The IWF blocks files it considers child porn, but the list of exactly what it blocks is secret. There is no procedure for appeal. Those who are blocked are not informed, and some ISPs fake 404 messages in order to conceal even the fact that something has been blocked. The exact criteria for what it considers child porn are obviously highly subjective. So, though it may have a fifteen year history, there is no doubt that it *is* a highly secretive organisation and quite stealthy in it's methods. The IWF would argue that this is the only way they can perform their function - after all, they can hardly go around publishing a list of child porn to ask for community approval - but it is secretive nontheless.
Central points are cheaper. It's more cost effective to lay one bundle of the best fiber money can buy to LINX than it is to run ten bundles of slightly cheaper fiber to ten different local ISP peering points.
It's been tried in a few ways. Unfortunatly this is technologically difficult. It can be done, but the overhead is 100% at minimum. There are anonymous p2p networks (Freenet being one of the best known) but this comes at the cost of performance. Forget about getting a movie in an hour, or even overnight.
If they did provide some search facility, wouldn't you just claim they are providing it to aid pirates? It would doubtless be a hugely useful feature to them.
Those who claim religion while ignoring vast swathes of the holy text are in the position where both sides look down on them for effectively wimping out of the debate in order to live more comfortably.
There are several classes of creationists, but when used in such an obviously insulting way it may be assumed to refer to the young-earth creationists. The old-earth creationists have less of an obvious conflict because their claims are in general nonfalsifyable no matter what the evidence, while the young-earthers have to distort the evidence like a bonsai kitten to fit their claims.
Perhaps you should look into Freenet as a safe way to publicise data? Anyone could get it then, and it's very, very difficult to find the point of origin.
Digital ads also potentially get more backlash. A paper ad can't really be annoying. A pop-over window, annoying animated banner or anything like that can be. As viewers grow more and more accustomed to ignoring ads, the temptation to make them more intrusive grows.
At which point you have to ban mobile phones. Doable, for a sufficiently oppressive regime, but it's going to upset the population. The more angry they are, the easier it will be for rebellion to take hold. There is also an economic penalty in banning technology.
Interfering with traffic in-transit is beyond the ability of all but the best hackers without government aid. They would need to either be good enough to compromise and operate network infrastructure without detection (hard) or actually be employed by an ISP in a high enough position that they don't have someone else checking their configs (Also hard). It can't be the work of some basement-dweller gang. It's either an organised group of super-hackers, or a government agency. The latter seems more probable.
Sure. All you need is enough money to hire some professional networkers, buy the right of way to lay fiberoptic cables across at least a good part of one state, rent or buy land on which to place your cell stations, buy a licence to a block of spectrum from the FCC (Which alone will easily top a billion dollars - that spectrum is in very high demand) and then operate the whole expensive infrastructure until you have enough customers to break even. All while fending off every legal trick the incumbents have at their disposal to get in your way.
How hard can it be?
"These are the regulations for the guilt offering, which is most holy: The guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be splashed against the sides of the altar. All its fat shall be offered: the fat tail and the fat that covers the internal organs, both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys. The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering presented to the LORD. It is a guilt offering. Any male in a priest’s family may eat it, but it must be eaten in the sanctuary area; it is most holy."
The whole of Leviticus is basically like that.
It's basically what Exodus does too - it's all based on group treatments to maximise the use of peer pressure, including group shameing, and intensive religious teaching. And it actually appears to work... for a short time. A few months of the hell of Exodus treatments, and the subject learns to act properly heterosexual to fit in, even believing it themself. But it's just an act, the program has a very high reversion rate - exactly how high, Exodus refuses to reveal. The subjects tend to return to their old gay ways as soon as they leave the program. Even the ministry's founder had to step down after he was caught flirting in a gay nightclub.
It makes perfect sense if you just assume that God isn't all-loving, and is really quite the divine dick.
1. Make rules that are impossible for anyone to obey.
2. Declare that the punishment for the tiniest infringement is death and eternal torture. If anyone criticises, say that as a just God you must enforce the law.
3. Invent a loophole - say, sacrificing your son to take the blame - that allows people you choose to get away with breaking the rules.
4. Use the loophole to grant salvation to those who accept it by bowing down and worshiping you.
5. Bask in the glory of their terrified adorations.
It also helps that most Windows computers are used by people who have little idea of how a computer works or good security practice. This can't be held entirely to blame - after all, OSX is targetted at users with a similar level of knowledge - but it does go a long way towards explaining why linux is so much more secure.
The solution is to find an X that is difficult to ban. Something that can be assembled from scrap with minimal training, like a cantenna. Or that is so useful and popular that to ban it would further feed the rebel's cause. Or even just something that is small and cheap enough to be easily smuggled or hidden, so that enforcing a ban would become very difficult. You might not be able to stop the secret police, but you can make their job very difficult.
This is a start, but the tools are still firmly in geeks-only territory. Can't all us in the idealistic open-source community come up with new technologies? How about some program that lets mobile phones exchange data with people as they pass in the street, maintaining a shared high-latency store akin to Freenet? Or maybe some company would like to improve on the sat-internet antenna to make it even more strongly directional, thus making it harder to trace?
It's just an expression. It means to play an online game for profit by performing very menial tasks for long hours, then selling your gains for real currency. It can be done, but to turn a profit requires you have players willing to spend very long hours at the game (This isn't for fun: It's a job) performing very repetative actions for a tiny, tiny pay. Thus why it's done in China, where labor costs are very low. It's easy to get very rich in-game if you can spent eighteen hours a day playing, every day. Then it's just a matter of selling your in-game wealth for real dollars on the gray market.
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The IWF blocks files it considers child porn, but the list of exactly what it blocks is secret. There is no procedure for appeal. Those who are blocked are not informed, and some ISPs fake 404 messages in order to conceal even the fact that something has been blocked. The exact criteria for what it considers child porn are obviously highly subjective. So, though it may have a fifteen year history, there is no doubt that it *is* a highly secretive organisation and quite stealthy in it's methods. The IWF would argue that this is the only way they can perform their function - after all, they can hardly go around publishing a list of child porn to ask for community approval - but it is secretive nontheless.
Central points are cheaper. It's more cost effective to lay one bundle of the best fiber money can buy to LINX than it is to run ten bundles of slightly cheaper fiber to ten different local ISP peering points.
It's been tried in a few ways. Unfortunatly this is technologically difficult. It can be done, but the overhead is 100% at minimum. There are anonymous p2p networks (Freenet being one of the best known) but this comes at the cost of performance. Forget about getting a movie in an hour, or even overnight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0
This video is currently one of the most popular on youtube.
To answer your question, it doesn't look so bad now.
If they did provide some search facility, wouldn't you just claim they are providing it to aid pirates? It would doubtless be a hugely useful feature to them.
Those who claim religion while ignoring vast swathes of the holy text are in the position where both sides look down on them for effectively wimping out of the debate in order to live more comfortably.
There are several classes of creationists, but when used in such an obviously insulting way it may be assumed to refer to the young-earth creationists. The old-earth creationists have less of an obvious conflict because their claims are in general nonfalsifyable no matter what the evidence, while the young-earthers have to distort the evidence like a bonsai kitten to fit their claims.
Perhaps you should look into Freenet as a safe way to publicise data? Anyone could get it then, and it's very, very difficult to find the point of origin.
Digital ads also potentially get more backlash. A paper ad can't really be annoying. A pop-over window, annoying animated banner or anything like that can be. As viewers grow more and more accustomed to ignoring ads, the temptation to make them more intrusive grows.
You didn't read the article.
At which point you have to ban mobile phones. Doable, for a sufficiently oppressive regime, but it's going to upset the population. The more angry they are, the easier it will be for rebellion to take hold. There is also an economic penalty in banning technology.
You could just stop buying everything made in China. But then there wouldn't be very much left you could buy.
Interfering with traffic in-transit is beyond the ability of all but the best hackers without government aid. They would need to either be good enough to compromise and operate network infrastructure without detection (hard) or actually be employed by an ISP in a high enough position that they don't have someone else checking their configs (Also hard). It can't be the work of some basement-dweller gang. It's either an organised group of super-hackers, or a government agency. The latter seems more probable.
Sure. All you need is enough money to hire some professional networkers, buy the right of way to lay fiberoptic cables across at least a good part of one state, rent or buy land on which to place your cell stations, buy a licence to a block of spectrum from the FCC (Which alone will easily top a billion dollars - that spectrum is in very high demand) and then operate the whole expensive infrastructure until you have enough customers to break even. All while fending off every legal trick the incumbents have at their disposal to get in your way. How hard can it be?
"These are the regulations for the guilt offering, which is most holy: The guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be splashed against the sides of the altar. All its fat shall be offered: the fat tail and the fat that covers the internal organs, both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys. The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering presented to the LORD. It is a guilt offering. Any male in a priest’s family may eat it, but it must be eaten in the sanctuary area; it is most holy."
The whole of Leviticus is basically like that.
I suspect it's purpose is advertising, so people can find it when browsing the app store and do it get publicity from the contriversy.
While I wouldn't be surprised, such serious accusations need evidence.
http://www.thegaymanifesto.com/2010/04/12/christian-ministry-exodus-international-advocates-gay-lesbian-corpse-desecration/ http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2008/05/628/ http://www.divamag.co.uk/diva/update.asp
It would appear that it is a common practice in Africa and some other regions to rape lesbians in the belief that this will turn them gay, but I can't find any direct link in which Exodus International endorses this or finances an organisation that does. It's a practice of similar but unrelated churches. However, it does appear they were involved (Like some other US ministries) in pressuring the Ugandan government to pass it's law jailing gay-rights activists and executing homosexuals - which sounds just as bad, really.
It's basically what Exodus does too - it's all based on group treatments to maximise the use of peer pressure, including group shameing, and intensive religious teaching. And it actually appears to work... for a short time. A few months of the hell of Exodus treatments, and the subject learns to act properly heterosexual to fit in, even believing it themself. But it's just an act, the program has a very high reversion rate - exactly how high, Exodus refuses to reveal. The subjects tend to return to their old gay ways as soon as they leave the program. Even the ministry's founder had to step down after he was caught flirting in a gay nightclub.
You'd need to screw with dopamine. Perhaps something involving the administration of narcotics in conjunction with gay sex?
It makes perfect sense if you just assume that God isn't all-loving, and is really quite the divine dick.
1. Make rules that are impossible for anyone to obey.
2. Declare that the punishment for the tiniest infringement is death and eternal torture. If anyone criticises, say that as a just God you must enforce the law.
3. Invent a loophole - say, sacrificing your son to take the blame - that allows people you choose to get away with breaking the rules.
4. Use the loophole to grant salvation to those who accept it by bowing down and worshiping you.
5. Bask in the glory of their terrified adorations.
It also helps that most Windows computers are used by people who have little idea of how a computer works or good security practice. This can't be held entirely to blame - after all, OSX is targetted at users with a similar level of knowledge - but it does go a long way towards explaining why linux is so much more secure.
The solution is to find an X that is difficult to ban. Something that can be assembled from scrap with minimal training, like a cantenna. Or that is so useful and popular that to ban it would further feed the rebel's cause. Or even just something that is small and cheap enough to be easily smuggled or hidden, so that enforcing a ban would become very difficult. You might not be able to stop the secret police, but you can make their job very difficult.
This is a start, but the tools are still firmly in geeks-only territory. Can't all us in the idealistic open-source community come up with new technologies? How about some program that lets mobile phones exchange data with people as they pass in the street, maintaining a shared high-latency store akin to Freenet? Or maybe some company would like to improve on the sat-internet antenna to make it even more strongly directional, thus making it harder to trace?
Only if their number includes one of those capitalists to pay for it. Space is expensive, and is going to stay that way for a long time.
It's just an expression. It means to play an online game for profit by performing very menial tasks for long hours, then selling your gains for real currency. It can be done, but to turn a profit requires you have players willing to spend very long hours at the game (This isn't for fun: It's a job) performing very repetative actions for a tiny, tiny pay. Thus why it's done in China, where labor costs are very low. It's easy to get very rich in-game if you can spent eighteen hours a day playing, every day. Then it's just a matter of selling your in-game wealth for real dollars on the gray market.