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Comment unity100 (970058) YOU're a total delusional retard (Score -1) 794

by xscess (#34444688) Attached to: PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service

YOU are full of bullshit. Because YOU think when someone can have a mind of their own and doesn't agree with your lunatic/retarded way of thinking, they're an idiot etc...

After reading few of your posts I was compelled to write and I was gonna reply you point by point but when I started replying, I saw you've kept going on and on and on and the thing is I have better things to do in life... While you might not have a life at all.

And when you are so against the United States(and the US influence on EU etc), capitalism blah blah blah... why don't you try out Myanmar, Iran or North Kora? On the plus side most probably you wouldn't get Slashdot over there so you'll live peacefully and WE(rest of the world) we be saved from your total CRAP.
The Internet

Submission + - Network Neutrality Back in Congress for 3rd Time (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Ed Markey (D-MA : http://markey.house.gov/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=3763&Itemid=125) is a big fan of "third time's the charm." He has introduced his plan to legislate network neutrality into a third consecutive Congress, and he has a message for ISPs: upgrade your infrastructure and don't even think about blocking or degrading traffic.

The war over network neutrality has been fought in the last two Congresses, and last week's introduction of the "Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009" ( http://markey.house.gov/images/PDFs/netneutralitybill.pdf : PDF ) means that legislators will duke it out a third time. Should the bill pass, Internet service providers will not be able to "block, interfere with, discriminate against, impair, or degrade" access to any lawful content from any lawful application or device.

Rulemaking and enforcement of network neutrality would be given to the Federal Communications Commission, which would also be given the unenviable job of hashing out what constitutes "reasonable network management"--something explicitly allowed by the bill.

Neutrality would also not apply to the access and transfer of unlawful information, including "theft of content," so a mythical deep packet inspection device that could block illegal P2P transfers with 100 percent accuracy would still be allowed.

If enacted, the bill would allow any US Internet user to file a neutrality complaint with the FCC and receive a ruling within 90 days.

ARS Technica : http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/the-war-over-network-neutrality.ars
Wireless Networking

Submission + - SPAM: Zer01's mobile offer may be too good to be true

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: Imagine downloading a two-hour HD movie in three minutes to your new cell phone, then plugging the phone into your TV to watch the film. Make unlimited phone calls, surf online as much as you like and send unlimited text messaging for $70 a month, without a contract. Sign up to sell the same service to other people and get $10 a month for each person you sell to. That's what a group of related companies including Zer01 Mobile, Buzzirk, Global Verge and Unified Technologies Group are promoting heavily online and at industry trade shows. The offer is attractive enough to garner coverage in top business and technology publications, at least one positive review from an analyst and even a "best in show" award from a magazine at the CTIA wireless industry trade show earlier this year. Does it all sound too good to be true? If so, that's because it probably is. What little information is available about the services is vague, technically inconsistent, and doesn't match up with public records.
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United States

Submission + - Bill proposes ISPs, Wi-Fi keep logs for police (cnet.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations.

The legislation, which echoes a measure proposed ( http://news.cnet.com/Congress%20may%20consider%20mandatory%20ISP%20snooping/2100-1028_3-6066608.html ) by one of their Democratic colleagues three years ago, would impose unprecedented data retention requirements on a broad swath of Internet access providers and is certain to draw fire from businesses and privacy advocates.

Joining Cornyn was Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who said such a measure would let "law enforcement stay ahead of the criminals."

Two bills have been introduced so far--S.436 ( http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:s.00436: ) in the Senate and H.R.1076 ( http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.01076: ) in the House. Each of the companion bills is titled "Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act," or Internet Safety Act.

Each contains the same language: "A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user."

Translated, the Internet Safety Act applies not just to AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and so on--but also to the tens of millions of homes with Wi-Fi access points or wired routers that use the standard method of dynamically assigning temporary addresses. (That method is called Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP.)

CNET News : http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10168114-38.html

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