Internet privacy laws are needed. Good luck in this climate, a week from now our loyal OPPOSITION party here in the us is going to sell our fourth amendment rights down the river.
The new FISA bill will stop the "illegal" domestic spying all right.. by making it legal and allowing it to continue.
You paid more for the hard drives, and my friend's vintage first generation g4 still boots up perfectly on its original hard drive despite being continuously on for its entire life.
You paid through the nose for the monitor, but it had a 30% greater pixel density and better color fidelity.
Now they're utterly shitty tn panels, and nobody is stepping in to fill in this market vacuum.
Except the URL for getting the original file back, under any reasonable interpretation, would not be considered infringement in the same way torrent files (on their own) would not be considered infringement.
Granted, the RIAA used fraudulent claims and completely misrepresented "voodoo-cs" to get incompetent judges to rule against such things, but this is yet another example showing the outright ridiculousness of copyright law as it is.
Even under the patriot act, it is not illegal to post blueprints for a weapon online, and you can't be raiding home depot because they happen to be stocking fertilizer and fuel oil.
This is, unfortunately, what they're doing with the pirate bay and the like. The next level will be links to files which contain links to the trackers.. and then links to links.. until finally any level of indirection is "contributory infringement" and the entire internet is illegal.
Just thought I'd mention that I still think that the court would convict for copyright infringement because it's obvious that there was probably only one key that was widely circulated. Math kung-fu isn't going to get around simple common sense...especially if that exact file is sitting on your computer post-decoding from this filesystem.
that's funny, pseudo-cs kung fu gets around simple common sense regarding the extortio...i mean "righteous lawsuit campaign against the evil john does"
it does cause everything else to drop actually. only happens when blizzard's precious and ever so innocent game is active. There are other things which stress my connection much more thoroughly and don't do that.
Bravo! Great response! I can see why your fans adore you. now that you've mastered the difficult subject of computer networks, perhaps you should try tackling weightier topics such as economics. [wikipedia.org]
maybe you should, mr anonymous coward.
Do you understand what monopoly is? How about oligopoly?
I asked him a valid question. He started blaming "US" for not voting with our wallets. Where do we go? where is the competition? oh wait there is none!
I didn't think there was anyone stupid enough to actually buy the bullshit he was shoveling and actually believe broadband was a competitive industry. Thus I gave a terse, "dumb" response to a terse "dumb" assertion.
Of course, people like you are nothing but extremist reaganites who either have something to gain from rampant corporate abuse, or have just been force-fed the kool-aid when you were young by your parents, and "just believe" the way creationists "just believe" the scientific method is bunk.
Uh... and here you are just wrong. If you are using that ISP, then it *is* your problem. If the service is oversold, and you know from your experience that it's oversold, and you continue to use that particular service, then how can you divert all blame from yourself for continuing to use that service?
"Ahh, I'm being turned into superheated vapor by a tungsten rod, but at least I'm not being turned into superheated vapor by a nuke!"
have you ever been blown off the face of the earth by a nuke before? well I have, and for that first ten-billionth of a second the stench is horrible! Thank god for those clean tungsten rods.
base client: 25 bucks bc client: 25 bucks name changes: 10 bucks realm chances: 25 bucks (per character, that's 250 bucks if you are transferring off a realm on which you were established) wrath of the lich king: (unknown, but be prepared to chop up your first born son)
The incidents of hacking on my realm indicate the hacking is happening to their servers, and they, being blizzard, refuse to admit they're at fault.
(The same way every couple months their patches or maintenance cause massive lag spikes and random disconnects, and they blame the routers because blizzard is apparently too special to conform to tcp-ip standards)
Maybe when enough people with this authenticator get screwed, they'll actually be forced to admit and fix it.
P2P: Why is it that we fight so hard to continue stealing as efficiently as possible? Sure, I use it legitimately from time to time, but I'd say 90% of my P2P traffic is ill purposed.
HD-over-IP: A swimming pool that hundreds of millions of people all try to enjoy at once will _always_ be yellow. There must be regulations.
First, your subjective judgment on p2p is not something I agree with. I think the companies are reaping what they sow with the unjust laws the continually buy. I say more power to file-sharing, and even though I highly doubt it will happen, here's hoping the companies claiming "harm" go under.
Second, NOTHING says hd has to go over the internet. The inventors and funders of the internet never said "I make this in the hope that one day fat slobs all over red america can tune into 'cops HD' over this network".
There are purpose-built networks specifically optimized for tv. If you want real-time video delivery, use those!
Let's face it, they advertise the internet as an UNLIMITED, CONTENT-NEUTRAL SERVICE.
Rerouting for congestion is done automatically with algorithms, and that congestion has nothing to do with the protocols used. Every packet contributes to congestion, not just "p2p".
Did I mention the whole concept of the internet is based on "anyone-to-anyone" (p2p) communication.
I'm so sorry these people have a problem with their customers using the internet for it's primary purpose.
If these companies and certain government agencies were not out to censor the internet, this "over-redundancy" in bit torrent and its ilk wouldn't be necessary.
Finally, stop spewing this fallacious idea that "light users" are being substantively harmed by "heavy users"
By nature, the light users only use traffic in short bursts. They load their e-mail, go to google once or twice a day, and log off. The idea that these people will see any substantive harm from those brief activities is ludicrous.
this is not like taxation, where the money can always be used elsewhere. these light users don't use their line's capacity, and they don't care where the rest of it goes
If the ISP's oversold it's the ISP's PROBLEM, NOT MINE, NOT THE p2p user's or the 24 hour gamer's. THEY PAID FOR THEIR BANDWIDTH, AND ACTUALLY USE IT. YOU CAN'T BLAME THEM FOR THAT.
If an ISP offered a service where, say, VoIP packets were delivered with priority, or certain websites, like youtube, were given priority and faster access, you'd complain, because even though they are getting faster-than-normal access, relatively it's still all the same--some sites faster than others.
If you don't like that, fine, vote with your wallet; I don't mind a little bit of throttling if it's getting me better service in things I want, and I'll vote with my wallet accordingly.
I'm sorry, but "mob rule" is not what the american republic is all about.. oh wait.. *looks at the current political digests*.. never mind it is.. majority gets to oppress the minorities, minorities are not allowed to have separate opinions or critical thought.
Carry on strip-mining my liberties for your own benefit!
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Internet privacy laws are needed. Good luck in this climate, a week from now our loyal OPPOSITION party here in the us is going to sell our fourth amendment rights down the river.
The new FISA bill will stop the "illegal" domestic spying all right.. by making it legal and allowing it to continue.
No more "illegal" spying! hurray?
and you realize that without copyright law and software patents, the GPL is unnecessary?
Apple used to be a "QUALITY" vendor.
You paid more for the hard drives, and my friend's vintage first generation g4 still boots up perfectly on its original hard drive despite being continuously on for its entire life.
You paid through the nose for the monitor, but it had a 30% greater pixel density and better color fidelity.
Now they're utterly shitty tn panels, and nobody is stepping in to fill in this market vacuum.
HAH.. what it means is you take the activity underground and dot it anyway, otherwise you don't really believe what you say you believe.
Except the URL for getting the original file back, under any reasonable interpretation, would not be considered infringement in the same way torrent files (on their own) would not be considered infringement.
Granted, the RIAA used fraudulent claims and completely misrepresented "voodoo-cs" to get incompetent judges to rule against such things, but this is yet another example showing the outright ridiculousness of copyright law as it is.
Even under the patriot act, it is not illegal to post blueprints for a weapon online, and you can't be raiding home depot because they happen to be stocking fertilizer and fuel oil.
This is, unfortunately, what they're doing with the pirate bay and the like. The next level will be links to files which contain links to the trackers.. and then links to links.. until finally any level of indirection is "contributory infringement" and the entire internet is illegal.
and what if the encrypted form of "the bourne supremacy" was "the holy bible: king james version"?
are you going to take the bible out of the public domain?
No, in telling them how to assemble the file you are also not committing copyright infringement.
If that were true, telling someone how to make a bomb would be distributing weapons.
Extending copyright infringement as an offense to this new definition of yours amounts to "thought crime"
Just thought I'd mention that I still think that the court would convict for copyright infringement because it's obvious that there was probably only one key that was widely circulated. Math kung-fu isn't going to get around simple common sense...especially if that exact file is sitting on your computer post-decoding from this filesystem.
that's funny, pseudo-cs kung fu gets around simple common sense regarding the extortio...i mean "righteous lawsuit campaign against the evil john does"
I did. I did some digging, found which ports the WoW client uses, and set ignore rules on only those ports.
I noticed my WoW connection suddenly became unstable at the beginning of the month.
I implemented similar firewall rules on my mac and the instability was cut in half.
Guess the other half is being forged to the blizzard servers.
it does cause everything else to drop actually. only happens when blizzard's precious and ever so innocent game is active. There are other things which stress my connection much more thoroughly and don't do that.
No, it says youre a millionaire real estate tycoon in dubai.
Bravo! Great response! I can see why your fans adore you. now that you've mastered the difficult subject of computer networks, perhaps you should try tackling weightier topics such as economics. [wikipedia.org]
maybe you should, mr anonymous coward.
Do you understand what monopoly is? How about oligopoly?
I asked him a valid question. He started blaming "US" for not voting with our wallets. Where do we go? where is the competition? oh wait there is none!
I didn't think there was anyone stupid enough to actually buy the bullshit he was shoveling and actually believe broadband was a competitive industry. Thus I gave a terse, "dumb" response to a terse "dumb" assertion.
Of course, people like you are nothing but extremist reaganites who either have something to gain from rampant corporate abuse, or have just been force-fed the kool-aid when you were young by your parents, and "just believe" the way creationists "just believe" the scientific method is bunk.
So, the question is. will sony continue to bleed themselves dry fighting the impossible, or will they give up?
win/win either way imho.
which telecom hired you?
Name changes and realm changes cost precisely because they want to keep it down and not have the kids change every 5 seconds.
Hah! if certain realms didn't suck so bad they wouldn't have that problem would they.
Try tolerating the retaliation battle group as a competent alliance player.
MY computer is wired and experiences those lag spikes and random disconnects.
I guess wired routers are not standard eitehr?
"Ahh, I'm being turned into superheated vapor by a tungsten rod, but at least I'm not being turned into superheated vapor by a nuke!"
have you ever been blown off the face of the earth by a nuke before? well I have, and for that first ten-billionth of a second the stench is horrible! Thank god for those clean tungsten rods.
This is in no way new. My mother has been a telecommuter for almost a decade and has been using something like this for VPN connections for years.
I believe they wanted to spell it "Bill-zard"
base client: 25 bucks
bc client: 25 bucks
name changes: 10 bucks
realm chances: 25 bucks (per character, that's 250 bucks if you are transferring off a realm on which you were established)
wrath of the lich king: (unknown, but be prepared to chop up your first born son)
The incidents of hacking on my realm indicate the hacking is happening to their servers, and they, being blizzard, refuse to admit they're at fault.
(The same way every couple months their patches or maintenance cause massive lag spikes and random disconnects, and they blame the routers because blizzard is apparently too special to conform to tcp-ip standards)
Maybe when enough people with this authenticator get screwed, they'll actually be forced to admit and fix it.
even if you could get rid of the outer space WMD ban --
Honestly.. we're developing "rods from god", etc etc.. i'm sure china and russia both have satellites overhead with releasable warheads.
Who is going to enforce this? anti-satellite weaponry isn't exactly prolific or well proven through real-life exercises.
I suppose it would be a good thing for bush 3 (mccain) or bush for (our new pro-fisa obama) to use as an excuse.. "wmd's IN SPAACE"...
"The war in the vacuum above iraq is on it's 678th day"
P2P: Why is it that we fight so hard to continue stealing as efficiently as possible? Sure, I use it legitimately from time to time, but I'd say 90% of my P2P traffic is ill purposed.
HD-over-IP: A swimming pool that hundreds of millions of people all try to enjoy at once will _always_ be yellow. There must be regulations.
First, your subjective judgment on p2p is not something I agree with. I think the companies are reaping what they sow with the unjust laws the continually buy. I say more power to file-sharing, and even though I highly doubt it will happen, here's hoping the companies claiming "harm" go under.
Second, NOTHING says hd has to go over the internet. The inventors and funders of the internet never said "I make this in the hope that one day fat slobs all over red america can tune into 'cops HD' over this network".
There are purpose-built networks specifically optimized for tv. If you want real-time video delivery, use those!
Let's face it, they advertise the internet as an UNLIMITED, CONTENT-NEUTRAL SERVICE.
Rerouting for congestion is done automatically with algorithms, and that congestion has nothing to do with the protocols used. Every packet contributes to congestion, not just "p2p".
Did I mention the whole concept of the internet is based on "anyone-to-anyone" (p2p) communication.
I'm so sorry these people have a problem with their customers using the internet for it's primary purpose.
If these companies and certain government agencies were not out to censor the internet, this "over-redundancy" in bit torrent and its ilk wouldn't be necessary.
Finally, stop spewing this fallacious idea that "light users" are being substantively harmed by "heavy users"
By nature, the light users only use traffic in short bursts. They load their e-mail, go to google once or twice a day, and log off. The idea that these people will see any substantive harm from those brief activities is ludicrous.
this is not like taxation, where the money can always be used elsewhere. these light users don't use their line's capacity, and they don't care where the rest of it goes
If the ISP's oversold it's the ISP's PROBLEM, NOT MINE, NOT THE p2p user's or the 24 hour gamer's. THEY PAID FOR THEIR BANDWIDTH, AND ACTUALLY USE IT. YOU CAN'T BLAME THEM FOR THAT.
That's not speculation at all..!
If an ISP offered a service where, say, VoIP packets were delivered with priority, or certain websites, like youtube, were given priority and faster access, you'd complain, because even though they are getting faster-than-normal access, relatively it's still all the same--some sites faster than others.
If you don't like that, fine, vote with your wallet; I don't mind a little bit of throttling if it's getting me better service in things I want, and I'll vote with my wallet accordingly.
I'm sorry, but "mob rule" is not what the american republic is all about.. oh wait.. *looks at the current political digests*.. never mind it is.. majority gets to oppress the minorities, minorities are not allowed to have separate opinions or critical thought.
Carry on strip-mining my liberties for your own benefit!