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Comment Re:CGNAT (Score 2) 18

ISPs using CGNAT still log traffic in order to track users, they do significantly more detailed logging for exactly that reason.
Similarly CGNAT breaks p2p, so applications like bittorrent effectively turn into a client-server model making it much easier for such orgs to go after the servers.

Comment Re:Aren't guns legal? (Score 3, Informative) 42

Yeah, that's why they mentioned the ancient Sony camera he lifted.

"Crime with a gun" is a separate crime according to NY.

SCOTUS will strike those down eventually. It's like saying "crime while praying" if it's a right.

Obviously he wasn't using the gun to jack a Betacam. He was probably worried about crackheads in there for the copper.

Comment Re:CGNAT (Score 2) 18

Far better methods such as what?

Several ISPs use IPv6 prefixes which are frequently rotated and recycled which can cause issues. A prefix which is static, or at least stable until the user explicitly releases it works much better.

The idea of dynamic addressing made sense in the dialup days when most of your users were disconnected most of the time. It doesn't make sense now.

Marketing companies like to perpetuate this myth that they track you by ip, but they don't and never have. It's just to distract users and make them waste efforts on ineffective means of avoiding tracking.

Comment Re:CGNAT (Score 1) 18

Mapping legacy addresses to v6 addresses wouldn't achieve anything, since you'd still have multiple users with the same address.

Marketing companies don't track users by IP, that's done with cookies, browser fingerprints, sessions etc. Marketing companies don't care about CGNAT.
This tracking doesn't work with malware, because malware doesn't keep cookies and each instance appears as a new user. It is the constant influx of new users from shared addresses which trigger responses like blocking or captchas. If you're not seeing this, then it means that you've got active tracking so they know you're a legit user and not a bot.

With v6 its a bit different, multiple sessions from the same address would still trigger a response but you won't be sharing an address with others so you can block tracking cookies and you appear as a new user every time, but because you're coming from a new not previously seen address you are not hit with abuse countermeasures.

Comment CGNAT (Score 2) 18

Much of the world is forced to use CGNAT to access legacy IPv4 sites, and many users are stuck with either no IPv6 or very lousy implementations (eg rapidly changing prefixes etc)...
You have one infected machine and it gets the shared gateway blocked, and then other users of the same provider are unable to access anything.

A lot of people are affected by this, but often don't know the reason. Site operators in developed countries often don't care or don't understand how users elsewhere have to suffer with CGNAT.

Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Conve...

Comment Re:Money Makers for Money Makers. (Score 1) 117

In this case Trump is more a symptom than a cause. Local policing is more of a state level, or even city level, affair. But, yeah, it's a related event.

And remember, you should expect people to act in ways that make their job easier. It doesn't always happen that way, but that's what you should expect, no matter what the rules say.

Comment Cheap, If... (Score 1) 38

If the argument can be proved that they ruined the minds of an entire generation using a massive AI/Big Data model running at n terraflops by deliberately addicting children during the crucial neuronal pruning period of their lives, that is at a minimum going to cost the society tens of trillions of dollars and restitution would be far more than the proposed fines.

Nobody gets a second chance at that pruning stage, at least in this lifetime.

Their profits may be far lower than the damage they caused, but that characteristic is always true of parasitic entities.

This is basically the whole point of the Island of Pleasure warning in Pinocchio.

It remains to be seen what can be proved in Courts but the DSM-6 won't be kind to their arguments as outlined in TFS.

Comment Re:Cool! (Score 3, Interesting) 32

The idea is probably from 1950's comic books but the tech seems brand new since they don't need any landing legs and use a net-on-frame architecture.

People should pay attention because they didn't have orbital technology thirty years ago and now they have a space station, reusable rockets, and are about to have a Moon base.

And possibly ultra-long flighttime 'drones' that can fly over Picatinny Arsenal unimpeded; that much is uncertain. We have no explanation for their energy budget (at least white-world).

Having a country run by engineers rather than professional thieves who hire engineers to justify pillage has certain advantages (and disadvantages).

Let's not get too overconfident.

Comment The challenge (Score 1) 102

Is to set coursework and exams that are specifically crafted to exploit where AI is weak or prone to hallucinate.

You do not ban cheating, because those who cheat will inevitably find ways to circumvent the ban.

Rather, you exploit the properties of the mechanisms of cheating to ensure that those who actually understand the ideas are marked relatively highly (regardless of whether they reach the textbook conclusion) and whose who do not understand the ideas cannot do well even if they give what is in the textbook.

The interest should not be in precise answers, but in precise use of tools of reasoning and analysis, because this is what actually matters when it comes to understanding. Yes, it means you can't standardise so easily, and you have to devise things in ways that don't penalise intuitive thinkers over methodical thinkers, but you cannot teach a subject properly if you are only concerned about the surface.

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