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The Tories have just filibustered the Turing Bill.

What a pack of fucking scumbags.

They want a bill that only applies to the dead. Presumably because the living are still capable of being guilty.

The Tories have just filibustered the Turing Bill.

What a pack of fucking scumbags.

That said, I didn't agree with the bill.

A pardon is: You committed a crime, we're going to forgive you.

The bill should really be:

You were charged with a crime, we were wrong, we're going to issue an annulment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37728015

^ the internet is down.

Or rather a company called Dyn DNS is being attacked, and this is a big company that owns a lot of DNS records and so any company that uses them is seeing connectivity issues.

The attack appears to be aimed at Twitter (who use Dyn) and appears to be a DNS amplification. Twitter is additionally being hit directly, and someone is also going after Twitters' peering links.

That isn't in the article, this is me with not-so-inside knowledge... i.e. the tech community is all-a-chatter. Serious resources to hit someone like Twitter so hard.

It's knocked out most support desks, status pages, major sites... it's like the voice of the web is being silenced.

Pretty incredible stuff.

Presumably the only people with such resources are a government agency in, say, China, Russia or North Korea?

Actually... it's interesting. Dyn DNS are an anycast DNS provider, and this means only local requests take a site down (routes to nearest servers), and the North American DNS is going down for them first.

What I'm saying is that most of the attack comes from within the USA.

It's a botnet, a huge one. Perhaps Mirai.

It y2k 17 years too late. Been fun. See you on the flip side losers.

I've already started to drink my own piss.

Too soon?

Never too soon. Try it with a splash of blackcurrent

Cheers.

Meh. Forum still working.

Is he an escaped monkey?

They're yet to deploy the @fasih sleeper cell.

Tha wha?

ffs - where is the Glossary of Terms ?

Wikipedia

Yeah, I'm going to go to South Yorkshire to drink all their ale and talk loudly into my mobile phone.

lol

Phew

This is not news thread >>>>>>>>

blackcurrent

I agree - I saw it as a stepping stone to full apology and the same for those still living.

That they weren't even prepared to issue pardons has, quite honestly, shocked me a bit. Every time I don't think they could get any worse....

or

You were not charged with a crime, we were wrong, we are now going to issue an arrest.

I'm enjoying the news that a little Belgian region with socialist tendencies is doing all it can (which is apparently quite a lot) to scupper CETA.

Given that the government screws things up generally, isn't it possible that they're also screwing up their 'asylum seeker' policy?

Yes.

In fact they do more than screw up. They deliberately miss apply rules, break the law and I have no doubt that in 10-20yrs will be shown to be involved in the systematic cover up of abuse of detainees.

Nobody told me I was in a sleeper cell!

You'll get your chip implants activated remotely. Until then, you don't have to worry about what may or may not be the case. :)

Spot on.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/21/13362354/dyn-dns-ddos-attack-cause-outage-status-explained