betterunix2

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by betterunix2 5y ago
Some perspective: in 1986 the Internet experienced a congestive collapse that reduced the useful throughput by 3 orders of magnitude. End users noticed, and if it happened today there would be pandemonium. The Internet has become so robus
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"Internet routing requires addresses to be allocated uniquely, but if the addressing function were captured by a single government or company" Technically it is so captured -- IANA is the root of the hierarchy that distributes bot
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Uh... 1970: Early networks suffered from congestive collapse problems, routing protocols were slow to converge, computed suboptimal routes, and had count-to-infinity problems, only a handful of transit networks existed, domain names were m
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by betterunix2 5y ago
My point is that victims will never actually have the peace of mind to know that imagery of their abuse is inaccessible. Once the pictures/videos have been taken the harm has already occurred and the victims will live out their lives
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by betterunix2 5y ago
At least one so-called "grey area" involves teenagers wearing revealing outfits or posing in potentially sexual ways. As far as I understand it most police forces do not waste their time with such imagery, even though it may tech
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by betterunix2 5y ago
We do hear about prosecutions, and the sites are run by criminals (as operating such sites is a criminal act). The police are better resourced and better able to identify users than almost all the forum operators, and in any case I doubt t
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by betterunix2 5y ago
1. Honeypots are controversial and practically invite an entrapment defense. Better to have police infiltrate forums, identify people, and give prosecutors unambiguous evidence. 2. Calling people who view these images "monsters"
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"As explained in the article." Was it explained? I saw plenty of discussion of the harm done to children, and the lasting emotional problems carried into adulthood, on the part of the people who abuse children. Then there were a
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Copyrights have very little to do with paying content creators. From the very first copyright law (the Statute of Anne) it was about securing profits for the industry, who invariably give only a tiny slice of those profits, if anything, to
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"The whole 'buy mp3' idea always have been troubling for me because I can't figure out exactly what I actually buy there. What is it I purchase?" You purchased convenience -- not having to deal with filesharing syst
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Copyright is as much a "right" as mineral rights are a "right." It is just a system for regulating a particular industry. Don't make the mistake of thinking that all "rights" are "natural rights.&qu
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Which only raises the price of exploiting the analog hole by a relatively small amount -- it is not hard to buy better audio recording equipment to record the audio as it is being played, and the postprocessing needed to make it sound like
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Let me give you an alternative view: DRM is a highly effective way for the movie industry to make money. No, it is not perfect, but DRM creates a system where: 1. Sharing is hard. Plenty of people legally purchase a movie, and then want
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"Piracy" has been a propaganda term in the copyright world... FTFY
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I doubt that you could force all such traffic to be so routed, given that there are coast-to-coast transit networks that would not be affected by a BGP hijack (IGP routes are often preferred to EGP routes). In all likelihood the situation
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by betterunix2 5y ago
...maybe. Pretty sure the "wreck" would be local to the region around LA, and maybe a few of the countries on the other end of those lines. The immediate effect of an unexpected outage (e.g. the physical destruction of the build
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by betterunix2 5y ago
WWW != Internet Yes, for the majority of users the two may be the same, but "The Internet" is the IPv4 and IPv6 network on which the web runs. The equivalent companies to what you named are the transit network operators, companie
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by betterunix2 5y ago
TLS is widely supported with dozens of available implementations ready-to-use in many different programming languages and on many different platforms, and it basically comes free for any browser-based implementation. Those implementations
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by betterunix2 5y ago
e2ee is a challenge for any system that did not have it built-in in the first place, and even more so when the system is open (in the sense of anyone being able to implement their own client/server, and server federation). At the end
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"Money corrupts everything" BS. One of the only things Ayn Rand got right was her view of money: it is one of the greatest forces for good humans have ever invented. Money allows us to settle our disputes without violence; mone
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"Obviously the entire reason for a companys' existence is to make money" That is not actually true. Corporations are a tradeoff for society: a corporation fulfills some societal need in exchange for investors receiving limi
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Not only is there no particular reason to believe anything you are saying, but even if it were true, it would still represent a meaningful investment. Fixed wireless will fail to reach some people, but would represent a big step up for a
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by betterunix2 5y ago
I am an experienced Linux user and I sometimes find myself wondering how much more I will put up with. Oh, sorry, did you not like that unexpected UI change? Fsck off, some GNOME developer decided to do it and you are not allowed to cha
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by betterunix2 5y ago
It depends on the meaning of "observe." What if the data is secret-shared among many independent parties, so that no single party (or even a group of parties smaller than some threshold) can process it in any way? This is a comm
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Look, I already explained this in my other comments, but you are just ignoring those and repeating anti-union propaganda. Either you are a troll or you are some kind of paid anti-union consultant; if you actually want an answer to your que
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...because the corporations on the other side of the table would never support antisemites [0], white nationalists [1], fascists [2], or political parties that harbor and support such deplorable people [3]. Not that the workers have any
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Read the post you replied to; unions fund politicians who are friendly toward unions because corporations fund politicians who are antagonistic toward unions (or, if we are being charitable, let's say "politicians who are friendly
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What else did those politicians vote on? If your claim is that the union funded politicians because of their support for the invasion of Iraq, that is an extraordinary claim that demands extraordinary proof. Let's see your proof. [
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What nakedly political reasons do Amazon workers have? They were being told to use a plastic container instead of a bathroom so that they would spend more time working, they were being ordered to put their health and their coworkers'
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by betterunix2 5y ago
...and all of that is true, to a much greater extent, of the corporations whose workers unions represent. Do you think Amazon warehouse workers agree with the views of every politician whose campaign received a contribution from Amazon? I

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