You have to admit there's a tendency for wiccan gatherings to include a lot of the 'earth mother' types.
Hell, I went to a couple of wiccan gatherings a number of years ago. My impression was that it was a lot like the goth scene except that the crushed velvet was in brighter colours and larger sizes....
"The fact that the most popular voices are 'conservative' (by some definition) and the leftwing voices are only listened to by a small fraction of the populace, implies that the left wing voices are farther 'out there' than the conservatives."
Or that the mainstream left* in the US doesn't listen to talking heads or indulge in recreational outrage anywhere near as much as the right, who seem to feel that they're under attack by the modern world.
(*as much as the US has a left wing, which it really doesn't.)
Attacks like Slow Loris rely on opening lots of connections and keeping them open, intermittently sending a byte or two of an http request to keep the server interested. You don't even need to be distributed to do that, one client can take down a server that's vulnerable to slow loris.
But that's not what's going on here. DDoS can be (and is in this case I think) lots and lots and lots of normal traffic from many different sources, flooding the pipes, overloading the server etc etc.
The proper action to stop future leaks is three-fold.
1. Stop classifying anything and everything. Classified documents should be classified for a damn good reason.
2. Stop behaving like arseholes and then expecting secrecy to protect you. There should be no reason for politicians to be embarrassed because they shouldn't be pulling this shit in the first place.
3. Yes, improve security. But not without the other twqo steps, because then we'll just get better protection for corrupt ass-hattery.
If society wants to ban abortion then young, scared women, mostly from strict moralistic or religious families, will die.
Because they will be scared of being beaten by fathers or boyfriends, or scared of being thrown out of home, or socially ostracised, or losing all their life prospects, or whatever it happens to be. They'll probably be from strongly anti-abortion backgrounds but they'll make a mistake and think they can fix it by some back-street guy with a coathanger, or drinking something their friend heard could induce miscarriage or a million and one other ways.
This is one of the major reasons abortion should be free, legal and infrequent. Even if you disagree with it vehemently, because otherwise girls die.
Of course the anti-abortion crowd and the abstinence-only crowd overlap considerably, and neither of them is a reality based argument, so this always falls on deaf ears.
It seemed convenient for people to latch onto hate for him early one, what with him giving the finger to the US government and demanding profits from exploitation of natural resources remain in country.
But it turns out that he was an asshat, yep. I was one of those people, though haven't been for a little while now.
'xactly. Also being able to do multiplayer on a single screen is good. Playing with friends or family in the same room is important and probably one of the major reasons the Wii is such a huge success.
It's a shame so few of the big name games do one-system co-op. Gears of War was always fun for that, as was Resistance, though by Resistance 2 the morons took it out!
Well, the TFA says - "Users can search and download content without a server ever getting involved"
And I was trying to figure out how that might work. If it's "no servers after the first time" or "no servers after a tribler peer has been found", that's fine, but you need something that fits the description of a server at some point in that. I was just thinking aloud at methods that might not require any user action and work straight off without requiring a specific Tribler central server.
'cos you can't just utter the magic words "In the cloud!" and have it work...
(not that they mention 'cloud', it's just my pet hate at the moment)
You can't have a situation with no server involved, ever, unless you're distributing the software on a friend-to-friend basis. There *has* to be a root node or selection of root nodes that the software knows about when it's installed, unless they have sufficiently advanced technology that it's indistinguishable from magic. Or they use some sort of brute force search....
Sure, once a node is online and given enough other nodes stay online enough of the time, it would be possible to have a persistent network.
I suppose you could do something like search google for random torrents, join in, test the folks you connect to for being part of the decentralised network, grab network info from there etc. It still uses google as a central reference point but it would be more robust than having some sort of hard-coded 'peer tracker' server, or using any sort of brute-force port scan of the internet.
We need to end the entire practice of western governments pulling dodgy, corrupt, anti-democratic, anti-humanitarian antics in the name of security or in any other name. We need to end the practice of classifying that which is embarrassing, scandalous or distasteful. If anything embarrassing, scandalous or distasteful happens it means that something must be done about it, not that it should be brushed under the carpet.
The people need to see what is being done in their name with their mandate and make sure their voices are heard that these things must end.
I may not agree 100% with the depth of the vision of Mr Assange - that all secret communication in government must end - but I sure as hell think that 99% of it should be available. And this would have the effect of the insidious, sinister shit not happening half as much because the assholes would know they are being watched.
It's time the people watched the government again, not the other way around.
As far as I know, none of it uses 'the internet' and does all its comms over private networks, data lines, dial-up etc. The only reason I thought the original comment might be worrying was the naivety of the poster.
I should have written - I'm not sure if that's a really good joke or if you really, actually think that PoS and ATM systems use the public internet?
Your site sounds fine to me. I'm a reactive ad blocker rather than a proactive one. Annoy me with flash or sound and I will block ads. It's also quite likely I won't come back to your site.
Make ads in context and inoffensive and I'll leave them be. Here's the problem though - any money you get from me loading the ads is probably pretty inconsequential. And I don't click on them. Ever. I'm generally not interested in new opportunities to hand over my credit card details online.
OK, so 'never' was an exaggeration, but I'd say less than once a year.
1. My browser has to request the ads separately, I wish to disable this behaviour. It's nothing like buying a newspaper and blanking bits out. It is (largely) active content that takes my bandwidth and resources to run, as well as annoying me.
2. Some sites already block people that block their ads.
I do agree that it's dubious at best to engage in any sort of arms race here. But here's the thing, at a fundamental level serving a page is something they do, actively, at my request. If they don't want to give me content unless I also get ads or pay them money it's their responsibility to make that happen, not mine. And I will be just as happy if/when they catch on and start checking this stuff.
Besides which, I'm not anti all ads. I leave advertising on for slashdot because it doesn't usually strobe bright colours all over the place, advertise scams or malware, or take over the browser.
If the ads get too annoying I will tell my computer not to fetch them (blocking tools).
If that's not acceptable to the content providers, they are free not to serve me their content and I'm happy with their decision. It's a deal I'm perfectly happy with and I consider it in no way cutting off my nose to spite my face. The price of the implied contract is too high, neither party wants to enter into it.
I'm prepared to put up with some advertising, just not most of the flash stuff.
Privacy violation and tracking are different and harder to quantify, also harder to catch and track. I think if there are things to be done at the browser level then community editions or additions may be the way to go. I use a cookie prevention mechanism, a flash cookie autoremoval addon and a variety of other things.
Facebook I use. But it's because info I put on there I choose to put on there. Irrelevant crap mostly.
About 15 years ago a friend of mine had a game called "Settlers 2". Pretty standard RTS in a medieval/fantasy setting IIRC, quite cute.
The CD it came on had visible pattern burned into it that would screw up reading the disc very easily. Using various blind copiers I managed to get a decent iso image off it. Of course the burn patterns weren't just to stop you reading it....
If the game code did not detect the burn patterns in the CD it was running from it was very clever. Tricksy.
In the game you had an economy based on a few things, one of which was iron. Another was pork. You needed farms to get pigs, and an abattoir to turn that into ham. The ham was then used as food for the settlers. Specifically the miners. They ate ham then went mining for iron ore, and the foundry turned out iron which you could then turn into weapons and other soldier equipment.
After about half an hour of playing I tried to figure out why I had no army. After a lot of squinting it turned out that the iron was coming out of the mines and being carried to the foundry, which was producing.... pigs.
I just had to laugh and mentally congratulate the developers for that.
Some folks capture requirements from the field, some others come up with new directions. Software developers take both sets of requirements, come up with solutions, put them back to the originators as well as product and project managers, and the business then decides what's going in. The developer then goes and implements.
I suppose those code monkey jobs wouldn't be something I'd go for so I won't have seen them, and maybe what you say holds true for in-house programmers at non-software enterprises.
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Not in the free world they don't.
Oh right, you live in the USA....
"open source is just a philosophy on how to develop software in a collaborative manner "
No it isn't.
I can open source stuff and be vehemently opposed to working with others!
"open source is not limited to either linux or even the GPL license."
Yeah, but it is the open source platform of choice at the moment.
You have to admit there's a tendency for wiccan gatherings to include a lot of the 'earth mother' types.
Hell, I went to a couple of wiccan gatherings a number of years ago. My impression was that it was a lot like the goth scene except that the crushed velvet was in brighter colours and larger sizes....
It's not just men that are coercive in this way.
And it is her decision, and it's one she'll make regardless of whether it's legal or not.
"The fact that the most popular voices are 'conservative' (by some definition) and the leftwing voices are only listened to by a small fraction of the populace, implies that the left wing voices are farther 'out there' than the conservatives."
Or that the mainstream left* in the US doesn't listen to talking heads or indulge in recreational outrage anywhere near as much as the right, who seem to feel that they're under attack by the modern world.
(*as much as the US has a left wing, which it really doesn't.)
Not necessarily true.
Attacks like Slow Loris rely on opening lots of connections and keeping them open, intermittently sending a byte or two of an http request to keep the server interested. You don't even need to be distributed to do that, one client can take down a server that's vulnerable to slow loris.
But that's not what's going on here. DDoS can be (and is in this case I think) lots and lots and lots of normal traffic from many different sources, flooding the pipes, overloading the server etc etc.
The proper action to stop future leaks is three-fold.
1. Stop classifying anything and everything. Classified documents should be classified for a damn good reason.
2. Stop behaving like arseholes and then expecting secrecy to protect you. There should be no reason for politicians to be embarrassed because they shouldn't be pulling this shit in the first place.
3. Yes, improve security. But not without the other twqo steps, because then we'll just get better protection for corrupt ass-hattery.
If society wants to ban abortion then young, scared women, mostly from strict moralistic or religious families, will die.
Because they will be scared of being beaten by fathers or boyfriends, or scared of being thrown out of home, or socially ostracised, or losing all their life prospects, or whatever it happens to be. They'll probably be from strongly anti-abortion backgrounds but they'll make a mistake and think they can fix it by some back-street guy with a coathanger, or drinking something their friend heard could induce miscarriage or a million and one other ways.
This is one of the major reasons abortion should be free, legal and infrequent. Even if you disagree with it vehemently, because otherwise girls die.
Of course the anti-abortion crowd and the abstinence-only crowd overlap considerably, and neither of them is a reality based argument, so this always falls on deaf ears.
I don't know about social benefits, but at least as a programmer I produce something.
It seemed convenient for people to latch onto hate for him early one, what with him giving the finger to the US government and demanding profits from exploitation of natural resources remain in country.
But it turns out that he was an asshat, yep. I was one of those people, though haven't been for a little while now.
'xactly. Also being able to do multiplayer on a single screen is good. Playing with friends or family in the same room is important and probably one of the major reasons the Wii is such a huge success.
It's a shame so few of the big name games do one-system co-op. Gears of War was always fun for that, as was Resistance, though by Resistance 2 the morons took it out!
Well, the TFA says - "Users can search and download content without a server ever getting involved"
And I was trying to figure out how that might work. If it's "no servers after the first time" or "no servers after a tribler peer has been found", that's fine, but you need something that fits the description of a server at some point in that. I was just thinking aloud at methods that might not require any user action and work straight off without requiring a specific Tribler central server.
'cos you can't just utter the magic words "In the cloud!" and have it work...
(not that they mention 'cloud', it's just my pet hate at the moment)
Bootstrap is the interesting issue.
You can't have a situation with no server involved, ever, unless you're distributing the software on a friend-to-friend basis. There *has* to be a root node or selection of root nodes that the software knows about when it's installed, unless they have sufficiently advanced technology that it's indistinguishable from magic. Or they use some sort of brute force search....
Sure, once a node is online and given enough other nodes stay online enough of the time, it would be possible to have a persistent network.
I suppose you could do something like search google for random torrents, join in, test the folks you connect to for being part of the decentralised network, grab network info from there etc. It still uses google as a central reference point but it would be more robust than having some sort of hard-coded 'peer tracker' server, or using any sort of brute-force port scan of the internet.
Good.
We need to end the entire practice of western governments pulling dodgy, corrupt, anti-democratic, anti-humanitarian antics in the name of security or in any other name. We need to end the practice of classifying that which is embarrassing, scandalous or distasteful. If anything embarrassing, scandalous or distasteful happens it means that something must be done about it, not that it should be brushed under the carpet.
The people need to see what is being done in their name with their mandate and make sure their voices are heard that these things must end.
I may not agree 100% with the depth of the vision of Mr Assange - that all secret communication in government must end - but I sure as hell think that 99% of it should be available. And this would have the effect of the insidious, sinister shit not happening half as much because the assholes would know they are being watched.
It's time the people watched the government again, not the other way around.
Which is exactly what a certificate authority is for - to give you some expectation of trust on that first connect.
I'm not sure a torrent site like that is anything like untraceable...
Also you probably want someone who knows about this stuff to help you remove traces of yourself from the data too.
Well, I used to work with ATMs and PoS equipment.
As far as I know, none of it uses 'the internet' and does all its comms over private networks, data lines, dial-up etc. The only reason I thought the original comment might be worrying was the naivety of the poster.
I should have written - I'm not sure if that's a really good joke or if you really, actually think that PoS and ATM systems use the public internet?
Villain?
Mine's a hero...
My sarcasm meter is malfunctioning. I can't tell if that's hilarious or worrying.
Your site sounds fine to me. I'm a reactive ad blocker rather than a proactive one.
Annoy me with flash or sound and I will block ads. It's also quite likely I won't come back to your site.
Make ads in context and inoffensive and I'll leave them be. Here's the problem though - any money you get from me loading the ads is probably pretty inconsequential. And I don't click on them. Ever. I'm generally not interested in new opportunities to hand over my credit card details online.
OK, so 'never' was an exaggeration, but I'd say less than once a year.
Two things make it different -
1. My browser has to request the ads separately, I wish to disable this behaviour. It's nothing like buying a newspaper and blanking bits out. It is (largely) active content that takes my bandwidth and resources to run, as well as annoying me.
2. Some sites already block people that block their ads.
I do agree that it's dubious at best to engage in any sort of arms race here. But here's the thing, at a fundamental level serving a page is something they do, actively, at my request. If they don't want to give me content unless I also get ads or pay them money it's their responsibility to make that happen, not mine. And I will be just as happy if/when they catch on and start checking this stuff.
Besides which, I'm not anti all ads. I leave advertising on for slashdot because it doesn't usually strobe bright colours all over the place, advertise scams or malware, or take over the browser.
If the ads get too annoying I will tell my computer not to fetch them (blocking tools).
If that's not acceptable to the content providers, they are free not to serve me their content and I'm happy with their decision. It's a deal I'm perfectly happy with and I consider it in no way cutting off my nose to spite my face. The price of the implied contract is too high, neither party wants to enter into it.
I'm prepared to put up with some advertising, just not most of the flash stuff.
Privacy violation and tracking are different and harder to quantify, also harder to catch and track. I think if there are things to be done at the browser level then community editions or additions may be the way to go. I use a cookie prevention mechanism, a flash cookie autoremoval addon and a variety of other things.
Facebook I use. But it's because info I put on there I choose to put on there. Irrelevant crap mostly.
For the lulz?
About 15 years ago a friend of mine had a game called "Settlers 2". Pretty standard RTS in a medieval/fantasy setting IIRC, quite cute.
The CD it came on had visible pattern burned into it that would screw up reading the disc very easily. Using various blind copiers I managed to get a decent iso image off it. Of course the burn patterns weren't just to stop you reading it....
If the game code did not detect the burn patterns in the CD it was running from it was very clever. Tricksy.
In the game you had an economy based on a few things, one of which was iron. Another was pork. You needed farms to get pigs, and an abattoir to turn that into ham. The ham was then used as food for the settlers. Specifically the miners. They ate ham then went mining for iron ore, and the foundry turned out iron which you could then turn into weapons and other soldier equipment.
After about half an hour of playing I tried to figure out why I had no army. After a lot of squinting it turned out that the iron was coming out of the mines and being carried to the foundry, which was producing.... pigs.
I just had to laugh and mentally congratulate the developers for that.
You misunderstand. I'm not admitting guilt of anything and I still find your initial point to be both unfounded and objectionable.
I work in a large software enterprise.
This is not the case.
Some folks capture requirements from the field, some others come up with new directions. Software developers take both sets of requirements, come up with solutions, put them back to the originators as well as product and project managers, and the business then decides what's going in. The developer then goes and implements.
I suppose those code monkey jobs wouldn't be something I'd go for so I won't have seen them, and maybe what you say holds true for in-house programmers at non-software enterprises.