There's always the possibility that X users use their 2mb/s connection to the fullest, making either the base station for the town or the cable lines become saturated and slow down speeds for everyone else, causing an unusually high volume of customer service calls and cancellations (if it's a regular occurrence). That would cost them money, but that's a fairly unlikely scenario.
I remember reading on another story about this demonstration that this vulnerability is one that's been known for a decent amount of time so far. If so, this is the needed course of action, since the companies won't change until word gets out that the system is unsafe.
Consider that copper is used in nearly everything, while silver has a relatively low demand with a high supply. Then jack up the demand for silver to the levels copper is at, and see where the price really is.
Nope, they never do. Which is why, even though his comments may be modded up while he posts AC, he isn't getting any points on his account - which in turn affects the number of mod points he gets to use.
Hawaii elected to be a part of the US. It wasn't some "Let's go take them over" decision.
Also, it was never a "colony" of the US by definition. It wasn't there to make the motherland rich, it was there because it wanted to be. There were no American "settlers" that went there to conquer the native people.
Someone developing cancer at an older age loses the possibility of reproduction. A human male is more than capable of fathering an offspring over the age of 45. Dieing of cancer can also have a bad impact on the success of your offspring, because they lose the father's/mother's support. It's not only about an organisms' direct reproductive success, but also about the success of the genetic data that lives on in genetically closely related members of a species.
That's all well and good, but consider that we're talking about the entire expanse of mammalian evolution, not the very short (and recent) period of time where being over 45 years old means you have more money and are likely to be more stable in life. Over the course of mammalian evolution, being over 45 meant you were an outlier.
That would have proven the extremists of the religion right about our country, likely instigating a global jihad with participants that number in the millions rather than the hundreds they currently have.
I would argue that until republicrites were kicked out of office, we were on the verge of becoming Nazi Germany, with full on purges of certain religious denominations.
The idea is that under current regulation, if the FCC has the authority to regulate the delivery of content, then they have the authority to regulate the content providers themselves. These two groups of companies need to be separated under law in order to have regulation effect only the delivery providers.
The free market, in the case of this type of infrastructure project, would have had monopolies created if left unregulated anyway. Companies would have laid down their lines, and nobody would be laying down a new set of lines afterwords (unless done within a couple years of the first lines) because of the massive initial investment. Companies would have consolidated, and left us in a state fairly similar to the one we're in today.
So, when you say these problems were created by government intervention (which very well may have accelerated them), I say these problems would have definitively been created by the free market as well. Future, improved government regulation is the only thing with a variable able to lead to balance, given a smart regulation, such as the ability for the government to set up a central station where any company can run their main line to, and connect any customers into their network.
The idea of the free market was one where there's competition, and people can choose, while companies can't become monopolies and exert control over people who can't choose.
Now, that's using one of humankind's worst aspects to progress in a positive manner. It's using the bad to achieve the good, something not considered by those advocating certain leftist styles of government.
On the other hand, capitalism can get very bad, and that why the right-leaners are also wrong.
The whole system (the real free market) is designed to be an intelligent balance to achieve the most good for the amount of bad done.
If the data and service deliveries are separate, it's not necessarily fair (it is a step forward, though). They can still enter an agreement with Microsoft to give them 10x faster speeds than Google, suffocating Google on that service network.
US is also the only country in the world that is constantly in war with other countries, bullies them and has a history of supporting enemies of its enemies
You realize that every country in the history of humanity has done the exact same things, right?
I pretty much agree with your point, but would like to point out that no other country is or has been involved in as many large scale, outright wars as we are, at the frequency we are.
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No liability, and no reward. Perfect storm of "let's not give a shit" and unhappiness with the job.
There's always the possibility that X users use their 2mb/s connection to the fullest, making either the base station for the town or the cable lines become saturated and slow down speeds for everyone else, causing an unusually high volume of customer service calls and cancellations (if it's a regular occurrence). That would cost them money, but that's a fairly unlikely scenario.
It's not even just DRM in general, but a subset of DRM that requires Blizzard to keep a server available.
I remember reading on another story about this demonstration that this vulnerability is one that's been known for a decent amount of time so far. If so, this is the needed course of action, since the companies won't change until word gets out that the system is unsafe.
This IS wirtten down, on this page.
BTW, silver is already double the price of copper; a fact I didn't realize when I wrote that post.
I think the author of TFA expects for the law to be written correctly, rather than made up on the fly as it is written now.
Consider that copper is used in nearly everything, while silver has a relatively low demand with a high supply. Then jack up the demand for silver to the levels copper is at, and see where the price really is.
Nope, they never do. Which is why, even though his comments may be modded up while he posts AC, he isn't getting any points on his account - which in turn affects the number of mod points he gets to use.
Hawaii elected to be a part of the US. It wasn't some "Let's go take them over" decision.
Also, it was never a "colony" of the US by definition. It wasn't there to make the motherland rich, it was there because it wanted to be. There were no American "settlers" that went there to conquer the native people.
Just wait until US police start using it on riots during cold weather. Then the system will have failed.
Someone developing cancer at an older age loses the possibility of reproduction. A human male is more than capable of fathering an offspring over the age of 45. Dieing of cancer can also have a bad impact on the success of your offspring, because they lose the father's/mother's support. It's not only about an organisms' direct reproductive success, but also about the success of the genetic data that lives on in genetically closely related members of a species.
That's all well and good, but consider that we're talking about the entire expanse of mammalian evolution, not the very short (and recent) period of time where being over 45 years old means you have more money and are likely to be more stable in life. Over the course of mammalian evolution, being over 45 meant you were an outlier.
Scurvy wasn't nearly as big an issue before long sea voyages started.
That would have proven the extremists of the religion right about our country, likely instigating a global jihad with participants that number in the millions rather than the hundreds they currently have.
I would argue that until republicrites were kicked out of office, we were on the verge of becoming Nazi Germany, with full on purges of certain religious denominations.
The idea is that under current regulation, if the FCC has the authority to regulate the delivery of content, then they have the authority to regulate the content providers themselves. These two groups of companies need to be separated under law in order to have regulation effect only the delivery providers.
He won a war by *gasp* acting! Oh wow!
The free market, in the case of this type of infrastructure project, would have had monopolies created if left unregulated anyway. Companies would have laid down their lines, and nobody would be laying down a new set of lines afterwords (unless done within a couple years of the first lines) because of the massive initial investment. Companies would have consolidated, and left us in a state fairly similar to the one we're in today.
So, when you say these problems were created by government intervention (which very well may have accelerated them), I say these problems would have definitively been created by the free market as well. Future, improved government regulation is the only thing with a variable able to lead to balance, given a smart regulation, such as the ability for the government to set up a central station where any company can run their main line to, and connect any customers into their network.
The idea of the free market was one where there's competition, and people can choose, while companies can't become monopolies and exert control over people who can't choose.
Now, that's using one of humankind's worst aspects to progress in a positive manner. It's using the bad to achieve the good, something not considered by those advocating certain leftist styles of government.
On the other hand, capitalism can get very bad, and that why the right-leaners are also wrong.
The whole system (the real free market) is designed to be an intelligent balance to achieve the most good for the amount of bad done.
If the data and service deliveries are separate, it's not necessarily fair (it is a step forward, though). They can still enter an agreement with Microsoft to give them 10x faster speeds than Google, suffocating Google on that service network.
It's totally relevant why the issue occurs, since one is a minor issue, and the other is a guaranteed dropped call.
Here's the kicker: Most people don't do hardcore raiding, participate in a FPS team, or play RTS as pros.
US is also the only country in the world that is constantly in war with other countries, bullies them and has a history of supporting enemies of its enemies
You realize that every country in the history of humanity has done the exact same things, right?
I pretty much agree with your point, but would like to point out that no other country is or has been involved in as many large scale, outright wars as we are, at the frequency we are.
You're an idiot. "Shields" is a present tense of the verb form of shield.
That's a fairly standard way of doing a $X build while writing an article on the web.