(2) What if I have no [online] friends? [Corrected.] Then I'm stuck with nobody to communicate with to get the tv show.
Correct. It is a private network, not a distributed public network. You need others running the service to benefit, and they need to trust you for you to gain access.
It works by you being friends with Joe and Mike. They in turn are friends with Rachel and Simon, Brad, Jamie, and Robert respectively. That's now seven people to download from. Those 5 people have more friends, maybe with the file, maybe not, but THEIR friends might have it...
Plus, because it's not an open network, the trust between peers is higher. It will always be a "friend of a friend" that you're downloading from.
We just need to make sure nobody is friends with the MAFIAA.
It relies on the model that "my friend knows 4 people who use that service, so I can acces my friend's connection to those 4 people. Those 4 people know 3 people each, so I can access those 4 people, and another 12. Those 12 people know..." and there we have a large, private, trusted network.
Plus, there's no need for any particular darknet to connect to another. you can run your own darknet between your friends, not connected to any other darknet.
Is there something wrong with creating a culture of internet-savvy and security conscious individuals?
Maybe we can get them all to stop browsing the web with Administrator access and turning off their AV software because it was flagging that new Britney Spears MP3 as a virus, and we all know only.exe's can contain virii!
"I didn't install the program. It was just there, and has been for a while. I just use the program. I never saw any 'End User Liability Agreement'. Nothing told me I was bound to a contract when I ran the program. I, uh, I don't know what else to tell you."
At least the EVE in-game browser doesn't support JavaScript or Flash, and therefore most obnoxious advertisments won't be an issue. Images in HTML are fairly benign, and as long as they don't simply create table cell after table cell filled with "OMG U R WINNAR!!1" and "Get ringtones here!" images with no content in between, it won't be an issue.
What abone the blonde bimbo, doing the same thing as you with the eye drops, who slams her brakes on after spotting a squirrel. You don't notice her brake lights as you've eating a plate of spaghetti on your lap. You might have dropped the fork into the footwell.
Actually, perhaps we should pray that this kind of thing happens more often. The blonde in the SUV takes minor scratches, maybe some glass in her face in some kind of poetic justice for her outrageous vanity. You, on the other hand, can be left in the state of spacial awareness you were in when searching for your eating tool around your feet.
FYI, I beep my horn CONSTANTLY when I see people using their phone when driving. I pray that they crash, obviously without any other people getting hurt. It'd be one less idiot, like yourself, on the road.
Having been on a jusr myself, I have firsthand knowledge. I can firmly state that, at least in my case, the (para)phrase "A jury is a group of people, deciding the fate of another, who are of average ignorance."
I've become confused by your system. I've read some more about it, and discovered that your EC is decided upon by the populace, and the EC has their presidential votes decided by their representitive party.
I was under the impression that actual EC members were being told to vote outside of their partys' choice.
How is that, by any stretch of the imagination, allowed to happen?
Seriously, I want to know. This one sentence has pretty much verified and vivified my contempt and hatred of American politics, and its people for putting up with it.
A pint of Stella Artois in one of my local pubs is £2.70 a pint, but that's suburbs. Inner city (Birmingham) you'll pay about £3.50. Peeterman Artois is a whole different story, by the way. It's not over 5%, it has a great flavour from being brewed with corriander, and it's often a lot cheaper than Stella.
If you want a really good lager, get something Czech like Budweiser Budvar, if they sell it in the US. I understand ale isn't that popular in the US, but if you get the chance, I've never found a beer I didn't like from the Wychwood brewery.
Doesn't that prove the OPs' point? Cinema theatres are dead. Their business model is outdated and they're floundering. High quality audio and image resolutions are available off the shelf in your local Tesco / Walmart store. If they need to prop up cheap ticket prices with overpricing their sweeties, they're truly screwed.
I suppose I always have the choice of not having a drink or nibble for a couple of hours, and often that's exactly what I do. I just don't believe that I should have to pay well over twice the market value of an item simply based on the location I choose to consume it.
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By god, do we ever need a +5 Off-topic rating.
(2) What if I have no [online] friends? [Corrected.] Then I'm stuck with nobody to communicate with to get the tv show.
Correct. It is a private network, not a distributed public network. You need others running the service to benefit, and they need to trust you for you to gain access.
That's lobbying for you.
Self reference paradox anyone?
It works by you being friends with Joe and Mike. They in turn are friends with Rachel and Simon, Brad, Jamie, and Robert respectively. That's now seven people to download from. Those 5 people have more friends, maybe with the file, maybe not, but THEIR friends might have it...
Plus, because it's not an open network, the trust between peers is higher. It will always be a "friend of a friend" that you're downloading from.
We just need to make sure nobody is friends with the MAFIAA.
It's a darknet, therefore invite-only.
It relies on the model that "my friend knows 4 people who use that service, so I can acces my friend's connection to those 4 people. Those 4 people know 3 people each, so I can access those 4 people, and another 12. Those 12 people know..." and there we have a large, private, trusted network.
Plus, there's no need for any particular darknet to connect to another. you can run your own darknet between your friends, not connected to any other darknet.
All the more reason to get the darknet up and running before it disappears.
Once the source code is out there, it'd be impossible to stop. Let's hope they post it instead of making you mail in requesting it.
"The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
- John Gilmore, Co-Founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Is there something wrong with creating a culture of internet-savvy and security conscious individuals?
.exe's can contain virii!
Maybe we can get them all to stop browsing the web with Administrator access and turning off their AV software because it was flagging that new Britney Spears MP3 as a virus, and we all know only
"I didn't install the program. It was just there, and has been for a while. I just use the program. I never saw any 'End User Liability Agreement'. Nothing told me I was bound to a contract when I ran the program. I, uh, I don't know what else to tell you."
Indeed! I agree totally!
.torrent files on a website linking to unlicensed music or software! They're totally breaking the law!
It'd be like posting
Sociopath.
Seriously, I'd rather cause death with malicious intent than through my own ignorant carelessness. At least then I could live with myself.
What makes you think they give a shit?
They'll just slap on some sticker saying "SAFETY Compliant" to the brands which do it, and force the rest of the market to play catch-up.
I don't know who the other is, but one of them must be Cats.
I'll wait, it'll come...
Mod parenty Funny / Insightful.
At least the EVE in-game browser doesn't support JavaScript or Flash, and therefore most obnoxious advertisments won't be an issue. Images in HTML are fairly benign, and as long as they don't simply create table cell after table cell filled with "OMG U R WINNAR!!1" and "Get ringtones here!" images with no content in between, it won't be an issue.
What abone the blonde bimbo, doing the same thing as you with the eye drops, who slams her brakes on after spotting a squirrel. You don't notice her brake lights as you've eating a plate of spaghetti on your lap. You might have dropped the fork into the footwell.
Actually, perhaps we should pray that this kind of thing happens more often. The blonde in the SUV takes minor scratches, maybe some glass in her face in some kind of poetic justice for her outrageous vanity. You, on the other hand, can be left in the state of spacial awareness you were in when searching for your eating tool around your feet.
FYI, I beep my horn CONSTANTLY when I see people using their phone when driving. I pray that they crash, obviously without any other people getting hurt. It'd be one less idiot, like yourself, on the road.
Universe man, Universe man...
Pirate Bay specialises in what other people tell it exists. Google trawls everything, looking for itself.
/. if everybody posted links to iso's of the latest Windows release.
In many ways, this makes Google more culpable, as it is doing all the legwork. TPB is just a forum where people post links.
It'd be like shutting down
How difficult is it to make a hash of the text "subvert the government"?
eBay provides links to stolen items. I guess they're accomplicies to burglary and robbery.
No.
Having been on a jusr myself, I have firsthand knowledge. I can firmly state that, at least in my case, the (para)phrase "A jury is a group of people, deciding the fate of another, who are of average ignorance."
I've become confused by your system. I've read some more about it, and discovered that your EC is decided upon by the populace, and the EC has their presidential votes decided by their representitive party.
I was under the impression that actual EC members were being told to vote outside of their partys' choice.
How is that, by any stretch of the imagination, allowed to happen?
Seriously, I want to know. This one sentence has pretty much verified and vivified my contempt and hatred of American politics, and its people for putting up with it.
A pint of Stella Artois in one of my local pubs is £2.70 a pint, but that's suburbs. Inner city (Birmingham) you'll pay about £3.50. Peeterman Artois is a whole different story, by the way. It's not over 5%, it has a great flavour from being brewed with corriander, and it's often a lot cheaper than Stella.
If you want a really good lager, get something Czech like Budweiser Budvar, if they sell it in the US. I understand ale isn't that popular in the US, but if you get the chance, I've never found a beer I didn't like from the Wychwood brewery.
Doesn't that prove the OPs' point? Cinema theatres are dead. Their business model is outdated and they're floundering. High quality audio and image resolutions are available off the shelf in your local Tesco / Walmart store. If they need to prop up cheap ticket prices with overpricing their sweeties, they're truly screwed.
I suppose I always have the choice of not having a drink or nibble for a couple of hours, and often that's exactly what I do. I just don't believe that I should have to pay well over twice the market value of an item simply based on the location I choose to consume it.