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  1. Re:US not great, UN would be worse on UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns · · Score: 1

    In most of Europe free speech means the freedom to express your thoughts and opinions. Free speech is not considered the freedom to say anything you please.

    Then it isn't truly free speech. If your thoughts are extreme, but extreme ideas are censored, then in Europe, you are not free to express yourself, thus there is not really free speech.

  2. Re:US not great, UN would be worse on UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns · · Score: 1

    Alright: stormfront.org , kkk.org , 4chan.org/pol/ .

    All up, after years and years.

  3. Re:UN takeover must be stopped? on UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns · · Score: 1

    And to charge per click, of course!

    I swear that you fucking morons haven't even read the summary.

  4. Re:UN takeover must be stopped? on UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns · · Score: 1
    But then who mediates the DNS? Surely you don't suggest that GoDaddy would be appropriate. They manage to get things taken down even when they don't serve the name, simply by sending threads to the host on company letterhead.

    And let's be frank, by "the internet" here we mean control of TLDs, as everything else derives from that.

    No, it doesn't. I can still access 168.192.0.1 just fine if there is a DNS entry or not. I could very well put a seized domain in /etc/hosts and be done with it. As far as taking sites down, things like Megaupload were hosted in the US, so what was the issue?

    The US government can then block "fuckamerica.com" from within the US, but not completely take it down in the rest of the world

    Maybe they should just get a different TLD. There are tons of them. What's the obsession with .com anyway?

    That's the way it should be.

    I disagree. The adhoc mess that it is now is much better than a streamlined system that will allow this much more properly. The US can't touch .ru, but under your system, they could prevent anyone in the US from accessing it. That's just terrible. Besides that, there are things that do, should, need to be taken out of the DNS records, such as spammers and phishers.

    I think it would be nice to have an anarchic internet too, with absolutely nothing is contraband (and I really do mean this) and subservient to no authority, it just isn't going to happen without a true P2P internet.

  5. Re:Uhm, so we're at war now with Iran? on Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran · · Score: 1

    Which is completely unconstitutional and displays profound ignorance about the constitution.

    Only the House of Representatives can impeach a president. Them and only them.

  6. Re:yawn on How Hackers Listened Their Way Around Google's Recaptcha · · Score: 1

    If they were doing it the the spammers were probably doing it 6 months ago.

  7. Re:Gone too far... on How Hackers Listened Their Way Around Google's Recaptcha · · Score: 1

    Just type the one you can recognize (the challenge word is in the same style for a few weeks, and you should be able to spot it immediately), and type anything for the other word. The second word is of no consequence to the CAPTCH and only counts towards the Re.

  8. Re:Do they realise... on 'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers · · Score: 2

    They actually were trying to get the US involved in a long war to destabilize us and ruin the economy, just like when every other empire did in Afghanistan, and just like they did to the USSR.

    Moral of the story: terrorism works.

  9. Re:Do they realise... on 'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers · · Score: 1

    What a totally meaningless distinction. Come out of you ivory tower some time, the stale air is eating holes in your brain it seems.

  10. Re:Perhaps it's not that Bittorrent traffic fell on BitTorrent Traffic Falls In the U.S. · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They get taken down to much. If you are after fresh material, IRC DCC bots are the best way to get it (at least for things like Anime and TV shows).

  11. Re:Evolution on Dot-Word TLDs Further Delayed · · Score: 1, Informative

    *browsers* started redirecting dns misses to search engines, and that even a mistyped ping target no longer returns "unreachable" because your ISP is trying to advertise their own affiliates.

    The browser could not possible affect ping. The browser redirects URL's that are unreachable, but they cannot do anything about any thing other than that. This is the fault of your ISP (and if it was done by your ISP, your browser wouldn't see and error and wouldn't reject it anyway).

    Off on a tangent about how fake our root level and IPv4 progress is:[...]

    This is only for ``consumer'' grade internet. A simpler idea to get around this is to rent a VPS (I've seen them as low as 3$ per month) and install OpenVPS or some other proxy setup and route through that. As those are used to run largely automated commercial services, they wouldn't bother spamming their customers, as scripts don't care for ads either and broken scripts means broken sites, which means lost customers.

    So we see only TLD infrastructure changes actually making it to a browser near us, but little else in terms of paradigm changes. New standards take huge companies and OS makers to push, when they feel like it, and then it's a whole decade for adoption to actually kick in (we got approval for ditching IE6 support only months ago, while sardonically non-IE browsers all decided to stop graceful degradation as users switch to them.)

    ICANN's racketeering shenanigans have nothing to do with the browser.

  12. Re:Part of It on Coursera: Dozens of Free, Massive, and Open Online Courses · · Score: 0

    KA is a good tutor, but as it only gives a broad generalization and two or three (unitless, usually) examples, it is almost useless for deeper understanding.

  13. Re:Tor has limitations on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 1

    I create a recognizable pattern of latency in my connection to you; that is, I create a covert channel that can be externally observed.

    This isn't so much of an issue as you make it seem. On time I could be routing through Houston->Tokyo->Paris, while the next I could be going through Unnamed Village, Nigeria-> El Guapo, Mexico -> Bumfuckovick->Russia. The differences in latencies in the nodes will make your data useless. The timing corrolation attacks that you seem to be describing rely on the control of both ends. If an LEA is monitoring your connection to see if the timings of the packets you use to communicate with cheapchildporn.com through their node, then you are already fucked.

  14. Re:Example proves what many have long suspected... on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 1

    Tor hidden services, what the fools in TFA used, are in the Tor network and never touch an exit node (they are also completely encrypted, so no entry node can see the plaintext).

  15. Re:As usual, no technical details on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 1

    More likely they were able to track people using the USPS to deliver drugs.

  16. Re:Where? on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: 1

    So your idea is to force programmers to change so as to appease women? Do we also have to enslave them and force them to work, so that they can't just find another job somewhere else, thus evading the `problem'? Should we give them jail time for being fat, ugly, socially-awkward losers that are off-putting to women? Should we higher some guys named Brad and Dave who majored in marketing to work with the women coders so that they are more comfortable?

  17. Re:Where? on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: 0

    Is crying, drunk men scaring women away from bars such a huge issue that we should enact laws to change millennium old bar-culture so that more women wanted to go into them? No, fuck that. They can deal with it. It is not my responsibility to change myself to be your friend If you don't like it, fuck you. If women don't like the culture of coders, then they can either join it and try to change it, or go somewhere else.

    No one is forcing women to be developers, so if they don't want to join, then they can go somewhere else. Where does the idea that we need more women in coding come from anyway? It's fine how it is. Do we need more women in pipelining? That's another crude, male dominated industry (I know because I have piped lines before, and it is crude! I have never, ever seen a female on the right-of-way or on the oil well pads)? How about in trading, where a de facto prerequisite to getting on the floor is snorting a kilo of coke in the exchange restroom?

    This is not an issue. If they wanted to be programmers, there is nothing stopping them other than themselves.

  18. Re:Where? on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: 1

    Not sexual harassment. No story here other than them being intolerant towards hacker culture.

  19. Re:Where? on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is what the feminist (and authors of this article) want, as well as what the `quota' business is about. (And if you look close, DNS-kun's comment might very well have been satirical).

  20. Re:When people abuse prices go up on Best Buy Scans Drivers License For Returns — No More Allowed For 90 Days · · Score: 1

    How would losing money mean that they aren't greedy? Some of the greediest people I know are as broke as fuck. You act as if their shitty management skills are a sign that they are going out of their way to give money away out of the goodness of their heart.

  21. Re:"Seize the youth/seize the future" FAIL on OLPC Project Disappoints In Peru · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of software that can be compiled with the Wine library to run on Linux. Does that make Linux a Windows platform?

  22. Re:His failures made him who he was. on Ashton Kutcher To Play Steve Jobs In Upcoming Film · · Score: 1

    But then he executed [...] people to get there.

    Jesus Christ dude, you CANNOT call a man a murderer without showing some proof.

  23. Re:Bundy on Japanese Court Orders Google To Turn Off Auto-Complete Function · · Score: 2

    Then they can change their name. No one gives three fucks about four fucks in regards to their shitty little trailer park, but an industrial accident may one day be research material.

  24. Re:16-year-old kids have too much free time on 16-Year-Old Creates Scientific/Graphing Calculator In Minecraft · · Score: 5, Insightful

    skipped the whole stupid "show your work" crap which just slowed me down

    You really do need to show your work. It's not an issue for 25+13, but for any real problem it is essential. Try doing vector calculus without showing any work. It doesn't make you smart if you can, it makes you stupid to try. The work is a proof that validates your answer. Not showing the work in math is like not supporting any of your conclusions with arguments in philosophy. That's why they try to train kids to do it early.

    Honestly, if your tutor didn't realize that, then she was a pretty terrible teacher.

  25. Re:Someone thinking of the Children. on All Video Games Cause Aggressive Behavior, Say Two US Congressmen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Video games cause pedophilia too?

    Touhou might.