(of course, I can't think of why the DEA would be better equipped than the FDA to make emergency decisions)..
I can think of just one: LEOs see a bunch of people lurching around and groaning "braains!" after ingesting some new chemical compound.
The truth is that policy should belong to the FDA, but LEOs are first responders, and should have some say in correlations. Most of this should be data fed back to the FDA to help them make their decisions, but there are some remote possibilities where this process may take longer than quat is required to prevent actual harm to society.
Stretching the argument I know, but it's still a reason.
The practical effect is the same - the user is denied access to the site via an attack on the name resolution protocol. If the registrar is subpoenaed, it doesn't matter if they set the domain to resolve to a takedown notice or a NXDOMAIN result - the practical result is that anyone who doesn't have the site's IP address written down will be unable to access it.
Both hosting and registering the domain outside of the US will provide some resilience if you are doing something they don't like, though they can still block resolution for everyone who isn't using DNSSEC.
Except the effect is NOT the same. In the one case, you still end up going somewhere, and the reason is explained to you, so you have some recourse and know what happened. With the NXDOMAIN result, you have no idea what happened. And on the other side, you have a court order backed by a judge (meaning probable cause needed to be proven) versus someone (or some bot) deciding something on your site looked like it might belong to someone else.
It might not make a difference as far as immediately accessing the data located at that domain, but it makes a world of difference for the person who owns the domain, as well as anyone attempting to mitigate the issue.
Chechnyans don't really have any reason to export terrorism
Except for the fact that a lot of the ones who fought against Russia (and their pro-Russian compatriots) are fucked-in-the-head Islamists that behead, dismember and enslave people for fun. A lot of Chechens are fighting for ISIS right now. A Chechen conducted the boston bombing.
And yet, Russia is the enemy and Chechens are our friends. It's a bizarre world.
"The enemy of my enemy is likely out to get me too, and is not to be trusted."
That's the difference between the Communist model and the Capitalist model: in capitalism, you generally get a single executive leader with charisma, who rises to the position because of that charisma and their politicking. They then lead as they see fit, within the bounds that have been laid out for them by the people.
In Communism, it's rule by party, not by individual; this is partly by design: if a single person dies/goes "bad" etc, the party routes around that, and keeps going as they were. It's extremely difficult to change the regime unless it is overthrown completely. Even then, if it has had time to become entrenched, things won't change all that much if it is overthrown.
Just look at Russia and China as examples: Russia's regime was pretty much overthrown from within, and yet has been replaced by Putin's regime, which isn't really all that different in many ways. China saw the writing on the wall, and made incremental changes over time such that the regime could stay entrenched while not depending too much on any person/event/change.
Personally, I'd rather Cuba take China's long and twisted route to democracy than Russia's.
Sorry, seems you have not much clue. Chechnya is a nation that tries to separate from Russia.
During WW II the chechnic "terror attacks" would have been called "commando attacks", sure getting civilians as hostages in a theatre is a bit over the edge, but the germans, the spanish and the italian _REGULAR TROOPS_ did the exact same during WW II and the Spanish Revolution wars.
To answer your question: Chechnyans don't really have any reason to export terrorism -- but they DO have reason to sell munitions to those wanting to use them to overthrow western powers. And if Russia collapsed, you'd have a LOT of equipment looking for a new home. This is already a bit of an issue in Ukraine.
Iraq collapsed. How's that working out for US interests?
Obama pulled us out too soon from the collapsed country. That was a mistake, not the bringing upon the collapse (of Saddam Hussein's regime) itself.
Iraq was already in collapse prior to the US military pulling out. ISIS was not the juggernaut it is today, but they were already strategically attacking installations and gaining members. Pulling out proved to have negative consequences, but staying there likely would have had other consequences just as bad. That's what happens when you install someone like Hussein in the first place and expect him to be an acquiescent puppet. The fact that the US had to invade the country and have him deposed when the US was responsible for him being in power in the first place seems to fly over many people's heads.
If sanctions causing collapse of an allied country don't work, what hope is there for having them with a country that nobody but you considers to be an enemy?
Being in Iraq was such an epic failure that only people who can call it a success were the private companies who made huge profits, and the lying bastards who got you in there in the first place.
If you think that's a template for how to fix the worlds problems... the world doesn't want any more of your "help".
There is one other group that can call it a success... ISIS. They wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the US meddling in Iraq and creating a power vacuum. There's a reason Hussein was kept busy between the Kurds, Sunnis and Shias. He wasn't just sitting on his hands letting his country fall apart around him, despite all the horrible methods he used to try and prevent collapse.
We know from hard-learned experience that it is better to encourage and support reform [so that we can make a state fail by importing our "goods" while we make a profit] than to impose policies that will render a country a failed state [while we get nothing out of the deal.]
There's a difference; in those cases, the sites were routed to an alternate IP via a court order. What the MPAA is talking about is just dropping the domain altogether based solely on a takedown notice.
It seems to me what they want to do is make it just difficult enough that Joe Average will shell out the bucks rather than figure out how to use Tor et al.
What they clearly want to do is break the internet. However, if their goal is to stop infringement by Joe Average, this effort would fail. What will happen is an alternate system will be set up by those of us who know how to do such things (whether we engage in piracy or not -- it doesn't matter), then we'll encourage everyone to use it and when we set up machines for our nontech friends and family, we'll set them up to use the alternate system as well.
It's simpler than that: if they break DNS, what will happen is that Joe Average will a) blame their ISP, b) blame the MPAA when the news comes out about what happened, c) search for "piratebay" or similar and find a link to TorBrowser. TorBrowser will then get a whole bunch of downloads, and people will carry on as normal.
After all... remember the days of eDonkey2k? The only people I ever knew who installed that were Joe Average kinds of people. But enough of them installed it that files were being shared left right and center. And anyone who couldn't figure out how to install it either knew someone who did, or knew someone who could just copy the files they wanted onto a removable drive and give them to them.
So there's really no winning situation for the MPAA members in following this strategy, unless nobody knows they're doing it.
I guess they don't know history so well. AlterNIC could easily return under such a scenario.
AlterNIC doesn't even have to return... OpenDNS will already route around this unless OpenDNS is specifically served with a court order that is valid in their countries of operation. Not to mention, the first time this is used, Google can show harm caused, as people will pretty much abandon 8.8.8.8 if it stops resolving domains.
Oh, and I've already got a list of domains in my hosts file that I'm sure some enterprising soul will file a takedown notice for. If it's honored, that would knock the MPAA off the internet as if they had never existed. Surely they have considered that outcome?
The issue I always had with the suit was that it boiled down to this:
"Apple won't let other vendors lock in their customers using the Apple infrastructure, but they do it themselves! No Fair!"
The response should be something along the lines of "There are competitors out there offering similar things. You could either partner with them (as you did) or do it yourself (as you failed to do)." While I was annoyed by Apple's DRM and never bought a DRM'd track from them, it's not like consumer choice would have been improved via Real offering their own DRM of the same music for the same price on the exact same platform. And that's where things were at, until Amazon provided DRM-free tracks and the market changed (for the better).
Oh yes, and there's nothing saying you need to get your Master's and PhD in the same field you got your Bachelors in -- but you're going to need to get friendly with some professors and pick the right program.
America is all about race. Only cowards would deny the obvious.
The race to the bottom, maybe. Making "race" the center of everyday life? Only for minorities (and I'm not talking racial minorities). It's not race that's at issue in the US anymore; it's societal norms. There's an "African American" culture, a "Latino" culture, a "White Power" culture, and a plethora of others. For the most part, these have nothing to do with genetic background or inherited traits, and everything to do with the cultural norms as accepted by one group and not by another. These days someone with a grandmother from China, a grandfather from Mexico, another grandmother from Italy and the last grandfather 6th generation African American isn't really all that abnormal. And yet this person could validly claim to be part of any of the most vocal race-based groups in the US. But what really matters is how they speak, where they live, and how they dress. THAT's what America is all about. Status.
You're an idiot. The first amendment ensures the freedom of the press.
Sony can't (successfully) sue them for breaking into their servers because they weren't the ones who did that (even then they'd have a hard time - look at what Murdoch gets away with). Sony can't (successfully) sue them for libel / slander / defamation / damages because all of the shit leaked is true and no member of the press was under contract to not release that information. Sony can't (successfully) sue for whatever else you can dream up, because that would be the government enforcing some law restricting the press from doing their job as the press, a clear violation of the first amendment.
The press hasn't done anything to Sony aside from reveal the truth. Until you find the press has been actively hacking Sony, or has been trespassing on their property, or has been torturing Sony employees for info, or has been engaged in other such crimes in pursuit of this story, the press is free and clear.
Finding and disseminating truth is the press's job. This is exactly what the first amendment is designed to protect.
...and this is likely why, despite having their own large legal team, Sony Pictures hired David Boies to run this show. The aim is probably not to actually successfully sue anyone, but to spread FUD and create a chilling effect to limit what gets reported.
unless you're getting carded by an actual person, you can just generate a 3D barcode and have it scanned. The code contains a physical description of you and your birthday.
Ah; but the trick is that your phone can validate the PIN, but the officer can't. That way, the officer can't pretend to be you by knowing your name and PIN, because they don't know the PIN. That's the entire idea behind public key infrastructure -- you can provide trusted credentials to untrusted parties by not revealing the private info to them, but having it vetted by a mutually trusted third party.
Personally, I think the government should issue key-pairs to people, not identity numbers that don't expire. A single key-pair could be used to validate the person and be used to sign their driver's license token, their insurance token, their employment token (co-signed by the employer), etc. Easy way to ensure identifiers don't get re-used for multiple services, but they can all be validated off of a central authority.
The other bonus is that you can have your key-pair validated in multiple places, and can expire it (or have them on rolling expiry) but have it chained to a fresh key-pair, making identity theft that much more difficult.
The only problem with this is that it requires a computational device to be present, and for full validation, needs a network connection back to the key authority(s).
The only phones that don't have NFC are Apple phones.
Windows phones, BlackBerry phones, and Android phones all have it.
Apple needs to get with the times.
They already did; current Apple phones have NFC; only previous-gen phones don't.
Only took them a decade to catch up on that one... at least they not only caught up but also provided an API and infrastructure to facilitate secure storage and transfer of data over NFC. A (backup) driver's license using Apple's SecureID would actually be somewhat decent. Wouldn't want it to be the primary method though.
But then again, these days all you should really need is your first and last name and date of birth -- from that, most police should be able to pull up your info if you're in-state.
At least it gets rid of "papers please" requests...
Oh yes, some other points: if the workers are bearing all of the burden of the lack of more workers by essentially working for free, that means: 1) the hospital, insurance companies and patients have no motivation to change things 2) the employees will burn out, thereby more people will die 3) there will be an ongoing reason why the hospital won't be attractive to potential employees
However, if they pay overtime: 1) the hospital, insurance companies and patients have motivation to change things 2) the employees are less likely to burn out and be better motivated on the job, enabling them to save more people 3) if the hospital pays overtime, this will attract more employees, who otherwise would have no reason to work below minimum wage for limited return, no matter their humanitarian bent.
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(of course, I can't think of why the DEA would be better equipped than the FDA to make emergency decisions)..
I can think of just one: LEOs see a bunch of people lurching around and groaning "braains!" after ingesting some new chemical compound.
The truth is that policy should belong to the FDA, but LEOs are first responders, and should have some say in correlations. Most of this should be data fed back to the FDA to help them make their decisions, but there are some remote possibilities where this process may take longer than quat is required to prevent actual harm to society.
Stretching the argument I know, but it's still a reason.
Only if someone elects to get excited.
The practical effect is the same - the user is denied access to the site via an attack on the name resolution protocol. If the registrar is subpoenaed, it doesn't matter if they set the domain to resolve to a takedown notice or a NXDOMAIN result - the practical result is that anyone who doesn't have the site's IP address written down will be unable to access it.
Both hosting and registering the domain outside of the US will provide some resilience if you are doing something they don't like, though they can still block resolution for everyone who isn't using DNSSEC.
Except the effect is NOT the same. In the one case, you still end up going somewhere, and the reason is explained to you, so you have some recourse and know what happened. With the NXDOMAIN result, you have no idea what happened. And on the other side, you have a court order backed by a judge (meaning probable cause needed to be proven) versus someone (or some bot) deciding something on your site looked like it might belong to someone else.
It might not make a difference as far as immediately accessing the data located at that domain, but it makes a world of difference for the person who owns the domain, as well as anyone attempting to mitigate the issue.
Chechnyans don't really have any reason to export terrorism
Except for the fact that a lot of the ones who fought against Russia (and their pro-Russian compatriots) are fucked-in-the-head Islamists that behead, dismember and enslave people for fun. A lot of Chechens are fighting for ISIS right now. A Chechen conducted the boston bombing.
And yet, Russia is the enemy and Chechens are our friends. It's a bizarre world.
"The enemy of my enemy is likely out to get me too, and is not to be trusted."
That's the difference between the Communist model and the Capitalist model: in capitalism, you generally get a single executive leader with charisma, who rises to the position because of that charisma and their politicking. They then lead as they see fit, within the bounds that have been laid out for them by the people.
In Communism, it's rule by party, not by individual; this is partly by design: if a single person dies/goes "bad" etc, the party routes around that, and keeps going as they were. It's extremely difficult to change the regime unless it is overthrown completely. Even then, if it has had time to become entrenched, things won't change all that much if it is overthrown.
Just look at Russia and China as examples: Russia's regime was pretty much overthrown from within, and yet has been replaced by Putin's regime, which isn't really all that different in many ways. China saw the writing on the wall, and made incremental changes over time such that the regime could stay entrenched while not depending too much on any person/event/change.
Personally, I'd rather Cuba take China's long and twisted route to democracy than Russia's.
Why would Chechnya "export" terrorism?
Sorry, seems you have not much clue. Chechnya is a nation that tries to separate from Russia.
During WW II the chechnic "terror attacks" would have been called "commando attacks", sure getting civilians as hostages in a theatre is a bit over the edge, but the germans, the spanish and the italian _REGULAR TROOPS_ did the exact same during WW II and the Spanish Revolution wars.
To answer your question: Chechnyans don't really have any reason to export terrorism -- but they DO have reason to sell munitions to those wanting to use them to overthrow western powers. And if Russia collapsed, you'd have a LOT of equipment looking for a new home. This is already a bit of an issue in Ukraine.
Obama pulled us out too soon from the collapsed country. That was a mistake, not the bringing upon the collapse (of Saddam Hussein's regime) itself.
Iraq was already in collapse prior to the US military pulling out. ISIS was not the juggernaut it is today, but they were already strategically attacking installations and gaining members. Pulling out proved to have negative consequences, but staying there likely would have had other consequences just as bad. That's what happens when you install someone like Hussein in the first place and expect him to be an acquiescent puppet. The fact that the US had to invade the country and have him deposed when the US was responsible for him being in power in the first place seems to fly over many people's heads.
If sanctions causing collapse of an allied country don't work, what hope is there for having them with a country that nobody but you considers to be an enemy?
Being in Iraq was such an epic failure that only people who can call it a success were the private companies who made huge profits, and the lying bastards who got you in there in the first place.
If you think that's a template for how to fix the worlds problems ... the world doesn't want any more of your "help".
There is one other group that can call it a success... ISIS. They wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the US meddling in Iraq and creating a power vacuum. There's a reason Hussein was kept busy between the Kurds, Sunnis and Shias. He wasn't just sitting on his hands letting his country fall apart around him, despite all the horrible methods he used to try and prevent collapse.
So yeah, what you said.
There's a difference; in those cases, the sites were routed to an alternate IP via a court order. What the MPAA is talking about is just dropping the domain altogether based solely on a takedown notice.
It seems to me what they want to do is make it just difficult enough that Joe Average will shell out the bucks rather than figure out how to use Tor et al.
What they clearly want to do is break the internet. However, if their goal is to stop infringement by Joe Average, this effort would fail. What will happen is an alternate system will be set up by those of us who know how to do such things (whether we engage in piracy or not -- it doesn't matter), then we'll encourage everyone to use it and when we set up machines for our nontech friends and family, we'll set them up to use the alternate system as well.
It's simpler than that: if they break DNS, what will happen is that Joe Average will a) blame their ISP, b) blame the MPAA when the news comes out about what happened, c) search for "piratebay" or similar and find a link to TorBrowser. TorBrowser will then get a whole bunch of downloads, and people will carry on as normal.
After all... remember the days of eDonkey2k? The only people I ever knew who installed that were Joe Average kinds of people. But enough of them installed it that files were being shared left right and center. And anyone who couldn't figure out how to install it either knew someone who did, or knew someone who could just copy the files they wanted onto a removable drive and give them to them.
So there's really no winning situation for the MPAA members in following this strategy, unless nobody knows they're doing it.
If they break DNS, we'll just move to a shadow system, whether based on hosts or just another flavor of DNS.
Fuck them.
Let's just say: good luck breaking DNS for the .onion TLD.
So is IP address allocation. What's left of the Internet when you take that away?
IPv6.
I guess they don't know history so well. AlterNIC could easily return under such a scenario.
AlterNIC doesn't even have to return... OpenDNS will already route around this unless OpenDNS is specifically served with a court order that is valid in their countries of operation. Not to mention, the first time this is used, Google can show harm caused, as people will pretty much abandon 8.8.8.8 if it stops resolving domains.
Oh, and I've already got a list of domains in my hosts file that I'm sure some enterprising soul will file a takedown notice for. If it's honored, that would knock the MPAA off the internet as if they had never existed. Surely they have considered that outcome?
The issue I always had with the suit was that it boiled down to this:
"Apple won't let other vendors lock in their customers using the Apple infrastructure, but they do it themselves! No Fair!"
The response should be something along the lines of "There are competitors out there offering similar things. You could either partner with them (as you did) or do it yourself (as you failed to do)." While I was annoyed by Apple's DRM and never bought a DRM'd track from them, it's not like consumer choice would have been improved via Real offering their own DRM of the same music for the same price on the exact same platform. And that's where things were at, until Amazon provided DRM-free tracks and the market changed (for the better).
Oh yes, and there's nothing saying you need to get your Master's and PhD in the same field you got your Bachelors in -- but you're going to need to get friendly with some professors and pick the right program.
America is all about race. Only cowards would deny the obvious.
The race to the bottom, maybe. Making "race" the center of everyday life? Only for minorities (and I'm not talking racial minorities). It's not race that's at issue in the US anymore; it's societal norms. There's an "African American" culture, a "Latino" culture, a "White Power" culture, and a plethora of others. For the most part, these have nothing to do with genetic background or inherited traits, and everything to do with the cultural norms as accepted by one group and not by another. These days someone with a grandmother from China, a grandfather from Mexico, another grandmother from Italy and the last grandfather 6th generation African American isn't really all that abnormal. And yet this person could validly claim to be part of any of the most vocal race-based groups in the US. But what really matters is how they speak, where they live, and how they dress. THAT's what America is all about. Status.
Ha! Samuel Beckett would be proud.
I figured that with a name like Godot Engine, it was vaporware from the beginning. This kind of ruins Beckett's entire premise!
You're an idiot. The first amendment ensures the freedom of the press.
Sony can't (successfully) sue them for breaking into their servers because they weren't the ones who did that (even then they'd have a hard time - look at what Murdoch gets away with).
Sony can't (successfully) sue them for libel / slander / defamation / damages because all of the shit leaked is true and no member of the press was under contract to not release that information.
Sony can't (successfully) sue for whatever else you can dream up, because that would be the government enforcing some law restricting the press from doing their job as the press, a clear violation of the first amendment.
The press hasn't done anything to Sony aside from reveal the truth.
Until you find the press has been actively hacking Sony, or has been trespassing on their property, or has been torturing Sony employees for info, or has been engaged in other such crimes in pursuit of this story, the press is free and clear.
Finding and disseminating truth is the press's job. This is exactly what the first amendment is designed to protect.
...and this is likely why, despite having their own large legal team, Sony Pictures hired David Boies to run this show. The aim is probably not to actually successfully sue anyone, but to spread FUD and create a chilling effect to limit what gets reported.
unless you're getting carded by an actual person, you can just generate a 3D barcode and have it scanned. The code contains a physical description of you and your birthday.
Ah; but the trick is that your phone can validate the PIN, but the officer can't. That way, the officer can't pretend to be you by knowing your name and PIN, because they don't know the PIN. That's the entire idea behind public key infrastructure -- you can provide trusted credentials to untrusted parties by not revealing the private info to them, but having it vetted by a mutually trusted third party.
Personally, I think the government should issue key-pairs to people, not identity numbers that don't expire. A single key-pair could be used to validate the person and be used to sign their driver's license token, their insurance token, their employment token (co-signed by the employer), etc. Easy way to ensure identifiers don't get re-used for multiple services, but they can all be validated off of a central authority.
The other bonus is that you can have your key-pair validated in multiple places, and can expire it (or have them on rolling expiry) but have it chained to a fresh key-pair, making identity theft that much more difficult.
The only problem with this is that it requires a computational device to be present, and for full validation, needs a network connection back to the key authority(s).
The only phones that don't have NFC are Apple phones.
Windows phones, BlackBerry phones, and Android phones all have it.
Apple needs to get with the times.
They already did; current Apple phones have NFC; only previous-gen phones don't.
Only took them a decade to catch up on that one... at least they not only caught up but also provided an API and infrastructure to facilitate secure storage and transfer of data over NFC. A (backup) driver's license using Apple's SecureID would actually be somewhat decent. Wouldn't want it to be the primary method though.
But then again, these days all you should really need is your first and last name and date of birth -- from that, most police should be able to pull up your info if you're in-state.
At least it gets rid of "papers please" requests...
Gravity.
Too bad... I was going for Levity....
Cats ARE from the Cosmos.
They are superior beings from a far far far away galaxy.
Can anyone prove they evolved on Earth? Does the Bible say God created them?
No and No!
See.
I think you might be on to something.
So who invented buttered toast? And if you strap it to the cosmos and drop it, what happens?
Oh yes, some other points: if the workers are bearing all of the burden of the lack of more workers by essentially working for free, that means:
1) the hospital, insurance companies and patients have no motivation to change things
2) the employees will burn out, thereby more people will die
3) there will be an ongoing reason why the hospital won't be attractive to potential employees
However, if they pay overtime:
1) the hospital, insurance companies and patients have motivation to change things
2) the employees are less likely to burn out and be better motivated on the job, enabling them to save more people
3) if the hospital pays overtime, this will attract more employees, who otherwise would have no reason to work below minimum wage for limited return, no matter their humanitarian bent.