I'm reminded of the good old days of "shotgunning" modems together to combine the total bandwidth. Only now you don't even need multiple phone lines, just multiple wireless receivers.
What stops me from getting 20 free wireless hookups and running a shotgun program to effectively combine the bandwidth? Other than some sort of account creation requirements (one connection per address? or per Credit card?) I don't see how they could really prevent this.
Sounds like a future OSS project if this project goes through;)
but that's just the thing. You can't ban encryption unless you also ban random noise.
Say I make a random number generator and just start sending out random numbers all over the internet. I can send as many packets full of random numbers as I like right? There's no crime against sending out signal noise is there? That's what this encryption looks like, random noise.
Suddenly I can make someone guilty of a crime by spoofing his IP and sending garbage in the form of packets with a target IP in an Arab country?
This is equivilent to saying we should arrest drug smugglers for tarriff evasion.
I think the waste of bandwidth is an arbitrary side-effect. It's the act of trying to usurp someone's computer that is the crime here, not wasting bandwidth.
My company only allows 40Mb before the warning messages appear. For me this amounts to about a month or two of email... provided I strip any emails with big attachments. I'd personally like alot more as I commonly have to reference old emails from several months prior (who said what when, why is this authorized, who originally requested such and such... etc.)
I find the VAST majority of people just have poor email etiquette. Commonly people send large word documents or images without zipping. People will commonly "reply to all" to such a message and leave the attachment included (most common with inserted images). Let's not forget since someone just did a paste of a print screen it's a bitmap and not something with a decent size like a.gif or.jpg.
This is a all on a Microsoft enterprise email solution... I can't tell you the exact number but it has to be several thousand users. Let's say 5. 5,000 users.
Take that legitimate internet users! Now you must pay the price of a song to download a file the size of a song... even if it's not a song!
MWAHAHAHA! Evil plan complete!
Let's not forget even in america certain forms of "free speech" are illegal. Slander? Hate crimes? Abusive language?
I mean, you can't go up to a co-worker and make lewd comments to him/her and expect to keep your job? (most jobs anyway). Aside from that you could be sued / jailed depending on the comment / situation. This is America right? We have the freedom to do ANYTHING!... until that freedom begins to encroach on someone else's freedom.
Who said "Your freedom to swing your fist stops where my nose begins."
Free speech is not given carte blanc, in the US or elsewhere.
The Telcos are no longer a government granted monopoly. In fact the government broke up a "monopoly" into the "baby bells". But that's beside the point, the phone companies have to compete with each other and are REQUIRED to share their lines... but not for free.
It's interesting: when the government forced them to divest into several small regional companies; "competative" market forces fought it out (with major scandals asside... MCI) to give us a bunch of mergers back into a few large companies.
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I'm reminded of the good old days of "shotgunning" modems together to combine the total bandwidth. Only now you don't even need multiple phone lines, just multiple wireless receivers.
;)
What stops me from getting 20 free wireless hookups and running a shotgun program to effectively combine the bandwidth? Other than some sort of account creation requirements (one connection per address? or per Credit card?) I don't see how they could really prevent this.
Sounds like a future OSS project if this project goes through
but that's just the thing. You can't ban encryption unless you also ban random noise.
Say I make a random number generator and just start sending out random numbers all over the internet. I can send as many packets full of random numbers as I like right? There's no crime against sending out signal noise is there? That's what this encryption looks like, random noise.
Suddenly I can make someone guilty of a crime by spoofing his IP and sending garbage in the form of packets with a target IP in an Arab country?
I for one welcome our giant methanol overloards.
These robots will have a pre-set kill limit.
The enemy must merely send wave after wave of men until that limit is reached and they will shut down.
This is equivilent to saying we should arrest drug smugglers for tarriff evasion.
I think the waste of bandwidth is an arbitrary side-effect. It's the act of trying to usurp someone's computer that is the crime here, not wasting bandwidth.
If they intend for people to visit the ISS someone will also need to design and build a gift shop module.
My company only allows 40Mb before the warning messages appear. For me this amounts to about a month or two of email... provided I strip any emails with big attachments. I'd personally like alot more as I commonly have to reference old emails from several months prior (who said what when, why is this authorized, who originally requested such and such... etc.)
.gif or .jpg.
I find the VAST majority of people just have poor email etiquette. Commonly people send large word documents or images without zipping. People will commonly "reply to all" to such a message and leave the attachment included (most common with inserted images). Let's not forget since someone just did a paste of a print screen it's a bitmap and not something with a decent size like a
This is a all on a Microsoft enterprise email solution... I can't tell you the exact number but it has to be several thousand users. Let's say 5. 5,000 users.
Take that legitimate internet users! Now you must pay the price of a song to download a file the size of a song... even if it's not a song! MWAHAHAHA! Evil plan complete!
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These technophobes should do a little more homework
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Yeah technophobes! Read more about that which scares you!
oh, wait...
Please note, these are not carbon nanotubes... per the article they are naturally occuring in some "halloysite" clay in Utah (crazy Mormons).
You for got the most important lesson about war.
If you are shot by an enemy sniper, be sure to call him ugly names as you die.
Let's not forget even in america certain forms of "free speech" are illegal.
Slander?
Hate crimes?
Abusive language?
I mean, you can't go up to a co-worker and make lewd comments to him/her and expect to keep your job? (most jobs anyway). Aside from that you could be sued / jailed depending on the comment / situation.
This is America right? We have the freedom to do ANYTHING!... until that freedom begins to encroach on someone else's freedom.
Who said "Your freedom to swing your fist stops where my nose begins."
Free speech is not given carte blanc, in the US or elsewhere.
A Lost MMO...
You are lost on a desert island with a handful of companions. Oddly Similar to a single player game, only it costs $10 a month.
The Telcos are no longer a government granted monopoly. In fact the government broke up a "monopoly" into the "baby bells". But that's beside the point, the phone companies have to compete with each other and are REQUIRED to share their lines... but not for free.
It's interesting: when the government forced them to divest into several small regional companies; "competative" market forces fought it out (with major scandals asside... MCI) to give us a bunch of mergers back into a few large companies.