>> P2P would(barring some very clever design or a focus more or less exclusively on walkie-talkie use cases) likely be a poor candidate for cell phone use)
Well I'm no expert but there are live video streaming protocols using P2P such as SOPcast; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2PTV. Works well; the more people watching, the better the stream:).
Wouldn't that sort of thing work for mobile phones?
Yep I know what zero-day flaws are. In any case, having the source to some software makes it a lot easier to find flaws in it. Just because MS have their own code, doesn't mean they know about every single potential exploit; it's way too complex.
I don't know how much of the NT code got out, can you cite a reference?
I'm a software developer too you know. As such I know it takes a *lot* of effort and discipline to write secure code and even then, it'll never be perfect. But by definition, closed source software like such that MS sells is *initially* more secure because nobody outside the company (well...) can poke around in the code so there is less scrutiny. This can often lead to defects going undetected for a long time. I'm not slating Microsoft developers at all, it's just the nature of the beast.
It doesn't need submit access to look at for screw-ups in the code. I believe the US gov has access to a lot of windows source for security/military reasons. They also reportedly gave portions to the Chinese government as part of a deal for them to use it instead of linux. It's oft said but the fact that it's closed source means that there's probably all sorts of bad stuff in it. FOSS code wouldn't get away with it.
Yeah overall it is an interesting proposition that he probably wasn't the main author. It was a really excellent book though, I thought at least, and I think on the whole a lot of it came across as very personal and honest which a ghost writer couldn't have done all by themselves.
Yeah I think based on his performance overall since taking office he's been a disappointment. When John Stewart said as much to him... that's pretty tough to deny plus Obama's reaction was one of acknowledgement as much as anything.
I may be wrong but I get a sense you're a conservative (or possibly a libertarian) so you might disagree but my main hope for Obama - because there were a lot of people talking about impossible expectations even before his primary win against Clinton - was that he would just not make things any worse after the nightmare of the Bush years (by that I mean mainly the wars, the rights abuses and the crazy spending). I think some of his problem actually is that a lot of the civil service was realigned to Neoconservatism during that time (or naturally feels that way) and as such isn't especially loyal. Overall I think it'd be a disaster for America if he went the way of Carter. One thing any democrat has to admire in the Reps is the ability to regroup and reform after it has taken a beating!
No I googled it allright and found it was only mentioned by questionable news sources. No I do not think "New Jersey Newsroom" is a credible source. Your LA Times link doesn't mentinon Obama at all.
>> didn't realize that my google finger would bring up a story on this very topic
That's exactly why I mentioned Salon!
I don't know what the Journolist thing has to do with anything but while we're here, Ed West is a screeching right-winger who writes for the torygraph.
Anyway. I haven't seen any evidence for this Bill Ayers theory here apart from one conservative blogger who says she met him in a coffee shop at an airport. Hardly compelling. So while he may have had help ranging from a good editor to a team of ghost writers, I don't suppose we'll ever know.
>>Anyways, whether it's true or not, it doesn't seem to be that Obama is following his manifesto in practice.
Well YMMV but I think he's pretty much between a rock and a hard place.
Please provide a source for the Bill Ayers ghost writing claim or I will put a sticker saying "loony" on you. If your source is a recognised right-wing mouthpiece, I *will* counter with salon.com.;)
It's not a conspiracy theory. A conspiracy is a bunch of people secretly discussing evil deeds. This was all there on the surface for everyone to see. And I never said he was an idiot or evil; I'm saying that to some degree, he was a puppet. This is pretty much what Michael Moore's "Dude where's my country" said. I wasn't a fan at the time but I see his point now.
You think Neoconservatism was Bush's idea? His whole coterie were, he may have had some weak allegiance to it himself but one thing I am sure of; his presidency was largely nepotistic and he acted mainly as a figurehead. It's no conspiracy theory. Find me one source that says he formulated a single policy himself. Obama is a different animal; he wrote a political manifesto off his own back, millions of people bought it as a paperback and he ran with that agenda. That's old school. He may now be floundering but I think to a large extent what you see is what you get.
Seriously, shut the hell up. There's a difference between dishonesty and changing your mind. After the last democrat presidential candidate... what was his name? You know...uhhh... Kerry! John Kerry that was it. They were practically begging for Obama to take it on because he was a hotshot with brains and star quality. Hilary could have done it I guess but I doubt she would have fared any better. I just don't get why everyone has turned on him this way. If they guy farts he's got people holding their hands over their eyes and saying to each other, "Oh I can't believe I voted for him!".
FFS! HE didn't do all the smart stuff, he was a puppet for Karl Rove and the rest of the neocons who used him because his dad had been president before and therefore a lot of republican voters trusted him implicitly. I mean seriously, were you just not paying attention?
Java does not shine, it's blows. My god; the amount of hoop jumping we do in java that post-java languages like python would obviate. The trick is hooking it up to a cross-platform runtime...
It's just a generic file hosting facility. If the users happen to be uploading copyrighted media, how are they to know? Of course megaupload and such like are very popular for that exact purpose, for some strange reason... Also one defence is that they don't index their files so you can't go to their site and search for "bieber MP3", you have to be privy to an existing link somehow, perhaps someone posted it on a forum. That's where filestube.com comes in, but since that's a completely separate company... It's all pretty cunning really and I doubt the RIAA will be able to put anything on them for it.
Really? I think it's pretty clear he's trying to make it more dramatic so the leaks get more media coverage. He's become quite expert at making the regular media types salivate ahead of a release; this is no mean trick. I think if nothing else it shows that "new media" isn't new, it's just the old media on a website. We're just starting to conceive of what new media is.
People always said "oh 1984, scary but of course it would be impossible to actually have enough people watching enough screens". Not any more it isn't. It's probably pretty meaningless given the current political climate but if there were ever a big political swing to extremism then here's the mechanism to very thoroughly police the behaviour of the public.
You're probably right to extent and I've stumbled across all sorts of things on the net, but never that. I was under the impression though that where it is exchanged, it is done in private, not on public sites. You can imagine the people involved being *incredibly* paranoid about being discovered so you'd imagine leakage would be like that from Lockheed Martin working on a new stealth bomber, i.e. minimal.
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It's worse than that; you're really North Korean.
Why are they helping them in the first place then?? Also Iran exports a lot of fossil anyway.
>> P2P would(barring some very clever design or a focus more or less exclusively on walkie-talkie use cases) likely be a poor candidate for cell phone use)
:).
Well I'm no expert but there are live video streaming protocols using P2P such as SOPcast; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2PTV. Works well; the more people watching, the better the stream
Wouldn't that sort of thing work for mobile phones?
Yep I know what zero-day flaws are. In any case, having the source to some software makes it a lot easier to find flaws in it. Just because MS have their own code, doesn't mean they know about every single potential exploit; it's way too complex.
I don't know how much of the NT code got out, can you cite a reference?
I'm a software developer too you know. As such I know it takes a *lot* of effort and discipline to write secure code and even then, it'll never be perfect. But by definition, closed source software like such that MS sells is *initially* more secure because nobody outside the company (well...) can poke around in the code so there is less scrutiny. This can often lead to defects going undetected for a long time. I'm not slating Microsoft developers at all, it's just the nature of the beast.
It doesn't need submit access to look at for screw-ups in the code. I believe the US gov has access to a lot of windows source for security/military reasons. They also reportedly gave portions to the Chinese government as part of a deal for them to use it instead of linux. It's oft said but the fact that it's closed source means that there's probably all sorts of bad stuff in it. FOSS code wouldn't get away with it.
Yeah overall it is an interesting proposition that he probably wasn't the main author. It was a really excellent book though, I thought at least, and I think on the whole a lot of it came across as very personal and honest which a ghost writer couldn't have done all by themselves.
Yeah I think based on his performance overall since taking office he's been a disappointment. When John Stewart said as much to him... that's pretty tough to deny plus Obama's reaction was one of acknowledgement as much as anything.
I may be wrong but I get a sense you're a conservative (or possibly a libertarian) so you might disagree but my main hope for Obama - because there were a lot of people talking about impossible expectations even before his primary win against Clinton - was that he would just not make things any worse after the nightmare of the Bush years (by that I mean mainly the wars, the rights abuses and the crazy spending). I think some of his problem actually is that a lot of the civil service was realigned to Neoconservatism during that time (or naturally feels that way) and as such isn't especially loyal. Overall I think it'd be a disaster for America if he went the way of Carter. One thing any democrat has to admire in the Reps is the ability to regroup and reform after it has taken a beating!
>> Is your google finger broken or something?
No I googled it allright and found it was only mentioned by questionable news sources. No I do not think "New Jersey Newsroom" is a credible source. Your LA Times link doesn't mentinon Obama at all.
>> didn't realize that my google finger would bring up a story on this very topic
That's exactly why I mentioned Salon!
I don't know what the Journolist thing has to do with anything but while we're here, Ed West is a screeching right-winger who writes for the torygraph.
Anyway. I haven't seen any evidence for this Bill Ayers theory here apart from one conservative blogger who says she met him in a coffee shop at an airport. Hardly compelling. So while he may have had help ranging from a good editor to a team of ghost writers, I don't suppose we'll ever know.
>>Anyways, whether it's true or not, it doesn't seem to be that Obama is following his manifesto in practice.
Well YMMV but I think he's pretty much between a rock and a hard place.
Please provide a source for the Bill Ayers ghost writing claim or I will put a sticker saying "loony" on you. If your source is a recognised right-wing mouthpiece, I *will* counter with salon.com. ;)
It's not a conspiracy theory. A conspiracy is a bunch of people secretly discussing evil deeds. This was all there on the surface for everyone to see. And I never said he was an idiot or evil; I'm saying that to some degree, he was a puppet. This is pretty much what Michael Moore's "Dude where's my country" said. I wasn't a fan at the time but I see his point now.
Duh... we'll eat *each other*.
>>Where no one else could see?
You think Neoconservatism was Bush's idea? His whole coterie were, he may have had some weak allegiance to it himself but one thing I am sure of; his presidency was largely nepotistic and he acted mainly as a figurehead. It's no conspiracy theory. Find me one source that says he formulated a single policy himself. Obama is a different animal; he wrote a political manifesto off his own back, millions of people bought it as a paperback and he ran with that agenda. That's old school. He may now be floundering but I think to a large extent what you see is what you get.
Seriously, shut the hell up. There's a difference between dishonesty and changing your mind. After the last democrat presidential candidate... what was his name? You know...uhhh... Kerry! John Kerry that was it. They were practically begging for Obama to take it on because he was a hotshot with brains and star quality. Hilary could have done it I guess but I doubt she would have fared any better. I just don't get why everyone has turned on him this way. If they guy farts he's got people holding their hands over their eyes and saying to each other, "Oh I can't believe I voted for him!".
FFS! HE didn't do all the smart stuff, he was a puppet for Karl Rove and the rest of the neocons who used him because his dad had been president before and therefore a lot of republican voters trusted him implicitly. I mean seriously, were you just not paying attention?
Java does not shine, it's blows. My god; the amount of hoop jumping we do in java that post-java languages like python would obviate. The trick is hooking it up to a cross-platform runtime...
It's just a generic file hosting facility. If the users happen to be uploading copyrighted media, how are they to know? Of course megaupload and such like are very popular for that exact purpose, for some strange reason... Also one defence is that they don't index their files so you can't go to their site and search for "bieber MP3", you have to be privy to an existing link somehow, perhaps someone posted it on a forum. That's where filestube.com comes in, but since that's a completely separate company... It's all pretty cunning really and I doubt the RIAA will be able to put anything on them for it.
Could this be the first real battle waged mostly in the digital world?
Could be - I can't recall anything getting the net *quite* as stirred up as this; and with top-dogs like Hilary Clinton wading into it too.
If COINTEL PRO had been leaked in the same dramatic fashion, perhaps more people would remember it.
You got it, this I think is Assange's master plan. Good, isn't it?
Really? I think it's pretty clear he's trying to make it more dramatic so the leaks get more media coverage. He's become quite expert at making the regular media types salivate ahead of a release; this is no mean trick. I think if nothing else it shows that "new media" isn't new, it's just the old media on a website. We're just starting to conceive of what new media is.
Cocks, not dicks!
People always said "oh 1984, scary but of course it would be impossible to actually have enough people watching enough screens". Not any more it isn't. It's probably pretty meaningless given the current political climate but if there were ever a big political swing to extremism then here's the mechanism to very thoroughly police the behaviour of the public.
oh yes clearly there are very many photographs of such.
Seriously though, I'd love to see a picture of that... do you have one?
1859?? How did they measure solar radiation flux in those days?
Archie Gemmill had all sorts of parasites, the dirty old bastard.
You're probably right to extent and I've stumbled across all sorts of things on the net, but never that. I was under the impression though that where it is exchanged, it is done in private, not on public sites. You can imagine the people involved being *incredibly* paranoid about being discovered so you'd imagine leakage would be like that from Lockheed Martin working on a new stealth bomber, i.e. minimal.