It's no secret that a LOT of Kickstarters go bad, sometimes by design (deliberate pre-planned fraud) and sometimes through mismanagement and/or incompetency.
Hard to tell which category this episode falls into, maybe both. It might not have started out as deliberate fraud but it quickly morphed into it.
It's amazing to me that there are so many ways to nail a phone with malware or spy on it or do something malicious to it or with it.
You'd have thought that eventually they'd run out of new vulnerabilities to find, but damn, it's just like a never-ending shitstorm of exploit after exploit after exploit that never seems to stop.
Yes, these are complex devices with a large attack surface (obviously, lol) but still, it's incredible that new exploits or holes or flaws are found almost every single day.
I didn't misquote you, you're simply lying. If I weren't, it would be trivial for you to post a link. You can't because you're making it up.
I don't need to post a link since it's in the thread and everybody saw it.:)
You got caught misquoting me and making shit up and, like Trump is so fond of doing, you're trying to claim that's not what you said. I's too late for that.
Yes, and I'd win every time. That's because the evidence doesn't support your position.
I find it illuminating that you wouldn't or couldn't refute a single one of my points. You thought you'd buffalo everybody here with your reference to Tacitus, but when that blew up in your face suddenly it's, "dueling scholars" and "the moon landing was faked".
Yes, if they were running through a large list of IPs and taking some simple steps to avoid tracking (constantly clearing cookies, varying the user agent string, etc) they could get away with it.
I've done a few scrape jobs in my time, it's not all that hard. You can slow it down the scraper down little (maybe) but you can't stop it without some kind of ridiculously restrictive controls (the kind that would also hamper real users).
You could probably get this page-scraping job done on Amazon's Mechanical Turk for not too much money, or pay a couple of coders to whip up some scripts at a reasonable price.
No, that anyone that *twitter* labels a troll should be. It's their fucking site, they can do what they want,
Yes, they can do what they want, I just hope they do it fairly and impartially. From some of what I've seen, that's not the case. But they certainly do have the right to enforce whatever rules of play they want.
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and personally I think it's a good move to have rules about not dropping turds all over their property.
Right, until you somehow run afoul of their unpublished policies on what exactly constitutes "harassment" or "hate speech" or whatever they want to call it.
I'm all for hampering trolls and making life tough for them, not allowing them to ruin a site, or wrecking the tone and alienating users. Trolls suck and should not be allowed to wreck the joint, so to speak.
The problem is that all too often these kinds of anti-harassment rules end up being used as a sword instead of a shield. And they're often wielded based on a personal agenda rather than some sort of objective scale or guidelines.
They should have used stopforumspam or botscout or at least throttled their bandwidth for excessive page requests.
No human reads 50 LinkedIn profiles a minute, FFS. Throttling the bandwidth would have been the simplest solution, something like bw_share would do it.
You know what this means? It means you should have read the licensing provisions before you started your project. It's not like they were a secret, they're included in every bit of software that falls under the GPL.
Hah, just kidding. You almost had me, right up until the part where you started gushing about Microsoft's "Shared Source" licensing. That was a bit much and you gave yourself away.
"In unrelated news, the University of Michigan and the University of Colorado Boulder both came under devastating, high-volume DDOS attacks of unprecedented severity, crippling both campuses and causing widespread outages. The attack shows no sign of slowing. Ever."
Publishing this statement now permits Tor to stop publishing this statement as soon as they are forced to backdoor their service.
Good point. I have some "canary" pages on some of a few of my sites that state stuff to the effect that I have never received any National Security Letters, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders, subpoenas, etc etc.
No pics needed, just back up in the thread to where you start shooting off your mouth and you can see for yourself where you lied. And so can everyone else for that matter.
You got caught misquoting me and making shit up and now you're trying to distract from it, but it's too late, serviscope_minor- now everyone here knows you're dishonest and full of shit.
Please study some actual sources, particularly Tacitus,
Tacitus? Holy shit, maybe you should do some basic research before embarrassing yourself in public.
First of all, Tacitus wasn't even born until 25 years after Jesus' death. He could not possibly have known Jesus, met him, or heard him speak. Never even saw his dead body. All of Tacitus' writings were made up long after Jesus' supposed existence and were also in part cribbed from later works.
For example, Tacitus wrote this: "Nero looked around for a scapegoat, and inflicted the most fiendish tortures on a group of persons already hated for their crimes. This was the sect known as Christians."
Except that the term 'Christian' was never in use during the reign of Nero and there would not have been 'a great crowd' unless we are speaking of Jews, not Christians. Whoops.
The entire "torched Christians" passage of Tacitus is not only fake, it has been repeatedly "worked over" by fraudsters to improve its value as evidence for the Jesus myth. No Christian apologist for centuries ever quoted the passage of Tacitus – not in fact, until it had appeared almost word-for-word in the writings of Sulpicius Severus, in the early fifth century, where it is mixed in with other myths. Whoops again.
In short, the passage in Tacitus is an absolute, well-documented fraud and adds no evidence for a historic Jesus.
Even conservative writers such as James Still have problems with the authenticity of the Tacitus passage: For one, Tacitus was an imperial writer, and no imperial document would ever refer to Jesus as "Christ." Also, Pilate was not a "procurator" but a prefect, which Tacitus would have known.
And before you start quoting Josephus, understand that Josephus is now very well-known to be an utter fake. Virtually every theologian agrees that it's bogus from start to finish. Not a single writer before the 4th century – not Justin, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Cyprian, Arnobius, etc. – in all their defenses against pagan hostility, makes even a single reference to Josephus’ wondrous words.
Be honest- you're afraid of looking like a fool because you believed all this shit for so long. But it's not entirely your fault. People you trusted and looked up to lied to you, and they may have even believed it themselves....because people they trusted and looked up to lied to them. And so on.
But there's no proof whatsoever that Jesus ever existed, and the reason for that is simple: it's because he never existed.
as crucial to living in the modern world as power and water
Ummm, look, I like the internet, I like it a lot. I'm a huge fan of the internet, honest, a really huge fan. And it's super useful and it makes life better. I got nothin' bad to say about the internet.
But get a grip, dude- it's not as crucial as power and water.
Internet, power, and water: pick one of them to not have in your home.
His response was to make allusions and inferences to supposed historical proof of his existence in Judea at that time.
Yeah, "allusions". I could make allusions supporting the idea that Winnie the Pooh was alive and preaching in Judea at the that time. Allusions are worthless in most historical contexts unless they're supported with some sort of corroborating evidence.
Like I said, there's not a single writing, carving, sculpture, poem, painting, drawing, or mention of Jesus at all from the time in which he supposedly lived. For a guy that healed the sick, walked on water, and came back from the dead, you'd think somebody would have made note of that. But there's nothing.
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It would be interesting to hear what the guy who wrote "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" thinks about this.
The people that believe in the Jesus story usually won't change their mind because they don't want to admit that they were wrong, or that they had been lied to from an early age by people they trusted.
They don't want to feel silly or embarrassed that they believed in a lie their whole life (who does?), so naturally they're resistant to accepting that it's all baloney. For a lot of them it's not directly their fault that they believed the story. It is, however, directly their fault that they don't stop believing in it once they're shown evidence to the contrary.
one thing you might go for right away is getting rid of that crazy big hole in the top that by its very nature of design is all about exposed metal contacts
Waterproofing a headphone jack is trivial. I've done it myself to a variety of consumer gear- there's nothing to it, really.
Yes, water may get inside the jack itself, but if the jack is sealed properly there's nowhere for the water to go. Shake it out or blow it out and you're back in business. In most cases residual water in the jack won't even affect the connectivity once a plug is inserted. The metal-to-metal contact area forces water out of the way and the connection works just fine.
On August 9, Facebook announced that it had defeated adblockers; on August 11, Adblock Plus announced that it had defeated Facebook.
ABP's Ben Williams explained that the countermeasure originated with the Adblock Plus community, one of whom wrote a filter extension that would disable Facebook ads without a hitch.
The question is, will Facebook really dedicate engineers to inserting features that its users are going to extraordinary lengths to defeat, or will they try to woo, cajole, or trick their users into disabling their adblockers?
To circumvent ad blockers in the first place, Facebook removed code that explicitly identified ads, making them appear more like regular Facebook posts (it was a behind-the-scenes change; users still saw a "sponsored" disclosure). But apparently it didn't go far enough. Williams tells The Verge that beating the system again "was just a matter of finding the non-standard indicators they began using" and then filtering them out. But he added, "I would stress, though, that this is a cat-and-mouse game; so their next circumvention might come at any time."
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It's no secret that a LOT of Kickstarters go bad, sometimes by design (deliberate pre-planned fraud) and sometimes through mismanagement and/or incompetency.
Hard to tell which category this episode falls into, maybe both. It might not have started out as deliberate fraud but it quickly morphed into it.
It's amazing to me that there are so many ways to nail a phone with malware or spy on it or do something malicious to it or with it.
You'd have thought that eventually they'd run out of new vulnerabilities to find, but damn, it's just like a never-ending shitstorm of exploit after exploit after exploit that never seems to stop.
Yes, these are complex devices with a large attack surface (obviously, lol) but still, it's incredible that new exploits or holes or flaws are found almost every single day.
Disabling domain devolution is not necessary and will break short-name resolution on domain joined machines where NetBIOS and WINS are disabled.
Thank you for pointing that out. (I'm not using a domain-joined PC myself but I'm sure lots of other people here are.)
This should work for most users:
1. Uncheck “Automatically detect settings” of Local Area Network (LAN) Settings in Internet Options.
2. Disable the service “WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service” in Services.
3. Disable devolution by setting UseDomainNameDevolution value under the following registry entry to 0 (FALSE):
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
I didn't misquote you, you're simply lying. If I weren't, it would be trivial for you to post a link. You can't because you're making it up.
I don't need to post a link since it's in the thread and everybody saw it. :)
You got caught misquoting me and making shit up and, like Trump is so fond of doing, you're trying to claim that's not what you said. I's too late for that.
Sigh... we could play "dueling scholars" all day.
Yes, and I'd win every time. That's because the evidence doesn't support your position.
I find it illuminating that you wouldn't or couldn't refute a single one of my points. You thought you'd buffalo everybody here with your reference to Tacitus, but when that blew up in your face suddenly it's, "dueling scholars" and "the moon landing was faked".
Thanks for playing, better luck next time.
The bots are circumventing their throttling.
Yes, if they were running through a large list of IPs and taking some simple steps to avoid tracking (constantly clearing cookies, varying the user agent string, etc) they could get away with it.
I've done a few scrape jobs in my time, it's not all that hard. You can slow it down the scraper down little (maybe) but you can't stop it without some kind of ridiculously restrictive controls (the kind that would also hamper real users).
You could probably get this page-scraping job done on Amazon's Mechanical Turk for not too much money, or pay a couple of coders to whip up some scripts at a reasonable price.
No, that anyone that *twitter* labels a troll should be. It's their fucking site, they can do what they want,
Yes, they can do what they want, I just hope they do it fairly and impartially. From some of what I've seen, that's not the case. But they certainly do have the right to enforce whatever rules of play they want.
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and personally I think it's a good move to have rules about not dropping turds all over their property.
Right, until you somehow run afoul of their unpublished policies on what exactly constitutes "harassment" or "hate speech" or whatever they want to call it.
I'm all for hampering trolls and making life tough for them, not allowing them to ruin a site, or wrecking the tone and alienating users. Trolls suck and should not be allowed to wreck the joint, so to speak.
The problem is that all too often these kinds of anti-harassment rules end up being used as a sword instead of a shield. And they're often wielded based on a personal agenda rather than some sort of objective scale or guidelines.
I don't have a LinkedIn account and it hasn't hampered me.
They should have used stopforumspam or botscout or at least throttled their bandwidth for excessive page requests.
No human reads 50 LinkedIn profiles a minute, FFS. Throttling the bandwidth would have been the simplest solution, something like bw_share would do it.
Is there a clause in the terms saying "you can read our shit, but don't read lots of it too fast"?
Exactly. Page scraping isn't illegal (yet).
If you put stuff out there for the public to consume, expect it to be consumed, just not necessarily in the way you intended.
You know what this means? It means you should have read the licensing provisions before you started your project. It's not like they were a secret, they're included in every bit of software that falls under the GPL.
Hah, just kidding. You almost had me, right up until the part where you started gushing about Microsoft's "Shared Source" licensing. That was a bit much and you gave yourself away.
Nice troll, though. 7 out of 10 for the effort.
"In unrelated news, the University of Michigan and the University of Colorado Boulder both came under devastating, high-volume DDOS attacks of unprecedented severity, crippling both campuses and causing widespread outages. The attack shows no sign of slowing. Ever."
Updated correction:
"...two assholes, a grad student from the University of Michigan and a junior faculty member from the University of Colorado Boulder..."
Publishing this statement now permits Tor to stop publishing this statement as soon as they are forced to backdoor their service.
Good point. I have some "canary" pages on some of a few of my sites that state stuff to the effect that I have never received any National Security Letters, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders, subpoenas, etc etc.
If I did/do, they'd go away.
"Microsoft is in the early stages of making structural improvements ..."
In other words, "adding more telemetry and ads..."
"...two researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder..."
Correction:
"two assholes from the University of Colorado Boulder..."
Pics or it didn't happen.
No pics needed, just back up in the thread to where you start shooting off your mouth and you can see for yourself where you lied. And so can everyone else for that matter.
You got caught misquoting me and making shit up and now you're trying to distract from it, but it's too late, serviscope_minor- now everyone here knows you're dishonest and full of shit.
Please study some actual sources, particularly Tacitus,
Tacitus? Holy shit, maybe you should do some basic research before embarrassing yourself in public.
First of all, Tacitus wasn't even born until 25 years after Jesus' death. He could not possibly have known Jesus, met him, or heard him speak. Never even saw his dead body. All of Tacitus' writings were made up long after Jesus' supposed existence and were also in part cribbed from later works.
For example, Tacitus wrote this: "Nero looked around for a scapegoat, and inflicted the most fiendish tortures on a group of persons already hated for their crimes. This was the sect known as Christians."
Except that the term 'Christian' was never in use during the reign of Nero and there would not have been 'a great crowd' unless we are speaking of Jews, not Christians. Whoops.
The entire "torched Christians" passage of Tacitus is not only fake, it has been repeatedly "worked over" by fraudsters to improve its value as evidence for the Jesus myth. No Christian apologist for centuries ever quoted the passage of Tacitus – not in fact, until it had appeared almost word-for-word in the writings of Sulpicius Severus, in the early fifth century, where it is mixed in with other myths. Whoops again.
In short, the passage in Tacitus is an absolute, well-documented fraud and adds no evidence for a historic Jesus.
Even conservative writers such as James Still have problems with the authenticity of the Tacitus passage: For one, Tacitus was an imperial writer, and no imperial document would ever refer to Jesus as "Christ." Also, Pilate was not a "procurator" but a prefect, which Tacitus would have known.
And before you start quoting Josephus, understand that Josephus is now very well-known to be an utter fake. Virtually every theologian agrees that it's bogus from start to finish. Not a single writer before the 4th century – not Justin, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Cyprian, Arnobius, etc. – in all their defenses against pagan hostility, makes even a single reference to Josephus’ wondrous words.
Be honest- you're afraid of looking like a fool because you believed all this shit for so long. But it's not entirely your fault. People you trusted and looked up to lied to you, and they may have even believed it themselves....because people they trusted and looked up to lied to them. And so on.
But there's no proof whatsoever that Jesus ever existed, and the reason for that is simple: it's because he never existed.
as crucial to living in the modern world as power and water
Ummm, look, I like the internet, I like it a lot. I'm a huge fan of the internet, honest, a really huge fan. And it's super useful and it makes life better. I got nothin' bad to say about the internet.
But get a grip, dude- it's not as crucial as power and water.
Internet, power, and water: pick one of them to not have in your home.
...and some popcorn.
On second thought, there isn't enough popcorn in the world to cover this level of chutzpah.
This sounds like Hail Mary pass, make it or break it for Rightscorp. It looks like there are only two realistic outcomes:
1) They win big and are owed 50 gazillion kabillion bleptillion dollars (all the money on Earth times 2 plus infinity), or
2) The court will incinerate them down to the molecular level and what's left over could be cleaned up with a Dustbuster.
I'm betting on incineration.
His response was to make allusions and inferences to supposed historical proof of his existence in Judea at that time.
Yeah, "allusions". I could make allusions supporting the idea that Winnie the Pooh was alive and preaching in Judea at the that time. Allusions are worthless in most historical contexts unless they're supported with some sort of corroborating evidence.
Like I said, there's not a single writing, carving, sculpture, poem, painting, drawing, or mention of Jesus at all from the time in which he supposedly lived. For a guy that healed the sick, walked on water, and came back from the dead, you'd think somebody would have made note of that. But there's nothing.
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It would be interesting to hear what the guy who wrote "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" thinks about this.
The people that believe in the Jesus story usually won't change their mind because they don't want to admit that they were wrong, or that they had been lied to from an early age by people they trusted.
They don't want to feel silly or embarrassed that they believed in a lie their whole life (who does?), so naturally they're resistant to accepting that it's all baloney. For a lot of them it's not directly their fault that they believed the story. It is, however, directly their fault that they don't stop believing in it once they're shown evidence to the contrary.
one thing you might go for right away is getting rid of that crazy big hole in the top that by its very nature of design is all about exposed metal contacts
Waterproofing a headphone jack is trivial. I've done it myself to a variety of consumer gear- there's nothing to it, really.
Yes, water may get inside the jack itself, but if the jack is sealed properly there's nowhere for the water to go. Shake it out or blow it out and you're back in business. In most cases residual water in the jack won't even affect the connectivity once a plug is inserted. The metal-to-metal contact area forces water out of the way and the connection works just fine.
If you find a post where I quoted you incorrectly, I'll concede the point.
I already did that, and you didn't.
Face it, you got caught misquoting me and making shit up. Everyone here sees it as plain as day.
The more you try to "explain" what you meant and why you lied and misquoted me, the worse you look. :)
On August 9, Facebook announced that it had defeated adblockers; on August 11, Adblock Plus announced that it had defeated Facebook.
ABP's Ben Williams explained that the countermeasure originated with the Adblock Plus community, one of whom wrote a filter extension that would disable Facebook ads without a hitch.
The question is, will Facebook really dedicate engineers to inserting features that its users are going to extraordinary lengths to defeat, or will they try to woo, cajole, or trick their users into disabling their adblockers?
To circumvent ad blockers in the first place, Facebook removed code that explicitly identified ads, making them appear more like regular Facebook posts (it was a behind-the-scenes change; users still saw a "sponsored" disclosure). But apparently it didn't go far enough. Williams tells The Verge that beating the system again "was just a matter of finding the non-standard indicators they began using" and then filtering them out. But he added, "I would stress, though, that this is a cat-and-mouse game; so their next circumvention might come at any time."