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The thing not understood by Fundamentalist Libertarians (yes, it's a religion) and other's who believe Capitalism is the only answer is that socialists (socialist has many meanings, I will unapologetically stick to mine) are not against ownership of property, they are for finding a system where MORE people have property and ownership and control of their lives. Capitalists make most of their money by virtue of what they own. I believe we could convert all renters into home owners, for example. That would require new laws making it impossible to rent a property to a person as their primary residence. And it would require replacing for-profit banks by nationalized distribute-profits-back-to-the-tax-base banks that, over a few decades buy out all current land lords (lords being a feudal concept), and replace that system by a system of much more equitably distributed ownership. Same goes for companies. Fine that a top notch PHP programmer was able to become a billionaire by being in the right place at the right time and making the right moves. In a socialist economy he would still be very well rewarded but laws requiring all employees to own part of the company along with much more progressive taxation would also help level the playing field.

Systems like in Denmark, Norwayt, and Germany just go a small step toward my above-hinted-at concept of socialism, but they are a start. Germany is a net exporting industrialized country with tax-base paid education for all and health insurance for all. If they can do it, the U.S. could do it.

See: http://oceanpark.com/blog/2013/10/no-rent-and-distributed-ownership/

Dennis Allard
Santa Monica
July 16, 2018

Rei wrote (incorrectly):

> For a bit more ($104k) you can get a 2-seater a Pipistrel Alpha Electro [wikipedia.org] with a cruising speed of 200 kph and a range of 600km.

Rei, your citation is incorrect - the above speed and range numbers are for the gas-powered trainer.

The Electric version has a one hour flight time and the article you cited does not indicate airspeed for the Alpha Electro.

Bummer, but please be careful when citing specs.

Dennis Allard
Santa Monica, California
http://oceanpark.com/

Although Don Cohen's PEIP Fair Service approach is effective for the case spoofed packets it is equally effective for the case of legitimate packets.

As I state in http://oceanpark.com/blog/2016... :

PEIP and Fair Service are not overwhelmed by the âoesheer number of connectionsâ because what matters is the set of router paths leading to each host. Think of the host being targeted. Now consider the spanning tree of the graph of routers that are involved in routing packets to that host. If every router in that spanning tree has implemented Fair Service then most paths will be providing unhindered service. Even the most prolific attack can only compromise a tiny set of the router paths and even then if Fair Service is implemented all the way back to each source host, even the initial packets from each zombie source client will only receive Fair Service.

I have asked Don Cohen to reply here in more detail. Letâ(TM)s see what he has to say.

ScentCone stated:

> Those would be the evil rich people who pay almost all of the country's income taxes?
> Yeah, Socialism - where success is indeed punished, and the stuff that's taken is given
> to other people. That's socialism for everybody, because it's socialism doing what it likes
> to do: taking from the most productive/successful, and giving to the least. Half the country
> pays no income taxes at all (or pay's negative income taxes, getting "refunds" and cash
> credits on taxes they don't even pay), and the vast majority of the income taxes that are
> paid are paid by a small portion of the other half.

The vast majority of the income and wealth goes to the top 10% and, actually, to the top 1%.

And their wealth comes form what they own not what they do. Gates owns/owned one third
of Microsoft stock. Yes, he's smart and founded a successful company but his total fortune
was based on ownership of stock, the value of which was created by workers at Microsoft.

Albert Einstein was a socialist.
See: http://oceanpark.com/blog/2014...

Germany is a social democracy, has a standard of living higher than the United States, is a
net exporting manufacturing economy, and has free tuition for all strudents at all levels.

All of the above contradict your Libertarian Fundamentalist religious-like views.

BTW, I am a socialist and I am for *more* people owning things, not fewer. This Libertarian
Fundamentalist clap trap about socialists wanting the gov'ment to own everything is B.S.

We should have natioanlized banks that enable all current renters to purchase their units
and own them instead of paying their landlords mortgage.

See the above link for more argumentation along those lines.

Dennis Allard
Santa Monica
February 15, 2016

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My friend Don Cohen designed PEIP, an extenstion to IP. PEIP stands for Path Enhanced Internet Protocol.

A somewhat dated but accurate explanation and demo can be seen here:

http://www.cs3-inc.com/MANAnet... [cs3-inc.com]

(Watch the Flash Demo at the bottom of the page that illustrates several scenarios.).

Last I checked, CS3, where Don works, was not successful in convincing Cisco to pay attention to this solution.

The basic idea is to modify routers to use PEIP, enabling routers to provide "Fair Service". In other words, since it is impossible to determine which packets are part of DDOS attacks, the PEIP solution instead assures that all paths routing to a target victim receive equal bandwidth. In this way, an attacker (based on the path, not on the source IP) will only receive a fraction of the bandwidth to the target.

Dennis Allard
http://oceanpark.com/ [oceanpark.com]

(I am never quite sure how to post on Slashdot to assure my post is part of the thread associated with a Slashdot headline. I am trying the "Post" action).

My friend Don Cohen designed PEIP, an extenstion to IP. PEIP stands for Path Enhanced Internet Protocol.

A somewhat dated but accurate explanation and demo can be seen here:

http://www.cs3-inc.com/MANAnet...

(Watch the Flash Demo at the bottom of the page that illustrates several scenarios.).

Last I checked, CS3, where Don works, was not successful in convincing Cisco to pay attention to this solution.

The basic idea is to modify routers to use PEIP, enabling routers to provide "Fair Service". In other words, since it is impossible to determine which packets are part of DDOS attacks, the PEIP solution instead assures that all paths routing to a target victim receive equal bandwidth. In this way, an attacker (based on the path, not on the source IP) will only receive a fraction of the bandwidth to the target.

Dennis Allard
http://oceanpark.com/

My full editorial on the choice of name at:
http://oceanpark.com/blog/2010/01/the-google-phone/

see:

http://oceanpark.com/webmuseum/kurzweil/critique-1.html

I go back to the 70s, the AI hype and all that.

My use of the term 'hacker' during the 80s was someone who codes fast to get something done quickly without necessarily doing a good job of design or thinking through all consequences of the hack.

Real programmers don't hack -- they design, then they implement. :-)

However, that being said, hacking is fun and sometimes necessary. But most programs have far more hacks in them than they should.

Oh, by the way, the recent pejorative use of the term 'hacker' to describe people who hack into systems via devious means is a perfectly normal evoluation of lanaguage. Most words in English have several meanings, some of which end up having little to do with one another. The is no single meaning for the verb 'to hack' or the noun 'hacker', rather there are two or three current usages.

Cheers,
Dennis
http://oceanpark.com