You'll probably want to drop Sweden from the list; considering they're acting as the bagman for DC's efforts to get their hands on Julian Assange.
Please look at the facts before spouting (off topic) bullshit.
What facts? - The facts I know supports what SvnLyrBrto is saying.
Both Sweden and the UK are going above and beyond to get their hands on Julian Assange in connection with an insignificant charge of alleged rape of two women who both had consensual sex with him and later changed their minds. This screams bullshit, scam, and 'bad excuse' to get their hands on him, as none of these countries have ever made an effort like this to get at a real rapist - one of those that grab people on the street and rapes them - so it makes no sense not to just have a warrant issued at Interpol and then have him arrested the next time he crosses a border.
No, the UK police actually sits 24/7 outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London waiting for him to leave the building, and have done so for years now, and the Swedish police insists that they want to question him on Swedish ground, not using a video link or face to face at the embassy where he stays. This also makes no sense and is totally out of character. People appear in Swedish courts using video feeds from hospital beds and similar all the time, and they travel often to interview witnesses or similar outside Sweden. Even mass murderers get less attention than Julian Assange.
Most cars I've seen here in Denmark (in Europe for those with impaired geography skills) use only one key, from the old purely mechanical keys to the new ones with various electronics added.
1) Your girlfriend sends you naked pics and later you break up.
2) You break up and then you hack into her accounts and steal naked pics.
In the first you actually have the right to share the pics she sent to you. In the second it's obvious the pics are stolen property and you have no rights to them at all.
As long as we don't have to pay for the same product again and again and again... Today we pay when a movie hits the cinemas, then again when it hits pay-per-view movie channels, then again via advertising when it hits the general networks and then again when the DVD or blu-ray is out so we finally can take it home to view when we please... That's just insane.
It should be possible even at the very first premiere of a movie to decide not to go to the cinema and just take the movie home right away on blu-ray. The waiting (and exclusion) game is exactly what created the piracy culture.
But of course all parties should have equal access to the recording which hopefully includes audio so defamatory speech on both sides can be prosecuted.
The cameras should run continuously and the footage stored and handled by an independent third party. This way it can be trusted and used in court.
Nobody's using that crappy interface anyway. I use Windows 8.1 myself and it's fairly easy to completely hide almost all elements of that awful thing and stay completely in the classic desktop environment. With the addition of Start 8 you can have the START button back and disable all those useless 'charms' (stupid name too) and other 'modern' crap.
The classic Firefox works just fine on the desktop where it belongs, as do the other browsers by the way.
The idea might seem good until you realize that unless you have an army of thousands you cannot possibly manage to ask everyone in a wide shot for permissions and in wide shots it's hard to recognize anyone anyway... And if you take it literary a picture from inside a restaurant might include a window and people outside, including people in cars driving by... Good luck obtaining permission from them.
No it will try them in the order listed until it gets a 'response'; I think if it gets a response like SRVFAIL it will also continue trying the remaining servers, but if gets a incorrect NXDOMAIN it will trust that value and not try the remaining servers.
Not correct. It will trust the response if the Auth-flag is set. According to RFC1035 the Auth-flag must not be set with a NXDOMAIN response, but bind and others allow this to be configured.
If you get a 404 not found, then you aren't having a DNS problem.
That is actually false - very much so actually.
Let's say you want to access http://www.site.com/page and someone messes with the DNS and redirects the domain elsewhere where only a rudimentary webserver exists, one without the/page you requested. This will return a 404 and it is due to the altered DNS.
There is of course many other possible reasons for a 404, from the obvious removed page, over misconfigured webservers (wrong virtualhost answering, mod_rewrite errors, cache issues etc.) to proxy issues at both ends of the connection.
I did that when a stupid court here in Denmark decided that our constitution and its absolute ban on censorship ("Grundloven", paragraph 77 to be precise) was less important than commercial interests and ordered ISP to set up DNS-bans on first allofmp3.com, then The Pirate Bay and most recently sites selling pharmaceuticals from danish language shops located outside Denmark.
Not that I use any of these sites but when you start messing with stuff like this, it's far too easy to slide further down the slippery slope and remap other sites and similar. There's a reason the founders included a ban on censorship! - It's just too bad that modern courts seem to ignore the constitution when they issue rulings.
It is simply unbelievable that the myth of sex being dangerous to children still persists!
The reality is, that if the children are too young, they neither understand nor care about sexual imagery in any form. If they're old enough, they're probably already seeking it out on their own. Massive studies in countries where hardcore porn has been available in shop windows and magazine racks in supermarkets for decades have shown that is has almost no effect what so ever on children and young adults - the only possible related effect seems to be a decrease in teenage pregnancy but it can be completely unrelated.
I think the danger posed by children having access to sexual imagery is that it can help de-tabuify sex, in particular the deviations that can scare teenagers into various closets. They need to find - as early as possible - that they're not alone. If they are able to look it up, they'll find that there are many others with the same kinks and desires as themselves, and they'll be able to find a local group where they can enjoy being like everybody else and feel normal.
Unfortunately almost all religions insists on strictly regulating everything relating to sex, and especially children and sex. The fact is that most people (both sexes) will tell you that their first sexual fantasy occurred as early as in in their preteens and the natural curiosity about this usually led them to seek out books and pictures, but for perhaps all their teens, access was hard, especially if the taste deviated from the mainstream. Even harder was access to knowledge about their brand of sex and sexual shame - a mainstay of many religions - can become fuel for runaway perversions and lay the foundation of abuse of the next generation.
The best solution is of course to rid of all the religious junk thought and to move on with a life of knowledge and reason, free from the scourge of religion.
Don't be quite so complacent in what you think students CAN'T do, especially saying "far beyond what students can do". When I was 16 I was writing assembly language competently, if I were 16 now, I would be (successfully) finding ways to tunnel stuff through normal HTTP traffic via a machine outside the network (it's not hard, certainly easier than learning asm). In a school of any appreciable size you'll have at least one student with the capability to do this.
Ditto. I was also around 15-16 (1981-82) when a friend and I disassembled CP/M completely, removed some stuff we didn't need (mostly related to harddrives), added a simple switcher and turned it into a primitive multitasking system able to run two programs at once (plus some common stuff), all within the 64KB limit on a Z80 processor. So please don't assume anything about students abilities. If you do, they'll end up biting you in the ass - hard.
Much more interesting is the discussion on the whole 'perpetual felon' idea. In my book you are a felon while serving your punishment or on parole, but once your debt is paid, you're a free man and should have all the same rights as anyone else, which include the right to vote and the right to own firearms. Only exception to this rule should be sex offenders who should be registered and pedophiles should be banned from working with children and living near schools and similar child-dense areas.
The felon restrictions doesn't make sense in themselves. If you drive drunk and kill someone, you're still allowed to buy new cars and to re-acquire your drivers license, but a felon cannot own firearms or vote for life even when all they did were fraud, counterfeiting or similar non-violent while-collar crime.
Wow. Copyright on my appearance. So, the next time I commit a burglary, and some surveillance cameras actually record me in the act, I can claim copyright on my appearance to have the evidence quashed. Sounds good to me!
Except you were filmed committing a crime and while trespassing will make your rights null and void.
People filmed with hidden camera and the recording used for entertainment - this requires a signed release from all recognizable persons, and is they don't have that, you can sue - and win big. This has happened several times and now nobody plays the odds and they all get the releases they need. Not always easy which is why you don't see that many hidden camera shows anymore.
Actually - and this is important - the movie offends Muslims but obviously not as primary intent. As it is historically accurate it primarily offends due to it revealing some pretty painful truths, and the fact that some Muslims takes offense to pictures of Muhammad. Both of these reasons are exactly why movies like this *must* be available out there. People needs to know about the pedophile prophet and we must erode and tear down the idea about Muhammad not being pictured. That's what the Danish cartoons did, or tried to do. But we must repeat and repeat until they get desensitized enough to just accept it because it is all part of an elaborate smoke screen designed to hide core aspects of the religion from public review and debate. They insist on calling it a religion of peace but the middle east have been at war for a thousand years because of it, and now several areas in Africa has followed into the pit of completely stupid ethnic wars over religion with Islam as the prominent primary aggressor.
Actually you're missing the point yourself. The idea behind the Streisand Effect is to circumvent censorship, and ordering the removal of all copies is clear-cut censorship regardless of the motivation behind the removal. As censorship always must be fought on every level and with every means, it is essential that we spread as many copies of this move as far as possible so it will be easy to find it.
Doesn't matter who the client is or what relationship there might be between that client and his so-called expert.
If it result is an argument, prove that the clients expert is an idiot and that he/she has wasted time and money for the client and possibly many others. You may still not get the client (or loose him/her) but you can be sure that idiot expert is also gonna be kicked out. You might even have lined yourself up to be the new expert which might be even better.
How can these ballasts cause disturbances outside the building? - The building itself will act as a partial shield (try getting a cell signal inside - can be next to impossible) and the basic emission cannot be that powerful.
I would think that Celine Dion or Justin Bieber would be much more effective at breaking the will of even the most stanchly determined Jihadists.
Ug, those are pretty bad. Skinny Puppy is great stuff, I don't see how it could be used for torture. It couldn't be that effective...
Actually several tracks on "Bites", "Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse" and "Cleanse Fold and Manipulate" were created specifically with subsonics to enhance the feeling of darkness, depression and dread. The ever popular "Assimilate" (from "Bites") is one of them.
"...manifestations of a sort, so insidious off the point, simple solution never confusion, sport a gun kill a cop. Crazy world of weary thought, so receive me had enough, lock me up, lock me up... [...]...Mutterings of death to bring, suffocate a newborn thing, degradation of an age, venereal it's all sensation, protect design the moral plan, infallible as propaganda, completely black, with no steps back..." (from "Assimilate")
Yup, I'm a long-time fan (of Skinny Puppy, not beta!)
Sure, people should be allowed to be anonymous, but it should never be okay to pose as someone else, fictive or real.
All real-looking accounts should be real, and a special type of accounts should be created for anonymous following of sensitive topics, commenting etc. This way you could have a personal account for family, old classmates etc and an anonymous account (personal of course) for all the sensitive stuff.
I predict masks will make an enormous debut in fashion...
There's already moves afoot to make masks illegal. Seems they're often used by protesters.
They're already banned in Denmark for instance. Doesn't prevent people from wearing them but if they do, the police need no other reason to arrest and detain.
I'm sorry but I don't subscribe to the right to be anonymous in public. If you live in a small town, everybody will know you anyway and I cannot see why it would be a problem to be recognized in larger cities too. I know this is a cliché but if you behave normally and have nothing to hide, why fear being recognized? - If you do have something to hide, I'd recommend a nice little cabin somewhere way off the grid in rural Montana... If it's good enough for the Unabomber, then it's good enough for you...;)
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You'll probably want to drop Sweden from the list; considering they're acting as the bagman for DC's efforts to get their hands on Julian Assange.
Please look at the facts before spouting (off topic) bullshit.
What facts? - The facts I know supports what SvnLyrBrto is saying.
Both Sweden and the UK are going above and beyond to get their hands on Julian Assange in connection with an insignificant charge of alleged rape of two women who both had consensual sex with him and later changed their minds. This screams bullshit, scam, and 'bad excuse' to get their hands on him, as none of these countries have ever made an effort like this to get at a real rapist - one of those that grab people on the street and rapes them - so it makes no sense not to just have a warrant issued at Interpol and then have him arrested the next time he crosses a border.
No, the UK police actually sits 24/7 outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London waiting for him to leave the building, and have done so for years now, and the Swedish police insists that they want to question him on Swedish ground, not using a video link or face to face at the embassy where he stays. This also makes no sense and is totally out of character. People appear in Swedish courts using video feeds from hospital beds and similar all the time, and they travel often to interview witnesses or similar outside Sweden. Even mass murderers get less attention than Julian Assange.
Most cars I've seen here in Denmark (in Europe for those with impaired geography skills) use only one key, from the old purely mechanical keys to the new ones with various electronics added.
1) Your girlfriend sends you naked pics and later you break up.
2) You break up and then you hack into her accounts and steal naked pics.
In the first you actually have the right to share the pics she sent to you.
In the second it's obvious the pics are stolen property and you have no rights to them at all.
The copyright belongs to the photographer not the "model".
Actually no. It is shared unless a signed contract says otherwise. Most models sign away their rights for money upfront.
It is actually a good thing if people are 'losing their religion'. It simply means they've started thinking for themselves and questioning things.
As long as we don't have to pay for the same product again and again and again... Today we pay when a movie hits the cinemas, then again when it hits pay-per-view movie channels, then again via advertising when it hits the general networks and then again when the DVD or blu-ray is out so we finally can take it home to view when we please... That's just insane.
It should be possible even at the very first premiere of a movie to decide not to go to the cinema and just take the movie home right away on blu-ray. The waiting (and exclusion) game is exactly what created the piracy culture.
But of course all parties should have equal access to the recording which hopefully includes audio so defamatory speech on both sides can be prosecuted.
The cameras should run continuously and the footage stored and handled by an independent third party. This way it can be trusted and used in court.
Nobody's using that crappy interface anyway. I use Windows 8.1 myself and it's fairly easy to completely hide almost all elements of that awful thing and stay completely in the classic desktop environment. With the addition of Start 8 you can have the START button back and disable all those useless 'charms' (stupid name too) and other 'modern' crap.
The classic Firefox works just fine on the desktop where it belongs, as do the other browsers by the way.
The idea might seem good until you realize that unless you have an army of thousands you cannot possibly manage to ask everyone in a wide shot for permissions and in wide shots it's hard to recognize anyone anyway... And if you take it literary a picture from inside a restaurant might include a window and people outside, including people in cars driving by... Good luck obtaining permission from them.
No it will try them in the order listed until it gets a 'response'; I think if it gets a response like SRVFAIL it will also continue trying the remaining servers, but if gets a incorrect NXDOMAIN it will trust that value and not try the remaining servers.
Not correct. It will trust the response if the Auth-flag is set. According to RFC1035 the Auth-flag must not be set with a NXDOMAIN response, but bind and others allow this to be configured.
If you get a 404 not found, then you aren't having a DNS problem.
That is actually false - very much so actually.
Let's say you want to access http://www.site.com/page and someone messes with the DNS and redirects the domain elsewhere where only a rudimentary webserver exists, one without the /page you requested. This will return a 404 and it is due to the altered DNS.
There is of course many other possible reasons for a 404, from the obvious removed page, over misconfigured webservers (wrong virtualhost answering, mod_rewrite errors, cache issues etc.) to proxy issues at both ends of the connection.
Stop using your ISP's DNS
Exactly.
I did that when a stupid court here in Denmark decided that our constitution and its absolute ban on censorship ("Grundloven", paragraph 77 to be precise) was less important than commercial interests and ordered ISP to set up DNS-bans on first allofmp3.com, then The Pirate Bay and most recently sites selling pharmaceuticals from danish language shops located outside Denmark.
Not that I use any of these sites but when you start messing with stuff like this, it's far too easy to slide further down the slippery slope and remap other sites and similar. There's a reason the founders included a ban on censorship! - It's just too bad that modern courts seem to ignore the constitution when they issue rulings.
It is simply unbelievable that the myth of sex being dangerous to children still persists!
The reality is, that if the children are too young, they neither understand nor care about sexual imagery in any form. If they're old enough, they're probably already seeking it out on their own. Massive studies in countries where hardcore porn has been available in shop windows and magazine racks in supermarkets for decades have shown that is has almost no effect what so ever on children and young adults - the only possible related effect seems to be a decrease in teenage pregnancy but it can be completely unrelated.
I think the danger posed by children having access to sexual imagery is that it can help de-tabuify sex, in particular the deviations that can scare teenagers into various closets. They need to find - as early as possible - that they're not alone. If they are able to look it up, they'll find that there are many others with the same kinks and desires as themselves, and they'll be able to find a local group where they can enjoy being like everybody else and feel normal.
Unfortunately almost all religions insists on strictly regulating everything relating to sex, and especially children and sex. The fact is that most people (both sexes) will tell you that their first sexual fantasy occurred as early as in in their preteens and the natural curiosity about this usually led them to seek out books and pictures, but for perhaps all their teens, access was hard, especially if the taste deviated from the mainstream. Even harder was access to knowledge about their brand of sex and sexual shame - a mainstay of many religions - can become fuel for runaway perversions and lay the foundation of abuse of the next generation.
The best solution is of course to rid of all the religious junk thought and to move on with a life of knowledge and reason, free from the scourge of religion.
Don't be quite so complacent in what you think students CAN'T do, especially saying "far beyond what students can do". When I was 16 I was writing assembly language competently, if I were 16 now, I would be (successfully) finding ways to tunnel stuff through normal HTTP traffic via a machine outside the network (it's not hard, certainly easier than learning asm). In a school of any appreciable size you'll have at least one student with the capability to do this.
Ditto. I was also around 15-16 (1981-82) when a friend and I disassembled CP/M completely, removed some stuff we didn't need (mostly related to harddrives), added a simple switcher and turned it into a primitive multitasking system able to run two programs at once (plus some common stuff), all within the 64KB limit on a Z80 processor. So please don't assume anything about students abilities. If you do, they'll end up biting you in the ass - hard.
Much more interesting is the discussion on the whole 'perpetual felon' idea. In my book you are a felon while serving your punishment or on parole, but once your debt is paid, you're a free man and should have all the same rights as anyone else, which include the right to vote and the right to own firearms. Only exception to this rule should be sex offenders who should be registered and pedophiles should be banned from working with children and living near schools and similar child-dense areas.
The felon restrictions doesn't make sense in themselves. If you drive drunk and kill someone, you're still allowed to buy new cars and to re-acquire your drivers license, but a felon cannot own firearms or vote for life even when all they did were fraud, counterfeiting or similar non-violent while-collar crime.
Wow. Copyright on my appearance. So, the next time I commit a burglary, and some surveillance cameras actually record me in the act, I can claim copyright on my appearance to have the evidence quashed. Sounds good to me!
Except you were filmed committing a crime and while trespassing will make your rights null and void.
People filmed with hidden camera and the recording used for entertainment - this requires a signed release from all recognizable persons, and is they don't have that, you can sue - and win big. This has happened several times and now nobody plays the odds and they all get the releases they need. Not always easy which is why you don't see that many hidden camera shows anymore.
Actually - and this is important - the movie offends Muslims but obviously not as primary intent. As it is historically accurate it primarily offends due to it revealing some pretty painful truths, and the fact that some Muslims takes offense to pictures of Muhammad. Both of these reasons are exactly why movies like this *must* be available out there. People needs to know about the pedophile prophet and we must erode and tear down the idea about Muhammad not being pictured. That's what the Danish cartoons did, or tried to do. But we must repeat and repeat until they get desensitized enough to just accept it because it is all part of an elaborate smoke screen designed to hide core aspects of the religion from public review and debate. They insist on calling it a religion of peace but the middle east have been at war for a thousand years because of it, and now several areas in Africa has followed into the pit of completely stupid ethnic wars over religion with Islam as the prominent primary aggressor.
Actually you're missing the point yourself. The idea behind the Streisand Effect is to circumvent censorship, and ordering the removal of all copies is clear-cut censorship regardless of the motivation behind the removal. As censorship always must be fought on every level and with every means, it is essential that we spread as many copies of this move as far as possible so it will be easy to find it.
"You expert is an idiot"
Doesn't matter who the client is or what relationship there might be between that client and his so-called expert.
If it result is an argument, prove that the clients expert is an idiot and that he/she has wasted time and money for the client and possibly many others. You may still not get the client (or loose him/her) but you can be sure that idiot expert is also gonna be kicked out. You might even have lined yourself up to be the new expert which might be even better.
How can these ballasts cause disturbances outside the building? - The building itself will act as a partial shield (try getting a cell signal inside - can be next to impossible) and the basic emission cannot be that powerful.
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Either hide everything or overload the systems by acting extremely suspiciously in everything you do?
I would think that Celine Dion or Justin Bieber would be much more effective at breaking the will of even the most stanchly determined Jihadists.
Ug, those are pretty bad. Skinny Puppy is great stuff, I don't see how it could be used for torture. It couldn't be that effective...
Actually several tracks on "Bites", "Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse" and "Cleanse Fold and Manipulate" were created specifically with subsonics to enhance the feeling of darkness, depression and dread. The ever popular "Assimilate" (from "Bites") is one of them.
"...manifestations of a sort, so insidious off the point, simple solution never confusion, sport a gun kill a cop. Crazy world of weary thought, so receive me had enough, lock me up, lock me up... [...] ...Mutterings of death to bring, suffocate a newborn thing, degradation of an age, venereal it's all sensation, protect design the moral plan, infallible as propaganda, completely black, with no steps back..." (from "Assimilate")
Yup, I'm a long-time fan (of Skinny Puppy, not beta!)
Sure, people should be allowed to be anonymous, but it should never be okay to pose as someone else, fictive or real.
All real-looking accounts should be real, and a special type of accounts should be created for anonymous following of sensitive topics, commenting etc. This way you could have a personal account for family, old classmates etc and an anonymous account (personal of course) for all the sensitive stuff.
I predict masks will make an enormous debut in fashion...
There's already moves afoot to make masks illegal. Seems they're often used by protesters.
They're already banned in Denmark for instance. Doesn't prevent people from wearing them but if they do, the police need no other reason to arrest and detain.
I'm sorry but I don't subscribe to the right to be anonymous in public. If you live in a small town, everybody will know you anyway and I cannot see why it would be a problem to be recognized in larger cities too. I know this is a cliché but if you behave normally and have nothing to hide, why fear being recognized? - If you do have something to hide, I'd recommend a nice little cabin somewhere way off the grid in rural Montana... If it's good enough for the Unabomber, then it's good enough for you... ;)