Hmm, a reliable source of fecal kinetic energy... We should find a way to power a fly wheel generator with target painted paddles and patent it. Boy will GE's face be red!
Thanks for the warning, I'll check back here in a month for the tough-talking-a-dead-person approach I'm half certain he will follow.
"Im sure [...] you know how a VPN works, don't you ???"
I'm not sure that you do, Darryl. And when has ANY IP address EVER been considered illegal let alone the simple act of connecting to it? Please, do answer in gruesome detail and provide as many sources as you can find. Wikipedia is allowed, but try cracking a law book or two while your at it. As for the VPN issue, the encryption lies in the idea of putting an encrypted black box process in the middle of all passing traffic connections from one side of the ISP to the other. All the logs would show is that the ISP's VPN connections are very popular. No capacity to connect traffic from one side of the ISP to the other would be possible.
Perhaps they should focus on hiring people qualified to use the internet in the first place, or even teaching current employees how to use it properly. Its not even close to rocket science (a fairly simple subject by the way). The buried-head-in-sand approach has almost universally failed at almost every level and scale of use; so I have to ask why are we not learning from the past when it comes to attempting to block a form of communication/interaction? Realistically, this "plan" is bound to cause employees to simply find any means they can for subverting the new rules (proxies come to mind as a simple start) and cause new vulnerabilities they could have avoided by just dealing with the technology instead of trying to cripple it.
Hopefully this will move forward and be a comprehensive trial exposing this group's persistent practice of direct market manipulation. Lessening the influence of these labels can only help artists at this point.
Maybe Reynolds should have written a brief instead of hiding his head in his briefs. I'm sorry, but a complete and utter lack of technical knowledge is not excusable when it comes to prior restraint and unless the judges stamp says "WTF?" it shouldn't be used blindly... though the blind use of a WTF stamp would make law a bit more amusing.
A media blackout might actually work. It likely depends more on how active the viewing audience is than how large it is. Remember that a similar tactic "worked" in Spain; their MAFIAA inspired bill was rejected, though it was reintroduced soon after if I recall correctly.
I'm waiting for the day one of the small minds driving this litigious farce conjures the capacity to read a book and comes across the magic of numeric descriptors. We may see attempts at criminalizing dotricenal contributory infringement; but by that point I expect to be voting at a MAFIAA approved music/movie store/"shopping experience" rather than a public library or other contemporary public facility.
"As a merchant you don't pay a percentage of the sale if it is paid in cash."
What about taxes? There is a cost of doing business built in no matter what you do, and there is currently no way around someone who is at the very least displeased with wikileaks taking a piece of your payment for goods and services.
Maybe its a pedophile sting operation. Hell, if the government is good enough to plot a false flag terrorist strike this ought to be real good:
A trained army of hypercaffeinated toddlers on sugar highs and their righteously pissed off parents kicking the shit out of several thousand hired child gropers on the same day. Taking the doors at kennedy will be remembered as P-day. Just watch out for the traffic cones; they might keep the cata-, er, minivans from landing on the weathered mats.
In all seriousness, the TSA can't be disbanded like the den of criminals they are too soon. And if, somehow, they happen to miss a child being used to deliver a bomb to a plane and the passengers happen to subdue the rugrat, I'll bet all of Obama's change that they immediately claim that if they had only had the purview to search inside of children they could have made their first catch.
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"The sites are already violating the law."
WRONG - So far only the sites' users are being accused of violating the law, and often with useless evidence of any wrongdoing at that. This bill is using a Tsar Bomba nuke to kill a fly in the middle of Tokyo: everyone who could be there before, now can not. The intent of lawfully assigned liability is to assign said liability to the proper party before considering claims against said liable party. Taken to farcical extremes [ie. COICA included], this line of reasoning is sufficient for a me to be able to sue the US government for someone humming a tune to which I "own" the copyright; or better yet, to sue the RIAA. The simple fact of the matter is that this law allows for blatant censorship via failure to produce evidence for any actual unlawful activity otherwise.
"So yeah, you are free to compete buy why bother."
My first thought was: for the sake of competition; without it, only one party controls the benefits of market transactions, and that one party usually isn't you.
I then realized an optimistic restatement of the question: why compete when you can disrupt and create your own market?
So the trade off you'd make is to have the first nude picture(s) of your son taken and saved by the TSA rather than have them touch him? Either one of those should make your skin crawl as a mother! The picture may be relatively painless and certainly lees mentally scarring in the short term, but the claims that they can not be saved and that they can not be removed have already been debunked.
It looks like its just another photojournalism class in the wide angle picture. Maybe the tuition raises were an elaborate ruse to "diversify" the department...
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Thanks for the warning, I'll check back here in a month for the tough-talking-a-dead-person approach I'm half certain he will follow.
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That glove was latex....
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I'm not sure that you do, Darryl. And when has ANY IP address EVER been considered illegal let alone the simple act of connecting to it? Please, do answer in gruesome detail and provide as many sources as you can find. Wikipedia is allowed, but try cracking a law book or two while your at it. As for the VPN issue, the encryption lies in the idea of putting an encrypted black box process in the middle of all passing traffic connections from one side of the ISP to the other. All the logs would show is that the ISP's VPN connections are very popular. No capacity to connect traffic from one side of the ISP to the other would be possible.
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Edjewkayshun
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Re: Re: Interesting...
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Effectiveness
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misindirection(ismness)
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Re: Re: Re: Cash vs. Credit
What about taxes? There is a cost of doing business built in no matter what you do, and there is currently no way around someone who is at the very least displeased with wikileaks taking a piece of your payment for goods and services.
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Wishful Thinking
A trained army of hypercaffeinated toddlers on sugar highs and their righteously pissed off parents kicking the shit out of several thousand hired child gropers on the same day. Taking the doors at kennedy will be remembered as P-day. Just watch out for the traffic cones; they might keep the cata-, er, minivans from landing on the weathered mats.
In all seriousness, the TSA can't be disbanded like the den of criminals they are too soon. And if, somehow, they happen to miss a child being used to deliver a bomb to a plane and the passengers happen to subdue the rugrat, I'll bet all of Obama's change that they immediately claim that if they had only had the purview to search inside of children they could have made their first catch.
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So, where are the trials for the June domain name seizures?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: COICA is not Censoring the internet
WRONG - So far only the sites' users are being accused of violating the law, and often with useless evidence of any wrongdoing at that. This bill is using a Tsar Bomba nuke to kill a fly in the middle of Tokyo: everyone who could be there before, now can not. The intent of lawfully assigned liability is to assign said liability to the proper party before considering claims against said liable party. Taken to farcical extremes [ie. COICA included], this line of reasoning is sufficient for a me to be able to sue the US government for someone humming a tune to which I "own" the copyright; or better yet, to sue the RIAA. The simple fact of the matter is that this law allows for blatant censorship via failure to produce evidence for any actual unlawful activity otherwise.
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My first thought was: for the sake of competition; without it, only one party controls the benefits of market transactions, and that one party usually isn't you.
I then realized an optimistic restatement of the question: why compete when you can disrupt and create your own market?
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Back to School
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Wastes of Money
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Re: Re: Wow... someone tell Blizzard!
Linux is quite a large chunk of the traffic. Also, Twitter is now using torrent protocol to update its servers.
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