Is "Swatting" The Newest Trend In Gaming?

You may regret that decision if you enjoy television at all. The FCC is opening the door for Cable and ISP provides to squeeze out stuff like Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Fire (Though Amazon has the finances to fight back)

I don't know much about the politics of Net Neutrality (Sorry for minor derail, maybe this should be it's own topic?), but from what I understand in how it's moving in America, Companies like Time Warner Cable can impose cost penalties on whatever content they wish.

I want to take a moment to give my sincerest respect to the EU for upholding Net Neutrality (Pending Individual EU member adoption).


A little back on topic, I'd like to say that personally I think there's a very active movement to avoid educating people in how to protect their personal info. After all, we live in the age of Advertising, and the agencies that run the massive ad campaigns and data metrics would be loathe to surrender (Even partially) any vector of data.

or the "you wouldn't steal a car" ad on dvds...

nobody is going to sit here and tell me that if they had a pile of dirt and they could clone a Lambo (or some other car they want, I just want a Lambo) with the press of ctrl+c, ctrl+v on a keyboard, that they wouldn't do it, because they'd be full of ***.

I don't really use any of those services, short of Netflix as somebody else pays for it, and Comcast+netflix recently signed a deal after that move.

The FCC isn't opening the door, the courts struck down the FCC rule of net neutrality, which is another reason (imo) that the courts are *** up and not in the public's best interest, but yeah...

I download stuff I want to watch, and even if I want TV again, I'll go get Dish Network, can get more channels for cheaper and with a dvr...

I should have looked for an updated story on the FCC release, A quick google shows that the turnaround was indeed false information.

Haha! Priceless!
Wasn't that line preceded by something like "You wouldn't rob your grandmother" or something silly like that in it's earlier incarnations?

Or at the very least be fully aware of just how fast that information can spread.

It can go on for 9 pages!!!!

ftfy.

My name is Thomas Smith I live at 123 Fake Street Springfield MO.

I'm really Barrak Obama.

I'm usually at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington D.C., 20500.

Don't send me pizza, I can't stand that.

My name is Joe Biden when I'm not sleeping I spend my free time in Scranton PA. Come for the umm yea don't come to Scranton.

Thought Joe Bi was from Lower/Slower. >_>;

Joe's my hommie.

We be like "all that" on Scranton, telling them for shiz to clean up their act or my hommie will be a-callin'.

Dawg~

I thought swatting was when you pin someone in WCW/NWO Revenge and swat the controller out of their hand so they can't kick out.

Or a racing game so they crash.

Personally, this was the first thought that came to mind:

^

I swear there was a "Sonic Sez" post-show lesson on the really atrocious Sonic the Hedgehog animated kids' show back in the '90s that made a point about not calling the cops frivolously. Nice to see that kids have remained mind-numbingly stupid.

That said: I've made several domestic violence calls and the police always show up quietly and get talked into walking away because the blood got wiped up before my neighbors opened the door (not exaggerating -- and the walls are thick, they were just that loud). I doubt very much that my local cops were trained in Baghdad and only turn on the lights if a busful of nuns and orphans rolls over an IED, so I'd actually like to know what would prompt them to call in SWAT and helicopters.

Hell, I had cops pound on my door one night after midnight for the best part of 10 minutes before I noticed. They claimed they were looking for a burglar (sure, guys), but there was nary a ghetto-bird nor flashing light in sight.

Tiny bump but I hope this case becomes the standard response to cases like this, although the kid here wasn't being malicious or seeking entertainment.

He served 3 months and was ordered to pay 500k, though the courts went too far billing him with every imaginable cost.

I'm not feeling interested enough to go looking, but something sounds like it is missing from that case. The way it is reported makes it sound like an honest, albeit expensive, error.

Good thing there isn't a debtors prison.

I wonder when the statute of limitations ends on that, as realistically he'll never be able to pay that, especially with his prospective career destroyed.