There's a whole lot of revisionist and bias-by-omission-of-data history going on with the space race. I like to try to figure things out, I like to figure out the reason for things. I've yet to fathom the reasons for this. I see it a lot with WWII history as well. I don't know the motives and I'm unsure of the source but, at this point, I'm inclined to think it's not people coming up with these things on their own but are people parroting things they've heard/read elsewhere and, probably due to confirmation bias, never bothered to check to see if they were either factual or the complete facts.
Yeah, I think I'll skip setting up a special configuration in uMatrix (NoScript on steroids, like an old-school software firewall but for your browser specifically) and just have to go the whole route of waiting for others to comment or just making wild-arsed assumptions without reading the article. So, I guess it won't be that much of a change. I could have sworn the site worked for me the last time I clicked on a link in an article. I did notice it was not working in a journal post recently but I figured it was a one-off and didn't bother investigating it - I just looked for a different source.
Ah well... They can go without my clicks. It wouldn't do them any good anyhow. It's not like I'd see their ads, it's not like their tracking is going to work, and it's really unlikely that I'll pay them money. They're probably better off without me and my traffic. I'm probably better off without their content. I imagine that both parties, they and I, will get over it.;-) At least now I know why...
That was in use as well. It really depends on what the traffic is being optimized for. Sometimes the shortest distance is not the quickest route nor is it always the most efficient route. There are other issues like throughput and capacity. We eventually expanded to do pedestrian traffic modeling which was quite different and meant a whole lot of new learning and research. It's akin to modeling chaos, we humans aren't entirely predictable.
I don't get up to The County very often and I probably won't be back in Maine until sometime next year, at the rate things are going. The borders are pretty tight now. I am not a native Mainer but I did go to school at Kents Hill and stayed on campus there. It's where I fell in love with the State and now I've retired to Maine. There's some very polite people in the South. Then there are other cultures where they've a whole different view of what is, and is not, polite.
But yes, I used to cross to go to Canada to drink. Today, after some work and providing proof, I have my citizenship. I'm Micmac, mostly, at a greater percentage than I am anything else. I'm kind of a mutt, really. So, I have land in Canada and am a citizen by grace of heritage. The land is in Nova Scotia as are "my people." I try to get up there once a year but I didn't make it this year and won't have much time to go next year but I'll be sure to fit it in, even if it's just for a week. Now, of course, I must get the missus a passport or a special ID (I think?) if I want to bring her with me.
Well, that sort of depends on where you call the beginning, no? If you're counting the training then, yes. If you count the mission as starting at lift-off then not so much. I know, it's semantics but hear me out...
If a group of SEALS are going to go out and kill a bad guy next week and one of them dies in a training accident on Tuesday, do we say that they died on the mission or do we say that they died during a training mishap? The reason that I ask is because I've seen more than a few people are fond of skewing data by posing biased and incomplete statistics when comparing the Russian and US space programs.
Yeah, it's bound to be a cat and mouse type of game until they finally bag me up and drop me out of the back of a C-5 somewhere over the South Pacific after treating me to some Monkey Wrench Persuasion but it might be just annoying to irk them and not enough to truly piss them off. I would, of course, go along with any lawful orders given. That's what they make the canary features for.;-)
Ah - my script blocking disables that whole thing. Thus it takes me to the welcome page and no further. Forbes is broken for me unless I go through the effort of fixing it, I guess. To be honest, I'm not sure it's worth it. I was quite confused as to why you might be linking it when it was still broken. It turns out, it's broken because I use uMatrix and haven't decided to let them through with their scripts. That seems, well, unlikely to change but now I know why it's happening. Thanks!
I like where you're going with it but it also has to be filled with random data and there'd need to be enough exit nodes, across the world ideally, to simply enable one to not just sort-of multicast their traffic but to serve others and to serve the garbage data. Yes, there would be increased latency but as much of it is just sending out spoofed traffic and forwarding/receiving requests on behalf of others then it might not be too bad?
The idea that I'm thinking of isn't just to enable people to pirate stuff but to make it so that the data collected by tracking companies is worthless. The two can go hand-in-hand nicely, I suspect.
A long time ago, and I mean ages ago, I had an application that enabled me to use not just proxies but it had a round-robin proxy setting where not just one proxy would be used but individual requests would be sent through different proxies and, somehow, this was reassembled programmatically on my end via the application. Some Ghost Proxy application or something like that - maybe 10-15 years ago.
So, just a single page loading would be multiple HTTP requests and those would all got through different routes so that it was damned near impossible to tell where I was coming from. I'm thinking of something like that but, at the same time, sending out scads of junk data at the same time. So that it's not just routing everything out through multiple nodes but it's routing out a bunch of junk. This should make tracking all-but-useless assuming people block tracking scripts, tracking cookies, beacons, and things of that nature. They'd still be able to weed out some useful metrics but it'd be difficult.
That's kind of what I'm thinking and it would, quite probably, increase privacy and security with regards to thwarting the MPAA/RIAA. It might also have some value in poisoning the data well that the Three Letter Agencies have been scooping up. I'm sure the powers that be will frown on such a thing because it might be used for evil but, frankly, I'm okay with that.
I'm in a unique position where I can say, "Fuck you." I'm unfamiliar with your username so I imagine you may be unfamiliar with my posts and my history. I'm financially able to say, "Fuck you." I'm also able to move to another country, if need be, but I'd really hate to do so. I am, after all, a patriot at heart. It's my patriotic duty to circumvent any attempts they make at weakening encryption. It's my patriotic duty to assist others in encrypting their communication.
Our country was founded by a bunch of terrorists who hid behind anonymity until they'd gained enough popularity and wealth to be able to risk speaking freely. Whilst I'm not a violent person by nature, I am still a fan of allowed anonymous speech. I, for one, am tired of my government trying to keep me safe. I, for one, accept the risks that bad things might happen. Risks are proportionate to gain, often enough. The more liberties you have the more risks it entails. So be it.
Well, if they paid for the research or even helped to fund it then they've a right to the results of that research so yeah? If there are any flaws then they'd be privy to them, as would anyone else with access to the research. Knowing MIT? They'll want more "funding" if they want to get the flaws researched. Those guys are always, and I mean always, wanting me to give them more money.
Oh no, it's a horrible place with mean people! The winters are deadly and the summers are even worse! The tourists will kill you, the animals are deadly, the people are all armed and dangerous. You don't even want to *visit* Maine. Just come drop your vacation money off at the border.
Disclosure: MIT is my alma mater and I am biased. I have also served in the military and I have worked with DoD as a civilian.
Now, some folks here are aware that I dealt with traffic modeling. Some of *my* research was paid for by the Department of Defense. (You'd be kind of silly to not understand the value of improving traffic throughput in a crisis. There are also benefits to optimized traffic in and on military facilities, both vehicular and pedestrian)
I can not speak for this department nor for this research. I can, however, say that the DoD had absolutely no influence on my research. No, not one little bit. They wanted regular reports to see that they were getting a bit of work for their money. They did not control, direct, or hinder the research in any way other than the funding. They never exerted any control, never stopped me from publishing, nor did they come in and spy on the project.
I can't say what has happened here but, honestly, I think you're drunk. How would the DoD benefit from this? Given that it is MIT, I'm quite sure you can see the source. Rather than speculate, give us a good reason to believe you other than a "hunch" or similar.
So, I'm going to presume that the arms haven't wound up yet because they've not yet found another, worthy, galaxy to offer a warm and loving embrace. The galaxy is lonely, it simply is waiting for someone to come give it a hug and tell it that everything will be all better now.
I must confess... I've looked at the moon through a high-powered telescope (there's an observatory at Kents Hill) and I did not see any evidence of the moon landings! I've seen the lack of evidence with my own eyes! They must be faked!
Anything can be termed a civil right today. No, no I'm not entirely sure when the change occurred. I was probably high and missed it. At any rate, if you don't have it and you want it then it is your right - and it should be subsidized by others who have money because, fuck them, they've got money and it belongs to the person who has invented a new civil right.
Also, property... You don't have a right to that. You don't have a right to the output of your labor. That doesn't belong to you. Just because you came up with an idea doesn't mean you get to own it. It now belongs to everyone. Information wants to be free unless, you know, it's your information and then it is an outrage.
Just click and install Enigmail. It's not PGP but it is GPG and I don't recall needing the government's permission to make use of it. They do (if they want) have my public key files available but that's not a problem - they're the public keys and they're allowed to have them. I can, if I want, opt to transfer the key to someone via any number of different routes and not have a public key store.
But no, not all traffic needs to be encrypted (for starters) and no government cared one iota that I opted to use encryption on the email that I sent out just a few hours ago. They didn't even offer to fuck me in the ass.
You can add pretty much the entirety of eligible Mainers to that list. You no longer need a permit to conceal carry in Maine provided it is lawful for you to own a firearm. Yup... You may still want a permit if you travel (I do and have mine) because this doesn't extend to other states as of yet. Strangely enough, we don't have a whole bunch of crime, firearm violence, or any need to keep track of who has what in their waistband.
No, no don't move there. It's terrible and the people are mean. It's cold and nobody will like you. It's remote and the taxes are too high. It's an awful place and you wouldn't want to live there - not even for the forward thinking with private property ownership rights. You're better off in California or New York, of course. You'd never want to live in Maine.
Ya know... I haven't written any software since the early 2000s. I've hacked some and maybe written a small script or two as needed. I might have poked a few buttons to learn a little as time has passed. But, no, realistically, I'll need to relearn a lot... That's okay.
Maybe it's time to start writing software again? Maybe it's time to just write and host my own software that does exactly what I want it to do, irrespective of the legality, and just accept the consequences? What? They're going to yell at me and ask me to give information that I don't have? Heh... No, the data will be encrypted with *the users* certificates and the certificate store will also be encrypted and no, nope - I don't have those keys, sorry.
What, they want me to stop? How about no? Oh, they're going to do, what, exactly? Put me in jail? Heh... There's not much chance of that happening. I've got a few dollars and a lawyer on retainer. No, no I don't care how much they bleat and blather. If you want to search my property, which includes my communication, then you'll need a warrant for that and it's my *right* to make that as difficult for them as I want.
Really? I mean, yeah, really? Do you have *any* evidence to support that claim or is just just a presumption because "it's obvious if you look at it right?" 'Cause I'm thinking you're a bit crazy. Big Agriculture, such as it exists, isn't going to (probably) go out and intentionally poison a bunch of people when they can sell organic foods at a much higher profit percentage. They're not going to risk that kind of fallout should they be discovered. There's no darkened walnut-lined room with a giant oaken table and antique leather chairs.
I mean, really? C'mon now, you might just as well say it was due to aliens. Unless, of course, you have some evidence... Do you have any evidence? Does the lack of evidence give weight to your conclusions in your mind?
Botulism? When you're shitting bile and blood, projectile shitting at times, it's pretty rough. They have a treatment for it, I've undergone it, where they basically increase your immunity by feeding you small amounts of botulism on crackers. It's a strange process but once you've had botulism then you'll be more susceptible to it in the future. The treatment was fairly new when I went through it (it was my second bout with it) and they're able to build the resistance back up over time with the smaller doses.
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I'd spare the details of botulism for those who have never had it. I still will as not even *I* have words enough to describe it. Unless things have changed, the leading cause of death (and botulism is *very* deadly - even in intensive care units) is because of the stress from evacuating your alimentary canal causes your heart to rupture. Yes, you puke (even without anything coming out) or shit (again, with nothing except maybe some intestinal wall tissue, white milky liquid, and yellow bile forced from your system coming out) so forcefully that your heart explodes.
So, that - the above description - *is* sparing them the details. You will be months, years even, getting to the point where you're well again and you may never be fully well again. I can now eat honey and chicken again and I'm usually only worried about the chicken and I tend to avoid it unless I am damned sure of the cooking process. I consume a little honey every day (that I remember) in order to help keep my resistance up. Do *not* give young children honey!
There are other sources for botulism but those are the two primary sources. The effects of botulism are beyond my ability to type. There are few things on this planet that are truly worse than death, botulism is one of them. Botulism doesn't mean you were ill and threw up a little after dinner. Botulism means you nearly died.
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There's a whole lot of revisionist and bias-by-omission-of-data history going on with the space race. I like to try to figure things out, I like to figure out the reason for things. I've yet to fathom the reasons for this. I see it a lot with WWII history as well. I don't know the motives and I'm unsure of the source but, at this point, I'm inclined to think it's not people coming up with these things on their own but are people parroting things they've heard/read elsewhere and, probably due to confirmation bias, never bothered to check to see if they were either factual or the complete facts.
Yeah, I think I'll skip setting up a special configuration in uMatrix (NoScript on steroids, like an old-school software firewall but for your browser specifically) and just have to go the whole route of waiting for others to comment or just making wild-arsed assumptions without reading the article. So, I guess it won't be that much of a change. I could have sworn the site worked for me the last time I clicked on a link in an article. I did notice it was not working in a journal post recently but I figured it was a one-off and didn't bother investigating it - I just looked for a different source.
Ah well... They can go without my clicks. It wouldn't do them any good anyhow. It's not like I'd see their ads, it's not like their tracking is going to work, and it's really unlikely that I'll pay them money. They're probably better off without me and my traffic. I'm probably better off without their content. I imagine that both parties, they and I, will get over it. ;-) At least now I know why...
That was in use as well. It really depends on what the traffic is being optimized for. Sometimes the shortest distance is not the quickest route nor is it always the most efficient route. There are other issues like throughput and capacity. We eventually expanded to do pedestrian traffic modeling which was quite different and meant a whole lot of new learning and research. It's akin to modeling chaos, we humans aren't entirely predictable.
I don't get up to The County very often and I probably won't be back in Maine until sometime next year, at the rate things are going. The borders are pretty tight now. I am not a native Mainer but I did go to school at Kents Hill and stayed on campus there. It's where I fell in love with the State and now I've retired to Maine. There's some very polite people in the South. Then there are other cultures where they've a whole different view of what is, and is not, polite.
But yes, I used to cross to go to Canada to drink. Today, after some work and providing proof, I have my citizenship. I'm Micmac, mostly, at a greater percentage than I am anything else. I'm kind of a mutt, really. So, I have land in Canada and am a citizen by grace of heritage. The land is in Nova Scotia as are "my people." I try to get up there once a year but I didn't make it this year and won't have much time to go next year but I'll be sure to fit it in, even if it's just for a week. Now, of course, I must get the missus a passport or a special ID (I think?) if I want to bring her with me.
Well, that sort of depends on where you call the beginning, no? If you're counting the training then, yes. If you count the mission as starting at lift-off then not so much. I know, it's semantics but hear me out...
If a group of SEALS are going to go out and kill a bad guy next week and one of them dies in a training accident on Tuesday, do we say that they died on the mission or do we say that they died during a training mishap? The reason that I ask is because I've seen more than a few people are fond of skewing data by posing biased and incomplete statistics when comparing the Russian and US space programs.
Yeah, it's bound to be a cat and mouse type of game until they finally bag me up and drop me out of the back of a C-5 somewhere over the South Pacific after treating me to some Monkey Wrench Persuasion but it might be just annoying to irk them and not enough to truly piss them off. I would, of course, go along with any lawful orders given. That's what they make the canary features for. ;-)
Ah - my script blocking disables that whole thing. Thus it takes me to the welcome page and no further. Forbes is broken for me unless I go through the effort of fixing it, I guess. To be honest, I'm not sure it's worth it. I was quite confused as to why you might be linking it when it was still broken. It turns out, it's broken because I use uMatrix and haven't decided to let them through with their scripts. That seems, well, unlikely to change but now I know why it's happening. Thanks!
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I like where you're going with it but it also has to be filled with random data and there'd need to be enough exit nodes, across the world ideally, to simply enable one to not just sort-of multicast their traffic but to serve others and to serve the garbage data. Yes, there would be increased latency but as much of it is just sending out spoofed traffic and forwarding/receiving requests on behalf of others then it might not be too bad?
The idea that I'm thinking of isn't just to enable people to pirate stuff but to make it so that the data collected by tracking companies is worthless. The two can go hand-in-hand nicely, I suspect.
A long time ago, and I mean ages ago, I had an application that enabled me to use not just proxies but it had a round-robin proxy setting where not just one proxy would be used but individual requests would be sent through different proxies and, somehow, this was reassembled programmatically on my end via the application. Some Ghost Proxy application or something like that - maybe 10-15 years ago.
So, just a single page loading would be multiple HTTP requests and those would all got through different routes so that it was damned near impossible to tell where I was coming from. I'm thinking of something like that but, at the same time, sending out scads of junk data at the same time. So that it's not just routing everything out through multiple nodes but it's routing out a bunch of junk. This should make tracking all-but-useless assuming people block tracking scripts, tracking cookies, beacons, and things of that nature. They'd still be able to weed out some useful metrics but it'd be difficult.
That's kind of what I'm thinking and it would, quite probably, increase privacy and security with regards to thwarting the MPAA/RIAA. It might also have some value in poisoning the data well that the Three Letter Agencies have been scooping up. I'm sure the powers that be will frown on such a thing because it might be used for evil but, frankly, I'm okay with that.
I'm in a unique position where I can say, "Fuck you." I'm unfamiliar with your username so I imagine you may be unfamiliar with my posts and my history. I'm financially able to say, "Fuck you." I'm also able to move to another country, if need be, but I'd really hate to do so. I am, after all, a patriot at heart. It's my patriotic duty to circumvent any attempts they make at weakening encryption. It's my patriotic duty to assist others in encrypting their communication.
Our country was founded by a bunch of terrorists who hid behind anonymity until they'd gained enough popularity and wealth to be able to risk speaking freely. Whilst I'm not a violent person by nature, I am still a fan of allowed anonymous speech. I, for one, am tired of my government trying to keep me safe. I, for one, accept the risks that bad things might happen. Risks are proportionate to gain, often enough. The more liberties you have the more risks it entails. So be it.
Well, if they paid for the research or even helped to fund it then they've a right to the results of that research so yeah? If there are any flaws then they'd be privy to them, as would anyone else with access to the research. Knowing MIT? They'll want more "funding" if they want to get the flaws researched. Those guys are always, and I mean always, wanting me to give them more money.
Oh no, it's a horrible place with mean people! The winters are deadly and the summers are even worse! The tourists will kill you, the animals are deadly, the people are all armed and dangerous. You don't even want to *visit* Maine. Just come drop your vacation money off at the border.
Logito ergo sum.
Of course, I could just be a figment of your imagination.
Disclosure: MIT is my alma mater and I am biased. I have also served in the military and I have worked with DoD as a civilian.
Now, some folks here are aware that I dealt with traffic modeling. Some of *my* research was paid for by the Department of Defense. (You'd be kind of silly to not understand the value of improving traffic throughput in a crisis. There are also benefits to optimized traffic in and on military facilities, both vehicular and pedestrian)
I can not speak for this department nor for this research. I can, however, say that the DoD had absolutely no influence on my research. No, not one little bit. They wanted regular reports to see that they were getting a bit of work for their money. They did not control, direct, or hinder the research in any way other than the funding. They never exerted any control, never stopped me from publishing, nor did they come in and spy on the project.
I can't say what has happened here but, honestly, I think you're drunk. How would the DoD benefit from this? Given that it is MIT, I'm quite sure you can see the source. Rather than speculate, give us a good reason to believe you other than a "hunch" or similar.
Tor has always been subject to snooping if you leave the Tor network. So long as you remain on the .onion network it is assumed that it is still safe.
We need something like this, something P2P, that sends out garbage data to be picked up by tracking networks. Poisoning the well, so to speak.
Not enough misspellings.
Wants to take me to the welcome page.
So, I'm going to presume that the arms haven't wound up yet because they've not yet found another, worthy, galaxy to offer a warm and loving embrace. The galaxy is lonely, it simply is waiting for someone to come give it a hug and tell it that everything will be all better now.
I must confess... I've looked at the moon through a high-powered telescope (there's an observatory at Kents Hill) and I did not see any evidence of the moon landings! I've seen the lack of evidence with my own eyes! They must be faked!
Anything can be termed a civil right today. No, no I'm not entirely sure when the change occurred. I was probably high and missed it. At any rate, if you don't have it and you want it then it is your right - and it should be subsidized by others who have money because, fuck them, they've got money and it belongs to the person who has invented a new civil right.
Also, property... You don't have a right to that. You don't have a right to the output of your labor. That doesn't belong to you. Just because you came up with an idea doesn't mean you get to own it. It now belongs to everyone. Information wants to be free unless, you know, it's your information and then it is an outrage.
Just click and install Enigmail. It's not PGP but it is GPG and I don't recall needing the government's permission to make use of it. They do (if they want) have my public key files available but that's not a problem - they're the public keys and they're allowed to have them. I can, if I want, opt to transfer the key to someone via any number of different routes and not have a public key store.
But no, not all traffic needs to be encrypted (for starters) and no government cared one iota that I opted to use encryption on the email that I sent out just a few hours ago. They didn't even offer to fuck me in the ass.
You can add pretty much the entirety of eligible Mainers to that list. You no longer need a permit to conceal carry in Maine provided it is lawful for you to own a firearm. Yup... You may still want a permit if you travel (I do and have mine) because this doesn't extend to other states as of yet. Strangely enough, we don't have a whole bunch of crime, firearm violence, or any need to keep track of who has what in their waistband.
No, no don't move there. It's terrible and the people are mean. It's cold and nobody will like you. It's remote and the taxes are too high. It's an awful place and you wouldn't want to live there - not even for the forward thinking with private property ownership rights. You're better off in California or New York, of course. You'd never want to live in Maine.
Ya know... I haven't written any software since the early 2000s. I've hacked some and maybe written a small script or two as needed. I might have poked a few buttons to learn a little as time has passed. But, no, realistically, I'll need to relearn a lot... That's okay.
Maybe it's time to start writing software again? Maybe it's time to just write and host my own software that does exactly what I want it to do, irrespective of the legality, and just accept the consequences? What? They're going to yell at me and ask me to give information that I don't have? Heh... No, the data will be encrypted with *the users* certificates and the certificate store will also be encrypted and no, nope - I don't have those keys, sorry.
What, they want me to stop? How about no? Oh, they're going to do, what, exactly? Put me in jail? Heh... There's not much chance of that happening. I've got a few dollars and a lawyer on retainer. No, no I don't care how much they bleat and blather. If you want to search my property, which includes my communication, then you'll need a warrant for that and it's my *right* to make that as difficult for them as I want.
Thanks. I'll take a gander and see what I come up with.
Really? I mean, yeah, really? Do you have *any* evidence to support that claim or is just just a presumption because "it's obvious if you look at it right?" 'Cause I'm thinking you're a bit crazy. Big Agriculture, such as it exists, isn't going to (probably) go out and intentionally poison a bunch of people when they can sell organic foods at a much higher profit percentage. They're not going to risk that kind of fallout should they be discovered. There's no darkened walnut-lined room with a giant oaken table and antique leather chairs.
I mean, really? C'mon now, you might just as well say it was due to aliens. Unless, of course, you have some evidence... Do you have any evidence? Does the lack of evidence give weight to your conclusions in your mind?
Botulism? When you're shitting bile and blood, projectile shitting at times, it's pretty rough. They have a treatment for it, I've undergone it, where they basically increase your immunity by feeding you small amounts of botulism on crackers. It's a strange process but once you've had botulism then you'll be more susceptible to it in the future. The treatment was fairly new when I went through it (it was my second bout with it) and they're able to build the resistance back up over time with the smaller doses.
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I'd spare the details of botulism for those who have never had it. I still will as not even *I* have words enough to describe it. Unless things have changed, the leading cause of death (and botulism is *very* deadly - even in intensive care units) is because of the stress from evacuating your alimentary canal causes your heart to rupture. Yes, you puke (even without anything coming out) or shit (again, with nothing except maybe some intestinal wall tissue, white milky liquid, and yellow bile forced from your system coming out) so forcefully that your heart explodes.
So, that - the above description - *is* sparing them the details. You will be months, years even, getting to the point where you're well again and you may never be fully well again. I can now eat honey and chicken again and I'm usually only worried about the chicken and I tend to avoid it unless I am damned sure of the cooking process. I consume a little honey every day (that I remember) in order to help keep my resistance up. Do *not* give young children honey!
There are other sources for botulism but those are the two primary sources. The effects of botulism are beyond my ability to type. There are few things on this planet that are truly worse than death, botulism is one of them. Botulism doesn't mean you were ill and threw up a little after dinner. Botulism means you nearly died.