Who are these people who buy a server and need the hardware vendor to pre-install an OS on it? How are they capable of configuring and maintaining the OS if they can't even install it? Question applies to Linux and Windows equally.
These don't actually block a newspaper from publishing anything - they basically say "Dear editor, be an awfully good chap and don't publish that."
So why don't any newspapers publish things covered by DA-Notices? Because although they are not a legal injunction they are a threat of some kind of retaliation should the newspaper disobey. To use your analogy it's like a mugger holding a knife to your throat, pointing a machine gun at your testicles, and politely asking "Please be an awfully good chap and drop your wallet on the floor".
These notices are issued by the same people who want total control over what the public can read on the internet and may or may not be the same people involved in the shadowy IWF.
I don't want my gov't doing deep packet inspection.
I don't want my ISP doing DNS filtering.
I don't want my free and open Internet controlled that way.
I don't want a Great British Firewall
Too late. The IWF has been filtering UK internet access for some years now. They claim they only filter out child porn but as they are operationally independant and not accountable to anyone it's impossible to be sure.
"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." They can't censor the internet. Or cable TV. Or books. Or newspapers. Doesn't the UK have a similar Bill of Rights to forbid the Parliament from censoring the right of speech?
No, it doesn't. But even if it did the governments of the world can and do break their own rules.
This is not something the Slashdot crowd wants to hear, but i like this idea. Really, it is about time we protect our children and others who don't want to see this kind of stuff. Objectionable material should not be seen by minors and there are many others who prefer not to be subjected to this stuff. Like cigarettes or alcohol, basic protections need to be put in place. Like it or not, this is the way the internet will go.
You are missing the point because you are taking the politicals at their word.
This isn't about blocking porn to protect children, it's about the government having a system to block anything they don't like the look of. Such things might include evidence of their own misdeeds or alternative political views. The UK government has been blocking newspapers from printing things they consider inconvenient for many years and they want the same power over the web.
is all the world will need for the next 20 years, right?
Apple don't make products to last 20 years. They make products that last 6 months to 1 year at which point they are no longer 'cool' and should be replaced with new ones.
Apple products are a non stop treadmill designed to extract as much cash as possible from their customers.
If you think that it's not because of any such man-made roadblocks, then you must be saying that women/blacks/hispanics aren't smart enough to be programmers (which makes YOU the sexist or racist) or that they don't want to be programmers (which is wrong, just ask them).
Different groups have different interests and aptitudes. You may consider people equal but they are not identical.
I'm short, fat, white, and have no interest in sports. I didn't get a chance to play major league basketball and it's just not fair. I should be given a grant to help develop the basketball talent the world has cruelly withheld from me.
Lower fees. Customer service. A more respectable business model. You know they close accounts for stupid reasons and just keep the cash don't you? No dirty trickys like converting non-USD debts to USD at their exchange rate in order to bump up the amount they claim people owe them. Terms and conditions that are not an exercise in customer abuse.
copyright != counterfeiting. If I photocopy your $100 bill with a super-duper photocopier, did I rob you?
Actually yes, If you make a $100 bill and it enters general circulation the entire economy just inflated by $100. You robbed everyone who holds dollars.
If an attacker figures out how to crack one device he most likely knows how to crack all of them. Then it's a short step to faking billions of transactions.
"And unlike BitCoin, a peer-to-peer hosted digital currency with a fluctuating value, MintChip is simply a new way to exchange Canadian dollars. Plus, itâ(TM)s backed by the Canadian government. "
On the negative side it's also backed by the Canadian government. I don't see govenments queuing up to make currency anonymous, they will want absolute control.
If a government is creating it you should expect strong central control along with the ability for them to revoke and create money at will and some form of tax system built right in.
It's going to be a sick. sick parady of BitCoin, basicly SolidCoin.
The same rackspace from the other day that allowed an unauthorized user to access another's account and transfer several domains, and then offered a paltry half month of free hosting as compensation?
Yes, that same rackspace.
Is there a list of providers that never fucked up somewhere? Because I personally don't know of any.
I had a lot of trust in Linode until the recent BitCoin Heist revealed that any machine could have been raided. I trusted Hetzner until I heard of some abuse of their admin tools.
I know that sometimes the word of God isn't the most enjoyable subject to be studying, but it's pretty disrespectful to be such a distraction during class.
Yes, dam those kids who try to think for themselves. Clearly it's more important that they are respectful servants than free thinkers.
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It's likely they used the carrot not the stick.
Most likely the US told the EU that they would check EU flight data against US lists of known and suspected terrorists.
No it's not. Not at all.
They are saying if you want to use ubuntu on these servers it will work.
Who are these people who buy a server and need the hardware vendor to pre-install an OS on it? How are they capable of configuring and maintaining the OS if they can't even install it? Question applies to Linux and Windows equally.
I assume you mean DA-Notices?
These don't actually block a newspaper from publishing anything - they basically say "Dear editor, be an awfully good chap and don't publish that."
So why don't any newspapers publish things covered by DA-Notices? Because although they are not a legal injunction they are a threat of some kind of retaliation should the newspaper disobey. To use your analogy it's like a mugger holding a knife to your throat, pointing a machine gun at your testicles, and politely asking "Please be an awfully good chap and drop your wallet on the floor".
These notices are issued by the same people who want total control over what the public can read on the internet and may or may not be the same people involved in the shadowy IWF.
I don't want my gov't doing deep packet inspection.
I don't want my ISP doing DNS filtering.
I don't want my free and open Internet controlled that way.
I don't want a Great British Firewall
Too late. The IWF has been filtering UK internet access for some years now. They claim they only filter out child porn but as they are operationally independant and not accountable to anyone it's impossible to be sure.
"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." They can't censor the internet. Or cable TV. Or books. Or newspapers. Doesn't the UK have a similar Bill of Rights to forbid the Parliament from censoring the right of speech?
No, it doesn't. But even if it did the governments of the world can and do break their own rules.
This is not something the Slashdot crowd wants to hear, but i like this idea. Really, it is about time we protect our children and others who don't want to see this kind of stuff. Objectionable material should not be seen by minors and there are many others who prefer not to be subjected to this stuff. Like cigarettes or alcohol, basic protections need to be put in place. Like it or not, this is the way the internet will go.
You are missing the point because you are taking the politicals at their word.
This isn't about blocking porn to protect children, it's about the government having a system to block anything they don't like the look of. Such things might include evidence of their own misdeeds or alternative political views. The UK government has been blocking newspapers from printing things they consider inconvenient for many years and they want the same power over the web.
is all the world will need for the next 20 years, right?
Apple don't make products to last 20 years. They make products that last 6 months to 1 year at which point they are no longer 'cool' and should be replaced with new ones.
Apple products are a non stop treadmill designed to extract as much cash as possible from their customers.
If you think that it's not because of any such man-made roadblocks, then you must be saying that women/blacks/hispanics aren't smart enough to be programmers (which makes YOU the sexist or racist) or that they don't want to be programmers (which is wrong, just ask them).
Different groups have different interests and aptitudes. You may consider people equal but they are not identical.
I'm short, fat, white, and have no interest in sports. I didn't get a chance to play major league basketball and it's just not fair. I should be given a grant to help develop the basketball talent the world has cruelly withheld from me.
Or of course it could just be that USA consider themselves world police.
That seems more likely.
What would this service offer that PayPal didn't?
Lower fees.
Customer service.
A more respectable business model. You know they close accounts for stupid reasons and just keep the cash don't you?
No dirty trickys like converting non-USD debts to USD at their exchange rate in order to bump up the amount they claim people owe them.
Terms and conditions that are not an exercise in customer abuse.
copyright != counterfeiting. If I photocopy your $100 bill with a super-duper photocopier, did I rob you?
Actually yes, If you make a $100 bill and it enters general circulation the entire economy just inflated by $100. You robbed everyone who holds dollars.
If an attacker figures out how to crack one device he most likely knows how to crack all of them. Then it's a short step to faking billions of transactions.
There isn't a 'Safe enough'.
Tamper-proof software? That's putting the trust in the wrong place and it's going to get tampered.
"And unlike BitCoin, a peer-to-peer hosted digital currency with a fluctuating value, MintChip is simply a new way to exchange Canadian dollars. Plus, itâ(TM)s backed by the Canadian government. "
On the negative side it's also backed by the Canadian government. I don't see govenments queuing up to make currency anonymous, they will want absolute control.
So it's like bitcoin eh?
If a government is creating it you should expect strong central control along with the ability for them to revoke and create money at will and some form of tax system built right in.
It's going to be a sick. sick parady of BitCoin, basicly SolidCoin.
Awww. You are jealous that my stupid comment got modded up.
I'm not sure why, it's not like you can but food with karma points.
Good job American health insurance companies can be trusted to safeguard their data. Er, Whoops.
Some thing just don't have any business being connected to the internet.
Exactly. Who the hell thought putting wifi on a medical device was a good idea?
The same rackspace from the other day that allowed an unauthorized user to access another's account and transfer several domains, and then offered a paltry half month of free hosting as compensation?
Yes, that same rackspace.
Is there a list of providers that never fucked up somewhere? Because I personally don't know of any.
I had a lot of trust in Linode until the recent BitCoin Heist revealed that any machine could have been raided. I trusted Hetzner until I heard of some abuse of their admin tools.
Get a cheap colocated server in the US and then run OpenVPN or whatever flavor of VPN you prefer.
That's exactly what I was going to say with the exception that I would recommend a cheap virtual server not a colocated or dedicated machine.
The CIA are americans, thus inherently good.
Lol. You don't need the rest of the comment, that's funny enough.
Nginx is not really going to help if you are getting DDOSed and your incoming pipes are full.
The problem isn't at the web server layer, it's at the network layer.
I know that sometimes the word of God isn't the most enjoyable subject to be studying, but it's pretty disrespectful to be such a distraction during class.
Yes, dam those kids who try to think for themselves. Clearly it's more important that they are respectful servants than free thinkers.
An excellent example of a learning tool.
Sadly it's not teaching something that's worth learning.