your netflix download doesn't get out of the way any more than the traffic from a DDoS, so remember kids, every time you watch a TV show online you're being VIOLENT! Should just lock up every bandwidth hog, they deserve worse!
And protesters on the street may get out of the way but they still delay things in an emergency. So sorry, still just as "violent".
And you're still failing to justify your absurd position.
Youcut is basically one of those cases of he who writes the summary gets to choose what gets cut, use impressive summaries for things you don't like and stupid ones for what you want cut and people will vote how you like.
I've bought from a few online retailers and I've found amazon to be the easiest/fastest for this.
I just wish I could filter out items from sellers who don't ship to my country. It's the biggest annoyance for me on amazon. I search for what I want, put it in the basket and when I go to check out half the items turn out to be unavailable to me. If I can't buy it I don't even want to see it.
really? the whole thing is coming down? could have fooled me. I could have sworn that it's still going strong as a moderately reliable source of information which is vastly more accessible than almost any other in history.
It got the issue on the front pages again, it got lots of attention and they drew enough attention to mastercard that icelandic regulators are dragging them over the coals as to exactly why they cut off an icelandic company.
in many ways the "hacktivism"(I know, I shudder when I use the word too) actually seems to have achieved at least as much as most regular protests.
Trying to DDoS amazon though was always going to be like pissing at a thunder storm, you can't saturate pipes that thick with a few bored teenagers.
It wasn't fantastic but it was quite true to the feel of the original game: the silent hill movie adaption.
I imagine that video game adaptions fall prey to the same problems that book adaptions do: if the author doesn't give a damn then it gets turned into a generic crap hollywood film.
A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian and European involvement, and I wrote a couple of script drafts which wet down well and everything was looking fine and then the US people said 'Hey, we've been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other centes of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn't work for us, it's a bit of a downer, we have a prarm with it, so lose the skeleton". The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans said: sure, we LOVE it, it's GREAT, it's HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the Death angle, guys. Whereupon, I'm happy to say, they were told to keep on with the medication and come back in a hundred years. -- Terry Pratchett
now anyone familiar with the book will know from this that the person across the table didn't even read the back of the book or even the first 2 lines of the back of the book, to quote them here for anyone not familiar with professor terry Pratchett works:
Mort has been chosen as Death's apprentice. He gets board and lodging and free use of company horse, and doesn't even need time off for his grandmother's funeral.
and there's so many crappy directors who just keep making the same film over and over, if given a story they chop off everything which doesn't fit their one and only story and then nail the 2 together poorly.
If saturating the communication link causes a router to fry then that's simply a defective router.
Wasn't there a story a while back about some graphics intensive games being blamed for graphics cards failing and people here were very quick to point out that the game should be able to demand whatever it wants but if the card burns out it's a defective card not a defective game?
What's depressing is that you guys seem to have ended up with the worst of all possible health systems. the expense, the inefficiency and the overall terribleness of a private system combined with the expense, the inefficiency and the overall terribleness of a public system.
Avoiding the advantages of either and getting the disadvantages of both.
It'll die soon enough as the teenagers lose interest.
But the thing you're missing is that even a protest in person has effects on the local businesses. As hordes of protesters jam the streets small retailers loose business as people stay away from the protest and blameless business owners suffer.
As I said, a DDoS is a dick move and it can cause the parties in question or blameless third parties to lose business but that doesn't make it violent. It does discourage hosting providers from dealing with organisations who attract a lot of DDoS attacks and encourage businesses to move to hosts who don't carry those who attract a lot of DDoS attacks.
It does get public attention for the issue which is the greater point of any form of protest. the DDoS attacks lead to the story getting even more time on the front pages around here.
Its not cute or funny and neither is a regular protest walking down the street with signs. it's not supposed to be cute or funny.
"but if people decided to just get together a mob of cars to circle the block"
Truck drivers did pretty much that a few years ago here to protest some changes the government were making going round and round a small part of the city causing significant traffic congestion and generally inconveniencing a lot of people yet it was still a legitimate protest.
I'd suspect that nearly all of the participants, if they were to attempt to sue in court, would have their case dismissed due to lack of standing: inability to show that they themselves have suffered harm due to the actions of these target companies.
since when did that have anything whatsoever to your right to protest something? I would have no standing to sue the government over censorship of the press yet I still have every right to pick up a sign and picket city hall about it.
I got into an argument about this is an earlier topic pointing out that it is also, strictly speaking, non-violent.
it's dickish but it is different from most of the other various forms of attack, a DDoS doesn't involve actually breaking into any systems, it doesn't damage any property and it doesn't hurt anyone.
In a sense it probably shouldn't be lumped in with most other forms of attack online which mostly involve breaking into the system in question or attempting to.
you're flailing madly for the most remote possibilities. Hell if emergency services traffic is going over a route which can be blocked by network congestion you're already doing something very wrong.
to give a simple parallel: peaceful protesters walking down the street with signs could delay and ambulance from getting through. If one street gets partly blocked or a large number of people get in the way someone may be unable to get to hospital on time. A letter writing campaign could lead to important letters getting lost in the mail or delayed. A letter about blood test results etc might not get through.
Neither of those remote possibilities makes either of those forms of protest violent.
You're argument is absurd. This isn't shouting fire in a crowded cinema, it's shouting nonsens in a crowded cinema: it annoys people but it's still peaceful.
to be fair that's essentially part of the current system already. People already run up debts and then either disappear or declare bankruptsy etc etc.
I would see it as a problem that you can't *cash out your chips* as it were and go, if you're owed money by some company who you think might go under in the current system once you get your hands on the cash you're pretty safe, with ripple I don't see how you could cash out what you're owed to a safer format than debt.
Bitcoin never really interested me but I have to say, wierd or not ripple actually sounds like a really neat idea.
I imagine that it also would require that information be publicly available about financial transactions in order to work, our currency is already mostly trust based so it's not that big a leap in real terms though people might find it a bit odd.
It could also be a headache in terms of tax, governments aren't going to leave transactions untaxed unless they're trivial so I'd wonder what the tax liabilities of the various parties would be under such a system.
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Or perhaps it was imaged and sent back to it's owners.
Or perhaps someone working for B of A sent a drive to wikileaks to leak information.
I see no reason to hang on to the drive either way.
I'm assuming that they're trying to keep the rape allegations and wikileaks issues separate.
Expect it if he gets shipped off to America specifically over wikileaks stuff.
Ok, so it's time for a run on the bank.
Get in before the rush!
I was under the impression that some of the crypto algorithms were safe from quantum computing.
your netflix download doesn't get out of the way any more than the traffic from a DDoS, so remember kids, every time you watch a TV show online you're being VIOLENT!
Should just lock up every bandwidth hog, they deserve worse!
And protesters on the street may get out of the way but they still delay things in an emergency.
So sorry, still just as "violent".
And you're still failing to justify your absurd position.
Youcut is basically one of those cases of he who writes the summary gets to choose what gets cut, use impressive summaries for things you don't like and stupid ones for what you want cut and people will vote how you like.
I've bought from a few online retailers and I've found amazon to be the easiest/fastest for this.
I just wish I could filter out items from sellers who don't ship to my country.
It's the biggest annoyance for me on amazon.
I search for what I want, put it in the basket and when I go to check out half the items turn out to be unavailable to me.
If I can't buy it I don't even want to see it.
not corrupt?
The 5 biggest arms dealers in the world also happen to be the 5 permanent members of the UN security council.
which isn't a problem with quake.
it's defective hardware or failing that improperly cooled hardware.
A load balancer shouldn't physically BURN even if you feed it as many packets as it can accept. if it does burn then it's defective.
really? the whole thing is coming down? could have fooled me.
I could have sworn that it's still going strong as a moderately reliable source of information which is vastly more accessible than almost any other in history.
there's something beautiful about that analogy.
now if we could only get all politicians sealed inside an airtight lead box.
"more or less the same individuals"
is this provable or even falsifiable at all?
given that they tend to be... well... anonymous.
well some of them did, others go with the facelss suit, others with an anonymous,faceless outline.
Come up with a symbol, publish it anonymously.
congratulations,"anonymous" has chosen yet another symbol.
no.
redacted.
I'm assuming they aren't refusing to sell the dead tree versions of these same books.
I bought it on steam a while back as well so they're still making money.
Actually Juliet's age is given by the Nurse and Lady Capulet in Juliet's first scene.
They say that she's almost 14.
so she's 13.
It got the issue on the front pages again, it got lots of attention and they drew enough attention to mastercard that icelandic regulators are dragging them over the coals as to exactly why they cut off an icelandic company.
in many ways the "hacktivism"(I know, I shudder when I use the word too) actually seems to have achieved at least as much as most regular protests.
Trying to DDoS amazon though was always going to be like pissing at a thunder storm, you can't saturate pipes that thick with a few bored teenagers.
It wasn't fantastic but it was quite true to the feel of the original game: the silent hill movie adaption.
I imagine that video game adaptions fall prey to the same problems that book adaptions do: if the author doesn't give a damn then it gets turned into a generic crap hollywood film.
A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian and European involvement, and I wrote a couple of script drafts which wet down well and everything was looking fine and then the US people said 'Hey, we've been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other centes of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn't work for us, it's a bit of a downer, we have a prarm with it, so lose the skeleton". The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans said: sure, we LOVE it, it's GREAT, it's HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the Death angle, guys. Whereupon, I'm happy to say, they were told to keep on with the medication and come back in a hundred years. -- Terry Pratchett
now anyone familiar with the book will know from this that the person across the table didn't even read the back of the book or even the first 2 lines of the back of the book, to quote them here for anyone not familiar with professor terry Pratchett works:
Mort has been chosen as Death's apprentice. He gets board and lodging and free use of company horse, and doesn't even need time off for his grandmother's funeral.
and there's so many crappy directors who just keep making the same film over and over, if given a story they chop off everything which doesn't fit their one and only story and then nail the 2 together poorly.
If saturating the communication link causes a router to fry then that's simply a defective router.
Wasn't there a story a while back about some graphics intensive games being blamed for graphics cards failing and people here were very quick to point out that the game should be able to demand whatever it wants but if the card burns out it's a defective card not a defective game?
What's depressing is that you guys seem to have ended up with the worst of all possible health systems.
the expense, the inefficiency and the overall terribleness of a private system combined with the expense, the inefficiency and the overall terribleness of a public system.
Avoiding the advantages of either and getting the disadvantages of both.
It'll die soon enough as the teenagers lose interest.
But the thing you're missing is that even a protest in person has effects on the local businesses.
As hordes of protesters jam the streets small retailers loose business as people stay away from the protest and blameless business owners suffer.
As I said, a DDoS is a dick move and it can cause the parties in question or blameless third parties to lose business but that doesn't make it violent.
It does discourage hosting providers from dealing with organisations who attract a lot of DDoS attacks and encourage businesses to move to hosts who don't carry those who attract a lot of DDoS attacks.
It does get public attention for the issue which is the greater point of any form of protest.
the DDoS attacks lead to the story getting even more time on the front pages around here.
Its not cute or funny and neither is a regular protest walking down the street with signs.
it's not supposed to be cute or funny.
"but if people decided to just get together a mob of cars to circle the block"
Truck drivers did pretty much that a few years ago here to protest some changes the government were making going round and round a small part of the city causing significant traffic congestion and generally inconveniencing a lot of people yet it was still a legitimate protest.
I'd suspect that nearly all of the participants, if they were to attempt to sue in court, would have their case dismissed due to lack of standing: inability to show that they themselves have suffered harm due to the actions of these target companies.
since when did that have anything whatsoever to your right to protest something?
I would have no standing to sue the government over censorship of the press yet I still have every right to pick up a sign and picket city hall about it.
I got into an argument about this is an earlier topic pointing out that it is also, strictly speaking, non-violent.
it's dickish but it is different from most of the other various forms of attack, a DDoS doesn't involve actually breaking into any systems, it doesn't damage any property and it doesn't hurt anyone.
In a sense it probably shouldn't be lumped in with most other forms of attack online which mostly involve breaking into the system in question or attempting to.
you're flailing madly for the most remote possibilities.
Hell if emergency services traffic is going over a route which can be blocked by network congestion you're already doing something very wrong.
to give a simple parallel: peaceful protesters walking down the street with signs could delay and ambulance from getting through.
If one street gets partly blocked or a large number of people get in the way someone may be unable to get to hospital on time.
A letter writing campaign could lead to important letters getting lost in the mail or delayed.
A letter about blood test results etc might not get through.
Neither of those remote possibilities makes either of those forms of protest violent.
You're argument is absurd.
This isn't shouting fire in a crowded cinema, it's shouting nonsens in a crowded cinema: it annoys people but it's still peaceful.
to be fair that's essentially part of the current system already.
People already run up debts and then either disappear or declare bankruptsy etc etc.
I would see it as a problem that you can't *cash out your chips* as it were and go, if you're owed money by some company who you think might go under in the current system once you get your hands on the cash you're pretty safe, with ripple I don't see how you could cash out what you're owed to a safer format than debt.
Bitcoin never really interested me but I have to say, wierd or not ripple actually sounds like a really neat idea.
I imagine that it also would require that information be publicly available about financial transactions in order to work, our currency is already mostly trust based so it's not that big a leap in real terms though people might find it a bit odd.
It could also be a headache in terms of tax, governments aren't going to leave transactions untaxed unless they're trivial so I'd wonder what the tax liabilities of the various parties would be under such a system.