Sorry, that may be what you, as an idealist, think of it.

But destroying "the state" isn't necessarily a desirable thing.

Anarchy is not a form of government, nor is it a self-perpetuating.

It's merely an interim state until a large enough coalition forms to impose their will on others and forms a new state.

Usually the entire process of teardown, chaos, and reformation involves lots and lots of people suffering and dying while people try to "get it right".

So please, take your bullshit rhetoric elsewhere.

*DING DING DING!*

And we have a winnah!

*Forks over a cigar*

What constitutes piracy in the purview of the survey?

Using software you didn't pay money for?

Filezilla: PIRATE!
Firefox: PIRATE!
Linux: PIRATE!
VPN Software licensed for you by your company? PIRATE!
Free antivirus suite? PIRATE!
A program you slapped together yourself? PIRATE!

It's so that Apple can have their own clean, friendly production facility so that Foxconn can stop disrupting work at their hellhole^H^H^H^slave camp^H^H^H^H^other sweatshops to comply with public inspections by people who'd be outraged by how they NORMALLY do business.

In other words, a facade, like everything else at Apple.

Nope. White as snow, from a decent middle-class suburb, but yeah. He's had some run-ins with the cops in Chicago. Like the one he beaned in the head with a bottle in the 2004 Gay Pride parade.

You're probably right. But the thing is, Hammond can't afford the kind of bail that'd be set in his case. His parents bailed him last time, and they can't afford to do so again.

At this point, he's better off riding out the time in his cell reading up for his defense. If he's lucky, the time he spends incarcerated will count against any sentence he's given.

*Facepalm*

Tolerance for idiocy only goes so far.

See what I mean about brainsick slobs ready to believe anything?

Ah. A snitch.

It's so wonderful to be distilled down to a single word.

Then no thought is required to actually think about what happened or what was done.

Also, a snitch implies that my interests and activities somehow aligned with those of Hammond.

Close but no cigar. I was interested in hacking from a social and security standpoint and the things it could teach me to keep myself and my clients safe.

He was just interested in breaking into (as well as just breaking) things to demonstrate e-peen. He wasn't really interested in who, what or why.

Then he attacked me. Personally. So I went to the authorities.

But hey, don't let ME change your preconception of this scumbag as some heroic Robin Hood.

And, unlike his fawning sycophants, I'm going to call him what he is.

A douchebag. Plain and simple.

I was involved with the FBI and helped them put him away the first time.
It's a sad commentary that a couple years in prison didn't straighten him out at all.
I've seen his name pop up a couple times in local news. Usually for some new random act of overweening stupidity.
I'm just stunned that he stooped to credit card theft AGAIN.

Then again, with his record, and his lack of anything even resembling social skills, he's damn near unemployable.

But Jeremy now has what he always desired. A national audience. And, unfortunately, there are just enough brain-sick slobs out there for whom his half-witted messsage is attractive. And he's got a martyr complex the size of the Sears Tower.

He basically belongs in prison, deprived of computer access. Hopefully they'll send him someplace slightly harsher than FCI Greenville this time.

Except that those pins are embedded in your bones. They aren't likely to move at all.

A small nib of ferrous material not anchored by anything other than skin?

Can you say *RRRRRIIIIIIPPPPPP!!!!!* ?

Good luck getting said person to actually part with the money.

It's like winning a judgement.

Good for you. You have a judgement. Now try to get paid...

Yeah! RIIIGHT!

Call me when you catch the tooth fairy.

You're talking about fiber-to-premises.

So your long-haul connection is fiber.

Once it gets into your home and goes through the physical bridge device, it's going out to your computer either on copper or wireless.

They're talking about wiring the home itself with fiber. Which is expensive overkill and adds nothing to the venture other than cost.

CAT6 and 1Gbps are several orders of magnitude cheaper than a full in-house fiber setup and deliver identical or superior performance to Gigabit fiber.