Re: Defendants
"do you not think that will have a knock on effect?"
Nope. Football will be negligible versus all the other streaming that's going on....
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Most streams still worked just fine here last 2 Saturdays in a row....
I found that "Hotspot VPN" is a handy free way of unlocking anything else and works for Kodi on both Windows and Android. (The Windows Store version doesn't work - download it from their website).
The free version is limited to USA servers only, and pops up occasional ads on web browsing. Works just fine for video back to the EU though. A quick speed test showed 30Mb/S back to the UK - not bad for free...
"most likely will form around a mixture of packet matching, deep packet inspections "
That's very very unlikely. It would require enormous processing power and would impact performance at a large ISP, and streams could simply use HTTPS to stop it. The article also says that no new hardware would be required and that the block is per server. It will likely be DNS lookup blocking and maybe IP filtering too. Using Google DNS stops a lot of the current filtering of TPB, Kickass, etc...
"If the only thing this prohibits is feetsball then (at least in my case) i can carry on regardless!"
As opposed to hand egg that they play in the colonies you mean? Good luck using say Twitch on a Saturday afternoon then as some streams use that now!
imo the streamers will just switch to CDNs and other mixed services if they don't already use them, which a) have hundreds of servers, and b) carry so much varied content that blocking them would have way too wide an impact...
"Even in 500 euro notes that's 16,000 notes.
I doubt they sat and fingerprinted them all and checked every single print found so I call bullshit on that article."
They would presumably have been in standard bundles of 50. So only 800 to check...
You are confusing censorship and preventing free speech with the fact that using a right to free speech in some ways can have consequences....
Free speech means that you can always publish and a court or other such body decides later if there was a problem. If you censor the publishing in the first place, that's not free speech...
"It's not freedom of speech to allow propaganda, lies, promotion of hate crimes and terrorism and to make money from it."
Yes it is. Who decides what are "lies" and "propaganda"? The government? Just look at what Trump has to say on "alternative facts"....
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech. As soon as you start to put boundaries on it, you no longer have it...
nb - To save sys admins who are still running this stuff hunting: FYI - IIS6 is not installed by default on Server 2003, and when you do install IIS6, WebDAV is also not enabled by default.
See https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/4beddb35-0cba-424c-8b9b-a5832ad8e208.mspx?mfr=true
"Which is fine, however this is an exploit of an Application, not an OS. The fact that some class-1 a-hole at Microsoft (marketing) decided that an Application, such as IIS should be inexplicably linked to the Operating System"
What OS version / vendor would you recommend instead that comes with zero applications and has enterprise grade support?
"That's the joy of "tightly-coupling" applications with the OS - it makes upgrades so much more... exciting.
If you had written your applications in perl or php, do you think you'd be stuck being unable to upgrade to a later OS or a later httpd version?"
If you had written your apps in PHP they would have had a critical exploit far more often than on IIS6.
I'm not aware of any difficulties in migration to a later Windows OS from Server 2003. It still supports IIS6 features and management tools in the later IIS versions...
"Why take the risk? There are plenty of more civilised countries you could visit instead."
Yes, I hear North Korea is lovely at this time of year!
Although apparently their leader recently misunderstood the many references to a "big brother dictatorship" - and his claims of there is no big brother here only relate to a morgue in Malaysia...
"A shotgun loaded with birdshot isn't lethal to anyone if it is aimed up in the sky at a drone. If you're going to go around shooting guns up in the sky like cowboys and terrorists love to do, that's the safest option by far. No damage to people or property, "
What goes up, must come down. Unless it exceeds escape velocity. which seems unlikely...
"If you come into someone's yard & mount a camera on a pole so you can watch a child sunbathing, do you REALLY think the property owner isn't going to come out with a chainsaw to cut down the pole, a cricket bat to beat the shit out of the camera, & then offer to smash in your skull if you do it again?"
Sure, but I would also expect them to be arrested for assault and criminal damage and the court to order them to pay to fix said damage. They should have called to police to address the original issue...
"Contractors get paid more, they need to, to cover the fact that they face risk, regular gaps in employment and need to cover their own holiday pay and pension provision. Fair enough, I get that"
No - that's because they are generally highly skilled and like all free markets - it's supply versus demand...
"It isn't however, an excuse to pay less tax."
Yes it is. They have a higher risk than a permanent employee...
"For how much longer?"
For a fair while longer apparently. The Surface Phone is still coming although not soon - any likely some more Windows 10 Phones first - see for instance: http://www.droidreport.com/articles/4169/20170320/microsoft-surface-phone-reportedly-postponed-other-new-foldable-windows-10-phone-releasing-this-year.htm
"when you are small and need to cut costs, Windows server is DEFINITELY NOT what you want in your data center "
That must be why all those small cost sensitive business run lots of *nix servers then. Oh, wait. They don't. They overwhelmingly run Windows and SQL Server!
"Or MySQL, Oracle, DB2 etc. on your choice of one *nix or another...."
I meant Microsoft SQL Server workloads obviously.
nb - MySQL and Oracle run just fine on Windows Server. Can't say I have seen an install of DB2 in living memory to know. And Oracle at least is much easier to install / initially configure on Windows Server than on *nix...
Lol at dreams about SQL on Linux in someway meaning the demise of Windows Server even though Windows Server sales are still climbing!
We already know it's a cutdown version to keep certain devs happy. Production workloads that need any enterprise features are going to need to run on Windows Server.
Vista was extra crappy on RTM for several reasons, a) Microsoft under pressure from PC Manufacturers released a minimum recommended spec that was simply not adequate for decent performance, b) Microsoft made a screw up in the way the GUI was threaded that meant that a single application could effectively hang the GUI while waiting for it to do something, c) local and network file copy performance was generally awful, and d) PC manufacturers were really getting into the concept of paid crapware and systems were often running lots of unnecessary junk.
So on RTM if you bought a "recommended spec" Vista machine it really really sucked,
b) and c) were actually fixed by Vista SP1 - after which a clean Vista install was actually quite useable on decent hardware!
See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709618(v=ws.10).aspx
"Why does that piss you off?"
It does me too - because it's not something the government needs to spend money on - so it's an unnecessary waste of my money as a tax payer. Especially the celebrating the vote bit. Maybe they could more productively waste the money on persuading arab countries to give women a vote...