Only if you take them to court, and good luck with that. If you don't think their contracts have been written to side with them in 99.9% of all disputes, I have a bridge to sell you.
To be fair, my very long-time account (since 2001) was once frozen, and I only had to call once and be on the phone for about two minutes to get it unfrozen. That said, I probably do trust Visa a smidge more than PayPal.
It's not like they have to prove it. All they have to do is say "we think you're doing this, so you'll either pay $45 more per month, stop tethering, or break your contract (and possibly owe us a hefty termination fee)."
What's your alternative? As far as I can tell, the options are between government intervention, or allowing the local telecoms and cable companies to continue to own the last mile. And really, the idea that "the government sucks so we should just avoid using it ever" is ridiculous. There are areas for which government intervention is called.
If you have a problem with how the government operates, the correct solution is to fix the government, not to sit back and watch the world burn.
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Who said I was acting like a lot of the work (though not all) was done in the US? I'm concerned with what's better for the internet now.
So rather than opening the lines to competition and potentially having dozens of ISPs to choose from, you'd let your choices continue to be between The Phone Company and The Cable Company?
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It's a little different when the other group is "almost every State in the world."
This is why I believe the government should own the lines and enforce competition through paid open access. (As if that'll ever happen in this country.)
Which means that what the US should want is the exact opposite of what this treaty does -- rather than prohibiting importation, we should be prohibiting all measures to prevent it.
This comment incorrectly assumes the the US Trade Representative in any way gives a shit about the American people.
Yeah, apparently I missed that these codes were generated from some sort of internet marketing exercise (probably getting the user to fill out a survey), so the idea was that after the user finished the survey, this URL would be accessed to generate a code. Unfortunately the server-side generation code behind that URL had little in the way of security. My points about randomness and a public web-accessible interface stand.
So then the problem is that the ID should have also been a random long alphanumeric string, like a longer YouTube video ID. Primary keys don't usually have to be integers and don't usually have to be sequential, they just have to be unique.
Random and pseudorandom are functionally equivalent under these circumstances. I think if you have access to the hardware states that seed the specific pseudorandom generator that generates the codes, Microsoft has already lost (and you're already root).
Was it just me or did they try to block access to the answers recently? It's not like that now but I could have sworn a couple of months ago they weren't showing the answers at all.
What's wrong with Experts Exchange is that they do that kind of shit.
Why weren't these codes completely random? Why don't they have a database of valid and used codes, where codes only get inserted when they're printed on cards that are then shipped to stores? Perhaps most importantly, why would you EVER have a public web-accessible interface to generate codes on the fly?
No, you're wrong. Net neutrality is a restriction that must be made on ISPs because they have a financial interest in using your connection to push their other products (streaming video, VOIP, etc.) at the expense of their competitors' products. Such a restriction can only be made via legislation.
Yet again politicians prove their willingness to completely ignore the interests of their constituents in favor of their financial backers. The real question is when are we going to stop letting companies buy politicians?
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Dude who posted them was from DMA Design, the original developers of GTA. They're now known as Rockstar North.
Microsoft, holding the internet back for the thousandth time.
Only if you take them to court, and good luck with that. If you don't think their contracts have been written to side with them in 99.9% of all disputes, I have a bridge to sell you.
I love how everything can be turned into a Dems vs. Repubs arguments. No wait, that other thing. Loathe.
Doesn't anyone else get that the Red vs. Blue thing is just a distraction from what's actually happening in government?
To be fair, my very long-time account (since 2001) was once frozen, and I only had to call once and be on the phone for about two minutes to get it unfrozen. That said, I probably do trust Visa a smidge more than PayPal.
Regulation? In the United States? Surely you jest...
It's not like they have to prove it. All they have to do is say "we think you're doing this, so you'll either pay $45 more per month, stop tethering, or break your contract (and possibly owe us a hefty termination fee)."
Who else could legally intervene, and how, without ownership, would such a monopoly be prevented in the future?
What's your alternative? As far as I can tell, the options are between government intervention, or allowing the local telecoms and cable companies to continue to own the last mile. And really, the idea that "the government sucks so we should just avoid using it ever" is ridiculous. There are areas for which government intervention is called.
If you have a problem with how the government operates, the correct solution is to fix the government, not to sit back and watch the world burn.
Who said I was acting like a lot of the work (though not all) was done in the US? I'm concerned with what's better for the internet now.
Let's play executive PR madlibs!
So rather than opening the lines to competition and potentially having dozens of ISPs to choose from, you'd let your choices continue to be between The Phone Company and The Cable Company?
It's a little different when the other group is "almost every State in the world."
This is why I believe the government should own the lines and enforce competition through paid open access. (As if that'll ever happen in this country.)
Whoa. Mod parent up.
Which means that what the US should want is the exact opposite of what this treaty does -- rather than prohibiting importation, we should be prohibiting all measures to prevent it.
This comment incorrectly assumes the the US Trade Representative in any way gives a shit about the American people.
Yeah, apparently I missed that these codes were generated from some sort of internet marketing exercise (probably getting the user to fill out a survey), so the idea was that after the user finished the survey, this URL would be accessed to generate a code. Unfortunately the server-side generation code behind that URL had little in the way of security. My points about randomness and a public web-accessible interface stand.
So then the problem is that the ID should have also been a random long alphanumeric string, like a longer YouTube video ID. Primary keys don't usually have to be integers and don't usually have to be sequential, they just have to be unique.
I don't even have to go looking for reasons to avoid Bioware or EA products nowadays, I just read the stories on Slashdot every ~6 months.
Random and pseudorandom are functionally equivalent under these circumstances. I think if you have access to the hardware states that seed the specific pseudorandom generator that generates the codes, Microsoft has already lost (and you're already root).
You'd think if they wanted to actually be sneaky about it they'd check the IP comes from a Google server as well.
Was it just me or did they try to block access to the answers recently? It's not like that now but I could have sworn a couple of months ago they weren't showing the answers at all.
What's wrong with Experts Exchange is that they do that kind of shit.
Why weren't these codes completely random? Why don't they have a database of valid and used codes, where codes only get inserted when they're printed on cards that are then shipped to stores? Perhaps most importantly, why would you EVER have a public web-accessible interface to generate codes on the fly?
No, you're wrong. Net neutrality is a restriction that must be made on ISPs because they have a financial interest in using your connection to push their other products (streaming video, VOIP, etc.) at the expense of their competitors' products. Such a restriction can only be made via legislation.
Yet again politicians prove their willingness to completely ignore the interests of their constituents in favor of their financial backers. The real question is when are we going to stop letting companies buy politicians?
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