As the first torrent site to appear on the network, Play can be accessed directly through a ZeroNet URL (only available with the tool installed).
"Only available with the tool installed"? OK, so the ZeroNet tool is installed, it's open source (good), multiple platforms (cool) and it uses bitcoin cryptography to, and I quote the ZeroNet website: "Your account is protected by same cryptography as your Bitcoin wallet".
We have been promised AI was just around the corner since the 50s and the 60s.
Show me even one system that is able to match human beings in creativity and resourcefulness. No, Deep Blue does not count: playing chess, or even go, is not the same as creating the LIGO experiment.
We have been promised sex robots for years now. All this time, Google has been struggling to make self-driving cars.
Don't believe me? Google "google self-driving cars shortcomings"... Turns out even the mighty Googleplex cannot make self-driving cars that handle, say, a bit of rain and snow. Or potholes and unexpected construction works.
And we are talking about cars, where the level of tolerance is about, say 15cm to 20cm.
Sex robots should be able to handle facial recognition, tolerance of a centimeter at best, a couple of millimeters at worst, not to mention level of... er... interaction that are way beyond even the most advanced stuff we have in labs now. And I don't want to imagine patching sex robots for the latest security exploits, when the "Internet of Things"(Gosh, I hate that fscking market-speak) is the cesspit of horrors it is right now.
Oh, and just imagine the bedlam if confidentiality of sex-robot ordering is breached, Ashley-Madison style...
Sure AI, or at least neural networks and expert systems, may replace a lot of white-collar jobs, and good ridance to them (Lawyers and Bankers, especially, better brace for a richly-deserved comeuppance). But HAL is definitely not in our future. And no sex robots either.
And Xen is based on qemu, which has been proved to be fairly insecure in its own right.
Using Qubes OS, which is based on Xen, which is based on qemu is... How to put it mildly? Maybe not the best idea if you are security conscious.
In the words of Theo De Raadt: "You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes."
In other words, Bitcoin is finally getting the attention it deserves from security researchers. And, surprise! It's full of bugs!
I would be tempted to say: "Film at 11" or even "told ya so", but the truth of the matter is, I have suspected for a long long time that Bitcoin was not as secure as its proponents have been saying all along.
I am waiting for the price of bitcoin to fall pretty freaking fast, once everyone realizes hard-earned bitcoins can be stolen from thin air extremely easily, like they have been stolen in the past.
I still think Bitcoin may yet be proven as the tulip craze of the 21st century. Some people will lose their shirts. Things never change (madness and wisdom of the crowds, yadda yadda yadda).
Then, Mommy (or your best friend, or your Dad, or whoever) is going to show you how to download all the torrents of your favourite show!
And guess what?
- If Mommy does it, it can't be all bad. - If you can get High-Def versions, it's actually real cool. - If, during recess, you can swap all those episodes of your show for other shows that are also real cool, you make other people happy. - And, later, you realize you can relive a bit of your childhood for cheap, since you don't have to buy the DRM Digital version of that real good show you used to watch as a kid... for essentially $0.
I am not worried about the kids -- I am more worried about the entertainment dealers, but the solution has been around for a long time: produce good stuff and slap a $2 per month tax on all internet access. Problem solved. But Hollywood is never going to go for it, they are just too greedy for their own good.
Essentially, the "Socialist" government is now a center right government, complete with war and security posturing.
"War and security posturing" is orthogonal to the left-right (liberal-conservative) axis. What you're actually complaining about is that the Socialist party is becoming more authoritarian, not that it's becoming more conservative.
Bzzzt! You are wrong. When a "Socialist" Prime Minister says, talking about a minority that they should go back to their "own country" (conveniently located in Eastern Europe) because they don't want to integrate in France, it's time to recognize that this is so called "Socialist" party is now trying very hard to follow the footsteps of the racist National Front.
And that's, again, a "Socialist/Liberal/Left party. Conservatives are even worse.
What are the chances of this being enacted and enforced? I hope, like hell, they don't do the whole knee-jerk response thing and end up looking as stupid as my country.
Unfortunately, given the recent terrorism and idiotic response to it, I think it's pretty high.
That's "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" to you, sir. FTFY. (Yes, I am French).
I am afraid this is just another scurity theater in action, in a country where the "Front National" has been polluting the political discourse for the past 10 years, and has been cheaply imitated by politicians of every stripe.
Essentially, the "Socialist" government is now a center right government, complete with war and security posturing.
The Conservatives are that close to the Front National.
The Front National has been winning the very latest election.
With politicians like these, who needs enemies? They will damage France more than Daesh, those sons of b* ever will.
Well, listening to CNN right now . . . I heard the story of a guy who dragged out a bloodied teenage girl out of the concert . . . is this what Islam is all about!? Any Muslims are encouraged to answer!
France has really stringent gun control laws. That did not prevented Charlie Hebdo. That also did not prevented 11/13/2015 events in Paris.
Has somebody noticed that tragedies in free gun zones occur not when people are not armed, but when the right to bear arms is limited. Because criminals do no care about zones.
My dear imbecile: you can kiss my ass.
Go back to watching Fox News, you are a complete idiot.
People forget that Syria was once a French colony. The Syrians have not forgotten that.
Bzzzt! You are wrong.
Syria was mainly a Turkish territory up until the end of WWI, when it became a protectorate of the French III Republic, along with Lebanon. It became independent in 1946.
Most Syrians actually do not resent the French that much. These acts of terrorism have nothing to do with that period of the history of Syria, but more with the war between the Syrian government and Islamic State.
France participated in Operation Desert Storm aka "Operation_Daguet", which is probably reason enough for any jihadist. More recently with the large influx of North African Muslims there's been conflict with France's largely atheistic culture. See the Charlie Hebdo incident -- militant Islam lacks anything resembling either a sense of humor or respect for human rights.
To the point, militant Islam really, really wants to be in charge, which makes pretty much everyone in the world either an immediate target or a future target. It's odd that you don't seem to recognize that.
Except, of course that there has been surveys done of French Moslems (by the Pew Research Institute if memory serves well), that tend to prove they are the least radicalized and best integrated of all European Moslem communities.
You really have no idea what you are talking about, so please just STFU.
I have to agree. The downfall of some liberal countries is that they become *too* sensitive, and when confronted with a true enemy, they don't realize or recognize it.
When someone is out to destroy you, you cannot simply be polite and act like it's a dinner party where someone had bad manners.
Ah, yes the evil that PC liberals do.
You are so full of sh*t. France is right there bombing ISIS in Syria. That's why these attacks are taking place.
France is getting a large influx of muslim immigrants, and France enacted laws that pretty much amount to "hey, you live here? be French Arab, not Arab". That doesn't sit well with the Caliphate Crew, so they're attacking Paris until Paris conforms to Sharia.
Until Paris conforms to Sharia? You must be dreaming dear...
The Moslem population is anywhere from 5% to 8% to the total French population. Not gonna happen anytime soon.
France is one of the top 5 arms exporters in the world (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31901493), they have a history of racial tension against immigrants (https://news.vice.com/article/france-is-getting-more-intolerant-and-racist-according-to-human-rights-report). You treat those beneath you like shit, and occasionally, people fight back. Those would be two motives, I'm sure there are more.
Ah, yes, because the USA have such a sterling record of accepting and protecting its minorities... NOT.
Sheesh, compare France and the USA, I am not so sure which one comes out on top in the "we are racist and proud of it". Just ask the KKK.
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As the first torrent site to appear on the network, Play can be accessed directly through a ZeroNet URL (only available with the tool installed).
"Only available with the tool installed"? OK, so the ZeroNet tool is installed, it's open source (good), multiple platforms (cool) and it uses bitcoin cryptography to, and I quote the ZeroNet website: "Your account is protected by same cryptography as your Bitcoin wallet".
Riiiiiiiiiiight. The same Bitcoin wallet that was cracked recently? Oh, and by the way, it only protects your IP address if you go through the Tor network. You mean, the same Tor network that was successfully attacked by researchers?
And this combination of two technologies is supposed to protect people? Really?
Tor is looking more and more "holey" all the time.
I can't help but wonder if the recent glibc DNS issue is not also an help in this deanonymization.
It seems to me there are less and less possibilities to escape the global panopticon.
The terrorists who attacked used GSM telephones and unencrypted SMS.
May I be the first one ot call bullsh*t on that evil crypto shtick? Me an the rest of /. of course...
We have been promised AI was just around the corner since the 50s and the 60s.
Show me even one system that is able to match human beings in creativity and resourcefulness. No, Deep Blue does not count: playing chess, or even go, is not the same as creating the LIGO experiment.
We have been promised sex robots for years now. All this time, Google has been struggling to make self-driving cars.
Don't believe me? Google "google self-driving cars shortcomings"... Turns out even the mighty Googleplex cannot make self-driving cars that handle, say, a bit of rain and snow. Or potholes and unexpected construction works.
And we are talking about cars, where the level of tolerance is about, say 15cm to 20cm.
Sex robots should be able to handle facial recognition, tolerance of a centimeter at best, a couple of millimeters at worst, not to mention level of... er... interaction that are way beyond even the most advanced stuff we have in labs now. And I don't want to imagine patching sex robots for the latest security exploits, when the "Internet of Things"(Gosh, I hate that fscking market-speak) is the cesspit of horrors it is right now.
Oh, and just imagine the bedlam if confidentiality of sex-robot ordering is breached, Ashley-Madison style...
Sure AI, or at least neural networks and expert systems, may replace a lot of white-collar jobs, and good ridance to them (Lawyers and Bankers, especially, better brace for a richly-deserved comeuppance). But HAL is definitely not in our future. And no sex robots either.
Feel free to mod me down now.
OTOH, Xen has long touted its security focus and has a really tiny attack surface so I'm happy to be using that in Qubes OS as well.
Excuse me? Xen had more than 100 security alerts in 2015, some extremely severe.
And Xen is based on qemu, which has been proved to be fairly insecure in its own right.
Using Qubes OS, which is based on Xen, which is based on qemu is... How to put it mildly? Maybe not the best idea if you are security conscious.
In the words of Theo De Raadt: "You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes."
I agree with him. It's turtles all the way down.
In other words, Bitcoin is finally getting the attention it deserves from security researchers. And, surprise! It's full of bugs!
I would be tempted to say: "Film at 11" or even "told ya so", but the truth of the matter is, I have suspected for a long long time that Bitcoin was not as secure as its proponents have been saying all along.
I am waiting for the price of bitcoin to fall pretty freaking fast, once everyone realizes hard-earned bitcoins can be stolen from thin air extremely easily, like they have been stolen in the past.
I still think Bitcoin may yet be proven as the tulip craze of the 21st century. Some people will lose their shirts. Things never change (madness and wisdom of the crowds, yadda yadda yadda).
You can mod me down now.
Then, Mommy (or your best friend, or your Dad, or whoever) is going to show you how to download all the torrents of your favourite show!
And guess what?
- If Mommy does it, it can't be all bad.
- If you can get High-Def versions, it's actually real cool.
- If, during recess, you can swap all those episodes of your show for other shows that are also real cool, you make other people happy.
- And, later, you realize you can relive a bit of your childhood for cheap, since you don't have to buy the DRM Digital version of that real good show you used to watch as a kid... for essentially $0.
I am not worried about the kids -- I am more worried about the entertainment dealers, but the solution has been around for a long time: produce good stuff and slap a $2 per month tax on all internet access. Problem solved. But Hollywood is never going to go for it, they are just too greedy for their own good.
"War and security posturing" is orthogonal to the left-right (liberal-conservative) axis. What you're actually complaining about is that the Socialist party is becoming more authoritarian, not that it's becoming more conservative.
Bzzzt! You are wrong. When a "Socialist" Prime Minister says, talking about a minority that they should go back to their "own country" (conveniently located in Eastern Europe) because they don't want to integrate in France, it's time to recognize that this is so called "Socialist" party is now trying very hard to follow the footsteps of the racist National Front.
And that's, again, a "Socialist/Liberal/Left party. Conservatives are even worse.
Don't believe me? Read it and weep.
What are the chances of this being enacted and enforced? I hope, like hell, they don't do the whole knee-jerk response thing and end up looking as stupid as my country.
Unfortunately, given the recent terrorism and idiotic response to it, I think it's pretty high.
That's "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" to you, sir. FTFY. (Yes, I am French).
I am afraid this is just another scurity theater in action, in a country where the "Front National" has been polluting the political discourse for the past 10 years, and has been cheaply imitated by politicians of every stripe.
Essentially, the "Socialist" government is now a center right government, complete with war and security posturing.
The Conservatives are that close to the Front National.
The Front National has been winning the very latest election.
With politicians like these, who needs enemies? They will damage France more than Daesh, those sons of b* ever will.
There used to be a saying in France: "We have the dumbest conservatives in the world".
I vote to change it to: "We just have the fscking dumbest a-holes politicians in the world".
That is all.
How portable is the shim? I'd welcome backports of some contemporary Linux daemons to run on older Linux systems without systemd.
I already asked that question on OpenBSD Journal. The answer was interesting and detailed.
> Post the issue to your distribution not the systemd group.
It's a problem with almost every distro, right? Like what doesn't have systemd, slack?
Yes, Slackware does not have systemd. And, as far as I know, has no plans to integrate it in the future (which is one of the reasons I love it).
On the other hand, OpenBSD systemd "shim" looks better every day, as it allows Gnome to work without systemd. Make of that what you will.
Well, listening to CNN right now . . . I heard the story of a guy who dragged out a bloodied teenage girl out of the concert . . . is this what Islam is all about!? Any Muslims are encouraged to answer!
You are a complete idiot. STFU.
Seriously, just STFU. And go and read about Ahmed Merabet. That guy was a courageous Frenchman.
Oh wait, you are probably too stupid to read anything that's not on Fox News. My Bad, Carry on being an idiot.
France has really stringent gun control laws. That did not prevented Charlie Hebdo. That also did not prevented 11/13/2015 events in Paris.
Has somebody noticed that tragedies in free gun zones occur not when people are not armed, but when the right to bear arms is limited. Because criminals do no care about zones.
My dear imbecile: you can kiss my ass.
Go back to watching Fox News, you are a complete idiot.
...of SWAT is? Would be outrageous for them not to have something in place after the last thing, and regular cops should be armed as well.
Take tour pick: RAID or GIGN. Google them. They are badass, and according to the latest reports, they already killed 2 terrorists.
I thought when it came to the war on terror, it was mission accomplished.
Since they're still attacking American and European targets 14 years later, would that possibly suggest that our existing strategies are not working?
Well... It's a possibility!
(Much funnier if you take a Mel Blanc voice to read the above line)
People forget that Syria was once a French colony. The Syrians have not forgotten that.
Bzzzt! You are wrong.
Syria was mainly a Turkish territory up until the end of WWI, when it became a protectorate of the French III Republic, along with Lebanon. It became independent in 1946.
Most Syrians actually do not resent the French that much. These acts of terrorism have nothing to do with that period of the history of Syria, but more with the war between the Syrian government and Islamic State.
Do they speak French at all in Syria? Serious question.
Actually, yes. Most speak Arabic, of course, but there is a large (educated) part of the population that speaks French.
France participated in Operation Desert Storm aka "Operation_Daguet", which is probably reason enough for any jihadist. More recently with the large influx of North African Muslims there's been conflict with France's largely atheistic culture. See the Charlie Hebdo incident -- militant Islam lacks anything resembling either a sense of humor or respect for human rights.
To the point, militant Islam really, really wants to be in charge, which makes pretty much everyone in the world either an immediate target or a future target. It's odd that you don't seem to recognize that.
Except, of course that there has been surveys done of French Moslems (by the Pew Research Institute if memory serves well), that tend to prove they are the least radicalized and best integrated of all European Moslem communities.
You really have no idea what you are talking about, so please just STFU.
I have to agree. The downfall of some liberal countries is that they become *too* sensitive, and when confronted with a true enemy, they don't realize or recognize it.
When someone is out to destroy you, you cannot simply be polite and act like it's a dinner party where someone had bad manners.
Ah, yes the evil that PC liberals do.
You are so full of sh*t. France is right there bombing ISIS in Syria. That's why these attacks are taking place.
France is getting a large influx of muslim immigrants, and France enacted laws that pretty much amount to "hey, you live here? be French Arab, not Arab". That doesn't sit well with the Caliphate Crew, so they're attacking Paris until Paris conforms to Sharia.
Until Paris conforms to Sharia? You must be dreaming dear...
The Moslem population is anywhere from 5% to 8% to the total French population. Not gonna happen anytime soon.
They want a caliphate across the ME, Africa and into Europe and beyond.
And you probably want a girlfriend, you stupid idiot. STFU.
It is the moslems who are doing the fucking killings !!
Can you liberals please wake the FUCK up?
I've enough of the stupidity of you liberals ! The shooters are yelling "Allahu Akhbar" and you goddamn liberals are blaming the French !!
You know what? If you feel so strongly about the Moslems, why don't you grab a gun and go fight ISIS in Syria or Iraq?
Oh wait... Because you are such a fscking wuss, that's why. STFU, you dumbass Fox News douchebag.
France is one of the top 5 arms exporters in the world (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31901493), they have a history of racial tension against immigrants (https://news.vice.com/article/france-is-getting-more-intolerant-and-racist-according-to-human-rights-report). You treat those beneath you like shit, and occasionally, people fight back. Those would be two motives, I'm sure there are more.
Ah, yes, because the USA have such a sterling record of accepting and protecting its minorities... NOT.
Sheesh, compare France and the USA, I am not so sure which one comes out on top in the "we are racist and proud of it". Just ask the KKK.