We should replace or at least supplement DNS with something they can't abuse, something peer2peer.
Namecoin perhaps? It's a parallel DNS authority forked from Bitcoin.
Yeah I meantioned that. Seems you didn't get to the end of my comment. Anyway - namecoin as currently implemented is prone to exactly the same domain squating problem that conventional DNS suffers from. It needs a solution to that, and that's not so easy to design.
Maybe something like a small cost to register a name you already have a.com for ( provable by adding a text record to the.com ), and a very high cost if you don't. Maybe also a landgrab like phase where users can only register the domains they own the.com for. Repeat for all other generic domains and leave the country code domains managed by the countries.
Then add as many new generic domains as we like..net,.org,.info,.name, and so on.
Peer2peer doesn't have to mean the quorum wins, or that a single compromised node gets to screw everything up, or that a botnet can p0wn the whole network. What you are describing are problems with badly designed peer2peer.
If you want to see a well designed peer2peer application look up the bitcoin paper. On a technical level the bitcoin network and blockchain is very well designed regardless of its use as a currency.
RMS did not create the free software movement, it already existed. RMS did not create emacs, it already existed. He just refused to learn VI. People on windows have benefited from related projects.
GCC was wonderful in its time but it's due to be eaten by LLVM/CLANG around about now. Good on RMS for writing it though. GCC wasn't the only free compiler but it was by far the most useful.
RMS is an outspoken advocate and that's a wonderful thing, sadly he is a bit of a looney too.
These agencies of the US government are abusing the DNS system, our DNS system. We should replace or at least supplement DNS with something they can't abuse, something peer2peer. Nothing short of that will fix the DNS abuse we keep seeing.
Namecoin was a good idea but it's not going to work as currently implemented. Maybe something similar could.
Seriously though; universities have to prove overseas students are actually attending the university. How would other suggest we do this?
I'd suggest GPS anklets for all overseas students. If that doesn't work, shock collars. Seriously, do you think a mandate justifies any means necessary to fulfill it?
How about having a register and a prof who actually knows who the students are? Or at the least checks the same student doesn't claim to be more than one person.
The really sad thing is that everything other than the fingerprint readers can be gamed in some way.
WHY do universities have to prove that overseas students are actually attending the university? Why is this so critical?
Anyone signed onto a course gets a student visa. After staying for 5 years they can apply for permanent residency. Because of this there are plenty of people with a very basic, or no, education who sign up to courses they never attend as a way to get permanent residency in the UK and the benefits that go with it.
Now if someone genuinely spends 5 years in education they are an asset to the country and should be allowed to stay. If they know nothing and just want free stuff from the state that's not OK.
If I had an A-grade-level understanding of the material and was watching Football with my earbuds in, and some snot-nosed punk told me to turn it off, I'd do nothing...then kick his ass the second he stepped foot off the school grounds.
-- Ethanol-fueled
The guy doing the asking isn't doing so to prevent your supposed sporting enjoyment, but because your screen is distracting him from the lecture. If you are not mentally there you should not be physically there.
And you have an anger issue, either that you you are having a really bad day.
I know, right? The live sports playing on the laptop screen in front of you must have distracted the hell out of you while you were posting to Slashdot during the lecture.
Don't fucking pretend you weren't.
Am I the last one left that actually tries to pay attention to things?
Sometimes I sit in meetings and half the people who turn up are on a phone or typing on a laptop. Only a few bright and/or stubborn people are mentally in the room.
And there are countless other colleges running fake courses or dumbass courses just to get people student visas. Or at least there were, the government is trying real hard to clean it up.
There used to be posters all over London advertisting that if you enroll in some basic class at some Indian run dodgy college you get the right to stay in the country. It was all one big visa scam.
I spent my first two years of calculus lectures sleeping in. I scored near perfect in both classes.
WHY do people have to be at lectures they don't need, again?
It's the university's stupid rules that don't allow me to just test out of the classes: they've got to have their money.
But why would they want me sitting in a lecture distracting other people while I surf youtube?
The university's are in a special position where they can able to apply for student visa's for their students. A condition of that is that they must check the people they are applying for visas for are indeed genuine students. Many students turn up on student visa's, never go to class, and apply for permanent residency after 5 years. They have no intention of studying and in some cases don't know enough English to even begain to understand the subjects they are enrolled for.
Gotta have people coming over to do the jobs you don't want to at wages you won't work for. But we can't have them getting an education.
This isn't to keep people out of education, it's to ensure those that signed on for a course as I requirement of getting a visa do turn up.
Student visas are currently the easiest type of visa's to get for the UK. Once students (over)stay for 5 years they can apply for a permanent visa and in many cases claim benefits.
Where I life the police can't. Or more accurately the police would not because they would be fired for it, although they would not face prosecution unless the person they abused died.
You and people like you really should be forced to live in a country with real corruption so you can shut the fuck up with your retarded 'all cops are evil bullies' bullshit.
Just so it's clear I never meant 'all cops are evil bullies'. What I meant is some cops use vastly excessive force because they know they can get away with it. All cops are above most of the laws and this encourages the bad ones to abuse their positions. Also that kind of job attracts people who desire power over other people.
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And everywhere you go, you get wildly conflicting results like this.
That's my experience. The reliability changes from model to model from the same manufacturer are huge.
Buying drives is pretty much pot-luck.
Seriously - It's better as a generalist. Or do you really want to swap having a new problem every day to having the same one for years?
"Web of Trust" systems would be a required basis to prevent compromise problems.
I'm not sure. Anything that has trusted systems is open to legal attacks from the bad guys.
Only peer2peer has proven to be safe from the two great evils of our age - governments and botnets.
I made a mistake. What's the biggest flaw of Namecoin?
Domain squatting due to the low cost of registering domains. Also there is nothing to stop me or you registering 'microsoft'.
See my comment above.
We should replace or at least supplement DNS with something they can't abuse, something peer2peer.
Namecoin perhaps? It's a parallel DNS authority forked from Bitcoin.
Yeah I meantioned that. Seems you didn't get to the end of my comment. Anyway - namecoin as currently implemented is prone to exactly the same domain squating problem that conventional DNS suffers from. It needs a solution to that, and that's not so easy to design.
Maybe something like a small cost to register a name you already have a .com for ( provable by adding a text record to the .com ), and a very high cost if you don't. Maybe also a landgrab like phase where users can only register the domains they own the .com for. Repeat for all other generic domains and leave the country code domains managed by the countries.
Then add as many new generic domains as we like. .net, .org, .info, .name, and so on.
Peer2peer doesn't have to mean the quorum wins, or that a single compromised node gets to screw everything up, or that a botnet can p0wn the whole network. What you are describing are problems with badly designed peer2peer.
If you want to see a well designed peer2peer application look up the bitcoin paper. On a technical level the bitcoin network and blockchain is very well designed regardless of its use as a currency.
Should I mention nginx again?
Somehow a whole load of /.'ers don't seem to know about it.
Even if he only uses Windows, he has visited websites running on open-source software, so he benefited from RMS' work.
[Citation needed]
Google is Linux based. If you use google from a windows client you still benefit from Linux systems that were no doubt compiled with GCC.
A few wrong points there:
RMS did not create the free software movement, it already existed.
RMS did not create emacs, it already existed. He just refused to learn VI.
People on windows have benefited from related projects.
GCC was wonderful in its time but it's due to be eaten by LLVM/CLANG around about now. Good on RMS for writing it though. GCC wasn't the only free compiler but it was by far the most useful.
RMS is an outspoken advocate and that's a wonderful thing, sadly he is a bit of a looney too.
These agencies of the US government are abusing the DNS system, our DNS system. We should replace or at least supplement DNS with something they can't abuse, something peer2peer. Nothing short of that will fix the DNS abuse we keep seeing.
Namecoin was a good idea but it's not going to work as currently implemented. Maybe something similar could.
"Student visas are currently the easiest type of visa's"
Couldn't decide which was right, so you did it both ways? You were right the first time - no apostrophe.
Get back under your bridge before the daylight turns you to stone you nasty grammar troll.
If international student visa abuse is the problem . . . then why are they proposing to monitor the attendance of ALL students . . . ?
Because anything else could be seen as racist.
I'd suggest GPS anklets for all overseas students. If that doesn't work, shock collars. Seriously, do you think a mandate justifies any means necessary to fulfill it?
How about having a register and a prof who actually knows who the students are? Or at the least checks the same student doesn't claim to be more than one person.
The really sad thing is that everything other than the fingerprint readers can be gamed in some way.
WHY do universities have to prove that overseas students are actually attending the university? Why is this so critical?
Anyone signed onto a course gets a student visa. After staying for 5 years they can apply for permanent residency. Because of this there are plenty of people with a very basic, or no, education who sign up to courses they never attend as a way to get permanent residency in the UK and the benefits that go with it.
Now if someone genuinely spends 5 years in education they are an asset to the country and should be allowed to stay. If they know nothing and just want free stuff from the state that's not OK.
If I had an A-grade-level understanding of the material and was watching Football with my earbuds in, and some snot-nosed punk told me to turn it off, I'd do nothing...then kick his ass the second he stepped foot off the school grounds.
-- Ethanol-fueled
The guy doing the asking isn't doing so to prevent your supposed sporting enjoyment, but because your screen is distracting him from the lecture. If you are not mentally there you should not be physically there.
And you have an anger issue, either that you you are having a really bad day.
I know, right? The live sports playing on the laptop screen in front of you must have distracted the hell out of you while you were posting to Slashdot during the lecture.
Don't fucking pretend you weren't.
Am I the last one left that actually tries to pay attention to things?
Sometimes I sit in meetings and half the people who turn up are on a phone or typing on a laptop. Only a few bright and/or stubborn people are mentally in the room.
If you're at the university on a visa, there's an expectation you're attending the university. Don't laugh, it happens.
If the UKBA feels the university isn't doing enough, this happens: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19425718
And there are countless other colleges running fake courses or dumbass courses just to get people student visas. Or at least there were, the government is trying real hard to clean it up.
There used to be posters all over London advertisting that if you enroll in some basic class at some Indian run dodgy college you get the right to stay in the country. It was all one big visa scam.
I spent my first two years of calculus lectures sleeping in. I scored near perfect in both classes.
WHY do people have to be at lectures they don't need, again?
It's the university's stupid rules that don't allow me to just test out of the classes: they've got to have their money.
But why would they want me sitting in a lecture distracting other people while I surf youtube?
The university's are in a special position where they can able to apply for student visa's for their students. A condition of that is that they must check the people they are applying for visas for are indeed genuine students. Many students turn up on student visa's, never go to class, and apply for permanent residency after 5 years. They have no intention of studying and in some cases don't know enough English to even begain to understand the subjects they are enrolled for.
Gotta have people coming over to do the jobs you don't want to at wages you won't work for. But we can't have them getting an education.
This isn't to keep people out of education, it's to ensure those that signed on for a course as I requirement of getting a visa do turn up.
Student visas are currently the easiest type of visa's to get for the UK. Once students (over)stay for 5 years they can apply for a permanent visa and in many cases claim benefits.
You can't. The police can.
Where I life the police can't. Or more accurately the police would not because they would be fired for it, although they would not face prosecution unless the person they abused died.
I don't live in the US.
You and people like you really should be forced to live in a country with real corruption so you can shut the fuck up with your retarded 'all cops are evil bullies' bullshit.
Just so it's clear I never meant 'all cops are evil bullies'. What I meant is some cops use vastly excessive force because they know they can get away with it. All cops are above most of the laws and this encourages the bad ones to abuse their positions. Also that kind of job attracts people who desire power over other people.
i would've expected more from slashdot readers... much more. $43k raised from slashdot traffic is an embarrassment to this site.
Given the poor economy and the fact that a lot of really good people are unemployed or underemployed $43k for one story is really good going.
Yep, a good thing happened.
I don't get why there is so much trolling on this story.
CmdrTaco has a small penis.
Did NetCraft confirm that?
Sorry to derail your point a bit but the rest of the world is very far left compared to the US.
What the US calls left and right the rest of the world calls right and far right.