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It’s both at the same time: a powerful, uniquely dangerous threat

only they can restrain it (with great effort)

Like a circus lion tamer, exaggerating every snarl and flash of teeth, mugging for the crowd about how only he can contain the bloodthirsty beast he bred and trains.

> If you're growing onions in the backyard, you don't need a router. If you're writing emails, you're gonna need to send them through a router or two before someone reads

That’s what the cable company wants you to believe. We sent their damned boxes back. They wanted us renting a modem that never hangs up, then buying a router just so our own computers could talk to each other. Mine used to call yours directly over the telephone!

Now there’s a computer inside the modem, another pretending to be a router, and a mess of switches, gateways, and subnet masks to do what two modems and a telephone number used to accomplish.

They took the party line, put it on a television channel, called it broadband, and convinced everybody to rent the equipment.

In my day, when somebody tried to break into your computer, you could hear the bastard dialing. And when you were done with the Internet, you hung up. Now they want you connected twenty-four hours a day.

Just wait until somebody breaks into your television through that cable. You’ll wish you’d kept your rabbit ears.

You don’t give your battery a break while you sleep?

They don’t seem to be in contact with the people who actually fixed it.

I don’t follow. Fair use is a copyright defense, and nobody is suggesting distillation attacks are just a copyright violation are they?

Aren’t they alleging these other companies directly entered into a contract and violated the terms, and in cases where question, answer pairs were obtained without such agreement, it was accomplished by outright wire fraud or theft?

com.apple.private.uexc as well?

Same id numbers you use when downloading them. While you might know what a particular URL is available in, I’m not sure I’ve seen an encyclopedic enumeration of the possibilities

That’s surprisingly self-aware, and encouraging.

The article mentioned fertilizer - that’s not straightforward to control and precisely account for.

No, using a different domain makes it easy to across the board add a rule: don’t treat as Apple ID.