The thing is, the more relays, the more connections, the larger the network... the faster and more secure it is. If all the botnet does is setup relays, it's a win for the Tor network. Of course, it isn't going to just do that, and these aren't authorized relays so it's not exactly occupying the moral high ground here. The machines hosting the bot need scrubbed.
The obvious reaction by governments (mainly fearing their peoples right to privacy) will be to make it a harsh criminal offense to even dare run a Tor client. Problem solved.
Just like gasoline, RAM prices leap up at rapid rates on the most tangential of bullshit news, but only lowers at the same rate of the most tepid bunny slope. Just like calculus, all the action is under the curve.
Even as more and more living-wage jobs disappear, we (well, the corprate-polical class) refuse to acknowledge it, clinging to an 18th-century patriarcal bootstrap model that binds unemployment to a moral failing while richly lauding and rewarding the (ironically un-Christian) immoral behavior of A-Type A-holes.
Where has that huge chunk of factory wage payroll money gone? Not back to society to help transition to a more elightened model than simply Birth/School/Work/Death, but straight into the bulging pockets of the 1%.
But that 1% will learn the same harsh forestry lesson of putting off controlled burns: they will be utterly consumed, leaving nothing but ash and palatial chimneys. And that right soon.
It ain't the other 'bumblebees' that will be the issue; it's the 1975 1/2 ton with a pair of cataracts driving, or the mid-70's Thunderbird ahead of the car in front of it that no longer has visible tail lights due to the shitty design that let dirt and water inside the lenses.
What they _really_ want are sociopaths; people (Men) that have no empathy for others and kinda get off on having great power and lending a hand in bringing suffering and grief to 'things' they have no more sympathy for than ants under their magnifying glass.
The greatest enemy of the NSA, et al is conscience.
Samsung panics and rushes out some thrown-together POS and the only thing it's going to accomplish is make whatever overpriced, walled-gardened bauble Apple finally rolls out look like the Second Coming in comparison. This is so bone-headed of them, it almost feels like 'sung and Cupertino are colluding.
When the iWatch does come out, best wear some wading boots if you'll be around fanbois, as the excretions will be record-setting.
Point is - this is just the normal rough-and-tumbel of Silicon Valley. The author needs to get over himself!
Meaning: who cares, as long as we get our beaks wet? Is it pointless? Yup! Is it bordering on a pyramid scheme? Yup! Should we change it? Hell no! (CA-CHING!!).
If a job stands an actuarial risk of being deadly and you contract / subcontract/subsubcontract it out, you have just hired *all* those in harms way as full time employees with all the inherent responsibilities and liabilities on your head until the contract is fully and completely fulfilled.
A Frontline documentary [pbs.org] last year noted that tower work is done by small contracting companies that allow the big carriers to duck all responsibility, while pushing the firms to build so fast that safety gets shortcutted. Worth watching.
If there ever are any rollbacks to NSA spying, it will be done not because of right and wrong or on Constitutional grounds, but merely due to the decline in fucking corporate profits.
Seriously?! Obama could have abolished this nonsense on Day One if he'd wanted to; the fact that he didn't means he's just as evil!
Or he's been threatened from Day One by the three-letter guys that were already all-powerful. Look at all his decisions and the actions of his administration that are in total opposition to his campaign and that of his core supporters (weed, Wall Street, Gitmo, et al) and tell me I'm crazy.
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Since the TSA is now allowed to lie https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_tsa_is_lega.html , bbviously so can the NSA spooks.
The obvious reaction by governments (mainly fearing their peoples right to privacy) will be to make it a harsh criminal offense to even dare run a Tor client. Problem solved.
Hard not to think of these when Gamefly comes up: http://ibrill.tumblr.com/post/22589153484/all-the-video-games-peteholmez-mentioned-in-his
Haven't quite mastered Lego Human Centipede yet.
A more effective bioweapon. Mr. Nobel would be so proud (as in: unintended misery loves company).
Just like gasoline, RAM prices leap up at rapid rates on the most tangential of bullshit news, but only lowers at the same rate of the most tepid bunny slope. Just like calculus, all the action is under the curve.
But mainly as a crucial catalyst to bring back Jesus Christ for the closing speech of the Apocalypse.
In all frightening seriousness, this is a fundamental tenet in not-so-far-Right-Wing foreign policy.
So it's a Choose Two corollary: Cheap, Fast, Fully Open - choose two.
Even as more and more living-wage jobs disappear, we (well, the corprate-polical class) refuse to acknowledge it, clinging to an 18th-century patriarcal bootstrap model that binds unemployment to a moral failing while richly lauding and rewarding the (ironically un-Christian) immoral behavior of A-Type A-holes.
Where has that huge chunk of factory wage payroll money gone? Not back to society to help transition to a more elightened model than simply Birth/School/Work/Death, but straight into the bulging pockets of the 1%.
But that 1% will learn the same harsh forestry lesson of putting off controlled burns: they will be utterly consumed, leaving nothing but ash and palatial chimneys. And that right soon.
It ain't the other 'bumblebees' that will be the issue; it's the 1975 1/2 ton with a pair of cataracts driving, or the mid-70's Thunderbird ahead of the car in front of it that no longer has visible tail lights due to the shitty design that let dirt and water inside the lenses.
What they _really_ want are sociopaths; people (Men) that have no empathy for others and kinda get off on having great power and lending a hand in bringing suffering and grief to 'things' they have no more sympathy for than ants under their magnifying glass.
The greatest enemy of the NSA, et al is conscience.
There was one guy, but he left.
Mmm... secret sandwiches...
Samsung panics and rushes out some thrown-together POS and the only thing it's going to accomplish is make whatever overpriced, walled-gardened bauble Apple finally rolls out look like the Second Coming in comparison. This is so bone-headed of them, it almost feels like 'sung and Cupertino are colluding.
When the iWatch does come out, best wear some wading boots if you'll be around fanbois, as the excretions will be record-setting.
Meaning: who cares, as long as we get our beaks wet? Is it pointless? Yup! Is it bordering on a pyramid scheme? Yup! Should we change it? Hell no! (CA-CHING!!).
The same Gray Lady that jingoistically trumpeted for war against Iraq.
I wouldn't trust anyone at the NYT farther than I could throw them.
Had Mr. Shreateh not been Palestinian, I'm forced to wonder if Mr. Facebook's reaction would have been different.
They forgot to restock their supply of Greed Oil.
If a job stands an actuarial risk of being deadly and you contract / subcontract /subsubcontract it out, you have just hired *all* those in harms way as full time employees with all the inherent responsibilities and liabilities on your head until the contract is fully and completely fulfilled.
No more firewalls, corporate assholes.
Gee, I wonder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart where they got that idea?
Nope. It's a reference to the top diety in the Centauri belief system.
If there ever are any rollbacks to NSA spying, it will be done not because of right and wrong or on Constitutional grounds, but merely due to the decline in fucking corporate profits.
Or he's been threatened from Day One by the three-letter guys that were already all-powerful. Look at all his decisions and the actions of his administration that are in total opposition to his campaign and that of his core supporters (weed, Wall Street, Gitmo, et al) and tell me I'm crazy.
Amen! Slashdot must be punished for their shit text rendering.
Most of the US Founding Fathers despised the very idea of political parties, knowing what a corrupt morass they would become.
Once again, their insight has proved true. Then promptly ignored.
You now belong to that august hall of esteemed justices that loyally carried out the Chancellors' laws from 1933 to 1945.
Your descendants will be so proud.