FYI - that FBI notice is not a requirement in any way; it is Hollywood trying to scare people, and that's all. The FBI created an "anti-piracy" logo with some boilerplate text and licensed it for use.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fbi.gov%2Finvestigat...

You can get IPS/IDS on the Unifi USG / USG Pro if you run beta code. I've had that installed for quite a while with no problems at all. Throughput is decreased as it still disable hardware offload features, but it works fine. I believe it's Suricata based, and you can choose from quite a few lists.

"Even if you want to set that aside, we don't allow citizens to have missiles, nuclear bombs, flame throwers and tanks either. So obviously we draw the line somewhere. The only argument now is over where exactly that line is."

Yes, we do allow citizens to own those things. There are privately owned tanks, and flame throwers are liquid projectors and regulated differently (but also completely legal at the federal level). Missiles are destructive devices, are larger than some specific size (I forget what that is), are self-propelled projectiles, and aren't considered firearms, but their ownership and regulation goes along with such things as high explosives and large cannons. There are theoretically ways to privately own a missile, but I'm not sure that anyone has bothered to try. People definitely do own cannons and high explosives. I don't believe nuclear weapons are specifically illegal, but the fissile material itself is most definitely controlled. You couldn't legally possess the quantities required to make anything that could reach a critical mass.

That already happens. The user shell knows that the user has disconnected via HUP signal, and then passes that signal along to the spawned child processes. If the user ran a process with & or nohup, then the shell knows not to mess with those processes. That is, until systemd comes along, breaks more convention, and just terminates everything anyway, ignoring what the user already told the system. Unless the user specifically interacts in such a way that only works on certain systemd supported operating system variants, running certain versions of systemd, configured in certain specific ways.

The previous and well understood behavior already did this, and it worked on all UNIX-like systems. The new systemd way works on a very small minority of systems, and requires special behavior and a half-dozen special checks to detect environment.

This is not an improvement. This is single-user proprietary behavior.

Meh, there's the better part of a million of you 6-digit folks. Plus, there's only 50% less goatse because there's 15x more beta sucks posts. For the real classic experience you have to browse at the secret -2 setting.

I also just purchased a VW last Thursday. The dealership was saying they were making quite a few more sales than usual from people trading in TDIs for regular gasoline cars. They still had a huge "clean diesel" banner up, though, heh.

BTW - look at uBlock and uMatrix. They're the successors to the combined block and matrix blacklist for HTTP Switchboard and have a few nice improvements.

Sure, then those of us that live in more rural areas should also not have to contribute anything to your public transit costs, sanitation, or emergency services. Also, you can buy the reservoir water for your municipal water systems off of us, instead of having free use of these rural water supplies. Merchandise should also have to cost more, since the warehouses are in more rural areas where the land is cheap, too. And you don't get any benefit from the highways that run through the rural areas between cities, so you won't mind if you can't use them anymore, right? After all, if you needed water, you should just move to the rural area where it is. Right? Same with moving to where the food is, to where the warehouse is, etc?

It's foolish logic - we all benefit from spreading things around so that everyone gets to have them. We are better as a society when everyone has access to roads, electricity, food, water, and telephone. For all the things that are available and cheap to you in a city that you want to deny to the rural area, the rural area could turn around and deny the city things. Would you prefer gunpoint subsidies where the rural area refused to let the city have water unless the city paid for the rural telephone service?

What about near the motorway? On the shoulder of one, calling for help? Calls that are data only? (Those are still normal cellphones underneath, with a number and everything.) Should passengers be allowed to use the phone? What of people who live in buildings adjacent to them?

Of course, this is all assuming that you can even tell that someone is on a roadway with any amount of certainty.

Deliberately breaking a class of technology isn't going to stop people from being distracted while driving a car. I would wager that someone on an animated phone call is still safer than all the people that read while driving.

Your scenario is more likely to end up like the annoying GPS systems that lock the screen out from changes while moving: disabled.

Sure, if you force private air travel to be only affordable to the super rich, then they will only be affordable to the super rich. However, *you* would be creating that situation artificially.

Small aircraft are the only reasonable way to get to an awful lot of places, unless you were prefer things taking weeks to get places because everything has to travel by car to a port, and then boat to another one, and then back on yet another car.

Personally, I would rather not artificially distort markets just because I decided I don't like something. Just because Europe decided to make fuel an order of magnitude more expensive than places that don't tax it doesn't make them right.

They used an unshielded reactor as the heat source for a ramjet engine. The thing launched off a rail track using booster rockets to get it up to speed so that the ramjet could take over.

No, MA just makes you pay big tax penalties for not having health care. They don't provide you health coverage, though.

They set up group plans through private insurers, but you buy a plan through the state. They also expanded state aid for paying for the premiums. This means you can't be denied coverage or have to deal with pre-existing condition BS. The rates are also cheaper than normal open-market pricing.

The problem with this is that it really should never be the responsibility of an ISP to conduct an investigation just because some other privacy entity said so.

I shouldn't be able to get a landlord to provide me with tenant information because I decided one was looking at me out of their window. I shouldn't be able to get a purchase history from a merchant because I decided a customer was going to build a deck and their condo association forbids it. I shouldn't be able to get subscriber information from an ISP just because I decided that someone downloaded something that I think they shouldn't have.

If the movie industry wants this kind of information, then they should have to file suit, and get a court order for that information. Then they will have to prove that something unlawful actually happened, convince a judge that there was damage, and that an order for discovery needs to be created.

It is inappropriate to allow some private group to have the power to compel anything from anyone.

I'm a Comcast user in Lancaster, MA. I had no problems connecting to anything, and my DNS was not being tampered with. The only blocked services were Windows networking ports (135, 139, 445).

I took my i7 920 from 2.66GHz to 3.32GHz by upping my base clock from 133MHz to 166Mhz. This changes the QPI bus accordingly, making system transactions much faster as well. It cost me nothing over the original system cost to do this, and I didn't have to change voltages to make it work.

This makes all single core bound tasks (which are frequent) substantially faster, and I spend far less money to do it.