It isn't easy. It doesn't matter if you've got back up or not - it's just not easy.

But anyone can do it. All you need is to be sufficiently resolute. (And if the whole world is the problem - and I tend to agree - your solution may be similar to mine; isolate yourself from it and start again independently).

pindokhan123 wrote: well what i mean is as an individual theres little anyone can do unless they pool together,have protests n' the rest of it but you know all this has very little impact ,in the mood i am in right now with my CR issue,cant do jack s--t there either.

and yes i do whole heartedly agree with you there but comon theres so much to do,change,where do we start?

Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi on the peacefulside, and Genghis Khan and Ragnar Lodbrok on the not so peaceful side.

Do you think they acted alone? Of course not. What they're really famous for is simply convincing other people to work with them.

I'm not saying it's easy, and I'm not saying you know where to start. I've wasted the last decade or so fighting technology wars, and largely losing...but even while w're losing, we've got a community numbering in the tens of thousands, and while we're still not a patch on the Googles and Facebooks of the world, we're making a real difference in real people's lives.

More recently, you've heard me talk of taking back Jorvik. I'm serious...or at least, half serious. I don't necessarily want Jorvik, but I WILL have my own off-grid community, and it will be independent and libertarian. You know what the difference between me and you is? It's not that I'm better than you, it's very simply that I think I can do it, and you think you can't. And as somebody who I don't know who it was said, whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

Yeah, and you really should update, like now.

We're expecting a second wave when people go back to work on Monday, and start connecting infected machines back to the public networks. That's nothing specific to this attack, it's just something that tends to happen with any major attack that occurs over a weekend.

That was a typo. He meant to say he's 16.

You can have a Clixsense account at 16.

Quote:we cannot do jack s--t about i

That's ridiculous, of course you can. I hate to quote Steve Jobs because I really dislike him in more ways than I can even begin to express, but he was right about one thing: Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Quote:Stealing things just makes everything very cheap. Plus, you know how I feel about capitalism.

-- Jeremy Usborne

helloworld111 wrote: This exploited a bug patched back in March, so if you were updated (you should be), you were fine.

Though the virus has been stopped now, some researcher found it connected to a unregistered domain, registered it, then found out that if the virus found the domain was registered it didn't encrypt anything

But there's nothing stopping a second wave with slightly modified code that doesn't contain the kill switch (which appears to have been a badly thought out obfuscation feature) - and most are expecting exactly that. It's very important that you still update as quickly as possible.

Progress is good, the problem is, of course, one man's progress is another man's regression. Most of what gets called progress today is progress for the few, and regression for the many.

charez wrote: I haven't read correctly about it, but it's basically tagetting XP machines only ?

No, all versions of Windows.

Windows XP was the most recent version that hadn't been patched - so anyone up to date with security updates was fine, unless they were on XP.

XP has now been patched too, however.

One could make the uncomfortable observation that we have laws against incest, and that we don't need laws against things that people don't do.

pindokhan123 wrote: i dont mind being a trendy modern day hippy but i do love the simple and uncomplicated way of living..

to live off the grid would be a dream for me really coupled with some tech

solar panels for my electricity,,own food,animals,river close by for fish.....hmm what else?

This is my ambition in life. I've already tried to crowdfund it twice, and failed both times.

It will happen. One day, it will happen.

I'm already mostly doing it, I just don't have enough land to grow everything and certainly nowhere near enough for a community.

I might never take Jorvik, but I will one day be Jarl of somewhere.

hyldig wrote: Bouldrake , explanation needed . Vlad the Impaler alias Vlad Draguila alias Vlad Dracula was 1 of the biggest maniacs in history .

Not if you're from Romania where he's a William Wallace type figure who defended Romania from the Turks.

You might enjoy this - I did. It's a whimsical, and somewhat amusing story of the other point of view. It's like a wikipedia overview page, but more fun: About Vlad the Impaler (the man not the hamster)

Just update and you're fine. But make sure you update EVERY machine on your network. One compromised machine, and you're screwed. If you have embedded devices, be extra careful, and don't connect them to your LAN.

But yeah, it's the penetration power of a state sponsored attacker (who sat on this vulnerability for years without bothering to tell anyone -
this is entirely the US intelligence agencies fault) with about the worst kind of attack you can get. Nasty.

No, you'll be fine.

My point is that the people most likely to be growing all their own food and experimenting with this sort of thing tend to be the new age hippy end of the Green party who also jump on all the latest health trends. Organic is magically better, even when it isn't, and you should eat as many antioxidants as you should, etc. As part of the new age hippy end of the Green party myself, I'd also point out it's a generalisation.

If you're not thinking about your antioxidants, you're fine. You've got plenty of wiggle room. On the other hand, if you're deliberately taking supplements, and already trying to maximise them in your diet, then the changes hydroponics can bring to any given plant could well be the straw that breaks the camels back.

Ivar The Boneless, Sigurd Snake In The Eye, Ubba, Halfdan Ragnarsson, Vlad the Impaler.

Laws aren't just telling people what to do. They also establish protocols.

I would argue that good laws only establish protocols. Rather than saying "If you do X you're going to prison for Y years" they should say "When there is a grievance with a particular members of this community the process for conflict resolution and possible punishments is..."

Open your eyes, take a look around. The world is hell. It's often laws that make it hell.

I am a libertarian - in the classical sense, not the American sense. I believe power should be decentralised to the lowest possible unit, with minimum interference in anybody's life.

I'm not an anarchist though. I do not believe you can be completely lawless, I just think communities should make their own laws. If you're racist (as an example, I'm not suggesting anyone is), and you want all the foreigners out, if we live in small autonomous communities, that's fine - because they probably don't want to live with you either, and they can come and live with me a mile down the road instead...and I can ban you in return.

I believe there should be minimal frameworks tying communities together, but they should be closer to international agreements, like the geneva convention, and the magna carta than the lumbering behemoth of national laws - the important part here is that the communities sign up for these of their own volition, rather than having them imposed from above.

The exact nature of these laws is closer to a thousand page thesis than a forum post, and depends on how autonomous communities are formed, what size they are and so on, but a summary is "you should never be able to make a law for a community you don't personally interact with on a regular basis".

The holocaust was legal.

Slavery was legal.

The law must never be blindly followed, respected, or ignored, but it must always be questioned.

If I am to raise an army, I need men and I need silver. If I win the lottery, I can buy the silver, and pay the men.

If I win the lottery, I do not sit at home and watch TV, I march to Merica, and ask them to join us in a march on Wessex. We demand Wessex withdraw from Merica, and Northumbria. If they agree, we will accept the return of our lands, if they do not, we will simply take them.

I shall then rule as Jarl of Jorvik, or King of the North, either is fine by me, with Merica acting as a nice buffer between us and anybody in Wessex getting any ideas above their station.