What if the plugin redirected your trafic though a remote anonymizing proxy?
Then the proxy would hide your IP address.
GGP wrote:
All works fine, which IP address would they like me to come from?
The server gets the proxy's actual IP address, not "which IP address would they like". Perhaps some proxies can be instructed to send a bogus X-Forwarded-For HTTP header, but anyone who analyzes server logs knows enough to be skeptical of that header.
Maybe GGP's plugin sends a bogus X-Forwarded-For header itself, and counts on all server operators to be grossly incompetent and ignore the actual client address. That actually sounds like the right level of "hacking" expertise for the typical Anonymous cannon fodder.
For unnecessary luxuries like TV, that's exactly what I expect. Give me what I want, more more more more, or fuck it, I won't waste any time or money on it. Moore's Law has given us the potential for so much more, but the old-guard monopolies are exerting herculean efforts to drag the world back into the 20th century to keep their obsolete business models profitable for just one. more. quarter.
How do you know? It's not like they pop up a window to let you know if the installation was successful.
Let me turn that around on you: Why would you expect accurate results from a virus-scanner running on the computer to be scanned? That is, if the computer did somehow get infected then it doesn't matter if you're running a virus scanner or not -- the virus can interfere with the scanner causing it to report false negatives. All it takes is one lapse in your AV and then you can never again trust it do anything at all.
I post my technique about once a year here on Slashdot, whenever some oh-so-clever nerd asks this question. This is something I do occasionally, once every few years when I'm bored and have nothing else to do.
1. Boot system from live CD (pressed, not burned) from e.g. Slackware.
2. Make sector copy of system drive on a scratch drive. (dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb)
3. Blank another scratch drive. (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc) Yeah, I have a lot of scratch drives lying around. Don't you?
4. Install a fresh OS and virus scanner (from trustworthy install media, of course) on the blank system drive. Do not connect this system to any network.
5. Attach sector-copy of original system drive to fresh system, run scan. Wait for "clean" result.
6. ???
7. Profit!
Voila, I have verified clean systems with no AV running on them. In fact, the AV software (which I don't particularly trust) has never had access to my actual system drive or to the Internet. So even if this year's Nerd's Choice Ultimate AV Software turns out to be a front for the Russian mafia... no problem. They never got any access to my actual system or data.
Also I keep my systems patched up and don't run downloaded programs without trustworthy signatures, and don't use any browser plugins, and follow a variety of other good software hygiene principles. So even without the complicated scan above or any active AV software I'm still pretty sure my computers aren't infected.
This isn't exactly rocket surgery. With a little caution, foresight and discipline it really is possible to be reasonably and rationally confident of system integrity without any AV crutch.
So they say file sharing is killing the music industry. Even if they're right (and that's by no means a given)... so what? People can still record and distribute music without any music industry. With computers and the Internet it's easy and pretty cheap. But even if somehow all musicians decided to stop recording and distributing... again, so what? We can live without recorded music. All the money people currently spend on CDs would be spent on other entertainment instead, such as live performances.
Copyright is a tool for the benefit of society, not a natural right of artists (or the parasites who trick them into lopsided contracts) to make money. As far as music goes, there's just no measurable benefit to society to justify any significant effort or expense on copyright enforcement.
I say the proper response to this demand is to declare music to be outside the scope of copyright. Entertainers, learn your place and watch your step.
Skill? Bud...I'd love to even see you attempt one stage of the Tour de France. I guarantee you couldn't average 24 mph for one stage. They avg. 24 mph for 2000+ miles.
Exactly: skill is a very minor factor in that sport compared to strength and endurance.
I have a hard drive made in 1991 that still works fine. 1000 megabyte Micropolis SCSI full-height (the size of two stacked CDROM drives). It cost so much back in 1991 that I still can't bear to retire it.:)
Health and safety are overrated. Any idiot can be safe and healthy. If you have the power to accomplish something then go for it, even if it kills you.
As a basic transportation appliance for moving a standard family unit with accessories and groceries from point A to point B, the Ferrari sucks ass. The Corolla provides 1000x the value for that purpose.
For recreational driving, having fun, going fast, showing off, the Ferrari wins. Some people will never appreciate any of those things and struggle to rationalize why anyone would ever waste money on a sports car. Finding nothing in their own psychological inventory, they project feelings and motivations familiar to them, such as issues of "inadequacy", particularly sexual inadequacy. ("He has that fancy car to compensate for his small penis, ha ha!") Such projections reveal at best a lack of experience, perspective, and imagination; at worst a small-minded pettiness brought on by envy that someone else would have the means to waste so much money on such a frivolity.
The world is full of ordinary humans. We don't need more of them. We need more freaks like him. Let him do what he does best, and be the freakiest freak he can be.
If the government officials KNEW what they were getting with the Internet 20 years ago, they would have outlawed the entire thing back then, it was much easier - nobody knew what it was.
Al Gore had a pretty good idea what he was getting into. He wanted to change the world.
So you ask for a pay rise, almost certainly the response will be:
"well, we don't have the budget to do anything now, but I'll make sure you are rewarded when you review comes round in X months time."
You're now in the worst possible situation.
No, you're in the best possible situation. The old company has rejected your very modest request and you move with a clear conscience to the new company for a nice pay raise and no more commute.
[other nonsense snipped]
Are you even reading the same story as the rest of us? That all seems completely irrelevant.
BTW, this is not the time to ask for a pay raise, unless you just want an excuse to leave. This is the time to ask for a substantial share of the company and a big promotion. Since it's a small company, vice president seems appropriate. If the company will certainly fail without you then this is a no-brainer for the owners. Once again, all they can do is say no; you shrug and leave with a clear conscience for greener pastures.
The worst possible thing you can do is stay where you are out of "loyalty" without making it perfectly clear to coworkers, management, and shareholders what you're sacrificing for their sake, and getting a real commitment of loyalty in return from them. If they don't understand why you're staying they might see your "loyalty" as weakness (afraid to try a new job) and feel free to abuse you in the future. Their commitment is best expressed in some tangible form that's obvious to everyone.
It doesn't matter what you did or didn't do. Police interrogations are almost always fishing expeditions to gather confession-like statements that can be used as leverage in a plea bargain. They are very good at twisting anything you say to look like you've confessed to some crime, perhaps not even what they arrested you for. Always exercising your right to remain silent makes these fishing expeditions less productive and discourages the police from routinely attempting to boost conviction rates by harassing and intimidating innocent people.
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Holy crap, that soon? I thought we had until December!
If you want to call it what it really is then call it "encryption".
Monsanto fully informs all licensees of this risk ... in 1-point type on page 317 of the licensing agreement.
Then the proxy would hide your IP address.
GGP wrote:
The server gets the proxy's actual IP address, not "which IP address would they like". Perhaps some proxies can be instructed to send a bogus X-Forwarded-For HTTP header, but anyone who analyzes server logs knows enough to be skeptical of that header.
Maybe GGP's plugin sends a bogus X-Forwarded-For header itself, and counts on all server operators to be grossly incompetent and ignore the actual client address. That actually sounds like the right level of "hacking" expertise for the typical Anonymous cannon fodder.
There's no way any plugin can hide your actual IP address from whatever HTTP server you connect to. Remote anonymizing proxy, yes; plugin, no.
For unnecessary luxuries like TV, that's exactly what I expect. Give me what I want, more more more more, or fuck it, I won't waste any time or money on it. Moore's Law has given us the potential for so much more, but the old-guard monopolies are exerting herculean efforts to drag the world back into the 20th century to keep their obsolete business models profitable for just one. more. quarter.
Let me turn that around on you: Why would you expect accurate results from a virus-scanner running on the computer to be scanned? That is, if the computer did somehow get infected then it doesn't matter if you're running a virus scanner or not -- the virus can interfere with the scanner causing it to report false negatives. All it takes is one lapse in your AV and then you can never again trust it do anything at all.
I post my technique about once a year here on Slashdot, whenever some oh-so-clever nerd asks this question. This is something I do occasionally, once every few years when I'm bored and have nothing else to do.
Voila, I have verified clean systems with no AV running on them. In fact, the AV software (which I don't particularly trust) has never had access to my actual system drive or to the Internet. So even if this year's Nerd's Choice Ultimate AV Software turns out to be a front for the Russian mafia... no problem. They never got any access to my actual system or data.
Also I keep my systems patched up and don't run downloaded programs without trustworthy signatures, and don't use any browser plugins, and follow a variety of other good software hygiene principles. So even without the complicated scan above or any active AV software I'm still pretty sure my computers aren't infected.
This isn't exactly rocket surgery. With a little caution, foresight and discipline it really is possible to be reasonably and rationally confident of system integrity without any AV crutch.
So they say file sharing is killing the music industry. Even if they're right (and that's by no means a given) ... so what? People can still record and distribute music without any music industry. With computers and the Internet it's easy and pretty cheap. But even if somehow all musicians decided to stop recording and distributing ... again, so what? We can live without recorded music. All the money people currently spend on CDs would be spent on other entertainment instead, such as live performances.
Copyright is a tool for the benefit of society, not a natural right of artists (or the parasites who trick them into lopsided contracts) to make money. As far as music goes, there's just no measurable benefit to society to justify any significant effort or expense on copyright enforcement.
I say the proper response to this demand is to declare music to be outside the scope of copyright. Entertainers, learn your place and watch your step.
American innovation is faltering! This is a call to arms!
1) Lower taxes on the rich
2) De-regulate corporations
3) Extend copyright
Whew! Problem solved!
Exactly: skill is a very minor factor in that sport compared to strength and endurance.
I have a hard drive made in 1991 that still works fine. 1000 megabyte Micropolis SCSI full-height (the size of two stacked CDROM drives). It cost so much back in 1991 that I still can't bear to retire it. :)
Same story here. Ebay fails.
Health and safety are overrated. Any idiot can be safe and healthy. If you have the power to accomplish something then go for it, even if it kills you.
That's always good advice.
I think he means the USA just sneezed.
The future.
Hip hip hurray for alpha decay!
As a basic transportation appliance for moving a standard family unit with accessories and groceries from point A to point B, the Ferrari sucks ass. The Corolla provides 1000x the value for that purpose.
For recreational driving, having fun, going fast, showing off, the Ferrari wins. Some people will never appreciate any of those things and struggle to rationalize why anyone would ever waste money on a sports car. Finding nothing in their own psychological inventory, they project feelings and motivations familiar to them, such as issues of "inadequacy", particularly sexual inadequacy. ("He has that fancy car to compensate for his small penis, ha ha!") Such projections reveal at best a lack of experience, perspective, and imagination; at worst a small-minded pettiness brought on by envy that someone else would have the means to waste so much money on such a frivolity.
It's an insult to monkeys.
The world is full of ordinary humans. We don't need more of them. We need more freaks like him. Let him do what he does best, and be the freakiest freak he can be.
Al Gore had a pretty good idea what he was getting into. He wanted to change the world.
No, you're in the best possible situation. The old company has rejected your very modest request and you move with a clear conscience to the new company for a nice pay raise and no more commute.
Are you even reading the same story as the rest of us? That all seems completely irrelevant.
BTW, this is not the time to ask for a pay raise, unless you just want an excuse to leave. This is the time to ask for a substantial share of the company and a big promotion. Since it's a small company, vice president seems appropriate. If the company will certainly fail without you then this is a no-brainer for the owners. Once again, all they can do is say no; you shrug and leave with a clear conscience for greener pastures.
The worst possible thing you can do is stay where you are out of "loyalty" without making it perfectly clear to coworkers, management, and shareholders what you're sacrificing for their sake, and getting a real commitment of loyalty in return from them. If they don't understand why you're staying they might see your "loyalty" as weakness (afraid to try a new job) and feel free to abuse you in the future. Their commitment is best expressed in some tangible form that's obvious to everyone.
It doesn't matter what you did or didn't do. Police interrogations are almost always fishing expeditions to gather confession-like statements that can be used as leverage in a plea bargain. They are very good at twisting anything you say to look like you've confessed to some crime, perhaps not even what they arrested you for. Always exercising your right to remain silent makes these fishing expeditions less productive and discourages the police from routinely attempting to boost conviction rates by harassing and intimidating innocent people.
I know! That's exactly the same as occasionally plugging in a flash drive!
I'm so glad I never have to do that with my iPap!
He was an idiot for not having the foresight to be a pretty girl like Maddy Pulver.