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To me this feels a bit like a lunch counter cook complaining all these black people showing up in his restaurant are causing him extra work. The whole point of
by wavesounds 14y ago
To me this feels a bit like a lunch counter cook complaining all these black people showing up in his restaurant are causing him extra work.
The whole point of a protest is to put pressure on the system your trying to change. Start a walkout/go on strike if you dont want to deal with the problems the organization you're working for caused.
The school only gets power from its students. Without the students there is no school. You have more power then you think. Take a stand, make a difference.
- Permit 14y ago>To me this feels a bit like a lunch counter cook complaining all these black people showing up in his restaurant are causing him extra work. Are black people notorious for eating or something? That kind of came out of left field, there.
- koenigdavidmj 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
- lotso 14y agoI think it is referring to the sit-ins that occurred in the 60s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-ins#Civil_Rights_Movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-ins#Civil_Rights_Movement
- jamesjporter 14y agoHe's analogizing DDoS attacks to the lunch counter sit ins that were used as a means of nonviolent protest during the civil right movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
- wavesounds 14y agoYeah I was comparing a DDoS to lunch counter Sit-ins of the 60s. During the civil rights movement blacks and other protestors would overwhelm a restaurant taking up all the space at the counter until the owners agreed to meet their demands. It's a proven non-violent protest that works and is very similar to what DDoS does, except instead of human bodies filling up a restaurant you're using http requests to fill up a server. Sorry for the lack of context in the original post.
- btilly 14y agoThe significant difference is that when the owner gets unhappy about it, it is trivial to figure out who to talk to to get the problem fixed. The same is not true of DDoS attacks.
- wavesounds 14y agoThats a good point. But It all depends if you block your IP address or not. If it was a legal form a protest that people didn't have to worry about going to jail for you could easily make your information known. Problem is the government doesn't understand technology and will label you a hacker instead of non-violent protestor.
- Deestan 14y ago> The same is not true of DDoS attacks. It should be pretty clear in this case, though.
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- pvg 14y agoYou might be well in the running for stupidest thing ever said on HN.
- BrokenPipe 14y agoWhy? This is far from stupid.
- Jach 14y agoNot even close. https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
- Cushman 14y agoYeah, that twitter is stupider than anything I've seen on HN.
- Jach 14y agoI'm not sure what you mean by this. All the tweets from that twitter account come from comments made by HN users.
- Cushman 14y agoI realize that. I'm just struggling to find one that seems unreasonable even out of context. It reads like as a list of valid opinions the curator disagrees with, which comes across as more than a little bit pissy.
- afarrell 14y agoExcept the black protesters of Greensboro went and tried to order food so they could eat it and pay for it as they correctly claimed they were at liberty to do. They did not turn off the lights of the restaurant and block the door to the kitchen to deny the other patrons from being able to eat.