However I do agree with you about the climate thing except those that write RFC's generally are on this side on the side of the issue where transparency is seen as a good thing so getting something like this added to the spec could IMO actually happen.
I think transparency is a great goal, and agree that there should be something technical that can be done to add transparency. I agree though, most ISPs will ignore any RFC, but I hope some would follow it, and they would get my money (if they offered service in my area.) We have so few choices though. I'd happily move to KC, Mo right now though, since they are soon to have a kick-ass ISP.
In any case, please let me know when prices have ever come down in these markets? We're always given this "prices will come down when the startup costs are covered" line, but I've yet to see it happen except in markets where there is a large number of competitors, of which this isn't one.
Especially when many of the start-up costs were covered by the government through tax money and shadow taxes. E-911, which we all paid multiple times for, seems to have disappeared without being fulfilled. And the access taxes which have disappeared without providing the services that they supposedly paid for, as well as the other stuff pulled by the telecoms have basically been pocketed by them, with no oversight and no enforcement to provide the services that they promised to deliver. And don't get me started on the taxpayer money given to the telecoms to build the "Information Superhighway."
Truth is, they've been screwing us forever, and nobody in authority has been able to stop it (likely because of kickbacks and bribes,) and there is nothing to show that they won't continue to screw us forever more.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Vote Obama, even though he's a traitor
We elect Congress directly.
We also elect our Governor and many of our local representatives too. In some states, we also vote for the members of the electoral college too (some states have appointed positions, from the governor or state assembly, and others have direct ballots.)
The point is, like Anonymous Coward said, and I clarified, we don't elect the President or Vice President, and therefore it really doesn't matter who we vote for. I can tell you right now, if two-thirds of the great state of California was to vote for Kang, 55 votes would be received for Obama.
Which is why I have written-in a vote for every election (I voted for Mickey Mouse once,) and have not been disappointed at all that I was "throwing away" my vote (since I have nothing to throw away to begin with.) I laugh whenever someone tells me I am throwing away my vote if I don't vote in the Presidential election because I don't have one to throw away to begin with.
However, I suspect that most people vote for Congress Critters straight across party lines (and in the case of multiple people in a run-off election, who spends the most money and who has the nastiest ads,) and thus really don't have much of a choice who to vote for either. I prefer to find out as much as I can before voting for my representation, but usually my candidate doesn't win.
Electoral college made sense back when people couldn't find out enough information about the candidates because a universal communication method to disseminate the information didn't exist. Now-a-days, it is an antiquated system which should be revised and corrected, much like intellectual property laws.
I hate to sound like a citizen of Roma during the 3rd Century A.D., but it is hard not to be cynical when politicians and political processes are involved.
There could be requirement added to pass thru a request to the server so that the server can log the error allowing the server admin to know how many requests were blocked. The pass through request should include...
That would be a nice to have, but it is doubtful, given the current climate, that that would possibly occur. ISPs are told to block a site, which they do. There is nothing in the protocols that allow part of the connection to go through and then deny the rest, unless they do some flag blocking (like allow the SYN to go through and then kill everything else.) However, that would damage the internet as it would put some serious resources on the server in question (who is queuing up the connections based on SYN packets, and must time-out those connections when the final ACK is not received,) and anything the ISP does to modify the SYN packet adding error information will be lost because the software doesn't record anything (or expect anything) in the SYN packet. This would only be something they could really accomplish via email, or some other protocol, and I don't see them building an infrastructure just to alert a 3rd party to their blocking.
Besides, it would be much easier to offload that on their customer, who can contact the site through other means and let them know they are being blocked.
Remember, your one vote does not really matter. If it is so close that it would be tied before your vote was counted, the courts would decide. So you might as well vote for who you really want, and not just the lesser of two evils.
Theoretically, your vote doesn't matter. Electoral Collages pick the President, and those usually pick along party lines (whichever party got the seat in the collage.) Theoretically, they are supposed to look at the numbers of their constituents and chose based on that number, but since there is no checks and balances involved, they really can pick whatever President they want.
Even if they did intercept a plot to do that (yes, it can be done), that does not mean that they get to ban these devices period.
Why MitM the WIFI when you can MitM the GSM signal and cut out the middleman? GSM is not exactly safe, and I'd be willing to bet (since I have some experience with GSM) that in some cases it is easier to mess with GSM than it is to mess with WPA2 WIFI.
Is it murder or self-defense? In this case, a company is using a potentially lethal weapon against you in what amounts to an assault (though, unfortunately at this time, a legal one.) In most cases, that would be grounds for self-defense.
If they take you for everything you own, how are you going to eat? Hence the lethal part.
Good luck! Hope that SS still exists when you need it.
That is what I've been thinking all along. When I retire in 40 years, at age 78 (the minimum retirement age by then,) SS won't be there. So SS is pretty much my donation to keep the people in my parent's generation happy with themselves. I hope that I'll be able to enjoy what little I've built up in investments and funds by then, but considering my risks, I probably will be working the rest of my life and won't get a retirement.
I have nothing against those who use Amazon to peddle public domain books for a price, and in some cases, I've found that the person doing so has done sufficient work to fix the Gutenberg scans. And at least one that I've purchased for $0.99 has come annotated with a lot of good material. But I have to wonder whether this move had something to do with the folks selling public domain books? I do notice that there are a number of works on Amazon which were scanned by Gutenberg, but don't exist because someone is flogging them for $4.99 or more, such as Shakespeare's more well known works (i.e. Romeo and Juliet.) I cannot seem to find them for less than $0.99, even though the work is well in the public domain. And most of the $0.99 versions look like the original scan with no extra work done.
Why? does training make no difference at all? OR does it make you worse? I really am curious..
He did not have rounds coming his way, and was able to act with impunity. Your accuracy goes way down when you are trying to find cover and keep the other guy from hitting you. Adrenaline does wonders to your accuracy. Training doesn't involve cross-fire (though most departments now use sim-rounds and airsoft for training,) and qualifications do not involve being shot at (though the simulators (PATS) do get you some of those experiences.)
Where training makes a difference is that you realize that you are going to suck and you try to avoid the pitfalls that normal untrained shooters get stuck in, mainly with tunnel vision and with wild shots. It was impressed on us in training that your body will always go where your mind has been, and so training something over and over again allows you to quickly respond to stress, giving you an edge over someone who isn't used to stress.
How? Are you proposing a full psychological evaluation for everyone that wishes to purchase a firearm?
There have been more than a few police officers who failed a psychological evaluation, only to sue the psychologist and the police department who fired them after years of work. Psychological evaluations are not flawless, and in at least one case I know of, a police officer received three psychological evaluations, with two of them saying he was sane and cleared for work and the third saying he wasn't. There are so many things that can go wrong.
And the problem is that we still have cops out there who are certifiably insane and found so after a court ruling, and yet they make it through the process. Shrinks can be very gun-shy (pun intended,) and if they have to review everyone any time someone buys a gun, they are going to reject 100% of them (since if they accept someone who later goes out and shoots someone, they are liable for the results.) If they had the option, I suspect they would prevent 100% of the officers from being hired, but they know they have to let some through.
This will work as a way to ban all guns, but people have to ask themselves, if they ban all guns, will this never happen again. Since Mexico has banned all guns, yet there are many more gun related deaths in Mexico (using hardware supplied to them by the US Government itself as part of Fast and Furious,) is banning guns really going to fix the problem?
Or so the common phrase says. I've been turned on to a number of musicians solely through someone sending me a link to their concert video online. Some bands now pull audio and video from their concerts and make it available to the fans via USB flash memory right after the show for ~$20, and I've never seen a copyright warning on them (and most actually have a txt file that says "feel free to do whatever you want with this stuff.") Most of the bands I go and see in concert and whose music I most listen to are the ones that do stuff like this...and the ones I can't stand and don't want to listen to are the ones that rail against this practice (I can only assume because they are worried I'd discover their lipsyncing or lack of skills on the video.)
Some of the bands even ask their fans to send them links to the videos or recordings online, and then send out emails with links to everyone on their mailing lists. Sure, these bands don't make millions of dollars, but they seem to be quite successful and they are doing what they like to do.
Re: Re: Underground clubs-- isn't that just another way to say "tax cheat"?
Have a biscuit boy. *Waves biscuit.*
Make sure to use the axe, not the sword. Trolls from Zork tend to destroy swords, but the axe works every time. Trolling for trolls is the best way to rid Zork of the troll infestation, keep up the good work citizen.
ltlfw0lf, if you don't mind me asking, what exact Samsung phone do you have?
Captivate (i897). I actually have a number of Android devices including an Asus Transformer and a B&N Nook, all running various versions of Android. Was going to go for a 4G phone at one time, but I have 4G modems and really, there isn't much my phone needs 4G for since I use it for mail/web and the occasional low quality YouTube video.
Have no issues with it, just rely on it as my only phone, and thus am a little less brazen about upgrading it. CM9 looks like it is just about stable enough for me to move.
I have personally been taking all these lawsuits by Apple towards Samsung as a sign that I should really closely at Samsung products next time I am in the market to buy a smartphone or a tablet.
I love my Samsung. Folks here on Techdirt actually provided the reviews that got me to buy it, along with Samsung's embrace of Cyanogenmod. Rooted and running CyanogenMod 7 (I am working on Cyanogenmod 9, but given that it is my only phone, it may be a while before I upgrade.)
I have family and friends who use iPhone and love them too, but for me the walled garden is too risky. The fact that I have to rely on Apple to maintain my phone, with the dangers of them disabling stuff I use on a regular basis just doesn't do it for me. And now that I can change my radio and jump telco providers, I am one very happy camper.
Here's the statute (18 U.S.C. 455) for recusal of federal judges if you're interested
We are talking about a New Zealand judge, not a US one, so 18 U.S.C. 455 has absolutely no effect in this case.
Like most things though, you can't just read the statute.
As opposed to you, who hasn't even read the statute.
(2) Where in private practice he served as lawyer in the matter in controversy, or a lawyer with whom he previously practiced law served during such association as a lawyer concerning the matter, or the judge or such lawyer has been a material witness concerning it;
So Judge Beryl Howell, former lobbyist for the RIAA, was not violating this law when she failed to recuse herself. And no double-standard exists?
Judges don't recuse themselves for having backgrounds. But they should recuse themselves if they've said something in public that reflects badly on a party that's before their court.
Douches like you may only act when they are caught. Honest men act when they make the mistake, before they are caught.
The rule of law is to recuse yourself when there is a conflict of interest, not when you get caught. And there is a double-standard because a lot of judges who came from MAFIAA posts have failed to recuse themselves when there is an obvious conflict of interests and they were caught, and they didn't care (and apparently nobody else cared either, at least not yet.)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Link to DailyShow had ad beforehand blaming DirectTV
Semantics. In today's "on demand" world, networks (at least in their traditional sense) are a thing of the past.
Didn't NetFlix announce a while back that they would be making exclusive content available on NetFlix Streaming? Oh Yeah, Lilyhammer. So in a way, they are kinda a channel now.
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I think transparency is a great goal, and agree that there should be something technical that can be done to add transparency. I agree though, most ISPs will ignore any RFC, but I hope some would follow it, and they would get my money (if they offered service in my area.) We have so few choices though. I'd happily move to KC, Mo right now though, since they are soon to have a kick-ass ISP.
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Especially when many of the start-up costs were covered by the government through tax money and shadow taxes. E-911, which we all paid multiple times for, seems to have disappeared without being fulfilled. And the access taxes which have disappeared without providing the services that they supposedly paid for, as well as the other stuff pulled by the telecoms have basically been pocketed by them, with no oversight and no enforcement to provide the services that they promised to deliver. And don't get me started on the taxpayer money given to the telecoms to build the "Information Superhighway."
Truth is, they've been screwing us forever, and nobody in authority has been able to stop it (likely because of kickbacks and bribes,) and there is nothing to show that they won't continue to screw us forever more.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Vote Obama, even though he's a traitor
We also elect our Governor and many of our local representatives too. In some states, we also vote for the members of the electoral college too (some states have appointed positions, from the governor or state assembly, and others have direct ballots.)
The point is, like Anonymous Coward said, and I clarified, we don't elect the President or Vice President, and therefore it really doesn't matter who we vote for. I can tell you right now, if two-thirds of the great state of California was to vote for Kang, 55 votes would be received for Obama.
Which is why I have written-in a vote for every election (I voted for Mickey Mouse once,) and have not been disappointed at all that I was "throwing away" my vote (since I have nothing to throw away to begin with.) I laugh whenever someone tells me I am throwing away my vote if I don't vote in the Presidential election because I don't have one to throw away to begin with.
However, I suspect that most people vote for Congress Critters straight across party lines (and in the case of multiple people in a run-off election, who spends the most money and who has the nastiest ads,) and thus really don't have much of a choice who to vote for either. I prefer to find out as much as I can before voting for my representation, but usually my candidate doesn't win.
Electoral college made sense back when people couldn't find out enough information about the candidates because a universal communication method to disseminate the information didn't exist. Now-a-days, it is an antiquated system which should be revised and corrected, much like intellectual property laws.
I hate to sound like a citizen of Roma during the 3rd Century A.D., but it is hard not to be cynical when politicians and political processes are involved.
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That would be a nice to have, but it is doubtful, given the current climate, that that would possibly occur. ISPs are told to block a site, which they do. There is nothing in the protocols that allow part of the connection to go through and then deny the rest, unless they do some flag blocking (like allow the SYN to go through and then kill everything else.) However, that would damage the internet as it would put some serious resources on the server in question (who is queuing up the connections based on SYN packets, and must time-out those connections when the final ACK is not received,) and anything the ISP does to modify the SYN packet adding error information will be lost because the software doesn't record anything (or expect anything) in the SYN packet. This would only be something they could really accomplish via email, or some other protocol, and I don't see them building an infrastructure just to alert a 3rd party to their blocking.
Besides, it would be much easier to offload that on their customer, who can contact the site through other means and let them know they are being blocked.
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Re: Re: Vote Obama, even though he's a traitor
Theoretically, your vote doesn't matter. Electoral Collages pick the President, and those usually pick along party lines (whichever party got the seat in the collage.) Theoretically, they are supposed to look at the numbers of their constituents and chose based on that number, but since there is no checks and balances involved, they really can pick whatever President they want.
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Why MitM the WIFI when you can MitM the GSM signal and cut out the middleman? GSM is not exactly safe, and I'd be willing to bet (since I have some experience with GSM) that in some cases it is easier to mess with GSM than it is to mess with WPA2 WIFI.
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Is it murder or self-defense? In this case, a company is using a potentially lethal weapon against you in what amounts to an assault (though, unfortunately at this time, a legal one.) In most cases, that would be grounds for self-defense.
If they take you for everything you own, how are you going to eat? Hence the lethal part.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hmmm
That is what I've been thinking all along. When I retire in 40 years, at age 78 (the minimum retirement age by then,) SS won't be there. So SS is pretty much my donation to keep the people in my parent's generation happy with themselves. I hope that I'll be able to enjoy what little I've built up in investments and funds by then, but considering my risks, I probably will be working the rest of my life and won't get a retirement.
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And the $1 public domain publishers rejoice...
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He did not have rounds coming his way, and was able to act with impunity. Your accuracy goes way down when you are trying to find cover and keep the other guy from hitting you. Adrenaline does wonders to your accuracy. Training doesn't involve cross-fire (though most departments now use sim-rounds and airsoft for training,) and qualifications do not involve being shot at (though the simulators (PATS) do get you some of those experiences.)
Where training makes a difference is that you realize that you are going to suck and you try to avoid the pitfalls that normal untrained shooters get stuck in, mainly with tunnel vision and with wild shots. It was impressed on us in training that your body will always go where your mind has been, and so training something over and over again allows you to quickly respond to stress, giving you an edge over someone who isn't used to stress.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: G.O.?
There have been more than a few police officers who failed a psychological evaluation, only to sue the psychologist and the police department who fired them after years of work. Psychological evaluations are not flawless, and in at least one case I know of, a police officer received three psychological evaluations, with two of them saying he was sane and cleared for work and the third saying he wasn't. There are so many things that can go wrong.
And the problem is that we still have cops out there who are certifiably insane and found so after a court ruling, and yet they make it through the process. Shrinks can be very gun-shy (pun intended,) and if they have to review everyone any time someone buys a gun, they are going to reject 100% of them (since if they accept someone who later goes out and shoots someone, they are liable for the results.) If they had the option, I suspect they would prevent 100% of the officers from being hired, but they know they have to let some through.
This will work as a way to ban all guns, but people have to ask themselves, if they ban all guns, will this never happen again. Since Mexico has banned all guns, yet there are many more gun related deaths in Mexico (using hardware supplied to them by the US Government itself as part of Fast and Furious,) is banning guns really going to fix the problem?
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Any news is good news...
Some of the bands even ask their fans to send them links to the videos or recordings online, and then send out emails with links to everyone on their mailing lists. Sure, these bands don't make millions of dollars, but they seem to be quite successful and they are doing what they like to do.
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Re: Re: Underground clubs-- isn't that just another way to say "tax cheat"?
Make sure to use the axe, not the sword. Trolls from Zork tend to destroy swords, but the axe works every time. Trolling for trolls is the best way to rid Zork of the troll infestation, keep up the good work citizen.
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Are we talking about the pan-dimensional beings or just the run of the mill mice?
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Captivate (i897). I actually have a number of Android devices including an Asus Transformer and a B&N Nook, all running various versions of Android. Was going to go for a 4G phone at one time, but I have 4G modems and really, there isn't much my phone needs 4G for since I use it for mail/web and the occasional low quality YouTube video.
Have no issues with it, just rely on it as my only phone, and thus am a little less brazen about upgrading it. CM9 looks like it is just about stable enough for me to move.
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I love my Samsung. Folks here on Techdirt actually provided the reviews that got me to buy it, along with Samsung's embrace of Cyanogenmod. Rooted and running CyanogenMod 7 (I am working on Cyanogenmod 9, but given that it is my only phone, it may be a while before I upgrade.)
I have family and friends who use iPhone and love them too, but for me the walled garden is too risky. The fact that I have to rely on Apple to maintain my phone, with the dangers of them disabling stuff I use on a regular basis just doesn't do it for me. And now that I can change my radio and jump telco providers, I am one very happy camper.
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We are talking about a New Zealand judge, not a US one, so 18 U.S.C. 455 has absolutely no effect in this case.
Like most things though, you can't just read the statute.
As opposed to you, who hasn't even read the statute.
(2) Where in private practice he served as lawyer in the matter in controversy, or a lawyer with whom he previously practiced law served during such association as a lawyer concerning the matter, or the judge or such lawyer has been a material witness concerning it;
So Judge Beryl Howell, former lobbyist for the RIAA, was not violating this law when she failed to recuse herself. And no double-standard exists?
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Douches like you may only act when they are caught. Honest men act when they make the mistake, before they are caught.
The rule of law is to recuse yourself when there is a conflict of interest, not when you get caught. And there is a double-standard because a lot of judges who came from MAFIAA posts have failed to recuse themselves when there is an obvious conflict of interests and they were caught, and they didn't care (and apparently nobody else cared either, at least not yet.)
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Close enough. Added the parrot and my brain exploded...thanks. Going to have to clean up now.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Link to DailyShow had ad beforehand blaming DirectTV
Didn't NetFlix announce a while back that they would be making exclusive content available on NetFlix Streaming? Oh Yeah, Lilyhammer. So in a way, they are kinda a channel now.
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