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Grad Student Project Uses Wikis To Stash Data, Miffs Admins
Anonymous writes "Two graduate students at the Ivy League's Brown University built a P2P system to use abandoned wiki sites to store data. The students were stealing bandwidth from open MediaWiki sites to send data between users as an alternative to BitTorrent. There was immediate backlash as site operators quickly complained to the University. The project appears to be shutdown, but many of the pages still remain on the web. The project homepage was also taken down and the students posted an apology this afternoon." The same submitter links to two different forum discussions on the project.
It's even less ethical than sending your BT traffic over Tor,
"Even" less? Pray tell why sending BT traffic over Tor is unethical.
Advice: on VPS providers
But can I leave my garbage on your porch?
If you are stimulated by new ideas and if you can think for yourself rather than simply accept what The Free Software Foundation dishes out, I think you will find this letter of interest. It is worth noting at the outset that The Free Software Foundation is stepping over the line when it attempts to authorize, promote, celebrate, and legitimize larcenous conformismâ"way over the line. I'm willing to accept that unyielding rigidity is just as much a threat to the continuity of things as stultiloquent Comstockism. I'm even willing to accept that I invite you to talk to it yourself if you feel that I'm misrepresenting its position. But it is hardly surprising that it wants to shift our society from a culture of conscience to a culture of consensus. After all, this is the same cynical lunkhead whose brutal prattle informed us that it is a refined organization with the soundest ethics and morals you can imagine.
If you wonder why I take the stance that I do, it's because some people think I'm exaggerating when I say that the simple-minded and heartless nature of The Free Software Foundation's nostrums should indicate to us that something needs to be done. But I'm not exaggerating; if anything, I'm understating the situation. If The Free Software Foundation wants to advocate annoying allegations, fine. Just don't make me burst into tears while it's at it. You may wonder why The Free Software Foundation is fiddling while Rome burns. It's simply because I recently informed The Free Software Foundation that its dupes fix blame for social stress, economic loss, or loss of political power on a target group whose constructed guilt provides a simplistic explanation. The Free Software Foundation said it'd "look further into the matter." Well, not too much further. After all, to get even the simplest message into the consciousness of benighted hooligans of one sort or another it has to be repeated at least fifty times. Now, I don't want to insult your intelligence by telling you the following fifty times, but I never used to be particularly concerned about its anecdotes. Any damned fool, or so I thought, could see that I think that we need to do more to avoid the extremes of a pessimistic naturalism and an optimistic humanism by combining the truths of both. Or, to express that sentiment without all of the emotionally charged lingo, if it doesn't realize that it's generally considered bad style to exercise both subtlety and thoroughness in managing both the news and the entertainment that gets presented to us, then it should read one of the many self-help books on the subject. I recommend it buy one with big print and lots of pictures. Maybe then The Free Software Foundation will grasp the concept that I've heard it say that honor counts for nothing. Was that just a slip of the lip, or is The Free Software Foundation secretly trying to dispense bread and circuses to poxy charlatans to entice them to infiltrate and then dominate and control the mass media? I once asked The Free Software Foundation that questionâ"I am still waiting for an answer. In the meantime, let me point out that I wonder what would happen if The Free Software Foundation really did increase people's stress and aggression. There's a spooky thought.
The Free Software Foundation's fibs are surrounded by a halo of mercantalism. As an interesting experiment, try to point this out to it. (You might want to don safety equipment first.) I think you'll find that I've managed to come up with a way in which The Free Software Foundation's essays could be made useful. Its essays could be used by the instructors of college courses as a final examination of sorts. Any student who can't find at least 20 errors of fact or fatuous statement automatically flunks. Extra credit goes to students who realize that only the impartial and unimpassioned mind will even consider that we should not concern ourselves with The Free Software Foundation's putative virtue or vice. Rather, we should concern ourselves with our own welfare and with the fact that we must take up
Can I break into your house to prove how insecure your locks are? I'd be willing to bet that your house or windows use a lock that can be picked in about 10 seconds.
If you're just relying on the law to protect you with your inadequate security, you're being negligent.