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Despite all the incorrect or misleading facts (you spotted quite a few more than I did) I can totally relate to what I think was the author's intention in writing it:

Magic.

Modern linux distributions are doing many things in a way that is, at best, surprising and, at worst, undebuggable.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" comes to mind quickly.

Working with Linux in the 90s was surely not as easy as it is today, and probably for the better. But I also find myself longing for the old days at times. Examples are lack of NetworkManager (like lack of Bridge support in the version on my laptop, no clue if it's been fixed upstream, I'm using distro packages) or certain hald/dbus automagic things. And no, I won't go into details and that can be held against me, but there frustrations and annoyances - surely partly to be blamed onto me and partly to the software. Coming from that, I feel with the author.

Then again I'm also glad I don't have to wade knee-deep into config files every time I want to change something. :)
The pastebin post says that 'While some ISPs uses DNS caching, most are configured to use a low expire time for the cache.'

(Just re-iterating the post for Macha... I don't personally believe that the expire-times for ISP DNS cache is as short as Anonymous is making it seem -- but I don't have any numbers off-hand)
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The fact that this is not happening ought to reveal something to you about the real ideologies of those you're supporting.

(Please don't interpret that as advocacy for the GOP -- I'm an equal-opportunity basher of the governmental parasites and thugs.)
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You might want to look into getting a DNS caching service which has other benefits besides being a guard against your main DNS going down. I'm not sure what options are available for Windows, but on Mac and Linux Dnsmasq fits that role just fine (and there are others).
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Well that all depends. First most requests don't go to the root servers -- they are far too important, second there is caching on the isps servers. To have any effect other than to make sys admins dehydrate anon have to keep the attack up long enough to have the caches empty (if they are indeed configured to flush even if they cannot connect to the root. They may not) and there are several layer deep caching (your isp is but one. Your local computer may also have one).

But assuming they can keep it running long enough for the DNS service to die(and they may very well, that flaw is pretty smart though they have to use the actual ip of the vulnerable DNS servers, which means that it can be filtered if the admins are smart enough)? Well goodbye internet -- you would just get an error, no matter which website you would try to access. A pretty grim situation, but not likely.
> Q: What if all root name serves would stop answering queries?

> A: Now you are stretching it. How likely is that? The diversity in the system will prevent that from happening. But let's treat it as a hypothetical case: In that hypothetical case the Internet will not suddenly grind to a halt. If absolutely nothing is done to correct the situation every hour about 2% of all queries will not be answered, 2% at the end of the first hour, 4% at the end of the second hour and so forth until 48h after the root name servers stop answering queries no DNS names can be resolved anymore. However it is even more hypothetical to assume that nothing will be done to correct this hypothetical situation.

> Even in the hypothetically hypothetical case that the root name server operators would do nothing to correct the situation, the IANA, TLD operators, ISPs and others would have the motivation and the means to take corrective action.

> Again: this is very hypothetical. DNS failures outside the root name servers are much more likely. Name service for the vast majority of top-level domains is very much less redundant than that of the root name servers. Whole top-level domains and major corporations have been unreachable for significant amounts of time because of DNS failures. Name service for the root zone has always been available.

http://www.isoc.org/briefings/020/
Even then, pornoscanners and groping have nothing on indefinite detention, warrantless wiretapping, and extrajudicial assassination.
Does anyone care about living in a city that's just plain nice to live in? Everyone's so concerned about whether a city is conducive to start-ups they miss out on evaluating quality of life from a personal perspective.

I choose to live in San Diego because I love to live in San Diego, for innumerable personal reasons, not because it's "startupy". Stocktwits moved to Coronado island near San Diego not because there's a thriving start-up scene here, but because it's just a damn nice place to live and work. Developers who can live anywhere should want to live in great places for personal reasons.

For whatever it's worth, I've done a significant amount of traveling around the United States (mostly on three JetBlue flying passes) and in general find cities like Boston to be overrated in terms of quality of life, especially when factoring in the enormous cost of living.

No doubt these are all personal value judgments. I just wonder why people optimize so little on the simple personal quality of life vector and so much on whether there's a bunch of "startupy people" there.
It's not just this. Every single time a new link is posted about Anonymous it's some form of digital terrorism.

It has barely a purpose and only serves to disrupt the masses. They even have made threats that they would do X if Y isn't done.

This is terrorism to me.
There are several.
One is forum on careers by sciencemag.org
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/

http://scforum.sciencecareers.org/

Also you can go to the following blogs which are interesting.
http://pipeline.corante.com/
Is this any different than just generating a random string and emailing it to them? I don't see the need to do the email/salt thing in this case.
Cool analogy. Makes a great reference point.

As an ASIC guy, I like to occasionally casually mention to software guys that at 3GHz, light travels about four inches in one clock cycle, and it frequently really blows their minds.
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*institutional knowledge about investment, growth, scaling, etc.

This might always be the case for East Coast startups. You start a business, you need investors that understand your business.

I hypothesize that if you start a tech business in Boston -- and succeed -- you're more likely to move someplace warmer, or cheaper, or back to your home state (or mother country), or to a place that has lots of startups in your field to invest your money because you understand their business.
The East Coast has a lot of great talent. The scale of their new talent cultivation is likely unrivaled even by the Bay Area. It's just that Boston isn't home for many of its most successful.
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> until late last year, no Android phone offered full-disk encryption.

AFAIK full-disk encryption offers the best protection against offline attacks. How much good would it do in a mobile phone that is almost always turned on?
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With Anycast DNS there's actually more than thirteen servers even if there's only thirteen IPs.

It's going to be almost impossible to flood them all simultaneously. These are machines on multi-gigabit backbone connections, not some crappy back-water FBI or CIA web server.
When such a flight is one of the choices available to get to my destination, I'd be willing to pay additional just to continue to enjoy my human rights and dignity.

Yes, I'll put my entire family on a non-TSA flight. In fact, I would prefer it.
iOS does this much better -- I decide on a whim whether or not I'm going to let application X know my location today.
The last major attack was in 2007, and only two servers were rendered unreachable:

http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/industry-deve...

For anyone to actually notice, you have to take down all 13 for 48 hours, and it will be another 48 hours after that before there is a complete outage for everyone.
No, because we're talking about two different groups.

Just because the general public doesn't know of the special, and therefore doesn't know of it's failure, other entertainers will. It's their job - the business side of their job - to keep up to date with these sorts of things.
"I understand the sentiment here, but low relative frequency for a risk with catastrophic consequences, e.g. your house flooding or a terrorist attack, isn't valid justification for not taking precautions."

That is a completely valid justification for not taking precautions. The amount of money we spend towards fighting terrorism on all fronts could go MUCH further in other places, protecting far more people from the large variety of threats we all face.
War on General Purpose Computation == War on Consciousness. Why not just go straight to the root of the problem and outlaw certain kinds of cognitive patterns? Since "intellectual property" begins in the mind, so does "copyright infringement". Thought would be a whole lot easier to police, anyway.

Memory is theft. That's why I choose to stay ignorant - stupidity will never be outlawed.
Don't know about Denmark, but I believe in some countries with a similar situation by law they have to round to the nearest multiple of the smallest denomination coin, so it evens out.

Of course, if you pay via credit card or bank card other electronic means, as more and more people do even for small amounts, you pay the exact price.
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Most of the "root servers" are big anycast clusters. L root has at least 50 locations worldwide...
Which, although I hate the TSA, sort of makes sense from their perspective. What's the point of creating a consistent screening process if an airport can just opt out? The terrorists will just board at the airport with the weakest security. All of the security is then worthless.
An airport with no TSA and no kids is just too good to be true!
Why do people expect that Apple respond realtime to these kinds of things?

I think most people don't expect apple to respond at all. At least that's their standard practice with bug reports sent directly to them.
So could organizations build their own Root NS cluster and be added to the 13 that already exist?

Do I misunderstand something as to why there are only 13, who controls them, etc?
http://blog.icann.org/2007/11/there-are-not-13-root-servers/
Considering all the apps that like to use the phone numbers and emails to help new users find their friends using the app it's a difficult decision.

I think a good compromise would be allowing an app access to phone numbers or emails without the rest of the information, eg whose number that is, their street address, etc. Then, giving your own number when you sign up could be an option. That way a new user's app could connect them to those friends of theirs who have opted to attach their name to their number.
Type inference would get you quite a way. Using a language that allows effective tooling would get you even farther.
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...if only public could be convinced to use $1 coins. I personally like them, but there are literally a billion of the things sitting unused in US Mint warehouses because most people prefer folding money: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/28/137394348/-1-billion-that-nobo...
And they are going to get around anycast redundancy how? [0] Also, what consumer level ISP allows egress of packets with a spoofed source IP?

[0] http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/factsheet-dns-attack-0...
No; the root nameservers have fixed IPs. Those IP addresses, and those of the vulnerable DNS servers to be used as reflectors, can be written down beforehand.
Ignoring for a moment the relation between US foreign policy and terrorism, or between the drug war and drug violence...

The problem here is banks and established payment processors banding together to squash their potential competition. Not only do these regulations touch upon bitcoin (a rather insignificant collateral victim), but on startups that may want to reshape the money transaction business.

People who want to do evil things are not really limited in their scope by these rules. It's frighteningly easy to make explosives or to build weapons. A dedicated madman can do a lot of damage, with scarcely anything "authorities" can do against it. Curtailing fundamental freedoms and keeping dossiers on every citizen is a tool to create tyranny rather than protect the people from random murder.
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I guess it does build some long-term equity with the search engines - getting those links as soon as possible can't hurt. But you have a valid point.

I'm not sure how he can reach his target audience in a scalable way, to be honest. It sounds too niche of a product.
I think the Anonymous "hackers" are still under the impression that one IP equals one server. Anycast works very well with UDP and they're in for a surprise as their attack is diffused across so many different links.
I drive and take the train when possible over flying even when it is a little bit more of a hassle and have been doing this more and more over the past few years. Beyond the security theater my door to door time increased so much because of the security increases that it actually made the other forms of transportation faster in some cases for me.
It will have to be all-or-none:

Last May, Texas tried to pass a bill to ban 'groping patdowns'.

The bill was passed by the Texan House of Representative, but then the federal government, approx 1-2 weeks later, threatened to shutdown all Texan airports because they would be a threat to the overall security. The bill failed to go any further on that threat.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/13/us-tsa-groping-tex...

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/82nd-legislati...
When is it Anonymous and when is it some random guy that decides that now he will become Anonymous?
The problem is that, in the DNS spoof attack, the DNS reflectors have to have some data to send "back" to the spoofed IP. If the root servers are down, the reflectors won't have any data to send back, so the flood will stop as the reflectors' caches expire.
Given the built-in resiliency of the DNS system, wouldn't creating an alternative system[1] be more effective in disrupting the status quo?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlterNIC
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"It was famous for its sound system in particular."

I don't recall it being a big deal after the black hardware and their DSPs were killed.

"NeXT had its own 3D facilities as well (OpenGL under NeXTSTEP, and Display Renderman), which were entirely tossed out in favor of the "legacy" OS 9 version."

I don't recall NeXT ever having OpenGL. And Display Renderman pretty much lost to OpenGL in the 90s, so that wasn't about to be resurrected.

" NeXTSTEP, or more properly OpenStep, had a Java port from Sun"

Really? I don't remember that.
It's not semantics. If that were the case theft laws would apply and they don't.

Whether or not copyright infringement deprives copyright holders of a sale is very difficult to substantiate. Which is why courts decide it.

Compare that to actual theft. If someone steals my phone, I can't use it anymore.
DOS is a kind of protest, like a picket line. Protest != terrorism.
Follow the money and if enough opt-out then all of those TSA jobs get "lost" and the TSA shrinks (so they go and do something else) and so the drive to keep this airport security theater pork around will decrease and might even kill it to put money on the next scare tactic response.
> Do we really need to go through this again? Do people here on HN really have that short of a memory?

You seem to be lacking a very basic understanding of these kinds of sites:

1. Not every user on the site has read every post on the site.

2. There are new users who have not seen previous content.

There is not much you can do about reposts. People who haven't seen the content before will upvote it.
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San Diego. I moved here on a whim a bit over a year ago after traveling all over the country on JetBlue flying places. San Diego just seemed to have an incredibly high quality of life, and it does.

There's also a great Ruby community here if you happen to be a Ruby developer: http://sdruby.org
I really wish they would have made the feds call that bluff. Dallas and Houston are the #8 and #23 airports in the world by traffic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_busiest_airports_by_pass...
Chrome's dominance over Firefox (~65% vs ~30%) surprised me a little. I figured they would have a more equal standing.
Yes, that's the essence of anonymous.
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Anycast in a DDoS situation would help, but if you throw enough traffic at it you end up with the original DDoS, plus a second DoS caused by cascade failure of the individual nodes going offline, causing BGP flap dampening.

Not sure if Anonymous has those kinds of resources though.
I don't know if they're just simplifying things or are just clueless, but none of the 13 DNS roots are single servers. Most or all of them aren't even in a single physical site.

There's somewhere around 240 root server sites each consisting of multiple physical servers, just served up on 13 IP's.

Given that many of these sites are colocated at interchanges and with providers with tons of multi gigabit links, they have quite a challenge...

Ripe last year had an incident where they reported a fivefold increase in queries to the K-root without any operational problems, for example. They successfully handled close to 70,000 queries per second at one point.

I'll be surprised if they manage to even have a noticeable effect.
It sounds too niche of a product.

Well, it's intended as more of a starting point. Both Seamless and Groupon had to start in one city before branching out- it makes sense. If you tried to scale out to every city simultaneously it would fall flat on it's face.

As for reaching target audience, well, the NYC-centricity of it is an advantage when it comes to advertising. If Taxonomy was an actual backed business (right now it's little side project idea) it could even advertise on and in NYC yellow cabs some day. Expensive, but the target audience is looking directly at them.
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"There is little of "BSD" in the Mac OS X environment, save for some FreeBSD userland components, most of which only matter on the command line. "

The same was true of NeXTStep and OpenStep/Mach. Mach kernel. BSD user land. NeXT GUI.
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TFA recommends using VPN (which I assume has fewer restrictions than residential ISPs), or TOR (which has most of its outbound bandwidth on very large pipes which probably aren't filtered much).
There are fees on airline tickets in the US that pay for TSA services. Whether that is their sole source of funding or not I don't know. I imagine that at least some of the renovations that have been done at various airports to house larger screening facilities have been paid for out of general tax dollars.
It's not just the money. It's finding a web development company, meeting with them multiple times, risking $30k (which is not chump change even to him), and waiting for the site to be developed, giving feedback, etc.

They used PayPal + S3 to do Louis CK's site. This kind of thing isn't very technically challenging anymore with the infrastructure that's available now.
Did you seriously just ask how the web works, then complain about ignorant people who don't know how the web works...?

What does hackers using DDoS to knock a service offline have to do with it being free/open? Everything isn't about SOPA/ACTA/et al...
Ahhhh. There is a nonzero cost for going about organizing all the tasks. No matter how many ways you can divide the task, even if you don't actually divide it up, there is always a nonzero time at the end that you have to everything on hand to make the final product. Is that a good way of thinking about it?
> "Hate to be Mr. Cyncial Guy, but I think it's important to look at the problems with the system that led to the creation of the TSA."

The problems with the system that led to the creation of the TSA is that voters vote for theatre. They do it with drug laws, they do it with drunk driving laws, they do it to "protect the children" and they do it with anti-terror nonsense.

The parties' motives for going along with it are almost irrelevant. Opposing these laws is career suicide for American politicians.
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The GOP is still trying to beat him as soft on terrorism (eg Iran) despite Obama being the most hawkish Democrat in living memory and having a string of wins to his credit (bin Laden, Gaddhafi, umpteen lesser threats eliminated). If he wins re-election and the Democrats improve their representation in Congress, then incremental changes tot he TSA may come in a few years. FBI stats suggest that Al-Qaeda type terror attacks on the US have declined in both number and severity over the last 3 years, but it will be some years before a political consensus emerges about that. Crime figures have been falling since the 90s, and and yet there have been few politicians willing to embrace penal reform lest the trend prove fickle. Neither the political system nor the general public takes a rational approach to existential threats of this kind.
I may not ever have the gumption to actually do something like this, but I'll say its admirable. At a base level, he's really mastered social engineering.
Hahaha, this might be showing my age, but it sounds like AOL instant messenger...

Am I wrong? Back in the day we'd get home and check peoples status, chat to see if anyone was up to something, then get moving. Times were great!