Hey, RIAA, MPAA are you listening to that! See that! You take down the sites that are the source of the problem. Then the links no longer work, and will disappear from search engines.
Let's start with this. There is no excuse for a cable, fiber or copper ISP to have data caps. The only purpose for such data caps is to invent the concept of "Zero Rated" and make money from third parties (eg, Netflix).
Now similarly for a mobile network. If your network is overloaded, this is an instantaneous problem at a particular tower. A tower is overloaded because too much population density is forced to use too few towers / channels / frequencies in that area.
If you have sufficient capacity at a tower for the density of people in that area, then there is no need for wireless data caps. It might be reasonable to throttle individual data streams to ensure there is enough capacity. But if this throttling reduces individual data streams to a crawl, then this is proof of having built insufficient capacity.
If you have sufficient capacity, then it doesn't matter how far into the billing cycle that you are watching Netflix. Watching Netflix on the 30th day of the billing cycle doesn't strain the network any more than on the following day, which is the first day of the billing cycle. So why have data caps?
This brings me back to: data caps are an excuse to make money on the side by having "Zero Rating" to extort third parties such as Netflix.
Orwell would be shocked to find out that he was laying out a roadmap that would be carefully followed by others.
IoT devices: the new telescreens.
They're always listening in your home. Amazon Echo even has a button used to notify Amazon that you're about to talk about something particularly interesting.
How similar are telescreens to smart TVs equipped with a mic and camera for video conferencing?
Snowden revealed the government is always listening, and saves everything just in case it is needed later. After all, it's not a privacy violation if they merely store it and don't search it.
Don't forget the whole spiel about secret courts, warrants, arrests, secret trials, secret evidence, convictions, secret prisons, etc. And for profit prisons. New for profit policing.
It's really happening. What affect will the incoming administration have?
Every time I have come up with some paranoid, insane, or outlandish idea for how bad things could become, it turns out that either things are already worse, or things will soon get this bad.
Every time.
Insane? Yes. Could it happen? Almost guaranteed. Greed knows absolutely no bounds. Once you have a government system rigged with corruption, this is inevitable. It's because our government no longer functions. And we're individually powerless to stop the collective greed of the few.
It's being appointed to her level of incompetence.
Similar to people being promoted to their level of incompetence. Except an appointment means one was specifically selected for their incompetence in the role they will play in promoting the public good.
As with the Apple terrorist iPhone battle last year, this is not about what it appears to be. It is about something different.
The FBI wanted Apple to build a universal back door so the FBI could access any phone at any time without supervision. In the name of Terrorism.
In this instance, the FBI wants to work around the warrant requirement by involving a third party. All in the name of Think Of The Children.
What they seem to want is a warrantless way to snoop into anyone's computer or smartphone.
I would suggest that this is what their NIT (network investigative technique) is all about. The NIT is a euphemism for hacking into computers around the globe. Under cover of a local search warrant from an easily fooled judge.
Imagine this. Use NIT to find someone you want to bust, by hacking their computer. You can't nail them on some other charge. So plant illegal pr0n on their computer. Then make their computer unbootable (but easily fixable) so that they take it in to Best Buy.
Depicting African Americans as monkeys is the result of prejudice.
Depicting police as pigs is the result of police behavior.
The monkey depiction is not the result of any action of African Americans.
If the mythical "good cops" are so offended by this, then they should work to police their own ranks before they police everyone else. The "good cops" are represented to the public by the worst actions of the bad cops.
People want to be protected from crime. Police were once respected. Now the public fears the police. What changed? It can't be the criminals who changed the public perception. Criminal activity would reinforce the appeal of having police around. So whose actions made the public distrust the police?
This artwork is a reasonable social commentary. Like all commentary that points out ugly truths that offend the powerful and well connected, removing it from view won't make the underlying public resentment go away. Removing it in fact makes the police and those who removed it look worse, not better. Why aren't they working to change the underlying causes that led to the creation of such artwork?
I have posted before a hypothesis about why the government keeps everything about Stingray a secret.
In a nutshell:
Cell phone system was designed when we were using Windows 3.1. System cannot withstand 21st century attacks. There is some fundamental weakness in the way the network operates. This cannot be corrected without significant changes throughout the network base stations and mobile equipment. Thus it is expensive and time consuming to fix. This vulnerability is the very basis of how Stingray works. If the secret got out, chaos would ensue. Everyone would be building their own Stringray devices. Poor people would be spying on rich people. So we must be kept secure through obscurity of the vulnerability. Thus secrecy is paramount above all else including prosecutions. How this works can never be disclosed in open court, not even under the belly of a seal. The stakes are just too high.
If everyone has the chip and the cancerous growths, then it becomes accepted as normal. Obviously people get cancerous growths, and the chips are the way to help prevent it, although prevention is not 100% effective, it obviously works because some people will not develop cancerous growths.
Get the cause and effect right is important for marketing.
Why do we have a moon in the sky? Because the ocean tides cause the moon.
How about keeping track of everyone entering and leaving commercial buildings and public spaces. Disney World already does this on a pretty large scale. You wear a magic band on your wrist and wave it past a reader to enter a ride. This would not be too big of an inconvenience upon the entire population. And everyone would soon get used to it and accept it as normal. Next the tiny chip in the wrist band could simply be implanted at birth. What's not to like? Isn't the ultimate goal to keep us all safe from wrong thinking people?
As long as you have paper ballots, it is possible to ensure that there are always enough people present (excluding massive collusion) to ensure nothing suspicious is going on.
Like with nukes, no lone person alone with the nuke, er . . . ballot box. Maybe it should take multiple local officials to unlock the ballot box, etc.
I trust these kinds of measures more than pure electronic voting. The electronics can assist with real time counting as you pass your ballot through a counter as it drops into the sealed ballot collection box.
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Re: Already gone
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No Excuse for Data Caps
Now similarly for a mobile network. If your network is overloaded, this is an instantaneous problem at a particular tower. A tower is overloaded because too much population density is forced to use too few towers / channels / frequencies in that area.
If you have sufficient capacity at a tower for the density of people in that area, then there is no need for wireless data caps. It might be reasonable to throttle individual data streams to ensure there is enough capacity. But if this throttling reduces individual data streams to a crawl, then this is proof of having built insufficient capacity.
If you have sufficient capacity, then it doesn't matter how far into the billing cycle that you are watching Netflix. Watching Netflix on the 30th day of the billing cycle doesn't strain the network any more than on the following day, which is the first day of the billing cycle. So why have data caps?
This brings me back to: data caps are an excuse to make money on the side by having "Zero Rating" to extort third parties such as Netflix.
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Re:
IoT devices: the new telescreens.
They're always listening in your home. Amazon Echo even has a button used to notify Amazon that you're about to talk about something particularly interesting.
How similar are telescreens to smart TVs equipped with a mic and camera for video conferencing?
Snowden revealed the government is always listening, and saves everything just in case it is needed later. After all, it's not a privacy violation if they merely store it and don't search it.
Don't forget the whole spiel about secret courts, warrants, arrests, secret trials, secret evidence, convictions, secret prisons, etc. And for profit prisons. New for profit policing.
It's really happening. What affect will the incoming administration have?
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Re: Re:
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Never use the ISP's DNS server
IP addresses of Google DNS server:
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
https://blog.dnsimple.com/2015/03/why-and-how-to-use-googles-public-dns/
https:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Public_DNS
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/
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Re: Re: The FUTURE of the Trump Intarwebs !!!
Every time.
Insane? Yes. Could it happen? Almost guaranteed. Greed knows absolutely no bounds. Once you have a government system rigged with corruption, this is inevitable. It's because our government no longer functions. And we're individually powerless to stop the collective greed of the few.
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The FUTURE of the Trump Intarwebs !!!
But imagine a new innovative approach to internet service. A fresh new pricing model without slowing down any web sites.
Basic service lets you access:
* Reedit
* Bing
* Yahoo
* MSN
* eBay
* PayPal
Only $9.95 per month. All web sites un-throttled at full 100 Mbps access.
Standard service adds additional sites:
* Wikipedia
* Twitter
* Instagram
* Tumblr
* Hulu**
* IMDB
* Microsoft
* Apple
* MSNBC
Only $29.95 per month.
Extended service adds additional sites:
* Google
* Facebook
* Blogspot
* YouTube
* Netflix**
* HBO**
* Showtime**
* CNN
* FOX News
Only $49.95 per month.
Professional service adds additional sites:
* Linked In
* Amazon
* DropBox
* BBC
* Pornhub
Only $129.95 per month.
Unlimited service adds all sites for only $299.95 per month!
** note some web sites may require additional fees beyond the ISP fee to access them.
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Re:
Now, not only do I not get my tack trucks, but I'm beginning to suspect that there may be much bigger problems than that.
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It's not rising to her level of incompetence
It's being appointed to her level of incompetence.
Similar to people being promoted to their level of incompetence. Except an appointment means one was specifically selected for their incompetence in the role they will play in promoting the public good.
(by public good, I mean corporate good)
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Worst of the Worst is just an excuse
The FBI wanted Apple to build a universal back door so the FBI could access any phone at any time without supervision. In the name of Terrorism.
In this instance, the FBI wants to work around the warrant requirement by involving a third party. All in the name of Think Of The Children.
What they seem to want is a warrantless way to snoop into anyone's computer or smartphone.
I would suggest that this is what their NIT (network investigative technique) is all about. The NIT is a euphemism for hacking into computers around the globe. Under cover of a local search warrant from an easily fooled judge.
Imagine this. Use NIT to find someone you want to bust, by hacking their computer. You can't nail them on some other charge. So plant illegal pr0n on their computer. Then make their computer unbootable (but easily fixable) so that they take it in to Best Buy.
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Re:
On the post: Congressman Appoints Himself Censor, Removes Painting Critical Of Cops From Congressional Halls
Re: Good!
Depicting police as pigs is the result of police behavior.
The monkey depiction is not the result of any action of African Americans.
If the mythical "good cops" are so offended by this, then they should work to police their own ranks before they police everyone else. The "good cops" are represented to the public by the worst actions of the bad cops.
People want to be protected from crime. Police were once respected. Now the public fears the police. What changed? It can't be the criminals who changed the public perception. Criminal activity would reinforce the appeal of having police around. So whose actions made the public distrust the police?
This artwork is a reasonable social commentary. Like all commentary that points out ugly truths that offend the powerful and well connected, removing it from view won't make the underlying public resentment go away. Removing it in fact makes the police and those who removed it look worse, not better. Why aren't they working to change the underlying causes that led to the creation of such artwork?
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Re: Head, meet desk
The FBI's decreasing crime stats refer to old outdated notions of crime.
Rep. Duncan Hunter is referring to the modern concept of crime. That is, criticizing the police state or any of its apparatus.
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Re: Re: we won't know for a year
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Re:
In a nutshell:
Cell phone system was designed when we were using Windows 3.1. System cannot withstand 21st century attacks. There is some fundamental weakness in the way the network operates. This cannot be corrected without significant changes throughout the network base stations and mobile equipment. Thus it is expensive and time consuming to fix. This vulnerability is the very basis of how Stingray works. If the secret got out, chaos would ensue. Everyone would be building their own Stringray devices. Poor people would be spying on rich people. So we must be kept secure through obscurity of the vulnerability. Thus secrecy is paramount above all else including prosecutions. How this works can never be disclosed in open court, not even under the belly of a seal. The stakes are just too high.
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America can do better
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Re: Re: Re:
Get the cause and effect right is important for marketing.
Why do we have a moon in the sky? Because the ocean tides cause the moon.
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Re:
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Re: Seems like pen and paper would be better.
Like with nukes, no lone person alone with the nuke, er . . . ballot box. Maybe it should take multiple local officials to unlock the ballot box, etc.
I trust these kinds of measures more than pure electronic voting. The electronics can assist with real time counting as you pass your ballot through a counter as it drops into the sealed ballot collection box.
The more transparent, the better.
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Freedom to Choose is important
Do you want a liar or a clown?
Do you want someone who will ruin the country for their own personal agenda, or who will sell out the country for their own personal profit?
Your vote should count!
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