no data in any of those.

nice try, though. but they are all invalid.

there's a lot more to 'the internet' than port 80 and 443, my friend.

most of us don't care so much about port 80.

we DO care about email and voip, though. there used to be the concept of privacy and security there (more or less) but now, the cat is out of the bag and all data is now sniffable and loggable.

(I wonder if you are done with your childish laughing attack?)

other shoe: the 'content' owners think that they should get a forever return on the sale/rental of the content.

the duration started out reasonable but they decided to BREAK THE COVENANT and since they feel they can break rules at-will and pay to have custom laws made for them, I concluded they are acting in bad faith and any contract where the other party is in bad faith is nullified.

NULLIFIED.

so, they get what they wanted. a content 'war'. one that they can't possibly win.

fuck, THEY started it. they escalated it. we're just trying to give them a bit of their own medicine. maybe next time they'll respect the rule of law and not mickeymouse around with the protected duration (see what I did there?)

to have a law respected, both sides have to respect it. since that doesn't happen, well, we have what we have today.

aka "what goes around, comes around'.

"you either die a hero, or live long enough to turn into one of the bad guys"

yet another Dent quote that is quite fitting for this subject.

google is not going to die a hero.

google: "we're upping our doublethink. so, up yours!"

this is a 'trust me, the sky is green' moment for google. they have had lots of those, lately, too.

yes, requiring a company WHO IS IN THE HEALTH-CARE BUSINESS to continue saving lives and not taking profits as the first thing.

yes, makes sense to me. but then again, I'm a human being, not a pycho CEO or politician.

there should be a law: if you are in the healthcare business (which is your choice) then you MUST put patients first above all else.

doctors have to swear this. why not the makers of drugs and such? it would fix a LOT of what is broken with the western world, if we did that. think of how much GOOD would be done to humanity, as a whole!

interesting - I've been saying the same about americans in the US - they are 'too uppity' and know their rights, so therefore, they can't be bullied as much as indi^H^H^H^Hforeign workers holding h1b's.

that's yet another elephant in the room; its not so much about huge difference in wages (in the US, the h1b's get pretty close to what the USians make; not 50% and not 30%, but close to 80 or 90%) but its more about 'getting more hours out of them' with less complaining. fear of being shipped back home is enough to keep them 'in line'. you can't ship a USian home since he's already home.

all this is bubbling and brewing into a revolution that WILL come. it WILL come - no doubt at all. there is no sign that things are slowing down in this bad direction and politicians and business owners are still grinning from all the union-busting they have done in the last 50 or so yrs. all the progress our grandfathers made - its ALL been lost. hell, we don't even have our weekends off anymore; ask any IT person and he does not usually have the right to say 'no' if the boss tells him that he has to work longer hours or weekends.

and look at the term 'exempt' (in the US, at least) when it comes to IT workers. they are 'exempt' in that they don't get time and a half or double or triple time for overtime. hell, they don't get 1x time for overtime! my grandfather definitely did! and he was able to buy a house and have it paid for before he died. me: I doubt I'll ever be able to afford a house in the bay area on a single income; and even a dual income means you will still be paying for that house 30 yrs down the line.

I'm not hungry for a nasty shake-up or revolution, but it sure seems like its bubbling up, year by year, with the crap that comes each year from the 'job creators' ;(

easily fixed with autotune...

you are better off with generation-1 than generation-current.

never trust the very leading edge. and, we're talking seagate, here; their enterprise drives are ok but I wouldn't touch them, these days, for consumer drives. no way!

no way I'm trusting helium, either; since it escapes and makes the drive useless a few years down the line.

.cr is brand new.

its not a 'known fake'.

thanks for trying to scare people away. yet another riaa/mpaa bitch trying to manipulate the conversation with FUD.

bullshit!

just run a vpn. have been doing that for a long time and have not yet gotton 'a call' from a single soul who could do me harm.

btw, thanks for ID'ing yourself an an riaa bitch. we have noted this.

relax.

get yourself a VPN (I do and I have comcast) and they cannot spy on me. simply cannot - while my vpn is active.

now,they do what they can to stop my connection. several times a day I get a reset from them and even more times, I have to reboot my docsis modem since I get no more pings from my default router. not sure what they are trying to pull, but I easily work around that.

so, find a vpn provider (privateinternetaccess is one that is cheap and not too shabby) and use it!

use it on your phone, too. there's an app for that, I think ;)

so blow me, comcast.

the more you try to fuck us over, the more you'll find 'streams of strange octets' hitting your switches and routers.

in fact, even if you don't fuck us over, this is going to happen.

the net IS going encrypted. count on it.

so, enjoy your fucking DPI while it lasts. your spying gravy train won't keep running forever.

agreed; this is why I keep harping on how lousy my google nexus one phone is (buggy as hell, totally abandoned by google in a very short time, too) - but it is physically in good shape and has not broken down, at least electrically. the software is crap, there are no real upgrades and google's attention span is like a child's. but I just CANNOT throw out working hardware that has no reason to be thrown out (other than shitty firmware; but I work around it by rebooting it often).

the 20something culture of 'throw it out, its old!' is bullshit and pisses me off bigtime. when I complain about my 'old phone' the 20 yr olds in the room immediately tell me to 'upgrade it'.

I have given up on the young kids, these days. they have no clue what they are doing with this throw-away culture of theirs.

because its not the individuals, per se, but the system that is broken.

the system allows and encourages thugs-with-badges mentality.

you also have to de-militarize the police or nothing else you do will have any effect. cops think they are playing video games, these days, with their 'toys'. this has GOT TO STOP or nothing else can change.