Those that hack or pirate always have it better. No DRM, no restrictions on what software you can install, no need for physical media and the list goes on. Being a nice customer simply doesn't pay anymore these days.
A conspiracy theory is better than no theory. The truth is that nobody knows jackshit on the "who" and "why". Now imagine journalists admitting to that. I can't see it happening either.
Calling the damn police to hand over a fine is perfectly ok. Calling these morons, on the other hand, to establish the noisy guys as a "problem family" with all the exotic monitoring and bureaucracy is insane. Basically if you have a dog that barks too much and an otherwise perfectly normal toddler, you could instantly "win" a place in their database with all the intense surveillance that follows and the "informal" contracts they are being shoved down your throat.
Try to see beyond the PR and the positive spin for a second, you might be in for a surprise
The verdict is: if you happen to live in UK you're fucked
There's no mention of CCTV cameras, but the programs these people have border on downright nazi. They talk about getting the "right" outcome in courts, tackling important issues like noise nuisance or vehicle nuisance and they use some cryptic acronyms which when translated are plain scary.
Some examples:
ISSP - intensive supervision and surveillance programme
YIP - youth inclusion programme. YIPs operate in local neighbourhoods and are aimed predominantly at young people identified as being at risk of offending, but who have not yet entered the criminal justice system.
LAA - A local area agreement (LAA) is a three year agreement that sets out the priorities for a local area agreed between central government and a local area.
That's the problem with being sarcastic. You get more fundamentally true statements in the process. Somewhat like religion, but that's a different beast.
You might want indeed at some point to emulate an internet choke full of unpatched machines, but other times you will probably want only a percentage of them to be this way, or you might want to study a particular vector of infection, or concurrent vectors of infection to see how they interact. The combinations are endless and so will probably be the number of WINE flavors used.
Flawed yes, critically flawed... I don't think so.
By having the power to control the infection vectors (by having different flavors of Wine designed with different vulnerabilities) you have a much better insight on how dangerous these vectors are.
Wine is simply the perfect lab rat, not quite the same as a human, but much better suited for scientific studies
Actually it would be plain more easier to just code their own virii and botnets, while modifying Wine slightly to make sure that the virtual computers get infected and the infection vector works.
They are not interested in how a certain virtual computer behaves like after all, but rather on how the mini-internet looks like as a result of these infections.
You are absolutely right. I'm Romanian and I work as an online freelancer mostly for US clients. I could live the life of a "digital nomad", whatever this thing is, but truth be told I prefer to work from home.
Any website that requires me to use a Gmail address in order to "prevent spam" will not have me as a member. Torrent websites will do just fine for me. Some 7 years ago, I liked blackmask.com a lot. They've been down, but now they're back as munseys.com. No registration required and they provide all the formats you could think of, the selection of books available is rather small though.
I started reading Accelerando 2 hours ago. I can't thank you enough for making me discover Charles Stross.
BTW the e-book is available under CC at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/accelerando/
I don't know mate. Spam is a numbers' game and the numbers in the study don't add up.
For a single spam e-mail, the conversion rate sits at about 0.00015%. With millions of e-mails sent, it is still worth it. But from this number to 12% there really is a long way.
The culprit for the aberration in the study is IMHO the methodology. Basically these people used cold calling (a form of spam in itself) to ask about spamming. Next to the 600 people that actually answered the survey, there are probably thousands more that simply answered with fsck off.
I assure you that there is a difference between what you perceive as an American reality and a global one. I live in Europe and the difference between the elite and ordinary people, although sizable, is much less radical.
P.S. I never quite understood why "liberal" has such different meanings over the two sides of the Atlantic. A liberal party here is actually right wing as it promotes deregulation and basically more trust in the market's self-regulation mechanisms.
The ascendance of BNP from a fringe party to a main stage party is in my opinion a good thing.
I don't agree with their agenda, but they are the voice of a segment which didn't have a voice before. The "solutions" they propose are as sharp as a brick, but the problems they raise are real.
This step forward will highlight these problems and as the less extremist parties propose more reasonable solutions, the support for BNP will wane.
I know that the first instinct is to remind everybody of Hitler and his rise, but a better equivalent is I think France. Jean-Marie Le Pen and the National Front had a similar path to that of BNP and they are nowhere to be found nowadays precisely because the main parties found a way to solve these problems.
I somewhat doubt that convenience had anything to do with it. The recent elections and the beating Labour took are probably the reason behind this move.
Democracy at work fellas! And it's a really beautiful sight
I know that it's just a domain, I know that something better will show up. I even know that in the great scheme of things this is actually a good thing.... but somehow I can't help feeling sad. It is the end of an era. R.I.P. TPB
Because those of us in the US that want to watch US tv show content legally have to either go to the web site, or use one of the aforementioned programs? Besides, Hulu's desktop app is basically a shell around their Flash content, the overhead is nothing above and beyond the Flash CPU overhead itself. Oh, and Zinc is available as a Firefox plugin, and can be opened neatly in a FF tab.
Erm... technically speaking, watching streamed content of any kind is not illegal. It may be a whole array of other things, but illegal... no way. The burden lies with those that upload the content. Otherwise you would see a lot of YouTube users sued to smithereens.
As for the "bloated" aspect, I must concede this point. Every time I see one of these interfaces my mind jumps straight to Vuze, but I admit that others with similar look might be less of a memory hog. I haven't tested any of them, so yes I admit I could be wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
Well... you'd get the bad ones too.
I don't know what's scarier: the fact that a story with this sort of language made it to the front page or the fact that I understood it completely.
Those that hack or pirate always have it better. No DRM, no restrictions on what software you can install, no need for physical media and the list goes on. Being a nice customer simply doesn't pay anymore these days.
A conspiracy theory is better than no theory. The truth is that nobody knows jackshit on the "who" and "why". Now imagine journalists admitting to that. I can't see it happening either.
Oh the horror!
Calling the damn police to hand over a fine is perfectly ok. Calling these morons, on the other hand, to establish the noisy guys as a "problem family" with all the exotic monitoring and bureaucracy is insane. Basically if you have a dog that barks too much and an otherwise perfectly normal toddler, you could instantly "win" a place in their database with all the intense surveillance that follows and the "informal" contracts they are being shoved down your throat.
Try to see beyond the PR and the positive spin for a second, you might be in for a surprise
The Sunday Express is not exactly the most reliable news source. This is why a bit more digging is in order. One Google search later, I came over this site: http://www.respect.gov.uk/members/article.aspx?id=7524
The verdict is: if you happen to live in UK you're fucked
There's no mention of CCTV cameras, but the programs these people have border on downright nazi. They talk about getting the "right" outcome in courts, tackling important issues like noise nuisance or vehicle nuisance and they use some cryptic acronyms which when translated are plain scary.
Some examples:
ISSP - intensive supervision and surveillance programme
YIP - youth inclusion programme. YIPs operate in local neighbourhoods and are aimed predominantly at young people identified as being at risk of offending, but who have not yet entered the criminal justice system.
LAA - A local area agreement (LAA) is a three year agreement that sets out the priorities for a local area agreed between central government and a local area.
That's the problem with being sarcastic. You get more fundamentally true statements in the process. Somewhat like religion, but that's a different beast.
Fair enough.
The problem is not the fact that companies use their leverage on the government but rather that such a leverage exists in the first place.
Just saying...
Not necessarily.
You might want indeed at some point to emulate an internet choke full of unpatched machines, but other times you will probably want only a percentage of them to be this way, or you might want to study a particular vector of infection, or concurrent vectors of infection to see how they interact. The combinations are endless and so will probably be the number of WINE flavors used.
Flawed yes, critically flawed... I don't think so.
By having the power to control the infection vectors (by having different flavors of Wine designed with different vulnerabilities) you have a much better insight on how dangerous these vectors are.
Wine is simply the perfect lab rat, not quite the same as a human, but much better suited for scientific studies
Actually it would be plain more easier to just code their own virii and botnets, while modifying Wine slightly to make sure that the virtual computers get infected and the infection vector works.
They are not interested in how a certain virtual computer behaves like after all, but rather on how the mini-internet looks like as a result of these infections.
Welcome to the world of open source software. The place where you can modify the code in any way you want.
... or whack you in the head and take your laptop
You are absolutely right. I'm Romanian and I work as an online freelancer mostly for US clients. I could live the life of a "digital nomad", whatever this thing is, but truth be told I prefer to work from home.
Any website that requires me to use a Gmail address in order to "prevent spam" will not have me as a member. Torrent websites will do just fine for me. Some 7 years ago, I liked blackmask.com a lot. They've been down, but now they're back as munseys.com. No registration required and they provide all the formats you could think of, the selection of books available is rather small though.
I started reading Accelerando 2 hours ago. I can't thank you enough for making me discover Charles Stross. BTW the e-book is available under CC at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/accelerando/
I don't know mate. Spam is a numbers' game and the numbers in the study don't add up.
For a single spam e-mail, the conversion rate sits at about 0.00015%. With millions of e-mails sent, it is still worth it. But from this number to 12% there really is a long way.
The culprit for the aberration in the study is IMHO the methodology. Basically these people used cold calling (a form of spam in itself) to ask about spamming. Next to the 600 people that actually answered the survey, there are probably thousands more that simply answered with fsck off.
Junk science at its best.
I assure you that there is a difference between what you perceive as an American reality and a global one. I live in Europe and the difference between the elite and ordinary people, although sizable, is much less radical. P.S. I never quite understood why "liberal" has such different meanings over the two sides of the Atlantic. A liberal party here is actually right wing as it promotes deregulation and basically more trust in the market's self-regulation mechanisms.
It's incredibly difficult to remove too. Wash it up with water all day long and it simply refuses to go away.
The ascendance of BNP from a fringe party to a main stage party is in my opinion a good thing. I don't agree with their agenda, but they are the voice of a segment which didn't have a voice before. The "solutions" they propose are as sharp as a brick, but the problems they raise are real. This step forward will highlight these problems and as the less extremist parties propose more reasonable solutions, the support for BNP will wane. I know that the first instinct is to remind everybody of Hitler and his rise, but a better equivalent is I think France. Jean-Marie Le Pen and the National Front had a similar path to that of BNP and they are nowhere to be found nowadays precisely because the main parties found a way to solve these problems.
I somewhat doubt that convenience had anything to do with it. The recent elections and the beating Labour took are probably the reason behind this move. Democracy at work fellas! And it's a really beautiful sight
Open Help>Check for Updates. It's released already
I know that it's just a domain, I know that something better will show up. I even know that in the great scheme of things this is actually a good thing. ... but somehow I can't help feeling sad. It is the end of an era. R.I.P. TPB
Because those of us in the US that want to watch US tv show content legally have to either go to the web site, or use one of the aforementioned programs? Besides, Hulu's desktop app is basically a shell around their Flash content, the overhead is nothing above and beyond the Flash CPU overhead itself. Oh, and Zinc is available as a Firefox plugin, and can be opened neatly in a FF tab.
Erm... technically speaking, watching streamed content of any kind is not illegal. It may be a whole array of other things, but illegal... no way. The burden lies with those that upload the content. Otherwise you would see a lot of YouTube users sued to smithereens. As for the "bloated" aspect, I must concede this point. Every time I see one of these interfaces my mind jumps straight to Vuze, but I admit that others with similar look might be less of a memory hog. I haven't tested any of them, so yes I admit I could be wrong.