A while ago my employer came under DoS attack. We weren't the actual target - following a recent router replacement** the copying of configuration had been done wrong and left us with an open DNS resolver, we were just being used as an amplifier to attack some Russian websites. All the source IPs came from China, but many different organisations within China - a university, a factory, a local government office, and so on. Obviously a botnet, probably based on a Chinese-language trojan as that would explain the geographic clustering.
I identified every source address, blocked it at our firewall, looked up whois on the IP, found the abuse email, and informed the responsible party with tcpdump output to show what was going on.
Almost every email I sent came back as undeliverable. I had to muddle through Chinese customer service pages to find someone to contact on those, and not one of them ever got a reply. The packets kept on coming too until they all ceased together suddenly, probably at the point the responsible party realized I'd fixed the open resolver problem.
So why bother? You can dance around waving flags and shouting 'you've been hacked!' and a lot of organizations just don't want to know.
**If you ever upgrade a Smoothwall appliance, watch out for this!
I wouldn't be surprised if a good chunk of those were the paid moderators charged with investigating flagged tweets and suspected code of conduct violations. A lot of that can't be automated, so it must be one of their more labor-intensive tasks.
A good part of jury nullification's bad reputation comes from the south during and for a time after the segregation era, which it was used on numerous occasions to let a white murderer go free after killing a black person. With jury nullification, community standards win - even if the community happens to be packed with racists who believe the black victim deserved it for having ideas above his station.
But I didn't consent for him to have that power over me. Democracy is mob rule with a lot of formalised procedures. That's a lot better than anarchic mob rule, but violence still underpins it.
This isn't for you to watch UHD. It's for internal use in production, so they can shunt live UHD video around their studios. That way they keep full quality right up until the final stage before distribution, when it gets resized according to the end device. Your TV will get plain old 1080p as always - but they'll have UHD capability ready to go for transmitting to cinemas or sending to big public displays, and they can archive a UHD version for future use so they can zoom in tighter on the action in future highlights.
Musical styles change. Entire genres of music have been invented in the last seventy years, the current copyright term for music here. There's no justification for a duration so long - in what way does it promote the creation of new music? It doesn't.
Patents can actually serve their purpose. Most of the pharmaceutical industry is built around patents - companies spend vast amounts of money on research to get them. They are evil greedy mega-corps, of course, but that doesn't matter: Their drugs still keep people alive regardless of the motivation for their creation.
Part of the reason patents do more good than harm is their duration - it's long enough to be beneficial, but not so long that the costs outweigh the benefits. Copyright, on the other hand, has an utterly ridiculous duration.
The biggest problem with patents comes from a poor approvals process - the patent office is basically stamp that lacks the time or resources to actually validate anything, and so relies on the courts to invalidate patents that should never have been improved in the first place. This has lead to a situation, especially in the technology industry, where companies have an incentive to amass as many patents as possible even for the most ridiculously simple of things (rounded corners, slide-to-unlock) in order to use them as a big hammer to smash competitors with legal costs.
"I'm right because I'm right and can enforce my will through violence."
That's the fundamental basis of all laws. Without the power to enforce the laws through violence they lose all meaning and purpose. You can wrap the laws up in impressive rhetoric about justice, rights, morality and that fluff - but all this does is hide the uncomfortable truth that the real basis of law is the man with the gun who'll come lock you up if you don't play by the rules.
There's one point of resistance: For all the provisions of TTP, the impact on illegal downloading isn't going to be great. Protest by getting those illegal files and sharing them even more, and by teaching others to do the same. Fill USB sticks and leave them in public places. Paste magnet links to good torrents on public boards.
Yes. You have the choice of the Corporate Slave R or Corporate Slave D.
Sometimes you have an I on the ballot too, but politics is an expensive game - once you get past the local level a good campaign costs millions of dollars, so success is impossible without some rich sponsors in industry.
You don't need to call conspiracy. People en mass are a shallow lot, and the media exists to maximise viewership. The circus of candidates is full of larger-than-life personalities all fighting with each other to stand out, so they are a constant source of new headlines - any time one of them is starting to fade from public awareness they have to say something outrageous to get back in the game.
They don't report on TPP because most people don't care: A story like that would not generate a huge number of views and thus advertising revenue. A story about the shape of Kim Kardashian's behind in the latest photo would score a lot higher in revenue terms.
I show how the concept of the public domain has been crushed by demonstrating just how little popular music exists in it.
I'd call this shameless self-promotion, but I make about £0.03 a month in advertising off that. Factor in that everyone uses ad-blocking here and I might make £0.06 this month if it gets slashdotted. No, I just want to flood the internet with public-domain music in open-standard format.
"For food, you can go to local markets and buy it directly from farmers."
Depends on country. Simple economy of scale means small farms are in a slow process of decline - the farmer with a few traditional chicken enclosures cannot hope to compete with the farm that has ten massive industrial barns and chickens in the millions. Large farms have no interest in selling a tiny fraction of their output direct to consumers - they are not in the retail business.
Because this isn't over as an immediate issue - it's not something we can forget about until an event forces it back into the arena of debate. The consideration of appropriate policy is still an issue, only one approach has been ruled out - the same ends may yet be sought by other means.
I'm saying that it's impossible to regulate any hardware when it's manufactured in the very-fast-turnover factories of China, imported by a company with a lifespan of a few months, and sold quickly online at low cost. Source or no source, electronics move too fast for regulators to keep up. They can't even manage to carry out proper emissions testing on diesel cars, how are they supposed to perform compliance testing on wireless devices when a thousand new products come on the market a month in producton runs from a few units to a few million?
They are trying to reverse engineer one the most complicated structures in the known universe, which operates on principles unlike those of any construct of human engineering. Even greatly simplified simulations of the most miniscule parts require a supercomputer to run - and that's just for rats. Do you expect progress to be rapid?
Depends how determined the bosses are. Note that these bosses may even face jail time if their manipulations were ever exposed as intentional, so they have a strong incentive to keep things quiet. I really wouldn't be surprised if somewhere along the line some engineer or middle-manager were warned that some expensive equipment had 'disappeared' and it would be very unfortunate were he found responsible for the theft.
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A while ago my employer came under DoS attack. We weren't the actual target - following a recent router replacement** the copying of configuration had been done wrong and left us with an open DNS resolver, we were just being used as an amplifier to attack some Russian websites. All the source IPs came from China, but many different organisations within China - a university, a factory, a local government office, and so on. Obviously a botnet, probably based on a Chinese-language trojan as that would explain the geographic clustering.
I identified every source address, blocked it at our firewall, looked up whois on the IP, found the abuse email, and informed the responsible party with tcpdump output to show what was going on.
Almost every email I sent came back as undeliverable. I had to muddle through Chinese customer service pages to find someone to contact on those, and not one of them ever got a reply. The packets kept on coming too until they all ceased together suddenly, probably at the point the responsible party realized I'd fixed the open resolver problem.
So why bother? You can dance around waving flags and shouting 'you've been hacked!' and a lot of organizations just don't want to know.
**If you ever upgrade a Smoothwall appliance, watch out for this!
I wouldn't be surprised if a good chunk of those were the paid moderators charged with investigating flagged tweets and suspected code of conduct violations. A lot of that can't be automated, so it must be one of their more labor-intensive tasks.
A good part of jury nullification's bad reputation comes from the south during and for a time after the segregation era, which it was used on numerous occasions to let a white murderer go free after killing a black person. With jury nullification, community standards win - even if the community happens to be packed with racists who believe the black victim deserved it for having ideas above his station.
But I didn't consent for him to have that power over me. Democracy is mob rule with a lot of formalised procedures. That's a lot better than anarchic mob rule, but violence still underpins it.
Don't forget retroshare - it's good if you've a couple of friends with plenty to share.
A law that cannot be enforced is worthless. TOR and the like are designed to operate in countries where their use is illegal.
This isn't for you to watch UHD. It's for internal use in production, so they can shunt live UHD video around their studios. That way they keep full quality right up until the final stage before distribution, when it gets resized according to the end device. Your TV will get plain old 1080p as always - but they'll have UHD capability ready to go for transmitting to cinemas or sending to big public displays, and they can archive a UHD version for future use so they can zoom in tighter on the action in future highlights.
Musical styles change. Entire genres of music have been invented in the last seventy years, the current copyright term for music here. There's no justification for a duration so long - in what way does it promote the creation of new music? It doesn't.
I also put the wrong link in.
Patents can actually serve their purpose. Most of the pharmaceutical industry is built around patents - companies spend vast amounts of money on research to get them. They are evil greedy mega-corps, of course, but that doesn't matter: Their drugs still keep people alive regardless of the motivation for their creation.
Part of the reason patents do more good than harm is their duration - it's long enough to be beneficial, but not so long that the costs outweigh the benefits. Copyright, on the other hand, has an utterly ridiculous duration.
The biggest problem with patents comes from a poor approvals process - the patent office is basically stamp that lacks the time or resources to actually validate anything, and so relies on the courts to invalidate patents that should never have been improved in the first place. This has lead to a situation, especially in the technology industry, where companies have an incentive to amass as many patents as possible even for the most ridiculously simple of things (rounded corners, slide-to-unlock) in order to use them as a big hammer to smash competitors with legal costs.
"I'm right because I'm right and can enforce my will through violence."
That's the fundamental basis of all laws. Without the power to enforce the laws through violence they lose all meaning and purpose. You can wrap the laws up in impressive rhetoric about justice, rights, morality and that fluff - but all this does is hide the uncomfortable truth that the real basis of law is the man with the gun who'll come lock you up if you don't play by the rules.
There's one point of resistance: For all the provisions of TTP, the impact on illegal downloading isn't going to be great. Protest by getting those illegal files and sharing them even more, and by teaching others to do the same. Fill USB sticks and leave them in public places. Paste magnet links to good torrents on public boards.
Jury nullification allows for the views of a community to override the letter of the law. This can be a good or bad thing, depending on the community.
Yes. You have the choice of the Corporate Slave R or Corporate Slave D.
Sometimes you have an I on the ballot too, but politics is an expensive game - once you get past the local level a good campaign costs millions of dollars, so success is impossible without some rich sponsors in industry.
You don't need to call conspiracy. People en mass are a shallow lot, and the media exists to maximise viewership. The circus of candidates is full of larger-than-life personalities all fighting with each other to stand out, so they are a constant source of new headlines - any time one of them is starting to fade from public awareness they have to say something outrageous to get back in the game.
They don't report on TPP because most people don't care: A story like that would not generate a huge number of views and thus advertising revenue. A story about the shape of Kim Kardashian's behind in the latest photo would score a lot higher in revenue terms.
https://birds-are-nice.me/musi...
I show how the concept of the public domain has been crushed by demonstrating just how little popular music exists in it.
I'd call this shameless self-promotion, but I make about £0.03 a month in advertising off that. Factor in that everyone uses ad-blocking here and I might make £0.06 this month if it gets slashdotted. No, I just want to flood the internet with public-domain music in open-standard format.
Damnit, posted to the wrong story! That was supposed to go to the one about TPP.
"For food, you can go to local markets and buy it directly from farmers."
Depends on country. Simple economy of scale means small farms are in a slow process of decline - the farmer with a few traditional chicken enclosures cannot hope to compete with the farm that has ten massive industrial barns and chickens in the millions. Large farms have no interest in selling a tiny fraction of their output direct to consumers - they are not in the retail business.
https://birds-are-nice.me/musi...
I show how the concept of the public domain has been crushed by demonstrating just how little popular music exists in it.
Because this isn't over as an immediate issue - it's not something we can forget about until an event forces it back into the arena of debate. The consideration of appropriate policy is still an issue, only one approach has been ruled out - the same ends may yet be sought by other means.
I'm saying that it's impossible to regulate any hardware when it's manufactured in the very-fast-turnover factories of China, imported by a company with a lifespan of a few months, and sold quickly online at low cost. Source or no source, electronics move too fast for regulators to keep up. They can't even manage to carry out proper emissions testing on diesel cars, how are they supposed to perform compliance testing on wireless devices when a thousand new products come on the market a month in producton runs from a few units to a few million?
They are trying to reverse engineer one the most complicated structures in the known universe, which operates on principles unlike those of any construct of human engineering. Even greatly simplified simulations of the most miniscule parts require a supercomputer to run - and that's just for rats. Do you expect progress to be rapid?
"The FCC is trying to skirt around doing its job of tracking down violators and fining them."
How? It's difficult enough regulating imported electronics just for safety, and a lot of hardware doesn't even have a brand on it.
There are many examples of a word that can be used as a verb or a noun. 'Find,' for instance.
Depends how determined the bosses are. Note that these bosses may even face jail time if their manipulations were ever exposed as intentional, so they have a strong incentive to keep things quiet. I really wouldn't be surprised if somewhere along the line some engineer or middle-manager were warned that some expensive equipment had 'disappeared' and it would be very unfortunate were he found responsible for the theft.