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CodeCon: A Conference for P2P Hackers
Rolig liten hattgubbe writes: "infoAnarchy has the scoop about Codecon, which is an interesting P2P-themed hacker conference in San Francisco (Feb 15-17) at JWZ's DNA Lounge. Some of the next-generation projects discussed are already functional, and a demo of Peek-A-Booty is going to be presented. I wonder if anyone will be arrested?"
Ellison to me is just a Bill Gates who never got the chance. He doesn't want Microsoft toppled as a monopoly because Microsoft is bad for consumers; he wants Microsoft toppled so he can treat consumers badly and profit from it. He's just a less successful version of Bill Gates in my mind.
FUD like this "unbreakable" business just proves that he's cut from the same mold. What's truly sad is that our society selects people like Ellison and Gates as leaders because ruthlessness is a competitive advantage - and I mean "selects" in the evolutionary sense.
Oracle: the unbreakable national ID card. The whole idea gives me chills.
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as a mark of respect for those who made p2p the big thing that it is today, all files transferred at the conference should be metallica music and/or videos.
why do they have to meet in real life? :D
they could just trade divx of the key speeches!
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It's really time to get rid of central authority technically, because it has been proven to be impossible to achieve freedom of expression by economic and political means. He who owns the press has freedom of the press. After September 11th everyone who even thinks about not swimming in the political mainstream is marked as potential terrorist.
I've discovered that the cheapest form of Peer to peer file sharing in Australia is loading the files your friends want on a CD-RW, take the CD to them, and then blank it and put the files you want from your friend's computer before taking it home. Depending on how far you live from your friend's place, and how you get there, it costs between $0.10 and $1.00 AUD per gigabyte. Much cheaper than Pacific internet ADSL at $139 a gig, or Telstra ADSL at $198 a gig.
Naw... they won't be arrested, they are citizens. They will be asked to sit in front of congress while congress acts like they care.
[think napster]
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What with all the Internet kiosks and all. Jamie's input alone will make this a hypercool event. Plus, everything that goes over the Lounge's sound system is streamed live to the Internet. Does that include CodeCon, I wonder?
Still, it's too bad it couldn't have been held in JWZ's old Tent of Doom (essentially a cubicle wrapped in 500' of camo netting to ward off the ST:TNG theme of the Netscape office decor). I know it's ancient history now, but his TOD page was an inspiration to cubicle-dwellers everywhere, when it was up. Like the once-bright promise of Netscape, it will be missed.
The BOFs and after-hour discussions are perhaps deeper and more insightful in Holland, or at least, it seems that way...
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PureFiction is coordinating this convention. There seems to be a mentions of Alpine. There was a story about it before with threads containing a little history of PureFiction.
Some would call it "shameless self promotion".
I'd just call it being stoked about what you're doing
I've read the Chord technical note. After ten or so pages of generic blurb, it struck me as perfectly obvious: binary search on doubly-linked circular lists! But unfortunately, it seems that simple and workable solutions can only be found when everything else has been discarded, an excercise that CS people seem better suited at.
The Chord protocol is not perfect; its more obvious omission is the lack of a large-scale implementation to prove its viability. But I think it's a step in the right direction, involving people with massively-parallell computing background that I think its very relevant to the P2P infrastructure.
In the end, P2P seems to be no more than the implementation of a distributed keyed store on a high-latence, low-bandwidth, high-failure-rate massively parallell supercomputer.
Newbies, try here for the tent of doom
I just don't think this hacker convention will be as fun as some other dna events NAUGHTY CHRISTMAS
Seriously, I think its cool that they are not even going to bother with Digital Right Mangement and the hole political aspect of p2p. Just concentrate on the programs and users.
"a demo of Peek-A-Booty is going to be presented." Yeah, I'll believe that when Duke Nukem Forever ships.