"Am I free to go?" "Am I being detained?" "Am I free to go?" "Am I being detained?" "Am I free to go?" "Am I being detained?" "Am I free to go?" "Am I being detained?"
That and their "solution" to coffee DRM is to "license" more brands to work with their reviled system. Guys, your patent expired, there's nothing to license. Just stop putting that crap on your machines.
Not that it much matters, Keurig is dead to me at this point. Let that be a lesson to the rest of you.
I get your sentiment with this, but imagine the NSA did spend 5-10 years on it and then announced to the world that they solved golden key encryption. Raise your hand if you'd touch their 'solution' with a ten foot pole.
"as they work towards thwarting the upcoming Cybergeddon."
...which they have created by undermining security at every turn, driven by crippling fear of the unknown. Now maybe they're beginning to realize our national "cyber" defense is a leaking patchwork of hole-filled damns, because they thought holes would make it easier to see the water level.
Yes, the scales are way off for personal vs corporate fines. That's why we're billing mothers $150,000 for sharing an mp3.
Let's get some perspective. Comcast made $6,816,000,000 in 2013; an $800,000 fine is 0.01174% which would translate to $6.09 if you were an American raking in the median $51,915 in 2013. Or you were a poor millionaire at the bottom of the 99% percentile it'd be $61.53 of your annual $525,000. I've had Comcast Bills that are lower...(ba dum tss) And that was just their revenue, we're off by a factor of ten from gross income apples to apples.
Or how about this specific infraction, not 'advertising' reasonable internet-only packages. Every time I looked it was around $20 more for Internet without TV; and I actually looked. It obviously didn't effect all their customers, but again the scale is tremendous. Lets call the overcharge $10 (half my observed $20) a month for three years. If 2,200 customers were over charged $360, this fine actually dinged Comcast $8,000. What are the odds more than .01% of Comcast's 22,000,000 subscribers wanted to buy Naked Internet? You bet you ass Comcast's accountants know, but we never will because they just tossed the watchdogs a nickle to stop looking.
Comcast was fined the inconsequential sum of $800,000 for its behavior.
This ain't rocket science, brain surgery or Hollywood accounting. You need to fine them more than they make with an infraction. I'd pay an $800 fine on stealing $1000 all day every day.
I poked around and my host does provide SNI, which means I can config my sites to resolve over https with a big "THIS SITE IS LYING TO YOU" warning message. I'll have to look into the free certs to get rid of that.
I don't want to make anyone else's communications less secure, but it still seems like using certified mail when I just want to send a "wish you were here" postcard. Postcards are still a thing, right?
What about the sites that aren't businesses? I have around 10 domains I run as basic informational resources, some as placeholders for my nieces and nephews when they come of age. They're served as plaintext because that's what they are, not web 2.0, no interaction, just read what you see. Are my domain costs now going to double because you decided that my publicly available photos need to be transmitted securely?
Ah, but what if the magic security elves made it so you could only use the key if your heart was pure and your intentions good? I assume they can do that too, so it's not a ridiculous proposal at all.
They're "Citizen Location Tracking Databases". Every state already has a license plate database at the DMV which has absolutely nothing to do with where cars travel.
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Re: was he required to speak to them at all?
"Am I being detained?"
"Am I free to go?"
"Am I being detained?"
"Am I free to go?"
"Am I being detained?"
"Am I free to go?"
"Am I being detained?"
...repeat ad nauseam.
On the post: Keurig CEO Sort Of (But Not Really) Apologizes For Company's Ridiculous Foray Into Obnoxious Coffee DRM
Re: That was my reaction too
Not that it much matters, Keurig is dead to me at this point. Let that be a lesson to the rest of you.
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Re: Condition conducive to "fuckery"
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Great Idea!!!
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Re: I think the idea is brilliant!
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm no expert...
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Seen Any "Cyber" Dutch Boys?
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Re: Re: Abuse of Copyright
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Let's get some perspective. Comcast made $6,816,000,000 in 2013; an $800,000 fine is 0.01174% which would translate to $6.09 if you were an American raking in the median $51,915 in 2013. Or you were a poor millionaire at the bottom of the 99% percentile it'd be $61.53 of your annual $525,000. I've had Comcast Bills that are lower...(ba dum tss) And that was just their revenue, we're off by a factor of ten from gross income apples to apples.
Or how about this specific infraction, not 'advertising' reasonable internet-only packages. Every time I looked it was around $20 more for Internet without TV; and I actually looked. It obviously didn't effect all their customers, but again the scale is tremendous. Lets call the overcharge $10 (half my observed $20) a month for three years. If 2,200 customers were over charged $360, this fine actually dinged Comcast $8,000. What are the odds more than .01% of Comcast's 22,000,000 subscribers wanted to buy Naked Internet? You bet you ass Comcast's accountants know, but we never will because they just tossed the watchdogs a nickle to stop looking.
On the post: Comcast Merger Chances Stall As Regulators Realize Comcast Meddled In Hulu Management, Ignored NBC Deal Conditions
COME ON
On the post: Netflix Moving To Encrypted Streams, As Mozilla Moves To Deprecate Unencrypted Web Pages As Insecure
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I don't want to make anyone else's communications less secure, but it still seems like using certified mail when I just want to send a "wish you were here" postcard. Postcards are still a thing, right?
On the post: Netflix Moving To Encrypted Streams, As Mozilla Moves To Deprecate Unencrypted Web Pages As Insecure
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On the post: White House Floats Idea Of Crypto Backdoor... If The Key Is Broken Into Multiple Pieces
Re: The stupid, it burns
On the post: Philly PD Declares All Drivers To Be 'Under Investigation' While Denying Request For License Plate Reader Data
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On the post: One ISP's Prices Are So Bad, It Refuses To Tell Anyone What They Are
In other words
"As much as you can pay."
On the post: DHS Takes Another Stab At License Plate Database, But This Time With More Privacy Protections And Transparency
Stop calling them "license plate databases"
On the post: CNBC Worries About Poor, Helpless Multinational Corporations Who Are Being 'Cyberbullied'
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On the post: Showtime, HBO Working With ISPs To Make Their Streaming Services Cap Exempt
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On the post: DRM; Or How To Make 30,000-Hour LED Bulbs 'Last' Only One Month
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