Oh, you mean the same Telecommunciations Act that promised to ensure that CLECs would actually be able to thrive and compete?

Yeah, uh where are they now? Oh yeah, I forgot, even the LECs own CLECs were driven out of business.

Please knock if off with this bullshit. The time for any individual or even a small group to go against a major carrier is long over with. Threaten all you want.

They will ALWAYS have enough customers no matter how many you might convince to get off their ass and walk away.

They will ALWAYS have apathy on their side to guarantee people don't give a shit enough to get off their ass and do anything.

And until someone in government stops smearing over the anti-monopoly laws with LEC-certified palm grease, there's not a fucking thing you can do to stop them.

Oh, and those "billions" are long gone, paid out in executive bonuses.

...perhaps then people will finally wake up and realize just how much your government supports the concept of monopolies.

In the meantime, enjoy playing in the kiddie pool while you still can. I'm sure they're already greasing palms to ensure kiddie pools are outlawed soon.

Can you tell me why you care when there's a good chance any proposed alternative won't be any safer?

As if aspartame is some kind of natural herbal replacement for white sugar or HFCS that's completely safe. Please.

What cracks me up is people labeling this as a "hidden" cost, as if we don't have mountains of evidence that already says consuming sugary drinks every day is not good for you, regardless of brand, flavor, or number of calories.

Yes. By this logic, we're but one illogical decision away from Comic Sans being default.

(Yeah, I know, I just threw up in my mouth a little too.)

On top of the fact that Steve Jobs is likely rolling in his grave. The man had a flair for aesthetics that seem to be dying in the face of "futurethink".

Let's put this another way. If that is a priority, I doubt I'm going to be interested in working for them.

Clearly they're focusing on the wrong thing, usually brought on by elitism.

Skills are what is important after college, and I'm not talking about how you earned your way into the Kegga-Chugga-Puk frat house.

If by interesting you mean a self-aware state that results in them realizing we humans are much more entertaining of a target, well...yeah, have fun.

It's funny how you want to sit here and paint succinct lines around definitions, all the while your new updates to your smart phone make it a sieve.

I guess you've never heard of iCloud before. Or any other service that pretty much syncs every fucking thing from your phone to corporate cloud land somewhere, you know because so many consumers got pissed when they were losing data due to smartphones dying or getting stolen.

And yet again, when the NSL comes marching in, you have no idea just how much of that cloud data or the rest of the "inbound and outbound" flows will contain about you.

Stop thinking a smartphone needs a backdoor ON the damn device to get 80% of what you need on someone. Put simply, it doesn't.

Government has little to do with it when 99% of app users merrily hand over their privacy when agreeing to the corporate EULA.

Consumer data is valuable. The Government is merely a rude customer of the corporations.

A Constitutional Amendment is likely needed, alright. But ensure you are targeting the right people.

Ironically you're asking when we might revolt against our own Government when yours disarmed you long ago, removing your capability altogether.

Guess you better hope these US polices don't start bleeding over to your countr...oh. Nevermind.

Yeah, good luck to you.

The unfolding of privacy around most of the popular social media apps (that ironically promise it) should have killed your curiosity long ago.

Hell, the cat is a rotting corpse at this point.

Perhaps you need to learn how NSLs work.

Then get back to me as to how the fuck you'll even know about it.

"They" don't come knocking on you front door anymore to search your effects. They just crack your cell phone in half from 1,000 miles away with nothing more than a hint of terrorism splashed on you from 2-3 degrees of separation.

Ah no, not quite. The only issue at stake here is watching our (s)elected lawmakers sworn to protect said "nice idea" who are not upholding that promise.

I don't give a shit whether you agree or not. Judges likely don't agree with 100% of the laws they have to go by. They are there to uphold the Constitution. If you or they don't like it, that's what Amendments are for.

Oh, you mean when the CDC themselves clears a caregiver known to be in direct contact with Eric Duncan to fly on a commercial airline with a low-grade fever?

Yeah, you're right, it only takes one. Too bad that "one" is the CDC fucking up in the worst way possible.

The only ones who will be left wondering are the organisms that land on our rock 10,000 years from now wondering what the hell happened here...

How the hell did you come up with...wait, don't tell me. The bong fell over on the keyboard, right?