Censorship is the act of governing the entire set of public information out there, so that not only does it avoid topics you don't like, but it sticks to topics you do like, and dumbs them down to the level you dictate as well. It is more simply "to control the information supply" so strictly that your thoughts are not your own.
You have the right to "not be offended" It's protected along with your freedom of choice: Choose not to be offended by all the stupid shit I just called you, and your wish has been granted!
Last fall CNN put a bit on about the government holding a zombie apocalypse preparedness drill. People dressed up like zombies and mulled around and got shot by non-lethal training rounds and "died" like zombies. If you think it's fictional after seeing they're doing a drill and putting it on their mouthpiece news outlet, then I get all your MRE's and bullets. And I want your cot in the zombie castle.
In a world filled with NSA, CIA, FBI, Prism, Snowden, Schwartz, and all the other mysterious deaths and unexplained suicides, we should figure how long ago he should have died by those calculations. It's a wonder he hasn't been assassinated yet.
Rack Mounted Server. I just gotta know, why is all this mission-critical operational stuff taking place on a workstation with workstation grade hardware and no backups or raids? Everyone's talking about oh raid at home isn't good, just use backup drives. Look: This is LINUX. If there's need for additional hardware and compile farms, people will probably donate. To have a single SSD failure cause so much calamity for any project, least of all *THE* open source project, is just embarrassing. Worse than swearing at your devs on a mailing list read by the whole world.
I'm offended by the lack of exercise in the very important freedom of choice by those who are reading your well worded and deliciously offensive response to a thread on a topic that has reached ad-ridiculum. Can we all be a little more offended by the massive human death, intentional waste, and horrendous destruction of the ecosystem that our species has engaged in rather than the fact that the males of our species like to visually judge the mammary glands of the females of our species prior to attempting mating (aka always) but is too stupid to understand why? Get over it. There's bigger rivers to cry into. Count to 5. Breathe. Now find something important to go shake your fist at and stop sheltering the youth of this world from reality because that's how they'll end up like you.
You have to PAY for that. You're allowed to spawn instances and pay-per-use with righteously low rates on miriads of servers and managed services, and some of the default setups include proxies and load balancers and failovers. So, assuming you've set things up properly, and have failover resources ready to go and programmed to take over when shit hits the fan, then yes you can reroute everything to a different datacenter if one goes down.
It's not the default tho. AWS is very technical. Not like some service you can pay for and have email accounts and storage space and web space and so on. There's a full API, technical control panels, ready to use scripts, help services, and RSA keypair manager, as well as a price fluctuation setting to nab the cheap prices for your deferrable data processing, but mainly it runs on top of VM and DS instances. Not exactly your turn-key operation, but quite powerful.
It's not the government in many of these cases that's doing the actual blocking, it's ISPs where the people that have to install the filters are your typical slashdotter.
I'd just like to repeat that for you because it sounds vaguely important.
Screaming testament to the fact that the internet is a flaming pile of useless information overload obscuring any usefulness in what freedom promoters are all touting in all of the internet's most important facets, drowned out my more worthless noise on the spectrum.
In an attack on Sony? Someone has to be lying. The lulzsec release when the PSN went down was that it took one single injection to grab the entirety of the database. If you're getting charged with damaging a protected computer, please make sure they know what protected means, and make sure they know how dismally poor and ineffective those "security" measures were.
I hate to say the obvious, but when companies fundamentally break the internet and force their own content and content delivery methods on them, It's time for the public at large to drop them on their heads and stop using any product by them.
I think that'll be pretty hard to do with Google.
Agreed. I was going to suggest a feature such as C2F and similar plugins raining from firefox's plugins manager. That way the stupid youtube won't start immediately, blare your speakers off with an advert that's 3x louder than the video, or even begin downloading, until you can fetch the video to a more useful form with the site known as keep-vid.
Honestly, I hate everything about youtube, so this feature doesn't impress me. But I see how less.... thoughtful, users might really need it. In which case, I say, 3 years too late!
Here here! With magnetic platters becoming so cheap and spacious, they've quickly outstripped cost effectiveness versus any optical disc. These devices are not useful to the general populace. They're used only for movies, with only the highest quality of home theaters missing out on definition when compared to ancient DVDs. Why would anyone want to change their technology? New TV for 3d reasons. Even the original BD players don't work with the newer 3D tech. With this many debacles so close together, and industry management treating their customers with such disdain, I feel this industry is dying; it has continuously attacked new technologies which threatened it for decades, only to turn around and embrace the technology for the purposes of squeezing every last drop out. First tape recorders and VCRs were attacked, then prerecorded media were sold at great profit. CD recorders came out and the industry was pissed. Now they're delighted that people make their own mix discs and put all their favorite music together, let their friends listen, and suddenly they got free marketing to sell a few more copies. MP3s and people sharing them were hunted like Jews in occupied France, but now there's several online stores peddling those same wares.
I think it's time to stop supporting such a technophobic industry at all.
I feel your argument is sound, and prediction is likely to come true. I refute that this is anything akin to a magic bullet solution, but agree that there isn't one in this problem. It is my opinion that this is a step in the right direction, and there will need to be many more steps taken in such a direction, with effort coming from as many places as possible. I say, why not let the government pay for some of those steps? As long as the government is spending public money on expanding internet access in a way that doesn't result in 100% of that money being spent on surveillance, (Canada has a nation-wide system for the censorship and surveillance of the expected things on all public education institutions) then it is a good thing. It sure beats public money being spent on oil and gas extraction, weapons of war and troops to use them, or diplomatic measures that deprive sick children of needed medicine.
On the count of three, can we all use the app to tag the local police department? All I been seeing on my fb newsfeed lately is unsafe gun handling on the part of their membership.
It's like they're asking us to do it!
Or maybe a different thousand people have responded from a vastly different demographic causing the vast shift?
Politics works when you actually ask enough people, and when enough people actually care about the question you're asking, which is to say never before in history have we ever had the conditions under which our democratic system could function as intended.
e.g. Not Terrorism: "Your tank factory and its workers are gone. This gains me a numeric advantage in next month's tank battle." Terrorism: "Your tank factory and its workers are gone. Surrender or else I'll wreck more of your expensive factories and kill more of your workers."
Do we have scheduled tank battles? How often are they? And where are these tank factories with workers that are disappearing? Why don't we hear more of this on the news? Or am I mistaken in how much IngSoc wants us to know about their tanks?
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Censorship is the act of governing the entire set of public information out there, so that not only does it avoid topics you don't like, but it sticks to topics you do like, and dumbs them down to the level you dictate as well. It is more simply "to control the information supply" so strictly that your thoughts are not your own.
Absolutely not. Too much free thought and self-determined action. Not suitable for the puppet squad, I mean political team, at all.
You have the right to "not be offended" It's protected along with your freedom of choice: Choose not to be offended by all the stupid shit I just called you, and your wish has been granted!
Its a spin doctor
Last fall CNN put a bit on about the government holding a zombie apocalypse preparedness drill. People dressed up like zombies and mulled around and got shot by non-lethal training rounds and "died" like zombies. If you think it's fictional after seeing they're doing a drill and putting it on their mouthpiece news outlet, then I get all your MRE's and bullets. And I want your cot in the zombie castle.
In a world filled with NSA, CIA, FBI, Prism, Snowden, Schwartz, and all the other mysterious deaths and unexplained suicides, we should figure how long ago he should have died by those calculations. It's a wonder he hasn't been assassinated yet.
LAZY. It's called lazy.
Rack Mounted Server. I just gotta know, why is all this mission-critical operational stuff taking place on a workstation with workstation grade hardware and no backups or raids? Everyone's talking about oh raid at home isn't good, just use backup drives. Look: This is LINUX. If there's need for additional hardware and compile farms, people will probably donate. To have a single SSD failure cause so much calamity for any project, least of all *THE* open source project, is just embarrassing. Worse than swearing at your devs on a mailing list read by the whole world.
I'm offended by the lack of exercise in the very important freedom of choice by those who are reading your well worded and deliciously offensive response to a thread on a topic that has reached ad-ridiculum. Can we all be a little more offended by the massive human death, intentional waste, and horrendous destruction of the ecosystem that our species has engaged in rather than the fact that the males of our species like to visually judge the mammary glands of the females of our species prior to attempting mating (aka always) but is too stupid to understand why? Get over it. There's bigger rivers to cry into. Count to 5. Breathe. Now find something important to go shake your fist at and stop sheltering the youth of this world from reality because that's how they'll end up like you.
You have to PAY for that. You're allowed to spawn instances and pay-per-use with righteously low rates on miriads of servers and managed services, and some of the default setups include proxies and load balancers and failovers. So, assuming you've set things up properly, and have failover resources ready to go and programmed to take over when shit hits the fan, then yes you can reroute everything to a different datacenter if one goes down.
It's not the default tho. AWS is very technical. Not like some service you can pay for and have email accounts and storage space and web space and so on. There's a full API, technical control panels, ready to use scripts, help services, and RSA keypair manager, as well as a price fluctuation setting to nab the cheap prices for your deferrable data processing, but mainly it runs on top of VM and DS instances. Not exactly your turn-key operation, but quite powerful.
If you don't, you're not allowed to talk about censorship ever again.
It's not the government in many of these cases that's doing the actual blocking, it's ISPs where the people that have to install the filters are your typical slashdotter.
I'd just like to repeat that for you because it sounds vaguely important.
Screaming testament to the fact that the internet is a flaming pile of useless information overload obscuring any usefulness in what freedom promoters are all touting in all of the internet's most important facets, drowned out my more worthless noise on the spectrum.
it should be done by now. Slashdotters have probably posted it somewhere. Can't scroll through the comments to find it tho. (Too lazy!)
Link to the alluded-to grassroots community doing the work mentioned in the OP or it's not a story and you can GTFO.
They had all the illusions of freedom while being completely owned.
Kind of like you, right now.
Maybe his "killer app" should be a multipart authentication metric for the PSN?
In an attack on Sony? Someone has to be lying. The lulzsec release when the PSN went down was that it took one single injection to grab the entirety of the database. If you're getting charged with damaging a protected computer, please make sure they know what protected means, and make sure they know how dismally poor and ineffective those "security" measures were.
I hate to say the obvious, but when companies fundamentally break the internet and force their own content and content delivery methods on them, It's time for the public at large to drop them on their heads and stop using any product by them. I think that'll be pretty hard to do with Google.
Agreed. I was going to suggest a feature such as C2F and similar plugins raining from firefox's plugins manager. That way the stupid youtube won't start immediately, blare your speakers off with an advert that's 3x louder than the video, or even begin downloading, until you can fetch the video to a more useful form with the site known as keep-vid. Honestly, I hate everything about youtube, so this feature doesn't impress me. But I see how less.... thoughtful, users might really need it. In which case, I say, 3 years too late!
Here here! With magnetic platters becoming so cheap and spacious, they've quickly outstripped cost effectiveness versus any optical disc. These devices are not useful to the general populace. They're used only for movies, with only the highest quality of home theaters missing out on definition when compared to ancient DVDs. Why would anyone want to change their technology? New TV for 3d reasons. Even the original BD players don't work with the newer 3D tech. With this many debacles so close together, and industry management treating their customers with such disdain, I feel this industry is dying; it has continuously attacked new technologies which threatened it for decades, only to turn around and embrace the technology for the purposes of squeezing every last drop out. First tape recorders and VCRs were attacked, then prerecorded media were sold at great profit. CD recorders came out and the industry was pissed. Now they're delighted that people make their own mix discs and put all their favorite music together, let their friends listen, and suddenly they got free marketing to sell a few more copies. MP3s and people sharing them were hunted like Jews in occupied France, but now there's several online stores peddling those same wares. I think it's time to stop supporting such a technophobic industry at all.
I feel your argument is sound, and prediction is likely to come true. I refute that this is anything akin to a magic bullet solution, but agree that there isn't one in this problem. It is my opinion that this is a step in the right direction, and there will need to be many more steps taken in such a direction, with effort coming from as many places as possible. I say, why not let the government pay for some of those steps? As long as the government is spending public money on expanding internet access in a way that doesn't result in 100% of that money being spent on surveillance, (Canada has a nation-wide system for the censorship and surveillance of the expected things on all public education institutions) then it is a good thing. It sure beats public money being spent on oil and gas extraction, weapons of war and troops to use them, or diplomatic measures that deprive sick children of needed medicine.
On the count of three, can we all use the app to tag the local police department? All I been seeing on my fb newsfeed lately is unsafe gun handling on the part of their membership. It's like they're asking us to do it!
Or maybe a different thousand people have responded from a vastly different demographic causing the vast shift? Politics works when you actually ask enough people, and when enough people actually care about the question you're asking, which is to say never before in history have we ever had the conditions under which our democratic system could function as intended.
e.g. Not Terrorism: "Your tank factory and its workers are gone. This gains me a numeric advantage in next month's tank battle." Terrorism: "Your tank factory and its workers are gone. Surrender or else I'll wreck more of your expensive factories and kill more of your workers."
Do we have scheduled tank battles? How often are they? And where are these tank factories with workers that are disappearing? Why don't we hear more of this on the news? Or am I mistaken in how much IngSoc wants us to know about their tanks?