How many gigs of spoofed pings should I send in order to overcome spanking this naughty monkey? I don't know the IPs of any false prophets or anything... Are false profits okay? That way I can just use Facebook IPs.

Yeah yeah yeah, of course, but right now I'm actually more worried about CERT destroying me for these smurfs.

So they're "mining" social data to target their message, huh?

What are they using to figure out where to dig for this data? Dowsing rods? Pendulums? Ouija boards? Because every time I go onto YouTube these days, I get these ridiculous anti-Obama adverts that look like they crawled out of Rupert Murdoch's colostomy bag.

Gandi (https://www.gandi.net/hosting/proposal/price/) was widely recommended during rage-fest we had discussing the GoDaddy-supports-SOPA article discussion. There was one other with near-equal support whose name eludes me, if you care to go back and read that discussion. As I disclaimed before, I have no experience with any hosting companies (since the 1990s... rounds off to never).

I'm sorry, I can't answer your question. I haven't hosted a site; my reference to traffic coverage was in reference to personal use, as a requester. However, many small sites in HTTPS Everywhere's large default list use self-signed certificates. (They are noted as such, and disabled (from having HTTPS auto-enforced) by default). You can find many more by using HTTPS Finder , a complimentary plug-in that (quickly) auto-checks for HTTPS support and adds new rules for HTTPS Everywhere.

How can a threat to bomb an airport be considered as a joke?

Isn't there some meme here about "nuking things from orbit just to be sure"...

If we can routinely make posts advocating total annihilation by nuclear weapons and that can achieve meme status and no one here is even put off by it then I'm pretty sure a twitter threat to bomb an airport could be both sent and understood as a joke by a lot of people.

Now the actual context:

The message Chambers sent to his 600 followers in the early hours of 6 January said: "Robin Hood Airport is closed. You've got a week... otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"

Now I don't use twitter but I could easily see myself saying something like that to my friends in jest.

If I say I want to kill somebody, it's a threat, and should not be considered as "free speech" anymore.

Because people should be criminalized for saying something like

"I'm going to kill the neighbors kid next time she lets their dog shit on our driveway..."

Lots of people say things like that all the time. Its not a threat. Its not serious. Everybody but a few uptight twats know there is no weight behind it.

Zero Tolerance is Maximum Stupid.

You could do it by listening for *two* impulses, or an impulse followed by some other noise (the thing getting hit)... dunno how hard that would be though.

A "degree" is a unit of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle; an arc one degree long is about 1/57.3 of the distance from the eye. If a display is held 12 inches from the eyes, one degree is about 0.21 inch. This means the angular density of a 326 dpi display is 68 pixels per degree.

Dammit, I didn't know there was gonna be math on this discussion.

Is this going to be graded on a curve?

I think you underestimate the level of importance most societies' people give to the free exchange of information. Not even profit motive will prevail in subduing human nature.

I imagine that there is a whole lot of overlap between the acoustic profiles of gunshots and other impulse-type sounds.

Ultimately, a gunshot and a backfire both sound like "impulse convolved with some transfer function depending on the local environment".