I'm not sure why people here want M$ to change their act and get back in the game. I for one am quite happy with M$ being irrelevant and staying that way. Do any of you really want M$ to catch up and become dominant again?
You will retain much much more information if you take handwritten notes in class and then re-write them a number of times into various formats such as outlines and notecards. It's a time-proven method. It beats all techno-gadgetry hands-down.
He thought the idea that he debuted at BlackHat was somehow new or revolutionary. I think the only thing he may have done differently than this advertising agency is to have each node connect to the other nodes using Tor.
I don't see how what you said and what I said are different. I was disagreeing with what the parent said: that the organization was disbanded. It was not, it was reorganized and the name was changed. The main point I wanted to make is that its the same people. You can call it whatever you like, and you can divide it into as many "separate" departments as you like, but its still the same animal.
When was the last time you lived in Russia?
Disbanded? Hardly. It's alive and well, it just changed its name to Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB) from Komitet Gosudartvennoi Bezopastnosti (KGB). HQ is the exact same building (Lubyanka), which by the way is the tallest building in Moscow (because you can see Siberia from the basement). It has all the same people working for it that worked for the KGB.
However, they are probably not the group in the government that would be reading your email. That group is the Russian Federal Service for Mass Media, Telecommunications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrankultura).
Ever. Don't. If you think its a good idea, or you can clear your name or help them figure things out. You can't. Your case is basically finished and you're screwed when you talk to them for any reason without a lawyer present. If you don't understand why, please watch this video.
If you think you have nothing to hide. Think again. If I had access to all of your phone conversations and emails as the NSA does, I'm sure that I can find something that I can use to blackmail you. Therefore, you do actually have something to hide.
Torrent has been the only way that I've downloaded FreeBSD ISOs when they're released for at least 5 years. It is lightening fast compared to even the fastest HTTP or FTP mirror.
You clearly did not read the article. You are saying that it is possible to make good estimates by using the methods you spelled out. The article is saying that it is not possible to make estimates, and that the solution is to not make estimates at all, but to follow Agile software development.
Interesting points. The problem of bad software becoming entrenched is definitely a problem in more fields than this. Perhaps the only way to loosen the cruft is to modify the laws governing the software to make the poorly written ones non-compliant?
Perhaps you are correct. Lets back away from that solution a little bit. How about a full non-profit organization that produces medical software? Or, a government agency tasked with writing medical software?
Do any of you think it would be feasible to start a company that makes FOSS medical software for doctors' offices? I imagine that what an office needs isn't very different from office to office. The company would earn its money long-term providing support for the software. It would also need to be compliant with HIPAA and all other regulations.
If that's where they're trying to block, I hope people start putting up more bridge nodes. According to recent news, there is a growing shortage of bridge nodes.
I think you and the others misread what I wrote (I just reread it, and it seems clear to me, but whatever). A Tor user in Japan's traffic from their computer to the next inside the Tor network cannot be blocked easily.
What I said was that the traffic from the exit nodes to the destination address can be easily blocked. The article was talking about preventing anonymous posts being made to Japanese web forums. If they block traffic from all exit nodes, posts made directly from these exit nodes would be blocked as long as the forum is hosted in Japan.
Day after day the number of comments on stories on slashdot number around 200-300 for popular stories and the rest barely break 100. I think we're seeing the end of days for slashdot. Nothing on the internet dies quickly, so the site will slowly continue to decay over the next few years until even the people who maintain the site stop bothering to even do that.
The solution to this problem is to setup an group of I2P outproxies inside of Japan's networks. It will take some time for Japan to catch up to current technologies, if they're only getting around to targeting Tor as late as now.
Also, is Japan trying to copy China, or something?
They can still block any traffic from the exit nodes. All the ISPs in Japan can null route all traffic from Tor exit node IP addresses. The list of addresses is published by Tor so people can do just this (it's not meant for the ISP level, rather, they publish it so people can block Tor from message boards and such). This would prevent all Tor traffic from entering Japan's networks directly
Using a proxy immediately after Tor would be the only solution to this, but even this could be blocked since lists of public open proxies are maintained in a number of locations such as XRoxy.
My concern is not what it looks like at all. When I made the switch from dumb phone to smart phone, I didn't want something larger than my old phone taking up too much room in my pocket. The Aria was slightly larger than what I wanted at the time, but in hindsight, it was the best choice. Now there are barely any alternatives to having a phone that barely fits in one's pocket.
I keep looking up Chinese and Japanese Android phones and hoping that some of those companies will start selling their phones in the US.
Make phones that are the size of the HTC Aria/Liberty/Intruder!!!! Then we'll talk. Everything larger than that size is horrible and unwieldy. There is no technical reason why smartphones are so bulky.
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I'm not sure why people here want M$ to change their act and get back in the game. I for one am quite happy with M$ being irrelevant and staying that way. Do any of you really want M$ to catch up and become dominant again?
You will retain much much more information if you take handwritten notes in class and then re-write them a number of times into various formats such as outlines and notecards. It's a time-proven method. It beats all techno-gadgetry hands-down.
He thought the idea that he debuted at BlackHat was somehow new or revolutionary. I think the only thing he may have done differently than this advertising agency is to have each node connect to the other nodes using Tor.
I don't see how what you said and what I said are different. I was disagreeing with what the parent said: that the organization was disbanded. It was not, it was reorganized and the name was changed. The main point I wanted to make is that its the same people. You can call it whatever you like, and you can divide it into as many "separate" departments as you like, but its still the same animal. When was the last time you lived in Russia?
Disbanded? Hardly. It's alive and well, it just changed its name to Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB) from Komitet Gosudartvennoi Bezopastnosti (KGB). HQ is the exact same building (Lubyanka), which by the way is the tallest building in Moscow (because you can see Siberia from the basement). It has all the same people working for it that worked for the KGB.
However, they are probably not the group in the government that would be reading your email. That group is the Russian Federal Service for Mass Media, Telecommunications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrankultura).
Ever. Don't. If you think its a good idea, or you can clear your name or help them figure things out. You can't. Your case is basically finished and you're screwed when you talk to them for any reason without a lawyer present. If you don't understand why, please watch this video.
Perhaps its because Facebook doesn't run secret prisons in Poland and Romania?
If you think you have nothing to hide. Think again. If I had access to all of your phone conversations and emails as the NSA does, I'm sure that I can find something that I can use to blackmail you. Therefore, you do actually have something to hide.
The decline of slashdot continues. Dice is basically cashing in on what small shred of credibility that the site had left.
Torrent has been the only way that I've downloaded FreeBSD ISOs when they're released for at least 5 years. It is lightening fast compared to even the fastest HTTP or FTP mirror.
You clearly did not read the article. You are saying that it is possible to make good estimates by using the methods you spelled out. The article is saying that it is not possible to make estimates, and that the solution is to not make estimates at all, but to follow Agile software development.
Everyone beat me to the Jigawatt joke.....
Interesting points. The problem of bad software becoming entrenched is definitely a problem in more fields than this. Perhaps the only way to loosen the cruft is to modify the laws governing the software to make the poorly written ones non-compliant?
Perhaps you are correct. Lets back away from that solution a little bit. How about a full non-profit organization that produces medical software? Or, a government agency tasked with writing medical software?
Do any of you think it would be feasible to start a company that makes FOSS medical software for doctors' offices? I imagine that what an office needs isn't very different from office to office. The company would earn its money long-term providing support for the software. It would also need to be compliant with HIPAA and all other regulations.
If that's where they're trying to block, I hope people start putting up more bridge nodes. According to recent news, there is a growing shortage of bridge nodes.
I think you and the others misread what I wrote (I just reread it, and it seems clear to me, but whatever). A Tor user in Japan's traffic from their computer to the next inside the Tor network cannot be blocked easily.
What I said was that the traffic from the exit nodes to the destination address can be easily blocked. The article was talking about preventing anonymous posts being made to Japanese web forums. If they block traffic from all exit nodes, posts made directly from these exit nodes would be blocked as long as the forum is hosted in Japan.
Day after day the number of comments on stories on slashdot number around 200-300 for popular stories and the rest barely break 100. I think we're seeing the end of days for slashdot. Nothing on the internet dies quickly, so the site will slowly continue to decay over the next few years until even the people who maintain the site stop bothering to even do that.
Notorious criminals behave like someone is watching them most of the time, I would imagine.
The solution to this problem is to setup an group of I2P outproxies inside of Japan's networks. It will take some time for Japan to catch up to current technologies, if they're only getting around to targeting Tor as late as now.
Also, is Japan trying to copy China, or something?
They can still block any traffic from the exit nodes. All the ISPs in Japan can null route all traffic from Tor exit node IP addresses. The list of addresses is published by Tor so people can do just this (it's not meant for the ISP level, rather, they publish it so people can block Tor from message boards and such). This would prevent all Tor traffic from entering Japan's networks directly
Using a proxy immediately after Tor would be the only solution to this, but even this could be blocked since lists of public open proxies are maintained in a number of locations such as XRoxy.
The police actually hide the surveillance cameras in your country?
Fascinating.
My concern is not what it looks like at all. When I made the switch from dumb phone to smart phone, I didn't want something larger than my old phone taking up too much room in my pocket. The Aria was slightly larger than what I wanted at the time, but in hindsight, it was the best choice. Now there are barely any alternatives to having a phone that barely fits in one's pocket.
I keep looking up Chinese and Japanese Android phones and hoping that some of those companies will start selling their phones in the US.
Make phones that are the size of the HTC Aria/Liberty/Intruder!!!! Then we'll talk. Everything larger than that size is horrible and unwieldy. There is no technical reason why smartphones are so bulky.
Arch minimal install? Ubuntu server?