A British opponent of the idea (and supporter of the UK's draconian libel laws) is quoted: "The provisions allowing defendants to counter-sue 'libel tourists' in their home courts could transform the humble Icelander into a legal superman, virtually untouchable abroad for comment written — and uploaded — at home."
Thank you, Bill, for providing me with this reminder that no matter how badly I curse X, no matter how rotten Linux NVIDIA support is, or how difficult it is to run games in Wine...... it's still better than using the steaming pile of horseshit that is Windows.
That's a lot harder, fortunately. Even Iran was only able to slow it by throttling SSL (blocking that completely would have screwed with their international business).
Well duh, being able to read your emails removes the strain for the government to trust you, while also training you to entrust your government with your secrets. Hence, trust-building.:P
But when network experts say that the tracker doesn't distribute the information, they're not just employing a legal defense; they're telling you that blocking it that way won't work.
Case in point, you can use Tor to access the tracker and still enjoy the same peer-to-peer speeds as anyone.
Displaying ads is a very, very great danger to anonymity. A whole new network is "put into the loop" in the user's request, able to log IPs, see URLs in referral headers, and store cookies. Adding advertisements to websites in a proxy and then claiming that proxy to be anything but worse than useless for evading censorship is not honest. If you're in a repressive country and want to avoid being imprisoned, do not listen to advice like this and use Tor and hard crypto instead (and learn how to use them right).
On my tiny sovereign island nation, it is now prohibited to be wrong on the internet. I expect the court of Atlanta to pay the standard fine within two weeks of this message.
I'm reminded of it anytime I hear how much money you can save by not doing something arbitrarily more expensive:
There was a man who, having unfortunately left his watch at home, arrived a few minutes late at the bus stop and only just saw the tail lights of the bus as it drove around the corner. He was in good shape and determined to try running after the bus and catching it at the next stop. (This can actually be done, provided the stops are close together, the bus has a string of red lights and traffic is slow.) However, the man failed to catch the bus at the next stop, or the stop after that, but being persistent, ran after the bus the whole way home.
He realized how stupid (if invigorating) this had been, and was desperate to put a positive spin on what he'd tell his wife. So when he got home, he said: "Guess what honey! I just saved $4 on my car insu^W^W bus ticket by running after the bus on the way home,"
And she looked at him levelly and then said: "You poor fool, why didn't you run after a taxi? That way you could have saved $20!"
I don't actually have a netbook right now, but even when I get one, I will be taking hand-written notes.
My attention span is too short when faced with a computer, let alone an internet connection. It's bad enough that while taking those handwritten notes, I'll start writing out something unrelated and lose the thread; if I were able to check my email or look up stuff on Google, I might as well not attend the lecture at all.
SQL injection is only one half of web security, though. The other big threat Cross Site Scripting/Request Forgery.
Output filtering is a lot harder to keep track of than database queries (even with a good templating system) since data must be filtered in different ways: Some stuff may contain any markup including document-level elements, script/stylesheet inclusion, other data may only contain local formatting markup (emphasis, etc.) and still other stuff has to be escaped entirely...
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Indeed.
And the downside?
Oh, wait.
... in broadcasting.
"I can do that better. Except the shouting," our reporter was told by a spokesbeetle.
Thank you, Bill, for providing me with this reminder that no matter how badly I curse X, no matter how rotten Linux NVIDIA support is, or how difficult it is to run games in Wine... ... it's still better than using the steaming pile of horseshit that is Windows.
Don't worry, I was going to start over here in Europe anyway. But if I'm going for world domination, I'd have to cross the Atlantic eventually. :P
Peaceably assemble... with intent to overthrow the government.
Although there's kind of a Catch 22 opportunity there.
I thought my evil master plan for overthrowing the government was PERFECT! Nobody could have known what I was up to!
And now I have to tell them myself?
Oh well...
That's a lot harder, fortunately. Even Iran was only able to slow it by throttling SSL (blocking that completely would have screwed with their international business).
Well duh, being able to read your emails removes the strain for the government to trust you, while also training you to entrust your government with your secrets. Hence, trust-building. :P
Mrs.
The point of the whole thing is to turn Misses into Mistresses. :P
Creating Skynet would indeed be interesting.
Yay science! :P
But when network experts say that the tracker doesn't distribute the information, they're not just employing a legal defense; they're telling you that blocking it that way won't work.
Case in point, you can use Tor to access the tracker and still enjoy the same peer-to-peer speeds as anyone.
I do every now and then, but I always end up k-lined on several IRC networks, even when I have no exit node.
That is a wonderful business model, but I have an improvement on it that would allow you to increase your profits by another third.
Just sell them all out.
Displaying ads is a very, very great danger to anonymity. A whole new network is "put into the loop" in the user's request, able to log IPs, see URLs in referral headers, and store cookies. Adding advertisements to websites in a proxy and then claiming that proxy to be anything but worse than useless for evading censorship is not honest. If you're in a repressive country and want to avoid being imprisoned, do not listen to advice like this and use Tor and hard crypto instead (and learn how to use them right).
On my tiny sovereign island nation, it is now prohibited to be wrong on the internet. I expect the court of Atlanta to pay the standard fine within two weeks of this message.
I'm reminded of it anytime I hear how much money you can save by not doing something arbitrarily more expensive:
There was a man who, having unfortunately left his watch at home, arrived a few minutes late at the bus stop and only just saw the tail lights of the bus as it drove around the corner. He was in good shape and determined to try running after the bus and catching it at the next stop. (This can actually be done, provided the stops are close together, the bus has a string of red lights and traffic is slow.) However, the man failed to catch the bus at the next stop, or the stop after that, but being persistent, ran after the bus the whole way home.
He realized how stupid (if invigorating) this had been, and was desperate to put a positive spin on what he'd tell his wife. So when he got home, he said: "Guess what honey! I just saved $4 on my car insu^W^W bus ticket by running after the bus on the way home,"
And she looked at him levelly and then said: "You poor fool, why didn't you run after a taxi? That way you could have saved $20!"
Oh my god. These guys can't be for real...
It's like with the Westboro Baptists. I keep waiting for someone to shout "You Have Been Trolled".
My telephone is full of eels!
Nobody deserves what is going to happen to them.
Although Verizon kind of does, after its service cancellation shenanigans.
*grabs popcorn*
In unrelated news, anybody know what happened to the Church of Scientology?
Exactly. Someone needs to make an ad revolving around how Google can help you in case of Raptor attack.
(Hint: Not at all. Nothing can.)
Get cracking, internet service providers.
I don't actually have a netbook right now, but even when I get one, I will be taking hand-written notes.
My attention span is too short when faced with a computer, let alone an internet connection. It's bad enough that while taking those handwritten notes, I'll start writing out something unrelated and lose the thread; if I were able to check my email or look up stuff on Google, I might as well not attend the lecture at all.
Out of the 5% that are not generated by spambots, 99% is still generated by idiots.
SQL injection is only one half of web security, though. The other big threat Cross Site Scripting/Request Forgery.
Output filtering is a lot harder to keep track of than database queries (even with a good templating system) since data must be filtered in different ways: Some stuff may contain any markup including document-level elements, script/stylesheet inclusion, other data may only contain local formatting markup (emphasis, etc.) and still other stuff has to be escaped entirely...