I don't fly (can't stand security theatre) and therefore shan't bother reading aforementioned rules--it just seems like the sort of thing such government agency(ies) would do.
Agency A: Guns must be locked, unloaded, in checked luggage!
Agency B: Locked ANYTHING in your luggage means you're a terrorist!
The innovation happened; a pair of them actually and both seeded from hackers: DIVX audio/video encoding and the BitTorrent P2P protocol.
Pair the two together and it's pretty danged easy to stream acceptable quality audio/video to anybody. Plus, the more popular the video is, the faster everybody gets it.
Lately somebody actually worked out a good client for BitTorrent Streaming Video...
The "problems" are needless, they've already been solved!. But the idiots in the MAFIAA simply cannot embrace the 1990's apparently, let alone today or even (*gasp*) the future.
If you're familiar with the story--he first called and confirmed the 'out of country' rate for where he was traveling to. He then used a sane and typical amount of data while out of the country.
And then, the lying scumhole cellular company claimed he owed an outrageous fee.
Yeah! The internet is exactly like a swap meet, with dozens or hundreds of strangers exchanging goods/services for cash, and all anonymously and barely regulated!
Good thing nobody at swap meets ever does any file sharing...
Or a convention... or @ a bar mitzvahs...
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Screw this. HEY AC! Why didn't you just pull out the ol' threadbare "if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide" bullshit excuse? Can't you even stay on topic?
Naw, who'd want to be a fan of some two-bit prick who happens to be a millionaire and stomps you because you run sell a $10 "I'm a fan" tshirt (for example)? When on a good month, said tshirt sales might even top $50!
I agree with the blogs creators on this one: F**K Sony.
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Agency A: Guns must be locked, unloaded, in checked luggage!
Agency B: Locked ANYTHING in your luggage means you're a terrorist!
Ya know, that sort of thing.
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Re: !
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Sure seems like it to me.
What part of "INNOCENT until proven guilty" do you have a problem with?
You DO realize that's one of the reason's we f**king seceded from Britain, right?
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Ex pre facto...
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Ahem: Turd Sandwich vs. Giant Douche
This is what your vote always comes down to.
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Mistyped Headline?
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Re: Documentaries
Pair the two together and it's pretty danged easy to stream acceptable quality audio/video to anybody. Plus, the more popular the video is, the faster everybody gets it.
Lately somebody actually worked out a good client for BitTorrent Streaming Video...
The "problems" are needless, they've already been solved!. But the idiots in the MAFIAA simply cannot embrace the 1990's apparently, let alone today or even (*gasp*) the future.
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[Heart]
Regardless of reality or legislation, humans will always find a way to create new things. This is one of my favorite things about them.
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Got the ol' meter calibrated with that one; very nice.
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Re: Re: What about when you leave the country?
And then, the lying scumhole cellular company claimed he owed an outrageous fee.
(Troll harder.)
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Re: Or rather.
"Hey kid, you want a phone? Cool. Best get a job so you can pay for it."
TANSTAAFL.
:-)
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Dear Congress:
(Assuming I win a mult-billion dollar lottery, that is)...
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Re: Your "censorship" frame for this just doesn't work.
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
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Re: Totally!
Good thing nobody at swap meets ever does any file sharing...
Or a convention... or @ a bar mitzvahs...
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Screw this. HEY AC! Why didn't you just pull out the ol' threadbare "if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide" bullshit excuse? Can't you even stay on topic?
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Re: Re: Let's blame the victim...
FTFY
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I agree with the blogs creators on this one: F**K Sony.
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