First, getting access to Rapidshare's logs should not be so easy.
Secondly, the tool I'm using for downloading changes the IP address after every download, so that you get a new IP everytime (and this removes the waiting between each file).
Thirdly, it's really easy to track torrents, without man in the middle or anything. The trackers just need to check if the same IP downloaded (or worst: uploaded) SEVERAL recent movies. A single infrigement will be unnoticed, but several will likely trigger their detection. Given your explanation, I guess that you think that only the original seeder is at risk, since he sends the file to everybody.
Anyway, there are still binary newsgroups, and a given site provides you daily free access to those.
Explanation: it's because when you use P2P, there is a good 50% chance that you are tracked when you download a recent movie. With Rapidshare/Megaupload, there is no such apparent tracking.
About uploading files, there are several multi-upload sites that allow to do that securely.
And, in my case, these hosting sites are much faster than BitTorrent, since I have a very slow connection. Note also that there is a cool program to download queued files from most of the hosting sites, that bypasses the captchas and automatically downloads the files.
And from what I'm able to see, it uses only classical human algorithms, since it does a lot of rotations. And it doesn't seem better than humans, who are able to solve it within 10 seconds (average time !).
In the author's site (http://www.mechatrons.com/rubot.html), the author says that he used Kociemba's algorithm (http://kociemba.org/cube.htm 22 moves in average), but his robot is a lot slower than the one you mentioned.
It is like the rural versus city problem, when young guys quit their rural life for city, because the life is easier but this just destroys their original culture.
And yes, we are at fault because american series are easier to 'swallow' than our own series. As europeans, we try to take into account the whole world (environment is very important here).
US believe that they are the center of the world and that their way of life is an universal model.
They have labour shortage because the wages are too low, and the work conditions are terrible (no mask when manipulating plastic or metal).
Nobody would accept low wages if they can't live with it, and I think that a lot of rural workers have been disillusioned by the 'miracles' of the city.
Yes, you are right. The US series are known for their quality, and this is the reason why we have so much american series in France (along with some pitiful and poorly dubbed german series).
Frankly, the US series are cheap because they are sold in all the western countries.
I bet you never watched an european serie in your whole life, probably not even an english one !
Which country is it that sends in the secret police to put the gun to your head to watch American TV, American movies, buy American brands and eat at American fast-food stores?
Well, I'll explain what happens in France.
Most of the channels now run 24/7, and need to fill their screen with images. Since producing a french program costs a lot of money, and producing a tv movie costs a lot more (and a movie for the cinema is even more expensive), they have to fill their programs with the cheapest possible things. And guess what ? The cheapest things are american series, full of the american way of life. Do you know the american dream ? It's so cool !
I bet that if the channels could use indian programs, we'll be inundated with the so cool indian way of life.
So YES, U.S. are pushing their culture onto us, and yes, I much prefer european movies, since they don't rely on basic manichaeism, where everything is either good or evil, and the good will be rewarded when killing the evil, or another thing that irritates me: the hero has to declare his love publicly. French movies rely less on this poor mechanism, but there are also much less good movies (probably one or two every year).
Regardless of what the ignorant gringos say, France knows how to live.
Alas, french also know how to die. My favourite neighbour died of cirrhosis, since he drank 2 bottles of -cheap- wine every day (probably for his last 30 years), he was smoking too.
About cheese, it's normal to protect the name, otherwise everybody would sell cheaper cheeses (and probably of much worst quality).
I guess that it's because it costs a ton of bandwidth (and thus money) to make a patch available. Mozilla's patch system is pretty ugly, since it needs to download 3 megabytes for a few bytes changed.
And NO, it doesn't have anything to do with validating the patch, since it's very easy to check that the behaviour doesn't change, especially when the impact is very small. Microsoft uses the "we need some time to check the patch" because they have to maintain a lot of differents versions of their OS.
No, I don't think that the French are moving their R&D to China (I'm a french guy BTW).
However, they (we) are stupid enough to start building their best technology in China. And guess what ?
Chinese already have a train that is as fast as our TGV, even though they probably spent 1/10th of our time to build it (sorry, I wanted to say copy). They already produce all the knives that we are so proud about (Laguiole, etc). They already produce wines of similar quality to ours (okay, they may contain a lot more of pesticides and sugar).
Next will be nuclear technology (which France is so proud), planes (Airbus and Dassault), military equipment and french food (cheese, etc), so that our only advantages will disappear definitely.
But hey, we'll make a quick buck when providing all that ! Isn't that the most important thing ?
The French are scandalised by the idea that an estimated six to nine per cent of the revenues paid by its police ministry for Panda's Global Virus Insurance might have gone into the coffers of the Church, which was founded by L Ron Hubbard.
A disk-drive fast loader could fit into 256 bytes, IIRC. The trick was to shift bits in an unrolled loop. I remember I stored some values on the stack by using PHA in this loop.
I did write a fast loader for a few games I wrote on the C64 (with was one of the computers I was doing games in the 80s, along with Oric, Thomson TO7 and MO6 and Amstrad CPC). Atari ST appeared in 1987.
Slashdot Mirror
Too bad: Foursome is already taken.
So now, we can use Quake to benchmark browsers, instead of Acid2 or some Javascript libraries. Yay !
Why didn't publish it on the first of April ?
I'm pretty sure it would have been a success !
I think you are wrong.
First, getting access to Rapidshare's logs should not be so easy.
Secondly, the tool I'm using for downloading changes the IP address after every download, so that you get a new IP everytime (and this removes the waiting between each file).
Thirdly, it's really easy to track torrents, without man in the middle or anything.
The trackers just need to check if the same IP downloaded (or worst: uploaded) SEVERAL recent movies.
A single infrigement will be unnoticed, but several will likely trigger their detection.
Given your explanation, I guess that you think that only the original seeder is at risk, since he sends the file to everybody.
Anyway, there are still binary newsgroups, and a given site provides you daily free access to those.
Explanation: it's because when you use P2P, there is a good 50% chance that you are tracked when you download a recent movie.
With Rapidshare/Megaupload, there is no such apparent tracking.
About uploading files, there are several multi-upload sites that allow to do that securely.
And, in my case, these hosting sites are much faster than BitTorrent, since I have a very slow connection.
Note also that there is a cool program to download queued files from most of the hosting sites, that bypasses the captchas and automatically downloads the files.
And from what I'm able to see, it uses only classical human algorithms, since it does a lot of rotations.
And it doesn't seem better than humans, who are able to solve it within 10 seconds (average time !).
In the author's site (http://www.mechatrons.com/rubot.html), the author says that he used Kociemba's algorithm (http://kociemba.org/cube.htm 22 moves in average), but his robot is a lot slower than the one you mentioned.
Another huge saving can be done by simply keeping only the last reply.
I have mails where the whole discussion goes on and on, with nobody removing all the old comments.
Yes, US are pushing their culture onto France.
It is like the rural versus city problem, when young guys quit their rural life for city, because the life is easier but this just destroys their original culture.
And yes, we are at fault because american series are easier to 'swallow' than our own series.
As europeans, we try to take into account the whole world (environment is very important here).
US believe that they are the center of the world and that their way of life is an universal model.
I suppose that you consider that Bobby Fischer was insane.
Perelman is eccentric, but not insane.
They have labour shortage because the wages are too low, and the work conditions are terrible (no mask when manipulating plastic or metal).
Nobody would accept low wages if they can't live with it, and I think that a lot of rural workers have been disillusioned by the 'miracles' of the city.
Yes, you are right.
The US series are known for their quality, and this is the reason why we have so much american series in France (along with some pitiful and poorly dubbed german series).
Frankly, the US series are cheap because they are sold in all the western countries.
I bet you never watched an european serie in your whole life, probably not even an english one !
Which country is it that sends in the secret police to put the gun to your head to watch American TV, American movies, buy American brands and eat at American fast-food stores?
Well, I'll explain what happens in France.
Most of the channels now run 24/7, and need to fill their screen with images.
Since producing a french program costs a lot of money, and producing a tv movie costs a lot more (and a movie for the cinema is even more expensive), they have to fill their programs with the cheapest possible things.
And guess what ?
The cheapest things are american series, full of the american way of life. Do you know the american dream ? It's so cool !
I bet that if the channels could use indian programs, we'll be inundated with the so cool indian way of life.
So YES, U.S. are pushing their culture onto us, and yes, I much prefer european movies, since they don't rely on basic manichaeism, where everything is either good or evil, and the good will be rewarded when killing the evil, or another thing that irritates me: the hero has to declare his love publicly.
French movies rely less on this poor mechanism, but there are also much less good movies (probably one or two every year).
The other solution is to ban all Android based phones.
This will hurt Google a lot more in the long term.
Regardless of what the ignorant gringos say, France knows how to live.
Alas, french also know how to die.
My favourite neighbour died of cirrhosis, since he drank 2 bottles of -cheap- wine every day (probably for his last 30 years), he was smoking too.
About cheese, it's normal to protect the name, otherwise everybody would sell cheaper cheeses (and probably of much worst quality).
I'm french, and we have several types of wine in France.
Personally, I can't stand Bordeaux (which is funny, since my family name originally comes from this region).
I much prefer Bourgogne, and wines from Loire in second position.
My wife prefer rosés, like Cotes de Provence.
I guess you like only a few varieties of wine.
I guess that it's because it costs a ton of bandwidth (and thus money) to make a patch available.
Mozilla's patch system is pretty ugly, since it needs to download 3 megabytes for a few bytes changed.
And NO, it doesn't have anything to do with validating the patch, since it's very easy to check that the behaviour doesn't change, especially when the impact is very small.
Microsoft uses the "we need some time to check the patch" because they have to maintain a lot of differents versions of their OS.
Pics or it didn't happen.
I'm sorry to trample on your feelings, but there are very few products sold in France that are "made in USA".
The vast majority are made in France, and every cloth/shoe is made in China (except expensive fashion).
In France too, "made in China" is a label for very poor quality.
What I find scandalous is that Nike's products are done in countries where labor is cheap, even though their products are so expensive.
About quality, I would rely more on Japan (for technology) and Germany (for cars) than USA.
"THEY CAME FIRST for the cheap gadgets,
and I didn't speak up because I didn't work on gadgets.
THEN THEY CAME for the clothes,
and I didn't speak up because I didn't work on clothes.
THEN THEY CAME for the nuclear technology,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't working on the nuclear technology.
THEN THEY CAME for the software
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came
No, I don't think that the French are moving their R&D to China (I'm a french guy BTW).
However, they (we) are stupid enough to start building their best technology in China.
And guess what ?
Chinese already have a train that is as fast as our TGV, even though they probably spent 1/10th of our time to build it (sorry, I wanted to say copy).
They already produce all the knives that we are so proud about (Laguiole, etc).
They already produce wines of similar quality to ours (okay, they may contain a lot more of pesticides and sugar).
Next will be nuclear technology (which France is so proud), planes (Airbus and Dassault), military equipment and french food (cheese, etc), so that our only advantages will disappear definitely.
But hey, we'll make a quick buck when providing all that !
Isn't that the most important thing ?
Here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060713211614/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/03/panda_software_linked_to_church/
The French are scandalised by the idea that an estimated six to nine per cent of the revenues paid by its police ministry for Panda's Global Virus Insurance might have gone into the coffers of the Church, which was founded by L Ron Hubbard.
In french:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010512221513/http://www.lexpress.fr/Express/Info/Societe/Dossier/scientologie/dossier.asp?nom=place
The french article also mentions Diskeeper...
Check the discussion on the page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Panda_Security#Scientology.3F
Interesting, but Panda Software is linked to Scientology.
I'm not sure it's a good idea to let them send packets from your computer...
Or even better: 256 bytes !
The original site disappeared, but here is an archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071006061206rn_1/www.256b.com/home.php
A disk-drive fast loader could fit into 256 bytes, IIRC.
The trick was to shift bits in an unrolled loop. I remember I stored some values on the stack by using PHA in this loop.
I did write a fast loader for a few games I wrote on the C64 (with was one of the computers I was doing games in the 80s, along with Oric, Thomson TO7 and MO6 and Amstrad CPC). Atari ST appeared in 1987.