Let's throw the UN a bone: here's the.int gTLD. Take it, and control it as much as you like, but please leave the Net infrastructure alone (and this applies to US' and other governments as well).
Since the politicians won't let us alone, we're interfering in the political sphere (rather successfully in some places) just as they've interfered in the Net sphere. It's payback time.
And yes, its a large digital site containing a great deal of theft - whats new?
Theft? You mean a great deal of files infringing copyright, didn't you? It's not like YT was a robber's lair or something similar, where they keep the stolen original masters of Hollywood films that the pool studios can't find anymore.
Don't get caught releasing confidential information.
There, fixed that for you.
Don't get romantically or sexually involved with anyone while you're a target, regardless of how long a time they say they'll love you.
While true in general, it wouldn't matter if your opponent is a State that will always find/pay some people ready to make false allegations for a smear campaign (I'm not saying that this is the case with Assange, even though something's fishy there). It's the oldest trick in the book, really.
The only real solution that I can think of is to tackle the root the problem: to get money out of politics.
I'm afraid, this won't happen. Even if you ban money contributions to campaigns etc., it will simply shift into the black market (outright corruption), or turn out to be some kind of post facto corruption, where the politicians reap their "rewards" later when they leave office (like Gerhard Schroeder in Germany e.g.).
As an example, I'm assuming that Europe absolutely will not be seeking any sort of economic assistance from the US as part of the sovereign debt problems that seem to be facing 2/3 of that continent.
Considering that the US's sovereign debt is already way higher than most of Europe's; the only way the US can help is by having the FED keeping up with the ECB in printing fresh new more and more worthless money (so the USD exchange rate to the EUR won't climb way too high). And this, the FED is doing on its own, without Europe even asking for it.
They are really starting to mess hard with the core structure of the internet.
The technique of scorched earth could prove useful too. Let the MAFIAA and their judicial arms around the world destroy the internet structure until it starts to hurt other megacorps with deeper pockets than the MAFIAA's.
Of course, that's merely theoretical: the IP addresses allocated to TPB's providers are but a tiny subset of the IPv4 address space. Even if they blocked all the them, the rest of the Internet wouldn't notice.
Unless there is a way of storing the energy generated, the capacity of solar plants cannot be included in the calculation of capacity to meet peak demand.
I recently saw on TV a documentary about an innovative way to store electricity using potential energy. They propose to raise a mountain (or a core cut out of a mountain) with hydroelectric systems when there's enough energy, and have it sink again, when energy is needed. According to the scientists who proposed the idea, this would be more energy-efficient than pumping water up and down high altitude lakes.
That Germany was at such risk from a Tsunami or Earthquake.
Most German nuclear reactors are located along the Rhine River Valley (Rheingraben), and that's the region with the highest seismic hazard. Sure, it's far from the San Andreas Fault, but it's not entirely without risks.
Not only that (which is bad enough), but we're also depleting the world reserves of very valuable chemicals used in all kinds of manufacturing, like plastics, medical drugs, etc... Burning this valuable stuff just to get some energy is extremely short sighted.
The internet really needs better built in, automatic, technical measures to protect anonymity and protect against censorship.
I couldn't agree more... even though I was one of those people who believed that you can't fix social issues by technical means. Why I agree? Imagine if the Internet was from the ground up based on a pure anonymous p2p technology (say, something like Freenet, just more user-friendly). Any attempt to censor one site would mean that the authorities would have to kill the whole system. If an entire economy was based on that system, they couldn't kill it, lest they destroy their entire society. Too bad our current architecture was built by naive technologists who foresaw atomic attacks on big cities, but never imagined a global assault on the Net by legalistic means. Had they foresee this, the Internet as we know it now would have been very different and much more censorship-resistant.
Do you run a packet sniffer ALL the time? I could easily imagine a program that collects data, and then sends a burst every month or so to some server. Unless you're very lucky to run AND watch the sniffer at that very moment, you're likely to miss that burst.
Caps would only be reasonable if they incremented automatically on a set scale that matched usage.
This would only work if the telcos upgraded the total bandwidth of their backbones at least as fast as demand grows. However, this won't happen (new transmission tech grows discretely, not linearly; extending trunks can be pretty expensive; non-transit traffic to other tier-1 backbones is not fee...), so caps won't grow as fast.
Just because we don't like their current islamist regime, doesn't mean they aren't right w.r.t. the name of the Gulf. It has been "Persian Gulf" for most of the History, and Google really ought to respect that. Now, suing Google is pretty pointless, if Iran doesn't have diplomatic ties with the US, but that's another story altogether.
Yes, the FBI will investigate because that DDoS-er dared to stop his attacks... The FBI is firmly in the pockets of the MAFIAA; they'll act accordingly, however bizarre this may seem to us outsiders.
Ironic that it was in this very country that Eric Arthur Blair (aka "George Orwell") wrote 1984.
Orwell had a fine sense for his compatriots' mentality w.r.t. the surveillance of a nanny state. He merely pointed this out in Nineteeneightyfour. More often than not, fiction literature is an early warning sign of a society's malaise and undercurrents.
Finally, because censorship systems have to be global to be truly effective, the USA has been persistently "harmonizing" this system onto the rest of the world since its inception.
True. And what most people don't know: most banks abroad (not just Swiss banks) and many telco providers are now getting rid of (prospective) customers who happen to be US citizens, exactly because they don't want to be suddenly subject to all kinds of administrative obligations that the US Govt' wants them to adhere to.
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We'll never virtualize our BOFH.
Let's throw the UN a bone: here's the .int gTLD. Take it, and control it as much as you like, but please leave the Net infrastructure alone (and this applies to US' and other governments as well).
Since the politicians won't let us alone, we're interfering in the political sphere (rather successfully in some places) just as they've interfered in the Net sphere. It's payback time.
Theft? You mean a great deal of files infringing copyright, didn't you? It's not like YT was a robber's lair or something similar, where they keep the stolen original masters of Hollywood films that the pool studios can't find anymore.
There, fixed that for you.
While true in general, it wouldn't matter if your opponent is a State that will always find/pay some people ready to make false allegations for a smear campaign (I'm not saying that this is the case with Assange, even though something's fishy there). It's the oldest trick in the book, really.
I'm afraid, this won't happen. Even if you ban money contributions to campaigns etc., it will simply shift into the black market (outright corruption), or turn out to be some kind of post facto corruption, where the politicians reap their "rewards" later when they leave office (like Gerhard Schroeder in Germany e.g.).
Considering that the US's sovereign debt is already way higher than most of Europe's; the only way the US can help is by having the FED keeping up with the ECB in printing fresh new more and more worthless money (so the USD exchange rate to the EUR won't climb way too high). And this, the FED is doing on its own, without Europe even asking for it.
The technique of scorched earth could prove useful too. Let the MAFIAA and their judicial arms around the world destroy the internet structure until it starts to hurt other megacorps with deeper pockets than the MAFIAA's.
Of course, that's merely theoretical: the IP addresses allocated to TPB's providers are but a tiny subset of the IPv4 address space. Even if they blocked all the them, the rest of the Internet wouldn't notice.
No, that's Bach: Bash running on top of Mach.
I recently saw on TV a documentary about an innovative way to store electricity using potential energy. They propose to raise a mountain (or a core cut out of a mountain) with hydroelectric systems when there's enough energy, and have it sink again, when energy is needed. According to the scientists who proposed the idea, this would be more energy-efficient than pumping water up and down high altitude lakes.
Most German nuclear reactors are located along the Rhine River Valley (Rheingraben), and that's the region with the highest seismic hazard. Sure, it's far from the San Andreas Fault, but it's not entirely without risks.
Not only that (which is bad enough), but we're also depleting the world reserves of very valuable chemicals used in all kinds of manufacturing, like plastics, medical drugs, etc... Burning this valuable stuff just to get some energy is extremely short sighted.
I couldn't agree more... even though I was one of those people who believed that you can't fix social issues by technical means. Why I agree? Imagine if the Internet was from the ground up based on a pure anonymous p2p technology (say, something like Freenet, just more user-friendly). Any attempt to censor one site would mean that the authorities would have to kill the whole system. If an entire economy was based on that system, they couldn't kill it, lest they destroy their entire society. Too bad our current architecture was built by naive technologists who foresaw atomic attacks on big cities, but never imagined a global assault on the Net by legalistic means. Had they foresee this, the Internet as we know it now would have been very different and much more censorship-resistant.
Do you run a packet sniffer ALL the time? I could easily imagine a program that collects data, and then sends a burst every month or so to some server. Unless you're very lucky to run AND watch the sniffer at that very moment, you're likely to miss that burst.
Since you don't have the source code to Opera, what makes you think Opera isn't also reporting browsing data, just like Chrome allegedly does?
With those new chips, will it be VAXorcist, the Sequel?
This would only work if the telcos upgraded the total bandwidth of their backbones at least as fast as demand grows. However, this won't happen (new transmission tech grows discretely, not linearly; extending trunks can be pretty expensive; non-transit traffic to other tier-1 backbones is not fee...), so caps won't grow as fast.
Just because we don't like their current islamist regime, doesn't mean they aren't right w.r.t. the name of the Gulf. It has been "Persian Gulf" for most of the History, and Google really ought to respect that. Now, suing Google is pretty pointless, if Iran doesn't have diplomatic ties with the US, but that's another story altogether.
Yes, the FBI will investigate because that DDoS-er dared to stop his attacks... The FBI is firmly in the pockets of the MAFIAA; they'll act accordingly, however bizarre this may seem to us outsiders.
Orwell had a fine sense for his compatriots' mentality w.r.t. the surveillance of a nanny state. He merely pointed this out in Nineteeneightyfour. More often than not, fiction literature is an early warning sign of a society's malaise and undercurrents.
True. And what most people don't know: most banks abroad (not just Swiss banks) and many telco providers are now getting rid of (prospective) customers who happen to be US citizens, exactly because they don't want to be suddenly subject to all kinds of administrative obligations that the US Govt' wants them to adhere to.
There, fixed that for you.
I thought FB was just a front end to HS.
I guess they agreed on an IP protocol.