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sonicsft writes "RIAA, CARP, and streaming internet radio, oh my. Well these guys may have found a solution. With the tag line, pirate radio for the digital age, they've released a peer to peer streaming radio solution and claim that it is untracable/closable by the RIAA."
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I use GNU/Linux and can't get a girlfriend, no matter what I do. From what I can tell, not too many of you have girlfriends either; I must make it clear right now that I do not want advice from you. I am seeking the advice of those who have consentual, regular, heterosexual intercourse with a well adjusted woman.
.... a fucking GNU/Linux hippy". He sounded so defeated. She wanted to go to the beach, but my skin is not adjusted to the sun and my skin peels while at the beach. This was not a turn on for her and when she came back to my mum's basement that night we were going to have sex but the raw skin was too much for her.
You may be wondering why I placed so many restrictions on the type of sexual intercourse. Being a GNU/Linux user, I can get all the men I want, but my ass hurts from years of anal sex. I am tired of pillow-biting. I have met women at Linux User Groups (LUGs) but they didnt want sex the way I wanted it - they brought their strap on and rode my chute like the men did. The date would end with her taking me to a gay bar and selling my ass to a drunk and bearded kernel hacker.
I am convinced, therefore, that I need to meet women that do not use GNU/Linux.
I have tried dating regular women, but find it hard to make conversation. I was surprised that regular women do not give a shit about Free Software or the Microsoft monopoly which leaves me with nothing to discuss. Some women tried to talk about the weather, but I don't keep up with the weather from my mums' basement.
I have had some success, I dated one girl several times. She picked me up from home, mum liked her. I am sure dad would have too, but he left us soon after I installed Slackware on the family computer. I can still hear him crying and see him moping around the house, saying "I knew he was different; I could handle a gay son, but this
Going out at night for a meal can be difficult too; all restaurants refuse to serve smelly GNU/Linux hippies. The only place we can go for food is the McDonald's drive through, but she doesnt like waiting in her car in the heat of the day when I tend to smell the most. She doesn't like the stares she gets from the drive through staff.
I could go on, but I won't. I seek advice.
I am a lesbian, deeply involved with a woman of lusty beauty such as most men will never know. Her hair is short and blonde. Her face is bold, with a nice sexy square jaw. She has small breasts, and muscular arms and legs, and even a slight hint of a six-pack. Just the mere thought of her body gets my juices flowing.
She and I have been carpet munching for well over five years now. We love each other deeply, but it seems we've reached an impasse in our relationship. Every night, I lick and I lick and I lick. I finger, finger, finger. I also get the attention back with all sorts of creative ideas from my partner. Everything from dildos, to finger paints (when I am on my period), to meat tenderizer. However, no matter how much sexual gratification we exchange, it seems to be wearing down.
One day, while surfing on Slashdot, I learned about an interesting technique involving a turkey baster. The basic idea is that you fill a turkey baster with semen, then insert that tool into the vagina, and squeeze out its contents. With this in mind, I contemplated the idea of getting pregnant with this method, and having a baby with my partner.
I approached my beautiful mate and asked her if she wanted to have a baby. Her face lit up! She seemed to be excited; imbued with new life! However, the euphoria rapidly dissipated when she came to the realization that she did not possess the proper equipment to get me pregnant. I quickly responded that "indeed you do have the right equipment! It's in the kitchen, I'll show you." Promptly, we waltzed into the kitchen and out of a drawer, I produced the turkey baster that would bring a new life into this world.
The next job was to find a source of sperm. Sperm is not hard to come by. Men ejaculate tens of thousands of gallons of it every day. We figured it'd be easy to acquire a nice hot, steaming load of cum from virtually any man. One day, I stood outside the door of our home, close to the sidewalk, topless, and perking my lively breasts at any man who passed. Most simply gawked, but some actually tried to touch, but quickly walked away before doing so. Pretty soon, a nice young man came along who took such an interest in my tits that he seemed to forget about all else! Before long, I had him in our house and I was giving him a blowjob before he even knew what happened. As soon as he shot a big load into my mouth, I grabbed the baster and spit the load into it. He looked puzzled, but quickly realized the bizarre situation he was in and left immediately. I paid him no mind.
"Quickly," I shouted to my lover, "fuck me with this thing!" My lover grabbed the baster, thrust it into my eager beaver, and began to thrust like she was a man. I rubbed her clit and fingered her and she tweaked my boobs and fondled my own clit. When we were both about to climax, she squeezed the bulb of the turkey baster, squirting the whole load deep into my uterus. The warm, thick feeling of it drove me wild! When we were done, we rubbed oil all over each other's bodies, praying to the Lord Jesus that we would get pregnant.
Over the next few weeks, signs of something unusual began to show. As it turns out, I was not only pregnant, I had herpes too. Fucking Hemos! My life was turned upside down, but that story is for another day...
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In the course of our work we discovered this fecal matter, which resulted from grossly over-used toilets, which were executed for the GNU is Not Unix Corporation (GNU) by a consortium of several Foreign Companies such as:
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We intend to use your anus as a front to get the over-invoiced amount of 50 tons of feces out of the BSD sewers and into a designated toilet by you. Not regarding your field of specialization (sphincter expansion) you are going to forward us with any name that we will claim executed the sewaging services in the turn around maintenance of the Penguin fecal abuse farms mentioned above. All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for the smooth insertion of the feces within ten to fourteen days of commencement after the receipt of a semen deposit from you. You are going to get 25% of the feces by posing as the owner of this fecal matter, while my colleagues and I will get 70% to ourselves with which we wish to invest in Agriculture and Farming in conjunction with you (and 5% will be set aside for the use of both parties for all excretions incurred locally and internationally during the realisation of this transaction, including toilet paper). As a matter of fact you are expected to take a sincere inventory of your toilet paper.
It is imperative to let you know that I am also a keen scatologist, with qualifications world-wide.
Despite research carried out to verify and ascertain your personality we can only move ahead if you can further assure us of your anal capacity and homosexuality and promise to help and treat this proposal with utmost confidentiality. We are men of proven integrity in our various fields who have put in 22 - 30 years of fecal matter in the toilets of our country; we are therefore averse to having our image and anuses widened. That is why we should acknowledge the fact that confidentiality is the key to the smooth insertion of this infection free transaction.
Awaiting your earliest positive response.
Best regards and remain blessed.
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Streamer - pirate radio for the digital age
:-)
I'm publishing this in response to the closing of Audiogalaxy and the imminent closure of many net radio stations at the hands of the RIAA and CARP. This can't be closed. I never did like bullies.
Streamer is an internet radio program that allows anyone to broadcast streaming mp3 music, to an unlimited number of listeners, from an internet connection as humble as a 56k modem, and with the broadcasting pc being fairly untraceable.
It works by relaying the mp3 data stream from one listener to the next, forming a branching tree with the broadcasting pc at the base. This is different to the normal method where all the listeners connect to a central server, and it means you don't need lots of server bandwidth. There is also no limit to the number of listeners, since each new one provides more relay bandwidth to the network.
It's also fairly untraceable because each streamer 'host' doesn't reveal any information about whether it is actually the transmitter or not, or where it is getting it's signal from. And I plan to make it completely untraceable for broadcasters who wish. Tax that CARP!. I hope you get the idea.
This is a beta version, work in progress. There's no clever network optimisation yet, or stuff to handle when listeners leave without disconnecting other downstream listeners. You are likely to get disconnections for large audiences. It definitely works ok for half a dozen or so people though, all using 56k modems. Enough to play your tunes to your mates
Download streamer.zip
Check for updates regularly please, it doesn't happen automatically yet.
To install it:
Unzip streamer.zip into a new folder somewhere. It doesn't actually need 'installing'.
To use it: (quick guide)
Run 'streamer.exe'. You will see a DOS-type window, (this will be changed, but it's a beta for now). Your web browser should open, showing 'Streamer p2p relay radio', and a menu. If this doesn't happen, click on the file 'web', or 'web.url'.
Click 'configure'.
Set your internet connection speeds for upload and download, in kilobits (not bytes) per second. Examples: 512 & 128 for cable, or 56 and 33 for a 56k modem. Setting these too high will make streamer unreliable, too low will inhibit growth of the distribution network, and limit the choice of streams available. You can leave the default settings for now if you wish, it will still work.
Click 'Stations'.
If anyone on the network is broadcasting, their station name should show up in this list. Refresh the page if nothing shows up at first. If I am online and broadcasting, the station 'Mnementh's Disco' should appear. (MnementhVI or MnementhVII are my p2p user names).
Click on a station name to tune in.
The mp3 player installed on your pc should then open and connect to streamer. Winamp works fine, windows media player doesn't. If that opens, close it, start winamp, and drop the 'sound.pls' or 'sound' file onto it.
Streamer will ask the streamers on other pc's that it knows about for the audio stream, and eventually you should hear sound. It can take a couple of mins for the sound to start playing though, because of a bug. Be patient please. When Streamer is receiving data, rows of numbers scroll up in it's display. These show the state of blocks of data in the receiving buffer, are so I can see what's happening inside.
And that's it, music should flow within a couple of minutes. Let's start a broadcasting revolution!. A CARP-proof one!.
How it works
Streamer forms a decentralised network, making short lived connections with many other hosts to ask them individual questions. This is different to p2p systems like gnutella which makes semi-permanent connections to a few other hosts. Some questions streamer asks are 'tell me some other hosts you know about', 'tell me some broadcasting stations you know about'. If there is no reply, that host's 'not answering' count is incremented, and eventually it gets removed from the list. If an answer does arrive, the returned data is either added to the 'known hosts' list, or the 'known stations' list. There is a background flux of network messages, about 0.1k/sec or so, much less than gnutella.
You can add the IP of a host from the 'hosts' screen. The IP of my home PC is automatically added to the list each time you run streamer, and it remembers hosts from last time you ran it. Refersh the page to see hosts gradually appearing. All the extra numbers in the display are for debugging, you can ignore them. 'nr=' is the number of times that host has not replied. After a while Streamer stops asking dead hosts questions, and removes them from it's list.
Streamer keeps a list of stations it has learned about during each run. This list is cleared each time you run streamer, in order to prevent 'dead' stations hanging around forever. (which they can still do though, the station cache system needs improving). When you click on a station name to tune into it, streamer starts asking hosts that are also tuned the same station to send it the data stream. It also tries to collect more hosts who are also listening to that station.
Click 'tuning' to see the progress of seeking for a data feed. This page shows the name of the station you are seeking, and if you have a signal yet.
Streamer uses Winamp (or any other icy-200 mp3 streaming receiver) to actually listen to the mp3 data that it's receiving. No point re-inventing the wheel. Streamer is really just a method of shovelling the data around the network. It could distribute any kind of data stream, or even broadcast files.
If you are not actually listening to a station, running streamer on your pc will still help with network stability. It only uses a small amount of background bandwidth.
It uses three ports. 8462 to connect to winamp for output, or the plugin for input. 8464 for the web interface, and 8466 for all the main network traffic, which is all UDP to avoid that annoying TCP 'ack bottleneck' traffic jam.
'8466' is 2112 in hex, which I thought was an appropriate number. An audiogalaxy user posted a message on the AG site after the RIAA shutdown, saying the words 'We have assumed control, we have assumed control' where going round in their head. I prefer the words 'And the meek shall inherit the earth'.
To be a broadcaster.
It's quite simple. First you need something to create the mp3 data stream. I'm currently using the shoutcast dsp plugin for winamp. It's another wheel, although for copyright reasons I should probably create my own plugin to do the same thing. Get it from www.shoutcast.com. You have to sign their licensing stuff I think to download it. Anyone care to write a replacement plugin for streamer to use please? You may need an old version of the plugin to do very low bitrate streams.
Install the plugin, configure it to output to port 8461 (or maybe 8460, or 8462). Choose your mp3 format.
Remember that for the relaying system to work properly, each relaying pc needs to be able to upload 2 copies of the data stream, so don't go mad with the bitrate. My cable modem can do 128k up, so the max bitrate should really be just less than 64k if you are aiming for cable users. You need to allow some overhead for data resends, and general network traffic.
For 56k modem users, the best you can really do is 3kbps or so. My 56k modem can't even manage that, although they should do 33kbps up. Even this bitrate can only be relayed by a modem to one other pc, so you really need some helpful high bandwidth listeners to distribute the signal. I use an old version of the plugin for modem use, because the current one doesn't offer a low enough bitrate.
Next, edit the 'sblurb.dat' file. It's just a text file for your station's blurb, and shows up on the 'text' page in the browser view. Keep it less than 450 characters or so.
Run streamer, goto the 'configure' page. Edit your stations name and stream id, and substream 1's bitrate to match what you set in the plugin. Any number except 0 is ok for stream id. It's what streamer actually searches for when attempting to tune in. Set the data type to 'mp3'. This should happen automatically, but doesn't actually seem to.
Click the connect button on the plugin, and it should connect to streamer and start sending data. The 'tuning' page should then show your station's name, and 'on air' at the bottom. The song name stuff doesn't work yet.
Whenever other hosts ask for more stations, your streamer will now always send your stations name & info, so it should spread around the network. This isn't a very good method though, and low listener stations may be hard to find. To assist in station info propagation, all listeners also always send their current tuned station's info, so popular stations should be easier to find. Doing this compremises the anonimity slightly, so I'll probably take it out for stealth broadcasters.
You can 'stack' several streamers on one pc. Make a separate folder for each, and run them with command line 'streamer.exe 1' to add 10 to each port number, or 'streamer.exe 2' for 20, etc. Stacking is useful for testing your radio station. To tell one local streamer about another local one, enter 127.0.0.1:8466 on the 'hosts' page. Change the '8466' to '8476', or whatever is appropriate. If you enter no port number, it defaults to 8466. (There seems to be a daft bug with the port numbers sometimes though).
There's no listener count yet. To be added soon, along with stats to give some idea about the 'shape' of the data tree.
I also plan to add the ability to switch broadcasting pc's, so one dj can take over from another.
So what do you think? email iain@chaotica.u-net.com or icq 32952155
Or alternatively - try my psychedelic arcade game 'Spheres of Chaos'
is saturday be-pessimistic-about-some-guy-doing-something-abou t-some-fuct-up-stuff day now?
/.ers were bitching about 'the man' ... now they are bitching about some guy trying to make a difference?
... if i didn't read your posts on other threads, i'd think you're shagging the executive board members for the riaa and carp.
last week, when the prices for webcasting were made final,
shit
sellouts.
more power to the guy. just because it's not gpl doesn't mean it sucks. get a fucking clue already.