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  1. Re: Trump will reverse it on Climate Deal: US and China Join Paris Climate Accords (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's get rid of hunting, cars, pesticides and buildings first then, since all of those result in more bird deaths than wind power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... And roasting birds? Seriously? Come to think of it, roasted bird sounds good. Solar panels on every street corner, anyone?

  2. The actual thesis on Chips That Flow With Probabilities, Not Bits · · Score: 4, Informative

    By Ben Vigoda, Co-Founder and CEO: http://phm.cba.mit.edu/theses/03.07.vigoda.pdf

  3. Re:Every windows application on Wine 1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Have a look at PlayOnLinux. It's free and works well enough.

  4. Re:I2P? on Why Tor Users Should Be Cautious About P2P Privacy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, I2P has a number of clients specifically made for it. Also, since the traffic stays inside the network, there's not the same issue as with Tor (that bittorrent basically ruins the outproxies). That upside is also a downside, since it means you can't torrent traffic from regular sites, you have to stick to internal I2P torrents.

  5. Re:Oh good! on GNOME 2.30, End of the (2.x) Line · · Score: 1

    Wait, what? The LGPL is less free because it's called that way? The LGPL gives me, as a developer, MORE freedom. It's all a matter of perspective.

  6. Re:Why CMS on White House Website Switches To Open Source · · Score: 5, Informative

    For one, the weight a CMS adds is compensated by all of the code that is already present, all of the plugins that can be added without any trouble, the possibility for non-coders to easily modify website content ...
    Especially for large websites, this can dramatically improve how fast you can update and improve your site.
    Also, if you don't want to use a CMS, a framework like Django or Ruby on Rails is the way to go. These allow you to program everything yourself, but already have a lot of functionality built-in, to avoid reinventing the wheel.

  7. Re:Local? on Windows 7 Reintroduces Remote BSoD · · Score: 1

    Ignore the above. It was due to a bad copypaste, apparently (linefeed missing).

  8. Re:Local? on Windows 7 Reintroduces Remote BSoD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, it affects Vista (just tested it here). The example exploit contains a bug though. You need to add an import line 'from socket import socket'.

  9. Re:WTF does this mean??? on Highly-Paid Developers As ScrumMasters? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here you go :-)

    And yes, you are absolutely right. I couldn't entirely understand the article either.

  10. 802.11s + anonymous network on top on Could We Beam Broadband Internet Into Iran? · · Score: 1

    It would still be an Iran-only network, unless there are unfiltered gateways, but it would at least allow internal communication.

  11. Re:Encryption doesn't do much. on French Assembly Adopts 3-Strikes Bill · · Score: 1

    Indeed, with rapidshare, you can still easily be 'sold out' when the French government requests IPs from the rapidshare hosts.

    By the way, we're already noticing the effect on I2P. The new router count is getting a huge boost today.

  12. Re:First post? on Anonymous Network I2P 0.7.2 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unlike with Tor, each user is a router (especially true for high-bandwidth users). Obviously people are not a router to the regular net (as that could get people in trouble), but all users route data through the I2P network itself.
    In other words, if you want high-bandwidth bittorrenting, it helps a lot to contribute bandwidth yourself (makes you well-integrated). This keeps leechers to a slightly lower level.
    Secondly, as torrents consume a lot of bandwidth, they also provide cover traffic for other people who might not more anonymity.

  13. Re:No HTTPS support on Anonymous Network I2P 0.7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Yes, it would make a useful addition (lots of things would :P). We just need someone to set it up and it'll be there.

  14. Re:No HTTPS support on Anonymous Network I2P 0.7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    The fail is in fact on nobodies end. The reason https is 'not supported' is simply because nobody has set up an outproxy for it. If somebody does set up one, you will be able to use https.

  15. Re:Come on everybody, on Watching the IPRED Watchers In Sweden · · Score: 1

    It's the Anonymous network dance!

    You can share if you want to
    You can slow down to a crawl
    But at least you will be safe
    Sixty-five kay in a cave
    But detection chance is small!

    http://torproject.org/
    http://www.i2p2.de/
    http://gnunet.org/
    http://freenetproject.org/

  16. Re:"CLUI" on Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx · · Score: 1

    CLI: Command-Line Interface That includes CLUI's ;-)

  17. Re:Is this it? on Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx · · Score: 1

    This one is obviously real. Bow to the superiority of CLI browsers!
    Oh, time to go. Ctrl+A D

  18. Re:Slashdot achievements on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Wait. We're supposed to dare to click on that link? Damn you, April 1st!
    Hm, perhaps that can be an achievement: dared to click a link resemblin goatse.

  19. DOCSIS? on Comcast's Congestion Catch-22 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Comcast is a cable company, right? So isn't this just because their VoIP can be put in a separate Docsis channel (and prioritised accordingly), while 'regular' VoIP is sent as normal data?

  20. Re:Stop him! on Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Well, they could of course take away the right to privacy (some laws already do). That's exactly what this article is about.

    However, Freenet now has a darknet part, so I guess it would be kinda hard to detect (don't know the details, can someone else comment on that?).

  21. Re:Stop him! on Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet" · · Score: 1

    I2P downloading at 30-40 kBps is perfectly possible. It might not be very fast compared to non-anonymous networking, but still, that's quite okay. When downloading large files, people just leave their downloads on for a while anyway. Visiting I2P websites (known as eepsites) is also quite fast.
    The same goes for visiting websites through Tor: the latency is high, but doable (depending on how much latency you're willing to tolerate :p).

    I can't comment on Freenet, as I haven't really used it yet.

    And no, I'm not on some super-connection, just cable.

  22. Stop him! on Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What he is doing is useless, as Tor (for anonymous browsing), I2P (for anonymous fast downloading) and Freenet (for anonymous data storage) make such filters obsolete even before they are implemented.

  23. Re:Just Hype on "Cyber Monday" Expected To Draw Virtual Crowds · · Score: 1

    Funny thing being: it's posted by Anti-Globalism.

  24. Re:People get the government they deserve on Australian Government Censorship 'Worse Than Iran' · · Score: 1

    Too bad that, all too often, many people are not interested in who gets elected, and a lot of politicians do things they did NOT announce.

    Australians, time to hop on I2P or Tor!

  25. Re:FLASH?! on How Facebook Stores Billions of Photos · · Score: 2, Informative

    I do have Javascript installed, and am running Adobe Flash (Linux version). Doesn't work :(