The cable companies could do the same thing themselves with a huge added advantage over Google: the wired infrastructure needed to feed the last-mile wireless transmitters is already in place. If Google's main objective is to pressure the existing cable/ISP monopolies into upping their game and lowering their prices, then it's a great idea, as is their gigagit fiber program. Otherwise it seems like a vanity/marketing project.
One of the biggest consumers of fossil fuels is international shipping via container ships. They use massive amounts of crude diesel fuel and emit large amounts of untreated, highly polluting emissions, with very limited oversight while the ships are in international waters. When we consider how much of the world economy is dependent on it, it will take a massive overhaul of the worlds supply of goods and the related economic system to change the shipping industry. It will eventually happen but it's hard to imagine that we'll see it in the next decade.
Religious beliefs may have influenced that origin of various drug prohibitions but financial gain is what sustains it now: prisons that are run by private for-profit companies, law enforcement staff and salaries, corruption of law enforcement and politicians fueled by the black market drug suppliers. They need full prisons and everything to stay the way it is and they will fight any common sense efforts to legalize and regulate drugs.
- In many states the prison system is now being a run as a for-profit business by private companies.
- A large number of federal, state, county and municipal salaries depend on the existence of a FULL and OVERFLOWING prison population.
- Large amounts of money are involved in the black market drug supply business, which fuels corruption of federal, state, county and municipal drug enforcement.
All of the above results in a massive incentive to maintain the status quo for the Drug War, no matter how stupid, damaging or irrational it may be.
For those that don't appreciate it, I suggest seeing the movie "Pollack", esp. on a large screen. Putting aside all of the personal bio aspects of the movie (yes, he was a major asshole), I think it does a great job depicting the beauty and enhancing the appreciation of some of his work.
> Does the fact they run TOR mean that the cops cannot investigate?
That is backwards. There is NOTHING illegal about running a TOR exit node. So, NO they cannot investigate based on that alone. They needed specific evidence or probable cause that there was a crime being committed or likely to be committed by these individuals and that the evidence was on the premises for which they requested the search warrant. Simply running a TOR exit node doesn't fir the bill. The couple could sue and would very likely win.
Or you you could just hit 'em on the head with XKCD wrench? Note the absence of the link!
AT&T does this when you're behind in your account and puts up a web page about it, telling you how to contact them to get your service restored, etc.
The ISP can grab you're initial connection to their servers (before you connect to the VPN servers) and inject anything they want. This has nothing to with packet inspection or whether you're torrenting.
>They lock my browser (how, I have no clue)
The ISP hijacks the browser (after being bullied or bribed by Rightscorp). I've seen AT&T do this if you get behind on your service payments. Rightscorp could work out a kickback (er, revenue sharing) scheme with the ISP.
Aren't we confusing Judaism as a religion with the culture that surrounds it? A person can choose whether or not to be a member or follower of a religion. There are ethnic and cultural identities that are also historically linked to religions. Although I was raised in a Reform Jewish religious tradition (Bar Mitzvah, Confirmation, etc.) I have no interest in nor do I observe, follow, identify or believe in Judaism. I do have a cultural identity that is in part rooted in N.Y./N.J./Boston Ashkenaz Jewish culture. But I am not a Jew. If a person who was raised Catholic rejects the church and says they no longer want anything to do with it, don't people uually say that person is a former Catholic?
MDSec has a video showing a brute force of an iPhone 5S unlock (yes, I know the FBI phone is a 5C). I think it uses about $200 in parts:
Apple execs are elitist, spoiled rich, pompous twats. Never had a clue before today.
It seems to me that it's much simpler than having to make their own OS. Can't they just use Telegram or Wickr or if they must, make their own encrypted messaging app? If their messages are encrypted, with disposable keys, messaged that are deleted after they are read, etc., who cares if someone gets their phone?
I watched it and I learned more about poor humor AND poor comedy.
Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.
