Except that isn't true. Various jurisdictions in Europe have problematical laws and positions regarding free speech on the internet that you haven't touched on.
Some examples include abusive libel laws, especially in GB, and lese-majesty laws still in force in Norway, Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands.
I'm and in the Netherlands and IANAL, but you can say just about everything here about the Royal family. For example, in this clip you see a Dutch comedian make jokes about how he fucked the Queen in her ass and ordered her to get some beer afterwards. This show has been shown in theaters around the country and was broad casted on national tax-paid tv.
Does China, or Russia, or the EU have to use the same internet and the same addressing? No. Look at IPV6; Everyone stateside uses IPV4, China uses IPV6, and boy do they love that Mac-address-as-part-of-the-IP-so-we-can-track-everything gig that Network engineers are popping a massive W-T-F due to security issues it introduces.
Every OS today supports temporary IPv6 addresses, which are random and not linked with MAC address or whatever. Stop spreading this FUD. Also, USA uses IPv4 and China uses IPv6... Really? Anyway, both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are administered by IANA, part of ICANN.
For all the money games bankers play here, America is still a leader in innovation because we don't treat even our lowliest citizens like cheap, animal slave labor.
And who exactly makes all these nice, cheap clothes you buy at Walmart? If you call outsourcing slavery innovation, yes, you are right.
Decentralization is key to the survival of internet. But right now DNS and IP addresses need centralization and it seems pretty complicated to decentralize it.
Everyday the USA is becoming more like all the evil countries it once used to fight. The USA have good marketing and they get the most out of the freedom loving brand, but people are seeing through all the propaganda and notice that what the USA says is not the same as USA does. Russia and China are the same as the USA, but without the history of the brand name and without the sophisticated marketing skills.
USA is like Disney. They look all fun, friendly and cute, but all they want is to control you and take your money.
Lately it seems that every government is trying to control the internet. So whoever is going to control the internet, it must not be a government or organization of governments. Or a commercial corporation. I vote for a non-profit organization consisting of different people from different countries who understand technology. This is basically what ICANN is, but without the US Government controlling it. Let's move ICANN's office from California to Switzerland or something.
The United States also have become the country that dropped 13 places on the 2014 World Press Freedom Index and is now on the 46th place. Pretty low for the land of the free.
The OpenStreetMap people are trying to fix problems that don't actually exist.
Google Maps: Google decides what is displayed on the map. Google owns the data. We can't do anything with the data. OSM: You and me decide what is displayed on the map. We own the data. We can do whatever we want with the data.
I'm sorry if you can't see the disadvantage of having your life (Google Maps, Google Search, Google Books, Google Mail, Andoid, Chrome...) owned by some company whose only interest it is to please shareholders. I'm sorry if you cannot appreciate freedom.
Just wondering.. shouldn't the firewall do what you want and not the other way around? Letting all services use port 80 seems like a hack to avoid configuring the firewall. In the end the only control you have is open port 80 and let everything through or close it and let nothing through.
Ask your ISP how that IPv6 roll out is coming along. IPv6 means no more NAT.
And not having to deal with a firewall is a feature? It means you have a firewall, but you don't know how to use it and some random software can magically bypass it. Doesn't sound good.
With IPv6 you only have to remember/use one IP address. With IPv4 you will have to remember/use two, your external AND internal IP address. And like you say, with IPv4 you have to forward it AND make a firewall rule, while with IPv6 you only to deal with the firewall rule. Easier and less error prone.
I don't want to be dependent on some 3rd party software-as-a-service anymore. I still rely on google for my calendar too, but since I run my own server, I plan to move away and host it myself.
These nice (free) services... - can be changed or terminated at will - own your data, which can be sold or stolen (by thieves, which include governments) - can be unreachable due to outages
I hope hosting your own stuff will soon be feasible for non-geeks too. Most people already have a fixed broadband connection and one or more computers in their house. We only need some easy to setup and maintain software package (email, calendar, filesharing, chat, etc).
Wouldn't it be nice if we rolled out IPv6 years ago, so we would not have to deal with NAT and port forwarding today? Instead we would just have all machines in our home/office reachable directly from anywhere (through a firewall of course). And you could set up a nice DNS scheme if can't remember your IP addresses, like livingroom.myhouse.org, kitchen.myhouse.org, mydesk.myoffice.com, etc).
The simple fact is that Google, yet again, took something that was well-thought-out, and was well liked and oft used by their users, and messed it up.
This is why we need OpenStreetMap. It means we, users, are in control. The data is already there. We just need some easy to use smart search functionality.
I am a professional pentester, coincidentally from the same city as this kid.
What he did is illegal under current law. He will probably get off after a court hearing but in this case no one should be rushing to his defense
Maybe the law is wrong. We need people "who break the law" just like we need whistle blowers. As a professional pentester you probably know you are only hired by the top 0.01% the companies who have a website which should be secure. The rest doesn't realize or doesn't care about any potential security problems they have and therefor will not think of hiring a professional pentester. So (non-professional) white hat hackers are doing us a favor and need protection from the law.
It's simple: the NSA is actually a covert operation of the Chinese PLA which in turn is a CIA operation. And Obama is a spy for the German secret service.
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Can you please specify what it is that must be paid for and how much it is?
Except that isn't true. Various jurisdictions in Europe have problematical laws and positions regarding free speech on the internet that you haven't touched on.
World press freedom index 2014 (17 European countries in the top 20, USA is at 46th)
Some examples include abusive libel laws, especially in GB, and lese-majesty laws still in force in Norway, Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands.
I'm and in the Netherlands and IANAL, but you can say just about everything here about the Royal family. For example, in this clip you see a Dutch comedian make jokes about how he fucked the Queen in her ass and ordered her to get some beer afterwards. This show has been shown in theaters around the country and was broad casted on national tax-paid tv.
Does China, or Russia, or the EU have to use the same internet and the same addressing? No. Look at IPV6; Everyone stateside uses IPV4, China uses IPV6, and boy do they love that Mac-address-as-part-of-the-IP-so-we-can-track-everything gig that Network engineers are popping a massive W-T-F due to security issues it introduces.
Every OS today supports temporary IPv6 addresses, which are random and not linked with MAC address or whatever. Stop spreading this FUD. Also, USA uses IPv4 and China uses IPv6... Really? Anyway, both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are administered by IANA, part of ICANN.
For all the money games bankers play here, America is still a leader in innovation because we don't treat even our lowliest citizens like cheap, animal slave labor.
And who exactly makes all these nice, cheap clothes you buy at Walmart? If you call outsourcing slavery innovation, yes, you are right.
We have IETF and W3. Both are not government-related and they are not based in a single country. I guess we can do something similar with ICANN?
Decentralization is key to the survival of internet. But right now DNS and IP addresses need centralization and it seems pretty complicated to decentralize it.
Everyday the USA is becoming more like all the evil countries it once used to fight. The USA have good marketing and they get the most out of the freedom loving brand, but people are seeing through all the propaganda and notice that what the USA says is not the same as USA does. Russia and China are the same as the USA, but without the history of the brand name and without the sophisticated marketing skills.
USA is like Disney. They look all fun, friendly and cute, but all they want is to control you and take your money.
Lately it seems that every government is trying to control the internet. So whoever is going to control the internet, it must not be a government or organization of governments. Or a commercial corporation. I vote for a non-profit organization consisting of different people from different countries who understand technology. This is basically what ICANN is, but without the US Government controlling it. Let's move ICANN's office from California to Switzerland or something.
US is not perfect and it's not getting better: Biggest rises and falls in the 2014 World Press Freedom Index.
804 km in any direction in the Netherlands would be a different country.
Doubt it. What makes you say that?
The United States also have become the country that dropped 13 places on the 2014 World Press Freedom Index and is now on the 46th place. Pretty low for the land of the free.
The OpenStreetMap people are trying to fix problems that don't actually exist.
Google Maps: Google decides what is displayed on the map. Google owns the data. We can't do anything with the data.
OSM: You and me decide what is displayed on the map. We own the data. We can do whatever we want with the data.
I'm sorry if you can't see the disadvantage of having your life (Google Maps, Google Search, Google Books, Google Mail, Andoid, Chrome...) owned by some company whose only interest it is to please shareholders. I'm sorry if you cannot appreciate freedom.
Just wondering.. shouldn't the firewall do what you want and not the other way around? Letting all services use port 80 seems like a hack to avoid configuring the firewall. In the end the only control you have is open port 80 and let everything through or close it and let nothing through.
Ask your ISP how that IPv6 roll out is coming along. IPv6 means no more NAT.
And not having to deal with a firewall is a feature? It means you have a firewall, but you don't know how to use it and some random software can magically bypass it. Doesn't sound good.
With IPv6 you only have to remember/use one IP address. With IPv4 you will have to remember/use two, your external AND internal IP address. And like you say, with IPv4 you have to forward it AND make a firewall rule, while with IPv6 you only to deal with the firewall rule. Easier and less error prone.
To get through NAT ...
Some people wonder why we need IPv6. Well, this is a good reason.
I don't want to be dependent on some 3rd party software-as-a-service anymore. I still rely on google for my calendar too, but since I run my own server, I plan to move away and host it myself.
These nice (free) services...
- can be changed or terminated at will
- own your data, which can be sold or stolen (by thieves, which include governments)
- can be unreachable due to outages
I hope hosting your own stuff will soon be feasible for non-geeks too. Most people already have a fixed broadband connection and one or more computers in their house. We only need some easy to setup and maintain software package (email, calendar, filesharing, chat, etc).
Wouldn't it be nice if we rolled out IPv6 years ago, so we would not have to deal with NAT and port forwarding today?
Instead we would just have all machines in our home/office reachable directly from anywhere (through a firewall of course). And you could set up a nice DNS scheme if can't remember your IP addresses, like livingroom.myhouse.org, kitchen.myhouse.org, mydesk.myoffice.com, etc).
Obviously he's a secret agent for the Chinese to make sure the encryption doesn't get too good.
I always use GPG for my text messages, but I have to admit you run out of characters quick!
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG
jA0EAwMCHi4vgbczL9pgyRn1G5qRUfjPcL9a+DNn2ReEsGOD+f8EIMyth2os
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
The simple fact is that Google, yet again, took something that was well-thought-out, and was well liked and oft used by their users, and messed it up.
This is why we need OpenStreetMap. It means we, users, are in control. The data is already there. We just need some easy to use smart search functionality.
Did he do anything bad? I mean ethically, I don't mean according to the law?
I am a professional pentester, coincidentally from the same city as this kid.
What he did is illegal under current law. He will probably get off after a court hearing but in this case no one should be rushing to his defense
Maybe the law is wrong. We need people "who break the law" just like we need whistle blowers. As a professional pentester you probably know you are only hired by the top 0.01% the companies who have a website which should be secure. The rest doesn't realize or doesn't care about any potential security problems they have and therefor will not think of hiring a professional pentester. So (non-professional) white hat hackers are doing us a favor and need protection from the law.
Or in Tamagotchis or in SD-card controllers.
It's simple: the NSA is actually a covert operation of the Chinese PLA which in turn is a CIA operation. And Obama is a spy for the German secret service.