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The other thing to keep in mind is that cia.gov is probably not made to handle lots of traffic, since I cant imagine them having a massive day-to-day userbase.. hence I assume it would be rather easy to get them choked up with traffic

perhaps they were DDOSing it and brought it to a crawl, then all the other visitors streaming in would certainly give it the final blow

It has been appended to my reading list. thanks

I have done some Hadoop in the past on Amazons EC2.. definitely useful data mining tools, but Im looking more for concepts and approaches

Thanks thats exactly what i have been looking for.

I think this is where the discussion comes in about whether or not to abolish software patents. It is disgusting that patent trolls go after OpenSource.

Ive wondered the same thing many of times, especially in times when water/sewer pipes get replaced and the street is already ripped open. We have often joked we should make a website with pictures of the wiremess here vs pictures of the wiremess in some of indias slums

I completely agree, when I moved to the US from Germany about 7 years ago, a large majority of the people I got to know were still running dialup. In Germany the years prior to my move, I cannot remember a single person not having at least DSL. Then the next major shock I got was when looking at ISP and Cellphone carrier prices! at the moment I am paying 60$/mo for 12down 2up (in boston). My Brother in a small town in southern Germany gets 2 unlimited phone lines, cable TV and 50down 12up for 40euros/mo so about 60$/mo. Im not sure how this difference in price can be explained, Especially because in boston my internet goes down every few days since all the lines are run overground.

please put it up somewhere, archive.org took it down, I would be very interested in analyzing it

yes that is a very valid point. In general non conforming content is endangered along with freedom of speech and press. See a couple of posts above

I understand the government always dictates what is considered legal/illegal, maybe I used the wrong wording. But My issue is that if they have the power to regulate the internet and what the internet displays, they have the ability to censor what every they like. If kept unmonitored this could threaten freedom of speech and press.

awesome. ill have to start messing with it

Maybe we should start a darknet DNS service

Especially because the government dictates what is considered illegal. Should I welcome us to china?

This is certainly a way to go about taking websites off of the most commonly used web. And cutting off ad funding is like strangling them. But this power can very well be misused and used to quiet organizations. I dont believe the government should have the power to dictate who is allowed to do business with who. Also filtering DNS is only a precursor of what is to come with internet censorship.

Exactly. its down from my comcast connection, tmobile 3g and also from 3 different VPS i have

Here is the Kickstarter project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1038658656/rdtnorg-radia...

It almost seems like the the sony comments are filtered to only display pro sony comments. Its sad to see so many people cheer for sony.

hmm I wonder if they ran into issues with ISPs

thanks! much appreciated ive been waiting for this book to come out =)

Here is the Kickstarter website: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plugbot/plugbot-mobile-...

looks like they have a ways to go.

I guess we should all figure out how to broadcast over ham radio again =)

I think there are a few counties that could benefit from this approach of battling ramped drug use. It seems to have done something in Cali aswell as here in Massachusetts, for Mary-Jane that is. I have witnessed a few of my school mates succumb to heavy use of marijuana and some of them have had their problems with the law, but the majority of pot-heads I know can hold it within limits and actually do rather well. I was amazed to see how much drug use there was going to school in boston. Freshman year I would estimate that about 75-80% of people smoked atleast weed and close to everyone drank. To put my estimations into proportion, I must mention that I dont smoke and i cant say I hung-out with lots of potheads.

To the point: I think there is a great number of people that can deal with light drug use in everyday life, but there are some, in my experience mostly bipolar or psychologically depressed people have a hard time controlling themselves. Therefore I think that it may be a good idea for other countries to try similar measures.

I suspect that means someone is supposed to find that transformer. Presumably there may be something of interest with/in/near it. Its easy to hide a microSD

This is worrisome, I am curious whether publicizing his case may make matters worse than better. I would also be curious to see if someone would manage to contact relatives or friends in the area,

Great Idea, may need a little bit of fine tuning

here: http://www.metropcs.com/presscenter/newsreleasedetails.aspx?... "The $40 service plan offers unlimited talk, text, 4G Web browsing with unlimited YouTube access."

That is quite ugly, I wonder if woot monkies are accepted for trades

Censorship of the internet, any at all, is a problem. As soon as we are filtering in any way shape or form, it will not stop.

The Internet is what it is, open/free/uncensored, and it is no-ones responsibility to censor what is said or shown. If someone would like to "protect" themselves from freedom of speech and freedom of press then it is their own responsibility and no one elses.