They used Websense at full lockdown. Websense would not only block at the IP level, but it also actively blocked proxy sites and proxy lists too. And by "actively," I mean it updated every hour. It was VERY difficult to circumvent.
I found it trivial to workaround, didn't block my SSH tunnel over DNS setup at all (this was two Perl scripts I wrote in a few hours a while back, one that ran on the server and the other that ran on the client). Then again, I'm not average Joe.
The distributed name resolution system you described already exists: Namecoin
What do you do when someone obtains your Namecoin hash keys by breaking into one of your servers and then transfers the domain to themselves?
You have no way to get it back from my understanding of namecoin. There is no authority that can help you. Get hit by zero-day exploit, lose domain forever - No thanks.
When you are in jail, can you freely conduct business?
Yes.
Then "jail" should be the same for a corporation.
Considering "jail" isn't the same as "prison" and rights have not necessarily been removed when in "jail", you have your wish.
With regards to putting a corporation in prison, I don't see how that stops anyone from creating a new corporation on the fly to do the exact same violation then. Having a corporation temporarily suspended for say... 50 years for the act of one person is non-sense.
This is why when a given person is found responsible, that person is sent to prison instead of the corporation.
Where I come from, a company offering a public service (i.e. a service available to almost everyone) can't deny service to anyone without a valid reason.
I love how these random people come out, talking about how this stuff doesn't happen in their country, but then conveniently forget to even mention which country they're from.
Some of the countries I will reference being the case below will be related to places I've lived in Europe, primarily... UK, Germany and Poland.
"We reserve the right to remove any video we want" is not valid nor is "We're a private business we do what we want" (you're not a private business if you offer automatically serve anybody who comes to you).
Well, you just defeated your own argument, they don't automatically serve anybody, they automatically block certain people and things too. So they are a private business by your definition.
and individual persons should have priority over companies, businesses and corporations
Depends, what is valuable for the company is valuable for every individual in the company, as a collective, isn't that worth more than a single individual?
Not sure if the US has laws against "Refusal to serve" but most of Europe has.
As an European, I'm aware of various laws that counter discrimination of various sorts, but that is not the case here. There is nothing I am aware of on preventing a company on terminating your access for what they believed to be a violation of their terms, especially in copyright uses, as in this case. Now, they may have misunderstood the situation and made a mistake, in those circumstances, I don't believe there is even any European laws as to making it easy for people to correct such "mistakes" where service contracts/terms are concerned (which we could probably do it when dealing with some larger corporations, as talking to the right person can be pretty hard). So, I honestly, as an European, have no idea what you are talking about that would apply to this case.
his political affiliations
Actually, you can, exclusive political clubs exist all over Europe.
You also are limited on the rules that ban specific things: you can't make a rule that bans disabled people or ugly people.
Some dance clubs do this frequently in Europe. Of course, they don't say it to your face, but they'll usually express concern on your "safety", determine you to be a "trouble maker" or someone who is not going to be a "good customer". Then refuse you access.
You also can't ban people for their political opinions
You can ban people who are likely going to cause a conflict. If the base of that conflict is a political opinion, it doesn't matter. They can ban whatever speech you wish to use in their establishment too, this includes political, derogatory and even Shakespear.
If you deny service without good cause, you can get a fine.
At the end of the day, people can justify getting rid of you with a "valid" reason, even if that's not the true reason. You'll find it very hard to fight in a court of law without real 'evidence'.
Please stop misrepresenting the situation in Europe with the laws, they are not working as intended. Additionally, even if it was working as intended, it still wouldn't apply to this case.
Ironically, the orchestra could've used their copyright interests to sue Google for putting the ads up without its permission.
You clearly didn't read the terms of service for Youtube. You agree to allowing Google to do that in the instance they find something like this while additionally agreeing to not hold a mistake against them.
I would like to agree with you but one of the most popular apps for the iPad is called GoodReader. It has well over 32,000 reviews and a strong almost perfect five stars from all those users. I find it a very well done universal file manager for the iPad and basically the best PDF Reader you can get for iOS. Every month they have another update that adds even more features and another ton of new users.
I couldn't find Cool Reader (no PDF support, but support for many other formats) for iOS and was sorely disappointed when I couldn't open my pdb and epub ebooks on goodreader. Goodreader also poorly handled my PDF ebooks (mainly raygun revival pdfs - page elements screwed up, obnoxiously slow on some of the image pages) that worked fine in adobe reader on both iOS and Android.
I support both iOS and Android users and while looking at another popular specialized Reader app I was astonished that even thought the Android version costs twice as much at $20 compared to $9.95 in the Apple version in the app store, the Android version has remarkably fewer features and far less support for all kinds of documents.
Look into Cool Reader, it's one of the first results in Android market's search and it's been there for quite a few months.
That way OpenDNS would not be able to mess with the lookups, that protects against manipulation with the results both by OpenDNS and by attackers who can exploit vulnerabilities in the OpenDNS servers.
I guess you've never used OpenDNS, since one of the big advantages of it is that they can act as a middle man and block certain sites, redirect you to others etc. Also, I expect if they did implement that, they'd trust a key of their own for manipulating this anyway, so DNSSEC wouldn't offer the protection from OpenDNS manipulation as you claim.
I don't see how my comment translates to "overthrowing the government", it's really a comment on the overwhelming apathy of the people in this country.
Your comment references the right to bare arms, which is commonly associated with overthrowing the government should something go wrong. Your implied use that people are too lazy to do it but bitch about it is in my opinion unfounded since the situation at hand certainly doesn't warrant it.
If what you meant in your follow up comment is true, you've made a pretty poor argument for this topic, it's a terrible example and doesn't make sense.
And at least the stolen data will be used to donate to charity
I don't see that as a good thing, the charities will lose their credit card processing abilities with all the excessive charge backs, as part of signed agreements (said violations aren't reversed usually for any merchant even under the best of the situations, companies that violate said agreement end up waiting the penalty months to be reinstated access) and automated systems.
They wrote the 2nd amendment into the constitution because they knew this sort of thing would happen, what they didn't count on was everyone being so weak, bloated and stupid to actually use it.
A government organisation went behind the rest of the government and did something unauthorized. OVERTHROW THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT!
After switching to Chrome, I immediately noticed that if it *was* updating, it was doing it in a completely unobtrusive way, and the resource usage was significantly lower. I'd been using Firefox since the original beta, but after switching to Chrome never looked back.
What? Every time I've added the private memory pools of each chrome process together it's been larger than FF. Considering I can reproduce this on clean virtual machine installs, I feel something isn't quite right on your end.
There are a lot Mac users out there who don't want to pay $29.99 just to run an up-to date browser.
Blame Apple, a software project I'm involved with is only supporting 10.6 and higher because that's what Apple is only supporting now. Compiling against older platform SDKs is messy, since the binaries produced LLVM-GCC causes the system either to lock up or kernel panic. While using non-standard GCC in the development environment causes some unexplained issues, not withstanding excessive time delays in resolving things from frameworks. I wouldn't be surprised if Mozilla are running into similar problems.
Then again, Apple users know what to expect from Apple and from applications that run on OS X, so, they really have no excuse, it's not like OS X doesn't have a history of these things.
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I found it trivial to workaround, didn't block my SSH tunnel over DNS setup at all (this was two Perl scripts I wrote in a few hours a while back, one that ran on the server and the other that ran on the client). Then again, I'm not average Joe.
Nope, it's anycasted all around the world. People located in the US would only hit the US regional DNS servers for 8.8.8.8.
What do you do when someone obtains your Namecoin hash keys by breaking into one of your servers and then transfers the domain to themselves?
You have no way to get it back from my understanding of namecoin. There is no authority that can help you. Get hit by zero-day exploit, lose domain forever - No thanks.
Yes.
Considering "jail" isn't the same as "prison" and rights have not necessarily been removed when in "jail", you have your wish.
With regards to putting a corporation in prison, I don't see how that stops anyone from creating a new corporation on the fly to do the exact same violation then. Having a corporation temporarily suspended for say... 50 years for the act of one person is non-sense.
This is why when a given person is found responsible, that person is sent to prison instead of the corporation.
Why are you leave'in Europe?
I don't think having a certificate of incorporation put behind prison bars is going to do anything.
I can gift you a copy of Portal 1 if you'd like?
I love how these random people come out, talking about how this stuff doesn't happen in their country, but then conveniently forget to even mention which country they're from.
Some of the countries I will reference being the case below will be related to places I've lived in Europe, primarily... UK, Germany and Poland.
Well, you just defeated your own argument, they don't automatically serve anybody, they automatically block certain people and things too. So they are a private business by your definition.
Depends, what is valuable for the company is valuable for every individual in the company, as a collective, isn't that worth more than a single individual?
As an European, I'm aware of various laws that counter discrimination of various sorts, but that is not the case here. There is nothing I am aware of on preventing a company on terminating your access for what they believed to be a violation of their terms, especially in copyright uses, as in this case. Now, they may have misunderstood the situation and made a mistake, in those circumstances, I don't believe there is even any European laws as to making it easy for people to correct such "mistakes" where service contracts/terms are concerned (which we could probably do it when dealing with some larger corporations, as talking to the right person can be pretty hard). So, I honestly, as an European, have no idea what you are talking about that would apply to this case.
Actually, you can, exclusive political clubs exist all over Europe.
Some dance clubs do this frequently in Europe. Of course, they don't say it to your face, but they'll usually express concern on your "safety", determine you to be a "trouble maker" or someone who is not going to be a "good customer". Then refuse you access.
You can ban people who are likely going to cause a conflict. If the base of that conflict is a political opinion, it doesn't matter. They can ban whatever speech you wish to use in their establishment too, this includes political, derogatory and even Shakespear.
At the end of the day, people can justify getting rid of you with a "valid" reason, even if that's not the true reason. You'll find it very hard to fight in a court of law without real 'evidence'.
Please stop misrepresenting the situation in Europe with the laws, they are not working as intended. Additionally, even if it was working as intended, it still wouldn't apply to this case.
Note: I am not the grandparent
I have videos on Youtube and there are no ads on my videos, nor am I get paid for any ads on the videos (maybe because the former isn't happening?).
You clearly didn't read the terms of service for Youtube. You agree to allowing Google to do that in the instance they find something like this while additionally agreeing to not hold a mistake against them.
It's not included with the live disc.
Maybe because you can block it with a single liner?
I couldn't find Cool Reader (no PDF support, but support for many other formats) for iOS and was sorely disappointed when I couldn't open my pdb and epub ebooks on goodreader. Goodreader also poorly handled my PDF ebooks (mainly raygun revival pdfs - page elements screwed up, obnoxiously slow on some of the image pages) that worked fine in adobe reader on both iOS and Android.
Look into Cool Reader, it's one of the first results in Android market's search and it's been there for quite a few months.
What's wrong with boyfriends?
I guess you've never used OpenDNS, since one of the big advantages of it is that they can act as a middle man and block certain sites, redirect you to others etc. Also, I expect if they did implement that, they'd trust a key of their own for manipulating this anyway, so DNSSEC wouldn't offer the protection from OpenDNS manipulation as you claim.
Second time now, your analysis skills clearly need work.
I can tell that you don't talk to 'foreigners' much from that reaction.
Your comment references the right to bare arms, which is commonly associated with overthrowing the government should something go wrong. Your implied use that people are too lazy to do it but bitch about it is in my opinion unfounded since the situation at hand certainly doesn't warrant it.
If what you meant in your follow up comment is true, you've made a pretty poor argument for this topic, it's a terrible example and doesn't make sense.
I don't see that as a good thing, the charities will lose their credit card processing abilities with all the excessive charge backs, as part of signed agreements (said violations aren't reversed usually for any merchant even under the best of the situations, companies that violate said agreement end up waiting the penalty months to be reinstated access) and automated systems.
A government organisation went behind the rest of the government and did something unauthorized. OVERTHROW THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT!
What?
4chan autobans proxies from posting, why are you giving bad advice?
Note: I'm not the grand parent poster.
If you have to ask why, it's clear you wouldn't get angry/mad/irritated about people disclosing your financial and account information on a service.
To explain in another way, this sort of stuff makes people angry.
You've either got some twisted morals or you don't know Anonymous well.
What? Every time I've added the private memory pools of each chrome process together it's been larger than FF. Considering I can reproduce this on clean virtual machine installs, I feel something isn't quite right on your end.
Blame Apple, a software project I'm involved with is only supporting 10.6 and higher because that's what Apple is only supporting now. Compiling against older platform SDKs is messy, since the binaries produced LLVM-GCC causes the system either to lock up or kernel panic. While using non-standard GCC in the development environment causes some unexplained issues, not withstanding excessive time delays in resolving things from frameworks. I wouldn't be surprised if Mozilla are running into similar problems.
Then again, Apple users know what to expect from Apple and from applications that run on OS X, so, they really have no excuse, it's not like OS X doesn't have a history of these things.