Working at a major NOC here... Yes, it is possible to null-route or redirect almost any address block, and this can be done with lists automatically provided by the government in near real time. However, all hope is not lost: as long as we netizens can upload anything at all (and TCP pretty much requires this back channel), we'll end up redirecting traffic as in tor, freenet, etc. And as soon as this traffic is disguised as "legitimate" HTTP(S), it can't be stopped. The next step by the mafiaa-controlled government could only be a whitelist of approved sites, but if we're so far down the road, the Internet would be dead already.
If you want to defend freedom, you may have to willfully break laws that take freedom away, even if it means that you or your relatives and friends will be shot or locked behind bars. What did Jefferson say about it? "A little rebellion every now and then is a good thing." And remember: a rebellion is always illegal by the legal standards in place, but still highly necessary to preserve or restore freedom. And our digital rebellion is using programs like Freenet et al., even after their use will have been criminalized.
I guess Oracle's dismal support is due to a lot of talented Sun engineers quitting. Actually, if Oracle doesn't do more to acquire new talent, they'll end up with a huge problem. And how do you get net talent? By withdrawing from the EDU sector? By NOT providing reasonably priced SPARC machines for students and amateurs with tight budgets? By being elitist to the bone, so that the price of entry to their ecosystem is prohibitively high to young people who might be interested in joining them? Way to go Larry!
Wait till Oracle dumps Sun, the way they've dumped some of Sun's OSS projects.
Wouldn't it be great if Oracle let SUN go, and SUN was then acquired by a UNIX/OSS-friendly company? After all, SUN used to be cool blue, now it's a red herring^WOracle. Imagine SUN being acquired by big blue IBM, or maybe by Google. I'm afraid it won't happen. Oracle's Larry won't let his SUN people go. *sigh*
There's no correlation between right-wing parties and copyright fascism. In fact, France is rather the exception than the rule. Just look at how in the US, it's the democrats who are the worst copyright talibans.
IMHO, Sarkozy is just taking orders from his Carla, the de facto chief lobbyist of their entertainment cartel. If it weren't him and his party, the P.S. would be just as gung-ho about copyright than the UMP.
I guess, the only way to repeal the data detention directive is some huge leak of such data to the public. Some hugely embarrassing data, if possible. Otherwise, there won't be enough political momentum because most people currently don't care (enough), or are even calling for even more data retention mania.
Well, I actually want it for simulations, because FPops are pretty good on a SPARC, and not every workload in this area is vectorizable on a GPU via OpenCL. Furthermore, SPARC is still a vastly superior architecture w.r.t. register windows and very fast thread switching. In my experience (purely subjective, I agree), even a lowly sun4u UltraSPARC IIIcu @1.5GHz still beats most high end Intel/AMD at nearly double that frequency for most day to day applications too. My only gripe with the Ultras is, of course, the lack of multiple cores, so that compiling can be pretty slow. So I hope that a multicore T2+/T3 would be at least on par with recent x86-ers even for normal uses.
Frankly, I'd love to buy one of those SPARC T2 chips, and since their design is already released under the GPL, it would be great to have an initiative to actually build them, so we can put them in desktops and laptops. Right now, they're tucked away in Oracle / Fujitsu (super expensive!) server-only land.
C'mon, CSS and AACS play in entirely different leagues. Breaking CSS was kindergarten level, breaking AACS is near-black wizardry and much, much more difficult.
You forgot to add that it's not just the hardware players that count. Until BluRay's DRM is truly broken like DeCSS did for DVD, your shiny new BluRay drive alone wouldn't help much unless you're running some version of Windows (in a VM?) and a licensed player software (that's not bundled with that OS, of course!). Way too much hassle for most users.
Yep! People could be blown out of a plane if they're exposed to a strong wind that pushes them out. The sudden depressurization alone is unlikely generate enough force to accelerate a grown up human body out of the plane.
It's set 300 years in the future; what'd you expect?!
But this voice interface CLI exists today already and is widespread in a military setting. The only difference is that the orders are not parsed by a computer.
Since most of those botnet machines are running MS, I'd say, it's about time MS became involved in the fight against spam. The delivery mechanism for all this spam wouldn't exist if it weren't for Microsoft's poor record at building a somewhat secure operating system.
You probably don't do remote syslog(), so hackers could hide their activity by erasing all evidence.
You probably don't have stuff like tripwire in use so you can be alerted of system binaries being replaced with a root kit.
You don't run at a higher securelevel, like you with with OpenBSD (so you can't protect said system binaries even against root).
Your binary video driver's blob could be anything but genuine (and that runs at kernel privilege, where it could hide malicious processes too)
Do you really trust firefox etc... to be always bug free? What about cross platform attacks?
If you're serious about security, I'd recommend using a non-mainstream architecture (say, SPARC, ARM, PowerPC...), running a non-mainstream heavily audited OS (again, perhaps OpenBSD)... But most importantly: security is a matter of attitude and discipline, you need to get used to it, and you need to maintain it regularly. Don't rely entirely on others to do your security homework.
Actually, Morocco didn't ask M$ to suppress access to HTTPS. And in fact, Gmail over HTTPS works perfectly fine there. It looks like Microsoft are just guessing who might want to snoop, and offering that as a feature, without even being asked. Oh, anyone remember the Microsoft Surveillance Guide?
I can see a day when parental licensing is introduced.
The day they'll put restrictions on breeding, people will work around them. I'm wondering what they'll call non-licensed children; maybe "pirated kids"?
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Working at a major NOC here... Yes, it is possible to null-route or redirect almost any address block, and this can be done with lists automatically provided by the government in near real time. However, all hope is not lost: as long as we netizens can upload anything at all (and TCP pretty much requires this back channel), we'll end up redirecting traffic as in tor, freenet, etc. And as soon as this traffic is disguised as "legitimate" HTTP(S), it can't be stopped. The next step by the mafiaa-controlled government could only be a whitelist of approved sites, but if we're so far down the road, the Internet would be dead already.
If you want to defend freedom, you may have to willfully break laws that take freedom away, even if it means that you or your relatives and friends will be shot or locked behind bars. What did Jefferson say about it? "A little rebellion every now and then is a good thing." And remember: a rebellion is always illegal by the legal standards in place, but still highly necessary to preserve or restore freedom. And our digital rebellion is using programs like Freenet et al., even after their use will have been criminalized.
Aha, now I understand why PayPal's customer service sucks!
I guess Oracle's dismal support is due to a lot of talented Sun engineers quitting. Actually, if Oracle doesn't do more to acquire new talent, they'll end up with a huge problem. And how do you get net talent? By withdrawing from the EDU sector? By NOT providing reasonably priced SPARC machines for students and amateurs with tight budgets? By being elitist to the bone, so that the price of entry to their ecosystem is prohibitively high to young people who might be interested in joining them? Way to go Larry!
Wouldn't it be great if Oracle let SUN go, and SUN was then acquired by a UNIX/OSS-friendly company? After all, SUN used to be cool blue, now it's a red herring^WOracle. Imagine SUN being acquired by big blue IBM, or maybe by Google. I'm afraid it won't happen. Oracle's Larry won't let his SUN people go. *sigh*
IMHO, Sarkozy is just taking orders from his Carla, the de facto chief lobbyist of their entertainment cartel. If it weren't him and his party, the P.S. would be just as gung-ho about copyright than the UMP.
In gossip, compiled into low-level journalism perhaps?
I guess, the only way to repeal the data detention directive is some huge leak of such data to the public. Some hugely embarrassing data, if possible. Otherwise, there won't be enough political momentum because most people currently don't care (enough), or are even calling for even more data retention mania.
I concur. Using Ekiga in a cross-platform setting for quite some time now, and it's doing just fine.
The US Government is the best government (RIAA-)money can buy. Nothing new here...
Well, I actually want it for simulations, because FPops are pretty good on a SPARC, and not every workload in this area is vectorizable on a GPU via OpenCL. Furthermore, SPARC is still a vastly superior architecture w.r.t. register windows and very fast thread switching. In my experience (purely subjective, I agree), even a lowly sun4u UltraSPARC IIIcu @1.5GHz still beats most high end Intel/AMD at nearly double that frequency for most day to day applications too. My only gripe with the Ultras is, of course, the lack of multiple cores, so that compiling can be pretty slow. So I hope that a multicore T2+/T3 would be at least on par with recent x86-ers even for normal uses.
Frankly, I'd love to buy one of those SPARC T2 chips, and since their design is already released under the GPL, it would be great to have an initiative to actually build them, so we can put them in desktops and laptops. Right now, they're tucked away in Oracle / Fujitsu (super expensive!) server-only land.
C'mon, CSS and AACS play in entirely different leagues. Breaking CSS was kindergarten level, breaking AACS is near-black wizardry and much, much more difficult.
You forgot to add that it's not just the hardware players that count. Until BluRay's DRM is truly broken like DeCSS did for DVD, your shiny new BluRay drive alone wouldn't help much unless you're running some version of Windows (in a VM?) and a licensed player software (that's not bundled with that OS, of course!). Way too much hassle for most users.
Exactly. And if microgravity is a problem (I fail to see how it could be), put that box in a small centrifuge to create constant 1g.
Those who walked up the Everest had time to depressurize very slowly. Every diver will tell you what happens if you depressurize too fast.
Yep! People could be blown out of a plane if they're exposed to a strong wind that pushes them out. The sudden depressurization alone is unlikely generate enough force to accelerate a grown up human body out of the plane.
Tattoos? You mean something like this?
But this voice interface CLI exists today already and is widespread in a military setting. The only difference is that the orders are not parsed by a computer.
There, fixed that for you.
Since most of those botnet machines are running MS, I'd say, it's about time MS became involved in the fight against spam. The delivery mechanism for all this spam wouldn't exist if it weren't for Microsoft's poor record at building a somewhat secure operating system.
If you're serious about security, I'd recommend using a non-mainstream architecture (say, SPARC, ARM, PowerPC...), running a non-mainstream heavily audited OS (again, perhaps OpenBSD)... But most importantly: security is a matter of attitude and discipline, you need to get used to it, and you need to maintain it regularly. Don't rely entirely on others to do your security homework.
Actually, Morocco didn't ask M$ to suppress access to HTTPS. And in fact, Gmail over HTTPS works perfectly fine there. It looks like Microsoft are just guessing who might want to snoop, and offering that as a feature, without even being asked. Oh, anyone remember the Microsoft Surveillance Guide?
Give the Fed more time to print money at the current pace, and soon 75 trillion will look like small change.
The day they'll put restrictions on breeding, people will work around them. I'm wondering what they'll call non-licensed children; maybe "pirated kids"?