Comment Sure... (Score 1) 150
How 'bout if I buy now and pay after I die?
Comment the headline (Score 1) 27
sounds like the plots of a cheap SF movie.
Comment The Ice Age ended, finally (Score 0) 194
Comment No no no! (Score 2, Funny) 58
They shouldn't be trying such a desperate solution without trying chlorox and ivermectin first.
Comment Yeah. (Score 1) 95
Just don't leave the country after you participate.
For that matter, you may suffer remote retaliation even if you stay home. I would leave this to the military or other government branch.
Also there is the question of legality, government operation or not. It sounds to me like vigilante justice. And countries who like their anti-American cybercriminals will certainly treat it as illegal. (Hence the advice not to leave the country.)
We certainly need a way to stop cybercrime, international or otherwise. But this doesn't strike me as a good way to go about it.
Finally a prediction: in the not too distant future, one or more offshoots from this will turn into unmanageable domestic criminal organizations.
Comment NOAA will be defunded (Score 4, Insightful) 115
Comment Re:Silicone Valley (Score 2) 66
Freenet is also based on middle-out compression.
Comment Re:So i can just post 30TB and get it later? (Score 5, Informative) 66
No. Trying to push 30TB into Freenet will be interpreted as an attack on the network by other peers and they'll disconnect from your peer.
Freenet is better viewed as a communication medium than a storage medium. Data is prioritized according to demand, somewhat like an LRU cache. You can't upload 30TB and expect the network to preserve it for you.
On liability, running a Freenet peer is more like running network infrastructure that automatically routes and caches other people's traffic than intentionally publishing it. US law explicitly recognizes this distinction in the DMCA's provisions for transitory network communications and system caching. We discuss this in more detail in the FAQ.
Comment Re:Just a heads up, decentralized platforms... (Score 4, Informative) 66
You obviously haven't tried Freenet. You can join our room on River and you'll see no spam, no fraud, no hate speech, none of that.
Decentralized doesn't mean unmoderated. Systems built on Freenet can be moderated however their creators and communities want. River is moderated.
The difference is that nobody running one service gets to decide what everyone else is allowed to run.
Submission + - Freenet: Apps Without Platforms
Comment Geez. (Score 2) 35
Even Batman's job is threatened by AI.
Comment Bah. (Score 2) 70
It's just ET trying to phone home. Probably dialed the wrong number.
Comment A Man of Yesterday (Score 1) 280
Comment shades of Lysenkoism (Score 1) 280
Ideology vetos reality, news at 11.