Yes I am mad at morons who think sending bomb threats is a good prank and all the other people that abuse different services in such ways.
I'm more angry though at the government and their over reaction. When a fly gets in your house do you grab a damn shovel and start swinging it around your kitchen? That is exactly the kind of grace and intelligence our government keeps showing.
The governments reaction to a lot of online crime does more damage than the criminal they are going after. It makes no sense when chasing a fleeing criminal do you shut down the airline he happened to use?
Yes, capacity cost money, but we are already charged by how much capacity we are allowed to use. Now they are trying to limit us even more. These limits are not going to help with the amount of traffic at peak times. In fact I could see it making things worse. You will now have heavy network traffic at the start of each month and very light traffic at the end. So instead of solving the problem you condensed it into a bigger problem.
Ahh, and you compare internet to gas, a somewhat fitting comparison sense both seem to be ruled by something other then strictly supply and demand. You ever notice that the price of oil goes up and instantly the cost of gas jumps but when oil goes down gas price lingers for a while before adjusting if it ever bothers to at all.
If you really want to compare it to something like gas then how about the providers truly charge that way? Don't put a cap on it just change over to charging by the MB. That would truly be supply and demand. The issue is that they want more money and they know that you have no where else to go.
Like in my case, I have DSL because there are no other high speed options. The cable company refuses to run the cable to where our house is located and the high speed wireless options are not practical. So they have nothing to fear by raping us because the options are accept the cost or live without the net. At least with gas if one station charges a dollar more than the one across the street then you have the option to drive across the street.
I would just like to make the prediction that as we see a rise in data caps I bet we will also see a rise in war driving. It will be the dawn of the bandwidth pirates!
The problem is that the caps don't solve anything. All they do is anger customers. Yes you can have a nice pretty bar showing usage and all that. The trouble is that still leaves you having to sit and plan out what you want to do online.
It is obvious from comments like yours that people still do not understand the role internet plays in a lot of peoples lives. It is used constantly by people like me. I am always on the net talking to people, streaming video or music, playing online games, doing research, ect.
The internet is a large part of life. Putting a limit on data greatly interferes with many aspects of what I do on a daily basis. I then have to choose do I give up communicating for a week or more so I can stream this video?
"txt files on 5.25" floppies are next to useless these days and even 3.5" floppies are getting hard to read."
So does it just make me a huge geek that I still have a Packard Bell machine that will read both of these? Good old Dos and Windows 3.11 machine that runs beautifully.
Guess the point is that so long as you A) Update as you go keeping your stuff in new formats OR B) Just hang on to old hardware. Then you are fine. Sure the format might not still be used in ten years, but if you still have the old hardware then you can still read it.
You greatly underestimate the "freeloaders" none of these measures will stop them from "unlawfully appropriating content". I have not seen any laws come up that made me worry that piracy would vanish. I have seen some on the other hand that would destroy large chunks of the internet that are perfectly legal.
Yes those 60% of files might not be majority of the sites traffic but it is kind of hard to say that over half the files on the site don't mean at least something.
Really though all this is unimportant without all the data. I have come to greatly distrust ANY AND ALL "studies". Anyone who knows anything about statistics knows that you can play with the numbers to make them say whatever you want. The only way I trust any of these "studies" is if I have access to ALL the data.
Sadly that would be the most deadly virus ever created. Just stop and think how many things in your day to day life have been plastered with legalese to protect company from being sued.
So is it just me who feels this would be a great file for everyone to send to any politician who keeps trying to pass poor regulations? I just find myself saddened that I can't actually attach a file that size to an e-mail.
Well my question is this. Isn't there something in US law about cruel and unusual punishment? The way the laws are for sex offenders I think I would rather get life in prison than be put on that registry.
Once on this registry you are told where you can and can't live, your job prospects are now next to zero, and your constantly having to deal with law enforcement to keep records up to date. Then on top of that your posted up on a page as a sex offender and the social stigma is that every one on there is a pedophile. Does not matter if you are or not, if your name is on the list people will assume you are.
So basically they destroy any and all hope of these people having a real life and toss them onto the street. It is well beyond what I think qualifies as fair punishment for their crimes. It is time for lawmakers to fix this mess. This "one size fits all" solution for sex offenders is not fair and is counter productive. Yes, we need to take a hard stance against child molesters but destroying someones life for taking a piss in a bush is not saving children.
This is so very true that it is sad. The terrorist wanted to disrupt our way of life and they did that better than they could have hoped for in their wildest dreams. I mean how did we get from land of the free to land of the groped?
You realize a ONE TIME EVENT does not show a trend. Yes there was 9/11 but where is the stream of attacks before that? If you could show that it was common before 9/11 for planes to get hijacked and that now it has stopped then you could claim this system works.
You don't have that though. It would be about like getting attacked by a tiger in your home in Colorado and then installing anti-tiger measures and claiming they are keeping out the tigers. You have no clue if it is working or if that was the only one anyway.
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Really as much as they have screwed up already Kim should get off free. At this point the government has done so much wrong how in the world do they seriously plan on trying to go forward with this case?
Can you imagine if this was a big time murder case? "Oh it is ok to clean up those blood stains and rent out the apartment again." "Opps, we seem to have lost that bit of evidence."
WTF are these guys doing? You are going after a guy that it should not be all that hard to find criminal wrongdoing and yet every step of the way you have the authorities stumbling around like idiots and shooting their own foot.
Re: Harmed? I'm not harmed by rich artists. I'm made happier
"Oh wait, you're going to make some looney argument about how the studio's so-called monopoly on controlling their work is somehow hurting your 1st amendment rights."
No actually, I'm going to make the point that it is so easy to pirate a movie that a retarded chimp could do it. That being the case how do you think movie companies are getting all their money? It is easy to download the movie for free in high quality often before it is even available in stores. So how are they getting any money at all?
You guys love to pretend that piracy is destroying the industry and that it is just a bunch of "freetards". If you stop, open your eyes and actually look you will find that most of us PAY FOR MOVIES.
Yes, I can get them for free and yet I still pay for movies and music. The point so many of us are trying to make is that we WANT TO BUY these things. The problem is the stupid release windows, DRM, and other bull shit. When I buy a movie I expect to be able to watch it when I want and where I want. I'm sick and tired of finding the movie I paid for will not play because I live in the wrong "zone".
Yes there are those that just want something for free and they will take it. Those people will NEVER pay for it so it is NOT a lost sale. You cannot loose something you never had. It is time these idiots woke up and realized that attacking customers and calling us criminals does not help sell more movies. Instead they should invest the substantial amount of money wasted fighting pirates into making new films and providing new services to those who will pay.
What is frightening to me reading this is how he points out that it was not that long ago that it was easy to keep things private and hard to make it public. Now it is hard to keep something private and easy to have something public.
Looking at how that reversed I can see the rise of a new profession, that of "Priviters". People that instead of trying to work hard to get things out in public instead work hard to help you keep your information private.
Thinking about it I'm sure there already are several offering services like that but I'm sure that is an industry that we will see skyrocket in coming years.
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I'm more angry though at the government and their over reaction. When a fly gets in your house do you grab a damn shovel and start swinging it around your kitchen? That is exactly the kind of grace and intelligence our government keeps showing.
The governments reaction to a lot of online crime does more damage than the criminal they are going after. It makes no sense when chasing a fleeing criminal do you shut down the airline he happened to use?
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If you really want to compare it to something like gas then how about the providers truly charge that way? Don't put a cap on it just change over to charging by the MB. That would truly be supply and demand. The issue is that they want more money and they know that you have no where else to go.
Like in my case, I have DSL because there are no other high speed options. The cable company refuses to run the cable to where our house is located and the high speed wireless options are not practical. So they have nothing to fear by raping us because the options are accept the cost or live without the net. At least with gas if one station charges a dollar more than the one across the street then you have the option to drive across the street.
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It is obvious from comments like yours that people still do not understand the role internet plays in a lot of peoples lives. It is used constantly by people like me. I am always on the net talking to people, streaming video or music, playing online games, doing research, ect.
The internet is a large part of life. Putting a limit on data greatly interferes with many aspects of what I do on a daily basis. I then have to choose do I give up communicating for a week or more so I can stream this video?
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So does it just make me a huge geek that I still have a Packard Bell machine that will read both of these? Good old Dos and Windows 3.11 machine that runs beautifully.
Guess the point is that so long as you A) Update as you go keeping your stuff in new formats OR B) Just hang on to old hardware. Then you are fine. Sure the format might not still be used in ten years, but if you still have the old hardware then you can still read it.
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Really though all this is unimportant without all the data. I have come to greatly distrust ANY AND ALL "studies". Anyone who knows anything about statistics knows that you can play with the numbers to make them say whatever you want. The only way I trust any of these "studies" is if I have access to ALL the data.
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Once on this registry you are told where you can and can't live, your job prospects are now next to zero, and your constantly having to deal with law enforcement to keep records up to date. Then on top of that your posted up on a page as a sex offender and the social stigma is that every one on there is a pedophile. Does not matter if you are or not, if your name is on the list people will assume you are.
So basically they destroy any and all hope of these people having a real life and toss them onto the street. It is well beyond what I think qualifies as fair punishment for their crimes. It is time for lawmakers to fix this mess. This "one size fits all" solution for sex offenders is not fair and is counter productive. Yes, we need to take a hard stance against child molesters but destroying someones life for taking a piss in a bush is not saving children.
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You don't have that though. It would be about like getting attacked by a tiger in your home in Colorado and then installing anti-tiger measures and claiming they are keeping out the tigers. You have no clue if it is working or if that was the only one anyway.
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Can you imagine if this was a big time murder case? "Oh it is ok to clean up those blood stains and rent out the apartment again." "Opps, we seem to have lost that bit of evidence."
WTF are these guys doing? You are going after a guy that it should not be all that hard to find criminal wrongdoing and yet every step of the way you have the authorities stumbling around like idiots and shooting their own foot.
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Re: Harmed? I'm not harmed by rich artists. I'm made happier
No actually, I'm going to make the point that it is so easy to pirate a movie that a retarded chimp could do it. That being the case how do you think movie companies are getting all their money? It is easy to download the movie for free in high quality often before it is even available in stores. So how are they getting any money at all?
You guys love to pretend that piracy is destroying the industry and that it is just a bunch of "freetards". If you stop, open your eyes and actually look you will find that most of us PAY FOR MOVIES.
Yes, I can get them for free and yet I still pay for movies and music. The point so many of us are trying to make is that we WANT TO BUY these things. The problem is the stupid release windows, DRM, and other bull shit. When I buy a movie I expect to be able to watch it when I want and where I want. I'm sick and tired of finding the movie I paid for will not play because I live in the wrong "zone".
Yes there are those that just want something for free and they will take it. Those people will NEVER pay for it so it is NOT a lost sale. You cannot loose something you never had. It is time these idiots woke up and realized that attacking customers and calling us criminals does not help sell more movies. Instead they should invest the substantial amount of money wasted fighting pirates into making new films and providing new services to those who will pay.
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Looking at how that reversed I can see the rise of a new profession, that of "Priviters". People that instead of trying to work hard to get things out in public instead work hard to help you keep your information private.
Thinking about it I'm sure there already are several offering services like that but I'm sure that is an industry that we will see skyrocket in coming years.
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