Even if 75% of Netflix traffic was "pirated", if they can get 25% of every customer in every cable market in the country to pay them $10/month, how happy would they be? Let 75% steal, then ratchet down, maybe, later after they buy Comcast in 10 years. We're just changing from Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner, DirecTV to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and Google, and many users will pay for multiple of these at $10/month.
And, FWIW, FreshRSS is great. I probably wouldn't read/. at all anymore if I wasn't getting it in RSS. There's probably one post per day that I don't just skim, and maybe one every 3 or 4 days that I click into to read the comments. I almost never comment anymore, because it's invariably not worth having clicked into them in the first place anymore, but here we are.
There are some sites which move kind of fast, and so I generally just keep them open, but for the 8 or 12 sites I want to keep up on, but not get flooded by, RSS works perfectly.
My phone dies with me. I'm sure many of my accounts die with me. I spend enough of my time keeping anyone, cops, bad guys, whoever, anyone, from reading my stuff. If they're going to/copy biometrics/ just to get access to some moron who kills me? No. I'm dead, doesn't matter anymore. Just leave me alone in death in the way you wouldn't in life.
I guess I'm glad everything's password and I have a really, really good memory and very fast fingers.
Tax benefits, hospital visitation, inheritance issues, insurance costs...and on, and on, and on.
Things that heterosexual couples take for granted that gay couples could not prior the the legalization of marriage equality nationwide. Do this: Be in a heterosexual marriage for 15 years, and follow your spouse's ambulance to the hospital. Then have a nurse deny you access to their bedside because your "marriage" offends her sensibilities. This same shit had to be fought over interracial marriage as well.
Perhaps your spouse dies in that hospital. Now have their family swoop in and take away your home, along all the money from your spouse's bank accounts. Sure, they could set up trusts and contracts and PoA's, but the point is, I'm married, and if I die, my wife by default is my next of kin. I don't have to do any of that noise, and neither should someone else just because they're gay. Inheritance and capital gains were an even worse issue.
Try having a shred of empathy for people whose circumstances are different from yours, how does that sound? Gay people don't necessarily care if people "like" their marriage, but they should be equal under the law. Statements like yours sound like they're straight out of 1963 and just repurposed from "Coloreds" to "Homos".
Alternatively, it may be time for them to commit to stop selling the tools of oppression to regimes like those in Syria, Egypt... Where there's a dictator, HT has a customer.
If your position is that use of Tor is circumstantial evidence that you're trying to evade the law or do something otherwise "shady", I don't think that's a valid assumption.
And so what sort of -ism led to the actual panopticon of the NSA, XKeyscore, and GCHQ's actual/ability/ to do what they're talking about trying to do?
But you keep blaming damn dirty socialism. My staunchly Rush Limbaugh listening republican as fuck father in law is firmly in the camp of "I don't care if the government reads all my email and watches all my web traffic, I have nothing to hide".
So fuck your vile, watery pissant argument against the "nanny state" and socialists who beg to be spied upon.
Uuh, Mister The Plague, something really weird's going in the system, we've got a user logged on, with the load of about four users. I think we've got a hacker.
I drilled a hole in my ST to adjust the voltage while it was running. When it first powered up, had to crank the voltage up to avoid crashing, then after it was on a while, crank it back down because it would start leaving mouse trails everywhere. I ended up dumping it in a Tupperware bin, and then jamming the keyboard in an IBM mushmaster keyboard case (I didn't defile a Model M for this or anything). I miss that thing sometimes. Emulation just isn't the same, because with emulation your primary job is "play a game", not "keep the machine running while trying to play the game".
Hotmail did this to me too, sending from my VPS at 1 and 1. The explanation in their bounce was that it was due to other hosts from the same provider being spammers, etc, but that after my host's reputation was established it would be naturally un-blocked.
That does seem to be what's happened. As I consistently generate non-spam mail toward hotmail/outlook.com accounts, it has been un-blocked and now works without issues.
I'm particularly interested in your case however, since I plan to migrate to Comcast business myself. I'd prefer not to relay through their servers if possible, what with the shenanigans large ISPs seem to want to pull recently re: STARTTLS downgrade attacks, etc.
Here's an RSN product, Bunnie Huang has been building his own completely open hardware laptop, and demand has been such that they're looking to sell them sans-screen in a router case with two NICs: Novena
I have no idea about availability, but they're around, Jake Appelbaum was playing with one the other day in a recent talk.
Personally, I use a password protected secure not in an OSX keychain. Fine, rail me for that, but if someone gets into my keychain, I already lose anyway.
For work, I've been trying WebPasswordSafe for the last several months. This is to get away from the melange of different un-sync'd password lists in various password managers people in the IT department had. So far it works well, it offers group policies, so theoretically it could be rolled out company wide and each user and group could have their separate password lists.
I'd been guided to look at SecretServer, but the features I need are in WPS, and it's easier to sell Free in my company than Several Hundred or Thousand dollars, for many things at least.
I use a personal domain for my actual mail, but have accounts at all the major free mail sites too, just for spam or whatever.
I started getting mail to my Yahoo account which wasn't spam, but clearly not for me, as part of a group of people participating in a medical imaging conference. For a while I just blew it off, but eventually the organizer mailed my actual non-yahoo address by mistake as well. So I decided to be swell about it and let her know that I'm not the person she's trying to reach. She said "Oh, I'm sorry, I meant to do (yourname)@yahoo.com, thanks!", and so I told her "well no, that's also me, sorry". I proceeded to tell her an address which would work for her intended recipient (work email for the person she was trying to mail, who isn't me).
Basically she refused to believe she has been sending to the wrong address, and said "I had no idea two people could have the same email address, I guess Yahoo must allow it or something". At that point, I gave up and just let it go again. It's not high-volume enough to matter.
So now the arms race escalates to USB ports that cut holes in the USB Condom so the contacts work again, and they can go back to sucking down all your data.
There's a lot to do to SA to make it "good". I shared your opinion a year ago. I run a relatively low volume personal mail server for a few domains and a few users. I had SA, but it didn't do much, and I had bigger fish to fry dealing with much larger mail sites than my stupid personal nonsense. I typically get about 300-500 spams a day, and very few legit mails. I was getting false positives, so I'd just never see the mail, and tons of false negatives. About 20% of the daily spam was hitting my inbox, making it unlikely that I'd ever even check my personal mail. If you mailed me, and I didn't have an existing filter from you, there was maybe a 60% chance I would notice your mail in time for it to matter.
I decided one day to fix all this, regardless of what that entailed. I lowered the threshold for SA to a score of 4 (which they bark at you not to do, but fuck 'em, I've seen maybe 6 legit mails with a score higher than 4.5, in my world anyway). The key components were: enabling remote checks, RAZOR and DCC, and having SA train its filters off of my false negatives. I use the Train SA script, so I drop any false negatives in a Train Spam folder, and this picks them up and runs them through SA's filters to train it.
My false negative rate dropped pretty much immediately from 20% to ~3% to 5% on weekdays, and zero to 1% on weekends, which I can live with. In the year or so since I actually put my back into fixing this, I've gotten maybe 2 false positives.
I don't see long processing times, mail comes through pretty much as I send it in my tests on my VPS, but again, I only get a few hundred mails/day. If I had volume over a few dozen thousand/day, I'd probably just bite the bullet and pay Google (Postini) to make it go away.
PuTTY is actually a terrible example, since, you know, it's not American software to begin with. The only caution on PuTTYs use is that it may be illegal to possess in countries where encryption is illegal.
Since Pre-Orders arrived a couple of days after you could buy these in the stores, I had seen the videos of reviewers trying to unbox their tablets. Since I abhor the fetishization of consumer electronics garbage, I intended to make two videos:
My wife unboxing hers in the semi-sexual consumer garbage nerd way and having a hard time due to over-tight packaging.
Me unboxing mine in a 5 second flash of steel from a boxcutter. I mean, the name kind of gives it away there. Cut. The box.
I sadly canceled movie time when the outer sleeves of both devices slid cleanly off as soon as we tipped them upright, and the inner box opened just as smoothly. I'm guessing that sometime between shipping devices to Gamestop and Staples, and the time they shipped to pre-order customers, the packaging problem was resolved.
For what it's worth, I just confirmed that it's the "junkie" part that MSN has a problem with. Changing the URL to writingmonkey allows the IM. However, sending an IM of "You fucking junkie" goes through no problem.
MSN Messenger also censors their chat traffic, though I wouldn't pretend to know if it's to this startling degree. They do do active scanning and will silently drop and reformat messages containing keywords (and technology) they don't like. Here is an example of a URL which will be dropped if you send it through MSN Messenger:
Slashdot Mirror
Even if 75% of Netflix traffic was "pirated", if they can get 25% of every customer in every cable market in the country to pay them $10/month, how happy would they be? Let 75% steal, then ratchet down, maybe, later after they buy Comcast in 10 years. We're just changing from Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner, DirecTV to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and Google, and many users will pay for multiple of these at $10/month.
And, FWIW, FreshRSS is great. I probably wouldn't read /. at all anymore if I wasn't getting it in RSS. There's probably one post per day that I don't just skim, and maybe one every 3 or 4 days that I click into to read the comments. I almost never comment anymore, because it's invariably not worth having clicked into them in the first place anymore, but here we are.
There are some sites which move kind of fast, and so I generally just keep them open, but for the 8 or 12 sites I want to keep up on, but not get flooded by, RSS works perfectly.
Bernie sold out for a handful of shekels
But don't you DARE call us racist.
My phone dies with me. I'm sure many of my accounts die with me. I spend enough of my time keeping anyone, cops, bad guys, whoever, anyone, from reading my stuff. If they're going to /copy biometrics/ just to get access to some moron who kills me? No. I'm dead, doesn't matter anymore. Just leave me alone in death in the way you wouldn't in life.
I guess I'm glad everything's password and I have a really, really good memory and very fast fingers.
Tax benefits, hospital visitation, inheritance issues, insurance costs...and on, and on, and on.
Things that heterosexual couples take for granted that gay couples could not prior the the legalization of marriage equality nationwide. Do this: Be in a heterosexual marriage for 15 years, and follow your spouse's ambulance to the hospital. Then have a nurse deny you access to their bedside because your "marriage" offends her sensibilities. This same shit had to be fought over interracial marriage as well.
Perhaps your spouse dies in that hospital. Now have their family swoop in and take away your home, along all the money from your spouse's bank accounts. Sure, they could set up trusts and contracts and PoA's, but the point is, I'm married, and if I die, my wife by default is my next of kin. I don't have to do any of that noise, and neither should someone else just because they're gay. Inheritance and capital gains were an even worse issue.
Try having a shred of empathy for people whose circumstances are different from yours, how does that sound? Gay people don't necessarily care if people "like" their marriage, but they should be equal under the law. Statements like yours sound like they're straight out of 1963 and just repurposed from "Coloreds" to "Homos".
Alternatively, it may be time for them to commit to stop selling the tools of oppression to regimes like those in Syria, Egypt... Where there's a dictator, HT has a customer.
Hah, no shit? I think Kim Dotcom should start a business with Mark Cuban and John Malone, just to see what would happen.
/the more you know...
BoingBoing's publisher actually has evidence to the contrary:
His license plate is "DRUNK"
If your position is that use of Tor is circumstantial evidence that you're trying to evade the law or do something otherwise "shady", I don't think that's a valid assumption.
And so what sort of -ism led to the actual panopticon of the NSA, XKeyscore, and GCHQ's actual /ability/ to do what they're talking about trying to do?
But you keep blaming damn dirty socialism. My staunchly Rush Limbaugh listening republican as fuck father in law is firmly in the camp of "I don't care if the government reads all my email and watches all my web traffic, I have nothing to hide".
So fuck your vile, watery pissant argument against the "nanny state" and socialists who beg to be spied upon.
Never fear, *I* is here.
Uuh, Mister The Plague, something really weird's going in the system, we've got a user logged on, with the load of about four users. I think we've got a hacker.
Little known fun fact: The 500 mile race was meant to be run on a perfectly round track...
I drilled a hole in my ST to adjust the voltage while it was running. When it first powered up, had to crank the voltage up to avoid crashing, then after it was on a while, crank it back down because it would start leaving mouse trails everywhere. I ended up dumping it in a Tupperware bin, and then jamming the keyboard in an IBM mushmaster keyboard case (I didn't defile a Model M for this or anything). I miss that thing sometimes. Emulation just isn't the same, because with emulation your primary job is "play a game", not "keep the machine running while trying to play the game".
We should probably have a whole area of disk for various flotsam and configs and yadda yadda, et cetera.
Hotmail did this to me too, sending from my VPS at 1 and 1. The explanation in their bounce was that it was due to other hosts from the same provider being spammers, etc, but that after my host's reputation was established it would be naturally un-blocked.
That does seem to be what's happened. As I consistently generate non-spam mail toward hotmail/outlook.com accounts, it has been un-blocked and now works without issues.
I'm particularly interested in your case however, since I plan to migrate to Comcast business myself. I'd prefer not to relay through their servers if possible, what with the shenanigans large ISPs seem to want to pull recently re: STARTTLS downgrade attacks, etc.
Here's an RSN product, Bunnie Huang has been building his own completely open hardware laptop, and demand has been such that they're looking to sell them sans-screen in a router case with two NICs: Novena
I have no idea about availability, but they're around, Jake Appelbaum was playing with one the other day in a recent talk.
Personally, I use a password protected secure not in an OSX keychain. Fine, rail me for that, but if someone gets into my keychain, I already lose anyway.
For work, I've been trying WebPasswordSafe for the last several months. This is to get away from the melange of different un-sync'd password lists in various password managers people in the IT department had. So far it works well, it offers group policies, so theoretically it could be rolled out company wide and each user and group could have their separate password lists.
I'd been guided to look at SecretServer, but the features I need are in WPS, and it's easier to sell Free in my company than Several Hundred or Thousand dollars, for many things at least.
I use a personal domain for my actual mail, but have accounts at all the major free mail sites too, just for spam or whatever.
I started getting mail to my Yahoo account which wasn't spam, but clearly not for me, as part of a group of people participating in a medical imaging conference. For a while I just blew it off, but eventually the organizer mailed my actual non-yahoo address by mistake as well. So I decided to be swell about it and let her know that I'm not the person she's trying to reach. She said "Oh, I'm sorry, I meant to do (yourname)@yahoo.com, thanks!", and so I told her "well no, that's also me, sorry". I proceeded to tell her an address which would work for her intended recipient (work email for the person she was trying to mail, who isn't me).
Basically she refused to believe she has been sending to the wrong address, and said "I had no idea two people could have the same email address, I guess Yahoo must allow it or something". At that point, I gave up and just let it go again. It's not high-volume enough to matter.
I've been training for this mission since I was 9. I'm ready, put me in coach, I've got this!
So now the arms race escalates to USB ports that cut holes in the USB Condom so the contacts work again, and they can go back to sucking down all your data.
There's a lot to do to SA to make it "good". I shared your opinion a year ago. I run a relatively low volume personal mail server for a few domains and a few users. I had SA, but it didn't do much, and I had bigger fish to fry dealing with much larger mail sites than my stupid personal nonsense. I typically get about 300-500 spams a day, and very few legit mails. I was getting false positives, so I'd just never see the mail, and tons of false negatives. About 20% of the daily spam was hitting my inbox, making it unlikely that I'd ever even check my personal mail. If you mailed me, and I didn't have an existing filter from you, there was maybe a 60% chance I would notice your mail in time for it to matter.
I decided one day to fix all this, regardless of what that entailed. I lowered the threshold for SA to a score of 4 (which they bark at you not to do, but fuck 'em, I've seen maybe 6 legit mails with a score higher than 4.5, in my world anyway). The key components were: enabling remote checks, RAZOR and DCC, and having SA train its filters off of my false negatives. I use the Train SA script, so I drop any false negatives in a Train Spam folder, and this picks them up and runs them through SA's filters to train it.
My false negative rate dropped pretty much immediately from 20% to ~3% to 5% on weekdays, and zero to 1% on weekends, which I can live with. In the year or so since I actually put my back into fixing this, I've gotten maybe 2 false positives.
I don't see long processing times, mail comes through pretty much as I send it in my tests on my VPS, but again, I only get a few hundred mails/day. If I had volume over a few dozen thousand/day, I'd probably just bite the bullet and pay Google (Postini) to make it go away.
PuTTY is actually a terrible example, since, you know, it's not American software to begin with. The only caution on PuTTYs use is that it may be illegal to possess in countries where encryption is illegal.
I sadly canceled movie time when the outer sleeves of both devices slid cleanly off as soon as we tipped them upright, and the inner box opened just as smoothly. I'm guessing that sometime between shipping devices to Gamestop and Staples, and the time they shipped to pre-order customers, the packaging problem was resolved.
OTR does work, however, since probably 5% of FB users will use OTR, that's not going to convince me to use FB for chat.
For what it's worth, I just confirmed that it's the "junkie" part that MSN has a problem with. Changing the URL to writingmonkey allows the IM. However, sending an IM of "You fucking junkie" goes through no problem.
MSN Messenger also censors their chat traffic, though I wouldn't pretend to know if it's to this startling degree. They do do active scanning and will silently drop and reformat messages containing keywords (and technology) they don't like. Here is an example of a URL which will be dropped if you send it through MSN Messenger:
http://writingjunkie.net/images/stlouis10-18-08/obama-cool-again.jpg
Yet another reason for ubiquitous crypto usage in IM. Use a libpurple-based client with OTR (Pidgin, Adium) and you can avoid much of this mess.