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Comment Re:IPv6 and 4G (Score 1) 209

by Phormion on Saturday January 14, 2012 @07:32AM (#38696382) Attached to: IPv6-Only Is Becoming Viable

Care to quote a specific technical spec? As far as I know they specify procedures for IPv4, IPv6 and IPv4v6.

Facebook Mafiosi Go To the Mattresses vs. Zynga 102

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 17, 2009 @01:15AM from the concrete-galoshes dept.

sympleko writes "Zynga has the lion's share of traffic in Facebook applications, and Mafia Wars is one of their most popular social games. Collapsing under the weight of over 26 million users, Zynga has been scrambling to thwart hard-core gamers who reverse-engineer URLs or script the game to optimize their enjoyment. Many of the workarounds have annoyed users who were accustomed to various game features, and even worse, the hastily-deployed changes have resulted in many players losing access to the game, in-game prizes, or statistics. Fed up with a software company seemingly bent on discouraging people from enjoying their product, a number of tagged players have organized a boycott of all Zynga games. The first 24-hour boycott on Sunday 12/13 resulted in an 11% decline in Daily Active Users, and an emergency thread on Zynga's forums (from which most of the flames were deleted). The current boycott, extending Wednesday through Sunday is being supported by a 428K strong Facebook group. At issue is the social contract between software companies and their devoted user base, as well as the nefarious tactics Zynga has used to raise cash."

Tor Open To Attack 109

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 25, 2007 @04:58PM from the peeling-the-onion dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A group of researchers have written a paper that lays out an attack against Tor (PDF) in enough detail to cause Roger Dingledine a fair amount of heartburn. The essential avenue of attack is that Tor doesn't verify claims of uptime or bandwidth, allowing an attacker to advertise more than it need deliver, and thus draw traffic. If the attacker controls the entry and exit node and has decent clocks, then the attacker can link these together and trace someone through the network."

Comment Re:Communists and Stallman (Score 1) 582

by Phormion on Saturday February 17, 2007 @02:11PM (#18052800) Attached to: Stallman Convinces Cuba to Switch to Open Source

Communism is /not/ Cuba, China, the USSR or the DRPK.

Wonder why nobody comes up and says that fascism wasn't Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany wasn't actually nazist in the proper sense. It's baffling how leftists have come up with nothing but excuses for failures like the former USSR (quite a few dozen million people killed, remember?) or the whole of Eastern Europe. Face it, people, when one doctrine constantly leads to poverty, lack of freedom and people getting killed, it's a bit embarrassing to hold on to it so fiercely.

Also, you only point out s terminology problem. However, these countries are on the way to communism, in a certain stage on that way, so what? Does it work? Is there any result in sight? What do you think?

I'm biased, but hey, I live in one of those countries that "were on the way to communism". Get a life people, it's time to look for something else. Communism has FAILED.

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