I have six or seven routers lying around collecting dust. If I lived in Austin I'd plug them all in and then deny owning them when the police come knocking. Let's see how determined they are to find out then when they drive down Main street and spot 500 hotspots.
This whole initiative is a non-starter. In order to combat the 'scourge' of open wifi they will have to continually wardrive to look for new hotspots.
Yes it's quite different. Beat cops are assigned a territory which they patrol. As they patrol they may or may not test doors to see if they are unlocked. It's common sense that the doors should be locked when the business is closed. The owner has to physically lock or unlock the door to open or close.
Operation wardrive is not part of any police officers beat. They are going to drive around with the express purpose of finding out who has open wifi. Period.
Why would it matter if they knew it was illegal or not? The companies involved set it up to limit their own liability in case something backfired. Then they only transferred the ability to sue to Righthaven, and nothing else. This has been proven. This makes the whole Righthaven setup illegal.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
My reply was to the guy that said you can opt out via mail. So if you already clicked through Sony is giving people a way out. Their way out bricks the PS3 for people that rely on its online capabilities. If ever there was a reason to have an alternate OS this is it.
Nice move Sony. Instead of showing the world how confident you are in your new network and how secure it is, you do an end-run around your customers and try to limit your liability by removing our right to sue. You should be putting that energy into your infrastructure.
I remember your rootkit fiasco and the TOS you tried to force down peoples throats then. Seriously? If I declare bankruptcy I have to delete all my music?
STFU. We know you are George Lucas posting as an AC. Please explain how ROTJ hasn't made a profit.
ROTJ had a production budget of $32,500,000.00. Domestic Lifetime gross is $309,306,177.00.
Let's see how my math skills are. Subtract production budget from lifetime gross and we are left with $276,806,177. Then we add the foreign gross which is $165,800,000 and we have a grand total of $442,606,177. That's almost half a BILLION dollars. That's only from the box office.
What if you printed a license agreement on your camera, or attached it somehow, that said something to the effect of "Anyone that takes a picture with this camera hereby grants the copyright on any pictures taken to the camera owner."
What is different about the FTP access your paying customers get when compared to those you just cut off for 'security reasons'? What upgrades did you make to your FTP system that warrant cutting people off and charging for them? What specific security threats were you unable to counter that forced this decision?
They should sue Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney for encouraging such monstrous atrocities against nature. How many elephants and ebony trees were murdered because of the song 'Ebony and Ivory'?
No, just the ones 'like' the one I responded to. There are plenty of legitimate reasons that someone would wish to remain anonymous. But recently it has been pointed out that some of the pro-IP-enforcement blogs don't let any anonymous comments and comments must be approved.
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Colossal Waste of resources.
This whole initiative is a non-starter. In order to combat the 'scourge' of open wifi they will have to continually wardrive to look for new hotspots.
Stay classy Austin.
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Operation wardrive is not part of any police officers beat. They are going to drive around with the express purpose of finding out who has open wifi. Period.
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Go after them all.
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I remember your rootkit fiasco and the TOS you tried to force down peoples throats then. Seriously? If I declare bankruptcy I have to delete all my music?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s
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ROTJ had a production budget of $32,500,000.00. Domestic Lifetime gross is $309,306,177.00.
Let's see how my math skills are. Subtract production budget from lifetime gross and we are left with $276,806,177. Then we add the foreign gross which is $165,800,000 and we have a grand total of $442,606,177. That's almost half a BILLION dollars. That's only from the box office.
So Mr Anonymous Coward, care to elaborate?
What's that? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s
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What is different about the FTP access your paying customers get when compared to those you just cut off for 'security reasons'? What upgrades did you make to your FTP system that warrant cutting people off and charging for them? What specific security threats were you unable to counter that forced this decision?
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http://www.localharvest.org/concord-farmers-market-M1509
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