"Random Walkers" may speed P2P networks

sean23007 writes "New Scientist posts an article about an innovative new method of controlling P2P traffic to maximize speed over a very large network. The idea, thought up by researchers at Princeton, Berkeley, AT&T, and Cisco, involves sending random "walkers" around the network, looking for a particular file, which would theoretically yield much better search speed than such other networks as Gnutella. They claim this could result in a network very capable of facilitating a massive distributed supercomputer."

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An analysis of the 9/11 attacks

[Anonymous Coward]

A psycho-analytic discussion of the terror attacks of 9/11/2001

Many people believe that fundamentalist Islam is to blame
for the terror attacks of 9/11, as the terrorist claimed
that they were waging Jihad against the US and seeking revenge
for the Palestinian refugees.
However nothing could be more futher from the truth.
An analysis with classical psycho-analytic methods will show why.
As the infamous psychonalists Dr. Freud and Dr. Jung remarked,
sexual desire the drive nearly behind every thing (expect perhaps
breathing).
What sexual desires were dominating the attacks of 9/11 ?
The attacks against the twin towers were happing in New York.
New York itself is famous for with broad homosexual scene
with its Cristopher street days, dark rooms and Queens cafes.
In fact, New York is sometimes called homosexual capital of the
world.
This might mean nothing, but during the attacks a phallid
shaped Boing 747 was rammed into a phallid shaped skyscraper,
ending with a huge explosion. And this effect was planned
beforehand, so we can drop the possibility of an accidential
sideeffect in our analysis.
Well, you don't have to be Dr. Sigmund Freud to spot the
subconsious allusion to a forced homosexual intercourse here.
In fact, this refers to the common homosexual practice of
cross-masturbation.
So, the attackers subconsiously expressed their wishes of
homosexual intercourse with the USians.
The second attack can be viewed as an emphasis of this point.
In the same light the attack on the pentagon can be
interpreted. The phallid shaped Boing was meant to hit
into the "bulls-eye" of the anus shaped pentagon.
They just missed the middle of the pentagon, because
it's technically impossible to make a vertical dive with
a large jumbo jet - the jet goes supersonic too soon
and the wings go off, making the whole thing uncontrollable.
This was surely also known to the attackers.

This analysis makes also sense in the geopolitical
interpretation of the attacks.
All of the attacks came from authoritarian arabic societies.
It's a well known fact that these societies are
strongly homoeroticized, encouranging paranoid fear
versus women and female sexuality (circumcizing women etc).
The moralic values of these societies carry a latent
homosexuality drive. Homosexuality is outlawed
in these countries, it's well known that a paranoid
behavior towards homosexuals is a very sure sign
of own suppressed homosexuality.

However, we must blame the US for provoking these
attacks itself.
Most arabic countries had primarily a positive
attitude towards the US. Probably because the US is
the only country were sexual freedom is a standard
and latent homosexuals can outlive their subconsious
phantasies and desires. We can go so far that in fact
there was a kind of love for the US in these countries.
However the US did the worst thing one can do -
THEY REJECTED THEM.
Instead the US choosed strongly heterosexual countries
like Israel and India as their partners.
These countries even had WOMEN as heads of state a
hellish thought for anyone from the anti-feminine
arabic societies.
And nothing, really nothing is worse than the wrath
of a rejected lover (Jealousy driven crimes tend to
be much more voilent in homosexual partnerships).
This also explains the Taliban support of the terrorists,
the Taliban being an openly homosexual, women-hating
dictatorship. We can suppose that they had very such
in common.

thats a surprize

[RealisticWeb.com]

Really? I din't think that anyone was allowed to research IMPROVING P2P networks! They are supposed to be illeagal right?

Stupid computer tricks

[lhaeh]

Beaing to cheep to buy a crimper I found that a stapler does an okay job. The pins on the side are the hardest, you will need a clamp or something to hold it in place as you do it. This method works fine if you just have one or two cable endsthat need to be crimped.

Re:non-real time searching?

[guttentag]

The network's ability to provide me with a particular file would go up dramatically if everyone else switched to my revolutionary real-time non-searching model.