What you are looking for is ex post facto but that isn't the case against the Computer fraud and abuse act. What that means is you can't do something which is perfectly legal, congress decide they don't like it, quickly pass a law against it and than prosecute you for what you did before the law was written.

The problems with the CFNA are that it is,
1. Vague - a law that is so broad a prosecutor can apply it to basically anything is unconstitutional, or void for vagueness.

2. Its cruel and unusual in that the sentences is prescribes are often far more severe than many violent crimes. When altering the query string in your URL bar can get your more years than rape something is terribly terribly wrong.

So what we have here are two problems.

One lack of authentication for the miners with the pools. Something a few SSL on the servers and wrapping those sockets calls with openSSL would make the route hijacking ineffective for stealing mining resources.

So there is a lesson in this whatever it is you are doing on the internet if you care AT ALL about it you should be using SSL and checking certs, (Looking at your slashdot) sure there are tons of problems as weaknesses in SSL but until something better comes along its beats the hell out of clear text with no authentication what so ever.

Two BGP needs to be replaced or updated to support much stronger authentication and the network operators need to just push getting it done, even if it means telling customers we can't / won't peer with you and neither will anyone else unless you get you routers and or software update to do this. If they stick together in it there should be no trouble getting that done.

Stealing some computer cycles used to generate bit coins is probably among the least real harm someone with access to advertise bogus routes in BGP could do; and lots of people are in a position to do that. We should be thankful its only a little money these guys were making off with. The Internet has gotten to big for the network operators to just relay on everyone playing nice and being good citizens, We need some stronger technical controls put in place and regular auditing beyound well nobody has complained on NANOG.

Okay maybe its not the kind of thing I would be willing to invest time and money in; but you could easily ask the opposite question:

What kind of society have we become when we allow vendors to blatantly misrepresent products prior to sale?

Sony should be honest about the products actual specifications. We have regulations in place because we collectively decided that all the snake-oil selling had to stop. We standardized weights and measures, and pass truth in advertising laws. They should be followed, simple as that.

No the computer needs to make better decision than the typical driver. The average driver is probably considerably worse than the mode, because there are some really horrible drivers out there.

Exactly the entire effort is wrong headed. If someone wants to cause a calamity they can.

Consider the west. You don't even need cells of 5 people, if you just had 20 people that all agreed they were going to drive out some highway in 20 different areas out west and start a wild fire all on the same day it could easily be enough to exhaust fire fighting resources. All of the could accomplish that with no training and supplies they could acquire at any gas station on the way to job without raising any suspicion. It could very well be the largest loss of property this country has ever seen.

The reality the SECURITY apparatus does not want to admit is there are in fact NOT that many people who want to hurt the United States AND are capable of getting here in the first place. There are so many soft but high value targets, we would be victims of high impact domestic terrorism every frigging day if even a few percent of the people on the list had real intent to act. The list is worse than useless its a distraction its pull resources that either don't need to go to security in the first place or security resources that would be more effective utilized elsewhere.

Really what we NEED to do is secure our boarder. its a fucking joke to strip search airline passengers, when literally any able bodied person can just walk in over our southern boarder, having come from the essentially lawless regions of South American and the Mexican state doing nothing to impede them. The best way to improve our security situation here would be fix the boarder problems so that people can not cross it illegally, and be much much more careful about who we grant visas and allow in here.
 

No worse the will come from

updates@?tfosorcim?.com which will be displayed like:
updates@microsoft.com

Just imagine the ? marks being the left-right reverse character.

I bet most projects would be happy to accept patches to their man pages, and files they store in /usr/doc/ if they improve quality or accuracy.

This is one of the few areas where just about anyone can contribute even if you don't code. Chances are you can still read it enough glean what the expected options are etc.

Google should start trolling their competitors. All they have to do is park a boat someplace and they can spur everyone into a flurry of pointless activity and worry.

No it does not and Israel isn't "carpet bombing" In fact they are going out their way to the point where it undermines their mission to avoid civilian casualties. Do think Hamas does not attempt to move rockets, launchers, and fighters when Israel names targets?

What Israel is doing and has always does is conduct one of the most carefully targeted offensives in history.

The fact is Hamas intentionally places legitimate targets in and around civilian populations and non-targets schools, hospitals, etc. The Israelis do their best; but at the end of they day a military kills people and destroy property; that is what they are for and that is always the outcome. You can try and target carefully but their will always be collateral damage in a conflict of any size or duration. The damage will be higher when one side (Hamas) refuses to adopt conventions that would help restrict the direct harm to those that who are direct actors themselves.

In the grand scheme of cosmic justice should more Israeli soldiers die because Hamas decided not to take steps to protect their own civilian population? Because the only real alternative would be for Israel to have infantry work their way thru Gaza building to building street to street with small arms; and I can assure you the casualties would be higher, although the mixture would change.

If one who abstaining should be considered every bit as responsible for the outcome as those who voted in favor of whatever proposition wins and is executed upon. Abdicating your responsibly to contribute and informed decision to a democratic process does not earn your pass.

Those who voted against Hamas leadership and those who were prevented from voting or were coerced might be innocent but that does not describe the majority of the electorate. Israel has to deal with the group as a whole, they don't get a choice in that. Maybe it "isn't fair" to some but its the reality we all have to live with.

I am not a fan of Israel but I sure wish people would stop apologizing for Palestine. You would have to be certifiably crazy to allow a group who has an organizing document that calls for your extermination and a history of taking violent action against you to establish permeate state on your border with a few flow of goods (weapons and the making of) allowed to flow in.

The Palestinian people DID ELECT these people their leaders so THEY ARE responsible for their actions. When the Palestinian people disown the PLO and Hamas, then and only then could you make an argument for treating differently.

Sure Israels positions might be considered hardline, and they might not be in rush to hand over the desirable real-estate to Palestinian groups but their are Arab-isrealies, who are not themselves Jews but enjoy "full citizenship" and no mainstream Jewish groups are out calling for the extermination of all Arabs, Muslims, etc. There is simply no intellectually honest argument to be made in favor of the current Palestinian leadership over Israel if you must take sides.

The truth is though the 'west' needs to get out of this shit, we need to stop being evolved if we ever want this to end and that includes providing aide to Palestine and money and military toys to Israel.

Actually it just proves how valuable people think he is. Look at the rest of our society. We allow all kinds of people who are of some particular talent: athletics, musicians, actors, politicians, certain academics, and others get away with things the rest of us would surely be fired over and quite possibly prosecuted and imprisoned.

I am not say its a good thing, but our society in general allows individuals who attain a certain celebrity status a degree of entitled behavior and allowances are made when they break the 'rules' the rest of us live by. The more actual talent and the less 'replaceable' they are the more outrageous we let them behave. Some of them over step and hilarity ensues and others remain decent people and don't take advantage of their position at all.

Linus however is no different in this regard. He does it because he CAN get away with it. The rest of us ARE WILLING to put up with it; that has been proven over and over again. He knows how far he can go and does not go farther.

I agree the major distributions have botched almost all of those. Can you site any MAJOR bugs in release ( ie even numbered minor version kernels without -rc etc on the end of them) that issues?

I can't recall any. Like any large complex software project Linux has had its share of bugs but I have been using it in various capacities for 15 years and I can't recall anything in a non-development release that made me go "Good God how did that get past QA".

Right the entire conflict is evil and it needs to end, but for it to end the West needs to quit meddling and and the various Palestinian groups need to accept reality.

Its not the Wests fault for creating Israel. Sure we did but all throughout history wars have been fought and lines on maps have been redrawing various peoples have been pushed out of one spot or another by other groups. There has to be some statue of limitations on these things. 70 years on I think we need to acknowledge we are no-long responsible for the security of Israel ( that needs to on them now ) and we don't owe the children of the displaced Palestinian peoples anything either. Which leaves the situation like this:

Israel faces and existential problem. They can't appease the Palestinians without abandonment of the fundamental character of their nation. Nobody can reasonably expect a people to do that.

Hamas has and does advocate and conduct violence against Israel, the can and do hide weapons among their civilian population they have and will use their tunnels or any relaxed restrictions on the embargo to transport weapons or materials from which weapons can be made into Gaza.

The Palestinians face an existential problem, They can't make peace with Israel without surrendering what they believe to be their homeland; nor can they accept the status quo as a settlement neither of the current Palestinian territories is economically viable on its own. They cannot feed the people they have with their own production they cannot produce enough of anything else of value to purchase food, their existence is dependent on charity. They could not do this with open boarders either.

Nobody can expect the Palestinians to lie down and accept that.

Because the threats they face on their boarders Israel can't accept much movement where lines on the map are concerned and remain defense able. Its a fundamental impasse.

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So every couple years we have these little dust-ups and thousands die and more end up suffering. Then some arrogant fools arrange another ceasefire thinking its humanitarian. Next various groups again in the name of humanitarianism provide food and energy to Palestine, which leads to another generation born into a community which cannot support them and life of no real opportunities or hope. Finally we repeat the bloodshed. Its stupid more people have died badly than if we just backed off and let Israel, the Palestinian groups, and the other local nations states just slug it out and finish things once and for all.

Frankly we should have recognized the coup that took place in Egypt and cut off the foreign aid and imposed an travel ban. If we had let Egypt collapse into a failed state (and it would without tourism and aide monies) it would give the Palestinian refuges some place to go or force Israel to fight a war that actually resolves the matter once and for necessitated by no longer having Egypt's assistance to keep arms out of Palestine. Maybe over a few decades a new stable system could emerge;

Rght now its just an endless cycle of violence and we are its enablers. I really believe the most humanitarian thing we could do is just resolve the get out of the conflict and stay out of the conflict no matter what.

Even with a tunneled VPN there is a lot of traffic shaping they could do that probably would not interfere with most online commerce and business users activities.

Web browsing is very busty. You simply allow full bandwidth when connections start. Then you count packets per second and packet sizes, which you can do encrypted or not. Unless deliberate steps to introduce noise are taken media streams are going to be characterized by relatively fixed size packets are fixed rates. Connections for things webpage loads or form posts and Outlook syncs probably will be in most cases to short lived for your analysis phase to complete and won't be affected at all.

Bigger file transfers (assuming you don't want to throttle them too) will in most cases show more variation in packets per second as network conditions change, because in most cases they running as fast as things will allow, wherever the bottle neck might be, unlike streams which are hopefully running at a negotiated rate that is fully sustainable.