Me too, and I'm not surprised. Wired lost its relevance a long time ago, and lost it through questionable behavior not far off from this sort of thing.
Maybe it's a regionalism, but in my part of the country "wired" refers to being under the influence of stimulants, specifically. You can be wired on caffiene, but you can't be wired on alcohol.
Yes, it's technically necessary. In order for the cell network to send radio tranmissions to your phone, it has to know which cell tower to transmit from. Therefore, it must know where the cell phone is. If it doesn't, the cell network cannot function.
The US has always loved fascism. Prior to WWII, that love was overt and not considered shameful. After WWII, that love persists but now must be disguised or hidden.
That the folks in charge of security don't agree with you is borne out by the fact that you are not required to use locks at all.
Although I try to avoid checking baggage ever, when I do I never lock my luggage. It seems pointless to me since TSA employees either have a key or will cut my lock anyway. And yet the TSA has never complained about my lack of locking.
Multinational corporations don't care one bit about "democratic" values (or any values beyond profit). The only value they care about is money. Period.
I understand your point, but if I am going to sacrifice my job to take a political stand, it will be for something a lot more important than cable prices.
Slide to unlock is not intended to be a security feature. It is only intended to be a way to prevent accidental operation of the phone such as pocket dialing.
"When you start with the correct premise, which is that patents are property rights, then the court's statement about the public interest favoring an injunction makes sense."
The "skinny bundle" is nothing but a PR scam, intended to allow companies to claim that people aren't interested in something other than the fattest, most lucrative options they offer. It doesn't appeal to many people because it's not intended to. It doesn't address the problems that are causing people to cut cable.
As someone who ditched cable TV years ago, I can honestly say that I don't miss it at all. When I see cable now, it reminds me of what a crappy product cable TV actually is. It is so bad in my eyes that I wouldn't take it if it were free.
"I'll keep beating the same drum: Boycott or bend over"
You say that like it's a feasible thing to do. For many people, it's not. The only place I can get broadband service is from Comcast, so boycotting them means I have no more broadband internet at all. I cannot afford to be without broadband internet.
Computers don't have MAC addresses, communications adapters do. That said, I once built an ethernet adapter for my C64 (I'm a weird hobbyist), so it had a MAC address!
"wouldn't what he just has done as "trademark squatting"?"
No need to even give it a special name. If you register a trademark and then fail to use it in commerce, it's just like you didn't register the trademark.
"The most important is that DMCA as a concept is a way to allow for "oops, I infringed your work, sorry" without a lawsuit and without costs or punishment. The other side of that is "oops, I squished your fair use, sorry" that should (and is) given about equal weight."
If that's the most important part of the concept, then the DMCA is a total and unmitigated failure.
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Maybe it's a regionalism, but in my part of the country "wired" refers to being under the influence of stimulants, specifically. You can be wired on caffiene, but you can't be wired on alcohol.
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That did help. It helped make me even angrier at this malfunctioning system that is causing real people real harm.
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And who pays for those insurance policies?
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Although I try to avoid checking baggage ever, when I do I never lock my luggage. It seems pointless to me since TSA employees either have a key or will cut my lock anyway. And yet the TSA has never complained about my lack of locking.
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Umm, no, it doesn't.
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Skinny bundle scam
As someone who ditched cable TV years ago, I can honestly say that I don't miss it at all. When I see cable now, it reminds me of what a crappy product cable TV actually is. It is so bad in my eyes that I wouldn't take it if it were free.
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You say that like it's a feasible thing to do. For many people, it's not. The only place I can get broadband service is from Comcast, so boycotting them means I have no more broadband internet at all. I cannot afford to be without broadband internet.
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In my state, city cops wear blue, state troopers wear brown, SWAT teams wear black.
Blue has absolutely not gone away.
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How I wish this were true.
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No need to even give it a special name. If you register a trademark and then fail to use it in commerce, it's just like you didn't register the trademark.
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If that's the most important part of the concept, then the DMCA is a total and unmitigated failure.
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