Do you think a single one of those celebrities will move to such a system?
I really think they will if it's the easiest option. It's up to developers to make encrypted, decentralized storage the default and easy to use. Build it and they willl come (pun half-heartedly intended.)
Decentralized services are a great idea, but there is one big flaw. Not enough people care about it to get a critical mass of users.
There's a group of Hollywood celebrities that have just been made aware of the need for decentralized and more private internet services. I think people will care, albeit only after a problem has occured.
Listen, we all know what the pro-pot movement is about. It's not medical. Medical usage is being used like a crowbar to pry open the gate on the path to legalization, but we all know the real reason people are behind it.
Yes, we all know what's going on. "Medical usage is being used like a crowbar" because that's the only thing that has worked so far. It also has the added benefit of being a factual and legitimate use that people can understand. No one who has experienced pain (everyone has at some point) will question why someone else does not want to be in pain.
I don't happen to have a problem with being a bit disingenuous if that's what it takes. I personally want to see recreational marijuana use legalized in every state.
So for a lot of cases it can actually replace opiates, and smoking is a faster way for it to get into your bloodstream than everything except IV injections.
Clearly we need to fast-track the development of IV marijuana. I'll volunteer for any clinical trials.
On a more serious note, I was treated for a while by a rheumatologist that had done a lot of research on pain-killers derived from marijuana. To my knowledge, there aren't any on the market currently, but the research is being done. Finally.
That's not insanity. It's persistence.
I don't go for ancient wisdom
I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
It means that they're worthy
- Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"
The cops can go ask your neighbors about you. The neighbor can choose whether or not to talk to them.
Yet my email can't choose whether or not to be read by them. That's one reason why I encrypt everything whether it's needed or not.
The other reason I encrypt emails is the assinine spam filter a certain ISP uses that many times falsely detects my emails as spam and does not deliver them. I'm too much of a gentleman to mention the company by name, but it rhymes with Horizon and it starts with the letter V.
As the OP of the original post, I would like to point out that I listed 3 possibilities and the first was that the story was wrong, maybe even intentionally wrong.
This is Slashdot. We don't let facts get in the way of a good story.
In the US it should read: "I am 280kg and have severely clogged arteries, which begs the question: why have I not bought a mobility scooter ?"
We haven't quite caught up with the rest of the world and switched to metric units. So instead of 280kg, it's 617 lbs.</pedant>
IIRC, Texas has similar middle-fingers pointed at the feds.
Texas has drive through liquor stores/beer barns so you can literally replenish your alcohol inventory without ever leaving the vehicle. Which really comes in handy when you're just too drunk to walk.
So, the answer is, contact a lawyer for a possible class action law suit against Comcast for deceptive billing. I'd bet this is just about the OP's only option, since most people would assume network overhead isn't counted. If it is, litigation is likely the only recourse.
Hopefully his lawyer will say "Yes, by all means let's sue Comcast because AT&T is overbilling."
have a more important question: Why should it be illegal that I do?
It isn't. It's news, i.e., an accurate depiction of reality that cannot and definitely should not be censored. Some authoritative law enforcement douchebags are making the claim that it could lead to prosecution, but that doesn't magically change the reality of what is actually legal or not.
I liken the situation to the American cops who arrested people that videotaped them beating black folks. They also made certain claims that have no basis in fact.
* As an aside, that mother's maiden name "security" question on the forms? Let's just say that the TSA provides more security than this does.
Mother's maiden name is a terrible security question anyway. It's often quite easy to find that data by checking geneology sites like Ancestry.com, or by the judicious use of Google. Marriage and funeral notices often include members of the entire family, and their relationships.
Not to mention the many "people finder" type sites that will sell you all the personal information you could hope for on a person for a nominal fee.
The problem with the current CAPTCHAs is that they are prone to a Mechanical Turk attack.
That's a problem with CAPCTHAs, not the only one. I've encountered several that I couldn't solve, even after trying several times, eventually leaving me no choice but to give up and go elsewhere.
It's a problem when your human detector fails to detect humans.
I guess this needs to be reported, but, is it news anymore?
Yes. It is huge news for anyone who seeks medical care in the US. Your supposedly confidential records are not confidential. It's criminal and I hope to see everyone responsible for mismanaging medical records prosecuted.
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
