They should have also included a benchmark test against Windows XP so that we could see how much it's decreased/increased since then. A majority of people haven't upgraded to Vista yet so it would have been useful to give an idea to those users. And perhaps, benchmarking other OSs to see how they all stand.
As I said, there are many other ways to obscure your IP, such as "ssh -D". Or they could just go home (outside of the Scientology IP block) or get a DSL line from SBC.
This will only cause them to start using something like Tor or any other method of obscuring their IP. I don't see how an IP ban will be that effective. It only serves to make it much more difficult to prevent them from doing this in the future since the Wikipedia folks could at least know when it was them before due to the originating IP block. Now it will just be random IPs and much more difficult to keep a handle on. It's forcing them to be smarter. Just what we need, knowledgeable religious wingnuts who worship aliens.
I mean, does the government understand how much storage it would require to actually retain all the data that flows through a large ISP? Why not ask cell phone companies to record all voice calls, after all, terrorists and criminals use phones!
I hate to burst you bubble of ignorance, but, North Korea's first nuke test was on Oct. 9th, 2008. You know, when that other guy was still in office. And it was in development for a long time before that. Barry has been on the job three months. He's barely had time to get into the front door of the White House. You can't pin this on him at all. Kim Jong Il has always been one to do as he pleases.
Um, my comment was just mocking the fact that I misspelled "Turing" as "Turning" in my original response to the top of this comment thread. Chill out.:P
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Um, hulu?
My computer can do the same thing already!
They should have also included a benchmark test against Windows XP so that we could see how much it's decreased/increased since then. A majority of people haven't upgraded to Vista yet so it would have been useful to give an idea to those users. And perhaps, benchmarking other OSs to see how they all stand.
As I said, there are many other ways to obscure your IP, such as "ssh -D". Or they could just go home (outside of the Scientology IP block) or get a DSL line from SBC.
Tor was simply an "off-the-top-of-the-head" example. There are many ways to obscure your IP.
This will only cause them to start using something like Tor or any other method of obscuring their IP. I don't see how an IP ban will be that effective. It only serves to make it much more difficult to prevent them from doing this in the future since the Wikipedia folks could at least know when it was them before due to the originating IP block. Now it will just be random IPs and much more difficult to keep a handle on. It's forcing them to be smarter. Just what we need, knowledgeable religious wingnuts who worship aliens.
I mean, does the government understand how much storage it would require to actually retain all the data that flows through a large ISP? Why not ask cell phone companies to record all voice calls, after all, terrorists and criminals use phones!
They will end up trying to get married and have to fight against Proposition 8!
All the money that their government has goes to buying moats and other fun things for the MPs.
Um, it was a joke?
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Why don't they just use a flashlight?
Let's get this show on the road! Then we can start flinging some of those black holes at North Korea!
What a wonderful way to remember those that died by kicking it off with the most destructive force man has come up with.
That wasn't in response to you, javacowboy. It was in response to the "Barry's Fault" comment from an Anon. that's been modded down already. :P
Don't forget to bring a towel! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA6EHCrgZC0
I hate to burst you bubble of ignorance, but, North Korea's first nuke test was on Oct. 9th, 2008. You know, when that other guy was still in office. And it was in development for a long time before that. Barry has been on the job three months. He's barely had time to get into the front door of the White House. You can't pin this on him at all. Kim Jong Il has always been one to do as he pleases.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCmqzrFL26M
Soooo ronery....
It's awesome that this story got tagged "McCain".
No it's not. It's already been widely reported due to the obesity epidemic.
...to add to their massive data mining efforts. I can't even imagine the possibilities...
Like what they did with Vladmir Lenin? Ok, it's embalmed, but that's pretty close.
Um, my comment was just mocking the fact that I misspelled "Turing" as "Turning" in my original response to the top of this comment thread. Chill out. :P
Most estimates have the human brain at around 100 billion neurons.