In the highly unlikely event that this private members bill makes it through to royal assent, it will have almost no effect. Telecoms will all make use of the exception in clause 2, subsection a:
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed as limiting or restricting the right of a network operator to
(a) manage the flow of network traffic in a reasonable manner in order to relieve congestion;
Well, the DPI is happening before traffic finds its way (all within the Bell network) to 151 Front Street in Toronto (where ISPs provide a connection between Bell and the internet). Bell is claiming that traffic is saturating their network, necessitating throttling. So what my neighbors do IS affecting my connection (according to Bell).
Bell has claimed that your neighbors activities have no impact on your internet connection. For that to be the case, it has to be true right to the edge of their network, NOT just to the CO. If Bell wants to claim that they're not oversubscribed -within- their network (which is what they're saying when they claim that other people in your neighborhood have no impact on your conection), then the need to throttle is at the edges of their network. If that's the case, then that's where the throttling should be, and it isn't.
I recall seeing Bell advertisements that DSL from Bell was better than cable, because there are "no slowdowns". I also recall advertisements, but I can't remember if they were specifically Bell advertisements, that your bandwidth was dedicated. I didn't really believe it then, and now it seems that neither does Bell.
Except that he does not have probable cause to believe that both warrants would yield results. This is comparable to getting search warrants for everyone in the county named John, if one masked bandit in a robbery is referred to by another as "John".
iTunes is licensed by the copyright holder to distribute copies of songs, under specified circumstances. Without a license to distribute EMI songs, it's entirely possible that EMI has a case under current copyright law.
[blockquote]This administration will go down in history as the most egregiously shameful, dishonest, dirty in the history of the United States. [/blockquote]
Until the next administration, which realizes that the line for what the American public will tolerate has not yet been reached. If there's one thing politicians are good at, it's finding new ways to fuck the public.
Governments have a nasty habit of taking innocuous data and trying to make something sinister out of it. They can either try to make something out of the information itself directly or choose to draw strange inferences out of it.
You do realize that Canada has similar "exigent circumstances" laws, right? And that your rights with respect to the police are not absolute, in fact evidence tainted by violation of your rights may be used against you in court? And that constitutional challenges to laws may only be made if you have standing - you must have been wronged by the law to challenge its constitutionality (well, and Parliament may request the judiciary give an opinion on a bill or law).
I agree completely that it's not non-Bell ISPs fault. I will say some blame falls on Bell for the stupidity that is cable routing. I meant to point out that even though there are other options for DSL provider, they can't provide a better connection than Bell. They can only compete on features like permitting servers, providing static address(es), and less restrictions on monthly bandwidth consumption. My point stands that I don't have excellent service at reasonable prices.
As for ADSL2, ADSL2+ or AnnexL, I'm out of luck here until Bell upgrades the slams in the area (currently G.992.1 (Annex A)). I'd be thrilled with stability and consistent sync rates.
That is the case here. The local wiring belongs to Bell here, and you can get dsl service from several different providers including Bell. Unfortunately, its the local copper here that causes my problems so other providers don't help me any. I'm not aware of any cable resellers in my area, but there are cable resellers in Toronto 100km from here.
I use www.teksavvy.com as my dsl supplier. A static address, unlimited bandwidth, and competent and friendly customer service personell I think comes to $32.95 a month. Unfortunately, all dsl suppliers in KW use Bell copper, so I'm stuck with dropouts and craptastic sync rates.
I'm curious about cable resellers in KW, but I don't know of any. The cable connection I had here worked just fine, except for the traffic throttling and prohibition on "servers".
Until a couple years ago I lived in SK. As far as I can figure, Sasktel is an anomaly among North American telephone companies. They seem to push new technology early and successfully. And for the most part at reasonable prices. Compared to Rogers, Shaw was fantastic. I'd love to have the choice between Sasktel and Shaw again, without the prairie winters that is.
I frequently see the argument made that the US (and/or Canada) is big, so internet coverage just won't work. That doesn't explain why you can't get a connection in Los Angeles, or New York, or Chicago, or Toronto that, at least within that region, which is as connections within Seoul. These are all densely populated areas, so there should be excellent telecom here. That just doesn't seem to be the case.
Thankfully, I've since moved to Canada, where we get excellent service at a very reasonable price.
You must live in a different part of Canada than I do. I am fortunate enough to have a choice between cable and dsl.
Rogers throttles the shit out of the connection, imposes monthly bandwidth caps, and won't sell me service with a static address or the ability to run "servers". Gibbled service from Rogers costs about the same as cable in the US.
Bell has monthly bandwidth caps, and I get frequent disconnects and piss poor sync rates because even though I'm in a residential area of a half million person area (Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge) that they say will get 3-5Mbps I'm 6.2km wire distance from the CO that's 3km away. It took 3 months for them to figure out that my connection blows because of the wire distance. Bell will give me an unstable piece of shit line with static address and ability to run servers for $99/month. Other DSL providers use the same copper, and so provide an unstable piece of shit line, for around $30/month.
Excellent service at very reasonable prices? Not here.
It seems like you have to turn it on, so you can choose not to be uploading whenever you want. You can also change the upload/download bandwidth consumed but there aren't many choices. 256Kbps/1Mmbps, 256Kbps/2Mbps, 512Kbps/512Kbps, 512Kbps/4Mbps, 1Mbps/1Mbps, 1Mbps/8Mbps, 2Mbps/2Mbps, 4Mbps/4Mbps, Unlimited.
In a free market economy using leverage against competitors and collusion are perfectly acceptable. Free market economies are free from government interference, including consumer "rights" protection. A "free" market also doesn't include benefits granted by government for corporations (or any other grouping of individuals and their capital). Individuals may make whatever market decisions they choose, free of government interference, including grouping together to make market decisions.
The constitution is a living document only insofar as it has within it a mechanism for change. The constitutional answer to unforseeable changes in circumstance is constitutional ammendment, not picking and choosing to which parts of it the goverment feels like abiding.
You want to be able to trust your policemen to be able to abide by the law, it's paramount.
I don't know where you live, but I trust the police here about as far as I can throw them. I'll accept that most police are probably perfectly trustworthy as individuals, but it doesn't take many bad seeds to make the whole group untrustworthy. You just don't know if you're getting one of the 90 good ones, or one of the 10 lemons.
Based on the "thin blue line" good 'ole boys club that protects police from being held accountable for anything from traffic violations to premeditated murder, and the number of flagrant abuses of power by police that appear in reputable news sources, I don't trust policemen. Even if 90% of them are trustworthy as individuals, when they protect criminals in uniform they are no longer trustworthy as a group.
Ask Slashdot: I woke up with a dead hooker, how do I beat the rap?
You're looking for money in exchange for providing safety. Seems an awful lot like extortion, even if you call it something else or pretend that you "have no wish to use this for malicious purposes". You may as well just open your negotiations by threatening to start by breaking their thumbs if they don't pay up.
This is the same country where police executed an unarmed and immobilized man for wearing a winter coat on the subway. These kids should count their blessings.
Warrants aren't supposed to be issued before investigations take place. Warrants are supposed to be issued when, in the course of investigation, it comes to light that there is reason to believe that evidence will be uncovered in the course of impinging upon someones rights. Requiring judicial oversight for acquiring warrants recognizes that people have rights, and that police do not have the authority to trample those rights without just cause.
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That's the bill in question.
In the highly unlikely event that this private members bill makes it through to royal assent, it will have almost no effect. Telecoms will all make use of the exception in clause 2, subsection a:
Well, the DPI is happening before traffic finds its way (all within the Bell network) to 151 Front Street in Toronto (where ISPs provide a connection between Bell and the internet). Bell is claiming that traffic is saturating their network, necessitating throttling. So what my neighbors do IS affecting my connection (according to Bell).
Bell has claimed that your neighbors activities have no impact on your internet connection. For that to be the case, it has to be true right to the edge of their network, NOT just to the CO. If Bell wants to claim that they're not oversubscribed -within- their network (which is what they're saying when they claim that other people in your neighborhood have no impact on your conection), then the need to throttle is at the edges of their network. If that's the case, then that's where the throttling should be, and it isn't.
But keep on drinking the kool-aid.
I recall seeing Bell advertisements that DSL from Bell was better than cable, because there are "no slowdowns". I also recall advertisements, but I can't remember if they were specifically Bell advertisements, that your bandwidth was dedicated. I didn't really believe it then, and now it seems that neither does Bell.
Except that he does not have probable cause to believe that both warrants would yield results. This is comparable to getting search warrants for everyone in the county named John, if one masked bandit in a robbery is referred to by another as "John".
iTunes is licensed by the copyright holder to distribute copies of songs, under specified circumstances. Without a license to distribute EMI songs, it's entirely possible that EMI has a case under current copyright law.
[blockquote]This administration will go down in history as the most egregiously shameful, dishonest, dirty in the history of the United States.
[/blockquote]
Until the next administration, which realizes that the line for what the American public will tolerate has not yet been reached. If there's one thing politicians are good at, it's finding new ways to fuck the public.
You can always go to corporate offices and pay in pennies. In the end of a sock. Swung at speed.
Every hear of Senator Joseph McCarthy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
You do realize that Canada has similar "exigent circumstances" laws, right? And that your rights with respect to the police are not absolute, in fact evidence tainted by violation of your rights may be used against you in court? And that constitutional challenges to laws may only be made if you have standing - you must have been wronged by the law to challenge its constitutionality (well, and Parliament may request the judiciary give an opinion on a bill or law).
I agree completely that it's not non-Bell ISPs fault. I will say some blame falls on Bell for the stupidity that is cable routing. I meant to point out that even though there are other options for DSL provider, they can't provide a better connection than Bell. They can only compete on features like permitting servers, providing static address(es), and less restrictions on monthly bandwidth consumption. My point stands that I don't have excellent service at reasonable prices.
As for ADSL2, ADSL2+ or AnnexL, I'm out of luck here until Bell upgrades the slams in the area (currently G.992.1 (Annex A)). I'd be thrilled with stability and consistent sync rates.
That is the case here. The local wiring belongs to Bell here, and you can get dsl service from several different providers including Bell. Unfortunately, its the local copper here that causes my problems so other providers don't help me any. I'm not aware of any cable resellers in my area, but there are cable resellers in Toronto 100km from here.
I use www.teksavvy.com as my dsl supplier. A static address, unlimited bandwidth, and competent and friendly customer service personell I think comes to $32.95 a month. Unfortunately, all dsl suppliers in KW use Bell copper, so I'm stuck with dropouts and craptastic sync rates.
I'm curious about cable resellers in KW, but I don't know of any. The cable connection I had here worked just fine, except for the traffic throttling and prohibition on "servers".
Until a couple years ago I lived in SK. As far as I can figure, Sasktel is an anomaly among North American telephone companies. They seem to push new technology early and successfully. And for the most part at reasonable prices. Compared to Rogers, Shaw was fantastic. I'd love to have the choice between Sasktel and Shaw again, without the prairie winters that is.
I frequently see the argument made that the US (and/or Canada) is big, so internet coverage just won't work. That doesn't explain why you can't get a connection in Los Angeles, or New York, or Chicago, or Toronto that, at least within that region, which is as connections within Seoul. These are all densely populated areas, so there should be excellent telecom here. That just doesn't seem to be the case.
You must live in a different part of Canada than I do. I am fortunate enough to have a choice between cable and dsl.
Rogers throttles the shit out of the connection, imposes monthly bandwidth caps, and won't sell me service with a static address or the ability to run "servers". Gibbled service from Rogers costs about the same as cable in the US.
Bell has monthly bandwidth caps, and I get frequent disconnects and piss poor sync rates because even though I'm in a residential area of a half million person area (Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge) that they say will get 3-5Mbps I'm 6.2km wire distance from the CO that's 3km away. It took 3 months for them to figure out that my connection blows because of the wire distance. Bell will give me an unstable piece of shit line with static address and ability to run servers for $99/month. Other DSL providers use the same copper, and so provide an unstable piece of shit line, for around $30/month.
Excellent service at very reasonable prices? Not here.
It seems like you have to turn it on, so you can choose not to be uploading whenever you want. You can also change the upload/download bandwidth consumed but there aren't many choices. 256Kbps/1Mmbps, 256Kbps/2Mbps, 512Kbps/512Kbps, 512Kbps/4Mbps, 1Mbps/1Mbps, 1Mbps/8Mbps, 2Mbps/2Mbps, 4Mbps/4Mbps, Unlimited.
In a free market economy using leverage against competitors and collusion are perfectly acceptable. Free market economies are free from government interference, including consumer "rights" protection. A "free" market also doesn't include benefits granted by government for corporations (or any other grouping of individuals and their capital). Individuals may make whatever market decisions they choose, free of government interference, including grouping together to make market decisions.
The constitution is a living document only insofar as it has within it a mechanism for change. The constitutional answer to unforseeable changes in circumstance is constitutional ammendment, not picking and choosing to which parts of it the goverment feels like abiding.
I don't know where you live, but I trust the police here about as far as I can throw them. I'll accept that most police are probably perfectly trustworthy as individuals, but it doesn't take many bad seeds to make the whole group untrustworthy. You just don't know if you're getting one of the 90 good ones, or one of the 10 lemons.
Based on the "thin blue line" good 'ole boys club that protects police from being held accountable for anything from traffic violations to premeditated murder, and the number of flagrant abuses of power by police that appear in reputable news sources, I don't trust policemen. Even if 90% of them are trustworthy as individuals, when they protect criminals in uniform they are no longer trustworthy as a group.
The last game I plan on playing is Defibrillator. Sadly, I think I will not win.
Ask Slashdot: I woke up with a dead hooker, how do I beat the rap?
You're looking for money in exchange for providing safety. Seems an awful lot like extortion, even if you call it something else or pretend that you "have no wish to use this for malicious purposes". You may as well just open your negotiations by threatening to start by breaking their thumbs if they don't pay up.
This is the same country where police executed an unarmed and immobilized man for wearing a winter coat on the subway. These kids should count their blessings.
I wonder if Creative will give me a finders fee for reporting you! How dare you infringe on their novel and unique invention!
Warrants aren't supposed to be issued before investigations take place. Warrants are supposed to be issued when, in the course of investigation, it comes to light that there is reason to believe that evidence will be uncovered in the course of impinging upon someones rights. Requiring judicial oversight for acquiring warrants recognizes that people have rights, and that police do not have the authority to trample those rights without just cause.
But you could shoot George, as long as it was filmed, and on the dvd version he'd shoot first and you'd be freed!