I also, in Maryland, have Mediacom as my only viable option. Verizon's highest DSL tier would cut my speed from 12 to 7 mbps and jump my price by about $20.
I've dealt with Mediacom's constant disconnects, packet loss, insane pings, and general instability since I've lived here. Nothing ever changes. The DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades just increased speed, not stability.
Can't say I've seen these ads during my own browsing. I guess ABP just wins overall.
I used to have a VPN to encrypt my traffic, I am considering buying one again,
If it's not built into Internet Explorer, it doesn't exist. Since most users use IE anyway, and have no idea to install Firefox, let alone Addons, they don't care that NoScript and ABP exist. It's not serving the "majority" of the population.
I saw that too.
I find it interesting that you can hijack a plane with nail clippers (what, 2 inches long) but not with an unloaded M1 (2-3 feet long, blunt force will do the trick).
Yeah, plenty of old laws in many states that they never bothered to repeal and are never enforced anymore.
Right now, copyright law is almost like a curfew. It's only enforced when the entertainment industry sees it as a "problem". They don't care if you download something made by the little guy, but cut into their profits and/or resell it and you've got a bloodhound behind you. A poorly trained one, at that.
Yeah, but then we still have to try it ourselves, cause you know the US can do everything better and more efficiently than all the other countries. Then once it's messed up we'll just back away slowly, turn and run while the IT department has to fix the mistake.
Yeah, I remember a bunch of those near my hotel in Baltimore, about a block away from the BCC. I would be in between without reception, but in one place or the other I could connect to it. Funny thing was, one or two of the other random unsecured networks in the BCC would actually work.
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Re: what to do with it...
Ooh, that would be a fun project for the FBI agents involved.
Re: Re:
You said it.
I also, in Maryland, have Mediacom as my only viable option. Verizon's highest DSL tier would cut my speed from 12 to 7 mbps and jump my price by about $20.
I've dealt with Mediacom's constant disconnects, packet loss, insane pings, and general instability since I've lived here. Nothing ever changes. The DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades just increased speed, not stability.
Can't say I've seen these ads during my own browsing. I guess ABP just wins overall.
I used to have a VPN to encrypt my traffic, I am considering buying one again,
Internet Explorer
I'll play Devil's Advocate here.
If it's not built into Internet Explorer, it doesn't exist. Since most users use IE anyway, and have no idea to install Firefox, let alone Addons, they don't care that NoScript and ABP exist. It's not serving the "majority" of the population.
The only way to make this situation worse would be to demonstrate on actual politicians.
Re: What the...
I saw that too.
I find it interesting that you can hijack a plane with nail clippers (what, 2 inches long) but not with an unloaded M1 (2-3 feet long, blunt force will do the trick).
Re: Re:
Yeah, plenty of old laws in many states that they never bothered to repeal and are never enforced anymore.
Right now, copyright law is almost like a curfew. It's only enforced when the entertainment industry sees it as a "problem". They don't care if you download something made by the little guy, but cut into their profits and/or resell it and you've got a bloodhound behind you. A poorly trained one, at that.
Horray for common sense. I can't believe they actually convicted the poor guy.
Yeah, but then we still have to try it ourselves, cause you know the US can do everything better and more efficiently than all the other countries. Then once it's messed up we'll just back away slowly, turn and run while the IT department has to fix the mistake.
Uh, Fail
Wow, whoever the PA is in that case is just stupid.
As #1 said, what happened to the 4th amendment?
Yeah, I remember a bunch of those near my hotel in Baltimore, about a block away from the BCC. I would be in between without reception, but in one place or the other I could connect to it. Funny thing was, one or two of the other random unsecured networks in the BCC would actually work.