No, more like getting pictures of their small-breasted wives or mistresses, and pointing out the pure hypocrisy of their proposed ban on small-breasted women pornography, while they enjoy their small-breasted women at home.
Yea, that's not going to go over well with any rational person.
"Being an Australian I can tell you most Australians are apathetic to this issue and there likely won't be a huge turn-out. "
Not until a few enterprising Aussie Anons start catching said politicians in dirty deeds and sells the info to the media or publishes it themselves.
What, you thought protesting and DDoSing was ALL they were going to do? Oh, sir, you need to listen in on these events more often. There are plans to outright run them out of office with torch and pitchfork, down to exposing their hypocrisy through nonstop shitstorms of watchdogs and paparazzi guerrilla tactics.
Of course, I'm not going to verify if any of those plans were decided upon, but knowing a few of the Aussie Anons personally, I would not be very surprised to find a 'stray bullet from a mile away' suddenly finding itself implanted in one of these guy's heads.
You must be new to the internet. Here, have a cookie, little girl. I promise it's not a malicious one made to redirect your browser to a drive-by hijack site.
Upstream provider will lose common carrier status in the USA if they did that - at that point they're proving they can and will control what happens on their network instead of acting as a neutral carrier.
And that opens them up to worlds of liability they don't want.
"Numerous airplanes (except the small ones) have varying sized seats (even in coach)"
Bullshit! Those seats are one single size in coach, and slightly larger in first/business. And I've *NEVER* seen a larger seat in a movie theatre, and I've worked Malco, TYVM.
Yes there is - it's called 'drafting.' Maybe there is no standardized format for computer representations, but EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM relies upon the same basic principles that originated from paper and pencil drafting/architectural design.
Have you been paying attention to how much dark fiber Google owns? They're probably BUILDING THEIR OWN BACKBONES. I most certainly would if I bought up that vast amount of unlit fiber.
"They caved in to interests that weren't game related"
OpenGL WAS NOT made for gaming IN THE FIRST PLACE. Holy shit, are you that dense or ignorant? It still doesn't change the fact OpenGL is superior in that it can accept new features as they come out with a simple extension, whereas Direct3D has to set its own standards first. It still also doesn't change the fact OpenGL is faster than D3D, simply by virtue of not requiring the CPU to handle some of the graphics load - OpenGL goes straight to hardware whereas D3D has one software abstraction layer to go through first. Don't believe me? Easy test - get a GeForce 1, a 233MHz pentium2, 64 megs of ram (SD or EDO, your choice) and install Unreal Tournament - run benchmarks under both D3D and OpenGL - You will always get better OpenGL performance, on the average of 20% more framerate.
This was argued about long ago, and Microsoft still hasn't changed. D3D is slower. I've written OpenGL renderers, I've written D3D renderers (winamp plugins) OpenGL outperforms D3D. Always has and always will if you KNOW HOW TO WORK WITH IT, and as long as Microsoft continues to insist upon the intermediate software layer.
"How many game engine solutions are there that (A) support BOTH linux and windows, (B) support the latest features of video cards, and (C) is free?"
Planeshift is using one! IAG is just now coming out, still in development. How about G3D? OGRE? Expression 3D? SciTech MGL (source included so Linux port easily done.)
Something tells me you have no clue what you're talking about, nor have you ever programmed any games.
"But that would completely negate the reason for using a proxy, now wouldn't it? You use a proxy for anonymity... but oh let's rent a server and setup a proxy through it. What do you think will happen when your host gets letters from the government about your illegal activities?"
No sir - that's why you host the proxy server OUTSIDE of your country of residence. Then you set it to route anything sent its way so it's not picky/choosy, and you also set it to NOT KEEP LOGS. Do you know ANYTHING about server configuration for privacy? Apparently NOT.
"Yes, that's called a botnet. Good job. If you had read my original post, you would know that I was specifically talking about the fact that these people are not using botnets... they're using LOIC on their own computers from their own connections."
I read that entire statement perfectly fine. You're still incorrect - for example:
"They're using a tool called Low-Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) which essentially turns your own computer into a voluntary self-controlled DoS bot."
You are wrong because the LOIC does not 'bot' a computer. Bot = automated. You clicking the goddamned 'fire' button !=bot. English, let alone proper CS Terminology, is not your strong suit, I see. Botnets typically rely upon a command sent from an OUTSIDE SOURCE.
You stated - "In order for it to push enough packets, it cannot work through a proxy."
THIS IS BULLSHIT. Pure and simple. Go back to school, moron. You are wrong and arguing to save face is going to fail as long as your original incorrect statements stand. Plain and simple.
Ahha! Ahahhahahahah! Son, with your UID, you probably don't even know what the fuck spawned 4chan. Give you a hint - we're on the origin site - trolltalk/gnaa spawned from here, turned into the Something Awful group, of which moot was a member. From there, wanting a reliable and simple image posting board, 4chan was created.
Slashdot is the unspoken bastard father of 4chan, can't you even do some basic website genealogy?
Hint: I'm one of the ones that gamed that poll - Reload-Every was actually a nice crucial tool to help organize it all. Slow the site down so we could muck about without too much external voting screwing up our plans.
Don't open your mouth unless you were involved, yea?
"BZZZZZZZT have you ever used a proxy that wasn't slow as balls? I haven't."
That's what you get for not setting up your own dedicated proxies from a reliable data-hosting center.
"I know that it's possible to DDoS through proxies... but does it work in practice? It does not."
Most DDoS attacks are done via high-bandwidth proxies - IE rootkitted/zombified machines. You simply send one command out (assuming you've got the bandwidth to simultaneously contact every proxy to send the flood command) and away you go.
Don't understand what PROXY means, do you?
Go get a REAL IT job and maybe then you can talk, eh?
"In order for it to push enough packets, it cannot work through a proxy."
BZZZZZT! Wrong!
As long as proxy and you have sufficient bandwidth, it doesn't fucking matter - you're restricted primarily by YOUR uploading speed if the proxy has a better pipeline than you.
"If they used their *own* machines to do the loading I'd agree. But they almost certainly used a small botnet or at least the compromised machines of others to do the dirty work, so they would remain, er, anonymous"
Someone has no fucking clue how the LOIC works, it appears.
You apparently have no clue about music as well. And I speak as a guitarist. In the 70's, Queen was Metal. In fact, it was known as Melodic Metal.
Doesn't change the fact that 'metal' is a fusion of classical and blues styles and is thus considered 'Fusion' by all academic means.
That's right - the term "metal" has been around since the late 60's. Ted Nugent was considered 'metal' when he finally released "Cat Scratch Fever" and of course Pantera redoing the song in pretty much the EXACT SAME FASHION showed that it was indeed fucking metal.
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"There was no governement mandate for Verizon to do this, and Verizon spent a boatload of money laying all the fiber."
Telecommunications Act of 1996 - we were supposed to have had 45mbit symmetrical a few YEARS ago.
"I doubt that at the end of that course everyone could create a 3D model of a building."
We did much better, actually - all of us could reproduce any car we laid our eyes upon - I chose a Bel-Air.
Just because your education system sucks now doesn't mean mine sucked when I was in high school!
Ahh, CAD on a 266MHz Pentium Pro with 128MB of RAM and a 4MB Diamond Stealth GPU. Those were the days.
"More like, they'll ban the Internet altogether."
And that would put Australia firmly back into 3rd world status. They couldn't afford that, don't be so narrow-minded.
No, more like getting pictures of their small-breasted wives or mistresses, and pointing out the pure hypocrisy of their proposed ban on small-breasted women pornography, while they enjoy their small-breasted women at home.
Yea, that's not going to go over well with any rational person.
Drafting took four weeks in my high school. The rest of the year was doing CAD. Drafting made CAD so much easier.
"Being an Australian I can tell you most Australians are apathetic to this issue and there likely won't be a huge turn-out. "
Not until a few enterprising Aussie Anons start catching said politicians in dirty deeds and sells the info to the media or publishes it themselves.
What, you thought protesting and DDoSing was ALL they were going to do? Oh, sir, you need to listen in on these events more often. There are plans to outright run them out of office with torch and pitchfork, down to exposing their hypocrisy through nonstop shitstorms of watchdogs and paparazzi guerrilla tactics.
Of course, I'm not going to verify if any of those plans were decided upon, but knowing a few of the Aussie Anons personally, I would not be very surprised to find a 'stray bullet from a mile away' suddenly finding itself implanted in one of these guy's heads.
"Really guys, naming your protest after female anatomy does nothing to help the cause. It is immature and reeks of disorganization."
Ha! Hahahahahahahahahahah! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You must be new to the internet. Here, have a cookie, little girl. I promise it's not a malicious one made to redirect your browser to a drive-by hijack site.
Upstream provider will lose common carrier status in the USA if they did that - at that point they're proving they can and will control what happens on their network instead of acting as a neutral carrier.
And that opens them up to worlds of liability they don't want.
"Numerous airplanes (except the small ones) have varying sized seats (even in coach)"
Bullshit! Those seats are one single size in coach, and slightly larger in first/business. And I've *NEVER* seen a larger seat in a movie theatre, and I've worked Malco, TYVM.
"There is no standardized format for 3D models."
Yes there is - it's called 'drafting.' Maybe there is no standardized format for computer representations, but EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM relies upon the same basic principles that originated from paper and pencil drafting/architectural design.
"The arrangement of 3D data is neither "simple" nor "obvious" for the reasons I already stated."
I can tell someone never took a manual drafting class, where you sat at a table and drew everything by hand.
Don't partition the drive in XP - format the entire thing and don't split it apart. Get a secondary physical drive.
"Wait for Comcast to sue Google"
Ha! Hahahahahahaha!
Google would bury Comcast with their entire team of Ph.D lawyers, whereas Comcast's vast majority barely have their Master's.
Thanks for the laugh!
"They don't own the backbones"
Have you been paying attention to how much dark fiber Google owns? They're probably BUILDING THEIR OWN BACKBONES. I most certainly would if I bought up that vast amount of unlit fiber.
"They caved in to interests that weren't game related"
OpenGL WAS NOT made for gaming IN THE FIRST PLACE. Holy shit, are you that dense or ignorant? It still doesn't change the fact OpenGL is superior in that it can accept new features as they come out with a simple extension, whereas Direct3D has to set its own standards first. It still also doesn't change the fact OpenGL is faster than D3D, simply by virtue of not requiring the CPU to handle some of the graphics load - OpenGL goes straight to hardware whereas D3D has one software abstraction layer to go through first. Don't believe me? Easy test - get a GeForce 1, a 233MHz pentium2, 64 megs of ram (SD or EDO, your choice) and install Unreal Tournament - run benchmarks under both D3D and OpenGL - You will always get better OpenGL performance, on the average of 20% more framerate.
This was argued about long ago, and Microsoft still hasn't changed. D3D is slower. I've written OpenGL renderers, I've written D3D renderers (winamp plugins) OpenGL outperforms D3D. Always has and always will if you KNOW HOW TO WORK WITH IT, and as long as Microsoft continues to insist upon the intermediate software layer.
"How many game engine solutions are there that (A) support BOTH linux and windows, (B) support the latest features of video cards, and (C) is free?"
Planeshift is using one! IAG is just now coming out, still in development. How about G3D? OGRE? Expression 3D? SciTech MGL (source included so Linux port easily done.)
Something tells me you have no clue what you're talking about, nor have you ever programmed any games.
"But that would completely negate the reason for using a proxy, now wouldn't it? You use a proxy for anonymity... but oh let's rent a server and setup a proxy through it. What do you think will happen when your host gets letters from the government about your illegal activities?"
No sir - that's why you host the proxy server OUTSIDE of your country of residence. Then you set it to route anything sent its way so it's not picky/choosy, and you also set it to NOT KEEP LOGS. Do you know ANYTHING about server configuration for privacy? Apparently NOT.
"Yes, that's called a botnet. Good job. If you had read my original post, you would know that I was specifically talking about the fact that these people are not using botnets... they're using LOIC on their own computers from their own connections."
I read that entire statement perfectly fine. You're still incorrect - for example:
"They're using a tool called Low-Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) which essentially turns your own computer into a voluntary self-controlled DoS bot."
You are wrong because the LOIC does not 'bot' a computer. Bot = automated. You clicking the goddamned 'fire' button !=bot. English, let alone proper CS Terminology, is not your strong suit, I see. Botnets typically rely upon a command sent from an OUTSIDE SOURCE.
You stated - "In order for it to push enough packets, it cannot work through a proxy."
THIS IS BULLSHIT. Pure and simple. Go back to school, moron. You are wrong and arguing to save face is going to fail as long as your original incorrect statements stand. Plain and simple.
"As a veteran of 4chan from its beginnings"
Ahha! Ahahhahahahah! Son, with your UID, you probably don't even know what the fuck spawned 4chan. Give you a hint - we're on the origin site - trolltalk/gnaa spawned from here, turned into the Something Awful group, of which moot was a member. From there, wanting a reliable and simple image posting board, 4chan was created.
Slashdot is the unspoken bastard father of 4chan, can't you even do some basic website genealogy?
Hint: I'm one of the ones that gamed that poll - Reload-Every was actually a nice crucial tool to help organize it all. Slow the site down so we could muck about without too much external voting screwing up our plans.
Don't open your mouth unless you were involved, yea?
"BZZZZZZZT have you ever used a proxy that wasn't slow as balls? I haven't."
That's what you get for not setting up your own dedicated proxies from a reliable data-hosting center.
"I know that it's possible to DDoS through proxies... but does it work in practice? It does not."
Most DDoS attacks are done via high-bandwidth proxies - IE rootkitted/zombified machines. You simply send one command out (assuming you've got the bandwidth to simultaneously contact every proxy to send the flood command) and away you go.
Don't understand what PROXY means, do you?
Go get a REAL IT job and maybe then you can talk, eh?
"In order for it to push enough packets, it cannot work through a proxy."
BZZZZZT! Wrong!
As long as proxy and you have sufficient bandwidth, it doesn't fucking matter - you're restricted primarily by YOUR uploading speed if the proxy has a better pipeline than you.
"Do you really think that 4chan could have done this [buzzfeed.com] without a botnet?"
I can bring down shitloads of sites by myself using NOTHING BUT FIREFOX AND RELOAD-EVERY plugin.
The LOIC is much worse than the reload-every plugin.
God you people posting here need to at least have SOME modicum of network knowledge before opening your mouth!
"If they used their *own* machines to do the loading I'd agree. But they almost certainly used a small botnet or at least the compromised machines of others to do the dirty work, so they would remain, er, anonymous"
Someone has no fucking clue how the LOIC works, it appears.
Terms change - academia still says you're wrong, and they're the ones that pretty much make the terms.
All in all - METAL DOESN'T EXIST. It's called 'Fusion'
No, actual VLK from a University. Valid. Legal. Got sticker on side of my machine.
You apparently have no clue about music as well. And I speak as a guitarist. In the 70's, Queen was Metal. In fact, it was known as Melodic Metal.
Doesn't change the fact that 'metal' is a fusion of classical and blues styles and is thus considered 'Fusion' by all academic means.
That's right - the term "metal" has been around since the late 60's. Ted Nugent was considered 'metal' when he finally released "Cat Scratch Fever" and of course Pantera redoing the song in pretty much the EXACT SAME FASHION showed that it was indeed fucking metal.
Born in the 90's, were you?