goodgracious

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by goodgracious 14y ago
True, but he's admitting he doesn't access ("use") the data in the same month he downloads it. So downloading from his VPS IP address to the VPS's secondary storage, outside Canada, won't count toward his monthly Canada ISP's cap. It's on
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by goodgracious 14y ago
Solution: VPS outside Canada to do your downloads from. But what you describe is a networking problem (transit costs of your ISP passed on to you). Not a storage problem. A "cloud storage" provider is just going to keep the data you store
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by goodgracious 14y ago
My point was that I agree with what you said. Nothing more.
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by goodgracious 14y ago
"if they chose to" Precisely. I know Kismet exists. I know I can install and run it. I know I can even break wi-fi encryption in some cases. But that doesn't mean I'm going to do this, for commercial purposes, for a company like Google.
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by goodgracious 14y ago
In the wrong hands, deep knowledge of Wi-Fi can be far more destructive than the conventional methods of a non-technical journalist. It's a new level of power in snooping. It's a good thing journalists generally do no have Milner's level o
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by goodgracious 14y ago
Who needs to imagine it? It's here. Cat is out of the bag. What is the Alexa list good for? Answer: Filtering out the boring, money-grubbing commercial sites. A truly GREAT idea. A return to the good 'ole days. The non-commercial web. M
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by goodgracious 14y ago
Nonsense. True, companies will encourage voluntarily uploading your stuff to their computers. Why shouldn't they? Just like they solicit your email address, track your movements, snarf your smartphone address book and other neat tricks.