What is to stop an unethical PR guy from editing the page. If its a page that isn't getting the attention it needs how are the editors going to know it was edited by a PR firm.
I have a hard time believing that they are braindead, no one should be allowed run multimillion/billion dollar industries with that level of obliviousness to reality. There has to be a point to this strategy. We just don't know wha the plan is. I'll be honest I'm starting to entertain global century long conspiracy theorys to explain their strategies.
I don't know the truth of this but I remember being told a few years back that the red that Raytheon corp uses in its logo is a trademarked color. A quick search on Raytheon red and trademark doesn't show anything in Google.
Apparently there is such a thing as color trademark though or at least there's a wiki entry on it. Further proof that ip lawyers have been mucking up the system for a long time.
What would happen to the video game industry. We'd still be stuck playing doom (or whichever fps was actually the first tank battle on the atari maybe?). Every FPS game out there is built on that simple concept of game play with improvements and innovations (like jumping) on the core concept
7 hours per weeks of tv for a employed person at say $70 is $10 per hour of tv vs say 21 hours for an unemployed person per week at the same price point works out to $3.34 per hour of tv.
The employed person will be more likely to have the extra money to go out to a restaurant/bar for dinner and drinks with friends or to go out to a movie or many other activities. Time is a finite resource.
The assumption with a business closed at night is that the owner would want the doors locked and that would be a fairly reasonable assumption.
The reasons for leaving a wifi network open are varied. Me personally I leave it mine open for my convenience. There is absolutely nothing illegal or even wrong with leaving it open. It does not violate my service agreement with my ISP.
The people arguing that illegal activities may potentially happen on an open access are not thinking through the logical progression of what will happen if we go down the road of mandating encrypting connections. IF we accept the government telling us we need to lock down connections for our own good, what will be the next thing we will allow for our own good.
Maybe we need the government to mandate enforced best practices regarding passwords. After that we should mandate antivirus and security software. Then maybe enforced patching. By god we will make sure that all users of electronics are safe.
How many local, state and federal agencies are authorized to bust down a door? While I usually take any comments saying we live in a police state as a bit of hyperbole, maybe if even the department of education, or at least a semi autonomous unit of the doe, can bust down a door and handcuff people we really do live in a police state.
I agree with you mostly in theory on the resisting arrest part. I think they were a bit excessive for the situation but I'm just watching it on my computer. In actuality it may have felt threatening to the officers and that level of force was needed for those peacefully resisting being handcuffed. Duct tape over the shrill girl may have been a better option.
I have a question for you though, who gets to decide what is stupid speech. Is it obvious when I hear it.
Gahndi, King, Stanton, Anthony, Parks just to think of a few names off of the top of my head. By your comments these people were wrong and should never have done their part in the various civil rights movements they were a part of.
There is a general failure to see the forest for the trees when people look at incidents like this.
Civil disobedience is part and parcel with our country's history. Protesting, organizing and even forming crackpot militias, these are all normal things for Americans to do. or at least they used to be.
Public disturbance??? I walked through a crowed going the other way the other day, should I be arrested. A little bit of common sense and a lot less lawyers would go a long way to fixing this country.
anyone rember these words...
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Wasn't one of the factors that helped "win" the cold war the Russians determination to keep up with the US in terms of military technology. Seems to me history is being repeated once again with the US at the recieving end.
I think it can be viewed both ways. There is damages in lost productivity, missed sales, cost of the data, cost of tech support and so on. Also a DDOS doesn't have a public face. If I go to somewhere and see a physical sit in then I see the protest and I am aware that there is some sort of social issue.
If I go to a site that has been DDOS'd then all i get is a error message, but that's all just looking at effectiveness of creating a public awareness.
The total actual monetary damages are probably about the same, if you look at the cost of any police presence, lost sales and everything else.
I know for a fact that the military has a hotline for fraud waste and abuse. I seem to recall similar posters up at various government offices about who to call to report any incidences of fraud waste and abuse.
Maybe someone should educate the Representative of his options.
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Apparently there is such a thing as color trademark though or at least there's a wiki entry on it. Further proof that ip lawyers have been mucking up the system for a long time.
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The employed person will be more likely to have the extra money to go out to a restaurant/bar for dinner and drinks with friends or to go out to a movie or many other activities. Time is a finite resource.
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The reasons for leaving a wifi network open are varied. Me personally I leave it mine open for my convenience. There is absolutely nothing illegal or even wrong with leaving it open. It does not violate my service agreement with my ISP.
The people arguing that illegal activities may potentially happen on an open access are not thinking through the logical progression of what will happen if we go down the road of mandating encrypting connections. IF we accept the government telling us we need to lock down connections for our own good, what will be the next thing we will allow for our own good.
Maybe we need the government to mandate enforced best practices regarding passwords. After that we should mandate antivirus and security software. Then maybe enforced patching. By god we will make sure that all users of electronics are safe.
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I have a question for you though, who gets to decide what is stupid speech. Is it obvious when I hear it.
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Gahndi, King, Stanton, Anthony, Parks just to think of a few names off of the top of my head. By your comments these people were wrong and should never have done their part in the various civil rights movements they were a part of.
There is a general failure to see the forest for the trees when people look at incidents like this.
Civil disobedience is part and parcel with our country's history. Protesting, organizing and even forming crackpot militias, these are all normal things for Americans to do. or at least they used to be.
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anyone rember these words...
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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Re: sit in vs DDOS
If I go to a site that has been DDOS'd then all i get is a error message, but that's all just looking at effectiveness of creating a public awareness.
The total actual monetary damages are probably about the same, if you look at the cost of any police presence, lost sales and everything else.
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I know for a fact that the military has a hotline for fraud waste and abuse. I seem to recall similar posters up at various government offices about who to call to report any incidences of fraud waste and abuse.
Maybe someone should educate the Representative of his options.
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