While Freenet could be used in this situation, there are a few problems that make it not very useful for Iran. First, it can be difficult to get up and running efficiently, especially so if you're trying to set up a darknet. This difficulty means that even if you could do this, you probably don't know anyone else who can and would, so you have no one else to connect to. For example, here in the US I don't know anyone, in person, who runs Freenet. You could hop on opennet if you are willing to take that risk (much more detectable), and that's probably the only option.
The useful applications for Freenet are just that: applications that run separately on top of Freenet, and these have to be configured, and set up. The spam-free forum system, FMS, is particularly tricky, is only available through Freenet (the author is anonymous), has no official documentation, and would have to be modified to work on a disjoint darknet. There's some sparse documentation on opennet, but you have to be able to get to it.
Even though any arbitrary data could be inserted into Freenet, all the documentation, Freenet itself, and all the plug-ins and apps are written in English. A non-English speaker would probably have a lot of trouble getting started. There are> lots of German and French speakers on Freenet, but I suspect they all speak English as well.
This same thing happened to Slashdot a few months ago for an afternoon. Every time I, and others, refreshed the page I was logged in under another Slashdot account. Other people had reported this in article comments until it got fixed.
Something is a bit screwy: they were measuring power in units of Watts / hour. I guessing the people that created the animations messed that up rather than Grant.
Only on decompression. LZMA is very asymmetric (a good thing) and it is much, much slower and requires much more memory than gzip on compression. Except for the memory requirements, it is comparable to gzip on decompression. This makes it good for situations where a file is compressed once and decompressed many times (like a source distribution tarball), but not so good in cases where it is compressed once for every time it is decompressed. That extra compression is expensive.
My local bank has a sign on the front door saying that items concealing the face must be removed before entering. If I wore a ski mask in there maybe I would get charged for trespass.
World of Warcraft uses BitTorrent to distribute its patches and other content. That's 11.5 million legal file-sharers right there. That's a lot of people.
The surprising part isn't that the extra money should have gone into developing that game, but that, when buying a game from EA, 75% of the cost is merely paying for the non-productive advertising that convinced you to buy it. If there was no marketing at all (which is also unreasonable), the game that costs $60 would only cost $15 and EA could also produce four times as many games, increasing the likeliness of something really unique and groundbreaking.
In short, by buying a game I am mostly paying someone to just annoy me.:-)
The only garbage material worth recycling right now is aluminum (recycling paper, plastic, etc. has never been profitable). The cost of fetching aluminum cans from the garbage patch, if there is even a significant amount there, would make that not profitable either.
When my wife showed that to me I was annoyed. It reinforces the stereotype that geeks are unable to be around women because they always repulse them. Most geeks seem to have no idea how to act around women, so when they finally get the opportunity they make off-putting comments like that. Don't they see how lame it makes them look?
To quote you, this is exactly why we don't have women around.
There's also a section on passwords where it says passwords shouldn't be more than 15 characters long and shouldn't have spaces. That says a lot about the level a knowledge of whoever wrote this.
Distributed revision control systems allow for history modification, but at the same time are much more immune to tampering than Subversion. That's because the ID for a commit is the hash of the entire history of that commit. Therefore if you know your HEAD ID, it's impossible for someone to tamper with your repository, accidentally or intentionally, without you knowing about it. It's cryptographically secure, not just an access control thing. And because each checkout contains the whole repository it's very unlikely that data will actually get lost in case of tampering: lots of backups all over.
So with distributed VCS there is "absolutely no way to screw up stuff that was committed", but in Subversion it's actually not too hard to screw up.
In computers, things that you aren't allowed to do you shouldn't be able to do. [..] I call this a new design principle: Don't Randomly Give Away Your Passwords To Strangers That Are Good At Keeping Secrets.
It actually has a name, called self-enforcing protocols. An example is "cut-and-choose": you have a piece of cake to divide evenly between two people, but how can it be done fairly without bringing in a third party? One person cuts, the other person chooses a piece. They aren't allowed to cheat, but more importantly they also can't cheat.
Back in high school some army recruiters handed out cheapo little calculators with "US Army" across the top. On the back was a sticker that said "Made in China".
The solution, if this was the case, would be for the MTA to put the schedules online in a straightforward text format, like XML or CSV. That way the information is accurately widespread.
Since they don't do this, I think it's more about greed.
Wow, thanks! That's great! I use Vimperator (Firefox Addon) and added a quickmark to it as goR. I just type that and any page becomes readable. Previously, for really awful sites, I would fire up Lynx and read it there.
They are only a tracker, and don't host any.torrent files. That way they can't know what is being tracked. You'll have to get the torrents themselves from somewhere else.
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While Freenet could be used in this situation, there are a few problems that make it not very useful for Iran. First, it can be difficult to get up and running efficiently, especially so if you're trying to set up a darknet. This difficulty means that even if you could do this, you probably don't know anyone else who can and would, so you have no one else to connect to. For example, here in the US I don't know anyone, in person, who runs Freenet. You could hop on opennet if you are willing to take that risk (much more detectable), and that's probably the only option.
The useful applications for Freenet are just that: applications that run separately on top of Freenet, and these have to be configured, and set up. The spam-free forum system, FMS, is particularly tricky, is only available through Freenet (the author is anonymous), has no official documentation, and would have to be modified to work on a disjoint darknet. There's some sparse documentation on opennet, but you have to be able to get to it.
Even though any arbitrary data could be inserted into Freenet, all the documentation, Freenet itself, and all the plug-ins and apps are written in English. A non-English speaker would probably have a lot of trouble getting started. There are> lots of German and French speakers on Freenet, but I suspect they all speak English as well.
This same thing happened to Slashdot a few months ago for an afternoon. Every time I, and others, refreshed the page I was logged in under another Slashdot account. Other people had reported this in article comments until it got fixed.
Something is a bit screwy: they were measuring power in units of Watts / hour. I guessing the people that created the animations messed that up rather than Grant.
About 1.18973149536e4932 images. Slashdot won't let me post the whole number.
Only on decompression. LZMA is very asymmetric (a good thing) and it is much, much slower and requires much more memory than gzip on compression. Except for the memory requirements, it is comparable to gzip on decompression. This makes it good for situations where a file is compressed once and decompressed many times (like a source distribution tarball), but not so good in cases where it is compressed once for every time it is decompressed. That extra compression is expensive.
My local bank has a sign on the front door saying that items concealing the face must be removed before entering. If I wore a ski mask in there maybe I would get charged for trespass.
I bet this whole thing flops, and in 10 years we'll be asking, "where are our flying cars and 3D televisions?".
And unicorns! Don't forget that most Americans believe in unicorns.
World of Warcraft uses BitTorrent to distribute its patches and other content. That's 11.5 million legal file-sharers right there. That's a lot of people.
They would. That's a common issue with the modern environmental movement; they let perfect be the enemy of good.
That's why they invented the 2suit.
The surprising part isn't that the extra money should have gone into developing that game, but that, when buying a game from EA, 75% of the cost is merely paying for the non-productive advertising that convinced you to buy it. If there was no marketing at all (which is also unreasonable), the game that costs $60 would only cost $15 and EA could also produce four times as many games, increasing the likeliness of something really unique and groundbreaking.
In short, by buying a game I am mostly paying someone to just annoy me. :-)
The only garbage material worth recycling right now is aluminum (recycling paper, plastic, etc. has never been profitable). The cost of fetching aluminum cans from the garbage patch, if there is even a significant amount there, would make that not profitable either.
When my wife showed that to me I was annoyed. It reinforces the stereotype that geeks are unable to be around women because they always repulse them. Most geeks seem to have no idea how to act around women, so when they finally get the opportunity they make off-putting comments like that. Don't they see how lame it makes them look?
To quote you, this is exactly why we don't have women around.
There's also a section on passwords where it says passwords shouldn't be more than 15 characters long and shouldn't have spaces. That says a lot about the level a knowledge of whoever wrote this.
Distributed revision control systems allow for history modification, but at the same time are much more immune to tampering than Subversion. That's because the ID for a commit is the hash of the entire history of that commit. Therefore if you know your HEAD ID, it's impossible for someone to tamper with your repository, accidentally or intentionally, without you knowing about it. It's cryptographically secure, not just an access control thing. And because each checkout contains the whole repository it's very unlikely that data will actually get lost in case of tampering: lots of backups all over.
So with distributed VCS there is "absolutely no way to screw up stuff that was committed", but in Subversion it's actually not too hard to screw up.
Plus, the web page is badly formatted. On my 1280x1024 monitor, over half the width of the screen is filled by a fat blue bar on each side.
Yeah, that just bad design and it's all too common. Web pages are supposed to be liquids.
They set up an open tracker at openbittorrent.com. Additionally, many modern BitTorrent clients can do decentralized tracking.
In computers, things that you aren't allowed to do you shouldn't be able to do. [..] I call this a new design principle: Don't Randomly Give Away Your Passwords To Strangers That Are Good At Keeping Secrets.
It actually has a name, called self-enforcing protocols. An example is "cut-and-choose": you have a piece of cake to divide evenly between two people, but how can it be done fairly without bringing in a third party? One person cuts, the other person chooses a piece. They aren't allowed to cheat, but more importantly they also can't cheat.
Back in high school some army recruiters handed out cheapo little calculators with "US Army" across the top. On the back was a sticker that said "Made in China".
The solution, if this was the case, would be for the MTA to put the schedules online in a straightforward text format, like XML or CSV. That way the information is accurately widespread.
Since they don't do this, I think it's more about greed.
Wow, thanks! That's great! I use Vimperator (Firefox Addon) and added a quickmark to it as goR. I just type that and any page becomes readable. Previously, for really awful sites, I would fire up Lynx and read it there.
You're probably looking for something more like Speex.
This is a tracker (supposedly) by the guys that started TPB: http://openbittorrent.com/
They are only a tracker, and don't host any .torrent files. That way they can't know what is being tracked. You'll have to get the torrents themselves from somewhere else.
Everyday static electricity also has the potential of thousands of volts.