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Not sure where exactly this belongs, so I thought I'd try GD. Note that I have no clue as to the actual answer is, but I"m interested in what people's opinions are.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but why should it matter if he is criticizing him or praising everything he did?Moonbear said:Would "I don't know" fall under "other?" I don't think anyone checks every email, but I suspect (without evidence) that there probably are people who do get a bit more closely monitored (and of course there's no prohibition of monitoring non-citizens without a court order), and I suspect there are certain government sites that will attach a cookie to monitor what you're up to at least for a while. But, there's no way every packet could be monitored (or I don't think so anyway), not even for a keyword search.
Then again, I have friends who have requested their FBI files (they had a reason to need them), and were surprised at the things that appeared in them. One of them had written a letter to Gorbachev as a kid for a school assignment on writing letters, and there was a copy of it in his file! It wasn't a problem, because it was criticizing him, but it was still surprising that a letter written by a kid would wind up in an FBI file.
SticksandStones said:Maybe I'm missing something, but why should it matter if he is criticizing him or praising everything he did?
Moonbear said:Because they were checking their FBI files to make sure they could be escorts in the motorcade for a presidential candidate, and if it was in support of communism, they might have been considered a security threat. I should have been clearer. It might not have been an issue if he had supported him in his letter, but a lot easier to explain his "patriotism" that he didn't.
Not really. If you have a private connection to the internet and depending on what you do online, you may never be subject to anything. A private connection gets you into the internet without the use of an ISP/content provider.rewebster said:yep--everything--everything that anybody does on the 'net' is watched by someone---and the more sites and 'words' you use that are 'bad' the higher on the list you become
so---you better watch out, you better not...
Evo said:Of course you will always visit websites that add marketing cookies that track what you do online, so be sure to have software to remove them if you don't want this marketing info tracked.
I would assume so.rewebster said:You don't think that the government is watching the Physics Forum?
That is a crock, people don't understand what premium services are, companies that buy premiuim services will not prevent cheaper websites from being accessed. It will be like it always has been. Large companies that can afford the best services and the larger bandwidths are going to have sites that download faster (one trick is to cache static content at locations nearest the end user all around the network) the better quality services have less latency, less packet loss, and less jitter. Companies that can't afford a Tier One provider, enhanced services, or ample bandwidth will have slower loading sites with more problems. That's just the way it is. The internet is owned by private companies and the better the service, the more it costs.Four said:Has anyone heard of www.savetheinternet.com
rewebster said:You don't think that the government is watching the Physics Forum?
Moonbear said:I suspect we've had enough topics with enough of the right keyword combinations to keep someone at the NSA entertained poking their nose in here every once in a while.
Then again, I don't have to guess whether I'm on some watch list. My signature has appeared on enough forms to order things the government restricts since 9/11 to guarantee they're building a nice fat file on me. What's pretty hilarious is the stuff I have purchased is quite harmless, it just sounds bad because of the name and what it's derived from, so it's on the restricted materials list.
You really think that was just the "flu" you had, huh?rewebster said:I think I've badmouthed bush enough that I'm on his 'private' watch list.
Evo said:That is a crock, people don't understand what premium services are, companies that buy premiuim services will not prevent cheaper websites from being accessed. It will be like it always has been. Large companies that can afford the best services and the larger bandwidths are going to have sites that download faster (one trick is to cache static content at locations nearest the end user all around the network) the better quality services have less latency, less packet loss, and less jitter. Companies that can't afford a Tier One provider, enhanced services, or ample bandwidth will have slower loading sites with more problems. That's just the way it is. The internet is owned by private companies and the better the service, the more it costs.
Comcast sends "hidden messages to computers that are running file sharing applications, [which] appear to the computer as coming from the other computers with which it is sharing files, telling it to stop communicating," according to the filing.
This again is due to the public's lack of understanding of network management and the terms and conditions of acceptable use in their service agreements. You get what you pay for. Verizon's cellular internet service claims to offer "unlimited" internet access, but it restricts (doesn't allow) certain types of downloads that use a lot of bandwidth, so does AT&T, you can find the restrictions if you dig through their website.Four said:Have you seen how they are degrading the services?
Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2217866,00.asp
Comcast is peeking & injecting packets to prevent connections to control internet flow.
Evo said:You really think that was just the "flu" you had, huh?
Not if my contract doesn't have that guaranteed. You cannot expect to pay $30-$50 per month and expect the same level of service as someone paying hundreds per month or more. If you go cheap, you get cheap. Comcast offers cheap service.Four said:Do you care about ISP's telling you how fast you can go based on what you are sending?
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