It's asshats like them that suck up all the bandwith in Tor.
Tor is meant for people that want to surf and post anonymously.
Thus, someone in China who is trying to research democracy and human rights is unable to connect because someone else really wants to catch up on old seasons of Lost without paying up $15 bucks for a netflix subscription.
In most cases, if someone really wants to watch back seasons of Lost and they can't get it off the Pirate Bay, they'll spring the few bucks to rent it from the local Blockbuster or from Netflix.
Personally, I just don't see why the media corporations just don't release their own torrents. I think most people here would be willing to live with watching the same amount of advertisements you would get on TV in return for a high quality torrent of their favorite shows that was seeded the second the show ended on primetime TV.
You do realize that your MAC address is lost at the layer 3 translation at the router, right?
Even if they pulled a list of MAC addresses from the router, there would be no way to tell which MAC address downloaded the material unless they caught you in the act.
People don't seem to realize that Bittorrent wasn't designed for anonymity or privacy. It was designed for the easy distribution of free *legal* content such as FOSS. Getting the tracker from the software's website removed the risk of downloading an infected fake.
An FBI agent's career is advanced by catching and successfully prosecuting criminals. The FBI has a limited budget, and by definition this kind of social networking is extremely human intensive. You have to detail a real person to go under cover and gather information. The FBI has a limited number of people, so they won't do something like this that, at best, gets secondary evidence to help tie up a conviction that would rely more heavily on traditional evidence.
An example would be a partial finger print found at a gang crime scene. The partial print might not be enough to convict on it's own, but the print, plus somehow nailing the gang to the crime, an eyewitness (also something not good enough on it's own) AND the social networking link that proves the accused was part of the gang's social circle might seal a conviction.
As long as the requirements for this observation include a warrant from a Judge similar to that needed for a wiretap, I don't see the issues with this. Good police work needs to keep in pace with the technology of the times. Cellphones, emails, and now social networks.
The critical issue is always judicial oversight and periodic independent review to prevent abuse.
And before anyone flames me for warrant-less wiretapping by the NSA, that was an illegal act and they got burned hard for it. Strong checks and balances in the system help prevent such acts, and if they do occur someone will blow the whistle on it.
The problem isn't Windows, it's users that are willing to run free-porn.exe that is linked in facebook/email/whatever.
Any operating system is only as secure as the user operating it.
A properly configured Windows 7 machine with a solid antivirus, firewall, and a user who paid attention during 15-20 minutes of information assurance training would be a real bitch to exploit.
Even if the odds of a match being 5 billion to 1 in a population of 214,597 there is a 99% chance that one person will have a match with another person.
Actually he said that he wanted to maintain a presence in Iraq for a 100 years if necessary, not keep fighting.
Questioner: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for fifty yearsâ¦
McCain: Maybe a hundred. Make it one hundred. Weâ(TM)ve been in South Korea, weâ(TM)ve been in Japan for sixty years. Weâ(TM)ve been in South Korea for fifty years or so. Thatâ(TM)d be fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. Then itâ(TM)s fine with me. I would hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where Al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.
On Navy ships workstations are Windows 2000 for office work and for Sailors to email home (everyone has a UNCLAS account).
The more specialized gear (Aegis, and various consoles) are usually Unix or Linux, depending on the piece of gear and the Aegis baseline.
A few pieces of gear run on Windows variants, the Navigation gear (Voyage Management System) the most notable. I think it is a civilian product the military uses.
From what I can tell the Navy doesn't give two shits about what the software runs on, so long as it works. Contractors do all of the upgrades and major overhauls anyway. Sailors just troubleshoot.
Not to mention that hardware and software varies greatly from ship to ship. A Aegis tech from the original Arleigh Burke destroyer would be hard pressed to trouble shoot a system from the latest variant of that class of ship, if he was able to accomplish it at all.
Navy enlisted techs are usually sent to a specific school for a certain piece of gear to help alleviate this problem, though it complicates the Navy's already dire manning problems as certain pieces of gear may only be on a few ships. It is no wonder that civilians do so much these days.
... teaching kids how to use the dominant operating system on the planet may not be a bad thing.
Yes Linux is gaining ground and is now on par with Windows or better, but in this case the diversity could be a good thing.
No matter how the OS war goes, MS Windows will be a significant OS for a very long time.
Teaching kids the ins and outs of it could benefit them.
If the country buying the laptops wants to teach their youth Windows, let them. If they want to teach them Linux, the same should apply.
*BUT*
OLPC should set down the ground rules for MS:
- The version of windows should be provided to OLPC for free. - The additional cost needed to upgrade the hardware to support WinXP should be covered by MS. - The upgraded hardware should be compatable with the Linux based OS that OLPC is using (incase the customer state wants to switch OSs) - If MS decides that the contribution is not in their interests in the future, they must continue to support those countries that bought the XP version.
MS would jump on these conditions because it creates a future market for them, and only benefits OLPC because there are more options for their clients.
Just my 2 cents
MODS, remember that there is not a -1 Disagree for a reason.
Freedom isn't lost when you have heightened security, freedom is lost when you can't ask the appropriate questions and have dialogs ABOUT the heightened security, either because it's illegal or because it's 'inappropriate'
In any event if the training the guards at the airport are given is anything like the military ones, the response is to shoot (preferably for the head/throat because the switch for the device might be in the center of mass) and hope for the best. Most high explosives need something a little more powerful than a bullet to set them off, so your biggest worry is the deadman switch possibility. However, electricity would probably set off ANY kind of switch.
If you think someone has a bomb the VERY last thing you want to do is send electricity through them.
Think about it.
Judging by the picture of what it was they caught her with, someone trained to keep an eye out for bombs would definetly think it was a bomb, and I wouldn't blame them.
The only reason the space shuttle keeps going is that it is quite remarkable that for it's expense, the money is for the parts is distributed over a vast number of constituencies, making it far more attractive than something cheaper that would appease fewer senators.
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It's asshats like them that suck up all the bandwith in Tor.
Tor is meant for people that want to surf and post anonymously.
Thus, someone in China who is trying to research democracy and human rights is unable to connect because someone else really wants to catch up on old seasons of Lost without paying up $15 bucks for a netflix subscription.
Most people don't act like you claim.
In most cases, if someone really wants to watch back seasons of Lost and they can't get it off the Pirate Bay, they'll spring the few bucks to rent it from the local Blockbuster or from Netflix.
Personally, I just don't see why the media corporations just don't release their own torrents. I think most people here would be willing to live with watching the same amount of advertisements you would get on TV in return for a high quality torrent of their favorite shows that was seeded the second the show ended on primetime TV.
You do realize that your MAC address is lost at the layer 3 translation at the router, right?
Even if they pulled a list of MAC addresses from the router, there would be no way to tell which MAC address downloaded the material unless they caught you in the act.
People don't seem to realize that Bittorrent wasn't designed for anonymity or privacy. It was designed for the easy distribution of free *legal* content such as FOSS. Getting the tracker from the software's website removed the risk of downloading an infected fake.
Economics watches the watchers.
An FBI agent's career is advanced by catching and successfully prosecuting criminals. The FBI has a limited budget, and by definition this kind of social networking is extremely human intensive. You have to detail a real person to go under cover and gather information. The FBI has a limited number of people, so they won't do something like this that, at best, gets secondary evidence to help tie up a conviction that would rely more heavily on traditional evidence.
An example would be a partial finger print found at a gang crime scene. The partial print might not be enough to convict on it's own, but the print, plus somehow nailing the gang to the crime, an eyewitness (also something not good enough on it's own) AND the social networking link that proves the accused was part of the gang's social circle might seal a conviction.
As long as the requirements for this observation include a warrant from a Judge similar to that needed for a wiretap, I don't see the issues with this. Good police work needs to keep in pace with the technology of the times. Cellphones, emails, and now social networks.
The critical issue is always judicial oversight and periodic independent review to prevent abuse.
And before anyone flames me for warrant-less wiretapping by the NSA, that was an illegal act and they got burned hard for it. Strong checks and balances in the system help prevent such acts, and if they do occur someone will blow the whistle on it.
The problem isn't Windows, it's users that are willing to run free-porn.exe that is linked in facebook/email/whatever.
Any operating system is only as secure as the user operating it.
A properly configured Windows 7 machine with a solid antivirus, firewall, and a user who paid attention during 15-20 minutes of information assurance training would be a real bitch to exploit.
Even if the odds of a match being 5 billion to 1 in a population of 214,597 there is a 99% chance that one person will have a match with another person.
See the wikipedia article on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem Birthday problem to check the math.
I'm not saying your wrong.
I'm just pointing out that that's not what McCain said.
As a matter of fact he said the opposite in that he would only want it if the fighting died down.
We can disagree, but lets not twist the words of others.
Because Democrats are just as much in the pocket of big business as Republicans?
Mods - remember there is no -1 disagree!
Who would want the 72 chicks that could not get laid for their entire life on Earth?
God has a twisted sense of humor. He dooms suicide bombers to spend eternity with the most butt ugly chicks in the history of man.
Mod parent up for obvious reasons.
I agree.
I'm not the biggest fan of MS at times, but this is hardly a case of them abusing their position.
And after reading TFA, the question should be raised.
It says the school must use Windows, but it doesn't say ONLY Windows.
I think that a school with Window's workstations in conjunction with a Linux and Apple lab would be a Good Thing.
Despite what the Zealots say, this day and age if you know a little bit about everything you can go farther than the super specialist.
So ... in 1998 they used NT on a ship that has been decomissioned for three years?
That was ten years ago.
Technology has changed slightly, and the military loves throwing money at contractors to do upgrades.
On Navy ships workstations are Windows 2000 for office work and for Sailors to email home (everyone has a UNCLAS account).
The more specialized gear (Aegis, and various consoles) are usually Unix or Linux, depending on the piece of gear and the Aegis baseline.
A few pieces of gear run on Windows variants, the Navigation gear (Voyage Management System) the most notable. I think it is a civilian product the military uses.
From what I can tell the Navy doesn't give two shits about what the software runs on, so long as it works. Contractors do all of the upgrades and major overhauls anyway. Sailors just troubleshoot.
Not to mention that hardware and software varies greatly from ship to ship. A Aegis tech from the original Arleigh Burke destroyer would be hard pressed to trouble shoot a system from the latest variant of that class of ship, if he was able to accomplish it at all.
Navy enlisted techs are usually sent to a specific school for a certain piece of gear to help alleviate this problem, though it complicates the Navy's already dire manning problems as certain pieces of gear may only be on a few ships. It is no wonder that civilians do so much these days.
Just my two cents.
... teaching kids how to use the dominant operating system on the planet may not be a bad thing.
Yes Linux is gaining ground and is now on par with Windows or better, but in this case the diversity could be a good thing.
No matter how the OS war goes, MS Windows will be a significant OS for a very long time.
Teaching kids the ins and outs of it could benefit them.
If the country buying the laptops wants to teach their youth Windows, let them. If they want to teach them Linux, the same should apply.
*BUT*
OLPC should set down the ground rules for MS:
- The version of windows should be provided to OLPC for free.
- The additional cost needed to upgrade the hardware to support WinXP should be covered by MS.
- The upgraded hardware should be compatable with the Linux based OS that OLPC is using (incase the customer state wants to switch OSs)
- If MS decides that the contribution is not in their interests in the future, they must continue to support those countries that bought the XP version.
MS would jump on these conditions because it creates a future market for them, and only benefits OLPC because there are more options for their clients.
Just my 2 cents
MODS, remember that there is not a -1 Disagree for a reason.
An intelligent and well supported response.
Sir, you do realize you are challenging the Groupthink?
Just because the article says radiation is considered less harmful than before, doesn't mean they are saying it is not harmful *at all*.
less harmful != harmless
Your emotional response coupled with arguments not related to the subject at hand are detrimental to a logical debate on the subject.
The footage was from CNN, not Fox
How so?
These are questions we need to ask ourselves.
Freedom isn't lost when you have heightened security, freedom is lost when you can't ask the appropriate questions and have dialogs ABOUT the heightened security, either because it's illegal or because it's 'inappropriate'
In any event if the training the guards at the airport are given is anything like the military ones, the response is to shoot (preferably for the head/throat because the switch for the device might be in the center of mass) and hope for the best. Most high explosives need something a little more powerful than a bullet to set them off, so your biggest worry is the deadman switch possibility. However, electricity would probably set off ANY kind of switch.
If you think someone has a bomb the VERY last thing you want to do is send electricity through them.
Think about it.
Judging by the picture of what it was they caught her with, someone trained to keep an eye out for bombs would definetly think it was a bomb, and I wouldn't blame them.
The only reason the space shuttle keeps going is that it is quite remarkable that for it's expense, the money is for the parts is distributed over a vast number of constituencies, making it far more attractive than something cheaper that would appease fewer senators.
That and tofu is slightly rare on the African plain.
Then you sign up for a prepaid or pay as you go service.
When they give you a phone for a fraction of what it actually costs.