Using multiple free accounts? Automatically reading a webpage? Sounds like something I wouldn't lose sleep over if I were doing it for my personal use. There's nothing inherently immoral about breaking a ToS, in fact some of the things they put in those are immoral. It's not illegal to break a ToS either, but it can get you banned from the website. It's really just... cheezy.
The main problem here is that these are temporary solutions. Fine for a one-time operation, but you can't rely on them past a month. If it's something your company wants forever, they'll have to pay you to keep doing it/updating it, and deal with the downtime everytime the website changes or the free service closes your accounts.
AT&T obviously has some deep government connections, they've got senators thinking that what's good for AT&T is good for America. They wrote the previous law, they can unwrite it. The trick will be how to include themselves and exclude their competitors... and I'm sure they'll try to stick people with open wifi ports too.
This is a common theme in abuse of power... it's paranoia that people are out to get you, out to destroy everything. And the paranoia is used as justification for evil acts. Here's an idea: the people who own the servers aren't going to shut it down unless they want to. Armed guards aren't going to show up and take away the servers. Banning someone that speaks freely doesn't have anything to do with "an agenda to take it all down". It's hypocritical to condemn China for censoring journalists and websites, and then turn around and censor someone complaining about abuse of power.
People figure out how to get Linux to run on a PS2, because its interesting and opens some possibilities. I'm sure Microsoft would like to find out how to make their OS run on lower-end hardware, even if they don't use XO they could use some other device. They can buy these things for $100 each, put Windows on them, and sell for $150. People would buy it
Do you get put on secret trial in a secret court? Or secret penalties from the IRS?
What he should do is look at the info himself, and decide if something is suspicious. If it looks like something illegal going on, help out the FBI, if not then make them get a judge involved, and protect the privacy of his customer in the meantime.
The bill isn't about cherry-picking... exposing it is just a nice side effect. It's about learning which areas do not have broadband, so that government can take action to fill the holes. The complaints are that competitors will have to do less work to see where the other is deployed. Well duh, the free market solving this problem would be ideal for the voters. If it doesn't work, then government subsidies could be considered. No where does it say that they should be punished for cherry-picking, it's not a valid argument against passing this bill.
Hey I've got the same system, without the 3 year support. The motherboard had flaky ethernet ports, they sent someone over a few days later to replace the motherboard under warranty support. He had a different model motherboard, so they drove up another motherboard within an hour.
I'm just trying to paint a balanced picture. The motherboard has a built in raid controller, but it's only supported on Windows. Even though Sun sells it, they don't have a driver for it. Linux probably does. But service companies haven't done a good job of advertising the kind of support that Sun is known for. And I doubt they offer service agreements in all the countries that Sun does.
Linux beats it in hardware support, but Sun has the whole overpriced reliability image which some might find attractive. If you're paying the big bucks you can get a good response from Sun, though I'd suspect people working on Linux could make those bucks go further.
People don't want to have to pay extra for something they were getting already. And we certainly don't want server operators to pay more for what they were getting standard. Besides that, we don't want things being blocked or intentionally degraded. Simply, keep the same user experience as now without increasing the price. If network providers aren't making a profit, then raise prices and let the market deal with it.
Rocket failure is part of launching satellites, losing all their hard work for something stupid is something that happens a lot in the space industry. They should be glad that they aren't out 20 million dollars for a real satellite, which is part of the job.
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Using multiple free accounts? Automatically reading a webpage? Sounds like something I wouldn't lose sleep over if I were doing it for my personal use. There's nothing inherently immoral about breaking a ToS, in fact some of the things they put in those are immoral. It's not illegal to break a ToS either, but it can get you banned from the website. It's really just... cheezy. The main problem here is that these are temporary solutions. Fine for a one-time operation, but you can't rely on them past a month. If it's something your company wants forever, they'll have to pay you to keep doing it/updating it, and deal with the downtime everytime the website changes or the free service closes your accounts.
AT&T obviously has some deep government connections, they've got senators thinking that what's good for AT&T is good for America. They wrote the previous law, they can unwrite it. The trick will be how to include themselves and exclude their competitors... and I'm sure they'll try to stick people with open wifi ports too.
This is a common theme in abuse of power... it's paranoia that people are out to get you, out to destroy everything. And the paranoia is used as justification for evil acts. Here's an idea: the people who own the servers aren't going to shut it down unless they want to. Armed guards aren't going to show up and take away the servers. Banning someone that speaks freely doesn't have anything to do with "an agenda to take it all down". It's hypocritical to condemn China for censoring journalists and websites, and then turn around and censor someone complaining about abuse of power.
People figure out how to get Linux to run on a PS2, because its interesting and opens some possibilities. I'm sure Microsoft would like to find out how to make their OS run on lower-end hardware, even if they don't use XO they could use some other device. They can buy these things for $100 each, put Windows on them, and sell for $150. People would buy it
Do you get put on secret trial in a secret court? Or secret penalties from the IRS? What he should do is look at the info himself, and decide if something is suspicious. If it looks like something illegal going on, help out the FBI, if not then make them get a judge involved, and protect the privacy of his customer in the meantime.
The bill isn't about cherry-picking... exposing it is just a nice side effect. It's about learning which areas do not have broadband, so that government can take action to fill the holes. The complaints are that competitors will have to do less work to see where the other is deployed. Well duh, the free market solving this problem would be ideal for the voters. If it doesn't work, then government subsidies could be considered. No where does it say that they should be punished for cherry-picking, it's not a valid argument against passing this bill.
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Hey I've got the same system, without the 3 year support. The motherboard had flaky ethernet ports, they sent someone over a few days later to replace the motherboard under warranty support. He had a different model motherboard, so they drove up another motherboard within an hour. I'm just trying to paint a balanced picture. The motherboard has a built in raid controller, but it's only supported on Windows. Even though Sun sells it, they don't have a driver for it. Linux probably does. But service companies haven't done a good job of advertising the kind of support that Sun is known for. And I doubt they offer service agreements in all the countries that Sun does.
Linux beats it in hardware support, but Sun has the whole overpriced reliability image which some might find attractive. If you're paying the big bucks you can get a good response from Sun, though I'd suspect people working on Linux could make those bucks go further.
Dwarf Fortress was the funnest game I've played all year. And I played it more than I played FFXI!
People don't want to have to pay extra for something they were getting already. And we certainly don't want server operators to pay more for what they were getting standard. Besides that, we don't want things being blocked or intentionally degraded. Simply, keep the same user experience as now without increasing the price. If network providers aren't making a profit, then raise prices and let the market deal with it.
Rocket failure is part of launching satellites, losing all their hard work for something stupid is something that happens a lot in the space industry. They should be glad that they aren't out 20 million dollars for a real satellite, which is part of the job.