The Opryland Hotel blocks customers wifi at conventions hosted in the hotel since they sell their own service. Here's their statement from Jeff Flaherty, a Marriott spokesman...

"Marriott has a $trong intere$t in en$uring that when our gue$t$ use our Wi-Fi $ervice, they will be protected from rogue wirele$$ hot$pot$ that can cau$e degraded $ervice, insidious cyber-attacks and identity theft."

Dollar signs added for emphasis. That hotel sells dedicated wireless services and custom networks for convention purposes at prices ranging from $250 to $1,000 per access point.

But remember it's all about protecting you! Any time someone says they are doing something for your protection remember it's most likely to further their own interests and not yours.

As I stated when I watched the first couple of people playing the game on twitch.tv the reviewers should call a turd a turd. Bad AI. Many NPCs were simply standing in the open firing 1 shot a second while allowing the players to shoot them with 10 in the same time frame. The entire goal of Destiny is to extract $60 from your pocket with very little care given to ensuring that you are satisfied in the end. I think that most serious gamers will walk away from Destiny in the first week, two at the outside; and be left feeling wanting.

Port Sentry is your friend :)

A. The Sentry tools provide host-level security services for the UNIX platform. PortSentry, Logcheck/LogSentry, and HostSentry protect against portscans, automate log file auditing, and detect suspicious login activity on a continuous basis.

It can also automatically respond to scans by blocking the originating hosts.

I have been using it continuously since the 1990's

http://sentrytools.sourceforge...

Hell we have faster than that in in Clarksville, Tennessee :) with reasonably decent prices. Oh ya we have Municipal Fiber to the Home

50mbps - $44.95
100mbps - $69.96
200mpbs - $89.95
1000mbps - $249.95

You can get triple pack with 175 TV channels, phone, and 50mbps internet for $118 a month.

And these are not special offer prices. They just bumped everyone's speeds up by 2x and they have yet to raise prices. Speeds are bidirectional so you get the same up as down. They are a Netflix open connect partner, and you actually get the speeds they promise! Go CDE Lightband!

They should have evey right to do so for sites located in London. The London police have no legal authority to enforce laws outside their jurisdiction.

The FCC should make Comcast and Verizon and all these other companies chose... They can be content creation companies or bandwidth providers, but not both. This is all about making it easier and more convenient to pay them for their video services than to attempt to get it from a third party it's monopolistic and anti-competitive behavior...

You can when the works are clearly in the public domain, which means no one can legally claim copyright on these items.

I regularly receive false copyright claims on music which is clearly in the public domain and was performed live by Military bands. The company which files the claim should face criminal penalties for perjury, Once a false claim is made by a company, Youtube should be forced to remove their access to the content id system or should become directly liable for the false claims made by these companies.

Researchers Develop New Way To Steal Passwords Using a video camera

We need a 28th Amendment to the Constitution - All rights specified in the Constitution of the United States and all Amendments thereto shall apply to Natural Persons only.

We can call it the Commonsense clause.

Easy when your rights begin to infringe on the rights of your employee.

Cause they know that the NSA is watching

This is a dumb idea that sounds like a good concept. It like any other good thing on the internet requires that no one be malicious. SMTP didn't used to be restricted until spammers abused it. All that it takes to defeat HTTPA is a client written to ignore the A part.

get a PO Box.

Every single domain should have accurate and verifiable information for the owner, administrative, and technical contacts. The use of services which anonymize or mask domain owners should be prohibited.Whois was intended to enable you to identify the ownership of a domain and who to contact about it.