That's how it's different. I don't think the OP is oblivious of what's going on in the world. It's a matter of the government spending resources on meddling in foreign affairs we should be leaving alone. Especially when it would be beneficial to our own country as well.
No, the OP took the "why interfere in foreign matters instead of improving our own country" stance. As others have said, our best move in the situation is to observe. Maybe a little cheerleading, but nothing beyond that. Especially considering they don't really need our government's help to circumvent the attempted Internet filtering, they're doing a fine job of that on their own...
I believe I read somewhere that they claimed it was a "per-upload" infraction. So it's something like she uploaded 24 songs something like 27,000 at $70 per violation.
They might go with more of a phone bill style instead (since we're using capacity and not consuming resources). Which means it'd probably go something like:
$9.99 per month + $.001 per megabyte
These are random guesses, not sure what a reasonable 'usage rate' would be.
But I'm with you, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like that style of billing.
That was my first reaction also. I've never seen a flat on any of my utilities. This would almost bring us back to the older billing schemes that AOL used of $X per month plus $Y per minute. The difference being instead of minutes, it's be charging per byte.
Who would ever put numbers before an area code? Sounds like an idea foreigners would come up with!
On a more serious note, they (the phone company) already do this type of thing. When I was growing up, it was 7-digit dialing, but the number capacity reached and they had to overlay area codes, forcing us all into 10-digit dialing. There was a little bit of backlash at the time, but nobody really cares now.
They probably ignore the mail, but flag you as a well. The government seems to be a fan of the "if you have nothing to hide, then why can't I see everything" mindset.
Despite the FCC's claim about automated dialers calling wireless phones, they will just send you a letter that they didn't find any infractions and cite a 1934 communications act. I received that letter (yesterday) when I reported a company using an automated dialer and recorded message inform me that all of my credit cards were in danger.
I think the only reason this one had any action was because it had received national notice when a call came through to a senator, interrupting the water boarding hearings in Congress last month. The national news covered it (briefly), and the FCC was questioned about it.
Sony needs to fix/standardize their online gaming network in a bad way. I shouldn't have to poke holes through the firewall on a per-game basis to play online with my PS3 if the standard PSN ports are already open. Plus, I had to create a full Konami account on top of my PSN account to play MGS Online, which seemed redundant to me.
No, but thanks for twisting my words to make it sound like that.
If I didn't know the pictures source besides a name, and the kid wasn't in the bathtub, yea, I'd be skeptical of a picture of a naked kid. But that's just me. Should the lady have been arrested? No. That's why I said the cops fucked up their job.
Yea, that's why we called it "swine flu" even through it wasn't present in swine at the time (or, from what I read, transmittable by ingestion). After all, it's not like it could possibly cause a baseless backlash against the porkindustry.
Why are you painting Walmart as the bad guy? You think the person developing the film knew whose film it was? They probably picked it out of a drop box, and saw pictures of a 3 year old girl in a bathtub. I'd be concerned if they didn't act on these photos. Yea, this time it turned out it was the grandparent's pictures, but next time it could be "creepy neighbor #4," and the kid isn't his. Or maybe it is, I hear a lot of sexual molestation cases happen within the family.
When something like that comes up, yea, I think it should be looked into. The police, on the other hand, didn't do their jobs very well. That's where I think the system is flawed.
There seem to be a lot of Seattle, WA people saying theirs works just fine. So I'm willing to say that it's likely an error on the part of the two people claiming it's happening to them. Perhaps there's a nameserver built into a nat/firewall device that's returning a non-authoritative answer when the target nameserver doesn't respond.
More like intercepting traffic that isn't destined for Comcast as if it were. You're not attempting to contact Comcast in any way, but that's where the traffic is ending up.
Let's say Comcast, for some reason, suddenly decides that your site should no longer be reachable (by name), they could start intercepting DNS requests for your site and returning domain not found. Or worse, redirecting you to a site they find more "suitable."
In all fairness, to date, I haven't come across a violent game where the violence can be directed at innocent children. The closest one I've seen is Bioshock's 'Harvesting' option which just fades the screen to black and maybe Fallout 3's one child enslaving mission (not violent, but still crime against a child).
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That's how it's different. I don't think the OP is oblivious of what's going on in the world. It's a matter of the government spending resources on meddling in foreign affairs we should be leaving alone. Especially when it would be beneficial to our own country as well.
No, the OP took the "why interfere in foreign matters instead of improving our own country" stance. As others have said, our best move in the situation is to observe. Maybe a little cheerleading, but nothing beyond that. Especially considering they don't really need our government's help to circumvent the attempted Internet filtering, they're doing a fine job of that on their own...
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I don't mean to alarm you, but your second wife may just be a man posing as a woman.
Silly Slashdotter, Google already supports Klingon. (Among other important language like "Bork! Bork! Bork!, Pirate and Hacker)
I believe I read somewhere that they claimed it was a "per-upload" infraction. So it's something like she uploaded 24 songs something like 27,000 at $70 per violation.
They might go with more of a phone bill style instead (since we're using capacity and not consuming resources). Which means it'd probably go something like:
$9.99 per month + $.001 per megabyte
These are random guesses, not sure what a reasonable 'usage rate' would be. But I'm with you, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like that style of billing.
If only there were some sort of analogy that used trucks, or pipes that would help Congresscritters understand...
That was my first reaction also. I've never seen a flat on any of my utilities. This would almost bring us back to the older billing schemes that AOL used of $X per month plus $Y per minute. The difference being instead of minutes, it's be charging per byte.
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Who would ever put numbers before an area code? Sounds like an idea foreigners would come up with!
On a more serious note, they (the phone company) already do this type of thing. When I was growing up, it was 7-digit dialing, but the number capacity reached and they had to overlay area codes, forcing us all into 10-digit dialing. There was a little bit of backlash at the time, but nobody really cares now.
They probably ignore the mail, but flag you as a well. The government seems to be a fan of the "if you have nothing to hide, then why can't I see everything" mindset.
Every time accounting asks "Why are we paying these guys, they don't seem to do anything," you get 5 points.
Despite the FCC's claim about automated dialers calling wireless phones, they will just send you a letter that they didn't find any infractions and cite a 1934 communications act. I received that letter (yesterday) when I reported a company using an automated dialer and recorded message inform me that all of my credit cards were in danger.
I think the only reason this one had any action was because it had received national notice when a call came through to a senator, interrupting the water boarding hearings in Congress last month. The national news covered it (briefly), and the FCC was questioned about it.
Sony needs to fix/standardize their online gaming network in a bad way. I shouldn't have to poke holes through the firewall on a per-game basis to play online with my PS3 if the standard PSN ports are already open. Plus, I had to create a full Konami account on top of my PSN account to play MGS Online, which seemed redundant to me.
No, but thanks for twisting my words to make it sound like that.
If I didn't know the pictures source besides a name, and the kid wasn't in the bathtub, yea, I'd be skeptical of a picture of a naked kid. But that's just me. Should the lady have been arrested? No. That's why I said the cops fucked up their job.
Yea, that's why we called it "swine flu" even through it wasn't present in swine at the time (or, from what I read, transmittable by ingestion). After all, it's not like it could possibly cause a baseless backlash against the pork industry.
Erm.. do you mean PS3? PS2's are cheaper than Wiis and, well... last generation tech (graphics, cpu power, etc).
Why are you painting Walmart as the bad guy? You think the person developing the film knew whose film it was? They probably picked it out of a drop box, and saw pictures of a 3 year old girl in a bathtub. I'd be concerned if they didn't act on these photos. Yea, this time it turned out it was the grandparent's pictures, but next time it could be "creepy neighbor #4," and the kid isn't his. Or maybe it is, I hear a lot of sexual molestation cases happen within the family.
When something like that comes up, yea, I think it should be looked into. The police, on the other hand, didn't do their jobs very well. That's where I think the system is flawed.
And as The Sony Mylo with gaming. To be honest, I'd never even heard of the Mylo until I read that article...
Even from the demo at E3, Wii MotionPlus still looks little laggy. And a little input lag goes a long way in gaming.
And thats why nintendo kicks the crap out of the competition every generation.
The Playstation and Playstation 2 would like a word with you.
There seem to be a lot of Seattle, WA people saying theirs works just fine. So I'm willing to say that it's likely an error on the part of the two people claiming it's happening to them. Perhaps there's a nameserver built into a nat/firewall device that's returning a non-authoritative answer when the target nameserver doesn't respond.
Isn't that the point of this outrage?
More like intercepting traffic that isn't destined for Comcast as if it were. You're not attempting to contact Comcast in any way, but that's where the traffic is ending up.
Let's say Comcast, for some reason, suddenly decides that your site should no longer be reachable (by name), they could start intercepting DNS requests for your site and returning domain not found. Or worse, redirecting you to a site they find more "suitable."
In all fairness, to date, I haven't come across a violent game where the violence can be directed at innocent children. The closest one I've seen is Bioshock's 'Harvesting' option which just fades the screen to black and maybe Fallout 3's one child enslaving mission (not violent, but still crime against a child).
That was the whole point of the code. He was answering the GP's question "How can a computer 'add phantom ballots'?"
Or at least I hope that was his intention.