You're confusing property with "intellectual property", these have nothing in common. The former is an existing, scarce, tangible item, the latter is a monopoly that deprives others from using their property as they wish. Any artificial scarcity is harmful to the society, while actual scarcity needs some means to fairly distribute and protect one's share. There are many means of distribution of scarce items, you can argue which ones are fair -- free market is one of such methods, with a rare property of not needing any outside regulation. As for protection of these shares, we need some way to ensure no one tries to game the system by taking what belongs to someone else by force. This obviously applies only to scarce items -- copying something or using a patented recipe does not deprive anyone else of their property, it's only disallowing such copying that is, effectively, theft.
Not "any and all upload", just upload that lets packets queue. ISPs in general set ridiculously big queues on routers they give out to customers as that improves single-connection benchmarks at the cost of abysmal latencies and duplex transfers. This can be trivially avoided by capping egress at just a notch below the max (sadly, most idiot-box routers don't expose this functionality).
Another good idea is to set up HTB to give almost all priority to your private flows, although to be not asocial you should give at least a trickle to guests.
As for police, please stop spreading FUD. There _are_ countries like Nazi Germany where free wifi is thus basically verboten, but as you can read in this article, in civilized countries the law is on your side. And if a MAFIAA troll tries to claim otherwise, you get free lawyers from EFF. Sponsored, amid others, by my donations (although I admit I've been a money-pincher here:( ).
There are two types of corruption: logical, which System Restore or CoW snapshots are supposed to help with, and physical, where nothing you can do on the same disk can save you. Most of the time, if a disk develops physical errors, damage is not localized, and even if it mostly is, random metadata and filesystem's internal structures will be hit as well. Say goodbye to that disk, trying to continue to use it as if nothing happened is suicidal.
It's nowhere near real CoW: shadowcopy files are stored differently from regular ones, you can't just, as an user, copy a file to have it in two editable directories next to each other, etc.
Backup copies still occupy disk space in Linux too.
We're talking about local snapshots, not external backups. On modern filesystems (lvm snapshots, btrfs, zfs), these take any space only if they actually differ from live data.
In newer versions of Windows several additional copies are present in System Restore and their pseudo-versioning thingy, both of which are not available as plain files (they waste space just the same).
Ghostery is too simplicistic, too inaccurate and too uncontrollable for heavy users, although it indeed may be a good solution for nontechnical users (ie, a vast majority). Adblock can do everything ghostery can, except that you need to configure it to do so.
When coming to a new page I have a hunch may include something nasty, I ctrl-shift-V ("Open blockable items") and glance at the list, looking for something that needs to be swatted. Obviously, quite a few folks shared their lists so you don't need to start afresh on a new installation. Ghostery is nothing more than such a list with a flashy icon and some marketing.
Easily solvable: just have every TLD be a root on its own. Distribute the list of such roots with DNS server packages.
This conflicts with the latest ICANN's money grab by making it very hard to add new TLDs, but I'd say shutting that crap down is an upside rather than downside.
It doesn't matter, the war would be won. GPL is meant to kill copyright. BSD fails here, it gives you a fleeting freedom that lasts only as long as no company involved cares about the next quarter.
There are two reasons for GPL: 1. make software free as in beer(!), 2. giving everyone access to source (which you can then improve). Point 1 is contrary to what the FSF says, but you can't really talk about paid-for GPLed software with a straight face: paid support yes, paid development yes, paid code not at all.
With no copyright, point 1 is trivially won. Point 2 would need some work: someone would need to create a decompiler. It would take a fair amount of work, but is certainly possible, a matter of compiler science: except instead of optimizing assembly code for speed, you'd optimize C (or $LANGUAGE) code for readability -- in both cases, preserving semantics. At that point, you get comment-less sources for all software in the world -- then you can bet any code worth maintaining will be further sanitized by someone. You may ask, why we don't have any decompilers that are worth shit? Because making one is sizeable investment, and at the moment you are not allowed to use the output of one for any interesting purposes.
Your example works only for citizens of Antigua and direct distribution from them, which considering the small population of Antigua is sadly too small to matter.
It also has an incredibly steep learning curve that even experienced public key administrators face problems with.
There's a way to do it in the name server itself, but here's a way for newbies:
1. in named.conf.local, change file "example.org.zone"; to file "example.org.zone.signed"; 2. where you would do rndc reload example.org after a change, you instead do zonesigner --usensec3 -zone example.org. example.org && rndc reload example.org 3. read the key-signing key zonesigner created, log in to your registrar, add a DS record by pasting data from that file 4. if you want the keys to expire (zonesigner's default), set up a cronjob to re-sign the zone. This can be automated with rollerd, but cron is something everyone already knows.
That's all. I don't think someone not able to follow these steps should muck with DNS records. (Yes, there are nicer ways, but this one is simplest.)
Hopefully this speeds up Firefox considerably. I stopped using it because it was so much slower than Chrome at some basic tasks.
Eh? Firefox is so much faster than Chrome that I really wonder why would you spread disinformation like this. Or perhaps, your Adblock setup is lacking (or, horrors, missing at all). The default stops only visible ads, while Every. Fucking. Page. On. Teh. Internets. has a screenful of hidden trackers/etc that really slow you down.
NoScript would be tempting, except that in today's Web2.0, too big a part of pages is useless without manually mucking with permissions. Yet even without it, Firefox is so much better at eliminating spyware than Chrome that minor differences in javascript speeds don't matter. Who cares that Chrome would execute the code faster if you don't want it being executed at all? Or it's domain name resolved, which is another source of slowness.
Your list is woefully incomplete, starting with the lack of fbcdn. Also, it's far better to do this per domain rather than individual hosts, although I don't know of a way that doesn't involve setting up your own DNS server -- something which most people won't do. Of course, there's Adblock and friends, but against a plague as nasty as Facebook, you need multiple layers of protection.
No one but Microsoft has any need for it. For starters, it doesn't serve its advertised purpose -- if it did, we'd see drivers getting blacklisted for ring 0 holes left and right, and I'm not aware of Microsoft blacklisting a single one. So it's not about preventing those eevil haxors from haxoring your machine. What is it for, then? Making sure competition to Windows never goes mainstream.
The concept of intellectual property (ie: copyright) is a cornerstone of capitalism
Hell no! The cornerstone of capitalism is free market. So-called "intellectual property" is state-enforced monopoly, something that's an anathema to free market, about as antithetical to it as bailouts. It deprives people of freedom to use their own actual property, just because someone obtained monopoly rights.
And even actual property is not that important for free market, all that matters is that no one can deprive you of what you have. Copyright and patents destroy the right to create things while not protecting anything that already exists.
If you ever bothered to read them you might know his name was spelt "Marx" not "Marks".
... or grew in a country that spells it "Marks" (surprising as we use the Latin alphabet just like the original, but that's probably because most communists who invaded us spoke russian natively).
Having lived in communist Poland, I can tell you that this is what communism is about. The works of Marks and Lenin were pure lies even according to their authors. And since every single implementation of communism in history resembled the Animal Farm, you can't say they weren't "true communism". The whole design is wrong, not merely "good but broken by corrupt leaders".
Communism has only one real purpose: to give every layer of the Party power according to which layer you belong to. For example, the very top lives extravagant lives that puts western spendthrift celebrities to shame, and even lowly cogs whose loyalty was somehow important (like law enforcement) got much-envied privileges -- like so-called yellow drape shops that included goods you couldn't purchase elsewhere (compare with typical shops of that era).
Such fees like those people pay for reasonable schools in China are not some perversion of communism, they're something ubiquitous.
Of course, most of "capitalist" countries today are far from democracy or rule of law, with those in power doing anything they can to skew the system further in their favour, but as communism shows, things can go worse. Much, much worse.
I was aiming at "some insight, lots of WTF". The former is: even with such a massive warm-up, some places today inhabitable would become comfortable to live; as for the latter, DigitalSorceress' post nearby is exhaustive enough. Outlandish hyperboles aside, my point is that there's a massive tolerance, both ways, before traditional ways of human life would become impossible. Being able to sustain a large population or avoiding hardships of migration are another story, though.
Correction: an oil-producing country that's cold like hell, and can gain a lot from both its land getting more habitable and from it's main competitors' land getting less habitable.
If Earth got 40 degrees warmer, people at the south pole wouldn't complain.
Please don't use the word "Modern". It's an intentional trick to sow confusion, akin to "Office Open XML" when their biggest competitor was OpenOffice. We need a proper name, and with the lack of something official, "Metro" is the best candidate (as it was official).
This is Microsoft, remember that they act opposite to Hanlon's razor.
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You're confusing property with "intellectual property", these have nothing in common. The former is an existing, scarce, tangible item, the latter is a monopoly that deprives others from using their property as they wish. Any artificial scarcity is harmful to the society, while actual scarcity needs some means to fairly distribute and protect one's share. There are many means of distribution of scarce items, you can argue which ones are fair -- free market is one of such methods, with a rare property of not needing any outside regulation. As for protection of these shares, we need some way to ensure no one tries to game the system by taking what belongs to someone else by force. This obviously applies only to scarce items -- copying something or using a patented recipe does not deprive anyone else of their property, it's only disallowing such copying that is, effectively, theft.
Not "any and all upload", just upload that lets packets queue. ISPs in general set ridiculously big queues on routers they give out to customers as that improves single-connection benchmarks at the cost of abysmal latencies and duplex transfers. This can be trivially avoided by capping egress at just a notch below the max (sadly, most idiot-box routers don't expose this functionality).
Another good idea is to set up HTB to give almost all priority to your private flows, although to be not asocial you should give at least a trickle to guests.
As for police, please stop spreading FUD. There _are_ countries like Nazi Germany where free wifi is thus basically verboten, but as you can read in this article, in civilized countries the law is on your side. And if a MAFIAA troll tries to claim otherwise, you get free lawyers from EFF. Sponsored, amid others, by my donations (although I admit I've been a money-pincher here :( ).
There are two types of corruption: logical, which System Restore or CoW snapshots are supposed to help with, and physical, where nothing you can do on the same disk can save you. Most of the time, if a disk develops physical errors, damage is not localized, and even if it mostly is, random metadata and filesystem's internal structures will be hit as well. Say goodbye to that disk, trying to continue to use it as if nothing happened is suicidal.
It's nowhere near real CoW: shadowcopy files are stored differently from regular ones, you can't just, as an user, copy a file to have it in two editable directories next to each other, etc.
Backup copies still occupy disk space in Linux too.
We're talking about local snapshots, not external backups. On modern filesystems (lvm snapshots, btrfs, zfs), these take any space only if they actually differ from live data.
In newer versions of Windows several additional copies are present in System Restore and their pseudo-versioning thingy, both of which are not available as plain files (they waste space just the same).
Ghostery is too simplicistic, too inaccurate and too uncontrollable for heavy users, although it indeed may be a good solution for nontechnical users (ie, a vast majority). Adblock can do everything ghostery can, except that you need to configure it to do so.
When coming to a new page I have a hunch may include something nasty, I ctrl-shift-V ("Open blockable items") and glance at the list, looking for something that needs to be swatted. Obviously, quite a few folks shared their lists so you don't need to start afresh on a new installation. Ghostery is nothing more than such a list with a flashy icon and some marketing.
The fact that bugs are possible is what matters?
Bugs in a system that should not exist at all.
Easily solvable: just have every TLD be a root on its own. Distribute the list of such roots with DNS server packages.
This conflicts with the latest ICANN's money grab by making it very hard to add new TLDs, but I'd say shutting that crap down is an upside rather than downside.
It doesn't matter, the war would be won. GPL is meant to kill copyright. BSD fails here, it gives you a fleeting freedom that lasts only as long as no company involved cares about the next quarter.
There are two reasons for GPL: 1. make software free as in beer(!), 2. giving everyone access to source (which you can then improve). Point 1 is contrary to what the FSF says, but you can't really talk about paid-for GPLed software with a straight face: paid support yes, paid development yes, paid code not at all.
With no copyright, point 1 is trivially won. Point 2 would need some work: someone would need to create a decompiler. It would take a fair amount of work, but is certainly possible, a matter of compiler science: except instead of optimizing assembly code for speed, you'd optimize C (or $LANGUAGE) code for readability -- in both cases, preserving semantics. At that point, you get comment-less sources for all software in the world -- then you can bet any code worth maintaining will be further sanitized by someone. You may ask, why we don't have any decompilers that are worth shit? Because making one is sizeable investment, and at the moment you are not allowed to use the output of one for any interesting purposes.
Your example works only for citizens of Antigua and direct distribution from them, which considering the small population of Antigua is sadly too small to matter.
Because it's not the ban still being in force what matters, it's that it was possible at all.
It also has an incredibly steep learning curve that even experienced public key administrators face problems with.
There's a way to do it in the name server itself, but here's a way for newbies:
1. in named.conf.local, change file "example.org.zone"; to file "example.org.zone.signed";
2. where you would do rndc reload example.org after a change, you instead do zonesigner --usensec3 -zone example.org. example.org && rndc reload example.org
3. read the key-signing key zonesigner created, log in to your registrar, add a DS record by pasting data from that file
4. if you want the keys to expire (zonesigner's default), set up a cronjob to re-sign the zone. This can be automated with rollerd, but cron is something everyone already knows.
That's all. I don't think someone not able to follow these steps should muck with DNS records.
(Yes, there are nicer ways, but this one is simplest.)
Hopefully this speeds up Firefox considerably. I stopped using it because it was so much slower than Chrome at some basic tasks.
Eh? Firefox is so much faster than Chrome that I really wonder why would you spread disinformation like this. Or perhaps, your Adblock setup is lacking (or, horrors, missing at all). The default stops only visible ads, while Every. Fucking. Page. On. Teh. Internets. has a screenful of hidden trackers/etc that really slow you down.
NoScript would be tempting, except that in today's Web2.0, too big a part of pages is useless without manually mucking with permissions. Yet even without it, Firefox is so much better at eliminating spyware than Chrome that minor differences in javascript speeds don't matter. Who cares that Chrome would execute the code faster if you don't want it being executed at all? Or it's domain name resolved, which is another source of slowness.
Your list is woefully incomplete, starting with the lack of fbcdn. Also, it's far better to do this per domain rather than individual hosts, although I don't know of a way that doesn't involve setting up your own DNS server -- something which most people won't do. Of course, there's Adblock and friends, but against a plague as nasty as Facebook, you need multiple layers of protection.
No one but Microsoft has any need for it. For starters, it doesn't serve its advertised purpose -- if it did, we'd see drivers getting blacklisted for ring 0 holes left and right, and I'm not aware of Microsoft blacklisting a single one. So it's not about preventing those eevil haxors from haxoring your machine. What is it for, then? Making sure competition to Windows never goes mainstream.
The concept of intellectual property (ie: copyright) is a cornerstone of capitalism
Hell no! The cornerstone of capitalism is free market. So-called "intellectual property" is state-enforced monopoly, something that's an anathema to free market, about as antithetical to it as bailouts. It deprives people of freedom to use their own actual property, just because someone obtained monopoly rights.
And even actual property is not that important for free market, all that matters is that no one can deprive you of what you have. Copyright and patents destroy the right to create things while not protecting anything that already exists.
If you ever bothered to read them you might know his name was spelt "Marx" not "Marks".
... or grew in a country that spells it "Marks" (surprising as we use the Latin alphabet just like the original, but that's probably because most communists who invaded us spoke russian natively).
The whole design is wrong, not merely "good but broken by corrupt leaders".
s/wrong/working as intended by their authors rather than victims/
Having lived in communist Poland, I can tell you that this is what communism is about. The works of Marks and Lenin were pure lies even according to their authors. And since every single implementation of communism in history resembled the Animal Farm, you can't say they weren't "true communism". The whole design is wrong, not merely "good but broken by corrupt leaders".
Communism has only one real purpose: to give every layer of the Party power according to which layer you belong to. For example, the very top lives extravagant lives that puts western spendthrift celebrities to shame, and even lowly cogs whose loyalty was somehow important (like law enforcement) got much-envied privileges -- like so-called yellow drape shops that included goods you couldn't purchase elsewhere (compare with typical shops of that era).
Such fees like those people pay for reasonable schools in China are not some perversion of communism, they're something ubiquitous.
Of course, most of "capitalist" countries today are far from democracy or rule of law, with those in power doing anything they can to skew the system further in their favour, but as communism shows, things can go worse. Much, much worse.
Limitation on ability to innovate
What the fucking fuck! They're claiming that jailbreaking reduces the ability to innovate?
Merely "a bit"? You hurt me! :p
I was aiming at "some insight, lots of WTF". The former is: even with such a massive warm-up, some places today inhabitable would become comfortable to live; as for the latter, DigitalSorceress' post nearby is exhaustive enough. Outlandish hyperboles aside, my point is that there's a massive tolerance, both ways, before traditional ways of human life would become impossible. Being able to sustain a large population or avoiding hardships of migration are another story, though.
So let's divine the number of gods that exist by averaging the number of gods that world's religion claim to exist.
Correction: an oil-producing country that's cold like hell, and can gain a lot from both its land getting more habitable and from it's main competitors' land getting less habitable.
If Earth got 40 degrees warmer, people at the south pole wouldn't complain.
Please don't use the word "Modern". It's an intentional trick to sow confusion, akin to "Office Open XML" when their biggest competitor was OpenOffice. We need a proper name, and with the lack of something official, "Metro" is the best candidate (as it was official).
This is Microsoft, remember that they act opposite to Hanlon's razor.
That's why we need a way to force encryption, limitting their knowledge to just the source and target IP.