Somehow free clinics manage to stay afloat too. That doesn't mean that a hospital doesn't have a different, and higher set of fixed and dynamic costs.
The service provided by BATTLE.NET can't really be compared to the service provided by the everquest server farms, AO, DAoC, or any other MMORPG. They're completely different services, with completely different needs.
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Yes, it is a crime. Trespassing.
Additionally, while using the bathroom, (s)he would be depriving you of your use of that room. Likewise, you are depriving that network of one of its dhcp/bootp allotments. Its a bad comparison, though.
If you're out searching for networks you can connect to, thats quite different from accidentally connecting to one when you meant to be connecting to one to which you are an authorized user. Looking around for open networks is closer to going and trying the front and back doors of every house on your block, than to walking in an open door. You are taking action to locate insecurities. There is no reasonable analogy to stumbling into an insecure network, though.
Either way, you're an asshole if you're intentionally trying to gain access to networks to which you're not authorized. Same as you're an asshole if you try to break into my house. I don't care if I did leave the front door open, that isn't an invitation or authorization for you to be there.
Might be a little shortsighted, but I'd rather go to the joint than have to work for the rest of my life with no chance of ever paying off my debts. Somehow I doubt that Chris would be able to pay the fines, in a dozen lifetimes even, for his violations, at (correct me if I'm wrong) $10,000 per violation. Giving up 3 years doesn't seem as bad as giving up an entire lifetime of work.
Rolling another 300-400$ into tuition isn't really fair to the mass of students who don't consume any bandwidth. If you're going to be providing dsl-like or cable-like service, it would make more sense (to me anyway) to wire the dorm for dsl, or cable. Let students get cable, or dsl on their own dime. The cost is infrastructure (which many cable companies will help to offset, since its more business that they wouldn't otherwise have).
Why do you think you're entitled to Symantec or McAfee treating you differently from their American consumers?
You, being the consumer, have the choice of not purchasing their products. If you can't find a replacement, get involved in the production of a replacement. Otherwise, shut the fuck up and go on your merry way.
How exactly is this a response to an 'Open Source' effort?
Open source without the manufacturers/authors permission isn't really open source, its open theft.
Anyone claiming that its not theft can sod off, as can anyone claiming that producers/manufacturers/authors shouldn't have the opportunity to choose between selling or giving away their work.
Hypocrisy is what slashdot is all about. Wasn't so long ago that the same morons who are snivelling now about the injustice were screaming about how the inidividual should be prosecuted instead of napster.
>>If the community deems that these things are offensive, and should have a restricted audience, what's the problem?
And if the community deems that blacks are offensive, and should be restricted, what's the problem?
And if the community deems that catholic ministries are offensive, and should have a restricted audience, what's the problem?
And if the community deems that open source software is offensive, and should have a restricted audience, what's the problem?
The problem is that the rights of the individual are being grossly violated to give the average, incompetent parents a way out of raising their child. Not only are individual rights infringed upon, but the rights of the business are also being tread upon.
If individual businesses, chose to separate violent, or sexually suggestive arcade games from the rest on their own, thats acceptable. If individual consumers encouraged the business to do so, and doing so became the only way for that business to be profitable, that too is acceptable. It is unacceptable for the rights of the business, and consumer to be infringed by legislation.
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Somehow free clinics manage to stay afloat too. That doesn't mean that a hospital doesn't have a different, and higher set of fixed and dynamic costs.
The service provided by BATTLE.NET can't really be compared to the service provided by the everquest server farms, AO, DAoC, or any other MMORPG. They're completely different services, with completely different needs.
Yes, it is a crime. Trespassing.
Additionally, while using the bathroom, (s)he would be depriving you of your use of that room. Likewise, you are depriving that network of one of its dhcp/bootp allotments. Its a bad comparison, though.
If you're out searching for networks you can connect to, thats quite different from accidentally connecting to one when you meant to be connecting to one to which you are an authorized user. Looking around for open networks is closer to going and trying the front and back doors of every house on your block, than to walking in an open door. You are taking action to locate insecurities. There is no reasonable analogy to stumbling into an insecure network, though.
Either way, you're an asshole if you're intentionally trying to gain access to networks to which you're not authorized. Same as you're an asshole if you try to break into my house. I don't care if I did leave the front door open, that isn't an invitation or authorization for you to be there.
Might be a little shortsighted, but I'd rather go to the joint than have to work for the rest of my life with no chance of ever paying off my debts. Somehow I doubt that Chris would be able to pay the fines, in a dozen lifetimes even, for his violations, at (correct me if I'm wrong) $10,000 per violation. Giving up 3 years doesn't seem as bad as giving up an entire lifetime of work.
Rolling another 300-400$ into tuition isn't really fair to the mass of students who don't consume any bandwidth. If you're going to be providing dsl-like or cable-like service, it would make more sense (to me anyway) to wire the dorm for dsl, or cable. Let students get cable, or dsl on their own dime. The cost is infrastructure (which many cable companies will help to offset, since its more business that they wouldn't otherwise have).
Why do you think you're entitled to Symantec or McAfee treating you differently from their American consumers?
You, being the consumer, have the choice of not purchasing their products. If you can't find a replacement, get involved in the production of a replacement. Otherwise, shut the fuck up and go on your merry way.
How exactly is this a response to an 'Open Source' effort?
Open source without the manufacturers/authors permission isn't really open source, its open theft.
Anyone claiming that its not theft can sod off, as can anyone claiming that producers/manufacturers/authors shouldn't have the opportunity to choose between selling or giving away their work.
Hypocrisy is what slashdot is all about. Wasn't so long ago that the same morons who are snivelling now about the injustice were screaming about how the inidividual should be prosecuted instead of napster.
And if the community deems that blacks are offensive, and should be restricted, what's the problem?
And if the community deems that catholic ministries are offensive, and should have a restricted audience, what's the problem?
And if the community deems that open source software is offensive, and should have a restricted audience, what's the problem?
The problem is that the rights of the individual are being grossly violated to give the average, incompetent parents a way out of raising their child. Not only are individual rights infringed upon, but the rights of the business are also being tread upon.
If individual businesses, chose to separate violent, or sexually suggestive arcade games from the rest on their own, thats acceptable. If individual consumers encouraged the business to do so, and doing so became the only way for that business to be profitable, that too is acceptable. It is unacceptable for the rights of the business, and consumer to be infringed by legislation.