My Opera Development

Originally posted by edwardpiercy:

So is the problem going to be fixed? Or are you going to settle for things being broken?

Ed. Please read the post and following comments more closely. There is nothing broken for Opera Software to fix. Someone is attacking My Opera servers with a malicious intent. *Some of My Opera services, such as tags, have been intentionally stopped to lessen the server loads during attacks.

As has been pointed out, certain time of day seems worse affected. So you can adjust your blogging habit avoid the worst time. By doing so, you will also support My Opera, as it will lessen the server load in middle of attacks.


[Note] *ed sentence added for clarification

I think rather
they want you migrated on Opera 12 , but it's bad , it has no 'Unite' into , and the tricks to do it , not be run

Well just to point out a little flaw with that, even if I adjust my own blogging hours it doesn't mean that people who visit my blog will. Just gave my blog address to a person Thursday, didn't realize I should have qualified that with "and oh, be sure to go to the blog at midnight."

Just saying.

Originally posted by edwardpiercy:

Just saying.

Ed, your blog is exceptionally popular and has been for a number of years. Unless things have changed the usual people who visit you will still visit you for very good reasons, though the pattern of visiting times may change.

What is happening right now with these DDoS attacks is that because of the malicious attacks by these unknown attackers. we have all been subjected to a drop in the exceptional and remarkable quality and outstanding service the MyOpera people have been giving us since the days back when, in my timeline here, our blogs were called "Journals".

Opera and MyOpera team are pretty magnificent (I know you will agree) and I think the more vexed question we should consider is whether there is any truth in the rumor/gossip that Facebook will pounce on Opera..
Ye Gods! ... now that is a real worry! ..

Originally posted by edwardpiercy:

Well just to point out a little flaw with that

Only a little flaw? So you agree in principle, right? That's good to know.

All right, I'll let it go John.

In time, everything fades.

Originally posted by opcat:

I think rather
they want you migrated on Opera 12 , but it's bad , it has no 'Unite' into , and the tricks to do it , not be run

You can have more than one version of Opera running together. However as of 11 th June Opera is slower than firefox for some reason. Not just on My Opera either. I enabled turbo maybe that was a mistake.

Originally posted by lokutus-prime:

The more question we should consider is whether there is any truth in the rumor/gossip that Facebook will pounce on Opera.. Ye Gods! ... now that is a real worry!

If Opera had its own video and music centre software there wouldn't be a problem with that.

(Except for pressure on the system that is.)

yes of course I stay on opera 11.6 with Unite and I have signed the petition ,as well as others

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/openoperaunited/

but they stop all this thing one day

opera turbo is good to have a proxy or if you have a low connexion

Originally posted by edwardpiercy:

In time, everything fades.

So true, Ed ...so true and inevitable.

I see that all too clearly, in my own perspective.

I guess all we can ever do is the best we can .... and carpe diem.

Best wishes Ed!

So have the got an hold on things regarding the attack?

In some cases it is possible to alert the pwned machines though they at#re many. And not very responsive. Sometimes an ISP holding large blocks of them might help.

And sometimes law enforcement agencies will work together to catch the crooks -though the USA working on behalf of Israel has thrown a very large spanner in that works.

Presumably Norwegian resources are not that well regarded in Arab states.
So altogether; not a very good outlook for government help.

Lets hope the Persians can develop a nuclear threat and stop all this childishness.

Originally posted by Weatherlawyer:

-though the USA working on behalf of Israel has thrown a very large spanner in that works.

that figures!

Originally posted by Weatherlawyer:

Lets hope the Persians can develop a nuclear threat and stop all this childishness.

wow! ... that's scary! then they'll be in the nuclear club, along with others, including, so it is rumored, Israel.!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons

waouh ! Weatherlawyer
they want to attack Opera with nuclear bomb

don't sweat it, catse.... Opera dudes are sooper smart.. they already emailed Stephen King. We all gonna be safe under The Dome

Originally posted by lokutus-prime:

wow! ... that's scary! then they'll be in the nuclear club, along with others, including, so it is rumored, Israel.!

As far as I know, Persia does not have a place like the US does in Cuba and it doesn't kidnap innocent people and torture and murder them. Nor does it assassinate well known physicists.

If you are suspected of a crime in Persia can you be kept in prison indefinitely?
Without access to a lawyer or any member of your family being informed of the circumstances?

These things occur every day in Israel and the USA. That ******* Tony Blair even got Britain doing it and it has not been repealed so some bribery and corruption needs sorting here too.

Our record in Burma and Egypt after WW2 is terrible; not much better but at least shorter lived than the VietNam war.

Most of the genocide in Africa is our fault and that of the USA. The USA is responsible for the disappearances of most of central America's middle class structure. Compare the CIA owned Encyclopaedia Britannica's version of United Fruit with what the Wikipedia has to say about them.

Point me too a bullshit propaganda site from Persia that is anything like the Enc. Brit.

Every evil thing the present mob in Persia are doing was done under the Shah of Persia too and that man was a US puppet. I can't imagine a Persian nuclear threat would be any more dangerous than the slow decay of US foreign policy standards (which truth be told were never very high, take a look at Juan Peron in the Wikipedia. It's a small scale mirror image of US polities in the 20th and 21st century.)

They had a poor record of communist witch hunts from the get go. The FBI was always a secret police with some very nasty secrets and some well managed PR.

And the whole world knows the evil intent of Israel with regard to the original inhabitants of Palestine.

I am afraid that DDOS attacks are going to be a frequent hazard these days with all large sites a semi-permanent target. If it was ever going to be different the world's banks would have put 419ers out of business years ago.

They were and are, just not interested. I think nobody is.

Because time isn't just short. It's running out. ...

I don't think that the USA is the evil eerywhere , the others countries too

Originally posted by opcat:

they want to attack Opera with nuclear bombs?

I suspect the Persians are behind the DDOS but I also think it could be anybody. If it is the Persians, it is a warm up while they find their feet in this business.

Their major target was always going to be the USA.

Persian tech is suffering from an embargo on hardware. They used subterfuge to get hold of some Seimens computers. They were running Windws on them. Somehow the USA succeeded in getting Stuxnet onto them.

After that, Flame was let loose in the area.

I imagine that someone wants to get hold of some modern tech and modern wizards too. The Asian market is about flooded with IT experts these days and China has the world market cornered in hardware production.

Neither China or the USA have enough oil.

So that is the way things must pivot.
Neutral countries like Norway are going to find things hazardous.

OTOH neutral countries like Sweden made a fortune out of WW 2. It just depends what resources the combatants want to get hold of.

Opera would be a nice coup for Persia. It will be interesting to see what countries ask to partner up with them over the next two or three years. Somewhere north west of the Black Sea perhaps?
Somewhere respectable. But poor.

but why the Iranians would kidnap Opera ?
when Firefox or Chrome are more fast
I think they are not fools or stupids

or .... they would be send secret documents with Unite

I don't think they want to kidnap anyone from Opera but if they get a company from a country like Hungary or Romania to invest in Opera, thye might get access to Western European know how.

I imagine that the Persian universities have already been charged with producing a Farsi version of Linux. This can only be a good thing.

The Muslim world has suffered badly at the hands of the west over the last 60 or 70 years. Once they break free of colonial domination the world will have a better chance of facing down the evil empire.

I happen to think the Persians are going the completely wrong way about things. But the idea that the USA is the good side is ingenuous.

I grew up thinking the Injuns were the bad guys and the Cowboys were the goodies. The whole of the western world still believes the FBI is a force for good.

The history of cowboys and the FBI is one and the same a sort of xenophobic force for evil. A home version of the CIA.

but Linux is free if a Iranian want a system Linux he can

more bad for Iranian people is that I read

"The Iranian government is afraid of the Internet, he wants to cut the country's Internet and replace it with a giant intranet. The country will start to cut the largest cut the most services next month (Google, Hotmail, Yahoo).

They will be replaced by national services, and a mail service run by the government and a search engine "Iranian". IDs will be handed by the government and will be similar to digital ID cards containing address and name of the user connected."

Originally posted by opcat:

"The Iranian government is afraid of the Internet, he wants to cut the country's Internet and replace it with a giant intranet. The country will start to cut the largest cut the most services next month (Google, Hotmail, Yahoo).

A lot of countries don't like the way that the USA is controlling the Internet.

I don't like the way it is controlling the Internet.
I think Persai wants the UN to take it over. It isd corrupt.

Google is corrupt. Yahoo has been corrupt in a way Persia might like, giving away the names of people wjho have since been disappeared by China. I won't use that US company or read any articles from them.

You can understand Persian interest in protecting itself from a militant terroristr country.

It needs to develop its own software to get free of suspicious code. I only assumed it would be Linux. It could be any code so long as they can get enough people who can use it.

I think Unix started out as a machhine code but I am not sure.

As for keeping people bound behind a Persian firewall. They are a rich people and probably all well educated. There is no way they can't escape the firewalls anyone would seek to bind them weith. A satellite phone is capable of crossing all borders.

The Chinese can get through theirs with a little know how. Or maye they are being permitted to in order to trap cells of dissidents?

I was just floating an idea.
Everyone thinks the Iranian government is an ogre.
There are plenty of religious maniacs there, that is for sure. But we have more than our fair share of them in the west.

Making war on them like the USA is accused of doing is goint to alienate the populace. If that happens it will be the end of any Persian Spring.

Already the western governments are cracking down on our own freedoms. They are doing it in the name of anti-piracy but by their undreasonable behaviour and the way they cross borders of places like New Zealand at the behest of Hollywood for instance (running a coach and horses through due process of law) and the timing of such behaviour after the coups in Egypt and places like that...

It all makes me think there is a McCarthyist clique at work. Rabble rousing the xenophobes once more. Nothing good will come of it. Probably a lot of bad.

My guess is no better than yours.

I 'm agree with you , for the lost of liberties , I think it is like in France the Majors international and microsoft , apple etc which dictate the laws
I agree Iranians have brains to do technologie
but you can't say it is a good government for people and liberties

Originally posted by Weatherlawyer:

My guess is no better than yours.

WL, In your detailed replies you have, seemingly, reviewed all of the events you talk about with an antagonistic feeling towards the western hemisphere (but this is merely my perception and my perception is open to dispute). Nothing wrong with that, of course, but therefore there is a need for a contrary statement, to counter balance, your view, or a need for an independent (an historical observer) - non partisan - viewpoint to give a neutral (evenly blanced) over view. You come close to the second alternative but one can detect some acid in your views and so your valid personal opinion is coloring some of the points you make.

I don't decry your views. From your standpoint they are relevant and factual and it is possible that you reflect a ground swell of public opinion, but I would like to read an equally erudite and intellectually adroit personal opinion expressed by anyone who wants to counter balance your view or anyone who can cover the same ground but give a dissertation as an historian would. I am not asking for volunteers. I am musing on what you say and then thinking aloud.

Best wishes

This all started as speculation and proceeded that way.

It had a truck-load of secret files on Oppenheimer all based on a no evidence anonymous article that didn't say much. Eventually he was hounded out of The USA he fought so hard for in WW 2.

A host of fine artists and writers were similarly hounded in the 1950's. Charlie Caplin for one. All he did was stand up for the right of anyone to mind his own business.

The agency was run by a closet homosexual who used blackmail and bribery and likely colluded with the US Marshall Service in the death of both Kennedys.

All the while enjoying a front of respectability.

It had a lot of information about the likely attack on New York. And a huge list of what it didn't do that it should have done.

All this is coming to light now as the USA has a system of supplying once secret documents under the FOI act.

We don't have anything like thath here more's the pity. I am certain in my mind Britain is equally evil. So is China so is Persia. The problem is that it is only China and Iran that is getting the bad press these days.

People willfully ignore what is out in the street. Not because they just won't look but because they don't want to look. You can't not see it. But you can not notice it.

Meanwhile any news from Iran is hot news, slanted news, Fox News.
All I did was play devil's advocate. What would you do if you were in charge of Iranian security?

It is just too much of a coincidence that the Persian Empire of 3,000 years ago mirrored the shape of the USA today. So I started thinking:
"What else is new?"

I am not going to feel the slightest bit foolish when we find out that is was just a bunch of immature, spotty, hermits living on coffee, Pot-Noodle and emf waves.

Like I said; it is just speculation.
[quoteTimelines of History]March 1953. The US CIA’s Tehran station reported that an Iranian general had approached the US embassy for support in an army-led coup. Based on this information Allen Dulles, director of the CIA, approved $1 million to be used to help bring about the fall of Prime Minister Mossadegh.

Eisenhower gave the CIA the OK to overthrow the elected government of PM Mohammad Mossadegh. Mossadegh had nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. after Britain refused to compromise and split profits 50-50.

In 2003 Stephen Kinzer authored:
"All the Shah's Men:
An American Coup and the Roots of the Middle East Terror."

(SFEC, 4/16/00, p.A18)(SSFC, 8/24/03, p.M6)[/quote]
http://timelines.ws/subjects/CIA_FBI.HTML

I'm pretty sure most of the information on there is from US government sources. But once again, I could be wrong.