Ever wondered why stop signs are octogonal in shape?
The answer: being the most important traffic sign, they have this unique shape so that they are distinguishable from all other signs even when covered in snow.
So snow covered signs are a real concern, and yes, designers did think about the issue!
The solution is obvious: Move your servers to a more free-speech friendly country.
That's what they did. Serverloft is a German company. But apparently, Germany is not free-speech friendly enough... so now the sites are hosted in Denmark! Hehe...
Hmmm, but why doesn't the Canadian government simply lean on the.ca registry, that would be much easier...
I thought Canada was a bastion of civil liberties.
Haha. Coffee-splutter! You owe me a new keyboard.
In Canada you can get imprisoned for 3 months without seeing a judge, attorney, your embassy, or even a doctor, and without access to a telephone, simply for criticizing how the Rotary Club runs a Shelterhouse. After these 3 months, when your visa (luckily) runs out, you're shipped back to your home country sans luggage.
Now, good luck on getting any redress or compensation. Or even getting your luggage back.
No, Canada is not the fairy-tale land of civil liberties that everybody believes.
If you're a hippy (especially if you're a hippy...) don't set foot in Canada under any circumstances, if you value your backpack and its contents:-) Or if you absolutely must, don't offer up any environmental advice that might upset powerful locals. And make sure your visa is not one day longer than needed.
The site was offshore. I was hosted in Germany, not Canada. That makes the whole affair even more outrageous. Why serverloft didn't simply ignore the request is a mystery.
Either they turned them back on really quick, or the article itself is hoax-ad-ware?
... or the sites picked another hosting provider? Indeed, tcptraceroute shows that enviro-canada.ca is now hosted in Denmark, whereas serverloft is in Germany.
I hope that the 4498 unrelated sites that have been clobbered along with them will find another hosting provider as well.
Indeed, it seems to:
# tcptraceroute enviro-canada.ca 80
Selected device ppp0, address xxxxxxxxx, port xxxx for outgoing packets
Tracing the path to 188.138.4.45 on TCP port 80 (www), 30 hops max ...
8 tge-4-0-0-0a.cr1.fra.routeserver.net (80.81.193.21) 21.938 ms 23.390 ms 21.860 ms
9 sl6.fra.routeserver.net (62.75.135.6) 23.359 ms 24.462 ms 23.199 ms
10 vm5.pi.dk (188.138.4.45) [open] 23.449 ms 22.716 ms 25.587 ms
==> so it's hosted in Denmark now!
I recommend that the 4498 unrelated sites should do likewise, and find a hosting provider with a spine.
Or some nimble work finding another hosting provider. Hehe, wouldn't it be funny if 4498 unrelated sites were offline, but the two sites that were targeted were online again at a different provider:-)
Yeah, I'd agree, except using government muscle to come after people who mislead others is kind of a crappy thing to do.
It was a German company that pulled the plug. They were under no obligation whatsoever to honor the request. It's them who screwed up most in this affair.
Indeed, why did Serverloft, a German company (according to TFA) react at all?
They should just have shown a huge phat finger to the Canucks, and say "you can't get us accross the huuuuge ocean". After all, it's not as if Canada was in a position of unleashing an Operation Desert Storm over Germany. One hosting company to avoid!
And such behavior would be entirely appropriate: after all that's exactly how Canada behaves when German citizens that have been wrongfully imprisoned in Canada want to seek compensation.
Back in my younger days, I tried to shut down nazi spammers by alt.test-subscribing them to zillions of listservs. Kinda worked, but triggered lots of collateral damage:-)
With this stunt, I might have unintentionally contributed to the phasing out of alt.test functionality.
Another favorite pastime was goatsing spammers' servers via SQL injection, or dropping their entire subscriber list. Unfortunately, nowadays, spammers no longer use unsecured ASP as much as they used to.
And, like you, I never bragged about it under my real name (but some smart coworker did suspect me anyways after the nazi spam incident, hehe...)
He was a colonel so I'm sure he knows exactly what he can and cannot talk about.
My ex-brother-in-law was the guy who sunk the Rainbow warrior (he who actually fixed the limpet-mine to the boat). Didn't stop him from boasting about it to his family as soon as he was back from the mission. At that point in time it wasn't even yet publicly known that it was a French secret op, so I'm pretty much sure that he wasn't supposed to talk about it. Yes, "secret" agents are only human too, and might be more loose-lipped than they should...
You only get into trouble if you don't react after three notices (for the same offence, if I understand correctly) => ample time to correct the issue or to change ISP
there is a tribunal (court) involved, where you can defend yourself
suspension of accounts only occurs "where serious and continued breaches occur" beyond those 3 notices.
account holders will be able to issue counter notices
This is entirely different from the 3-strike laws of other countries, where your account is pulled immediately (3 strikes refer to different, infringments that may be unrelated to each other) and where you have no recourse before an impartial court.
There are two possible kinds of answer to the question "How many aircrafts have been hijacked originating from an Israeli airport in the entire history of Israel?", but no matter what the answer is, it will always support this insane paranoia:
None => see, this paranoid security is efficient! Israël is right with being so locked-down, it has protected them from great harm!
This obscure incident in Entebbe, and maybe a couple of others => see, they really are out to get Israël. So it's not paranoia, but justified fear
But wonder what's going on inside the guy's head tho, he acts like he would be in an action movie:
The answer is in the first comment of this thread:
20 years for the murder-for-hire and 30 years for the bank fraud.
==> he just tried to save 10 years of prison time. Had his plot gone through, there would have been no witness for the fraud, and all they could stick with him would be the murder: 20 years, instead of 30!
And this is the reason why it is so dangerous to have laws on the book that carry a penalty that is harsher than for murder...
Re:Meaning is not a key component of syntax.
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and you can also have syntax without meaning.
No, you can't. If there is no meaning attached to the structure itself, there is no syntax.
If you say so...
Just any regular expression defines a grammar or syntax.
No, it most certainly doesn't.
Yes, it most certainly does.
That doesn't mean that any string matching that regular expression has a meaning.
This is true of all languages, but not a conclusion supported by your claims.
Gobble-dee gobble-dee gobble-dee dock. Happy?
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No, because you can have meaning without syntax.
... and you can also have syntax without meaning. Just any regular expression defines a grammar or syntax. That doesn't mean that any string matching that regular expression has a meaning.
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Ever wondered why stop signs are octogonal in shape?
The answer: being the most important traffic sign, they have this unique shape so that they are distinguishable from all other signs even when covered in snow.
So snow covered signs are a real concern, and yes, designers did think about the issue!
Canada was one of the most free
Only as long as you don't upset the Rotary Club or other similar criminally corrupt organizations.
The solution is obvious: Move your servers to a more free-speech friendly country.
That's what they did. Serverloft is a German company. But apparently, Germany is not free-speech friendly enough... so now the sites are hosted in Denmark! Hehe...
Hmmm, but why doesn't the Canadian government simply lean on the .ca registry, that would be much easier...
I thought Canada was a bastion of civil liberties.
Haha. Coffee-splutter! You owe me a new keyboard.
In Canada you can get imprisoned for 3 months without seeing a judge, attorney, your embassy, or even a doctor, and without access to a telephone, simply for criticizing how the Rotary Club runs a Shelterhouse. After these 3 months, when your visa (luckily) runs out, you're shipped back to your home country sans luggage.
Now, good luck on getting any redress or compensation. Or even getting your luggage back.
No, Canada is not the fairy-tale land of civil liberties that everybody believes.
If you're a hippy (especially if you're a hippy...) don't set foot in Canada under any circumstances, if you value your backpack and its contents :-) Or if you absolutely must, don't offer up any environmental advice that might upset powerful locals. And make sure your visa is not one day longer than needed.
The site was offshore. I was hosted in Germany, not Canada. That makes the whole affair even more outrageous. Why serverloft didn't simply ignore the request is a mystery.
If the claim is legal and backed by the appropriate institutions then I would believe it happens.
Point is, in this case the claim was not legal. The claim was issued by a foreign government which has no jurisdiction in Germany.
Either they turned them back on really quick, or the article itself is hoax-ad-ware?
... or the sites picked another hosting provider? Indeed, tcptraceroute shows that enviro-canada.ca is now hosted in Denmark, whereas serverloft is in Germany.
I hope that the 4498 unrelated sites that have been clobbered along with them will find another hosting provider as well.
# tcptraceroute enviro-canada.ca 80
Selected device ppp0, address xxxxxxxxx, port xxxx for outgoing packets
Tracing the path to 188.138.4.45 on TCP port 80 (www), 30 hops max
8 tge-4-0-0-0a.cr1.fra.routeserver.net (80.81.193.21) 21.938 ms 23.390 ms 21.860 ms
9 sl6.fra.routeserver.net (62.75.135.6) 23.359 ms 24.462 ms 23.199 ms
10 vm5.pi.dk (188.138.4.45) [open] 23.449 ms 22.716 ms 25.587 ms
==> so it's hosted in Denmark now!
I recommend that the 4498 unrelated sites should do likewise, and find a hosting provider with a spine.
This is either some quick backpedaling or bogus.
Or some nimble work finding another hosting provider. Hehe, wouldn't it be funny if 4498 unrelated sites were offline, but the two sites that were targeted were online again at a different provider :-)
Yeah, I'd agree, except using government muscle to come after people who mislead others is kind of a crappy thing to do.
It was a German company that pulled the plug. They were under no obligation whatsoever to honor the request. It's them who screwed up most in this affair.
Indeed, why did Serverloft, a German company (according to TFA) react at all?
They should just have shown a huge phat finger to the Canucks, and say "you can't get us accross the huuuuge ocean". After all, it's not as if Canada was in a position of unleashing an Operation Desert Storm over Germany. One hosting company to avoid!
And such behavior would be entirely appropriate: after all that's exactly how Canada behaves when German citizens that have been wrongfully imprisoned in Canada want to seek compensation.
With this stunt, I might have unintentionally contributed to the phasing out of alt.test functionality.
Another favorite pastime was goatsing spammers' servers via SQL injection, or dropping their entire subscriber list. Unfortunately, nowadays, spammers no longer use unsecured ASP as much as they used to.
And, like you, I never bragged about it under my real name (but some smart coworker did suspect me anyways after the nazi spam incident, hehe...)
This was not an attempt to remove malware, but rather malware itself, so not really the same thing.
No person in their right mind would do such a thing.
Wrong. A person in their right mind might very well do such a thing, but the smart way. Namely, anonymously, without bragging about it.
So, in the improbable event that some of the .25M got more fubarred than they were before, the lusers would not know whom to sue.
He was a colonel so I'm sure he knows exactly what he can and cannot talk about.
My ex-brother-in-law was the guy who sunk the Rainbow warrior (he who actually fixed the limpet-mine to the boat). Didn't stop him from boasting about it to his family as soon as he was back from the mission. At that point in time it wasn't even yet publicly known that it was a French secret op, so I'm pretty much sure that he wasn't supposed to talk about it. Yes, "secret" agents are only human too, and might be more loose-lipped than they should...
Then again, I used to spend hours on end in datacenters by myself. No windows,
Lucky you! Must other datacenter dwellers must confront Bill's abomination daily...
This is entirely different from the 3-strike laws of other countries, where your account is pulled immediately (3 strikes refer to different, infringments that may be unrelated to each other) and where you have no recourse before an impartial court.
Around here a company is more than $1000 to set up.
Still less expensive than the $15000 fine, which you might otherwise need to pay...
But wonder what's going on inside the guy's head tho, he acts like he would be in an action movie:
The answer is in the first comment of this thread:
20 years for the murder-for-hire and 30 years for the bank fraud.
==> he just tried to save 10 years of prison time. Had his plot gone through, there would have been no witness for the fraud, and all they could stick with him would be the murder: 20 years, instead of 30!
And this is the reason why it is so dangerous to have laws on the book that carry a penalty that is harsher than for murder...
and you can also have syntax without meaning.
No, you can't. If there is no meaning attached to the structure itself, there is no syntax.
If you say so...
Just any regular expression defines a grammar or syntax.
No, it most certainly doesn't.
Yes, it most certainly does.
That doesn't mean that any string matching that regular expression has a meaning.
This is true of all languages, but not a conclusion supported by your claims.
Gobble-dee gobble-dee gobble-dee dock. Happy?
No, because you can have meaning without syntax.
... and you can also have syntax without meaning. Just any regular expression defines a grammar or syntax. That doesn't mean that any string matching that regular expression has a meaning.
... but when you do, at least use a condom. We don't need AIDS 2.0
Without meaning, syntax can't exist.
Shouldn't that be the other way round?
-1 Troll? What happened, QuantumG? Did your sock puppets run out of modpoints?