If T-mobile went to a 2gig cap, I'd be really considering just paying the early termination fees and going back to the laptop+hotspot. Life wouldn't end necessarily.
But if you have a contract, you wouldn't have to pay the early termination fees. If they materially change the contract, you may decline the new terms and terminate your contract immediately without penalty. Their only alternative is to allow you to continue at your current rate to the end of your contract.
With this in mind, how could this law firm prove that it was me that actually downloaded the movie? What with wifi and all them nasty stealers of bandwidth, exactly how could you prove to even a preponderance standard (the civil standard) that it was me who did the deed?
If necessary, they will do it the same way they did it with red light cameras. They will (through their duly purchased governmental representatives) make the owner of the connection that was used legally responsible for any content that passes through that connection.
An even worse problem is that Apple's followers don't seem to see a problem with Apple keeping the rules secret from the developers writing for Apple's platform.
I am a developer, although not for the iPhone. I personally do have a problem with Apple's actions and attitudes regarding the apps store and have since switched both phones and carriers in response.
A DNS Extension has been proposed that would allow the authoritative DNS server to see the originating IP address for the query in addition to the intermediate DNS server.
This was previously discussed here on slashdot as well.
If the publically broadcast television stations can't produce content that is any better or more locally relevant than a you tube video, then they deserve to fail.
Your ownership is no longer anonymous. Not only can they prevent you from purchasing another iPad (with that same credit card, or one with the same name), they know who owns that particular iPad.
But I can go down to the local megamart here and, using cash, buy as many anonymous Visa stored value gift cards as I want. How am I not anonymous now and how does Apple's policy limit me now?
No one stole anything. A worker left it laying around and from the stories I read, there was an attempt to return it but Apple was too stupid to take it.
It is sometimes better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
My wireless router filters devices by mac address.. if I understand it correctly, there's no way for it to be cracked into so long as the filters in my router are enabled. It recognizes my netbook, a skype phone, and an ipod that I own. All other devices will "see" the network but will not be able to access it.. if I understand the way it works correctly anyway.:)
If someone wants to use your network, they will capture packets so that they can see what MACs are authorized. They then alter the MAC address of their wireless card to be one of the authorized values and bob's your uncle.
I ran the command on the test page and the results are
C:\Documents and Settings\root\Desktop>dig +short rs.dns-oarc.net txt
'dig' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
It is an important reminder of just how ignorant most technology users are of the very tools they're using.
Just yesterday I asked a bunch of people who were wearing quartz watches two questions. First I asked what time it was, and second I asked how a quartz watch works. Oddly enough each and every one was able to tell me the time but not one of them could tell me how their watch worked. I guess that is also an important reminder of just how ignorant most technology users are of the very tools they're using.
Well, admitting to having bought an expensive item that was not the sellers (hot, though not stolen....), refusing to return it to the rightful owner, etc....
Thats like saying you get drunk in a bar, go to another bar, also get drunk, and forget where you parked your car. The car still had its keys in the ignition. It was taken for a joyride by a teenager that happened upon it. Now, here you were a drunken fool, and he was a bit of a dick for taking a car that showed no owner... Now say that car was the new prototype of a sports electric hybrid from Mercedes. Why, this teen decides to sell it to GM, to see if he can get some fun cash.... GM creams itself to pick apart the prototype, gleaming and cribbing a few ideas here and there for their new car, that they rapidly force into production, with its own version of the hot new features, before Mercedes releases its long awaited car. GM admits to having bought the car, saying how it now has access to excellent German designs. Investors are thrilled.
MB demands the return of its prototype, and GM laughs at them and states they bought it from a source that found the lost prototype, and had attempted to return it to a MB reseller to no avail, and therefore they did nothing wrong. MB contacts the police - who then seize the prototype, and all the computer files that might have documentation of the corporate theft....
Thank you very much sir. You have restored my faith in the slashdot readership. I was afraid I was going to make it to the bottom of this article without a single car analogy. Bless you.
I read and re-read the statement, then read what Michael Geist post about what it is supposed to mean and I don't get it. It seems Mr. Geist is twisting the words to try to make a hoopla where there is none.
It sounds to me like you do "get it" and just don't recognize that you do. Mr. Geist creates hoopla where there isn't any and in the process scores a bunch of page hits. He and his ilk are simply the "talk radio" hosts of the new decade.
I just found the shapes puzzling, got to wonder how the sunlight enters that first blue one with the spiral in it. It is an intresting idea, but I wonder if they are usable on a roof, some look like their would be really good at catching the wind (read blowing off).
According to TFA, they used genetic algorithms to evolve the design, so there really isn't a good explanation for the shapes. They just happen!
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But if you have a contract, you wouldn't have to pay the early termination fees. If they materially change the contract, you may decline the new terms and terminate your contract immediately without penalty. Their only alternative is to allow you to continue at your current rate to the end of your contract.
Apparently it's news to samzenpus, which doesn't say much for the editorial staff here.
If necessary, they will do it the same way they did it with red light cameras. They will (through their duly purchased governmental representatives) make the owner of the connection that was used legally responsible for any content that passes through that connection.
I am a developer, although not for the iPhone. I personally do have a problem with Apple's actions and attitudes regarding the apps store and have since switched both phones and carriers in response.
A DNS Extension has been proposed that would allow the authoritative DNS server to see the originating IP address for the query in addition to the intermediate DNS server. This was previously discussed here on slashdot as well.
BFF? What an unfortunate choice of acronyms.
If the publically broadcast television stations can't produce content that is any better or more locally relevant than a you tube video, then they deserve to fail.
But I can go down to the local megamart here and, using cash, buy as many anonymous Visa stored value gift cards as I want. How am I not anonymous now and how does Apple's policy limit me now?
A software patent trial outside of East Texas? How will the court system ever know how to handle such a thing?
Funny but the first time I read this I thought it said orifice.
Me too. Maybe Google can just give each country a copy of the hard drives so they can destroy them properly.
Like they would care.
Seriously? Have you ever worked with evidence techs?
It is sometimes better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
If someone wants to use your network, they will capture packets so that they can see what MACs are authorized. They then alter the MAC address of their wireless card to be one of the authorized values and bob's your uncle.
Yeah, but the month is early and kdawson has not yet begun to post.
I ran the command on the test page and the results are
C:\Documents and Settings\root\Desktop>dig +short rs.dns-oarc.net txt
'dig' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
What does that mean?
Just yesterday I asked a bunch of people who were wearing quartz watches two questions. First I asked what time it was, and second I asked how a quartz watch works. Oddly enough each and every one was able to tell me the time but not one of them could tell me how their watch worked. I guess that is also an important reminder of just how ignorant most technology users are of the very tools they're using.
What, and put all of those politicians out of a job?
You left your terminal logged in and kdawson has been posting stories under your ID again.
Thank you very much sir. You have restored my faith in the slashdot readership. I was afraid I was going to make it to the bottom of this article without a single car analogy. Bless you.
It sounds to me like you do "get it" and just don't recognize that you do. Mr. Geist creates hoopla where there isn't any and in the process scores a bunch of page hits. He and his ilk are simply the "talk radio" hosts of the new decade.
According to TFA, they used genetic algorithms to evolve the design, so there really isn't a good explanation for the shapes. They just happen!
I see you've met our local judiciary.