Not to mention that organizations would be completely useless concepts. I understand that an organization does not do anything on its own (being a theoretical concept and all), but your parent post takes that sophistry a little far.
This was bad enough that there was talk that it could trigger NATO's common aggression pact: that when one country from NATO is attacked, all countries in NATO have to react as though they had been attacked. Needless to say, it didn't get there, but this was seen as a very serious test of the NATO alliance. I don't think that any prosecution will result from this, but this was taken very seriously by all members of NATO, including the US.
Uhhhh.... Nashi is sponsored by the Russian government. Its explicit goal is the purging of fascist elements from Russian zones of interests. It is habitually violent, xenophobic and nationalistic. A small, scripted DDOS is actually pretty benign for Nashi's MO. If Estonia wasn't an independent country with close ties to NATO, there would have been a hell of a lot more physical violence coming from Nashi.
And while you're right that guilt by association is a cheap way to judge people, past experience says that this operation quite likely met with approval at all levels of the organization. In that sense, it's quite like the Russian Government: very few things happen that aren't blessed or encouraged in principle by the head brass.
Stories like this are guaranteed to bring out the Russian nationalists... The Estonians deserved it, Nashi is a misunderstood organization, or that it was really just completely normal operation with no nefarious intent. It's always fun to read the ideological contortions used to justify crap like this.
All I can say is that Russia is acting like a local thug - swinging around its energy club, demanding internatiol recognition and tribute from its vassal states. Not to say that this is a bad way of achieving its goal, but it certainly puts the Kibosh on some historians' argument that the fall of Russian Communism signaled the end of autocratic and thuggish regimes. Instead, this tells me that nationalism (in its ugliest form) is alive and well across the world (including in the US, btw), and that we're in for a whole lot of fun not seen since the dawn of the last century.
I can't tell whether this is sarcasm or genuine genuflection at the NRA's altar... but you do know that there are plenty of countries without guns where this issues aren't prevalent? Or that death by gun is exactly like death by knife? Right?
And? You're still not getting it. The point is that the information required to positively ascertain that somebody actually did download copyrighted content is so time- and resource-intensive to acquire that it will never happen. Instead, automated filter programs are going to do random name searches, log IP and local time stamp, and send out a form letter. The ISPs will do zero investigation on their part as well - any letter that comes in will be taken as gospel, because it will take too much work to figure out if it is true.
Instead, what's going to happen is that shoddy take-down notices will be sent out and someone will get shafted in the process. That person can either lose their internet access, or spend ungodly sums of money and gobs of time to fight the charges. And all so that the various associations don't have to update their business model.
I'm sorry (actually, not really), but that's bullshit.
... I thought for a second that Slashdot had again updated its interface. Then I realized that this is a random internet rant. Really, not much different from a NYT or WSJ rant, but those at least pretend to have outside expert sources.
Yes, I would like Medical institutions to use GPL'ed software. Yes, I'm disappointed that the government still doesn't think that software freedom and dumb pipes are the keys to a networked future. But am I surprised? No, not really.
And, like a lot of people, you missed the point: there is no need in any of these provisions to prove that you were indeed file sharing. All it takes is an infringement allegation by someone stating that they represent a copyright holder. That's it. And I can tell you that the vast majority of ISPs will log the allegation, tally up the current count, and cut off the Internet if the tally reaches three. If you're lucky, they send out form mails stating that they received an infringement notice, and how many there are now.
You got DHCP? You're pretty much guaranteed to get someone else's notice. And as you pointed out, a lot of stuff gets done over the internet. Including my job. The Recording associations are essentially killing off the ability of anyone but large corporations to use the internet. Of course they're happy with that. The questions is - are you? Can you be?
I think it's actually even worse: it's not that people are lazy, stupid and greedy. It's that people who play free games are lazy, stupid and greedy. I don't know where I read it, but there's an old saw in software support: if you charge them a million dollars a year, they'll email you once a month with a major bug. If you charge them a thousand dollars a year, they'll call you every day to tell you how much everything sucks, and that you are a horrible person.
I don't know what it is, but that's exactly how it works. The biggest problem customers are never the ones that pay ungodly sums of money (partially because you can support their every whim). It's the cheap-ass customers who think they own you when they don't even cover the cost of the telephone calls.
You got modded flame-bait because... well, you WERE flame-bait. The only time that women take off more than men is when they give birth. Other than that, they work at least the exact same hours. I say at least, because there's a lot of perception that women just aren't as good as men.... and to disprove that convincingly requires overtime.
Here's what I would suggest: talk to top-flight women. Women who are Director level and above. See what they say about their working hours, and how much time they take off for children. You'll find that a lot actually don't have children for precisely the reason that it would hamper their career.
why do even small 4cyl cars get such bad mileage today?
Check out their horsepower and weight. I doubt that their engines were above 80 horsepower. Today, 4 cylinder engines can get above 200 horsepower. Finally, check out the size of today's Civic. It's bigger now than the Camry's were in the 80s.
It's not just safety features that were added. Equipment and size went up as well.
True on your beer and your land. However, that still gives you no right to spill your motor oil on your property, or to dump arsenic waste on your property. The point being: just because something happens on your property doesn't mean it doesn't affect anybody else, and that all laws are suspended. You live in a society, you give up certain freedoms to do so.
As for Global Climate Change, it's actually fairly well understood. I can't help it that you don't.
Depends on what kind of turbines are built. I bike past large windturbines on a fairly regular basis (within a quarter mile), and I can't hear them from that distance.
Personally, I think they are no uglier than a sky-scraper or the Eiffel Tower.
The best part: GM is asking for 7.7 Billion dollars from the government to retool some of their lines from small trucks to fuel-efficient cars.
This would be the definition of keeping a bad company afloat. They made bad decisions in the past, and are now asking for free money to rescue them from the exact decisions they made in the past. Not even the result of their decisions, but for money to change their past decisions.
At this point, I'm all for letting GM croak. Maybe Ford can take over.
However, as pricing currently is distance per volume of fuel, I have no interest in how much energy a certain fuel packs. If gas stations start charging me by the joule, we'll talk.
For someone who rants about reading comprehension, you sure lack some. There are two possible alternatives when I say that the current custom of the guy always paying for dinner is outdated. Either the woman does more than eat and talk (which does include more than just sex, btw), or the woman pays for her part.
Unfortunately, I'm seeing a trend towards isolationism, literal interpretation of religious texts and witch hunts galore. While I'm glad that there are finally bigger problems for the government to solve than porn on the internet, it seems that the population is regressing into dark caves.
So I have to pay the lady to have her be pleasant? Is that the point? No. If she expects me to pay, I expect something more than just conversation in return. I can have pleasant conversation with friends who don't ask me to pick up the tab.
The point is that equality requires a change in social customs. Right now, the social customs are designed for a woman being unable to get income for herself. But since that's not the case anymore, they are outdated.
I've got to admit that I was initially very lucky, then I got unlucky (got stuck in crappy US markets). Here's how my bandwidth worked out: 1993-2000: 1.5 MB and more. College and University was great. 2000-2001: 56K. Dial-up was cheap. 2001-2009: 756Kbit. Cable could be faster, but I like my hassle-free provider - too bad line noise is terrible, and seemingly will never improve.
Technology is irrelevant if it is not being rolled out to markets with monopolistic providers.
Or.... could it be? Nah, never. It is mathematically impossible that you're just an incoherent troll who has no clue about cause and effect, and merely looks for what he wants to see.
Listing of experience in an argument is always retarded. Because a) there's always someone with more experience, and b) because it doesn't mean squat. Some people just haven't learned that yet.
The truth is something that only people of a certain moral flexibility are good at uncovering.
Err, again, no. The truth has little to do with moral flexibility and all to do with facts. The fact that you confuse the two makes me question whether you understand what truth actually is.
Finally, you're also sadly mistaken if you assume that what you do on a forum has no repercussions elsewhere. At the very least, what you say on it is a reflection of who you are, and how you will act outside of it. It's not a political act, it's a social statement.
You might be technically savvy, but your understanding of the rest of the world is seriously lacking. Your confidence in your knowledge will make it difficult for you to learn.
Well, since you're talking qualifications... I've worked in IT for 9 years, have done network and system administration at the enterprise level, have organized IT departments, instituted security and monitoring policies and worked in classified government installations. I've done enough programming to know my way around applications that run over LAN or WAN. I've studied psychology and have enough friends in that area to know what a proper assessment is and what isn't. I know at an enterprise level who the threats are, because I saw the reports that came down for them. I have seen who the threats are we didn't catch - because they were smarter than the dumb little pricks who work on their own and do get caught.
Qualifications are all fun and games, but in the end, they really don't matter. The only thing that matters is whether based on known facts, are the conclusions valid. What I can tell you is that the vast majority of criminals go after an esoteric target with a lot of effort only when they know exactly who will benefit from the end result, and how to move the product. It is possible this is a lone actor on his own, but very unlikely.
Now, all this might change once we get a better idea of the attack vector. But in the meantime, assessing this as a lone actor threat is.... premature. Not to mention that it will cause you to underestimate the threat.
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Not to mention that organizations would be completely useless concepts. I understand that an organization does not do anything on its own (being a theoretical concept and all), but your parent post takes that sophistry a little far.
No. Elephants don't bring sticks and rocks to scare away lions they regularly meet at yearly watering holes.
This involved:
- detection of arbitrary cycles
- planning for how to deal with them
- relatively elaborate creation of tools to support plan
Pretty exciting stuff indeed.
This was bad enough that there was talk that it could trigger NATO's common aggression pact: that when one country from NATO is attacked, all countries in NATO have to react as though they had been attacked. Needless to say, it didn't get there, but this was seen as a very serious test of the NATO alliance. I don't think that any prosecution will result from this, but this was taken very seriously by all members of NATO, including the US.
Uhhhh.... Nashi is sponsored by the Russian government. Its explicit goal is the purging of fascist elements from Russian zones of interests. It is habitually violent, xenophobic and nationalistic. A small, scripted DDOS is actually pretty benign for Nashi's MO. If Estonia wasn't an independent country with close ties to NATO, there would have been a hell of a lot more physical violence coming from Nashi.
And while you're right that guilt by association is a cheap way to judge people, past experience says that this operation quite likely met with approval at all levels of the organization. In that sense, it's quite like the Russian Government: very few things happen that aren't blessed or encouraged in principle by the head brass.
Stories like this are guaranteed to bring out the Russian nationalists... The Estonians deserved it, Nashi is a misunderstood organization, or that it was really just completely normal operation with no nefarious intent. It's always fun to read the ideological contortions used to justify crap like this.
All I can say is that Russia is acting like a local thug - swinging around its energy club, demanding internatiol recognition and tribute from its vassal states. Not to say that this is a bad way of achieving its goal, but it certainly puts the Kibosh on some historians' argument that the fall of Russian Communism signaled the end of autocratic and thuggish regimes. Instead, this tells me that nationalism (in its ugliest form) is alive and well across the world (including in the US, btw), and that we're in for a whole lot of fun not seen since the dawn of the last century.
Woo.
I can't tell whether this is sarcasm or genuine genuflection at the NRA's altar... but you do know that there are plenty of countries without guns where this issues aren't prevalent? Or that death by gun is exactly like death by knife? Right?
And? You're still not getting it. The point is that the information required to positively ascertain that somebody actually did download copyrighted content is so time- and resource-intensive to acquire that it will never happen. Instead, automated filter programs are going to do random name searches, log IP and local time stamp, and send out a form letter. The ISPs will do zero investigation on their part as well - any letter that comes in will be taken as gospel, because it will take too much work to figure out if it is true.
Instead, what's going to happen is that shoddy take-down notices will be sent out and someone will get shafted in the process. That person can either lose their internet access, or spend ungodly sums of money and gobs of time to fight the charges. And all so that the various associations don't have to update their business model.
I'm sorry (actually, not really), but that's bullshit.
... I thought for a second that Slashdot had again updated its interface. Then I realized that this is a random internet rant. Really, not much different from a NYT or WSJ rant, but those at least pretend to have outside expert sources.
Yes, I would like Medical institutions to use GPL'ed software. Yes, I'm disappointed that the government still doesn't think that software freedom and dumb pipes are the keys to a networked future. But am I surprised? No, not really.
And, like a lot of people, you missed the point: there is no need in any of these provisions to prove that you were indeed file sharing. All it takes is an infringement allegation by someone stating that they represent a copyright holder. That's it. And I can tell you that the vast majority of ISPs will log the allegation, tally up the current count, and cut off the Internet if the tally reaches three. If you're lucky, they send out form mails stating that they received an infringement notice, and how many there are now.
You got DHCP? You're pretty much guaranteed to get someone else's notice. And as you pointed out, a lot of stuff gets done over the internet. Including my job. The Recording associations are essentially killing off the ability of anyone but large corporations to use the internet. Of course they're happy with that. The questions is - are you? Can you be?
I think it's actually even worse: it's not that people are lazy, stupid and greedy. It's that people who play free games are lazy, stupid and greedy. I don't know where I read it, but there's an old saw in software support: if you charge them a million dollars a year, they'll email you once a month with a major bug. If you charge them a thousand dollars a year, they'll call you every day to tell you how much everything sucks, and that you are a horrible person.
I don't know what it is, but that's exactly how it works. The biggest problem customers are never the ones that pay ungodly sums of money (partially because you can support their every whim). It's the cheap-ass customers who think they own you when they don't even cover the cost of the telephone calls.
You got modded flame-bait because... well, you WERE flame-bait. The only time that women take off more than men is when they give birth. Other than that, they work at least the exact same hours. I say at least, because there's a lot of perception that women just aren't as good as men.... and to disprove that convincingly requires overtime.
Here's what I would suggest: talk to top-flight women. Women who are Director level and above. See what they say about their working hours, and how much time they take off for children. You'll find that a lot actually don't have children for precisely the reason that it would hamper their career.
why do even small 4cyl cars get such bad mileage today?
Check out their horsepower and weight. I doubt that their engines were above 80 horsepower. Today, 4 cylinder engines can get above 200 horsepower. Finally, check out the size of today's Civic. It's bigger now than the Camry's were in the 80s.
It's not just safety features that were added. Equipment and size went up as well.
True on your beer and your land. However, that still gives you no right to spill your motor oil on your property, or to dump arsenic waste on your property. The point being: just because something happens on your property doesn't mean it doesn't affect anybody else, and that all laws are suspended. You live in a society, you give up certain freedoms to do so.
As for Global Climate Change, it's actually fairly well understood. I can't help it that you don't.
Depends on what kind of turbines are built. I bike past large windturbines on a fairly regular basis (within a quarter mile), and I can't hear them from that distance.
Personally, I think they are no uglier than a sky-scraper or the Eiffel Tower.
The best part: GM is asking for 7.7 Billion dollars from the government to retool some of their lines from small trucks to fuel-efficient cars.
This would be the definition of keeping a bad company afloat. They made bad decisions in the past, and are now asking for free money to rescue them from the exact decisions they made in the past. Not even the result of their decisions, but for money to change their past decisions.
At this point, I'm all for letting GM croak. Maybe Ford can take over.
However, as pricing currently is distance per volume of fuel, I have no interest in how much energy a certain fuel packs. If gas stations start charging me by the joule, we'll talk.
For someone who rants about reading comprehension, you sure lack some. There are two possible alternatives when I say that the current custom of the guy always paying for dinner is outdated. Either the woman does more than eat and talk (which does include more than just sex, btw), or the woman pays for her part.
I wasn't aware I had to spell that out.
Unfortunately, I'm seeing a trend towards isolationism, literal interpretation of religious texts and witch hunts galore. While I'm glad that there are finally bigger problems for the government to solve than porn on the internet, it seems that the population is regressing into dark caves.
I hope I'm wrong.
So I have to pay the lady to have her be pleasant? Is that the point? No. If she expects me to pay, I expect something more than just conversation in return. I can have pleasant conversation with friends who don't ask me to pick up the tab.
The point is that equality requires a change in social customs. Right now, the social customs are designed for a woman being unable to get income for herself. But since that's not the case anymore, they are outdated.
I've got to admit that I was initially very lucky, then I got unlucky (got stuck in crappy US markets). Here's how my bandwidth worked out:
1993-2000: 1.5 MB and more. College and University was great.
2000-2001: 56K. Dial-up was cheap.
2001-2009: 756Kbit. Cable could be faster, but I like my hassle-free provider - too bad line noise is terrible, and seemingly will never improve.
Technology is irrelevant if it is not being rolled out to markets with monopolistic providers.
Or.... could it be? Nah, never. It is mathematically impossible that you're just an incoherent troll who has no clue about cause and effect, and merely looks for what he wants to see.
Listing of experience in an argument is always retarded. Because a) there's always someone with more experience, and b) because it doesn't mean squat. Some people just haven't learned that yet.
The truth is something that only people of a certain moral flexibility are good at uncovering.
Err, again, no. The truth has little to do with moral flexibility and all to do with facts. The fact that you confuse the two makes me question whether you understand what truth actually is.
Finally, you're also sadly mistaken if you assume that what you do on a forum has no repercussions elsewhere. At the very least, what you say on it is a reflection of who you are, and how you will act outside of it. It's not a political act, it's a social statement.
You might be technically savvy, but your understanding of the rest of the world is seriously lacking. Your confidence in your knowledge will make it difficult for you to learn.
It's not well known for it's natalie portman jokes
That's simply because you haven't been around long enough. You presume a lot for someone who doesn't much history.
Well, since you're talking qualifications... I've worked in IT for 9 years, have done network and system administration at the enterprise level, have organized IT departments, instituted security and monitoring policies and worked in classified government installations. I've done enough programming to know my way around applications that run over LAN or WAN. I've studied psychology and have enough friends in that area to know what a proper assessment is and what isn't. I know at an enterprise level who the threats are, because I saw the reports that came down for them. I have seen who the threats are we didn't catch - because they were smarter than the dumb little pricks who work on their own and do get caught.
Qualifications are all fun and games, but in the end, they really don't matter. The only thing that matters is whether based on known facts, are the conclusions valid. What I can tell you is that the vast majority of criminals go after an esoteric target with a lot of effort only when they know exactly who will benefit from the end result, and how to move the product. It is possible this is a lone actor on his own, but very unlikely.
Now, all this might change once we get a better idea of the attack vector. But in the meantime, assessing this as a lone actor threat is.... premature. Not to mention that it will cause you to underestimate the threat.