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  1. Re:This is why we need net neutrality on Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Looking at this

    https://www.pcmag.com/article2...

    The copyright holder or some organisation they fund presumably connects to the tracker and gets a list of peers. Then they notify the ISP and the ISP converts IPs to a customer name and sends out a letter. At which point most people presumably stop pirating, or use a VPN. If you persist the copyright holder could theoretically subpoena your details. It's not clear how common this is.

    I suppose at that point you could try claiming all that GameOfThonesS07* was actually Linux ISOs which had been renamed for piracy reasons. Still they'd have the file hash you downloaded and could prove you were lying. Or, as the article points out the DMCA requires them to terminate your account

    If I'm still ignoring them, will they shut down my account?

    The group said this alert system "does not, in any circumstance, require the ISP to terminate an Internet subscriber's account." They point out, however, that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act already requires ISPs to have a termination policy in effect if they want to take advantage of the law's "safe harbor" clauses. That way, if a copyright holder sues you for illegal downloading, the ISP can say it took measures to stop the activity and cannot be held liable for your activity.

    If the ISP were doing QOS they could throttle bittorrent data to reserve some bandwidth for people doing other things without seeing if it were illegal, especially if they had fancy deep packet inspection gear.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Applications such as peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic present increasing problems for broadband service providers. Typically, P2P traffic is used by applications that do file sharing. These may be any kind of files (i.e. documents, music, videos, or applications). Due to the frequently large size of media files being transferred, P2P drives increasing traffic loads, requiring additional network capacity. Service providers say a minority of users generate large quantities of P2P traffic and degrade performance for the majority of broadband subscribers using applications such as e-mail or Web browsing which use less bandwidth. Poor network performance increases customer dissatisfaction and leads to a decline in service revenues.

    DPI allows the operators to oversell their available bandwidth while ensuring equitable bandwidth distribution to all users by preventing network congestion. Additionally, a higher priority can be allocated to a VoIP or video conferencing call which requires low latency versus web browsing which does not. This is the approach that service providers use to dynamically allocate bandwidth according to traffic that is passing through their networks.

  2. Re:China, Facebook, Vietnam, Google, Youtube on Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    https://fee.org/articles/what-...

    Q: What did socialists use before candles?
    A: Electricity.

    It's an old joke, but unfortunately, dark humor is the reality in Venezuela. The socialist regime of Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro has created catastrophic shortages of toilet paper, food, medicine, comedy, beer, and electricity. (There is, of course, no shortage of its increasingly worthless paper money.)

  3. Re:This is why we need net neutrality on Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If people are downloading Game.of.Thrones.S07E07.The.Dragon.and.the.Wolf.AMZN.WEBRip.DDP2 it's pretty obviously illegal and the ISP is allowed to block it.

  4. Re:Link to the Islamic slave trade on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur...

    And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess. It is a decree of Allah for you. Lawful unto you are all beyond those mentioned, so that ye seek them with your wealth in honest wedlock, not debauchery. And those of whom ye seek content (by marrying them), give unto them their portions as a duty. And there is no sin for you in what ye do by mutual agreement after the duty (hath been done). Lo! Allah is ever Knower, Wise.

    Qur'an 4:24

    https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur...

    O Prophet, We have made lawful for thee thy wives whom thou hast given their wages and what thy right hand owns, spoils of war that God has given thee, and the daughters of thy uncles paternal and aunts paternal, thy uncles maternal and aunts maternal, who have emigrated with thee, and any woman believer, if she give herself to the Prophet and if the Prophet desire to take her in marriage, for thee exclusively, apart from the believers -- We know what We have imposed upon them touching their wives and what their right hands own -- that there may be no fault in thee; God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.

    Qur'an 33:50

    https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur...

    Yahya related to me from Malik from Humayd ibn Qays al-Makki that a man called Dhafif said that Ibn Abbas was asked about coitus interruptus. He called a slave-girl of his and said, "Tell them." She was embarrassed. He said, "It is alright, and I do it myself." Malik said, "A man does not practise coitus interruptus with a free woman unless she gives her permission. There is no harm in practising coitus interruptus with a slave-girl without her permission. Someone who has someone else's slave-girl as a wife, does not practise coitus interruptus with her unless her people give him permission."

    Al-Muwatta 29:100

  5. Re: Casio wrist watch had touch in 1983 on That '70s Show: the Conference That Predicted the Future of Work (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Justin Trudeau frequently reminds millennials of $(CURRENT_YEAR)

  6. Paramount Leader Trump's wise policies ... on 56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's IT Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    ... are starting to pay off! IT jobs are coming back to the US of A!

  7. Re:Casio wrist watch had touch in 1983 on That '70s Show: the Conference That Predicted the Future of Work (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Casio science has evolved far beyond the point where complex numbers are even useful.

  8. Re:Casio wrist watch had touch in 1983 on That '70s Show: the Conference That Predicted the Future of Work (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Casio technology is at least twenty years ahead of human technology. E.g. this watch that sets itself using radio all over the world and charges its batteries with solar power.

    https://www.casio.co.uk/produc...

  9. Re:This is why we need net neutrality on Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Net Neutrality only applied to legal content.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story...

    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to implement new net neutrality rules designed to make sure Internet service providers treat all legal content equally.

    Emphasis mine.

    I.e. even if Net Neutrality still applied they'd be allowed to block or throttle bittorrent. And legally they can probably have a 'three strikes and you're out' policy.

    What's probably legally dubious even now is to block IOT access to customers who torrent. E.g. if you share an internet connection with someone who torrents and the ISPs blocks access to some critical IOT device, can you sue? Over a heating system I guess it doesn't matter. Still it's not impossible something more important could be connected to the net. And you can imagine a (for the ISP) nightmare scenario where one person pirates using bittorrent, the ISP cuts the connection, someone else who is dependent on a Internet connected medical device dies and the ISP gets sued.

    I guess that's the reason for this warning.

  10. Re:"We assume attacker is in in the vicinity of HD on Acoustic Attacks on HDDs Can Sabotage PCs, CCTV Systems, ATMs, More (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I've just released a Directive to the employees of Porter Industries that cowardice in repelling Evil Clowns is punishable by DEATH.

  11. Re:Gluttony is a sin on Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As the Bible points out about sacrificing your children to false Gods is a sin and should be punish with extreme asskicking, for example in the 'pro choice' religion of the Canaanites -

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    The following references are made in the Hebrew Bible. In Jeremiah 7:31-34 Yahweh states his contempt for child sacrifices.

    They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, nor did it come into my mind. Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place [to bury]. The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away. Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.

    The practice of burning children in Topheth was ended by Josiah, King of Judah, who âoedefiled Tophethâ as part of his great religious reforms (2Kings 23:10). Topheth is mentioned elsewhere in the Old Testament: Jeremiah 7:31-32 Jeremiah 19:6, Jeremiah 19:11-14, and Isaiah 30:33.

  12. Re:Gluttony is a sin on Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Samsung phones have had OLED for ages.

    All Apple did was buy their displays from Samsung. And, like you say, FaceID is a bad replacement for fingerprint sensors which Apple did actually pioneer.

    You could make a case that Apple are helping Samsung drive up volumes for their large OLED displays. Thing is Samsung had OLED displays good enough for me even back in the S2 days - adding more inches and pixels doesn't really affect the quality, but it does drive up power consumption and drive down battery life which to is not a good tradeoff.

  13. Re:Man, he used "Balkanisation" properly on Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It was Obama who degraded the dignity and respect of America's foreign services when he declared that Raymond Davis, CIA, Blackwater contractor James Bond wannabe, a diplomat entitled to the highest level of diplomatic immunity after he killed two Pakistani citizens with an illegal gun, thus severely damaging diplomatic relations with that country

    I'm no fan of Obama but that was the right thing to do. You can't hand US citizens over to the ISI for acting in US interests. It sends the wrong message. The ISI need to know that the US is the dominant partner in the dysfunctional US Pakistan relationship.

    The Syrian stuff was a fiasco though - the US should never have been backing a bunch of Islamist so called moderates against Assad when it was clear if he fell most of the country would end up being run be ISIS/Al Qaeda types. And regardless of what policy you pursue you need to be consistent. Saying chemical weapons use was a red line and then not enforcing perversely sent a message that chemical weapons use was fine.

    And I think in retrospect the US and EU played a very bad role in Ukraine - they supported people who wanted to join the EU customs union which meant that it wouldn't join the Russian one because customs unions, unlike free trade areas, are exclusive.

    Oddly enough BREXIT provides a good solution to this. The UK wants tariff free trade but not open borders and it wants to be able to sign free trade agreements with non EU countries. A UK/EU free trade agreement could be used as a template for EU free trade agreements with Ukraine and Turkey, both countries the EU can't agree to allow into its single market which requires free movement of people and joining the customs union.

    https://www.reuters.com/articl...

    The future post BREXIT is more glorious than you can possibly imagine. Needless to say Obama opposed it.

  14. Re:"We assume attacker is in in the vicinity of HD on Acoustic Attacks on HDDs Can Sabotage PCs, CCTV Systems, ATMs, More (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    s/where/wear/g

    Brother funking auto corrupt.

  15. Re:"We assume attacker is in in the vicinity of HD on Acoustic Attacks on HDDs Can Sabotage PCs, CCTV Systems, ATMs, More (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    What if the attackers where CLOWN SUITS?

  16. Re:Gluttony is a sin on Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well it got the 6 November 2017 security patch, and it's due for Android 8.0

    https://theleaker.com/android-...

    Lineage works on it

    https://www.droidmen.com/insta...

    So I think I'll be fine. I'm actually happy with the Android 7.0 it came with.

  17. Re:Link to the Islamic slave trade on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh I agree. It's not just ISIS - the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia and so on all have a slavery going on under the surface with the connivance of the authorities.

    In fact in Kuwait a female politician wanted to legalize sex slavery

    http://www.ibtimes.com/female-...

    Slavery was only banned in Saudi Arabia in 1962, and even now they treat their guest workers and maids like slaves.

  18. Link to the Islamic slave trade on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Compared to the Atlantic slave trade, which was mostly men for work, the Islamic slave trade was mostly women for sex.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    In contrast to the Atlantic slave trade, where the male-female ratio was 2:1 or 3:1, the Arab slave trade instead usually had a higher female-to-male ratio. This suggests a general preference for female slaves. Concubinage and reproduction served as incentives for importing female slaves (often Caucasian), though many were also imported mainly for performing household tasks.

    In Islam you can have four wives and an unlimited number of sex slaves if you are male.

    It's easy to see that polygamy and the inability of poor men to find a wife and thus legally have sex was a driver for this.

  19. Re:Said... on Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    The changing rooms stuff was Obama trolling people. Under his rules not only did post op transsexuals get to use the bathroom of their choice anyone who felt a bit [the other gender] that day did too.

    Basically this was the coastal NY/CA types trolling the heartland by telling them they had to let boys into the girls' changing rooms and then attacking them as transphobic bigots when they complained.

    See Obama could have have set the Title IX rules to say the school must provide unisex changing facilities and that only post op transsexuals could use the bathroom of the gender they were changing too. But he didn't because he knew forcing the heartland to let 'intact males' into the girls changing rooms would cause a backlash which his supporters would enjoy.

    He was just as much of a troll as Trump is, just in a more subtle, bureaucratic way.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...

    A transgender high school student in Missouri is facing backlash from her peers after requesting to use the girls' bathrooms and locker room.

    More than 100 students at Hillsboro High School, about an hour south of St Louis, walked out of class on Monday in protest.

    "I'm hoping this dies down," said Lila Perry, the 17-year-old who began identifying as a girl publicly in February. "I don't want my entire senior year to be like this."

    Ms. Perry, who began feeling "more like a girl than a boy" when she was 13, said school officials gave her permission to use the girls' facilities as the new school year began.

    The district's superintendent, Aaron D. Cornman, issued a statement saying the district "accepts all students no matter race, nationality/ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation."

    Continue reading the main story
    The student protest came on the heels of a school board meeting on Thursday attended by so many parents it had to be moved to a bigger location.

    "My goal is for the district and parents to have a policy discussion," said Derrick Good, a lawyer who has two daughters in the district and wants students to use either facilities based on their biological sex or other gender-neutral facilities.

    He worked with the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian advocacy group, to draft a "student physical privacy policy" and submit it to the district, which has about 3,500 students.

    Ms. Perry previously used a unisex faculty bathroom, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

    Mr. Good said he got involved after hearing about a female student who encountered "an intact male" in the girls' locker room.

    "It's a violation of my daughters' rights to privacy to not have a policy," he said.

    The protesting students assembled outside the school for about two hours. Mr. Cornman said he did not believe any of them were penalized.

    Ms. Perry, who dropped out of the physical education class that prompted her use of the girls' locker room, spent the two hours in her guidance counselor's office.

    "I was concerned about my own safety," she said.

    She said she knows of other, younger transgender students in the district and wants to open a dialogue so they have a better high school experience.

    "It feels really awful that people are going to these extremes against me, not just in school but all over the Internet," Ms. Perry said. "But I've also received so much support. It feels really surreal to be in the middle of all of this."

    The Missouri Gay-Straight Alliance Network will host a rally supporting Ms. Perry on Friday.

    "I think that there are a lot of folks that don't understand the difference between sex and gender and only see Lila as her sex at birth," said Morgan Keenan, the group's founding director.

    It's not the first case to stir public debate about the matter.

    A 13-year-old transgender student at a junior high school in Idaho was given permission to use the girls' bathrooms ea

  20. It's called Radiation Hormesis.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    There are various alternative theories, like Linear No Threshold

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    It's possible that DNA damage is a bit like bit errors - a small number can be corrected but a large number cannot, which would mean the Linear No Threshold model would exaggerate the danger of low levels of radiation by extrapolating from very high levels.

    Like most things of this nature it's become something of a political football with anti nuclear people promoting the LNT model and pro nuclear people disputing it.

  21. Re:Focusing power, but turned up to eleven on FCC Approves First Wireless 'Power-At-A-Distance' Charging System (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    "Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality."

    Oh the irony!

  22. Re:Reminds of this Think Geek product on FCC Approves First Wireless 'Power-At-A-Distance' Charging System (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Dr. Durand Durand has done some interesting work in this area.

  23. Reminds of this Think Geek product on FCC Approves First Wireless 'Power-At-A-Distance' Charging System (engadget.com) · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Gluttony is a sin on Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I've got a LG V20. It works fine. It's got all the features my old Galaxy S5 had minus IP67. Unlike a OnePlus 5T it has a removable battery.