The seeders IP address were public knowledge. The entire point of the tracker is to release the seeders IP addresses. I have no problem with this. If there are users on there that want to hide what they are doing there are much better ways to go about it. If you're involved in this sort of thing, you've got to assume the industry is going to find out the IP address you hosted from. Best make sure that IP address doesn't lead back to you.
I've argued to our licensing team that all the extra features in office are BAD. How many idiot managers do we have out there running their own personal databases out of excel and access without IS oversite? How many times does someone leave, we find one of these, then have to migrate it to a real server... all the while finding huge errors in their methodology and implementation? Do away with the nonsense.
DRM IS Evil. You seem to think that everyone should be able to put anything on the internet without any concern for what happens to it. The internet, at its core, is about the free transfer of information. It's like someone started up a food fair where you could come out and try all these free home cooked meals, learn new recipes, and trade ideas. Then Pizza hut put up a booth. "Hey! All these people tried our pizza and then went out and made it themselves! How dare they!!!"
If you don't want your content downloaded, don't put it on the web. The solution is simple. If you don't want to take part in the new way information works, you don't have to. But to bend this new medium to fit your decades old, outdated business model doesn't just hurt the internet, it hurts your business. There is a lot of money to be made if they just embraced the new system. But they need to be innovative, creative and open to ideas. There are a lot of what were once poor people, getting rich off of the huge vacuum left by big business on the net. They wine and complain that the piratebay founders are making all this money off of people downloading their movies... THINK ABOUT IT! The media industry is driving itself into the ground, and the path to success is clear and laid out before them.
The other day my company was tossing out some huge server looking thing. They said I could have it if I wanted, it was a huge disc array. It was the size of a small car. So I asked how much space that monster had... 1 Terabyte... no thanks. Some stuff should just go in the landfill.
you don't seem to understand. Some of that marketing companies biggest customers are probably your ISP, your bank, your school, your employer. You can not escape this. You cannot be anonymous on the internet and still use the internet in any meaningful way. Could you use TOR and never do anything but IRC chat and remain mostly anon? Probably. But what's the point then?
I work for an ISP. Dedicated solutions aren't all that hard or expensive. They're just usually slow. Most cash registers have less than a 56k connection, but they never touch the internet. The problem is the government loves to overspend, and overplan. So I'm sure their plan involves full HD realtime video of the facility or some other stupid shit they don't need on their secured network. Put command and control on your private network. Put your security cameras on... well anything else.
That doesn't work... at all... they don't care what your real name is. All they care about is being able to uniquely identify you, and target you with adds. Your full name is a horrible data point for that because there are probably dozens, if not thousands of other people with your same name. I have a rather unique name IRL and there are still at least 20 people I've found with the identical first and last.
Instead they track you based on dozens of data points combined. Any of which can not match, but if they have enough data points they can still be sure it's you based on the rest of the data points that match. So lets say they have the following info on you: Email address IP address Operating system Browser Fonts installed Start page (where you launched their site from)
This is a rather simple list. Most marketing software tracks much more than this. So they track when you login. In general, most of the above information is given over by default by your browser, besides the email address. The email address is the holy grail of data points because, even if you give them a bullshit email address (like you make up one on hotmail just for spam) you tend to use that same account on all sites. So every time you login they log all this data on you. Then their software collates all this data into: 100% of the time you logged in with all of the above data being the same with the exception of IP address. That seems to change between 2 IPs daily. Then, once a moth both those IPs change at random. A quick query shows that the first IP belongs to AT&T, and is clearly your home IP address. The second IP belongs to a company, and you access it between 8 and 3pm... so now they know where you work, and the hours you work.
Generally they don't need all of this, as long as they have a verified email address. BUT... then you come to the point where you switch emails. Or you have multiple accounts to thwart your tracking efforts. BUT, they have all of these other data points. They can still confirm it's you to an error fact higher than the number of people in the united states. That's good enough for them, and they link the data between the 2 accounts and add your new email address to your list of email addresses in their database.
But you say "AH WAIT! I didn't give my new email address to that site... I went over to this other one! They can't track me!" That's great, but it doesn't work. As things go now, the site you're at purchased a marketing package from a cloud service company. A company that tracks all of this data across thousands of sites. The marketing service likely even has peering agreements with other services.
Long story short? No matter what you do... how you protect yourself... you can not evade this tracking. You could use TOR but that would just be another data point for them. The very fact that your IP changes every time you log in is identifying. You may think that none of this matters, they don't have any of your real life data. But the fact is, they don't care about that. They just want to sell you stuff... whomever you are. Oh, and by the way, the second you buy anything online, they have all that real life data in spades.
I don't really understand this fascination with getting computers in the classroom. As far as I'm concerned the only room computers should be in is the computer lab. Teachers should be teaching, students should be learning. Computers don't help that situation at all. If it were better on the computer, we wouldn't need the classroom in the first place. I love computers, and students should be learning how to use them, but when I walk into the local highschool and the teachers got digital blackboard that cost the school more that it would have to hire 2 more teachers... and the class is on literature... I have to question the sanity in that.
The best literature teacher I ever had would prepare her work ahead of time, print it on transparencies and then just slide them onto an overhead projector. She could update them on the fly with a dry erase marker. Infinitely more useful, and substantially cheaper than all this tech being thrown at education.
Kickbacks and loopholes are Capitalism ways of dealing with errors in the system. Artificial barriers put up by governments that prevent economic growth are circumvented in the most cost efficient way possible. Take away the artificial barriers, and there are no kickbacks/loopholes.
The fact is, if you pass a law that prevents people from making money in a certain way, all that happens is that the ones that can afford to bribe those that write the laws will continue to operate in the most efficient way. Stop creating laws that we all know the Rich wont have to follow. They are just burdens on the poor and middle class.
No, you're wrong, you can't be a "capitalist" People use that term incorrectly. "Capitalism" is how money works. It's in flux all the time but has general rules that are rather firm. "Socialism" is a political dogma with the goal of manipulating Capitalism into doing things it wouldn't naturally do. It doesn't work... it never works.
Capitalism is equal and fair, provided sales are transparent. This is where government regulation can help. Weights and Measures. Clearly defined products. Legal recourse for breaches of contracts. The government fails when it trys to regulate or manipulate prices. Or trys to ban products, regulate what can and can't be sold, and when it prevents failed business models from suffering their well deserved fates.
Exactly, his claim is legit, not because the domain is his name. It's legit because they are implicitly implying that they represent him. He has the right to have control over his own voice on the internet.
Generally I and Ron Paul would agree with you. This however is a unique piece of property. The owners of the domain are basically representing Ron Paul without his authorization. If it were "RonPaulforCongress.com" it would be different. If the sites content were not Ron Paul related. But they are running a site dedicated to the life of an individual and promoting political ideology he may or may not approve of.
On top of that, they are basically trying to extort money out of the man. Their motives are clearly to squat on the domain until they get a fat wad of cash. I think that we agreed long ago that Cybersquating was bad for the internet. If you're not using a domain for anything other than investment, you shouldn't have it. You need to develop the domains value on your own, not wait until someone else does it for you by mistake and then extort them for cash.
We want free, unfettered, networking ability. The internets dieing a slow death of a thousand DMCA request paper cuts. Give me a free alternative any day. If my local municipality setup their own local network, I'd hook up. We've all got this idea that "The Internet" is the only network to connect to, but I think an alternative is the only solution to the corporate nonsense that's been going on over the past 10 years. Maybe this time we can build it smarter, knowing ahead of time what these jerks are going to try and do.
Yea, Europe isn't my model for any sort of success fiscally. I suspect the solution is just something we haven't figured out yet. It certainly has nothing to do with socialism. Capitalism is at least, not a political dogma. Capitalism is "how money works" All the things you hate about it, are not a part of it. Kickbacks, loopholes, all that sort of shit are people gaming the system and are actually more socialist in nature than anything else.
free link: 40,000 free download that requires an ounce of thought: 19,000 pay for this crap: 2,000
its a proud day for doing stuff you love, but not all of us can dedicate the time or money to give stuff away while hoping someone drops a dollar in the guitar case, cause its just not happening
You don't seem to get it. It did happen. Right there it happened. Did holywood pick this movie up? Would it have ever been made had any normal studio been involved? Your media is spoon fed to you, you get exactly what will get you to buy more shit. They play on your hopes and fears to get you to buy into their business model. Can free work? Well it depends on what your goal is. Was your goal to make lots of money? Well then it's not likely to work. Was your goal to make a documentary about a subject the general media doesn't want covered? Then it worked in spades right here.
Idiotic? Ok, maybe... is the Title of this article or anything in the slate Article even remotely true? No... So Slates got an article criticizing Fox News of reporting bullshit, but SLATES article about fox, is riddled with even MORE bullshit. It's horribly ironic.
So, fox news has turned into a joke over the years, and the worst of it is the morning show. The hosts are idiots, they do little research and make a lot of false claims. BUT... watched the video. The quote was taken completely out of context. She said "Germany has a lot more sun than us. You could do solar power in places like California and out west, but on the east cost here it's just not going to work well." That's a far cry from what Slates claiming. It's still probably wrong, but it's not nearly as idiotic as Slates claiming and it was clearly an off the cuff remark and not a statement of fact. The real direction the interview was taking was that China is undercutting our solar panel production, and the only way to compete is with subsidies. Which is true. Also, she went on to say our money would be better invested in developing cleaner methods of using Natural Gas, which is also true. My own opinion is that, we're going to use that natural gas, period, it's a fact. So lets make sure we at least use it in as clean a way as possible.
There are plenty of reasons to talk shit about Fox news. This single comment is not news worthy.
1. They weren't just counting kindle fires. 2. A kindle fire, Nexus or iPad are NOT PCs. They're toys. Are you writing code on your iPad? Doing your taxes? I'm not saying it wont happen some day, but lets not jump the shark quite yet.
This is exactly what we need. It would solve a LOT of problems. What is 20mb/s service anyway? I know we have our (logical) definition. But I guarantee your ISP has an entirely different definition that has absolutely no bearing on the speed of your connection and more to do with the price you're paying. (I work for a large ISP btw)
Government regulation is bad in almost all respects when it comes to the economy. Capitalism works best when it's unfettered and transparent. The laws the government should impose should not put chains on businesses or consumers. What the government should be doing is making the market more transparent. Don't make derivatives illegal, make describing exactly whats in them required before sale. Don't dictate what speeds or services ISPs can offer, require the ISPs to use common terms and conditions that consumers can understand. Just as you say, a certain speed should be exactly that. None of this "up to" bullshit. If there are limits on how much you can download, that should be clear and upfront, not buried on their website. Their traffic shaping policies should be clear and understandable. The way they measure your use should be standardize. It would help both the ISPs and the consumer. We need something like the FDAs nutrition labels but for technology. Data cap? y/n Limit = ### Max speed = ## Minimum speed = ## Average Latency = ## % time down in your town over the past 12 months: ## Average time to resolution for customer outages: ##
Your ISP HAS all of this information already. It's all a mater of making it law that they have to give it to you before you sign a contract. Simple as that.
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The seeders IP address were public knowledge. The entire point of the tracker is to release the seeders IP addresses. I have no problem with this. If there are users on there that want to hide what they are doing there are much better ways to go about it. If you're involved in this sort of thing, you've got to assume the industry is going to find out the IP address you hosted from. Best make sure that IP address doesn't lead back to you.
Who cares? I certainly don't.
I've argued to our licensing team that all the extra features in office are BAD. How many idiot managers do we have out there running their own personal databases out of excel and access without IS oversite? How many times does someone leave, we find one of these, then have to migrate it to a real server... all the while finding huge errors in their methodology and implementation? Do away with the nonsense.
DRM IS Evil. You seem to think that everyone should be able to put anything on the internet without any concern for what happens to it. The internet, at its core, is about the free transfer of information. It's like someone started up a food fair where you could come out and try all these free home cooked meals, learn new recipes, and trade ideas. Then Pizza hut put up a booth. "Hey! All these people tried our pizza and then went out and made it themselves! How dare they!!!"
If you don't want your content downloaded, don't put it on the web. The solution is simple. If you don't want to take part in the new way information works, you don't have to. But to bend this new medium to fit your decades old, outdated business model doesn't just hurt the internet, it hurts your business. There is a lot of money to be made if they just embraced the new system. But they need to be innovative, creative and open to ideas. There are a lot of what were once poor people, getting rich off of the huge vacuum left by big business on the net. They wine and complain that the piratebay founders are making all this money off of people downloading their movies... THINK ABOUT IT! The media industry is driving itself into the ground, and the path to success is clear and laid out before them.
The other day my company was tossing out some huge server looking thing. They said I could have it if I wanted, it was a huge disc array. It was the size of a small car. So I asked how much space that monster had... 1 Terabyte... no thanks. Some stuff should just go in the landfill.
you don't seem to understand. Some of that marketing companies biggest customers are probably your ISP, your bank, your school, your employer. You can not escape this. You cannot be anonymous on the internet and still use the internet in any meaningful way. Could you use TOR and never do anything but IRC chat and remain mostly anon? Probably. But what's the point then?
I work for an ISP. Dedicated solutions aren't all that hard or expensive. They're just usually slow. Most cash registers have less than a 56k connection, but they never touch the internet. The problem is the government loves to overspend, and overplan. So I'm sure their plan involves full HD realtime video of the facility or some other stupid shit they don't need on their secured network. Put command and control on your private network. Put your security cameras on... well anything else.
That doesn't work... at all... they don't care what your real name is. All they care about is being able to uniquely identify you, and target you with adds. Your full name is a horrible data point for that because there are probably dozens, if not thousands of other people with your same name. I have a rather unique name IRL and there are still at least 20 people I've found with the identical first and last.
Instead they track you based on dozens of data points combined. Any of which can not match, but if they have enough data points they can still be sure it's you based on the rest of the data points that match.
So lets say they have the following info on you:
Email address
IP address
Operating system
Browser
Fonts installed
Start page (where you launched their site from)
This is a rather simple list. Most marketing software tracks much more than this.
So they track when you login. In general, most of the above information is given over by default by your browser, besides the email address. The email address is the holy grail of data points because, even if you give them a bullshit email address (like you make up one on hotmail just for spam) you tend to use that same account on all sites. So every time you login they log all this data on you. Then their software collates all this data into: 100% of the time you logged in with all of the above data being the same with the exception of IP address. That seems to change between 2 IPs daily. Then, once a moth both those IPs change at random. A quick query shows that the first IP belongs to AT&T, and is clearly your home IP address. The second IP belongs to a company, and you access it between 8 and 3pm... so now they know where you work, and the hours you work.
Generally they don't need all of this, as long as they have a verified email address. BUT... then you come to the point where you switch emails. Or you have multiple accounts to thwart your tracking efforts. BUT, they have all of these other data points. They can still confirm it's you to an error fact higher than the number of people in the united states. That's good enough for them, and they link the data between the 2 accounts and add your new email address to your list of email addresses in their database.
But you say "AH WAIT! I didn't give my new email address to that site... I went over to this other one! They can't track me!" That's great, but it doesn't work. As things go now, the site you're at purchased a marketing package from a cloud service company. A company that tracks all of this data across thousands of sites. The marketing service likely even has peering agreements with other services.
Long story short? No matter what you do... how you protect yourself... you can not evade this tracking. You could use TOR but that would just be another data point for them. The very fact that your IP changes every time you log in is identifying. You may think that none of this matters, they don't have any of your real life data. But the fact is, they don't care about that. They just want to sell you stuff... whomever you are. Oh, and by the way, the second you buy anything online, they have all that real life data in spades.
I don't really understand this fascination with getting computers in the classroom. As far as I'm concerned the only room computers should be in is the computer lab. Teachers should be teaching, students should be learning. Computers don't help that situation at all. If it were better on the computer, we wouldn't need the classroom in the first place. I love computers, and students should be learning how to use them, but when I walk into the local highschool and the teachers got digital blackboard that cost the school more that it would have to hire 2 more teachers... and the class is on literature... I have to question the sanity in that.
The best literature teacher I ever had would prepare her work ahead of time, print it on transparencies and then just slide them onto an overhead projector. She could update them on the fly with a dry erase marker. Infinitely more useful, and substantially cheaper than all this tech being thrown at education.
Kickbacks and loopholes are Capitalism ways of dealing with errors in the system. Artificial barriers put up by governments that prevent economic growth are circumvented in the most cost efficient way possible. Take away the artificial barriers, and there are no kickbacks/loopholes.
The fact is, if you pass a law that prevents people from making money in a certain way, all that happens is that the ones that can afford to bribe those that write the laws will continue to operate in the most efficient way. Stop creating laws that we all know the Rich wont have to follow. They are just burdens on the poor and middle class.
No, you're wrong, you can't be a "capitalist" People use that term incorrectly. "Capitalism" is how money works. It's in flux all the time but has general rules that are rather firm. "Socialism" is a political dogma with the goal of manipulating Capitalism into doing things it wouldn't naturally do. It doesn't work... it never works.
Capitalism is equal and fair, provided sales are transparent. This is where government regulation can help. Weights and Measures. Clearly defined products. Legal recourse for breaches of contracts. The government fails when it trys to regulate or manipulate prices. Or trys to ban products, regulate what can and can't be sold, and when it prevents failed business models from suffering their well deserved fates.
Exactly, his claim is legit, not because the domain is his name. It's legit because they are implicitly implying that they represent him. He has the right to have control over his own voice on the internet.
Generally I and Ron Paul would agree with you. This however is a unique piece of property. The owners of the domain are basically representing Ron Paul without his authorization. If it were "RonPaulforCongress.com" it would be different. If the sites content were not Ron Paul related. But they are running a site dedicated to the life of an individual and promoting political ideology he may or may not approve of.
On top of that, they are basically trying to extort money out of the man. Their motives are clearly to squat on the domain until they get a fat wad of cash. I think that we agreed long ago that Cybersquating was bad for the internet. If you're not using a domain for anything other than investment, you shouldn't have it. You need to develop the domains value on your own, not wait until someone else does it for you by mistake and then extort them for cash.
We want free, unfettered, networking ability. The internets dieing a slow death of a thousand DMCA request paper cuts. Give me a free alternative any day. If my local municipality setup their own local network, I'd hook up. We've all got this idea that "The Internet" is the only network to connect to, but I think an alternative is the only solution to the corporate nonsense that's been going on over the past 10 years. Maybe this time we can build it smarter, knowing ahead of time what these jerks are going to try and do.
Yea, Europe isn't my model for any sort of success fiscally. I suspect the solution is just something we haven't figured out yet. It certainly has nothing to do with socialism. Capitalism is at least, not a political dogma. Capitalism is "how money works" All the things you hate about it, are not a part of it. Kickbacks, loopholes, all that sort of shit are people gaming the system and are actually more socialist in nature than anything else.
Yes, but google has room to grown. I'd be surprised if Apple did anything interesting in the next year, I expect it of Google.
Yes, because there's no poverty or starvation in Marxist countries at all right?
here is how you pay the bills
free link: 40,000
free download that requires an ounce of thought: 19,000
pay for this crap: 2,000
its a proud day for doing stuff you love, but not all of us can dedicate the time or money to give stuff away while hoping someone drops a dollar in the guitar case, cause its just not happening
You don't seem to get it. It did happen. Right there it happened. Did holywood pick this movie up? Would it have ever been made had any normal studio been involved? Your media is spoon fed to you, you get exactly what will get you to buy more shit. They play on your hopes and fears to get you to buy into their business model. Can free work? Well it depends on what your goal is. Was your goal to make lots of money? Well then it's not likely to work. Was your goal to make a documentary about a subject the general media doesn't want covered? Then it worked in spades right here.
Restricted Liberties, the only way to be free!
Idiotic? Ok, maybe... is the Title of this article or anything in the slate Article even remotely true? No... So Slates got an article criticizing Fox News of reporting bullshit, but SLATES article about fox, is riddled with even MORE bullshit. It's horribly ironic.
So, fox news has turned into a joke over the years, and the worst of it is the morning show. The hosts are idiots, they do little research and make a lot of false claims. BUT... watched the video. The quote was taken completely out of context. She said "Germany has a lot more sun than us. You could do solar power in places like California and out west, but on the east cost here it's just not going to work well." That's a far cry from what Slates claiming. It's still probably wrong, but it's not nearly as idiotic as Slates claiming and it was clearly an off the cuff remark and not a statement of fact. The real direction the interview was taking was that China is undercutting our solar panel production, and the only way to compete is with subsidies. Which is true. Also, she went on to say our money would be better invested in developing cleaner methods of using Natural Gas, which is also true. My own opinion is that, we're going to use that natural gas, period, it's a fact. So lets make sure we at least use it in as clean a way as possible.
There are plenty of reasons to talk shit about Fox news. This single comment is not news worthy.
YOU paid for shipping. Returns cost them money. Think about that for about 6 seconds and the world will make more sense to you.
1. They weren't just counting kindle fires.
2. A kindle fire, Nexus or iPad are NOT PCs. They're toys. Are you writing code on your iPad? Doing your taxes? I'm not saying it wont happen some day, but lets not jump the shark quite yet.
This is exactly what we need. It would solve a LOT of problems. What is 20mb/s service anyway? I know we have our (logical) definition. But I guarantee your ISP has an entirely different definition that has absolutely no bearing on the speed of your connection and more to do with the price you're paying. (I work for a large ISP btw)
Government regulation is bad in almost all respects when it comes to the economy. Capitalism works best when it's unfettered and transparent. The laws the government should impose should not put chains on businesses or consumers. What the government should be doing is making the market more transparent. Don't make derivatives illegal, make describing exactly whats in them required before sale. Don't dictate what speeds or services ISPs can offer, require the ISPs to use common terms and conditions that consumers can understand. Just as you say, a certain speed should be exactly that. None of this "up to" bullshit. If there are limits on how much you can download, that should be clear and upfront, not buried on their website. Their traffic shaping policies should be clear and understandable. The way they measure your use should be standardize. It would help both the ISPs and the consumer. We need something like the FDAs nutrition labels but for technology.
Data cap? y/n
Limit = ###
Max speed = ##
Minimum speed = ##
Average Latency = ##
% time down in your town over the past 12 months: ##
Average time to resolution for customer outages: ##
Your ISP HAS all of this information already. It's all a mater of making it law that they have to give it to you before you sign a contract. Simple as that.
Evidence only counts in court. This is them sending you a bill and you paying it or losing your internet. Good luck.