Google blocked my AdSense on one of my websites a while back. The only reason stated was "torrents". The torrents on the site were for completely legal documentaries about false-flag terror. Google does not care what torrents are for, if you post a torrent on your site for your own work or works you can legally distribute then they will simply block you on the grounds that you are using a completely legal distribution protocol called BitTorrent.
RadiotjÃnst hassled me quite a lot back in 2005-2006. They called numerous times and asked stupid questions about "My television". They were asking in a way that assumed I actually had one in an attempt to make me admit I had one. I did not and I still don't. They eventually gave up when I actually told them that "You know, there is this brand new thing now that's called the Internet and that's far more interesting than the dull TV". RadiotjÃnst seems like a bunch of criminals imho.
> Calm your tits, it was likely a mistake, seeing how its obviously not a gambling website.
How do you explain that a "mistake" was made when the site is so "obviously not a gambling website", eh?
Someone put that "gambling" tag on that site, eh? Is it likely that the person who put that tag on donate.fsf.org did it purely by mistake when it is so obviously not a gambling site?
You can go directly to http://my.fsf.org/donate/ if donate.fsf.org is blocked by your local friendly firewall.
You can also use Tor to bypass blocks like these.
I am NOT about to let you or your anonymous friends run JavaScript in my browser. No. That would compromise my security. The idea outlined in the summary sounds good, but the JavaScript-based implementation is bad. EPIC FAIL. Think of the Tor-users! They are not about to let their anonymity go by submitting to the evil JavaScript World Order.
I tell you, free speech and freedom in general in America is doomed. The NDAA2012 combined with SOPA is just another brick in the wall on the path towards a completely tyrannical fascist government. Some Americans argue that the USA is there already. Today we are talking about Tor being blocked by the Great Firewall of China. How long will it take before we are talking about the Great Firewall of the USA blocking websites, software like Tor, I2P, Freenet and so on? Beware that western corporations like Intel, Cisco, Nokia and Siemens are the ones who are delivering the technology used by countries like China. The US and the west already has this technology. I do not see it as a question of if but when these technologies will be used in the US and other "free" western countries. The Tor project should be supported. Why people in other countries need it today may be why you need it tomorrow.
Tor exit node based blocking has been used on various IRC servers to combat abuse for years and years now, The chinese might be doing something more fancy, but that only shows that they didn't go for the fairly easy and quick solution.
The Torproject responded with bridges when countries started to block entire countries like those IRC servers do. The entire list of Bridges is not public. What GFW now does to detect and block those bridges is something new and it is something entirely different. The "download the entire list of Tor servers and block them" method was used and stopped being efficient thanks to Tor bridges.
Freenet and I2P both serve their purpose. None of them serve the same purpose as Tor. Tor lets you connect to the normal Internet so you can view your normal web comics, visit CIA information gathering honey-pots like Facebook and so forth. Freenet and I2P are designed for hidden internal traffic in those networks. Sure, you can share a file on Freenet, but you can not visit your favorite news website. Different tools for different jobs.
Bugged planet indeed, I wonder if any of our lovely "free world" companies like Amesys or Siemens are selling the DPI gear, or if China is using a fully homebaked solution.
If you watch the 28c3 Torproject presentation available at http://tinyurl.com/7c893sl then you will learn that western corporations like Intel, Nokia and Cisco are heavily involved in Internet surveillance and censorship around the world.
Tor has to connect to so-called "dictionary servers" periodically to refresh its list of tor nodes to try to use. If you block those servers, tor breaks.
At least, that's how it worked when they finally figured out how to block it after 3 years. Maybe tor has improved since then.
This was the situation. Countries did download the entire Tor directory and block all the nodes listed in it. This is why bridge relays were invented, and there is no public list off all bridge relays. It works like this: You get a bridge address, you connect to a bridge and the bridge then connects to the Tor network. This changed the arms-race. GFW is now able to detect the Tor bridges and this is a set-back for the Tor-project. They will find a solution which fools the GFW and the Chinese will lose face.
The article and summary are misleading, typical slashdot. Typically nginx is used as a forward cache engine, often on the same box as apache. People typically put apache on port 81, and nginx on 80, and configure nginx to cache from port 81...
You do know there is something called mod_proxy for apache?
Apache can be configured as a proxy or a web server.
Nginx can be configured as a proxy or a web server.
Your point is.. what, exactly?
I use nginx and I use it as a pure web server. I do not know what everyone else uses it for, but you can't just go about assuming whatever.
Is PGP that easy these days? Haven't touched it in years due to reasons already mentioned.
Most e-mail clients (KMail, Claws Mail, Thunderbird, etc) support it by default. I do not know how things are in the Windows world (I heard it's improved since Windows 95, that's it), but it's supported out of the box on most GNU/Linux software.
I've used PGP (and eventually GPG) since about '94 and my keyring has about 20 people on it: more than 1 new key a year! Alas, 25% of those keys expired in the late 90s. My address book has about 1500 entries. Why so few keys? As the OP pointed out, it isn't all that difficult.
I have the same experience. Most people don't think privacy is important enough to protect, so they do not bother. I do find that signing my mail with GnuPG helps somewhat: Those who actually do use GnuPG notice that I use it and start encrypting what they send me. Still, not one in a hundred of those I communicate with by e-mail bother.
If you want a minimize button on windows, install GnomeTweakTool. It has an option that allows you to select the arrangement of buttons on a window's title bar.
Yes, yes, we know, if you want feature X then install GnomeTweakTool or some JavaScript extension and jada svada. Guess what, there's a few other things you can install while you are at it, they are called XFCE and LXDE and even Fluxbox is a far superior alternative to the GNOME 3 joke. GNOME 3 developers say flat out that they believe their user-base is wrong and they are gods who are always right and that's exactly why I am sure GNOME will continue to be a joke.
GTK, as done by people who know how to write it, is still superior to Qt
Care to give some specifics?
Try file, open in a KDE program and a GNOME program. The GNOME file dialog box is obviously better because you can not open files on remote filesystems using fish/ssh. GNOME programs do not let you right click a file and delete it, get it's properties and so on. You can not change between short, detailed and tree view in GNOME. And so on. The lack of features and configuration in GNOME "to make it simple" obviously makes it superior in all ways (if you are dumb as a cow).
I am guessing you are a GNOME developer (or perhaps part of the smartphone generation).
How do I minimize a window?
Why would you need to?
That's exactly how GNOME developers think these days, and that's why I have given up on the arrogant GNOME bullshit. The removal of features from GNOME 1 to GNOME 2 was bad enough, GNOME 3 is a bad joke in my opinion.
1) Do they need to be on the top bar?
2) Sure you can. Just write an extension for it. I've been using a weather extension and it works pretty well.
The applets I have on my top bar in XFCE do not NEED to be there. They are there because I want them to be there. You do not strictly need to have a toilet in your bathroom, yet most people do have a toilet in the bathroom. The GNOME solution you suggest is basically "There is no toilet in your bathroom because you do not need one and if you think you need one then you should go buy a pot to piss in and put that in there".
Tell me, have you even tried to learn how to use GNOME Shell? Your entire comment reeks of anti-GNOME ignorance.
Yes. I have tried it, and I wasted more time trying it than I should have because of comments like yours who claim that I would love the pile of crap if I just tried it long enough. Bullshit. Shit will taste like shit even if you eat it every day for a month.
I've used ICQ since the 1990s and I have a whole range of people I keep in touch with using that rather old-school protocol. I've also got MSN and Jabber configured in Pidgin, but those who prefer ICQ stick with it and would wouldn't they if it works for them? (and it really makes no difference to me, jabber/msn/icq all look the same in pidgin)
I tried Yacy. I've tried it a few times times since I first tried it years ago to see if it had improved or not. It has not. The main problems with it are:
Yacy demands a whole lot of resources. You need a powerful
dedicated server just to run it.
It likes to crawl sites at a very rapid rate, webmasters all over the world should be happy that it has not taken off. How about waiting a few seconds between page fetches from the same server, eh? Run it and you risk people all over banning your IP. I tried to crawl my own sites with it - not a good idea. At least I could shut the thing down when I saw what it was doing..
It crashes, and it crashes a whole lot. Do a few searches and it will crash.
Do a search and Yacy will hog CPU time for quite a while. Do another search while it's eating resources and it crashes.
The search results are horrible. They are basically useless.
Yacy has absolutely no support for different languages. The whole Internet is not the same language, yet Yacy pretends it is. Just want search results in your own language? Not an option.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
I would really like to see a usable peer to peer search engine. The Internet needs it. Yacy is not it. The idea is good, the implementation can best be described as EPIC FAIL.
Exactly how would a tariff on imports of foreign GNU/Linux distributions would help Microsoft? It would perhaps help Red Hat increase Fedoras market share, but it would not change anything for Microsoft. And how would you go about applying a tariff on free software distributed over the Internet?
How about a an audit of the Federal Reserve and a probe of their currency manipulation? You do realize that the sole purpose of the QE packages was to push the US dollar down? The US is the biggest currency manipulator of them all. You should generally not throw stones when you are sitting in a glass house.
Without the historians, the politicos will have complete control to rewrite it to say whatever it is they want.
Fail. Historians mainly base their "work" on the news of the day. The news of the day is mostly government propaganda. This is why modern history books have little to do with reality. The political elite do not need to rewrite history, history is continuously being written according to their preferences.
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Google blocked my AdSense on one of my websites a while back. The only reason stated was "torrents". The torrents on the site were for completely legal documentaries about false-flag terror. Google does not care what torrents are for, if you post a torrent on your site for your own work or works you can legally distribute then they will simply block you on the grounds that you are using a completely legal distribution protocol called BitTorrent.
RadiotjÃnst hassled me quite a lot back in 2005-2006. They called numerous times and asked stupid questions about "My television". They were asking in a way that assumed I actually had one in an attempt to make me admit I had one. I did not and I still don't. They eventually gave up when I actually told them that "You know, there is this brand new thing now that's called the Internet and that's far more interesting than the dull TV". RadiotjÃnst seems like a bunch of criminals imho.
> 2012
> Not having switched to XFCE4 long ago due to GNOME being a complete failure
come on, guys. Really?
> Calm your tits, it was likely a mistake, seeing how its obviously not a gambling website.
How do you explain that a "mistake" was made when the site is so "obviously not a gambling website", eh?
Someone put that "gambling" tag on that site, eh? Is it likely that the person who put that tag on donate.fsf.org did it purely by mistake when it is so obviously not a gambling site?
You can go directly to http://my.fsf.org/donate/ if donate.fsf.org is blocked by your local friendly firewall. You can also use Tor to bypass blocks like these.
other terrorist organizations who fully support this bill include IBM, Boeing, AT&T, Oracle, Symantec, Verizon and Lockheed Martin. I wrote a blogpost about the corporatoins being CISPA ages ago.
I am NOT about to let you or your anonymous friends run JavaScript in my browser. No. That would compromise my security. The idea outlined in the summary sounds good, but the JavaScript-based implementation is bad. EPIC FAIL. Think of the Tor-users! They are not about to let their anonymity go by submitting to the evil JavaScript World Order.
I tell you, free speech and freedom in general in America is doomed. The NDAA2012 combined with SOPA is just another brick in the wall on the path towards a completely tyrannical fascist government. Some Americans argue that the USA is there already. Today we are talking about Tor being blocked by the Great Firewall of China. How long will it take before we are talking about the Great Firewall of the USA blocking websites, software like Tor, I2P, Freenet and so on? Beware that western corporations like Intel, Cisco, Nokia and Siemens are the ones who are delivering the technology used by countries like China. The US and the west already has this technology. I do not see it as a question of if but when these technologies will be used in the US and other "free" western countries. The Tor project should be supported. Why people in other countries need it today may be why you need it tomorrow.
Tor exit node based blocking has been used on various IRC servers to combat abuse for years and years now, The chinese might be doing something more fancy, but that only shows that they didn't go for the fairly easy and quick solution.
The Torproject responded with bridges when countries started to block entire countries like those IRC servers do. The entire list of Bridges is not public. What GFW now does to detect and block those bridges is something new and it is something entirely different. The "download the entire list of Tor servers and block them" method was used and stopped being efficient thanks to Tor bridges.
Freenet and I2P both serve their purpose. None of them serve the same purpose as Tor. Tor lets you connect to the normal Internet so you can view your normal web comics, visit CIA information gathering honey-pots like Facebook and so forth. Freenet and I2P are designed for hidden internal traffic in those networks. Sure, you can share a file on Freenet, but you can not visit your favorite news website. Different tools for different jobs.
Bugged planet indeed, I wonder if any of our lovely "free world" companies like Amesys or Siemens are selling the DPI gear, or if China is using a fully homebaked solution.
If you watch the 28c3 Torproject presentation available at http://tinyurl.com/7c893sl then you will learn that western corporations like Intel, Nokia and Cisco are heavily involved in Internet surveillance and censorship around the world.
Tor has to connect to so-called "dictionary servers" periodically to refresh its list of tor nodes to try to use. If you block those servers, tor breaks. At least, that's how it worked when they finally figured out how to block it after 3 years. Maybe tor has improved since then.
This was the situation. Countries did download the entire Tor directory and block all the nodes listed in it. This is why bridge relays were invented, and there is no public list off all bridge relays. It works like this: You get a bridge address, you connect to a bridge and the bridge then connects to the Tor network. This changed the arms-race. GFW is now able to detect the Tor bridges and this is a set-back for the Tor-project. They will find a solution which fools the GFW and the Chinese will lose face.
The article and summary are misleading, typical slashdot. Typically nginx is used as a forward cache engine, often on the same box as apache. People typically put apache on port 81, and nginx on 80, and configure nginx to cache from port 81...
You do know there is something called mod_proxy for apache? Apache can be configured as a proxy or a web server. Nginx can be configured as a proxy or a web server. Your point is .. what, exactly?
I use nginx and I use it as a pure web server. I do not know what everyone else uses it for, but you can't just go about assuming whatever.
Is PGP that easy these days? Haven't touched it in years due to reasons already mentioned.
Most e-mail clients (KMail, Claws Mail, Thunderbird, etc) support it by default. I do not know how things are in the Windows world (I heard it's improved since Windows 95, that's it), but it's supported out of the box on most GNU/Linux software.
I've used PGP (and eventually GPG) since about '94 and my keyring has about 20 people on it: more than 1 new key a year! Alas, 25% of those keys expired in the late 90s. My address book has about 1500 entries. Why so few keys? As the OP pointed out, it isn't all that difficult.
I have the same experience. Most people don't think privacy is important enough to protect, so they do not bother. I do find that signing my mail with GnuPG helps somewhat: Those who actually do use GnuPG notice that I use it and start encrypting what they send me. Still, not one in a hundred of those I communicate with by e-mail bother.
also make sure to visit: someguywhopreviouslyhadyourdynamicipdownloaded.com
If you want a minimize button on windows, install GnomeTweakTool. It has an option that allows you to select the arrangement of buttons on a window's title bar.
Yes, yes, we know, if you want feature X then install GnomeTweakTool or some JavaScript extension and jada svada. Guess what, there's a few other things you can install while you are at it, they are called XFCE and LXDE and even Fluxbox is a far superior alternative to the GNOME 3 joke. GNOME 3 developers say flat out that they believe their user-base is wrong and they are gods who are always right and that's exactly why I am sure GNOME will continue to be a joke.
GTK, as done by people who know how to write it, is still superior to Qt Care to give some specifics?
Try file, open in a KDE program and a GNOME program. The GNOME file dialog box is obviously better because you can not open files on remote filesystems using fish/ssh. GNOME programs do not let you right click a file and delete it, get it's properties and so on. You can not change between short, detailed and tree view in GNOME. And so on. The lack of features and configuration in GNOME "to make it simple" obviously makes it superior in all ways (if you are dumb as a cow).
How do I minimize a window?
Why would you need to?
That's exactly how GNOME developers think these days, and that's why I have given up on the arrogant GNOME bullshit. The removal of features from GNOME 1 to GNOME 2 was bad enough, GNOME 3 is a bad joke in my opinion.
1) Do they need to be on the top bar? 2) Sure you can. Just write an extension for it. I've been using a weather extension and it works pretty well.
The applets I have on my top bar in XFCE do not NEED to be there. They are there because I want them to be there. You do not strictly need to have a toilet in your bathroom, yet most people do have a toilet in the bathroom. The GNOME solution you suggest is basically "There is no toilet in your bathroom because you do not need one and if you think you need one then you should go buy a pot to piss in and put that in there".
Tell me, have you even tried to learn how to use GNOME Shell? Your entire comment reeks of anti-GNOME ignorance.
Yes. I have tried it, and I wasted more time trying it than I should have because of comments like yours who claim that I would love the pile of crap if I just tried it long enough. Bullshit. Shit will taste like shit even if you eat it every day for a month.
I've used ICQ since the 1990s and I have a whole range of people I keep in touch with using that rather old-school protocol. I've also got MSN and Jabber configured in Pidgin, but those who prefer ICQ stick with it and would wouldn't they if it works for them? (and it really makes no difference to me, jabber/msn/icq all look the same in pidgin)
I could go on, but you get the idea. I would really like to see a usable peer to peer search engine. The Internet needs it. Yacy is not it. The idea is good, the implementation can best be described as EPIC FAIL.
Exactly how would a tariff on imports of foreign GNU/Linux distributions would help Microsoft? It would perhaps help Red Hat increase Fedoras market share, but it would not change anything for Microsoft. And how would you go about applying a tariff on free software distributed over the Internet?
How about a an audit of the Federal Reserve and a probe of their currency manipulation? You do realize that the sole purpose of the QE packages was to push the US dollar down? The US is the biggest currency manipulator of them all. You should generally not throw stones when you are sitting in a glass house.
Solyndra got cheap loans from the Obama administration, yet they want belly up despite their unfair advantages.
Without the historians, the politicos will have complete control to rewrite it to say whatever it is they want.
Fail. Historians mainly base their "work" on the news of the day. The news of the day is mostly government propaganda. This is why modern history books have little to do with reality. The political elite do not need to rewrite history, history is continuously being written according to their preferences.