Paranoia / Politics News Comments 2006-12-08
Here is some software that might make it easier to cheat up-line firewall censorship (should work on corporate firewalls in addition to China).
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All the better reasons to stay away from MMORPGs. It was probably a good thing that I was taxed out of town in Star Wars Galaxies. I was obsessed for over a year. Protests only helped my Droid Wal-Mart business, but being in a town where new mayor (old mayor grew increasingly inactive on Bria and eventually stepeed down) was the only competitor was bad. I hope CopyBot can keep values down in Second Life for the IRS to stay away. I hate artificial scarcity.
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Iran is really jumping on the censorship wagon. George Bush’s desire for war will eventually ovcome him so he’ll probably be invading Iran, at least in the air, by the time he leaves office. I’d rather see mass defiance though with a flurry of black-market broadband connections from China and Russia, but I think Bush is going to drop the bombs nontheless (at $50,000 per guided bomb and $2 million per cruise missle). I really wish there would be more Iraqis on Emule though. I wonder how Iran’s censorship will affect Iranian Emule users? Emule is robust with 144k cellphone modems, and it will most likely work just fine with 128k connections and 28.8k / 33.6k / 56k connections as long as they don’t cut in/out or stall, as long as not too many downloads are activated at one time (I’ve download rather large files from an australian 56k user on Emule). China’s censorship obviously doesn’t work all that well on Emule and the ‘Great Firewall’ is easily bypassed with some easy to use script-kiddy tools.
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More countries trying to crackdown on ‘loose cannon’ bloggers. Added stuff on the ‘roll of shame’ / ‘enemies of the internet’ / ‘internet black hole’ from Reporters Without Borders, P2P (mostly quoting rsf.org), and Committee to Protect Journalists
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I get so many of these now (today), after the busts and extraditions, that I can’t be bothered with sending back terrorist buzzwords (Nuke, bomb, blow up, etc…) because it has gotten too boring to be a vigilante asshole with these anymore (The FBI has automated but highly lagged terrorist buzzword analysis systems and monitoring policies that could be exploited to help nail fraudulant spammers).
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It appears that the RIAA wants to sham artists some more using internet piracy for leverage! They screw both artists and consumers. This one is about the artist end.
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Hmm I wonder what my terror score is? Steve Jolley? Chungy (Mark Chung)? Landon Donovan and the rest of the National Team? My father (Served on the Nuclear-Torpedo USS Greenfish as an electrician)? How about Joe Eigo or Team Ryouku (Both in Toronto; Chungy has family ties in Toronto as well; All Asian at least partially)? I bet my Terror score may be a litte high from my vigilante asshole-ness with scam-spammers, my modest hoard of stuff on nuclear weapons, my dabblings with area 51, my bad attitude with government secrecy, piracy disposition, and I am probably being watched because I was stuck in NYC during 9-11 and I made disturbing comments about being lucky it wasn’t a Nuke (as in spies planting nukes in enemy cities in the game Civilization). Also I think people like airlines can’t differentiate FBI flags for piracy (50 burnt DVDs + 50 unburnt DVDs in luggage) vs terrorism (especially since the CBP is managing and using the ratings). I’ve flown in X-Plane in airports also. Playing Scorched 3D (3D tank-artillery game) in an airport disturbs some people also. Oh yeah my father also has top-secret clearance (I think he got it while in the Navy) but both he plus the rest of the greenfish crew and the public have been lied to like crazy while sub was in service and the warheads on the torps have no unintended detonation safegaurds and they hide it by only putting in the tube and it goes completly undetected because nobody looked for a nuke (imagine how easy it would be to float a nuke in on a container and detonate it on the ship while in harbor) and his bunk was right on top of one of the nuke torps (warshot) when it was in storage, and the torps were meant for harbor busting in addition to convoy (carrier group) busting.
