Hmm. Agent Provacateur, or just incredibly stupid?
if it's the latter: If we kill everyone else but US, we don't have to worry about THEM. Until the group we are a part of becomes the new THEM, of course.
Verizon may have more legal firepower than a college, but we're not just talking about a college. This is MIT we're talking about here. I doubt very, very seriously that there is anything that institution could NOT do if it decided it is in it's academic best interest to do so, including freaking orbital death rays to blast the RIAA's headquarters off the face of the planet. But seriously, folks. MIT vs the mafIAA? if they piss 'em off, those guys will never be able to place a phone call again.
I'm a lot more paranoid than the next guy (who IS out to get me, BTW), but given The Great Woz's history, I would be hard pressed to name someone I would trust MORE at the controls of a big brother type apparatus. Seriously, if Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Donald Trump, etc started something like this, there would be no doubt in ANYONES minds that they had plans to take over the world. But Woz I can see doing this to keep kids safe, and not allowing the system to be abused. And no, I hate Mac.
While I can see why you posted this one as AC, "Better, I think, admitting that freedoms come with associated risks and arguing that the freedom is worth it" is such a clear way to phrase things. Unfortunately, while I understand this and accept it, apparently few others can.
Wasn't it the general/. concensus to start calling the RIAA and the MPAA the mafIAA?
Or was that yesterday? I get confused.
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There are a couple of good user interfaces for Freenet; the best is probably FROST, which includes messaging and searching. look in the "tools" section of the freenet site.
IANAFE, but I don't really think that is possible. One of the ways that anonymity is assured is that the files which are inserted into freenet don't have a "type"; the key for a.jpg file is not discernable from the key for a.txt file; only by knowing the filename AND key can you get the file in question. and then there are multipart files; you may only have a portion of a file on your node. About the only way I can think of to limit what is on your node is to decrypt all contents of your datastore, then examine the headers, deleting the ones that might be nasty content, and the ones you can't figure out WHAT they are. Of course, if you do this, you no longer have deniability about the content of your node; you may have deleted the kiddie porn, but left the MP3's intact, which is still illegal, right? I don't see how we can have it both ways; if chinese dissidents are going to be safe posting to freenet, then it automatically follows that other illegal actions would have to be safe to do on freenet.
Freenet is pretty much as
searchable as the Internet; if you know the address of Freesites, you can rig a
search engine to index them, in fact there are already several such.
However, most people on Freenet use FROST,
which bears a strong resemblance to Usenet, to share files, and it is
searchable, and provides multiple discussion forums as well.
There is one other distinction; The more people interested in a file on
freenet, the more it propagates; the more it propagates, the faster it will
download. A fairly popular file will download at your bandwidth limit.
If you haven't used freenet for a while, like maybe since build 0.3 or early
0.4, you should really try it now, very, very stable.
Woody Harrelson's movie "weed" is also a great source of info on the war on drugs; lots of archival footage, interviews with researchers, etc. Funny as hell, also.
What about my experience, then... You work for a government contractor on a project for the army. You quickly discover that one of your coworkers is putting code in place on production servers that is VERY nasty, buggy, full of gaping security holes, but slightly more often than not, actually does the job that needs to be done. You get with your supervisor to point this out, let them know that security standards are being completely ignored, crash recovery (done by another group) is taking more time than doing it right in the first place. You and the REST of the team get let go, while the quick n' dirty guy gets promoted; the Army has to nearly triple the size of the group doing recovery. Grrrr. I may be blackballed by EDS, but I would never, ever, ever consider working with or by those scum sucking pigs again.
Warning: The following contains something besides a knee-jerk reaction
against weapons; if you are unable to stomach this sort of thing, please skip to
the next post.
In this article,
it's mentioned that the weapons, not all of which apparently came from one
source, had been locked in a big case in the back of the closet
And from this
article, Police said they had recovered two.30-30 rifles, a shotgun,
two handguns, two swords, knives, and 2,000 rounds of ammunition
And, in this article: The firearms belonged to Ronald Lovett. He
received his first rifle in 1958 when he was 11 and collected more over the
years for target shooting, he said. Matt wasn't interested in guns in the
least and never fired one, Ronald Lovett said. When he was born,
that was when we locked the stuff away, and most of it has not been touched in
19 years. Ronald Lovett said he kept the handguns in a lockbox and stored
the other firearms in a closet in the family's apartment, over a row of stores.
Police also recovered 2,000 rounds of ammunition, which Lovett said were
20 and 30 years old.
One of the pistols, if not more, was a replica civil war era cap and ball
pistol.
If you are deluded enough by the hysterical liberal mass media to consider
this an arsenal, then you are completely and totally hopeless,
please line up with the rest of the lemmings. The weapons were stored in a
approved, safe fashion; the kid showed no sign whatsoever of being a gun
nut, never even having fired a weapon when he was obviously aware that
they existed.
The articles do indicate a type of person who would be likely to snap,
however; predicting that the person would snap in this fashion would be a little
bit difficult, don't you think?
Very interesting. In the biggest issues that have a historical basis, there are often writings to support ambiguous concepts; for instance, all you have to do to understand the 2nd amendment is read the letters of Thomas Jefferson, Madison, even Patrick Henry; they wanted us to have weapons so that we could restore the government if it went to a dictatorship. I would be interested to see if there is background documentation to support the importance of slavery as an issue among the southern leaders; can anyone point me towards anything like this?
Slavery was not what the war was fought over. It was only a tactical issue; Lincoln freed the slaves ONLY in confederate states; he specifically did NOT free them in Union states that allowed slavery. he did this, by his own admission, in the hopes that the slaves would revolt in the south. The winner gets to write the history books.
That was pretty much the case up until the Civil War; then a Certain President who everyone seems to worship pretty much put us on the long, painful spiral to our current disgusting state. Hey, but gas is cheap. kinda.
Oh, come on. They Know we won the Cold War. They Know we are taking over the rest of the world a little bit at a time (we can't afford not to, the economy requires it). They know that our laws apply to them, but the reverse is only true if it serves our interests.
Just leave 'em alone.
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Considering I not only have built these, but worked on them in the military, I find the article in question sort of puzzling.
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Hmm. Agent Provacateur, or just incredibly stupid?
if it's the latter: If we kill everyone else but US, we don't have to worry about THEM. Until the group we are a part of becomes the new THEM, of course.
FREENET=FREESPEECH
Verizon may have more legal firepower than a college, but we're not just talking about a college.
This is MIT we're talking about here.
I doubt very, very seriously that there is anything that institution could NOT do if it decided it is in it's academic best interest to do so, including freaking orbital death rays to blast the RIAA's headquarters off the face of the planet.
But seriously, folks. MIT vs the mafIAA? if they piss 'em off, those guys will never be able to place a phone call again.
I haven't darkened cnets doorstep since they killed winfiles.com, probably the greatest site ever created for win compatible shareware and drivers.
Not only could you find anything on the site, but it actually had a decent automatic payment system for shareware registration.
Tucows is probably the closest thing these days.
I'm a lot more paranoid than the next guy (who IS out to get me, BTW), but given The Great Woz's history, I would be hard pressed to name someone I would trust MORE at the controls of a big brother type apparatus.
Seriously, if Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Donald Trump, etc started something like this, there would be no doubt in ANYONES minds that they had plans to take over the world.
But Woz I can see doing this to keep kids safe, and not allowing the system to be abused.
And no, I hate Mac.
3 words:
Frozen Gelatin Dart
Doesn't work well except in the winter, but best assassin tool ever designed, IMHO.
+1 insightful please?
anybody?
come on..... at least a funny?
While I can see why you posted this one as AC, "Better, I think, admitting that freedoms come with associated risks and arguing that the freedom is worth it" is such a clear way to phrase things.
Unfortunately, while I understand this and accept it, apparently few others can.
Wasn't it the general /. concensus to start calling the RIAA and the MPAA the mafIAA?
Or was that yesterday?
I get confused.
There are a couple of good user interfaces for Freenet; the best is probably FROST, which includes messaging and searching.
look in the "tools" section of the freenet site.
IANAFE, but I don't really think that is possible. .jpg file is not discernable from the key for a .txt file; only by knowing the filename AND key can you get the file in question.
One of the ways that anonymity is assured is that the files which are inserted into freenet don't have a "type"; the key for a
and then there are multipart files; you may only have a portion of a file on your node.
About the only way I can think of to limit what is on your node is to decrypt all contents of your datastore, then examine the headers, deleting the ones that might be nasty content, and the ones you can't figure out WHAT they are.
Of course, if you do this, you no longer have deniability about the content of your node; you may have deleted the kiddie porn, but left the MP3's intact, which is still illegal, right?
I don't see how we can have it both ways; if chinese dissidents are going to be safe posting to freenet, then it automatically follows that other illegal actions would have to be safe to do on freenet.
Sorry. I had too much when I was younger ;}
FREENET=FREESPEECH
Freenet is pretty much as searchable as the Internet; if you know the address of Freesites, you can rig a search engine to index them, in fact there are already several such.
However, most people on Freenet use FROST, which bears a strong resemblance to Usenet, to share files, and it is searchable, and provides multiple discussion forums as well.
There is one other distinction; The more people interested in a file on freenet, the more it propagates; the more it propagates, the faster it will download. A fairly popular file will download at your bandwidth limit.
If you haven't used freenet for a while, like maybe since build 0.3 or early 0.4, you should really try it now, very, very stable.
Woody Harrelson's movie "weed" is also a great source of info on the war on drugs; lots of archival footage, interviews with researchers, etc.
Funny as hell, also.
I hate to point this out, but...
How do you think they would probably deflect this hurtling death asteroid?
Could it, perhaps, involve a WEAPON?
FREENET=FREESPEECH
What about my experience, then...
You work for a government contractor on a project for the army.
You quickly discover that one of your coworkers is putting code in place on production servers that is VERY nasty, buggy, full of gaping security holes, but slightly more often than not, actually does the job that needs to be done.
You get with your supervisor to point this out, let them know that security standards are being completely ignored, crash recovery (done by another group) is taking more time than doing it right in the first place.
You and the REST of the team get let go, while the quick n' dirty guy gets promoted; the Army has to nearly triple the size of the group doing recovery.
Grrrr.
I may be blackballed by EDS, but I would never, ever, ever consider working with or by those scum sucking pigs again.
That has got to be the Very Best explanation of why RFID is evil that I have ever seen.
Can we get a "+15, scarily on target" mod here please?
Logically, as in the math term, I agree.
However, Guns are protected by the constitution, video games (i'm fairly certain) aren't.
How about we don't prohibit anything, just punish people when they do stupid things? sure, people would die, but people would die anyway.
Warning: The following contains something besides a knee-jerk reaction against weapons; if you are unable to stomach this sort of thing, please skip to the next post.
In this article, it's mentioned that the weapons, not all of which apparently came from one source, had been locked in a big case in the back of the closet
And from this article, Police said they had recovered two .30-30 rifles, a shotgun,
two handguns, two swords, knives, and 2,000 rounds of ammunition
And, in this article: The firearms belonged to Ronald Lovett. He received his first rifle in 1958 when he was 11 and collected more over the years for target shooting, he said. Matt wasn't interested in guns in the least and never fired one, Ronald Lovett said. When he was born, that was when we locked the stuff away, and most of it has not been touched in 19 years. Ronald Lovett said he kept the handguns in a lockbox and stored the other firearms in a closet in the family's apartment, over a row of stores. Police also recovered 2,000 rounds of ammunition, which Lovett said were 20 and 30 years old.
One of the pistols, if not more, was a replica civil war era cap and ball pistol.
If you are deluded enough by the hysterical liberal mass media to consider this an arsenal, then you are completely and totally hopeless, please line up with the rest of the lemmings. The weapons were stored in a approved, safe fashion; the kid showed no sign whatsoever of being a gun nut, never even having fired a weapon when he was obviously aware that they existed.
The articles do indicate a type of person who would be likely to snap, however; predicting that the person would snap in this fashion would be a little bit difficult, don't you think?
Very interesting.
In the biggest issues that have a historical basis, there are often writings to support ambiguous concepts; for instance, all you have to do to understand the 2nd amendment is read the letters of Thomas Jefferson, Madison, even Patrick Henry; they wanted us to have weapons so that we could restore the government if it went to a dictatorship.
I would be interested to see if there is background documentation to support the importance of slavery as an issue among the southern leaders; can anyone point me towards anything like this?
Slavery was not what the war was fought over. It was only a tactical issue; Lincoln freed the slaves ONLY in confederate states; he specifically did NOT free them in Union states that allowed slavery. he did this, by his own admission, in the hopes that the slaves would revolt in the south.
The winner gets to write the history books.
So it should be "freedom", instead of "whala", right?
That was pretty much the case up until the Civil War; then a Certain President who everyone seems to worship pretty much put us on the long, painful spiral to our current disgusting state.
Hey, but gas is cheap. kinda.
Oh, come on.
They Know we won the Cold War.
They Know we are taking over the rest of the world a little bit at a time (we can't afford not to, the economy requires it).
They know that our laws apply to them, but the reverse is only true if it serves our interests.
Just leave 'em alone.
Considering I not only have built these, but worked on them in the military, I find the article in question sort of puzzling.
FREENET=FREESPEECH
So you are saying the F4 Phantom II fighter was a spear?