Incidentally, we're about to build 5 new prisons. And to think some cynical people are pointing out that we're in a recession
Uhh, recessions cause increases in crime. Think about it for a moment - lots of people with no jobs and no money and nothing to lose and nothing better to do -- what do you expect to happen if not burglaries?
So how many billions of money that we don't have is the government going to spend on this (or force ISPs to spend on it) before they're left with a useless system as everyone moves to I2P?
Also, are you looking for super anonymity when downloading the next update to your favorite distro, or would you rather pay for tools to commit copyright infringement rather than pay for the copyrighted content outright?
I expect some people will be motivated by principle, which might skew what they are willing to pay beyond the cost of alternative methods of downloading whatevr they want.
Getting some GPL software via costly anonymous connection sounds crazy unless you think of the VPNs and TOR and mesh networking as a great big 'fuck you' to people attempting to monitor every conversation taking place in their countries.
Hey, is it any surprise campus security are afraid of Command Line Interface Terrorism?
Yes, actually it is surprising. Anybody who has ever seen 24 knows that terrorists and the Government both rely on a single GUI interface for everything from tracking motor vehicles to taking over nuclear power plants.
"I'll hold on to my incandescents and carbon arc lamps, thanks."
Good luck getting any incandescent bulbs - all of the electrical retailers in the UK have 'voluntarilty' decided to stop selling them (starting with the 100W ones now, 60W ones next year etc)
If I were on a jury deciding whether fair use applied, I suspect my reasoning would boil down to this: in a given use case, does Google allow me to read the substance of the article without seeing ads or doing whatever else the owner would normally have me do to generate revenue for them?
If I were on the jury, I'd be thinking:
(*) Are the google news snippets of similar size to the newspaper headlines and initial paragraphs that are readable when the printed newspaper is displayed on news-stands?
if I can walk into a newsagent and read the headline and summary of a non-free newspaper for free (which I can), then why would there be a problem with the same information being available online?
"Putting up robots.txt doesn't solve the problem. That gets them off Google and the other aggregators, but doesn't get them what they want, i.e. a pony."
boo f*ing hoo, they want to increase their prices by infinite percent in a market full of free competitors and they want to sell as many units of news for $X as they previously sold for $0.
spin that business plan to your banker for a loan, and see how seriously he takes you...
In the UK, PC World stopped selling any linux-based netbooks - we went there to buy an eee but they told us it was policy to only sell the ones with Windows. The posters and shelf-labelling for the netbook section of shop was all from Microsoft, advertising Windows.
I guess their advice to customers ("we don't sell linux machines because they're not as good") will have an effect on OS choice.
We had to buy the machine via internet, which of course was cheaper, easier, and had much better software. But anyone who buys at a retail store won't even see the linux options.
The general rule in the United States is that anyone may take photographs of whatever they want when they are in a public place or places where they have permission to take photographs. Absent a specific legal prohibition such as a statute or ordinance, you are legally entitled to take photographs. Examples of places that are traditionally considered public are streets, sidewalks, and public parks.
'Taking a stand' would be tarring and feathering their local district attorney equivalent and their MP's until their right to shoot burglars dead is once again respected by English law.
They already can - just not in the form of a punishment execution
VPNing in to TPB will introduce just such a bottleneck, killing performance.
Presumably, they're selling bandwidth just like every other VPN provider, so you would expect to get $3.50-worth of bandwidth from this service (paying for both inbound + outbound).
Are people planning to use this VPN access for bittorrent then, just because it's being offered by a bittorrent tracker website? It seems like the VPN service would be quite useful even for people who've never used TPB or bittorrent.
it all comes down to whether you trust TPB and their ISPs more than your own ISP. For many people this is a no-brainer. For others it may be more difficult to decide.
One big benefit is that you don't have to trust TPB's sweedish ISP so much, since it will be very difficult for them to distinguish your traffic from other users.
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Plus bahnhof have the geeky data centre - is there anything else we should consider when deciding on an ISP?
Incidentally, we're about to build 5 new prisons. And to think some cynical people are pointing out that we're in a recession
Uhh, recessions cause increases in crime. Think about it for a moment - lots of people with no jobs and no money and nothing to lose and nothing better to do -- what do you expect to happen if not burglaries?
Incidentally, we're about to build 5 new prisons
well, once they've locked-up everyone who views stick-figure porn* or keeps a secret from the government, they'd have to let out all the burglars
* yes I know that's australia, but UK law does the same thing now
So how many billions of money that we don't have is the government going to spend on this (or force ISPs to spend on it) before they're left with a useless system as everyone moves to I2P?
and if the same percentage of people turn up to count the votes, who cares what scale it's on?
Peter Wright did a book about MI5's work ("spycatcher" - you'll have trouble getting a copy in the UK) that seems quite informative...
Also, are you looking for super anonymity when downloading the next update to your favorite distro, or would you rather pay for tools to commit copyright infringement rather than pay for the copyrighted content outright?
I expect some people will be motivated by principle, which might skew what they are willing to pay beyond the cost of alternative methods of downloading whatevr they want.
Getting some GPL software via costly anonymous connection sounds crazy unless you think of the VPNs and TOR and mesh networking as a great big 'fuck you' to people attempting to monitor every conversation taking place in their countries.
almost every broadband ISP has overbuilt their network and was not prepared for the advent of HD video and streaming services
...despite advertising such services as a reason to buy broadband...
"Download a music track in under 10 seconds"
"Want to download films, music and photos faster?"
So.. campus cops can do whatever the hell they want then. Why is there even a story posted here?
As a warning, to anyone who might consider studying at an american university
Hey, is it any surprise campus security are afraid of Command Line Interface Terrorism?
Yes, actually it is surprising. Anybody who has ever seen 24 knows that terrorists and the Government both rely on a single GUI interface for everything from tracking motor vehicles to taking over nuclear power plants.
Ahem...
Sounds like a good online business to start.
If you bought them for £0.16 before the 'ban' came in, you could be selling them at over £1.50 now...
"I'll hold on to my incandescents and carbon arc lamps, thanks."
Good luck getting any incandescent bulbs - all of the electrical retailers in the UK have 'voluntarilty' decided to stop selling them (starting with the 100W ones now, 60W ones next year etc)
If I were on a jury deciding whether fair use applied, I suspect my reasoning would boil down to this: in a given use case, does Google allow me to read the substance of the article without seeing ads or doing whatever else the owner would normally have me do to generate revenue for them?
If I were on the jury, I'd be thinking:
(*) Are the google news snippets of similar size to the newspaper headlines and initial paragraphs that are readable when the printed newspaper is displayed on news-stands?
if I can walk into a newsagent and read the headline and summary of a non-free newspaper for free (which I can), then why would there be a problem with the same information being available online?
"Putting up robots.txt doesn't solve the problem. That gets them off Google and the other aggregators, but doesn't get them what they want, i.e. a pony."
boo f*ing hoo, they want to increase their prices by infinite percent in a market full of free competitors and they want to sell as many units of news for $X as they previously sold for $0.
spin that business plan to your banker for a loan, and see how seriously he takes you...
Why don't they just study tornados by driving straight into one with an Abrams or Challenger tank?
because that would be 80% of their budget spent on a single vehicle?
In the UK, PC World stopped selling any linux-based netbooks - we went there to buy an eee but they told us it was policy to only sell the ones with Windows. The posters and shelf-labelling for the netbook section of shop was all from Microsoft, advertising Windows.
I guess their advice to customers ("we don't sell linux machines because they're not as good") will have an effect on OS choice.
We had to buy the machine via internet, which of course was cheaper, easier, and had much better software. But anyone who buys at a retail store won't even see the linux options.
there isn't a lot of money in showing people good news, or pointing out they are pretty much safe and nothing really relevant to them has happened.
Actually, the government spends a lot of our money showing people the good news about how safe they are. Whether it's true is another matter, of course...
http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
The general rule in the United States is that anyone may take photographs of whatever they want when they are in a public place or places where they have permission to take photographs. Absent a specific legal prohibition such as a statute or ordinance, you are legally entitled to take photographs. Examples of places that are traditionally considered public are streets, sidewalks, and public parks.
The general rule in the United Kingdom is that if you take photos then you're a terrorism suspect
'Taking a stand' would be tarring and feathering their local district attorney equivalent and their MP's until their right to
shoot burglars dead is once again respected by English law.
They already can - just not in the form of a punishment execution
They won't experience the lack of gravity that actual astronauts would experience.
Just tell them it has gravity-compensators fitted
Maybe I am a freak, but to quote Davork, I get no spam. Gmail's filter catches pretty much everything.
Yet Google (and all other email systems) are paying for 17x as much bandwidth and infrastructure as they would otherwise need (plus filtering costs)
Yes, almost certainly. You need to understand English to develop in programming languages where the syntax and reserved words are in English.
As someone who's got too many syntax errors attempting to use setColour(), reserved words are not entirely in english!
Seriously though, can't the crew just tell the people on the ground to shove it up their ass?
That's one way of disposing of it. But is it really worthwhile bringing it all the way back just for that?
VPNing in to TPB will introduce just such a bottleneck, killing performance.
Presumably, they're selling bandwidth just like every other VPN provider, so you would expect to get $3.50-worth of bandwidth from this service (paying for both inbound + outbound).
Are people planning to use this VPN access for bittorrent then, just because it's being offered by a bittorrent tracker website? It seems like the VPN service would be quite useful even for people who've never used TPB or bittorrent.
it all comes down to whether you trust TPB and their ISPs more than your own ISP. For many people this is a no-brainer. For others it may be more difficult to decide.
One big benefit is that you don't have to trust TPB's sweedish ISP so much, since it will be very difficult for them to distinguish your traffic from other users.