Something I haven't seen many people mention lately is the legal immunity that common carrier status provides to the carrier against criminal content.
Aren't ISPs at risk of losing common carrier status if they start doing the things that NN proponents fear? If they do lose CC status, can't they then be held liable for illegal content traversing their networks? Seems like one major ISP CEO going to jail because his company is aiding and abetting the distribution of illicit imagery, or unlicensed software, or any other "criminal information," would be enough to stop the ISPs from not playing nice with our data. No?
You really have no idea what stuff costs, do you? In particular:
11. electrical utilities
So you think you can afford the cost of running a wire from your house all the way back to the generation plant? Let's not forget the transformers, safety mechanisms, rights-of-way, poles to erect or trenches to dig and pipes to lay. Not to mention the cost of mining or reclaiming copper, extruding it into wire, and wrapping it with insulation. No, you can't use that pole or pipe that's already there, because you didn't pay for it.
I guess really you ought to build your own generation plant as well; we can't have any electrons flowing to your house for which your own money is not responsible.
Not likely. At least in my state, you're in heaps more trouble if you shoot to injure rather than kill, as it undermines the "imminent threat" defense. If that operator has a gun and is any good with it, the OP will be dead, dead, dead.
The log jam here is at the point where the vinyl is pressed. There is an oversupply of content (or, rather, requests for pressings, i.e. logs) being served by too few manufacturing facilities (i.e. the river). Perhaps not the most apt metaphor, but not the worst.
Maybe it's just the temperature sensor, which is monitored by the system, so if there is any problem with the battery overheating, the safety does not trigger?
I'm pretty sure there's something to this. Periodically my iPhone 5S becomes hot enough to be very uncomfortable to hold while charging, and a power cycle cures the issue. Personally I think it's awfully daft to have something as important as a Li+ battery temperature sensor dependent upon the OS rather than being a separate, independent component.
Not "someone." "The person who sold it to me and still has my money" broke my toy. Hey, toy-seller, you want to come break my toy? Sure. Come on! Just give me back my money and we'll call it even.
If memory serves, that's because it was Michael Chertoff's company (you know, the Director of Homeland Security at the time) who sold the machines to the TSA.
What just blows my mind is how this is even possible. There should be somebody somewhere that signs the checks and goes "oh, you're the head of this government agency and you also own this company that you want the agency to buy from? Nope." In lesser circles I believe this would be considered a conflict of interest...
I think you accidentally a word. Assuming you meant "just stop paying the bill," how would you then recover from the economic bitch-slapping they'd hand you by turning your account over to a collections agency? How would you recover your credit rating? How would you get out from under the liens placed on your property due to nonpayment? I'm certain your contract's fine print exposes you to all sorts of nastiness should you fail to pay the piper.
Did you drop a zero? I haven't read the article, but $190/mo for 100/20 is super-cheap and not at all what I would expect for a commercial service. 'Round these parts, that kind of service would run you over $2,000/mo.
I think you missed an important point. It was not the owner who broke the rules, but a delegated operator (for lack of a better term). Your example would be more precise in saying your friend drove your car at 127 MPH through a school zone, therefore YOU are no longer allowed to operate your car (while your friend merrily goes on continuing to operate his own car).
It's more complicated than that, even, since the nephew in question was [probably?] operating under the uncle's username; if so, that does swing the Finger of Blame(TM) back toward the uncle somewhat for permitting someone else to use his account.
Still, my opinion is that it would be quite reasonable for Valve to block online multiplayer play for some period of time, but to prevent local gameplay is a major overstepping of reasonable bounds.
That said, I will undoubtedly continue to purchase Steam-powered games. Baaaaaaah.
It's not like computer storage where you can read the same data over and over without fear of tampering with the original content.
I give you SDRAM, wherein the read operation does indeed damage the stored data, so that the memory controller has to immediately rewrite any row it reads (not to mention the constant general refreshes).
A cable which can stretch. My parents have a Chrysler Grand Caravan which has an utterly useless parking brake; despite repeated tightenings, it's back to useless in short order (in this case I think it's the tensioning mechanism itself but still...cables stretch).
I mean, under the same logic, search warrants should be illegal because by letting someone into your house you'd be "self-incriminating". Doesn't work that way.
I'm already a bit lost in the jargon, but I think the key difference is whether extraction of knowledge is involved. To "let someone in your house," all you have to do is stand aside. To give up a password means revealing something that you know rather than possess.
I also think (my opinion now) that giving up of passwords under warrant is arguably reasonable. A warrant would be required, which puts the control in the hands of the court and not in those of the investigating officers.
This. Also I believe there is a law about "duly erected sign," at least in my state. In other words, where signs would generally be expected (stop, speed limit, etc), road markings alone have no enforceable meaning. Even if the line is painted with the word "STOP" beside it, if there's no sign, you don't have to stop.
Also this again. Police departments want to generate ticket revenue? Forget speed traps. Station an officer at intersections with a digital camera and a ticket book purely for people failing to stop behind the line.
I'm sure I'm not the first to say this on this article...why the fudge isn't Hillary in jail? Average Joe Citizen does anything even remotely like this and he'd be disappeared in a hurry...
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Something I haven't seen many people mention lately is the legal immunity that common carrier status provides to the carrier against criminal content.
Aren't ISPs at risk of losing common carrier status if they start doing the things that NN proponents fear? If they do lose CC status, can't they then be held liable for illegal content traversing their networks? Seems like one major ISP CEO going to jail because his company is aiding and abetting the distribution of illicit imagery, or unlicensed software, or any other "criminal information," would be enough to stop the ISPs from not playing nice with our data. No?
Next?
How much time do you allot to reading a lot of RSS feeds?
11. electrical utilities
So you think you can afford the cost of running a wire from your house all the way back to the generation plant? Let's not forget the transformers, safety mechanisms, rights-of-way, poles to erect or trenches to dig and pipes to lay. Not to mention the cost of mining or reclaiming copper, extruding it into wire, and wrapping it with insulation. No, you can't use that pole or pipe that's already there, because you didn't pay for it.
I guess really you ought to build your own generation plant as well; we can't have any electrons flowing to your house for which your own money is not responsible.
tl;dr: You're an idiot.
(even if merely to disable, and not to kill).
Not likely. At least in my state, you're in heaps more trouble if you shoot to injure rather than kill, as it undermines the "imminent threat" defense. If that operator has a gun and is any good with it, the OP will be dead, dead, dead.
The log jam here is at the point where the vinyl is pressed. There is an oversupply of content (or, rather, requests for pressings, i.e. logs) being served by too few manufacturing facilities (i.e. the river). Perhaps not the most apt metaphor, but not the worst.
Nice try, though.
Maybe it's just the temperature sensor, which is monitored by the system, so if there is any problem with the battery overheating, the safety does not trigger?
I'm pretty sure there's something to this. Periodically my iPhone 5S becomes hot enough to be very uncomfortable to hold while charging, and a power cycle cures the issue. Personally I think it's awfully daft to have something as important as a Li+ battery temperature sensor dependent upon the OS rather than being a separate, independent component.
Mod points aren't about whether you agree with the person. Stop abusing the moderation system.
I don't think it's your job to do my research
Don't go so easy on him. It is his job to substantiate the claims he makes with cited evidence.
Can't be the NSA, then; they've been hacking that $#!+ since the dawn of time.
Not "someone." "The person who sold it to me and still has my money" broke my toy. Hey, toy-seller, you want to come break my toy? Sure. Come on! Just give me back my money and we'll call it even.
If memory serves, that's because it was Michael Chertoff's company (you know, the Director of Homeland Security at the time) who sold the machines to the TSA.
What just blows my mind is how this is even possible. There should be somebody somewhere that signs the checks and goes "oh, you're the head of this government agency and you also own this company that you want the agency to buy from? Nope." In lesser circles I believe this would be considered a conflict of interest...
I think you accidentally a word. Assuming you meant "just stop paying the bill," how would you then recover from the economic bitch-slapping they'd hand you by turning your account over to a collections agency? How would you recover your credit rating? How would you get out from under the liens placed on your property due to nonpayment? I'm certain your contract's fine print exposes you to all sorts of nastiness should you fail to pay the piper.
1,000 people each from 24 countries. So, 24,000 respondents.
Still, 24,000 out of over 7,000,000,000 is definitely not statistically significant.
Stop paying your property taxes and see how long that land stays "yours."
Did you drop a zero? I haven't read the article, but $190/mo for 100/20 is super-cheap and not at all what I would expect for a commercial service. 'Round these parts, that kind of service would run you over $2,000/mo.
I think you missed an important point. It was not the owner who broke the rules, but a delegated operator (for lack of a better term). Your example would be more precise in saying your friend drove your car at 127 MPH through a school zone, therefore YOU are no longer allowed to operate your car (while your friend merrily goes on continuing to operate his own car).
It's more complicated than that, even, since the nephew in question was [probably?] operating under the uncle's username; if so, that does swing the Finger of Blame(TM) back toward the uncle somewhat for permitting someone else to use his account.
Still, my opinion is that it would be quite reasonable for Valve to block online multiplayer play for some period of time, but to prevent local gameplay is a major overstepping of reasonable bounds.
That said, I will undoubtedly continue to purchase Steam-powered games. Baaaaaaah.
It's not like computer storage where you can read the same data over and over without fear of tampering with the original content.
I give you SDRAM, wherein the read operation does indeed damage the stored data, so that the memory controller has to immediately rewrite any row it reads (not to mention the constant general refreshes).
A cable which can stretch. My parents have a Chrysler Grand Caravan which has an utterly useless parking brake; despite repeated tightenings, it's back to useless in short order (in this case I think it's the tensioning mechanism itself but still...cables stretch).
If a guy hits on a woman and she doesn't like it it is a crime? There is something wrong with any world where that kind of duplicitousness is ok.
Anonymous Coward for president! I can't agree more with this statement. The subjectivity of defining harassment, etc., is untenable.
I mean, under the same logic, search warrants should be illegal because by letting someone into your house you'd be "self-incriminating". Doesn't work that way.
I'm already a bit lost in the jargon, but I think the key difference is whether extraction of knowledge is involved. To "let someone in your house," all you have to do is stand aside. To give up a password means revealing something that you know rather than possess.
I also think (my opinion now) that giving up of passwords under warrant is arguably reasonable. A warrant would be required, which puts the control in the hands of the court and not in those of the investigating officers.
It took me about three tries before I figured out that it wasn't "Unborne."
This. Also I believe there is a law about "duly erected sign," at least in my state. In other words, where signs would generally be expected (stop, speed limit, etc), road markings alone have no enforceable meaning. Even if the line is painted with the word "STOP" beside it, if there's no sign, you don't have to stop.
Also this again. Police departments want to generate ticket revenue? Forget speed traps. Station an officer at intersections with a digital camera and a ticket book purely for people failing to stop behind the line.
That only proves you can see posts by timothy when using lynx. Doesn't prove timothy could actually post using lynx.
I'm sure I'm not the first to say this on this article...why the fudge isn't Hillary in jail? Average Joe Citizen does anything even remotely like this and he'd be disappeared in a hurry...