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Trackerless BitTorrent Beta Posted
jgarzik writes "BitTorrent development is occuring at a furious pace. At the beginning of May, an Azureus update added distributed tracker and database features. Yesterday, Bram updated BitTorrent to include support for trackerless torrents in the new BitTorrent 4.10 beta."
See you in Guantanamo, "Bram".
Towards the Singularity.
I hate it when I squeeze harder and things start to slip through my fingers.
Is it just a coincidence that this enhancement has come the day before the new Star Wars movie?
how can you connect to a torrent download if you don't know where to start? Isn't the starting point the same as a tracker?
There's an A-end and a B-end seperated by some amount of time. Say 1 minute. At the A-end, you start your search for the torrent. The search continues for 60 seconds until the torrent is found at the B-end. The torrent data is then loaded at the B-end which is picked back up at the A-end 60 seconds prior. From your perspective, it happens instantly.
The searches are also modular in design. So you can actually include a second search at the B-end. So at the A-end, you might actually get back a second result for something you didn't even know you searched for.
Don't worry about the noise in the attic. It's just birds.
Yes, Yes it is. The Independent Thought Police have been dispatched.
Have a nice day.
See you in Guantanamo, "Bram".
Didn't you get the joke, mods?
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"I hate it when I squeeze harder and things start to slip through my fingers."
Let's leave your sex life out of this.
It's a parabolic thing, and the bath of mercury is just for showing off.
The new Bittorrent protocol was designed by the same developers who designed the original TCP/IP protocol in the 70s. But this new protocol has a decidedly "edgy" feel to it. Below is the "handshaking" procedure. There are a few similarities between it and SMTP:
client1: gimme the warez
client2: who's askin'?
client1: me, mutherfucka
client2: well, your story checks out - here's da shit.
I know what you're thinking - how will they handle flow control? The trackerless developers also thought of that:
client1: the shit's comin' slow - speed it up
client2: get off my back, bitch
client1: don't make me bust a cap in yo' ass!
client2: all aight, all aight... sheee-it.
Hmm. How does one use a deep fryer for evil? Open a KFC?
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
I, for one, welcome our new pirate overlords.
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anything you make in a deep fryer tastes so good it MUST be evil
You click on the Internet icon on the desktop.
You can also go to Wallmart and ask them if they could put the internet on your floppy disk (warning: you need a floppy disk)
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"People have lives OTHER than charity, as your presence here proves." Somebody's presence on Slashdot proves they have a live?!?
Go home dad, you're drunk again.
I think, therefore I am. I think?
True anonymous p2p filesharing will never be possible - it is ALWAYS possible to find out who you are downloading from. Accept it.
I would have thought that is what your zombie window intermediary is for.
Michael
There is no cryptographic solution to the problem where the intended receiver and the attacker are the same entity.
Hmm. How does one use a deep fryer for evil? Open a KFC?
Oh what? Like YOU'VE never heard of a deep fried a baby. Sure, sure. All of those KFC and and french-fry lovers like to stand up and say that a ban would be against their best interests, but even they know the primary reason people get deep fryers is for cooking babies.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
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Recipe for evil:
Insert one human/family pet into deep frier.
You left out the all important super tracker tracker. We obviously need a super tracker tracker to track the super trackers that are tracking the trackers. Are you keeping track of all this?
tired of online ads?
Ever seen someone's hand deep fried? Sure, it's not pleasant if it's *your* hand. But it's finger licking good . .
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Begin Nitpick
I forget the numbers but yes each receiver draws a certain amount of power from the propagated signal. Crystal radio kits demonstrate this principal. So you would have to up your power if your viewership tripled and you wanted your signal strength to remain the same.
You're new to the internet, aren't you?
Furry, ponygirl/boy, gorean slave, take your pick. There are local and global, commercial and community supported forums dedicated just to finding human pets.
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Evan
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
I probably should have use a different noun there, but the point still stands.
jX [ Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein ]