Well, that's rather interesting... when I went to the mpaa.org site, it immediately got stopped by NoScript; it was trying to redirect me to a URL in the form www.mpaa.org/my.ip.add.ress

Put on your tinfoil hats, everyone.

I run Cyanogen on my Dream as well, but I got around the data blockage like so:

If you were quick enough to take advantage of the free HTC Magic upgrade they offered, you can just root the Magic and install CursorSense (at least 1.2.1). CursorSense is a mod of the official Rogers firmware, so as far as Rogers is concerned, you have a 'patched' phone, so they re-enable data access on your account. At that point you can switch back to your Dream with full 3G access.

I was without data for about a day (my Magic only arrived Monday, a day after they started blocking data), but since then I've been fine.

Rogers can take their mandatory upgrade and shove it. :p

There is, but little-to-none of it takes the form of kickbacks to US Senators, which is why he's all up in arms.

Why beam power all the way from orbit? Wouldn't an army of sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads be more effective? :p

It's also what got us into the whole Java School mess.

You keep your noscript plugin, and I'll keep intuitive webUI.

'Intuitive' web UI doesn't need JavaScript -- it can be done purely with CSS.

Example

It's not about PERSONAL harm. It's about professional ethics and legal implications. If you were fired from a company, and subsequently went and posted every password you knew on a forum or email list, you'd be sued or charged in a heartbeat.

This is no different in the least -- even if he was already barred from accessing the system, it was still a random group of people whose authority over him and/or the systems was nonexistent, or questionable at best. If he HAD divulged the passwords in those circumstances, he should have been charged, not the other way around.

No one in the room was in Childs' chain of command. His boss wasn't there, nor was his boss' boss, etc. It was a group of random city employees (city police, HR) and random, unknown people on the other end of a phone.

What authority did anyone there have to order him to divulge passwords?

If someone from HR or Finance, even if they're a VP or C*O, came to me and said "Hand over all the network passwords now.", I'd tell them to fuck off too until someone to whom I report said otherwise.

The Rogers overage charges stop at $25. So whether you use 150GB or 1TB per month, your bill will only be $54.95 + $25.00 + taxes.

My bandwidth is regularly several hundred gigs a month on Rogers Extreme. I've done 1TB+ in a month before.

Spoken like someone who grew up with NAT being the norm. NAT is terribly broken, and UPNP is even worse. There shouldn't be a need to resort to hack-upon-hack to get networking to work. I long for the day when I only have to worry about routing & firewalling on my network again.

Great, $1 per IP. 2^32-1 possible IPs... that's only a touch over $4B per year. Who want to bet that Microsoft would eat up all it could, just to have control? Hell, at that price I'd buy a couple hundred just for me. Start talking several thousand dollars per IP per year and you might be on the right track... oh wait, no you're not, because it's an artificial scarcity. (Besides, who would the money for the IP addresses go to? IANA? What would they use it for?)

Ahaha, wow, I can't believe I did that. Yeah, that's supposed to be 1997. :p /headdesk

Pretty sure they're talking about the Slashdot "community" -- Slashdot was founded in Sept 2007.