Indeed. The Chinese measures seem geared mostly towards stopping people (connection resets, dns poisoning, etc), whereas the US ones towards criminalizing people (logs.) Which is not to say that the Chinese would never prosecute you as a criminal, they probably will if it suits them, but it's not their default modus operandi.
Do nothing. Didn't we read yesterday that the NSA assumes they're compromised. Sounds like a healthy way to operate - for everyone. While it may sound slightly paranoid and a "hassle", this is only true initially IMHO.
Although I would expect the president to get up and act immediately, I don't actually see how any of your suggestions would have improved the outcome of the situation.
it just means that you can't take anything he says as the truth.
How's that different from any other US based media? At least Moore is honest enough to pursue his own agenda and not that of invisible corporate/government parties.
In most countries on this planet selling bullets is illegal (for a reason.) Why do you feel these cashiers are bare no responsibility when in other countries they would be jailed? Is it because the US government has OK-ed their actions? Does something being legal take away your responsibility to consider if it's a good thing to be doing?
Agreed. I'll be proud of our DDOS'ers when they all put their names and addresses online, effectively DDOS'ing the police as well. Only then I'll admit you have some guts.
You were not singled out. At least not "just you". A number of websites have been pulled over the last few weeks. The excuses vary. Some of these sites complain publicly on webhostingtalk.com where you can read more, others have quietly moved their website after an unexplained service interruption. They're simply removing anyone who uses too much data (which can be less than the 100TB advertised), causes too many DMCA related work (some services are prone to DMCA notices, UK2 refuses to state what they consider acceptable) or otherwise cause them more work than they're worth.
"Cloud" is just a way of saying you have a standardized, generic way of scaling your systems. The new buzzword adds an excuse to outsource the whole thing to a "reputable" supplier and avoid taking any responsibility. If your needs are small this is a great concept. You get to use the same iron as the big boys, without the up front investments.
For someone the size of the government however, I think it's rather strange they are not using clouds already. They may never have called them clouds, but surely they have some reasonable in-house systems architects, no?
Which makes me wonder about their story of writing software that will show the operator only an outline of your body, which foreign objects marked for inspection when found. Based on your explanation, which sounds very plausible, I don't see how such software could ever reach a usable accuracy.
Exactly right. Not sure why this is often dismissed as a "conspiracy theory", it's right there in every ones face. He's the boss, he gets the money, and hey, he still has the friends to make it happen. I would do exactly the same if I were him.
This has always puzzled me. The passengers are thoroughly inspected, but I see many airports where you can still reach (and compromise) the planes themselves quite easily.
Ah yes.. and then complain that the DoD-special-phone is hopelessly delayed, incredibly be over budget and not as secure as it was supposed to be. Doing everything from scratch is a lot more work than you may think. You can't simply trust a non-China manufacturer because it's not in China. It's not like US companies don't employ immigrants or that local citizens can't be bribed. No matter what, the DoD will have to do it's due diligence.
Suspected by whom? Pretty much everyone knows spoofing is not possible from 99% (if not 100) of residential connections.
You join LOIC because you believe you can get away with it. Same reason millions of people still down copyrighted material on bittorrent without blocklists, ip spoofing or other kinds of protection.
If this guarantees me a stable browser experience, I'll get one just for that. There isn't any browser on my OS/X and Linux machines that doesn't crash after a few days of heavy usage. (Which may or may not be due the the poisonous flash plugin, but i need to use it.)
The video scrambling happens all the time. Cities in South China often provide Hong Kong channels in the cable feeds. When something sensitive is mentioned during the news you'll suddenly see a few minutes of the CCTV feed until the item is finished.
CNN is not blocked. The CNN homepage doesn't pass the keyword filter currently, which may or may not be related to the prize, but any other page works just fine.
I'm much more likely to open an App than I am to go to my bookmarks and open a website. In the early days, Twitter clients on iPhone were crap, but I still preferred them over the website. They logged in automatically if nothing else.
The idea is that the apps API becomes more capable with every release, while Safari lags behind. Whether it's in-app payments, NFC or whatever else. At some point there will be a feature that you can use, maybe even monetize, and it's likely to be in the apps api well before it hits Safari.
Oracle has never been very interested in small business, who are the only ones potentially walking away here. Big business knows what Oracle can do for them and knows how to sign a proper contract with all the guarantees they need. I dare argue that most of these bigger clients care more about keeping Oracle on board than they care about a particular hardware brand. Oracle may in fact switch a number of big boys to Sparc who wouldn't have used it otherwise.
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Exactly. And who guarantees us that the kill switch can't be flipped back somehow to revive the CPU?
Indeed. The Chinese measures seem geared mostly towards stopping people (connection resets, dns poisoning, etc), whereas the US ones towards criminalizing people (logs.) Which is not to say that the Chinese would never prosecute you as a criminal, they probably will if it suits them, but it's not their default modus operandi.
Do nothing. Didn't we read yesterday that the NSA assumes they're compromised. Sounds like a healthy way to operate - for everyone. While it may sound slightly paranoid and a "hassle", this is only true initially IMHO.
Although I would expect the president to get up and act immediately, I don't actually see how any of your suggestions would have improved the outcome of the situation.
it just means that you can't take anything he says as the truth.
How's that different from any other US based media? At least Moore is honest enough to pursue his own agenda and not that of invisible corporate/government parties.
In most countries on this planet selling bullets is illegal (for a reason.) Why do you feel these cashiers are bare no responsibility when in other countries they would be jailed? Is it because the US government has OK-ed their actions? Does something being legal take away your responsibility to consider if it's a good thing to be doing?
Agreed. I'll be proud of our DDOS'ers when they all put their names and addresses online, effectively DDOS'ing the police as well. Only then I'll admit you have some guts.
Yeah.. the best you can hope for is occupying their lines. Anything else they probably don't care much about.
Midphase is also part of UK2. And yes, they appear to be "cleaning up" a number of high bandwidth sites lately.
You were not singled out. At least not "just you". A number of websites have been pulled over the last few weeks. The excuses vary. Some of these sites complain publicly on webhostingtalk.com where you can read more, others have quietly moved their website after an unexplained service interruption. They're simply removing anyone who uses too much data (which can be less than the 100TB advertised), causes too many DMCA related work (some services are prone to DMCA notices, UK2 refuses to state what they consider acceptable) or otherwise cause them more work than they're worth.
"Cloud" is just a way of saying you have a standardized, generic way of scaling your systems. The new buzzword adds an excuse to outsource the whole thing to a "reputable" supplier and avoid taking any responsibility. If your needs are small this is a great concept. You get to use the same iron as the big boys, without the up front investments.
For someone the size of the government however, I think it's rather strange they are not using clouds already. They may never have called them clouds, but surely they have some reasonable in-house systems architects, no?
Which makes me wonder about their story of writing software that will show the operator only an outline of your body, which foreign objects marked for inspection when found. Based on your explanation, which sounds very plausible, I don't see how such software could ever reach a usable accuracy.
Exactly right. Not sure why this is often dismissed as a "conspiracy theory", it's right there in every ones face. He's the boss, he gets the money, and hey, he still has the friends to make it happen. I would do exactly the same if I were him.
This has always puzzled me. The passengers are thoroughly inspected, but I see many airports where you can still reach (and compromise) the planes themselves quite easily.
People themselves aren't transparent. They'll swallow their weapon.
What a non argument. It's not like Microsoft doesn't employ foreigners.
Ah yes.. and then complain that the DoD-special-phone is hopelessly delayed, incredibly be over budget and not as secure as it was supposed to be. Doing everything from scratch is a lot more work than you may think. You can't simply trust a non-China manufacturer because it's not in China. It's not like US companies don't employ immigrants or that local citizens can't be bribed. No matter what, the DoD will have to do it's due diligence.
Suspected by whom? Pretty much everyone knows spoofing is not possible from 99% (if not 100) of residential connections.
You join LOIC because you believe you can get away with it. Same reason millions of people still down copyrighted material on bittorrent without blocklists, ip spoofing or other kinds of protection.
If this guarantees me a stable browser experience, I'll get one just for that. There isn't any browser on my OS/X and Linux machines that doesn't crash after a few days of heavy usage. (Which may or may not be due the the poisonous flash plugin, but i need to use it.)
Yes. My original point was exactly that. CNN itself is not blocked.
The video scrambling happens all the time. Cities in South China often provide Hong Kong channels in the cable feeds. When something sensitive is mentioned during the news you'll suddenly see a few minutes of the CCTV feed until the item is finished.
CNN is not blocked. The CNN homepage doesn't pass the keyword filter currently, which may or may not be related to the prize, but any other page works just fine.
Please be more specific. How is this fuel for those that deny that climate change is a non-issue?
Your choice of words weakens your point. (Although I agree with your statement.)
I'm much more likely to open an App than I am to go to my bookmarks and open a website. In the early days, Twitter clients on iPhone were crap, but I still preferred them over the website. They logged in automatically if nothing else.
The idea is that the apps API becomes more capable with every release, while Safari lags behind. Whether it's in-app payments, NFC or whatever else. At some point there will be a feature that you can use, maybe even monetize, and it's likely to be in the apps api well before it hits Safari.
Oracle has never been very interested in small business, who are the only ones potentially walking away here. Big business knows what Oracle can do for them and knows how to sign a proper contract with all the guarantees they need. I dare argue that most of these bigger clients care more about keeping Oracle on board than they care about a particular hardware brand. Oracle may in fact switch a number of big boys to Sparc who wouldn't have used it otherwise.