it is a lot less than it used to be.
If only a US social security recipient lived in the third world.... Well that would be kind of pointless because if it didn't exist, the third world country would be recreated within a sub part of the US.
As for the " white bread upbringing".. You must be delusional. Sure people have gone up but it doesn't mean everyone has. I have had more opportunities when I was younger to find work than kids today mostly due to increased regulation and child labor laws and general work ethics. Even then, I know a lot of people who didn't make out as well as I did and will be relying on the old SSI and the lottery for their retirement if they live long enough.
Doctors aren't really an issue either. In my 40+ years of life, I have only went to a doctor for broken bones and stitches until recently when I decided to control my blood pressure and sugar. Prison doctors can handle that just fine and it will likely be more than they get now without a charge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Access to firearms do not suggest any sizable increase in suicide rates. It seems that areas with some really strict gun restrictions have higher suicide rates than countries like the US. There are also some correlation to social and societal differences but even those have some mixed results.
You knowing people who failed to do the job is probably typical but not a counter argument to the availability of guns. It would seem that it doesn't matter a whole lot and other factors are far more influential.
It's an idiot's crime unless it is your retirement plan. Wait until you are 65 or so or cannot keep a job any longer, Go on bank robbing spree, spending and enjoying yourself until you get caught, then have the state give you 3 hots and a cot for the rest of your natural life. If they release you earlier, rinse and repeat.
Truthfully, its a more sound retirement strategy than social security and the lottery that a lot of people rely on. You will likely have a better quality of life in the process if you don't mind a girlfriend named Chad.
You are talking about one person of hundreds or perhaps thousands. If the code is getting updated, someone who uses it will wonder what X- added last week does and will it impact his use of the code. You can be the 30,000th person 5 years later to use the code and if you can use google, you can find someone sounding the alarm. This code will be scrutinized very well considering where it came from and the already skeptical approach so many people are taking with it..
Your point is lost on the fact that there is nothing illegal about being religious if you do not commit illegal acts. People are responsible for their own actions but the question is not of an action but of a choice which might not be valid depending on how they are brainwashed into their belief systems. Religion is often not a choice at all for some people unless you can somehow undo the brainwashing with your own.
Your judgement should be different specifically because religion is not illegal and it would take a constitutional amendment in order to make it so. This country was founded on the belief that you can have whatever religious beliefs you wanted and it is enshrined in the first protections against government intrusion right there with the freedom of speech. For you to discriminate against someone for any legal act they participate in is still discrimination just the same as it would be to deny services to gays or blacks or some other minorities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Neither did those people. As far as I know, it isn't legal in Iran either but even if it was, does the threat of it stop more people from being victims of it or the legality/illegality of it?
Let me ask you another question, how many times does a mother have to tell a child a stove is hot? Some children will need told once while some will have to touch it and find out for themselves. Does the consequences of the action deter the behavior for those who take someone's word for it?
Some wording-
"The code represented here is the sole property in origination of acts commissioned by the United States government and thereby not owned or copyrighted by anyone else at the time of original posting unless documented within the code listed."
Now the difference between this type of code with your license verses windows or mac or anything else is that they have already asserted copyright over the works in question. All we have at this government site is works claimed not to be copyright-able or public domain in which you couldn't attach a license to legally without otherwise expressing ownership in some way. Declaring it's origination as a public domain stops anyone from copyrighting or trying to and claiming to be the originator of the code (to sneak in a copyright in a foreign land that by treaty could be asserted). Or in other words, it is completely different to claim I own something you have already copyrighted than it is to assert a copyright on something without a copyright yet. So with international copyright rules (even US rules), an implied copyright is granted at origination of the work and this would specify the origination preempting others from trying to do so.
It would still need a statement of origination of some sort implying copyright or ineligibility for others to copyright it to some degree.
Otherwise, I could take the code, claim copyright, then go back and sue everyone else who mistakenly used it. Perhaps I can convince a judge I own the copyright perhaps not. Copyright is an artificial right granted by law that doesn't make exceptions for when you thought you were legally in the clear because someone else gave you permission. It is entirely possible people would rather pay a royalty than fight the claim. It is how trolls survive.
Do you know how code works?
You will be able to see and detect changes and determine what they do. But you cannot add back doors to the code in my possession simply by putting it on a website that I at one time in the past - pulled the code from.
If I take a piece of code, add to it, then use it, there is no reason to return to the original code other than to see what changes there are and determine if I want to incorporate those changes into my version of the program. All it takes is a diff to see whats been added. If you cannot understand what was added, you probably won't be using the code and using someone else version of it anyways. but back doors being added should be spotted quickly and easily if people are actually using the code.
You obviously have no clue about religion. People born into some religions have absolutely no choice in the matter and not only do they face whatever consequences they were brainwashed to believe if they disobey it, they can also face physical harm and even death by changing their religion.
Just because you happened to grow up in a time and place where you are not honor killed for disobeying some skywizzard or the teachings of an illiterate pedophile trying to spread the word of Christianity and fucking it up into a third branch of of the jewish faith that hates other jews for not being bullshit enough doesn't mean that real people in other circumstances don't have mortal fears involved with it.
And yes, you are promoting discrimination. You are no different than the klan member who will not give a business loan or scholarship or job to anyone with an address in the hood (because they chose to live in a poor part of town with a lot of minorities). You are no different than the redneck who wants you to drink from a different fountain or enter the restaurant through the side door so his appetite isn't spoiled by knowing you are near when they chose to get uppity and expect to be treated equally. It is discrimination by definition, just because you don't care about that kind of discrimination doesn't make it any different. Separate but equal was the law of the land at one time. Thankfully, a lot of people stopped thinking like you.
Then I guess it is worth paying them rental then.
At my local cable office, its just a 20 minute drive and 10 minutes at the window. I'm not sure why you think it will be 3-4 hours but the tech support numbers you call usually do not dial into the local office but some call center. Maybe finding the local office number and calling them direct might help you.. Otherwise, pay the rental fee I guess- there is nothing it seems you are willing to do to avoid it.
I was told that if you cannot dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit. I'm guessing you couldn't tell the two apart if you were flipping a coin trying to be correct 50% of the time.
All morons will have to suffer the rule of the "elite learn-ed" so why do they not deserve a say in what will impact their lives? Who cares if they picked something other than what you think they should, it means nothing more than you were not smart enough to convince a moron by your own definition that your way is best. IS this what all this animosity is about? Do you hate the world because you realized you are not as good as you thought you were due to the fact that you couldn't convince what you thought was morons to do something you think they should have?
So MR learned person, here is a question about the
US constitution and the bill of rights ( the Universal Declaration of Human Rights means shit in this respect) for you, where does it say it protects the right to abortions? If you can actually answer that- which I doubt you can, you will see how it is a largely misleading and an outdated association which can be easily or eventually undone due to Obamacare and the insistence of government provided medical care (single payer which this all seems to be leading to).
I'm waiting to marvel at your knowledge.
Had a similar situation at a customer's location in the US a while back (about 9 years ago). In my case, I called the state public utilities commission who actually came out and ran a few tests of their own, then insisted on the telco returning and validating their checks with his. Turns out they installed a bridge tap on the line which caused issues with the ADSL. The PUCO person knew what was up right off the bat but had to give the telco a chance to discover it or something. The telco was given 3 days to remedy the situation or face fines but they had it up and running by the end of the day.
The Telco is not always they last option. I'm not sure about the structure in Canada with Telus but there should be a local and higher regulatory governance board overseeing the telco's operation as it pertains to the public interest. Don't be afraid of going to them or even telling Telus that you are going to start making complaints to them if it isn't fixed properly. Well, that is assuming Canada has something like this within their system. In the US, every state and often local municipalities have this as well as the federal government. The closer to home you start, the more likely you will get action from someone on your behalf. But you will have to find what avenues are available to your own circumstances.
In my area, when charter took over and labeled it spectrum, you needed to replace your cable modem to get the better speeds. This invoked the modem rental fee. Of course there are recommended cable modems you can purchase but you need to ensure it complies with docsis 3.0 and likely want to ensure it has a built in gigabit router for wireless and other connectivity. Something like the NetGear CM600 would do.
Call your local office or just stop into it. I guess I'm lucky and live in an area that cable hasn't even reached yet (stops just half mile down the road) but I've dealt with cable internet for quite a while now. I guess my area is still small enough that I can actually reach people and I have some numbers for their techs programmed in my phone when I log into the modem and see signal strengths out of whack which usually required a trip from a tech to fix cabling or a spliter or something..
You mean taxis? Because Uber is more or less a taxi service with regular people using their cars they own as the taxi.
I'm not sure you thought that comment out enough. Or do you think we can do away with farms because food comes from the grocery stores?