When you rank behind EA in customer service, you have to think that there's something amiss.
I don't take issue with most of your points, but citation needed here. As someone that has actually tried to play an EA game in the recent past, Valve is no where near as awful to their customers as EA.
Do not burden us with your paltery facts or logic, we want the unrestrained ability to make war on whom ever we choose without the need to justify anything to the plebs.
AFAICT that is the point that Mr Green is making. If you let policy purposefully weaken security, it will eventually be exploited. "Nobody but us" is a fallacy.
This might be academic if it was just a history lesson — but for the past several months, U.S. and European politicians have been publicly mooting the notion of a new set of cryptographic backdoors in systems we use today. This would involve deliberately weakening technology so that governments can intercept and read our conversations. While officials are carefully avoiding the term “back door” — or any suggestion of weakening our encryption systes — this is wishful thinking.
The problem with all phones is that you can't secure them fully. Period. There is no way. The baseband is a mysterious black box chip that has shared access to the system RAM and nothing short of a fully open source implementation of LTE or GSM or whatever will fix that.
The black phone sequesters the baseband and only powers it up when it's being used.
There is no way to achieve that with even the most tin foil totting custom ROM on a standard handset.
Such goodwill concessions may seem impressive as Comcast seeks to foster goodwill, but one wonders how Comcast/Time Warner will behave after the merger.
If you think they will do anything other than go back to being the giant pile of donkey feces that they have always been, you need to share what you are on.
When I last had both available in an area, it didn't make much difference who you picked, the service was decent and close to the same cost. However, I now live in an area where only Comcast is avaiable and I am being screwed for a connection that barely sees 10% of the max throughput and Comcast couldn't care less. Even if there isn't a significant difference in cost for performance, having the option forces them both to be a little more honest.
Aspyr (the company that has handled Mac and Linux ports for 2k) has been having a rough time keeping games in sync with the Windows release. Borderlands suffered for all of Decemeber and Beyond earth was broken for about a week. I wouldn't surprise me if that relationship has soured.
The continuing sync problems between the versions of other games has got me questioning if I would even buy this game if/when it was available on Linux.
I do not know about Maryland in specific, but I have an Aunt that is a Guardian Ad Litem for children in another state. As soon as CPS is involved, you as a parent are essentially fucked. You will be forever on a watch list an if _anything_ bad happens to your kids they will immediately get involved.
They have very broad powers to reomove children after a report like this and even if discussing it with a lawyer would have brought them back same day, the CPS still could have taken the kids.
I suppose it does reinforce the lesson that authority should be mistrusted.
He does a good job of calling out pretty much everything expressed here. As well as highlighting some of the half-truthes and/or complete lies in the letter.
IIRC the advertising around the iPod never mentioned the restriction and it was in place to force adoption of iTunes (and more importantly the iTunes store) _only_. Most companies get slapped for this kind of behavior, it surprises me that it took Apple this long.
"It's unlikely that a high school student would come away with any other conclusion than the police are a fearful group to be avoided at all costs"
But is that the case for anyone that is not white and in NYC? Any place that determines it is okay for the police to stop and hassle a citizen because they differ from the majority in some way is a place where the police should be feared and avoided at all costs.
It isn't forgotten, rather the whole point of the supression. With this new tool, the UK government can classify any speech it doesn't like as terrorist or extremist material.
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When you rank behind EA in customer service, you have to think that there's something amiss.
I don't take issue with most of your points, but citation needed here. As someone that has actually tried to play an EA game in the recent past, Valve is no where near as awful to their customers as EA.
You get up with fleas
You won the internets! Now I need to clean the coffee off my face and keyboard.
Do not burden us with your paltery facts or logic, we want the unrestrained ability to make war on whom ever we choose without the need to justify anything to the plebs.
AFAICT that is the point that Mr Green is making. If you let policy purposefully weaken security, it will eventually be exploited. "Nobody but us" is a fallacy.
This might be academic if it was just a history lesson — but for the past several months, U.S. and European politicians have been publicly mooting the notion of a new set of cryptographic backdoors in systems we use today. This would involve deliberately weakening technology so that governments can intercept and read our conversations. While officials are carefully avoiding the term “back door” — or any suggestion of weakening our encryption systes — this is wishful thinking.
The problem with all phones is that you can't secure them fully. Period. There is no way. The baseband is a mysterious black box chip that has shared access to the system RAM and nothing short of a fully open source implementation of LTE or GSM or whatever will fix that.
The black phone sequesters the baseband and only powers it up when it's being used.
There is no way to achieve that with even the most tin foil totting custom ROM on a standard handset.
FTFY
Oh, you want an argument, this is abuse.
Unfortunately, that is also the only section that mentions anything close to specifics of what Mr. Wheeler wants to do.
I propose to fully apply—for the first time ever—those bright-line rules to mobile broadband.
Anyone worried that this is already starting to water down?
NoFX said it best live even
I wish I had mod points for you, becuase this needs one.
Such goodwill concessions may seem impressive as Comcast seeks to foster goodwill, but one wonders how Comcast/Time Warner will behave after the merger.
If you think they will do anything other than go back to being the giant pile of donkey feces that they have always been, you need to share what you are on.
When I last had both available in an area, it didn't make much difference who you picked, the service was decent and close to the same cost. However, I now live in an area where only Comcast is avaiable and I am being screwed for a connection that barely sees 10% of the max throughput and Comcast couldn't care less. Even if there isn't a significant difference in cost for performance, having the option forces them both to be a little more honest.
The next time you get to vote on if your senator is a hoax...
Aspyr (the company that has handled Mac and Linux ports for 2k) has been having a rough time keeping games in sync with the Windows release. Borderlands suffered for all of Decemeber and Beyond earth was broken for about a week. I wouldn't surprise me if that relationship has soured.
The continuing sync problems between the versions of other games has got me questioning if I would even buy this game if/when it was available on Linux.
What ever drives the clicks...
I do not know about Maryland in specific, but I have an Aunt that is a Guardian Ad Litem for children in another state. As soon as CPS is involved, you as a parent are essentially fucked. You will be forever on a watch list an if _anything_ bad happens to your kids they will immediately get involved.
They have very broad powers to reomove children after a report like this and even if discussing it with a lawyer would have brought them back same day, the CPS still could have taken the kids.
I suppose it does reinforce the lesson that authority should be mistrusted.
He does a good job of calling out pretty much everything expressed here. As well as highlighting some of the half-truthes and/or complete lies in the letter.
IIRC the advertising around the iPod never mentioned the restriction and it was in place to force adoption of iTunes (and more importantly the iTunes store) _only_. Most companies get slapped for this kind of behavior, it surprises me that it took Apple this long.
"It's unlikely that a high school student would come away with any other conclusion than the police are a fearful group to be avoided at all costs"
But is that the case for anyone that is not white and in NYC? Any place that determines it is okay for the police to stop and hassle a citizen because they differ from the majority in some way is a place where the police should be feared and avoided at all costs.
Becase drone makes a headline more catchy than quad-copter or RC helicopter. No one outside of RC aircraft would click something like:
"Ohio College Building Indoor RC Aircraft Pavilion"
But call it a drone and now everyone is all over it.
It isn't forgotten, rather the whole point of the supression. With this new tool, the UK government can classify any speech it doesn't like as terrorist or extremist material.
Oh Noes! Blinded with science
I wish I had mod points to mod you up
Sometimes I wish /. had an irony tag. It would help identify the trolls from the indoctrinated.