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Comment Re:Greek Myths (Score 1) 253

The problem is that there aren't any truly capitalist states, nor has one ever existed. The capitalists you think are persecuting these ochlocratic countries are just a just a bit more capitalist than they are. A truly capitalist state would be vastly more harmonious and progressive than most any other kind of state, the misery and repression begin when capitalism begins to slip into fascist corporatism. At least IMHO.

Comment Greek Myths (Score 2) 253

I'm pretty sure the River Styx freezing with Aphrodite and Helen of Troy ice skating naked while Dionysus hands out brews and bags of trainwreck is less mythological than the possibility that Greece's economy will start looking up with the current megasocialist nanny state political mindset going on over there. "Crypto" currency is right, like...literally.

Comment Be A Good Geek (Score 2) 114

Every geek should be a good netNeighbor or netRelative and suggest or guide anyone we care about or don't wish to be fucked over by .gov/corporations/prick wardriving kids and suggest something along the lines of DD WRT or TomatoUSB on their routers that may be ripe targets...maybe even offer to help them secure them, I'm getting pissed at all this crap that is going to get all of them and us reamed. I also like the idea of sticking it to all the evil and/or stupid bastards that let this stuff happen. I let an elderly neighbor of mine know a few months ago by naming my SSID something that might alert their kids or whomever is their "IT expert" (who happened to her daughter) to email a disposable account I set up so I could explain what was up and I spent 20 minutes getting it going for them. I told her to let me know if it needed any fixing with another one-time email anytime remotely. But really, Toastman's TomatoUSB is very stable and needs hardly any tweaking or fixing...probably less than stock firmware. Especially for the crappy Cisco FW that was on it - disaster waiting to happen. They are even on 5ghz N band now, the only other one than me (I'm on both 2.4 & 5). PS InSSIDer is a great wireless app.

Comment Digital Scarecrow (Score 5, Insightful) 69

I thought that this sounded ominous for a minute. Then I remembered that government projects like this are designed to have a chilling effect on activity that they cannot monitor, understand or enforce by their very existence and not by being actual potent tools to combat it (i.e. paper tiger). More likely this thing will become a money pit that contractors can use as a sandbox project to allow their employees to play in for implementation of IP that may be works-in-progress for future projects that may be useful, but are just lofty concepts that have no basis in reality. 17 contracting teams is about 15-16 too many hands in the cookie jar for this to be anything more than a Men In Black-wannabe training camp or a glorified propaganda project, most likely both.

Comment Re:Tor Project Should take some responsibility (Score 1) 79

The TOR bundle Isn't so much a tool for anonymity, which it can grant as long as you are careful (much like a virtual mask or avatar) as it ia digital cloak of privacy. This aspect is important to distinguish for people struggling to understand the hows and whys governing the role of TOR and dark web meshes. The ideal state one would want once inside would be both disguised and cloaked i. E. anonymous and private.

Comment Totally not thriving (Score 2, Insightful) 79

I can tell everyone with certainty that dark web markerplaces are all bogus and they shouldn't even bother lookimg. You'll just get lots of malware, infested with botnets and get your identity stolen. Here be dragons, abandon all hope ye who enter. Bitcoins are a pyramid scheme and also might carry the measles virus. Basically really nothing to talk about if you know what I mean.

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