"Looks like we got ourselves a kiddie porn downloader."
Goodness...just because someone is interested in guarding their privacy as much as possible, possibly out of pure interest of such things, lends you and others to assume the worst??
There are other reasons you know? Keeping your political views and rants anon....possibly you are into some content that some groups MIGHT be interested in? (*IAA).
I'm really surprised so many people on the thread automatically seemed to think the worst. Is slashdot starting now to lean towards the "if you have nothing to hide" type mentality?
"But most likely the above poster likes fat chicks, shemales, or whips and chains and thinks that somehow it is going to end up in the paper or something. Don't ask me why, but the paranoid ones are usually paranoid over dumb shit that nobody cares about."
Considering what the *IAA are doing to people for downloading/uploading LEGAL copyrighted content, and with how they are pushing harder and harder for criminal penalties in addition to civil/financial ones, it isn't a bad idea to stay as anon as possible for anything.
And for the truly paranoid, if you want to publish/read political materials...you might end up on a list you don't want to be on.
"I never really understood how usenet was better than torrents. All the usenet places you have to go to get good binaries access require monthly payments, and unless there's some way to pay cash (which would be very inconvenient in this day and age), they require some sort of transaction with an account linked to your name (credit card or paypal). So how does that not make it easier to get caught pirating via usenet than torrents where you actually release less personally identifiable info (just IP instead of IP and some sort of financial link)? Is it entirely more "secure" because it is "obscure"? Wasn't there some sort of saying deriding the combination of those two words? Yes I'm actually trying to "talk about usenet"..."
Well, if you truly want to stay anon...I believe you can do cash/money order transactions. What's so difficult about cash?
Also..well, unless the *IAA is hooked onto the USENET servers directly, monitoring every single connection to them and seeing what is downloaded...how are they gonna catch you? I doubt without a court order most servers are going to allow that, not to mention I doubt they could get a warrant to do a blanket dragnet like that to fish for violators.
It is easy to forge or if you want to give some effort...set up an untraceable 'nym' email account....
Heck...you can post to USENET via anonymous email to USENET gateways...bounce your content off a couple remailers on the way there...and again, virtually untraceable to anyone but maybe the NSA, and from what I understand, it would be an effort even for them.
"I presume that no one has worked out that all the on-coming-traffic crashes they see have been caused because the drivers have been temporarily blinded ! "
Well, that's what a good mirror is for!!
Or...even better...get those handheld 100K candlelight spotlights you can plug into your cigarette lighter. THAT will get the message across very quickly that they have their brights on...
About 5 years ago...a girlfriend and I rented a villa in Mexico, just about 70 mi north of Puerto Villarta (sp?)..right on the ocean. Our first night after getting there...getting some beers out of the fridge, just sat on the patio benches, overlooking the rocks down to the crashing sea...and then looking up and seeing the sky, with nothing but the moon and the stars. I remember commenting that "I'd not see anything like that since I was a kid due to all the light pollution these days.". It was amazing.
You know, one other thing I miss as a kid...lightening bugs/fireflies. What the hell happened to them? Last year some time, I was out and happened to see a couple of them and was so thrilled. Back when I grew up, there were TONS of them all over the place every summer.
Now? you're lucky to see 1 or two a year it seems.
"I've been a Giganews subscriber and a Newsleecher + Super Search user for well over a year now... It's worth the money for instant access to just about everything."
Do they have a way to securely and anonymously subscribe and connect to them? Can you send them cash, use a nym server for email contacts...and maybe somehow route your transactions with the server through something like TOR?
"just tell them you don't have one? there's a lot of people here with cell phones and no SSNs... I'd be interested in hearing how that goes though.:)"
Well, I've been looking around ATT's site and may have found a way around it. Doing a business phone....they just need a EIN, which I do have and is for business purposes...so I may go that route.
"In retrospect, telling my friends and family my new number was probably a better choice than handing everybody else my SSN, but hey, them's the breaks."
Yeah, that's gonna be my new adventure...getting a new iPhone and NOT giving them my SSN. I have no problem giving a deposit, but, I don't give out my ssn for something not related to SS income taxes...
I've been looking to buy a used copy of OSX Tiger, so I can upgrade my old, old G3 iBook.
Man, I'd not have thought it would be that hard to find old used copies for sale, nor would I have thought they would command such a high price?!?! People are wanting like $100+ for it...I was expecting an old version of the original cd/dvd install disks to be like $40 max...what's the deal with that I wonder?
Also, just noticed when reading one of their pages...they say when listening to music, that to answer a call, you just 'pinch' your headset microphone...?!?
Looking at the picture, looks like they're forcing you to use that same weird headset for the shuffle. So, I lose functionality if I use my better Shure SE530 earphones?
"Why would it bother you to see it? Do you feel the same way about straight couples holding hands?"
No...pretty common to see straight people having contact in public. Not something you're used to seeing with gay guys. And yes it bothers me to see it...I think it does most straight men, pretty common.
"I used to wonder about people who would take an extra paper towel to use on the door handle when leaving the bathroom at work. Then it hit me -- if you see someone obviously on their way out without washing their hands, you may as well just reach into their pants and grab their dick -- cut out the middleman (or middle-door-handle).There's hardly much ppoint in washing your hands, then grabbing the same handle he just held in his dick-hand."
Hmm...well, I'd pretty much consider my dick to be just as clean on me as any other part of my body, I mean, I do bathe at least once a day, and during a normal day, my dick touches far less that my hands for example.
That, and after years of practice, I've learned not to piss on myself when in the restroom.
"The US is what it is because of the hard work, dedication, and innovation of its people, not some legal structure such as a corporation."
Actually these days, I find that about the only way an individual person can hope to keep much of any of their hard earned cash from the tax man, is to incorporate themselves (I did the "S" corp thing), and contract out. This is about the only way you can keep your money, by using the corp structure to allow for deductions of most everything you do, use, drive for your job.
"More unrealistic expectations from Americans... Obama has been in office 6 months, and has already done more than most American Presidents do in 4 years, yet that's not good enough for you."
Actually THAT is the problem, I never expected him to do quite so much damage so quickly.
While making it VERY difficult on companies to hide tax money offshore, at the same time, why don't we cut corportate taxes severely. That way, you attract more businesses back to the US, and there is less reason to try to 'hide' the monies.
Besides, IMHO...corporate tax is useless, it is just a hidden tax on the consumer, since a corporation just passes this off onto the consumer as part of their cost of a product.
"no sane person thinks $100 a month is a reasonable price for phone service, but they buy iPhones anyway."
Actually, I think it is reasonable. Hell, I've been paying close to that for years for the Sprint Vision service with a phone that is not even a smartphone....
I figured if I'm paying this much, get an iPhone that actually does a LOT for the price.
"Same place the Bush government got money for the war?"
Well, a war cost money, but I agree...it was badly managed and cost too much.
However...we still have the war going on, AND the Obama admin...had bested the Bush deficit by a long shot just a few months into his admin...and is projected in the next 2 years to triple it...in the trillions.
"Deficit spending means we will bill today's children tomorrow, for things we enjoy today but won't pay for ourselves. Each of those "non-payers" owes about $30,000 the day they are born."
Well, the current administration has been piling that deficit spending on, like no administration before them.
It certainly isn't gonna get any easier on the the next generations. We need to stop NOW.
We cannot as a country afford to keep throwing money at private business (and buying and running them), and the next load of spending on the table that is planned for? Govt. healthcare? I wonder where they are going to get the money for that. At some point, someone needs to have the sense to stand up and say STOP...and tighten things up and sacrifice a little to pay things off.
A normal household has to do it, why shouldn't our government have to do the same??
"For what it's worth, the original federal tax on gasoline was $0.03/gal, about 10%. Inflation adjusted, that would now be about $0.27 / gal. It's not. It's $.184, which is one of the reasons we the Highway Trust Fund is busted (higher mileage also hurts)."
Well, to the consumer...he sees more than that in taxes, when you add on state (and sometimes county/parish and city tax) too.
I'd guess all those added together would get you to near the 25% tax on gas range. Remember, not all roads are Federal highways.
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Goodness...just because someone is interested in guarding their privacy as much as possible, possibly out of pure interest of such things, lends you and others to assume the worst??
There are other reasons you know? Keeping your political views and rants anon....possibly you are into some content that some groups MIGHT be interested in? (*IAA).
I'm really surprised so many people on the thread automatically seemed to think the worst. Is slashdot starting now to lean towards the "if you have nothing to hide" type mentality?
Considering what the *IAA are doing to people for downloading/uploading LEGAL copyrighted content, and with how they are pushing harder and harder for criminal penalties in addition to civil/financial ones, it isn't a bad idea to stay as anon as possible for anything.
And for the truly paranoid, if you want to publish/read political materials...you might end up on a list you don't want to be on.
Well, if you truly want to stay anon...I believe you can do cash/money order transactions. What's so difficult about cash?
Also..well, unless the *IAA is hooked onto the USENET servers directly, monitoring every single connection to them and seeing what is downloaded...how are they gonna catch you? I doubt without a court order most servers are going to allow that, not to mention I doubt they could get a warrant to do a blanket dragnet like that to fish for violators.
It is easy to forge or if you want to give some effort...set up an untraceable 'nym' email account....
Heck...you can post to USENET via anonymous email to USENET gateways...bounce your content off a couple remailers on the way there...and again, virtually untraceable to anyone but maybe the NSA, and from what I understand, it would be an effort even for them.
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Well, that's what a good mirror is for!!
Or...even better...get those handheld 100K candlelight spotlights you can plug into your cigarette lighter. THAT will get the message across very quickly that they have their brights on...
You know, one other thing I miss as a kid...lightening bugs/fireflies. What the hell happened to them? Last year some time, I was out and happened to see a couple of them and was so thrilled. Back when I grew up, there were TONS of them all over the place every summer.
Now? you're lucky to see 1 or two a year it seems.
Do they have a way to securely and anonymously subscribe and connect to them? Can you send them cash, use a nym server for email contacts...and maybe somehow route your transactions with the server through something like TOR?
Well, it is better if you want to get caught easier...
No one is really actively tracing downloads from USENET, not like P2P solutions.
For the original poster, go google "open usenet servers", you'll find a couple of sites that index open usenet servers, and gives stats on them.
I know...I know...first rule of USENET is not to talk about USENET.
Well, I've been looking around ATT's site and may have found a way around it. Doing a business phone....they just need a EIN, which I do have and is for business purposes...so I may go that route.
Not to mention, every time a schoolchild uses the excuse "the dog ate my netbook"...that'll cost the state another $250 or so.
Yeah, that's gonna be my new adventure...getting a new iPhone and NOT giving them my SSN. I have no problem giving a deposit, but, I don't give out my ssn for something not related to SS income taxes...
Man, I'd not have thought it would be that hard to find old used copies for sale, nor would I have thought they would command such a high price?!?! People are wanting like $100+ for it...I was expecting an old version of the original cd/dvd install disks to be like $40 max...what's the deal with that I wonder?
Also, just noticed when reading one of their pages...they say when listening to music, that to answer a call, you just 'pinch' your headset microphone...?!?
Looking at the picture, looks like they're forcing you to use that same weird headset for the shuffle. So, I lose functionality if I use my better Shure SE530 earphones?
No...pretty common to see straight people having contact in public. Not something you're used to seeing with gay guys. And yes it bothers me to see it...I think it does most straight men, pretty common.
Hmm...well, I'd pretty much consider my dick to be just as clean on me as any other part of my body, I mean, I do bathe at least once a day, and during a normal day, my dick touches far less that my hands for example.
That, and after years of practice, I've learned not to piss on myself when in the restroom.
Well, I guess if you're GAY, then there's nothing wrong with it. Personally "I" don't really want to see it, but it is a free country.
Actually these days, I find that about the only way an individual person can hope to keep much of any of their hard earned cash from the tax man, is to incorporate themselves (I did the "S" corp thing), and contract out. This is about the only way you can keep your money, by using the corp structure to allow for deductions of most everything you do, use, drive for your job.
Actually THAT is the problem, I never expected him to do quite so much damage so quickly.
While making it VERY difficult on companies to hide tax money offshore, at the same time, why don't we cut corportate taxes severely. That way, you attract more businesses back to the US, and there is less reason to try to 'hide' the monies.
Besides, IMHO...corporate tax is useless, it is just a hidden tax on the consumer, since a corporation just passes this off onto the consumer as part of their cost of a product.
Actually, I think it is reasonable. Hell, I've been paying close to that for years for the Sprint Vision service with a phone that is not even a smartphone....
I figured if I'm paying this much, get an iPhone that actually does a LOT for the price.
Well, a war cost money, but I agree...it was badly managed and cost too much.
However...we still have the war going on, AND the Obama admin...had bested the Bush deficit by a long shot just a few months into his admin...and is projected in the next 2 years to triple it...in the trillions.
At what point do they say STOP???
You've never gone 100+ on a normal highway?!?!
I'm surprised there hasn't been much talk on /. about the proposed national sales tax that the congresscritters have been tossing about.
It sounds interesting a VAT...but, I've not heard if it is on TOP of current taxes...or if it would replace the income tax?
My...they are all sure trying to get creative with taxes these days aren't then? Internet tax? VAT?
Strange that with raising taxes and all so far....revenues to the govt. are going down pretty quick. Something isn't working, eh?
Well, the current administration has been piling that deficit spending on, like no administration before them.
It certainly isn't gonna get any easier on the the next generations. We need to stop NOW.
We cannot as a country afford to keep throwing money at private business (and buying and running them), and the next load of spending on the table that is planned for? Govt. healthcare? I wonder where they are going to get the money for that. At some point, someone needs to have the sense to stand up and say STOP...and tighten things up and sacrifice a little to pay things off.
A normal household has to do it, why shouldn't our government have to do the same??
Well, to the consumer...he sees more than that in taxes, when you add on state (and sometimes county/parish and city tax) too.
I'd guess all those added together would get you to near the 25% tax on gas range. Remember, not all roads are Federal highways.