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My point: use the right tool for the right job. C++/Native is good for large-scale computations involving floating-point calculations over large arrays of data. C#/Java are faster on data structures manipulation programs like formula translation algorithms, etc.

Here are my two challenges for everyone.

1) The challenge for those who claim C#/J#/Java is faster than C++
Rewrite my Win32 Tetris with software background animation in a JIT language and make it faster than the C++ implementation. (BTW, the initial version was written in Java/SWT, then Java/AWT till it finally got ported to C++/Win32).

2) The challenge for those who claim C++ is faster than C#/J#/Java
Rewrite my SQEMA (a modal logic algorithm) implementation in C++ and make it faster than the Java implementation.

Here are the sources of the above-mentioned applications:

http://myjavaserver.com/~dimitertg

Side note: Don't mind the intimidating license of SQEMA. I will change it to something nice when I get to 1.0 (that should be next week since it must be completed by then).

I have tried both challenges and failed miserably.

As for the prize for those who complete the challenge - well, nothing, except the pride you may take in what you have achieved.

Wikipedia has a great Wiki on the subject. There is also a Forum called Planet Peer which is all about Anonymous P2P. Both of these are great starting points for checking out this supposed "third generation" of P2Ping.

Some of the Wiki is inaccurate or old. Basically, these revolutionary programs hide your IP address, encrypt all data transfers, and route all information through several middle-men. This effectively thwarts the RIAA (or anyone else for that matter) from identifying who is sending what. The different programs use different methods. Most of the networks are small, but they are all growing.

For a start, try Ants.

Ignore the comment on Wiki saying "the Recording Industry Association of America has successfully tracked and threatened to sue some users on non-anonymous P2P networks." This was a long time ago on an old and flawed program in Japan. Anonymous P2Ping has come a long way since then. Give it a try.

Wikipedia has a great Wiki on the subject. There is also a Forum called Planet Peer which is all about Anonymous P2P. Both of these are great starting points for checking out this supposed "third generation" of P2Ping.

Some of the Wiki is inaccurate or old. Basically, these revolutionary programs hide your IP address, encrypt all data transfers, and route all information through several middle-men. This effectively thwarts the RIAA (or anyone else for that matter) from identifying who is sending what. The different programs use different methods. Most of the networks are small, but they are all growing.

For a start, try Ants.

Ignore the comment on Wiki saying "the Recording Industry Association of America has successfully tracked and threatened to sue some users on non-anonymous P2P networks." This was a long time ago on an old and flawed program in Japan. Anonymous P2Ping has come a long way since then. Give it a try.

Here's a good use of Google Earth to show real time weather maps with data pulled from Weather Underground's database of personal weather station. Very cool. Try out the "export current view" link to view in 3D

See projects MUTE http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/
and ANts http://www.myjavaserver.com/~gwren/home.jsp?page=c ustom&xmlName=ants for more info

While obviously most people were disappointed about exeem, there is already a cross-platform, decentralized, anonymous, encrypted, bittorrent-like p2p-appilcation knows as ANts.
It's still in a pretty early phase, so it hasn't reached the critical amount of users p2p applications need to survive. Still, I have high hopes for it

Ants P2P is anonymous and working with torrents... ANTS P2P it is done up in Java...so it basically runs on all platforms...

Anybody developing newer versions with encryption and anonymity, feel free to contact me. I have both developer time (C, C++, HTML, Perl, Javascript, etc.) and disposable income, to support creating a new version.

Have you considered instead trying to bring the BT advantages to a more secure system already under development? How about teaming with this guy: ANts

Anonymity is the main object of some new "next generation" P2P networks like ants and mule unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible to achieve anonymity without a considerable performance penalty.

http://www.myjavaserver.com/~gwren/home.jsp?page=c ustom&xmlName=ants

ANts P2P realizes a third generation P2P net. It protects your privacy while you are connected and makes you not trackable, hiding your identity (ip) and crypting everything you are sending/receiving from others. Supports torrent downloads & auto-resume. Features * Open Source Java implementation (GNU-GPL license). * Multiple sources download. * Torrent download from partial files. * Automatic resume and sources research over the net. * Search by hash, string and structured query. * Embedded support for etherogeneus data types (not only arrays of bytes...). * Completely Object-Oriented routing protocol. * Point to Point secured comunication: DH(512)-AES(128) * EndPoint to EndPoint secured comunication: DH(512)-AES(128) * Automatic serverless peer dicovery procedure. * IRC based peer discovery system. * IRC embeded chat system. * Full text search of indexed documents (pdf, html, txt, doc etc) -> QUERY REFERENCE. * Distributed/Decentralized Search engine * HTTP tunneling. Sourceforge Page http://sourceforge.net/projects/antsp2p/ Programers Homepage http://www.myjavaserver.com/~gwren/home.jsp?page=c ustom&xmlName=ants