On top of that, the article fails its own test. According to Wikipedia, Earth is actually 71% covered in water, not 70% as the article claims. People guessing 71% would have wrongly failed their original test. Article is bunk.
Definitely. I think he could take advantage of coral cache to still provide this useful access without paying for it.
He already has a log in system set up. Let anyone create an account, with proper anti-bot measures. If you are logged in, you get normal access to the page. If you are not logged in, you transparently get sent through the Coral Content Distribution Network (via nyud.net), being careful to not redirect CCDN itself. That way they use none of the site's resources but still have full read access.
Highly irritating to go to Google.com and find myself redirected to Google.com.hk.
I have run into this annoyance when using Tor as well. If the exit node is in another country (I have seen both France and Germany), I get that country version of Google.
Agreed. I watched every episode TNG all the way through, and the same with DS9 and Enterprise. DS9 was the best series of them all -- even better than TOS, I say. I stopped watching Voyager during the second season because it was just so awful. Too much technobabble and too little plot.
So, for any large value of n, the calculation will take a prohibitively long time
That's exactly what I meant when I used the modifier "practically": for a large n, even if we used all the resources currently available to mankind, it would be impossible to find a solution within the amount of time that a solution would be useful.
So, it wouldn't be practical. I.e. it can't be practiced. Practically impossible. QED.;-)
This sounds a lot like the knapsack problem, which is NP-hard. It's easy to find a good solution, but practically impossible to find the best solution.
It just is hard to see people download and distribute content that they don't have permission to do so and believe it is their right to do so.
But it is their right to do so. Copyright doesn't exist to serve artists or publishers. It's not about giving them control. It exists to serve the public by encouraging artists to make works. The encouragement is in the form of temporary, near absolute control over those works. We temprarily waive our natural rights to share our culture so that more is created.
Historically, this was a good deal since duplication was virtually impossible by the common person. The public was waiving rights they couldn't practice anyway.
The public isn't getting a good deal anymore. The deal is severly tilted towards publishers. In the digital age, copyright puts severe restrictions on personal liberty. Copyright, in its current form, no longer benefits the public. This makes it illegitimate and, therefore, void. Sharing our culture is a natural right everyone has, no matter what any government claims.
When medical records go digital who's to say our medical records aren't fair game for distribution.
This is a strawman. You are mixing up copyright (primarily dealing with published information) and privacy (dealing with unpublished information), and they have nothing to do with eachother.
Of course, the bootstrapping problem -- you need users to get content, and you need content to attract users -- is very real. If there are easy magic solutions, I haven't heard of them, and Freenet doesn't have them. It's still a small niche network, with a limited though nonzero amount of content.
I read a very apt description for this some time ago: currently, Freenet is like web back in 1995. Not a whole lot of content yet, and a bit slow. Hopefully, like the main web, this will improve in a similar way.
Ditto for me. I had a blast with Q3 Arena and the original Unreal Tournament back in their time, but firing them up now isn't much fun compared to modern FPSs. It's like digging out and watching a movie you loved and haven't seen since childhood, only to find out how much it actually sucks when seen as an adult (in my case, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies). Quake Live is simply Q3 running inside a web page.
I tried Quake Live and just got frustrated with its simplicity, because I was trying to apply more modern FPS strategies. You know, like a player would use in, say, the Battlefield games. I kept wanting to sneak, crouch (which in modern games increases gun accuracy), take cover, and hide, being very cautious in my maneuvering. Or I even wanted lob grenades for those non-LOS kills, or as distractions, or to temporarily block a passage. Applying these in Quake will only get you fragged faster. Quake Live misses all this gameplay depth.
Quake Live also lacks many of the modern cues that I was used to looking for, like shadows for seeing people approaching a corner, or the detailed sounds of footsteps.
Did I mention no vehicles? Ever since Tribes, I pretty much stopped having fun in FPSs without vehicles. That's another dimension modern FPSs have.
But Quake Live is just like those good old FPS days of high speed frag fest, dancing around a tiny map with rocket launchers and shotguns. A good player is one who simply memorized the map and all it's spawn points and spawn times. Quake Live will probably be good for matching up human players conveniently, but I just don't like that kind of game anymore.
I tried it about a month ago and I was having the same problems. I couldn't play against other human begins, just the training scenario over and over. I thought maybe there was some temporary problem so I kept trying it for a few days in a row. Nothin'. I gave up assuming multi-player, or any non-training, mode didn't even exist yet.
That makes two of us, so I imagine a lot of people ran into this and never looked back.
A site should never lead the user to type sensitive information into a form on an unencrypted page, even if the form's data goes to an encrypted location when submitted.
I couldn't agree more. I have seen this a number of times and it really bothered me. Every time I came across this, I would check the HTML source to be sure the "action" attribute pointed at https (or could that still bite me somehow?). I haven't seen this bad behavior in awhile, though.
That's what I did when I removed my account several years ago. I un-friended everyone, removed all the information, and deleted whatever I could find. Then I ended my account.
One possible worry would be if they stored historic information. I.e. profile versioning. If this was true, that would make an interesting attack: write a script to change your profile every 5 minutes by replacing every field with a lot randomly generated (read: uncompressable) junk. If they are really storing version information, you would fill up their storage with garbage. If they only store the last few versions, then you have wiped out your data. Win, win.
To make information less valuable (or worthless), stir in some non-regular noise.
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According to Wikipedia, Windows has support for UDF as well. Wikipedia doesn't mention any patents involved with it.
And the coralized link,
http://www.macmod.com.nyud.net/featured-mods/1933-apple-logo-converted-to-second-monitor
However, many corporate firewalls block this as "proxy avoidance".
On top of that, the article fails its own test. According to Wikipedia, Earth is actually 71% covered in water, not 70% as the article claims. People guessing 71% would have wrongly failed their original test. Article is bunk.
[...] It will violate your wife. That is the nature of an alpha release.
And the nature of an alpha male.
And stabbing people risks their ability to be able to play the games they love to play, since they can't play them in prison.
You have no idea what is of use to other people.
Definitely. I think he could take advantage of coral cache to still provide this useful access without paying for it.
He already has a log in system set up. Let anyone create an account, with proper anti-bot measures. If you are logged in, you get normal access to the page. If you are not logged in, you transparently get sent through the Coral Content Distribution Network (via nyud.net), being careful to not redirect CCDN itself. That way they use none of the site's resources but still have full read access.
Highly irritating to go to Google.com and find myself redirected to Google.com.hk.
I have run into this annoyance when using Tor as well. If the exit node is in another country (I have seen both France and Germany), I get that country version of Google.
Agreed. I watched every episode TNG all the way through, and the same with DS9 and Enterprise. DS9 was the best series of them all -- even better than TOS, I say. I stopped watching Voyager during the second season because it was just so awful. Too much technobabble and too little plot.
And I hear Fuller needs to go easy on the Pepsi.
So, for any large value of n, the calculation will take a prohibitively long time
That's exactly what I meant when I used the modifier "practically": for a large n, even if we used all the resources currently available to mankind, it would be impossible to find a solution within the amount of time that a solution would be useful.
So, it wouldn't be practical. I.e. it can't be practiced. Practically impossible. QED. ;-)
Or on Freenet, where it is impossible for anyone to remove,
CHK@Lxdd7kNnDxsKDbJvN954w8VVTkyeXriXBc~CZQi7yh0,CpQsd8KQkbzeRnfpY4tprGAlt2LYjIKtwVdDYXWY~nE,AAIC--8/ineptpdf.pyw
CHK@0sthR-c3bxeDPtyRP4vLst4MKLAYunyPgL3DFgijAR4,GLU99yTKNtuIx9A54tvh20XisaAPwCcul58wTmTKjRE,AAIC--8/ineptkey.pyw
This sounds a lot like the knapsack problem, which is NP-hard. It's easy to find a good solution, but practically impossible to find the best solution.
It just is hard to see people download and distribute content that they don't have permission to do so and believe it is their right to do so.
But it is their right to do so. Copyright doesn't exist to serve artists or publishers. It's not about giving them control. It exists to serve the public by encouraging artists to make works. The encouragement is in the form of temporary, near absolute control over those works. We temprarily waive our natural rights to share our culture so that more is created.
Historically, this was a good deal since duplication was virtually impossible by the common person. The public was waiving rights they couldn't practice anyway.
The public isn't getting a good deal anymore. The deal is severly tilted towards publishers. In the digital age, copyright puts severe restrictions on personal liberty. Copyright, in its current form, no longer benefits the public. This makes it illegitimate and, therefore, void. Sharing our culture is a natural right everyone has, no matter what any government claims.
When medical records go digital who's to say our medical records aren't fair game for distribution.
This is a strawman. You are mixing up copyright (primarily dealing with published information) and privacy (dealing with unpublished information), and they have nothing to do with eachother.
I vote we use Kepler to watch out for the scumballs, so we can prepare to zap them before they arrive.
This A Softer World strip reflects that sentiment.
Yes, the bill is simply to send a nasty letter to the university president, nothing more. There is no "legal action".
How do you route it to its destination? Do you need a dedicated fiber line between the source and destination for this service to work?
Whatever you do, just don't cross the streams.
I don't remember the website number, though.
Then just produce the one you call Mcnealy!
Then it could be Calvin and Jobbes!
Of course, the bootstrapping problem -- you need users to get content, and you need content to attract users -- is very real. If there are easy magic solutions, I haven't heard of them, and Freenet doesn't have them. It's still a small niche network, with a limited though nonzero amount of content.
I read a very apt description for this some time ago: currently, Freenet is like web back in 1995. Not a whole lot of content yet, and a bit slow. Hopefully, like the main web, this will improve in a similar way.
What do you think was used to compile GCC?
Do you think that's air you're breathing now?
Ditto for me. I had a blast with Q3 Arena and the original Unreal Tournament back in their time, but firing them up now isn't much fun compared to modern FPSs. It's like digging out and watching a movie you loved and haven't seen since childhood, only to find out how much it actually sucks when seen as an adult (in my case, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies). Quake Live is simply Q3 running inside a web page.
I tried Quake Live and just got frustrated with its simplicity, because I was trying to apply more modern FPS strategies. You know, like a player would use in, say, the Battlefield games. I kept wanting to sneak, crouch (which in modern games increases gun accuracy), take cover, and hide, being very cautious in my maneuvering. Or I even wanted lob grenades for those non-LOS kills, or as distractions, or to temporarily block a passage. Applying these in Quake will only get you fragged faster. Quake Live misses all this gameplay depth.
Quake Live also lacks many of the modern cues that I was used to looking for, like shadows for seeing people approaching a corner, or the detailed sounds of footsteps.
Did I mention no vehicles? Ever since Tribes, I pretty much stopped having fun in FPSs without vehicles. That's another dimension modern FPSs have.
But Quake Live is just like those good old FPS days of high speed frag fest, dancing around a tiny map with rocket launchers and shotguns. A good player is one who simply memorized the map and all it's spawn points and spawn times. Quake Live will probably be good for matching up human players conveniently, but I just don't like that kind of game anymore.
I tried it about a month ago and I was having the same problems. I couldn't play against other human begins, just the training scenario over and over. I thought maybe there was some temporary problem so I kept trying it for a few days in a row. Nothin'. I gave up assuming multi-player, or any non-training, mode didn't even exist yet.
That makes two of us, so I imagine a lot of people ran into this and never looked back.
A site should never lead the user to type sensitive information into a form on an unencrypted page, even if the form's data goes to an encrypted location when submitted.
I couldn't agree more. I have seen this a number of times and it really bothered me. Every time I came across this, I would check the HTML source to be sure the "action" attribute pointed at https (or could that still bite me somehow?). I haven't seen this bad behavior in awhile, though.
That's what I did when I removed my account several years ago. I un-friended everyone, removed all the information, and deleted whatever I could find. Then I ended my account.
One possible worry would be if they stored historic information. I.e. profile versioning. If this was true, that would make an interesting attack: write a script to change your profile every 5 minutes by replacing every field with a lot randomly generated (read: uncompressable) junk. If they are really storing version information, you would fill up their storage with garbage. If they only store the last few versions, then you have wiped out your data. Win, win.
To make information less valuable (or worthless), stir in some non-regular noise.