I do not know of anybody that considers that a prerequisite.
It's called the eucharistic rite. Basically, the cult works like this: Eat the body, drink the blood, [redacted], go to heaven. Warning: Some members believe that you have to pour water over them, others believe that submerging them in a lake works, but regardless there other prerequisites besides eating brains and sucking blood. Please visit your priest and see if eating brains is right for you!
It sends out search based noise and obfuscation by making randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN..
*face palm* Googling "how do I blow up government buildings" is going to attract the attention of shub internet no matter how many bogus queries you put before or after it. Most filtering schemes are based on content -- they don't care to do statistical analysis. You're just not that important. All they need to hang you is proof you visited a certain website or looked for certain terms. For example, if I typ[$)%(T^NO CARRIER
Not much besides hanging out with my girlfriend until she goes to the Vampire LARP game, then going over to a friend's house to watch some X-men: Evolution episodes with a friend.:P
You shouldn't be trying to "confuse it", you should be making sure that the traffic patterns aren't unique and discernable. In other words, using steganography. All this "confusion" stuff I read in the article gives the user a distinct pattern of behavior that can identify the user as actively using said software. If you're trying to get under the radar of the government, don't start by sending up a big digital flare that says "Hey! I'm trying to bypass your crap." It usually ends badly for the would-be revolutionary, who's first job (I might add) is to survive.
Even in so-called "free" countries like the US, the government can imprison people indefinately on the off chance that the encrypted data may be subversive. How do you suppose China would handle it? Encryption doesn't enable free speech -- a gun to the head is a pretty effective way of recovering the key.
Be that as it may, many are turning against non sequitur pop culture quotations as humor; xkcd 307 is a particularly relevant example.
They're doing it because they don't like being left out when average people quote movies and television series they haven't seen. I learned a long time ago that appearing to be smart and intellectual all the time comes at a cost to my social life -- it's better to keep my education and intelligence "in my pocket" as it were. If that means knowing a few facts about the current mix of reality TV shows, and picking up a celebrity gossip magazine here and there, so be it. It just means that I have plans friday night while my geek friends sit at home grinding on World of Warcraft.
It means "we've heard that joke too much & are sick of it." Your code word for this is obligatory, but since there's no "-1 Obligatory" the moderator used "-1 Redundant" which is actually a pretty common usage.
*shrug* I hear star wars references at work at least once a day. I didn't think it was possible for them to get sick of it. I'm going with the notion that the moderator in question shorted himself on caffeine and hates life.
scratches head I'm trying to figure out how the first comment to the story could be "redundant". Hey, moderator who did that: You're a moron. Also, you will never have enough mod points to defeat me. nyaaaah. -_- Okay... my childish needs are satisfied for the afternoon.
'It is essential for the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it,' says Murdoch.
Murdoch isn't selling anything I want to pay for. Now, if the BBC charges for its content, I would give serious consideration to doing so. There -- free market in action!
Why not pay some of those Japanese whaling factory ships with their big front loading dock doors
Okay, two things -- first, assuming you come up with an efficient method of collecting the plastic (which is broken down to the molecular level and is essentially a fine film) -- because just opening the doors and scooping it up is a bad plan. But let's say you solve that. Here's your several hundred cubic feet of plastic. Now what? You gotta turn around, drag it all the way back home, and bury it somewhere. A whaling vessel is only designed to carry a few tonnes, or perhaps a few dozen tonnes -- not a few hundred thousand tonnes.
This is a problem of scale. We need supertankers, not whaling boats.
Why not make a gigantic net and scoop up all that garbage?
Well, because it's been broken down to the molecular level. It'd float right through a net. What's needed is a troller that can suck up the first several inches of water, remove the plastic particles, and then discard the water. Unfortunately, even something with the capacity of a supertanker would take decades of 24/7 operation to make much progress -- Because once you collect it, you gotta transport it somewhere else.
so I think that hoping for an island only four times the size of texas by 2050 would be optimistic.
Well, let's be pessimistic and make it SIXTEEN times the size of Texas. In 2050, we'd still only have covered 3% of the world's ocean surface with a strange plastic mix. It floats on the surface and it isn't going anywhere... If for some reason scientists study and fully understand it, and determine its a problem, it will not be hard to clean up.
Considering that the bottom of the food chain resides in said "thin layer" (and much of the top of the food chain feeds there) the potential impact is magnified well beyond its volumetric measure.
They say it's approximately twice the size of Texas. Texas is 691,030 square kilometers. So twice the size of Texas is 1.4 million square kilometers. The world's oceans cover approximately 361 million square kilometers. So an area TWICE THE SIZE OF TEXAS (oh noes! Panic!) is 1/3rd of a percentage point of the surface area of all the world's oceans.
'We're afraid at what we're going to find in the South Gyre, but we've got to go there,'
I say that every time I have to clean out the fridge. It hasn't resulted in the apocalypse yet. Look, this is a small patch of ocean with a thin layer of plastic scum floating on it (small relative to something as huge as an ocean). Now if they go there and Godzilla wakes up and starts his long walk towards the shore, then I'll be worried. Otherwise, it's just some scientists riding the greenie cash cow and saying "Look! evil sinners! Repent and accept our carbon-taxed ways! Act now and save an additional 20% off your guilt."
Last I checked, Megan Fox was not a car. That said, that scene in transformers... not as fabulous as Audrey but still zomfg jasdfl;jf2!@!!!!!. (fangirl-to-geek translation: "I'd hit it")
Since when does a dialup modem hung off the side of a satellite dish constitute "competition"? Seriously, I want to go up to this judge and ask "Are you from the past?" This is like saying that a Ford Festiva competes with a [insert sports car guys drool over here]!
* Yes, my knowledge of cars is limited... I drive a purple Saturn. That is as much as I know about the car. But Slashdot loves car analogies, so work with me here.
I, for one, definitely trust the letter and the spirit of the law to be upheld on this one. We've never had trouble with illegal intelligence gathering here, especially not when the agency involved is opaque and largely unaccountable. It should be fine.
Zim: Computer, give me all the information you have on the FBI. Computer: The FBI is a government law enforcement agency. Zim: Continue. Computer: Insufficient data. Zim: "Insufficient data"? Can't you just make an educated guess? Computer: O... kay... Um, founded in 1492 by, uh... demons, the FBI is a crack law enforcement agency designed to... uh, I dunno, fight... aliens? Zim: I KNEW IT!
I believe 'em. I mean, they wouldn't lie to us, would they?...
That man is a terrorist. The police are always right. The government is acting in your best interests (please hand over your wallet). Everything is going to be fine. Thank you for your cooperation, citizen.
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I do not know of anybody that considers that a prerequisite.
It's called the eucharistic rite. Basically, the cult works like this: Eat the body, drink the blood, [redacted], go to heaven. Warning: Some members believe that you have to pour water over them, others believe that submerging them in a lake works, but regardless there other prerequisites besides eating brains and sucking blood. Please visit your priest and see if eating brains is right for you!
It sends out search based noise and obfuscation by making randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN..
*face palm* Googling "how do I blow up government buildings" is going to attract the attention of shub internet no matter how many bogus queries you put before or after it. Most filtering schemes are based on content -- they don't care to do statistical analysis. You're just not that important. All they need to hang you is proof you visited a certain website or looked for certain terms. For example, if I typ[$)%(T^NO CARRIER
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Soooo what are you doing next Friday?
Not much besides hanging out with my girlfriend until she goes to the Vampire LARP game, then going over to a friend's house to watch some X-men: Evolution episodes with a friend. :P
You shouldn't be trying to "confuse it", you should be making sure that the traffic patterns aren't unique and discernable. In other words, using steganography. All this "confusion" stuff I read in the article gives the user a distinct pattern of behavior that can identify the user as actively using said software. If you're trying to get under the radar of the government, don't start by sending up a big digital flare that says "Hey! I'm trying to bypass your crap." It usually ends badly for the would-be revolutionary, who's first job (I might add) is to survive.
Even in so-called "free" countries like the US, the government can imprison people indefinately on the off chance that the encrypted data may be subversive. How do you suppose China would handle it? Encryption doesn't enable free speech -- a gun to the head is a pretty effective way of recovering the key.
Save lives: Use stenography.
Be that as it may, many are turning against non sequitur pop culture quotations as humor; xkcd 307 is a particularly relevant example.
They're doing it because they don't like being left out when average people quote movies and television series they haven't seen. I learned a long time ago that appearing to be smart and intellectual all the time comes at a cost to my social life -- it's better to keep my education and intelligence "in my pocket" as it were. If that means knowing a few facts about the current mix of reality TV shows, and picking up a celebrity gossip magazine here and there, so be it. It just means that I have plans friday night while my geek friends sit at home grinding on World of Warcraft.
It means "we've heard that joke too much & are sick of it." Your code word for this is obligatory, but since there's no "-1 Obligatory" the moderator used "-1 Redundant" which is actually a pretty common usage.
*shrug* I hear star wars references at work at least once a day. I didn't think it was possible for them to get sick of it. I'm going with the notion that the moderator in question shorted himself on caffeine and hates life.
scratches head I'm trying to figure out how the first comment to the story could be "redundant". Hey, moderator who did that: You're a moron. Also, you will never have enough mod points to defeat me. nyaaaah. -_- Okay... my childish needs are satisfied for the afternoon.
... Are they sure that was a moon?
Ergo by your reasoning, if everyone in Texas dies, there's no need to worry.
Actually, that's a reason to celebrate.
According to Wikipedia...
You lost me there.
'It is essential for the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it,' says Murdoch.
Murdoch isn't selling anything I want to pay for. Now, if the BBC charges for its content, I would give serious consideration to doing so. There -- free market in action!
The gyres (e.g., the Sargasso Sea) are where most of the nutrient transition from plankton to the rest of the food chain happens. It is a big deal,
citation needed.
Why not pay some of those Japanese whaling factory ships with their big front loading dock doors
Okay, two things -- first, assuming you come up with an efficient method of collecting the plastic (which is broken down to the molecular level and is essentially a fine film) -- because just opening the doors and scooping it up is a bad plan. But let's say you solve that. Here's your several hundred cubic feet of plastic. Now what? You gotta turn around, drag it all the way back home, and bury it somewhere. A whaling vessel is only designed to carry a few tonnes, or perhaps a few dozen tonnes -- not a few hundred thousand tonnes.
This is a problem of scale. We need supertankers, not whaling boats.
Why not make a gigantic net and scoop up all that garbage?
Well, because it's been broken down to the molecular level. It'd float right through a net. What's needed is a troller that can suck up the first several inches of water, remove the plastic particles, and then discard the water. Unfortunately, even something with the capacity of a supertanker would take decades of 24/7 operation to make much progress -- Because once you collect it, you gotta transport it somewhere else.
Solution: Pay fisherman to catch garbage
Better solution:
1. Create plastic eating microbes.
2. Deposit in plastic-rich oceanic environment.
3. Let nature do the rest. -_-
so I think that hoping for an island only four times the size of texas by 2050 would be optimistic.
Well, let's be pessimistic and make it SIXTEEN times the size of Texas. In 2050, we'd still only have covered 3% of the world's ocean surface with a strange plastic mix. It floats on the surface and it isn't going anywhere... If for some reason scientists study and fully understand it, and determine its a problem, it will not be hard to clean up.
Considering that the bottom of the food chain resides in said "thin layer" (and much of the top of the food chain feeds there) the potential impact is magnified well beyond its volumetric measure.
They say it's approximately twice the size of Texas. Texas is 691,030 square kilometers. So twice the size of Texas is 1.4 million square kilometers. The world's oceans cover approximately 361 million square kilometers. So an area TWICE THE SIZE OF TEXAS (oh noes! Panic!) is 1/3rd of a percentage point of the surface area of all the world's oceans.
'We're afraid at what we're going to find in the South Gyre, but we've got to go there,'
I say that every time I have to clean out the fridge. It hasn't resulted in the apocalypse yet. Look, this is a small patch of ocean with a thin layer of plastic scum floating on it (small relative to something as huge as an ocean). Now if they go there and Godzilla wakes up and starts his long walk towards the shore, then I'll be worried. Otherwise, it's just some scientists riding the greenie cash cow and saying "Look! evil sinners! Repent and accept our carbon-taxed ways! Act now and save an additional 20% off your guilt."
No, you get high marks because you spout the right buzzwords - even if the context makes no sense.
I'm a 7 line perl script.
Megan Fox?
Last I checked, Megan Fox was not a car. That said, that scene in transformers... not as fabulous as Audrey but still zomfg jasdfl;jf2!@!!!!!. (fangirl-to-geek translation: "I'd hit it")
If the answer is zero, you need to start thinking about a coup d'etat.
We don't have statistics, since the malware filter is protected with a special DRM module called "National Security".
Since when does a dialup modem hung off the side of a satellite dish constitute "competition"? Seriously, I want to go up to this judge and ask "Are you from the past?" This is like saying that a Ford Festiva competes with a [insert sports car guys drool over here]!
* Yes, my knowledge of cars is limited... I drive a purple Saturn. That is as much as I know about the car. But Slashdot loves car analogies, so work with me here.
I, for one, definitely trust the letter and the spirit of the law to be upheld on this one. We've never had trouble with illegal intelligence gathering here, especially not when the agency involved is opaque and largely unaccountable. It should be fine.
Zim: Computer, give me all the information you have on the FBI.
Computer: The FBI is a government law enforcement agency.
Zim: Continue.
Computer: Insufficient data.
Zim: "Insufficient data"? Can't you just make an educated guess?
Computer: O... kay... Um, founded in 1492 by, uh... demons, the FBI is a crack law enforcement agency designed to... uh, I dunno, fight... aliens?
Zim: I KNEW IT!
I believe 'em. I mean, they wouldn't lie to us, would they?...
That man is a terrorist. The police are always right. The government is acting in your best interests (please hand over your wallet). Everything is going to be fine. Thank you for your cooperation, citizen.