Nineteen per cent of teens have posted updates, photos, or other content that they later regret sharing, and seventy-four per cent have deleted people from their network.
I don't really know what these numbers are supposed to show. I've shared content that I've later regretted sharing, but it wasn't a lot of regret. If someone had asked me that question in a survey I would have probably answered yes, but it wouldn't really mean anything.
I've also deleted people from my network, but that was because I didn't really care about them. I can't really find any important information in these numbers
In the Netherlands we have enough unemployment money that one isn't forced to take some ridiculous "just be employed" job. But the longer you are unemployed, the harder it will be to find a new job. A hole in your resume doesn't look god
Of course. There is always the driver to actually work. In places that lack a safety net you have to take some "flipping burgers" job which you still can't really report on your resume so you end up with no time plus that ugly hole in your resume.
It has just occurred to me that I went from an employer for whom 'the internet' was just a medium over which biz was transacted to one for whom without 'the internet' would not exist at all.
I manage newgrounds.com which gets quite a bit of traffic. We'll get what I think are DDoS attacks at least once a month. I can see our connection tracking stats go up to the millions and traffic spikes way up of course.
I don't know WHY they do this, but last time it happened we got an abuse report saying that we were reported for port scanning from our main firewall / proxy box. Somehow they had reflected traffic off our firewall / proxy to make it try to connect to a bunch of IPs on a known trojan port.
I have no idea how they did this, but it appears that this time around we were being used to scan ports. This is just a stock Debian box with a firewall and port 80 open. Scary.
> I don't know WHY they do this, but last time it happened we got an abuse report saying that we were reported for port scanning from our main firewall / proxy box. Somehow they had reflected traffic off our firewall / proxy to make it try to connect to a bunch of IPs on a known trojan port.
Not sure it's solved, but I added some additional firewall rules to block certain types of ICMP packets that they were sending and added some additional logging for when it happens again.
They wouldn't necessarily have received useful data from it. Consider what happens if you spoof the sender IP and port in the first packet of a TCP handshake: the recipient will send a response to the spoofed IP, making it look like they are the bad guys.
Someone isn't filtering Martians properly, or those spoofed packets would have been filtered before they reached you.
We are not the only ones being watched, politicians are being watched as well. This means the NSA can probably blackmail a large portion of the politicians.
There would be a list of people who want to be able to watch porn (which could be used for black mail). It would also require a lot of infrastructure to be set up for this kind of censorship. That infrastructure could easily be used to start blocking other content.
Besides if you want to opt-out of porn you can already install filters on your computer or your router if you want to.
I think you reversed the meaning. Opt-in filtering means you choose to turn on the filter in the first place, opt-out filtering means you choose to turn off the filter.
Windows is full of exploits that are enabled by default. Plugging a usb stick into your computer could automatically install a virus. Or a bug in flash or java could expose your computer.
I started with an Apple II, then spent a bunch of time on Sun and IBM RT machines; then got to university and a Macintosh and a Next station; then Linux; then back to Macintosh where I've been for the last 15 years.
It's not you. I've always been an Eclipse guy. Netbeans was to heavy on my machine back in the day. I've only stuck with it because I am very familiar with it. I'm going to switch to Netbeans on my next project because I feel I've been missing out on a lot.
I always find this a bit weird, you only get to choose between two parties. The difference with China doesn't seem that big, they only get to vote on one party less.
But you have more than two parties don't you? Not that it matters, more parties don't have significant advantages. It's just that there is a bigger pool of crooks.
I think it does matter. In the Netherlands you are able to vote right wing without the religion, or even vote on a religious left wing party. There are party differences between how we should handle a lot of different issues. It is easier to find a party you agree with.
Party sizes vary greatly after elections which means politicians feel the consequences of their actions. It is not perfect of course, but it is better.
The weird thing is that it is possible to have multiple parties in the US, but they never get enough votes. This makes it seem like their has to be a lot of corruption.
It matters, similarly to haow it matters that you have more choice in Internet providers than a binary choice of either 1) cable or 2) telco-provided DSL.
Countries where multiple parties feasibly compete have the possibility, at least, of a disruptive new party taking share.
The American system, like the American ISP market in most of the country, is so rigged for the two corrupt incumbents that you basically always have a choice of light dark gray or dark light gray.
I live in Japan where we have a wide range of competing ISPs and political parties. Both Internet service and political representation are vastly better than in my native USA.
(Admittedly, the former more so than the latter...)
There are institutional and legal barriers to third party candidates. It is disguised pretty well but is obvious when you know what you're looking for.
I don't really know what these numbers are supposed to show. I've shared content that I've later regretted sharing, but it wasn't a lot of regret. If someone had asked me that question in a survey I would have probably answered yes, but it wouldn't really mean anything.
I've also deleted people from my network, but that was because I didn't really care about them. I can't really find any important information in these numbers