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stinkbomb writes "The venerable Association for Computing Machinery has posted a legal brief on it's site regarding Felten vs. RIAA. The ACM position is: 'ACM believes that the application of any law to limit the freedom to publish research on computer technology will impose a cost not only on ACM's members, but also on the academic community, the process of scientific discourse, and society in general.'"
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I don't know anything about the shakespeare programming language or why I can't post comments about it or for what reason it makes Slashdot's color scheme go all funky, but I remember clearly the great programming leaps from before my time.
** GLAGOL 61 **
GLAGOL 61 was the forerunner of several undeservedly obscure computer languages, such as Barfy, SNET, and %++. Inspired by an incident (recorded in a humorous note in the Journal of the ACM by Dr. Harry Buttle) in which a moth was squashed by the print head of a primitive Sperry "wrecking-ball" teletype, Buttle invented the insect-oriented programming paradigm and created a language for the representation of algebraic and algorithmic formulae whose symbols consisted exclusively of
vowels, used as reserved key-letters, and
bugs squashed on the page.
GLAGOL (short for GeneraL AlGOrithmic Language) used a specially designed terminal whose printing element was a modified flyswatter. Used in a bug-filled room (the prototype was set up in a dormitory shower room at William and Mary that had a broken window), it required the use of rubber type to set vowels. Later, the rubber-type mechanism was abandoned in favor of a carriage-mounted Dymo labelmaker. GLAGOL 61 also required special processing hardware for optimized execution. Source code was represented internally by larval grubs, and executable code by pupae, nestled in a unique "honeycomb store" on a rotating surface of uniform negative Gaussian curvature, which doubled as an element in the machine's analog differential analyzer, and as an occasional dressmaker's dummy, eventually leading to a grotesque incident which I shall not offend the reader's sensibilities by recounting.
GLAGOL 61's economy of expression may be glimpsed in the following two-line decimation algorithm for a fast Fourier transform [I have translated the insect splotches to ASCII as best I can]:
(see ' http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/ ' for algorithm text)
Rarely has the essence of an algorithm shone through so clearly on the printed page; of modern languages, only APL is comparable.
(tip of the pin to Matt McIrvin for actually writing this stuff -- I am merely the scribe who happened to get lost one day in the oldest, deepest vaults of obscurity to learn about it.)
-K
Excuse me, asshole, but how is the parent post Offtopic? It didn't say ANYTHING at all, there was NO topic.
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The RIAA is run by a bunch of money-hungry jews who promote talentless pop trash like Aaliyah.
Fuck the RIAA.
Gee, what do you expect from a site run by a bunch of open source linux hippies that never shower and are as educated as my fecal matter.
This is the second draft FAQ for the 'giFT' project, it isn't complete, and it ain't accurate, it sure is a draft.
;-)
1.What is giFT?
giFT is a project to write a generic interface to the Fasttrack© Network. The program is to be Open-Source and freely.
2.What does giFT stand for?
The Givers (who originally chose the name giFT) wrote "giFT isn't Fast Track." You can also think of giFT as "Generic Interface for Fast Track" if it's easier on your mind!
3.What is Fasttrack?
Fasttrack is the name of the company that created a peer-2-peer network (the architecture and the software to run on it,) they are expecting their architecture to be the de-facto standard of the peer-2-peer networking.
4.Is what you are doing legal?
Hmm, I guess! Well, there is one way to know for sure. Seriously, whatever we are doing does _not_ violate any copyright/license agreement.
5.What is Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Networking?
Read the Technical FAQ.
6.What is Kazaa/Morpheus?
Kazaa is the front end to the FT P2P network developed by FT. Morpheus is the client used by musiccity.com (also developed by FT.)
7.I've just found the Kazaa WinAmp plugin (or perl/python scripts) and they do what you guys are trying to do! Why don't you use that?
The WinAmp plugin and others access a frontend developed by Kazaa. It does not support all of the functionality of the full client, or use the Fast Track protocol.
8.Why don't you do the same for Napster/eDonkey/Gnutella....?
Although different members of this project might have different reasons for joining this project, there are some important facts that are common to all.
The Napster and Gnutella protocols were already known, and we wanted to be involved in something new and challenging (and the Fast Track protocol is definetly more challenging than most other P2P protocols). Also, Kazaa has really taken off and is one of, if not the most used P2P application. It has a lot of cool features like downloading a file from multiple people to speed up the process, and being able to work behind a firewall. It definetly took what Napster was doing to the next level.
9.Who is working on this project?
Volunteers. Whoever wants to help.
10.Can I Join?
Sorry. We are currently not accepting any more developers. If you have any patches, bug reports, ideas or anything else, please, by all means post them on the appropriate forum.
11.I lost the URL of the site, what was it again?
Err... The projects homepage is at http://gift.sourceforge.net/ The project files, forums, news are at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/
12.What are the project's/your goals?
Our goals are: (by priority/precedence)
a) Free, free, free, make everything for free!
b) Understand the Fasttrack© search protocol.
c) Implement a library to generating search requests on the Fasttrack© Network.
d) Write client software (for different platforms) to share files (download/upload) on the Fasttrack© Network) (Emulate and surpass Kazaa/Morpheus.)
e) Document the protocol, and our client's functionality. Make the sources available to the public in a portable form.
f) Make the programs/source/documents accessible to everyone (for FREE
13.Who started this project?
The project is maintained by two teams that now work as one. The two teams were independent. Though working on similar projects, they didn't know about each other. Until the Givers came and joined us.
14.Who are these "Giver" people I keep on hearing about? What's the story, really?
OK, ok, if you really want to know. In the beginning there was the simple land of kazaatux. David Bamps created this kingdom so he could share all the wonders of the Fast Track protocol with the world, and his subjects. He, along with his faithful roundtable of developers had come a long way to reaching their ultimate goal. Then, one day during the usual sacrifices on the Open Discussion forum a group of strange men on horse back came to David. They were wearing long dark cloaks that covered every inch of their body. They spoke to David in a strong, stern voice: "David, administrator of kazaatux. We see the good you are doing for people and wish to help. We have discovered what you seek and we bring you this giFT." A box of Lion Bars, David though it was. But soon he discovered the truth.
15.So what's with the name 'Giver'? Who chose it anyway?
On a long dark-night, Chris, a fellow Developer on the kazaatux land was working on the encryption of the FT protocol. Stoned by the packets he was capturing all night long he started fooling around in land of David. He went to the ends of the kazaatux world, and reached the forbiden zone (where David had kept the giFT.) Eventually, he run into the giFT, not knowing what it was he unwrapped it (thinking he would find more packets of cryptic code for his head) only to find a working version of the FT protocol. Excited as he was he called the developers of the giFT The Givers, for they gave us what we were looking for... (yes, he usualy does talk to himself late at night, that is when you know he is working best) and the name stuck.
16.Who wrote this FAQ? Can't you find someone better?
The author is a computer addict. Has been under treatment for the past 14 years without hope. He goes by the name DarkMask, for computer addiction has turned his face pale and dark. Chris, the co-author (also an addict) usually supplied DarkMask with generous amounts of computer tablets (A.K.A. Core Dump.)
The MPAA and the ACM really don't matter to me that much after I smoke a lot of puffy, sticky, dank buds. MPAA = Marijuana People Around America ACM = All Cool, Marijuana Yeah
I just heard some sad news on TV, apparently Slashdot website creator, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, was rushed to the hospital this afternoon after having his penis sliced off. Authorities say the accident involved Rob's penis, his computer, and an illegal computer device imported from China that was designed to stimulate the penis during cyber-sex. The authorities aren't releasing many details yet as to how it happened, but they suspect that the device malfunctioned which caused his penis to be sliced off. However, there is speculation among the Slashdot community that the Open Source Operating System "Linux" is to blame, for its faulty structure and lack of professional development. There is no word of whether there was any foul-play involved from hackers amongst the Linux community.
Nice try :-) It takes alot more than that to provoke me :)