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Comment My carpenter and his four tag-alongs just arrived (Score 2) 63

I don't see what the big deal is. Aside from a bout of flu, it was an almost uneventful journey, right up until a thief stole literally all our clothes. The native then didn't want to help us cross Snake River without clothes. Makes you wonder what kind of movie it's going to be.

Comment Re:Hold on (Score 2) 30

Resolvers cache responses. Put the manipulated results in the cache and prevent them from aging out and you're done. All the lookup code is already there and doesn't take any extra time. One can trivially bypass DNS redirection with DoH and other techniques, but that's not what you were getting at. If your argument is based on "it's infeasible", one easy proof by doing it is enough to disarm you.

Comment Re:Hold on (Score 4, Informative) 30

I don't know what you guys expect, but most people already use exactly the servers that the government wants them to use, the ones assigned by the ISPs' DHCP/PPPoE servers. More applications and mobile devices have started to use resolvers provided by Silicon Valley industry heavy-weights, but using your ISP's resolvers was not unusual and they can handle the load, easily. Malaysia didn't ask for the world's DNS traffic, just that DNS queries by an ISP's clients would be redirected to the ISP's servers if the queries were addressed to leave the country. In network parlance this is called transparent proxying, and it's particularly easy with DNS because the protocol is stateless. It doesn't generally break DNSSEC either, just in the event of manipulated responses.

Comment ancient drives (Score 1) 300

ancient drives to belong in a tribe or signal one’s status or attract a mate have been co-opted by marketing strategies

Yeah, that's not it. Death cults are usually short-lived, pun intended, and "reduce" ideologies are no different. Those "ancient drives" are the result of a simple relation: Attracting a mate is literally what perpetuates your way of living. Having children, and more than other people, is what makes your values and your way of life more likely to succeed over others. The people who outfuck others succeed because they outfuck others. It's a numbers game. The laws of nature don't need help from "marketing strategies" to do their thing.

Comment Two thirds of emissions by top third w/o top 1% (Score 1) 214

If all of the top 1% and the bottom two thirds ceased all emissions, that would still leave us with two thirds of the emissions, caused by you and me, people in the global top third by wealth. You still have to change. The rich aren't single-handedly destroying the planet. By all means, get the rich to pay for lots of it, but you're not off the hook.

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