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Comment Seem it would be easy to identify on the ISP side (Score 1) 312

How about a capability limit? Should be pretty obvious when suddenly an IP address starts getting hit with a lot of traffic. I would think that you could use the data of what the regular traffic is, and when it suddenly spikes by 1000x then you know an attack is on the way. So why couldn't an ISP, who is sending the packets to the server, slow it down when suddenly your getting a way higher number of packets to this server?

Comment Re:Prediction: (Score 1, Insightful) 206

Not sure what you are going on about, but here is the reality.

North Korea didn't hack Sony.
The President was quick to publicly blame North Korea. Said we would retaliate in some way.
North Korea's internet goes down.

What I see is a bully nation, the USA, blaming someone without the facts, saying they'd retaliate, which then someone did retaliate, so the USA is to blame because they incited others, or possibly they themselves are responsible for the internet downtime.

Either way, the USA is the jackass in this whole scenario.

Comment They have a good point (Score 2, Insightful) 206

the US & Obama was quick to blame NK, when it was very unlikely they did it, and security experts are pointing out left & right.

Because Obama saying NK did it and we would retaliate, and suddenly NK internet goes down, fuck ya, we are guilty as fuck.

We wrongfully blamed the NK, got people to believe our lies and then DDos or whatever happened to NK's internet. All on our heads.

Our government owes NK a big ass apology and honestly, our government, from the congress critters up to the president, including all the various NSA, CIA, and rest of the stupid shit needs to be replaced.

This is not the America I'm proud of, I'm not a bully and not happy with the bully tactics America does.

Time for a change, time to take America back.

Comment Re:um yea no (Score 1) 130

As someone that gets pretty much all of my media from peering... they didn't "Quash" anything. They (or someone) used to upload all kinds of fake files to try and disrupt the community a few years back. They even got clever and would intentionally fake seeders so it'd look very popular.

That's why the aggregate sites have a comments and up-vote section. There are usually dozens of versions of any particular movie and you can sort by vote. That effectively killed the attack. They don't really try this anymore because their fake will get down voted almost instantly. You can even preview what you're downloading in most clients.

To be honest, I think they should be happy with the system they have now. It's pretty hard to get something before it hits DVD in a quality that's worth watching. If you want to see what's new and hot, you need to go to the theater. Getting a DVD or better quality version of a film is difficult enough that I bet most people just buy it. Their real problem is their continued fight against modernizing with some sort of streaming service. For example, imagine if you had a "Pandora" television station... TV shows were sent to you, you upvoted/downvoted them, etc... I'd pay for that. Keeping track of thousands of files for my kids TV shows is a PITA.

You get all your media from "peering" wtf does that mean?

People fake upload shit all the time, if you paid attention to TPB before it went down, you'll get an uploader loading 20+ movies/tv/whatever that were all fake. It was pretty noticeable.

As for your getting a DVD or better is difficult. No it's not. For example, I had a conversation earlier today that went like this. "I download the 1080p of The Equalizer last night, 9gb" "how? That isn't out yet." "Ya, almost all movies get released to the scene about a month before you can get them in the store." "Oh really, how was the movie Lucy?"
In other words, almost all movies make it to the various torrents/usenet/whatever about a month before they get released, unless you get a DVD screener of it out first.

As for worth watching, that is how it's always been. Bunch of crud with the occasional beauty. Problem with taste is it's subjective, so what you might like, doens't mean your kids or even I will like. Comment section on like torrents sites can help, but honestly, either check it reviews once it gets released, or take a chance. I've discovered a lot of great movies by taking chances, I've also stopped watching crappy movies because I don't feel like since I paid for it, I have to watch it.

You don't want to keep track of a thousand shows for your kids? Shouldn't of had kids. Not only do you need to keep track of what they watch, you need to keep track of what they do on the internet, who they hang out with, and other things that are annoying and boring and not going to make your kids happy. It's called parenting, get used to it.

Comment Re:Great (Score 3, Informative) 42

So why is it so hard to find fossilized evidence of previous life then?

Big planet and we aren't by the exposed stuff. While we do find stuff laying out in the plain site on earth, that isn't usually how they find fossils. Some digging is required and a lot of time nature will do something to expose fossil. Mars doesn't have weather like ours, so chances of having a landslide or something is less.

If we had a million peeps walking around on mars, then yes, maybe we'd find some fossils if they exist, but 1 rover on that planet? We'd be really lucky, IMO.

Comment Re:Purpose (Score 1) 37

...stole corporate secrets for the purpose of gaming the stock market.

They seem to know a lot about these guys.

After all, corporate secrets can be sold for competitive advantages, for financially scamming those institutions or their clients, for embarrassing those institutions targeted, and/or for blackmailing purposes. The fact that they know it's for gaming the stock market implies that they have some evidence of that.

My guess is they work for the NSA

Comment Re:Change in operations instead of cash.... (Score 1) 246

I have an ipod.. If I am part of this class action settlement, I'll get 10 cents (as someone said earlier). I don;t want the dime; I want to be able to add media to the ipod without going through itunes... Want a class action lawsuit to do some good? Make it so that there are fundamental changes. of course Apple will say that it is impossible to put media on the ipod with out itunes... I know a few jailborken ipods that show otherwise.

I use winamp to put stuff on my ipod. My non jailbroken Ipod Classic 6. You know there are search engines on the internet that would of told you that if you used one?

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