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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is cracking down on the carrying of knives in response to a spate of stabbings that pushed the city's murder rate past New York's for the "first time in modern history."
Khan deployed an additional 300 Metropolitan Police officers over the weekend to work exclusively against knife crime, urging them to be more "confident" in their authority to stop anyone suspected of carrying a weapon.
"What you will see over the course of the next few weeks and months — is what we have seen over the last few weeks and months — which is stop-and-search based on suspicion of carrying an offensive weapon going up, more arrests as a consequence of this intelligence-led stop-and-search going up and hopefully our city becoming safer," the mayor said Saturday, according to The Telegraph.
Khan also issued a warning to would-be knife carriers, saying they should think twice before bringing one out in public — whatever the reason.
"No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," Khan said on Twitter. "Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law."
Source: http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/08/london-murder-rate-knives/
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @08:59AM (12 children)
[Citation needed]
No, I'm not confrontational, I'm genuinely curios about the details of a ban on eth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Monday April 09 2018, @09:17AM (11 children)
Right now, see archfeld's journal, https://soylentnews.org/~archfeld/journal/ [soylentnews.org] for what is left. Only half-seriously pointing a finger at the mighty buss, since none of the eds seem to know what is going on. Check IRC, #Editorial, as usual. Curious, don't you think?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @09:53AM (10 children)
I must admit, that would be far from the usual for me. This is why my thanks for the linky.
Intriguing, yes.
In particular, the fact that the IP of an anonymous poster may be used for permabaning, which means it is somehow recorded.
Does it mean S/N can provide the usian agencies with a log of past activity originated from an IP if requested?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Monday April 09 2018, @09:59AM (7 children)
And here I was just wondering why Auzzies would need a chainsaw to cut up their steaks, unless the 'Roo is really that tough? Yes, I too have been IP banned. So much for anonymity and cowardice on the high seas of free speech at SoylentNews. All you have to do, apparently, is spam mod The Moulting Buzzard, and you, too, could be ip banned! Fun for all ages.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @12:06PM (1 child)
Naah, it's the size of the steak - a knife just isn't large enough to cut through it and, if it is it (that's a knife, remember?), it's too much effort, you'll be exhausted before getting through the 24 stubs in a slab of beer you have to have before dessert.
TMB: Is S/N able to offer to any agency requesting it (with a mandate) the collection of all messages originated from any IP?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @01:48PM
No. We'd have to build a rainbow table for the salt + every possible IP address we hash together and then store for a maximum of two weeks. It allows us to do adminy tasks based on IP address without being able to find out what that address actually is.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @03:12PM (4 children)
TMB stated this before, IPs are stored as hashes but with a little effort he could dig in the db and find out each poster's IP address. SN is not the surveillance free platform you think. Better than some I'm sure, but given the extreme views of some here it feels a little more like a honey pot.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @04:46PM (3 children)
s/a little/considerable/
Building and searching a rainbow table that includes every IPv4 address is no trivial task. If you're using an IPv6 address, it's simply not possible and never will be. Even with all physically possible storage improvements, you'd need a storage device nearly as large as the moon just to hold the table. Searching it would take calculating capacity and power consumption beyond belief.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @06:29PM (2 children)
Nice backpedaling, I'm glad we only have to take your unassailable WORD for it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @09:07PM
You know, you can read the source...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @09:54PM
Read the source and do the math. If you really want to make sure, join the staff and verify it for yourself. We've never turned anyone away who was willing to save us a bit of effort.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday April 09 2018, @06:40PM (1 child)
No - we have a one-way hash of the IP address. So we can tell when posts come from the same source, but we cannot tell where that source is. Now, if some idiots use the same IP for their UID and when posting as AC it doesn't take much to link the two together. But we have nothing to give to anyone that demands to see any activity from a specific IP.
Furthermore, if some want to post as AC using some of the popular VPNs, and that VPN is also being used to spam or flood the site, then they will also be blocked if we pull the plug on that VPN, either permanently or temporarily. Your anonymity comes at a price - for you.
Next, if EF is still posting to his journals complaining about being 'permabanned' then he must be a bit slow on the uptake - how can he be posting on the site if, as he claims, he is banned from posting to the site? The truth is that he is not, and never was, banned from the site. But he was probably using an IP that was also being used by something that we had to protect the site against. That is why the editors were discussing the claim by EF that he had been banned - his claim is rubbish.
And finally, when Ari starts stirring it all up you can almost guarantee that his is talking out of his ass again. I fully expect to receive accusations that we are all alt-right supporters simply because the vast majority of his submissions get rejected.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @09:57PM
That sounds like alt-right talk to me, mister. Get the torches and pitchforks!
Seriously though, it was a coding fuck-up on my part that will be fixed soon. He got modded Spam twice while I was out of state which was then reversed properly on his account karma but not on the ipid karma.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.