You forgot about Mark's friends who help out and the part where the school punishes Johnny harshly for being a troublemaker because it is his 3rd beating this year ("It takes two to fight") yet Mark gets off with a slap on the wrist because he is well liked and hasn't had any other incidents.
Military has its own encrypted channels for GPS signals. Same satellites but not the same signal as consumer devices.
While this is true, it just means that you need to jam a different frequency. Encryption has nothing to do with it as you aren't trying to access it, but DoS it. The reasons that the military runs its own separate GPS are for better accuracy (civilian GPS has inaccuracy built in while military GPS is accurate to within a meter) and so they can shut it down without hurting themselves within a theater.
Modifying your hardware is not copying someone else's creative works and/or distributing them. It may give you the means to do so in the same way that owning a gun gives you the means to walk into a shopping mall and kill as many people as possible, but in itself it is not wrong. A tool is neither good nor evil. It is the use of that tool that is good or evil.
Historically in the US, as long as a tool has legitimate uses, it can not be outlawed. This new attitude that anything that can lead to copyright infringement must be outlawed is as anti-American as they come. It goes against everything that this country has stood for since its inception. If we outlawed everything that could potentially be misused, we'd all be sitting in the dark in straw huts. This type of innovation should be encouraged as it is how we make progress.
They don't have to be. Arcade machines can pack any hardware and thus software that they want. They can also provide an experience that home consoles just can't match (odd controllers, encased cabinets, live head to head competition.)
We've reached a chicken and egg standoff now. It was inevitable once consoles and arcades started to have the same hardware in them and arcades failed to innovate towards their strengths. Arcade makers won't put the money into developing new games because they don't see the money in doing so and gamers wont spend the time and money to go play games that are largely just consoles in big cabinets. It would take a killer game that had a persistent online component (ladder system and/or achievements of some sort) as well as an immersion/controller scheme that could not be duplicated in a home console to have any hope of rejuvenating the genre. I don't see it happening though.
Other than the same people arguing in favor of this, who would be arguing in favor of the government blocking a website related to a skinhead rally? Freedom of speech is freedom of speech and must be protected, especially when it is speech that you don't like.
And this isn't a question of having a right to the tools. They have the tools and have already used them. The government, for their part, has used their tools to actively curtail said speech. That is what is guaranteed...that the government will not attempt to curtail your freedom of speech.
Your claim that the protests are not free speech is laughable. Agree or don't, but they have the right to protest what they feel is unfair treatment in having their bargaining rights taken away. They aren't using the government's wi-fi to do it. Taxpayers are using the wi-fi to reach the internet and finding that it is censored for (presumably) political reasons.
If they believe so much in freedom of speech, then they would support the actions of companies who chose not to support Wikileaks.
The credit card services and Amazon took action to help stop Wikileaks from exercising their free speech. There is no free speech issue on their side. Even if there was, you can't claim to be exercising your rights in the process of trying to prevent someone else from exercising theirs. Your rights end where my rights begin and all that.
Now, you can feel free to support them for various other reasons (business decision, you feel it was the right thing to do, or whatever) but to try to claim Amazon was exercising their freedom of speech is just silly.
We ran into a particular version that when installed would not allow IE to use plug-ins for other versions of Java. I believe it was version 6, update 20, but it's been a while so I'm not positive anymore.
It isn't that it required special training. It just requires a window of opportunity. Most people simply don't go out and bother to learn how to read a map and compass or the other extremely simple skills involved in land navigation.
2. Most users are not going anywhere near to 5GB of usage./. users are totally atypical.
Are you thinking of phone users? People using hotspots are probably hitting 5GB pretty regularly. Aircard users have historically struggled with 5GB limits, so I don't see why hotspot users wouldn't also have this issue.
But they are only chewing up the bandwidth that they are paying for. The devices aren't capable of using more. They are also using the data transfer that they are paying for as "unlimited" means "without limit" and therefore even if they max the connection 24/7 for the entire month, that is within the contract terms.
If you offer an unlimited 3G internet connection, you can't throttle it back to Edge after some threshold is reached as that would no longer be a 3G connection.
If they don't want to offer an unlimited plan, then don't offer it. Calling it unlimited and then putting restrictions on it is false advertising. Not that any of this is new or anything. They've been doing it for years now.
Life is generally easier if you have a unified addressing scheme on your network.
Having a public IP address does not mean that you have to allow public access to that IP address. A simple ACL on your router is sufficient to restrict that.
Contrary to popular Second Amendment nut mantra, it was to defend the United States against outsiders, not to attack the United States and its institutions yourself.
I'm not a 2nd amendment nut as you so eloquently put it, but I'll tell you that you are wrong. This country's founders were very concerned about the government becoming a tyrannical state like the one they had just freed themselves from and the entire point of the bill of rights was to protect us from it, not from outside forces. They wanted to ensure that we had the ability to overthrow it if it got too far out of line. There are plenty of writings by the founders about this topic.
Why would I move over to my Gmail accounts as my primaries? All of my email accounts look the same both on my phone and in my email client. It all comes to the same place no matter where it is sent to, so it doesn't gain me anything for the effort involved to switch (no matter how minimal.) I already give Google plenty of my data, so spreading it around a bit to make it harder for them to gather is in my best interests.
This is also not the first time that Hotmail has experienced a data loss. It happened several years ago. Any free email service is going to be vulnerable though as it is highly unlikely that they are backing up your data.
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You forgot about Mark's friends who help out and the part where the school punishes Johnny harshly for being a troublemaker because it is his 3rd beating this year ("It takes two to fight") yet Mark gets off with a slap on the wrist because he is well liked and hasn't had any other incidents.
Military has its own encrypted channels for GPS signals. Same satellites but not the same signal as consumer devices.
While this is true, it just means that you need to jam a different frequency. Encryption has nothing to do with it as you aren't trying to access it, but DoS it. The reasons that the military runs its own separate GPS are for better accuracy (civilian GPS has inaccuracy built in while military GPS is accurate to within a meter) and so they can shut it down without hurting themselves within a theater.
Someone create a Wikipedia article about this!
Modifying your hardware is not copying someone else's creative works and/or distributing them. It may give you the means to do so in the same way that owning a gun gives you the means to walk into a shopping mall and kill as many people as possible, but in itself it is not wrong. A tool is neither good nor evil. It is the use of that tool that is good or evil.
Historically in the US, as long as a tool has legitimate uses, it can not be outlawed. This new attitude that anything that can lead to copyright infringement must be outlawed is as anti-American as they come. It goes against everything that this country has stood for since its inception. If we outlawed everything that could potentially be misused, we'd all be sitting in the dark in straw huts. This type of innovation should be encouraged as it is how we make progress.
They don't have to be. Arcade machines can pack any hardware and thus software that they want. They can also provide an experience that home consoles just can't match (odd controllers, encased cabinets, live head to head competition.)
We've reached a chicken and egg standoff now. It was inevitable once consoles and arcades started to have the same hardware in them and arcades failed to innovate towards their strengths. Arcade makers won't put the money into developing new games because they don't see the money in doing so and gamers wont spend the time and money to go play games that are largely just consoles in big cabinets. It would take a killer game that had a persistent online component (ladder system and/or achievements of some sort) as well as an immersion/controller scheme that could not be duplicated in a home console to have any hope of rejuvenating the genre. I don't see it happening though.
But that's not how a whitelist would work.
Other than the same people arguing in favor of this, who would be arguing in favor of the government blocking a website related to a skinhead rally? Freedom of speech is freedom of speech and must be protected, especially when it is speech that you don't like.
And this isn't a question of having a right to the tools. They have the tools and have already used them. The government, for their part, has used their tools to actively curtail said speech. That is what is guaranteed...that the government will not attempt to curtail your freedom of speech.
Your claim that the protests are not free speech is laughable. Agree or don't, but they have the right to protest what they feel is unfair treatment in having their bargaining rights taken away. They aren't using the government's wi-fi to do it. Taxpayers are using the wi-fi to reach the internet and finding that it is censored for (presumably) political reasons.
Who's on first?
If they believe so much in freedom of speech, then they would support the actions of companies who chose not to support Wikileaks.
The credit card services and Amazon took action to help stop Wikileaks from exercising their free speech. There is no free speech issue on their side. Even if there was, you can't claim to be exercising your rights in the process of trying to prevent someone else from exercising theirs. Your rights end where my rights begin and all that.
Now, you can feel free to support them for various other reasons (business decision, you feel it was the right thing to do, or whatever) but to try to claim Amazon was exercising their freedom of speech is just silly.
We ran into a particular version that when installed would not allow IE to use plug-ins for other versions of Java. I believe it was version 6, update 20, but it's been a while so I'm not positive anymore.
If it gives you an error when you try to run it, does that mean that you are secure or vulnerable?
What really set off Bin Laden was having US troops physically in Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. It was more or less the final straw.
Help us Obama-wan, you are our only hope!
It isn't that it required special training. It just requires a window of opportunity. Most people simply don't go out and bother to learn how to read a map and compass or the other extremely simple skills involved in land navigation.
Must be strong homing pigeons.
I rolled a 20.
Maybe god wasn't a good choice of passwords for the superuser account? He should have read the memo.
2. Most users are not going anywhere near to 5GB of usage. /. users are totally atypical.
Are you thinking of phone users? People using hotspots are probably hitting 5GB pretty regularly. Aircard users have historically struggled with 5GB limits, so I don't see why hotspot users wouldn't also have this issue.
But they are only chewing up the bandwidth that they are paying for. The devices aren't capable of using more. They are also using the data transfer that they are paying for as "unlimited" means "without limit" and therefore even if they max the connection 24/7 for the entire month, that is within the contract terms.
If you offer an unlimited 3G internet connection, you can't throttle it back to Edge after some threshold is reached as that would no longer be a 3G connection.
If they don't want to offer an unlimited plan, then don't offer it. Calling it unlimited and then putting restrictions on it is false advertising. Not that any of this is new or anything. They've been doing it for years now.
Can you describe the ruckus?
Life is generally easier if you have a unified addressing scheme on your network.
Having a public IP address does not mean that you have to allow public access to that IP address. A simple ACL on your router is sufficient to restrict that.
Contrary to popular Second Amendment nut mantra, it was to defend the United States against outsiders, not to attack the United States and its institutions yourself.
I'm not a 2nd amendment nut as you so eloquently put it, but I'll tell you that you are wrong. This country's founders were very concerned about the government becoming a tyrannical state like the one they had just freed themselves from and the entire point of the bill of rights was to protect us from it, not from outside forces. They wanted to ensure that we had the ability to overthrow it if it got too far out of line. There are plenty of writings by the founders about this topic.
Otherwise, I agree with you.
Why would I move over to my Gmail accounts as my primaries? All of my email accounts look the same both on my phone and in my email client. It all comes to the same place no matter where it is sent to, so it doesn't gain me anything for the effort involved to switch (no matter how minimal.) I already give Google plenty of my data, so spreading it around a bit to make it harder for them to gather is in my best interests.
This is also not the first time that Hotmail has experienced a data loss. It happened several years ago. Any free email service is going to be vulnerable though as it is highly unlikely that they are backing up your data.
Flowers in the Attic is still available. I guess Amazon is only killing off books that are below a certain sales threshold.
Nothing is as juicy as seeing the sins of the righteous.