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Comment Re:Not so much about morality (Score 0) 339

Or do you believe that all the women who have told us what happened to them are lying?

Not lying but embellishing.
Lets say you work for a company, and one day you go and perform some work at your customers site, while the customer pays to your employer and not to you.
You just have been sold right?

Comment Re:Going voyeur... (Score 1) 339

This might shock you, but outlawing prostitution actually makes a lot of sense. A non-trivial portion of prostitutes are not willing.

Thats rather the result of prostitution being outlawed.
Make prostitution legal and there will be flood of new willing prostitutes, and thus no need to force anyone to it.

Encryption

CloudFlare Wants Tor To Change Or Risk CAPTCHA Blockades (thestack.com) 87

An anonymous reader writes: CloudFlare's co-founder Matthew Prince has publicly appealed to work with the Tor Project on implementing a solution that will stop the high incidence of Tor users being challenged by CAPTCHAs whilst browsing. Prince proposes the implementation of a Tor plugin that would communicate with CloudFlare servers to provide temporary, anonymous identification to bypass the CAPTCHAs, and has presented the code on GitHub. Other possibilities mooted include the adoption of higher-level encryption, which would be likely to adversely influence a network which already has native (and inevitable) latency issues. CloudFlare's public post on the matter comes after five turbulent weeks of comments-section debate between CloudFlare and Tor, and seems to be an appeal for public arbitration on the matter.Prince further noted that 94% of the traffic CloudFlair sees is "per se malicious." From his blog post: That doesn't mean they are visiting controversial content, but instead that they are automated requests designed to harm our customers. A large percentage of the comment spam, vulnerability scanning, ad click fraud, content scraping, and login scanning comes via the Tor network. To give you some sense, based on data from Project Honey Pot, 18% of global email spam, or approximately 6.5 trillion unwanted messages per year, begin with an automated bot harvesting email addresses via the Tor network.

Comment How Far Can Idiocy Go? (Score 1) 602

People tend to drive at the highest speed at which their estimate of the danger is still negligible.
Increasing the real danger by removing the lines, mandating zig-zag parking etc. causes the drivers to slow down to maintain their estimate.
The result is slower traffic at the same or even higher danger level than before the change.

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