Paranoia / Politics News Comments 2006-07-26
I guess Ladonia is a micro-state like the Vatican and that the internet is totally illegal in their territory. I wouldn’t want to blow them up or fabricate terrorism over it. I would support the citizens rebelling against the law by disregarding it and getting internet anyway and then only get violent only to defend against violent enforcement of the stupid anti-internet law.
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China is number two. Doesn’t adjust or reflect any zombienet factors. Says Russia is #1 for zombienet mob operations, which I would agree with. Looks like Asia has significant minority sources to be number one, but I also think that its not just oriental asia and southeast asia and includes Russia, India, and the middle east. I wouldn’t doubt that america leads for classic non-botnet spamming (individuals, small-businesses on diy systems), while western europe leads for botnet-originated spam.
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Hey they do this all over central and south america too. Kidnap and possibly beat or torture you and your family. I got a really nasty torture video from China that I downloaded from Emule. They were puting a needle through somebody’s skull on the side about a few inches from the eye and out the front the eye. Another scene where they were cutting up a woman and making her husband watch. ED2K Link to video.
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Hey that makes China’s firewall easy to hack around. I hope to see more Chinese on Emule! Though most of the chinese on emule are probably already using these hacks if there is any port blocking. If China blocks ports on international connections like my company does out of the office, how does one hack around that? Putting Emule onto port 80 only makes only a small few servers and less than 1% of clients connectable. China should probably do that. AES encryption would probably bypass that so BitTorrent / Azuerous would work at level 2 or higher encryption.
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Guess they didn’t want the sick and dying to be in the media spotlight. Columbia is still far worse when it comes to selective enforcement of tyrannical law, but China’s got the press and I hate China’s CommyGov too. I would love to see a democratic China culturally and economically conquer the world though.
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Some more various articles on Chinese Tyranny
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This is my favorite kind of leak!!!! Bush is whining like a stupid and spoiled child (video in ‘Surveillance Disclosure Denounced’ article) that aspires to be totalitarian dictator of the world! Might mean the end of freedom of press in this country, especially with the world ‘treason’ being flown around. The 4th amendment is already mostly annulled.
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P2PNet’s crimes are nothing compared to what other bloggers have done. The Forbes article linked above has tips on fighting back, which includes lawsuits.
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This article gives the view on both sides on Net Neutrality. I prefer Net Neutrality but I don’t want any laws that result on HFOG on people or companies unless it is to prevent deception or exploitation. Plus I would pay a premium for the right to abuse. $1/Gig is too much. But 0.10 – 0.20 per gig is reasonable (considering that there will still be fixed service charges). A 100% utilized T1 is about 950 gigabytes per month and you can get one for $350 to $400 per month. .025 per gigabyte on 950GB is $237.50. A SpeakEasy (Open-Policy DSL ISP) DSL line at 1536/768 is $80/month. 0.25 per gigabyte is $178 about. 0.10 per gigabyte would be 71.25 with 100% utilization on speakeasy. DSL isn’t full-duplex like a T1 though so you’d get about half that bandwidth utilization maximum with Emule (355 gigabytes per month) so it would be about $89/month at $0.25 per gigabyte of transfer, and $71/mo at $0.20 per gig. My web hosting account is $13/mo and I get 200GB of transfer!!! Great for file hosting. $0.065 per gigabyte! Only problem is that I am currently only using 1.5GB/per month and I would probably get shut down if I consistantly went over 100GB if it were mostly file and image hosting (only about 1/3 of my bandwidth usage is blog-related).
