I meant a router at Comcast's property. A larger router than a home router. A router handling all of Comcast's customers* in and out bound traffic. Could it overcharge?
* people more privileged than regular customers use a separate internal network which actually works.
Maybe the US should invest more resources in DEFENDING from cyber attacks and less into preserving or even creating vulnerabilities and keeping them secret.
I can think of reasons why one would think this way.
A bully in school thinks that violence is the solution to all problems.
A physical attack is a response to an intellectual attack perpetrated by smart people.
If she intends to have policies that cause the US to not excel in the STEM fields, then a real military attack may be the only option. If you have no real geeks. When a nation has to outsource development of its cyberweapons.
Maybe she can ignore the hypocrisy of the NSA quietly spying on everyone else. And the NSA and possibly Israel being the first to give cyberweapons a try.
Another reason is that it is simply unthinkable to the military industrial complex not to be in a continuous state of undeclared war. War is simply too profitable. The greatness of a nation requires campaign contributions which requires obscene executive bonuses which requires excess profitability. We have to use up physical weapons in order to have a need to replenish them.
And hey, you can still cyber attack back while also engaging in a physical attack.
The physical attack could be distraction for the cyber attack.
Since when would local donut eaters care about the local legality vs the federal illegality. Jurisdiction? Authority? You use such strange words. Constitution? Rights?
I'm sure that Hillary carefully considers and ponders most lies.
Trump says whatever lies are convenient at the moment, without regard to previous things said, or earlier commitments, or any intention of actually honoring what he says. Stream of consciousness lying. Like how the wind changes direction on a whim.
I'm not sure which style of lying is more similar to Comcast.
So if a router just happened to 'mysteriously' have one bit flipped in a checksumed packet, making that packet useless, you could count any NAK and retransmission against the customer's bandwidth? Cool!
I wonder if Comcast's routers could one day have a statistically improbable number of cosmic ray events causing 1 bit packet errors?
Comcast was measuring usage in Comcast(tm) Megabytes. Not in inferior unbranded "megabytes" that have no particular value.
The measurement in Comcast Megabytes was, if anything, favorable to the consumer.
Notice: the definition of Comcast Megabytes is subject to change without notice. Your bandwidth limit is also measured in Comcast Megabytes. Without doing this Comcast would be unable to properly manage its network operations.
Good question. What will cops do with their time in 10 years when weed is legal in all states.
Answer. It will still be illegal at the federal level. So cops won't have enough time in the day to stop every single vehicle on every road, everywhere, bound from or to any US state. Because every state is a drug source state.
Making it legal at state level and illegal at federal level is the wet dream of the DOJ, FBI, local law enforcement and anyone else who wants to have automatic blanket suspicion of anybody, anywhere, any time.
It won't just be a 100 mile constitution free zone around the border anymore. The entire US will be a constitution free zone.
Call me crazy. But every paranoid thing in the last 10 years has come true.
They can also be employed for humanitarian operations.
Followed immediately by a 3 item list of things that sound like what any fascist tyrant dictator police state repressive regime needs to maintain control of its population. 1. Counter terrorism and organized crime operations 2. Situational control, enabling identification and network denial of cellular devices through ‘intelligent’ jamming, including creating controlled areas of coverage. 3. Suspect geo-locating capabilities Wow, great humanitarian operations.
I wonder what the FCC would say about importing a foreign made product that does item 2 above? We want to make sure the police cell phones work, but not their victims.
More importantly, the fact that local law enforcement sees themselves as some kind of occupying invasion army, and sees the citizens as those to conduct "counter terrorism" against, should be, but no longer is, shocking.
This combined with viral video documented behavior of police in recent years should give anyone serious doubts that police would have any kind of restraint about listening to calls or intercepting messages of citizens. For no reason at all. Just because they can.
Hey, you were looking suspicious! Hand over your phone for a deeply intrusive search of its contents.
And they wonder why everyone wants to use encrypted communications. And encrypted phone storage. They brought it on themselves. They started a war and escalated it.
Re: Long time ago in a board meeting far away......
Memo to faculty:
Because of the new password complexity rules enforced by the system, you may find it difficult to create an acceptable password.
Therefore, the IT department has created a very secure password. This secure password is being distributed to all faculty. Because it is difficult to memorize, you may need to write it down.
All faculty and students are to begin using this password at once.
Don't be too harsh on the school personnel. They are trying to be good role models for the kiddies.
This really inspires confidence in the district's technology teachers. (shoot the messenger)
And how dare parents ever be skeptical about new technology at school! The parents are supposed to demonstrate to students how to be compliant robots and respect authority. Doing otherwise undermines the school's mission.
But then, we need some fixed percentage of students who graduate or drop out to become the inmates who keep the for-profit prisons filled. Schools need to consider the prison system's shareholder value, and how it contributes to the local economy (somewhere).
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Re: Re: Re: Perhaps ....
* people more privileged than regular customers use a separate internal network which actually works.
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A bully in school thinks that violence is the solution to all problems.
A physical attack is a response to an intellectual attack perpetrated by smart people.
If she intends to have policies that cause the US to not excel in the STEM fields, then a real military attack may be the only option. If you have no real geeks. When a nation has to outsource development of its cyberweapons.
Maybe she can ignore the hypocrisy of the NSA quietly spying on everyone else. And the NSA and possibly Israel being the first to give cyberweapons a try.
Another reason is that it is simply unthinkable to the military industrial complex not to be in a continuous state of undeclared war. War is simply too profitable. The greatness of a nation requires campaign contributions which requires obscene executive bonuses which requires excess profitability. We have to use up physical weapons in order to have a need to replenish them.
And hey, you can still cyber attack back while also engaging in a physical attack.
The physical attack could be distraction for the cyber attack.
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Re: Re: Re: The Hell
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Re: Nebraska
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Re: Re: Re: The Hell
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Re: Pathological liar
I'm sure that Hillary carefully considers and ponders most lies.
Trump says whatever lies are convenient at the moment, without regard to previous things said, or earlier commitments, or any intention of actually honoring what he says. Stream of consciousness lying. Like how the wind changes direction on a whim.
I'm not sure which style of lying is more similar to Comcast.
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Re: Perhaps ....
So if a router just happened to 'mysteriously' have one bit flipped in a checksumed packet, making that packet useless, you could count any NAK and retransmission against the customer's bandwidth? Cool!
I wonder if Comcast's routers could one day have a statistically improbable number of cosmic ray events causing 1 bit packet errors?
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Re:
* theater capacity is 3,000 seats
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A question of measurement units
The measurement in Comcast Megabytes was, if anything, favorable to the consumer.
Notice: the definition of Comcast Megabytes is subject to change without notice. Your bandwidth limit is also measured in Comcast Megabytes. Without doing this Comcast would be unable to properly manage its network operations.
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Re: The Hell
Answer. It will still be illegal at the federal level. So cops won't have enough time in the day to stop every single vehicle on every road, everywhere, bound from or to any US state. Because every state is a drug source state.
Making it legal at state level and illegal at federal level is the wet dream of the DOJ, FBI, local law enforcement and anyone else who wants to have automatic blanket suspicion of anybody, anywhere, any time.
It won't just be a 100 mile constitution free zone around the border anymore. The entire US will be a constitution free zone.
Call me crazy. But every paranoid thing in the last 10 years has come true.
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Re: Re: The Hell
(Unless you were truly sarcastic, meaning you expect the police will somehow eliminate all people of color, but I doubt you actually meant that.)
The sad thing is that racist police will still exist.
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Re: Cobham
Is it a typo? FTFY?
"The most important thing we think we build is trust."
(but if we told you, we'd have to kill you.)
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NYPD: If you've done nothing wrong . . .
Isn't that what you tell people?
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Wow
1. Counter terrorism and organized crime operations
2. Situational control, enabling identification and network denial of cellular devices through ‘intelligent’ jamming, including creating controlled areas of coverage.
3. Suspect geo-locating capabilities
Wow, great humanitarian operations.
I wonder what the FCC would say about importing a foreign made product that does item 2 above? We want to make sure the police cell phones work, but not their victims.
More importantly, the fact that local law enforcement sees themselves as some kind of occupying invasion army, and sees the citizens as those to conduct "counter terrorism" against, should be, but no longer is, shocking.
This combined with viral video documented behavior of police in recent years should give anyone serious doubts that police would have any kind of restraint about listening to calls or intercepting messages of citizens. For no reason at all. Just because they can.
Hey, you were looking suspicious! Hand over your phone for a deeply intrusive search of its contents.
And they wonder why everyone wants to use encrypted communications. And encrypted phone storage. They brought it on themselves. They started a war and escalated it.
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NYPD: How to save paper
C'mon. It's time! Move into the 20th century!
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Re: Ah the ever popular 'Shut up' lawsuit...
"If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide."
Or, if you've done nothing wrong, you don't have to worry about anything showing up on WikiLeaks. What happens in Vegas, stays on YouTube.
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Re: Long time ago in a board meeting far away......
Because of the new password complexity rules enforced by the system, you may find it difficult to create an acceptable password.
Therefore, the IT department has created a very secure password. This secure password is being distributed to all faculty. Because it is difficult to memorize, you may need to write it down.
All faculty and students are to begin using this password at once.
The Local School Board and Superintendent
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Re: Re: Re: And the moral of the story (and many others)?
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Think of the children!
This really inspires confidence in the district's technology teachers. (shoot the messenger)
And how dare parents ever be skeptical about new technology at school! The parents are supposed to demonstrate to students how to be compliant robots and respect authority. Doing otherwise undermines the school's mission.
But then, we need some fixed percentage of students who graduate or drop out to become the inmates who keep the for-profit prisons filled. Schools need to consider the prison system's shareholder value, and how it contributes to the local economy (somewhere).
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