That's what I meant by "transferring tracker data". The security is broken in any case since there is an unencrypted portion of the transaction no matter what.
Doesn't solve the problem of direct logging though. Yeah, your data transfer once the swarm is established will be hidden but everything until then (accessing the torrent portal, downloading a torrent file, transferring tracker data) is all unencrypted (on most sites). People that don't use BitTorrent and rely on other means of sharing don't have any feasible alternative other than using proxy servers which are either slow or expensive.
Fullstream Encryption for BitTorrent should be a no-brainer but there are many unsolved problems with this in any case.
Interesting how there are several dozen links to Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk on this Thai list. What's being blocked? The biography of the Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The future of internet is NOW. Citizens have no right knowing who makes for their government. That's the future right at your fingertips. Glad Germany will get this pretty soon, too. I love to be protected from things that aren't supposed to be secret.
Heh, all it demonstrates is that you have no sense of humour.
Yeah right, you know me pal. Because it's me who's defending a programmer dude that was just wayyy to cocky at that talk. Friendly jabs end after the third time. Making a joke is one thing, rubbing it in something else. One is funny, the other just isn't. I have no reason to defend cvs or svn at any point. Neither do I have reason to advertise git. I use all of them now and again with mixed results across the board. The way he was constantly being a bitch about everything else sucks and only he and his genius web of trust friends can audit proper code was just... well... cocky. There's a fine line between talent and obnoxious arrogance and he clearly tread over it this time.
Good thing though your definition of humor derived from my single post nobody read 'til the end is the penultimate truth. HarrHarr
If that doesn't demonstrate arrogance or douchebaggery for you then I don't know what you'd call arrogant. How would you categorize me for arrogant after reading one single post of which you ignored all of the important bits? Like I said I admire the guys work but there's a difference between being good and being a dick about it.
I'm a big Linux fan and I appreciate the man's work on the Kernel and git but his antics sometimes let the asshole part of him slip out a bit too far. Confidence makes you cocky if there is no one to restrain you ever.
Back to "Josh":
A douchebag like that will take the entire project down with him once he snaps. No documentation and an attitude that would prevent proper inheritable code writing from the onset makes this a bad deal. Basically I'd guess they're useful if kept in check, reaally dangerous when you let them do whatever. Much like nuclear power plants really.
From people that deem themselves much smarter than me: "Piss off with your stupid conspiracy theories, you hippie asshole, there is no such thing as a secret society."
As if any of this would affect the way in which the distribution works. The day after this is implemented there'll be ways to route P2P traffic through proxies or hide it via encryption if that's not already done. I wonder how the ISPs want to distinguish between "regular" http traffic and torrent traffic that is made to look like it.
Other than that from what I can tell most British groups have large seed server on the continent anyway, Top Gear for example is almost exclusively pushed out of France for example. LARGE pipes. And I believe if they have something like that on hand they also have a dedicated access pipe that feeds the continental boxes and from there on the stuff goes out. The only ones affected by this, as usual, are the noob users that barely know what filesharing is and don't know anything about encryption, direct connections and filtering countermeasures.
Amen brother. Coincidentally, aren't these the same companies who never seem to come up with something original?
Maybe because they always fire the wrong people. That guy that hangs out at the water cooler all day and spends half his work hours developing some strange project of his will probably revolutionize the entire industry one day simply because he had all that creative time going. On top of that even though his skills for his job aren't stellar he keeps the morale up and the others going harder because he's such a nice guy and keeps the overall mood in the office on a positive level. Meanwhile, you're complaining that your worker drones, that do exactly as they are told and don't even have ambition to strive for anything else, aren't the innovators that you want them to be. Weird.
Oh so Steve Jobs right now is probably the most valuable asset of Apple Inc. right? I mean if he returned in a few months time (which I doubt) they'd go "Ohh Steve... yeah... sorry but you know your circle is rather pale and small now, we don't really know how to fit you into our business anymore."? No he would return to a high valued position and take the helm again. This whole system is already irrational trying to fit it into mathematical categories to me just sounds ridiculous.
How many people have lost jobs because their boss was having a bad day, or a bad week?
Yeah, but how many have KEPT their job despite having a bad day, or a bad week? Because their boss was an insightful human being that knew he shouldn't judge his employees on basis of statistical performance.
I can see some of your points but my argument is this: There IS an alternative that works on all platforms, that has no regional lock-in and is readily available right now. I'm talking about Xvid container video files. Matroska if you need to have lots of subtitles and such. None of these methods is currently exploited by the media companies. But I can get them from hundreds of illegal sites everywhere. So why doesn't the media company seize this means of distribution and make it their own? I'd love to pay for well encoded Xvid videos that get streamed or seeded through big companies. But they don't because they can't put their DRM greed measures on it. They don't want to do it.
One thing I have to strongly disagree with you: Yes they have to kiss my ass. I am the customer. That is what business is all about. If you're being an exclusionary dick you'll end up like the music industry. They stopped kissing ass a long time ago and started treating their customers like criminals and thieves. Thus the customers didn't understand why they should have to pay for such insolence and got their music any other way imaginable. If you don't suck up to you customers... they'll leave. That's the number 1 rule of business. And in this day and age the media companies aren't exactly in a situation where they can make bold demands because there are no alternatives.
Also, like I said, most stuff I watch I watch exactly once and never again after that. I don't know about your anime but I wouldn't spend 40 bucks plus shipping on something that I will never touch again if I can get a digital download copy of it and delete it right after I'm done with it. Makes no sense to me to buy useless plastic discs that are way overpriced for what I want to do with them.
Other than that, no iTunes isn't the devil. But I refuse to accept Apple's terms of service (that's why I never owned anything that Apple made, not even Quicktime Pro). But originally this is not about Apple, there is just no reason whatsoever for me to install a branded locked-down proprietary piece of software just to watch something. There are tons of ways to do it without that and as long as I have the choice I'm not taking this. To me that "one company, one solution" is a terrible concept.
In which you measure the derived value of employees and sell those as part of your stock portfolio. Then a ratings agency gives you a denominated value for your most productive employees and you re-sell those.
I believe quantifying employee "importance" by the number of email conversations they had and who read what they wrote is pretty silly. Soon they'll fire all their network admins because they all are represented by small-ish pale circles that usually reside in some dark basement bureau.
Can business get any more dehumanizing? I don't think so. I at least wouldn't want to work at a company like that.
From TFA:
"You have to bring the same rigor you bring to operations and finance to the analysis of people," says Rupert Bader, director of workforce planning at Microsoft
Can you say fucking stupid, kids? Humans are not machines (at least not yet), they have bad days and bad weeks and some have bad decades (imagine your child dies). Evaluating them through "rigorous" methodological measures is pure idiocy.
Apparently this guy doesn't get what the problem is. Much of the illegal downloading be it music or TV shows occurrs because there are too many hurdles for consumers to jump in order to legally purchase the content. I'm from Europe, I have NOT ONE valid method of buying episode based TV subscriptions (iTunes is out of the question on Linux systems, even if it ran I would refuse to use it). There is no way for me to get movies in their original language or music to the date it is released or in fromats that are useful to me.
I will have to keep contributing to that problem if the people that want my money to put food on their tables don't start working out ways to give me a chance to pay them. Simple enough I'm not buying a DVD box for most shows since I watch the episodes once. Then what? I have useless discs sitting around that I wasted money on. No thank you. There are little to no English cinemas where I live and I won't wait to see movies until they release DVDs (the basic purpose of movie going nowadays is to talk about it to people that have also just seen them, a 6+ delay is not very helpful).
When it comes to profit the makers, producers and rights holders seem to fully understand how to exploit outsourced production, cheap prop making and other effects of globalization. But then, when it comes to treat the market as it is, an interconnected global real-time market... they chose to segment the market into individual regional chunks that they can exploit more thoroughly. Either global OR local... cherry picking from both will lead to people like me. I buy tons of stuff, just not from those assholes that don't take my market segment seriously.
So the problem is that the government won't allow the sales of the original game expansion? Like on the original disc? Running the risk of sounding like a jerk but when was the last time that bothered anyone in China? Don't you just have to install WLK from "somewhere" and you can play? This move is only bad for Acti-Blizzard not really for Chinese WoW players I'd guess.
Notable names include: Donald Rumsfeld,
Condoleezza Rice,
Lewis "Scooter" Libby
Henry Kissinger,
James F. Digby,
(ohhh,we know how much we can trust those three)
On top of that several military experts, researchers in the field of nuclear warfare. Yeah there are also some interesting smart people in there but given the amount of theorists employed to develop and analyze war strategies this is a highly suspicious source of information to say the least. The MPAA lets a militarist thinktank develop a propaganda strategy against filesharing... that is actually very unusual. Seems like someone's afraid.
Having a single huge whitelist for that kind of stuff is pointless. It would be bloated and not very helpful. Different users use different sites and need different whitelists. Then again, who would do the audit? Who would have rights to add/remove to the list? Much better solution is individual vigilance and blocking rights. Most people don't even control their scripts so that would be a good place to start. Centralized structure comes later.
Jeez, does anyone ever check their sources? MSNBC of all things? You know what the MS stands for do you?
Other than that:
There was not ONE server with 65TB but a "ring" of servers with "suspected" 65TB overall data. Police took down exactly one single server. All the other servers were shut down by the people running them so they could not be traced further.
"Ponten said the server ring had collapsed as a direct result of the raid." hahahaha
Did you mean, was redirected and pulled out of your sight? And even if it "collapsed" these are Gigabit sites, backup is easy and there is, well let me understate, definitely more than one of these.
You're doing it wrong. It's not about "No"Script it's about "Only those that are actually useful for the experience" Script but that would make a terrible extension name.
Not for our new bionic overlord but for everyone he sees on an every day basis. Will he be forced to wear one of those full-body signs saying "I'm filming you as we speak" or does he just wink when someone wants to stay anonymous? There's no way he can ask anyone for the right to take their image w/o consent!?
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That's what I meant by "transferring tracker data". The security is broken in any case since there is an unencrypted portion of the transaction no matter what.
How easy...
Doesn't solve the problem of direct logging though. Yeah, your data transfer once the swarm is established will be hidden but everything until then (accessing the torrent portal, downloading a torrent file, transferring tracker data) is all unencrypted (on most sites). People that don't use BitTorrent and rely on other means of sharing don't have any feasible alternative other than using proxy servers which are either slow or expensive.
Fullstream Encryption for BitTorrent should be a no-brainer but there are many unsolved problems with this in any case.
It will uninstall itself saying:
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Really, everyone involved. Good Job.
Interesting how there are several dozen links to Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk on this Thai list. What's being blocked? The biography of the Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The future of internet is NOW. Citizens have no right knowing who makes for their government. That's the future right at your fingertips. Glad Germany will get this pretty soon, too. I love to be protected from things that aren't supposed to be secret.
Heh, all it demonstrates is that you have no sense of humour.
Yeah right, you know me pal. Because it's me who's defending a programmer dude that was just wayyy to cocky at that talk. Friendly jabs end after the third time. Making a joke is one thing, rubbing it in something else. One is funny, the other just isn't. I have no reason to defend cvs or svn at any point. Neither do I have reason to advertise git. I use all of them now and again with mixed results across the board. The way he was constantly being a bitch about everything else sucks and only he and his genius web of trust friends can audit proper code was just ... well ... cocky. There's a fine line between talent and obnoxious arrogance and he clearly tread over it this time.
Good thing though your definition of humor derived from my single post nobody read 'til the end is the penultimate truth. HarrHarr
I don't have a single clue what you are on about but watch the talk Linus gave for Google about git:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
If that doesn't demonstrate arrogance or douchebaggery for you then I don't know what you'd call arrogant. How would you categorize me for arrogant after reading one single post of which you ignored all of the important bits? Like I said I admire the guys work but there's a difference between being good and being a dick about it.
I'm a big Linux fan and I appreciate the man's work on the Kernel and git but his antics sometimes let the asshole part of him slip out a bit too far. Confidence makes you cocky if there is no one to restrain you ever.
Back to "Josh":
A douchebag like that will take the entire project down with him once he snaps. No documentation and an attitude that would prevent proper inheritable code writing from the onset makes this a bad deal. Basically I'd guess they're useful if kept in check, reaally dangerous when you let them do whatever. Much like nuclear power plants really.
From people that deem themselves much smarter than me:
"Piss off with your stupid conspiracy theories, you hippie asshole, there is no such thing as a secret society."
Thanks a lot unknown genius.
How am I supposed to get my Brit TV fix now?
As if any of this would affect the way in which the distribution works. The day after this is implemented there'll be ways to route P2P traffic through proxies or hide it via encryption if that's not already done. I wonder how the ISPs want to distinguish between "regular" http traffic and torrent traffic that is made to look like it.
Other than that from what I can tell most British groups have large seed server on the continent anyway, Top Gear for example is almost exclusively pushed out of France for example. LARGE pipes. And I believe if they have something like that on hand they also have a dedicated access pipe that feeds the continental boxes and from there on the stuff goes out. The only ones affected by this, as usual, are the noob users that barely know what filesharing is and don't know anything about encryption, direct connections and filtering countermeasures.
Amen brother. Coincidentally, aren't these the same companies who never seem to come up with something original?
Maybe because they always fire the wrong people. That guy that hangs out at the water cooler all day and spends half his work hours developing some strange project of his will probably revolutionize the entire industry one day simply because he had all that creative time going. On top of that even though his skills for his job aren't stellar he keeps the morale up and the others going harder because he's such a nice guy and keeps the overall mood in the office on a positive level. Meanwhile, you're complaining that your worker drones, that do exactly as they are told and don't even have ambition to strive for anything else, aren't the innovators that you want them to be. Weird.
How many people have lost jobs because their boss was having a bad day, or a bad week?
Yeah, but how many have KEPT their job despite having a bad day, or a bad week? Because their boss was an insightful human being that knew he shouldn't judge his employees on basis of statistical performance.
I can see some of your points but my argument is this: There IS an alternative that works on all platforms, that has no regional lock-in and is readily available right now. I'm talking about Xvid container video files. Matroska if you need to have lots of subtitles and such. None of these methods is currently exploited by the media companies. But I can get them from hundreds of illegal sites everywhere. So why doesn't the media company seize this means of distribution and make it their own? I'd love to pay for well encoded Xvid videos that get streamed or seeded through big companies. But they don't because they can't put their DRM greed measures on it. They don't want to do it.
... they'll leave. That's the number 1 rule of business. And in this day and age the media companies aren't exactly in a situation where they can make bold demands because there are no alternatives.
One thing I have to strongly disagree with you: Yes they have to kiss my ass. I am the customer. That is what business is all about. If you're being an exclusionary dick you'll end up like the music industry. They stopped kissing ass a long time ago and started treating their customers like criminals and thieves. Thus the customers didn't understand why they should have to pay for such insolence and got their music any other way imaginable. If you don't suck up to you customers
Also, like I said, most stuff I watch I watch exactly once and never again after that. I don't know about your anime but I wouldn't spend 40 bucks plus shipping on something that I will never touch again if I can get a digital download copy of it and delete it right after I'm done with it. Makes no sense to me to buy useless plastic discs that are way overpriced for what I want to do with them.
Other than that, no iTunes isn't the devil. But I refuse to accept Apple's terms of service (that's why I never owned anything that Apple made, not even Quicktime Pro). But originally this is not about Apple, there is just no reason whatsoever for me to install a branded locked-down proprietary piece of software just to watch something. There are tons of ways to do it without that and as long as I have the choice I'm not taking this. To me that "one company, one solution" is a terrible concept.
I believe quantifying employee "importance" by the number of email conversations they had and who read what they wrote is pretty silly. Soon they'll fire all their network admins because they all are represented by small-ish pale circles that usually reside in some dark basement bureau.
Can business get any more dehumanizing? I don't think so. I at least wouldn't want to work at a company like that. From TFA:
"You have to bring the same rigor you bring to operations and finance to the analysis of people," says Rupert Bader, director of workforce planning at Microsoft
Can you say fucking stupid, kids? Humans are not machines (at least not yet), they have bad days and bad weeks and some have bad decades (imagine your child dies). Evaluating them through "rigorous" methodological measures is pure idiocy.
The last project trying to revive the blimp ended by having to transform the hangar into a tropical bath. Good luck.
Apparently this guy doesn't get what the problem is. Much of the illegal downloading be it music or TV shows occurrs because there are too many hurdles for consumers to jump in order to legally purchase the content. I'm from Europe, I have NOT ONE valid method of buying episode based TV subscriptions (iTunes is out of the question on Linux systems, even if it ran I would refuse to use it). There is no way for me to get movies in their original language or music to the date it is released or in fromats that are useful to me.
... they chose to segment the market into individual regional chunks that they can exploit more thoroughly. Either global OR local ... cherry picking from both will lead to people like me. I buy tons of stuff, just not from those assholes that don't take my market segment seriously.
I will have to keep contributing to that problem if the people that want my money to put food on their tables don't start working out ways to give me a chance to pay them. Simple enough I'm not buying a DVD box for most shows since I watch the episodes once. Then what? I have useless discs sitting around that I wasted money on. No thank you. There are little to no English cinemas where I live and I won't wait to see movies until they release DVDs (the basic purpose of movie going nowadays is to talk about it to people that have also just seen them, a 6+ delay is not very helpful).
When it comes to profit the makers, producers and rights holders seem to fully understand how to exploit outsourced production, cheap prop making and other effects of globalization. But then, when it comes to treat the market as it is, an interconnected global real-time market
So the problem is that the government won't allow the sales of the original game expansion?
Like on the original disc? Running the risk of sounding like a jerk but when was the last time that bothered anyone in China? Don't you just have to install WLK from "somewhere" and you can play? This move is only bad for Acti-Blizzard not really for Chinese WoW players I'd guess.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND
... that is actually very unusual. Seems like someone's afraid.
Notable names include:
Donald Rumsfeld,
Condoleezza Rice,
Lewis "Scooter" Libby
Henry Kissinger,
James F. Digby,
(ohhh,we know how much we can trust those three)
On top of that several military experts, researchers in the field of nuclear warfare. Yeah there are also some interesting smart people in there but given the amount of theorists employed to develop and analyze war strategies this is a highly suspicious source of information to say the least. The MPAA lets a militarist thinktank develop a propaganda strategy against filesharing
Having a single huge whitelist for that kind of stuff is pointless. It would be bloated and not very helpful. Different users use different sites and need different whitelists. Then again, who would do the audit? Who would have rights to add/remove to the list? Much better solution is individual vigilance and blocking rights. Most people don't even control their scripts so that would be a good place to start. Centralized structure comes later.
Jeez, does anyone ever check their sources? MSNBC of all things? You know what the MS stands for do you?
Other than that:
There was not ONE server with 65TB but a "ring" of servers with "suspected" 65TB overall data. Police took down exactly one single server. All the other servers were shut down by the people running them so they could not be traced further.
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Just the fact that they dub that "the biggest raid ever" is such a hilarious demonstration of how much they don't know.
"Ponten said the server ring had collapsed as a direct result of the raid." hahahaha
Did you mean, was redirected and pulled out of your sight? And even if it "collapsed" these are Gigabit sites, backup is easy and there is, well let me understate, definitely more than one of these.
The internet without scripts, wow that's so neat!
You're doing it wrong. It's not about "No"Script it's about "Only those that are actually useful for the experience" Script but that would make a terrible extension name.
Not for our new bionic overlord but for everyone he sees on an every day basis. Will he be forced to wear one of those full-body signs saying "I'm filming you as we speak" or does he just wink when someone wants to stay anonymous? There's no way he can ask anyone for the right to take their image w/o consent!?
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All I wanted was the Windows fanboys to spare me with their online praise for one day :/