The first thought that came to mind when reading the specs was that college admins will ban this too. By the time I got to the end of the specs, it was pretty obvious I wasn't the first to have thought of this. But here's my quesrtion...Will college sysadmins WANT to ban this? Working off the (dubious) premise that the sysadmins are only worried about bandwidth hogs, will this "bandwidth shaping" feature prevent The Napster Problem? Yeah, I love napster, but it's kind of annoying when web pages can load faster on my 56K modem at home than here at college.
So I guess my question is, is this bandwidth shaping for real? If so, how is that possible?
You can see right when the pulled the plug on napster. At least the network is blazingly fast now.
Hmmm...something interesting about those graphs...once Napster was banned, incoming traffic got cut by roughly 60%, but outgoing traffic went to zero! (No, of course, it only went near zero, indistinguishable from 0 on that scale.) So can't universities just set some sort of per-capita per-diem upload cap, and free up all of that outgoing bandwidth? Or just go asyncronous (i wish I could spell) somehow? It wouldn't cut down on downloading, or recieving any illegal material, but it would sure go a long way to solving that bandwidth problem...
How big of a problem do you see these DoSes becoming? Is this just another sway back to the crackers in the larger scheme of the computer security dialectic? Or is the nature of a DoS such that it will never go away?
What is it that interests you so much about your usual topics, such as corporatism? What particular event or reason triggered you to care about your chosen crusades? Also, since you describe yourself as a non-geek, why the interest in us?
What can the concerned open-source community do in the fights against the DVD CCA, the MPAA, and the RIAA? A lot of people are posting their copies of the DeCSS source, but is that enough? Any other suggestions?
OK, I'm happy. Score one point for the little guy. Cograts, etoy!
Now onto the bigger battles. Amazon, DVD CCA, and (though this one seems less clear-cut) RIAA vs. everyone. But it's heading in the right direction....
Not "boink," exactly (I love Calvin anbd Hobbes), but what's happening now makes just as little sense. What if Einstein patented relativistic effects? Then nothing that needs to take into account things that he discovered (GPS satellites come to mind) could ever exist.
Pure science, like math, should not be patented. Patents are for unique inventions.
I have no idea what any of you are talking about. I am under 21, and therefore know nothing about this Guiness of which all of you, who I assume are 21 or over if in America, speak.
I don't know what to make of the AOL-Time-Warner thing....I mean, my gut reaction is to hate it. It seems to have the makings of evil. But if I go back to what I remember from 11th grade American History, a company is only a monopoly if it controls all of one particular stage of a process (I hope that made sense) and that's not the case here. Time/WB may provide a lot of content, and may have a lot of the cable network, and AOL may have a lot of the dial-up market, but this merger doesn't really increase the new company's dominance in any of these realms independently, does it? So maybe it's not as evil as it seems.....
Maybe I missed something on the page, but how do you get the stuff from your computer to the....the thing? USB would make sense, I think, but I didn't see it mentioned anywhere...
Hey, wow, a new science section. Cool. But at the risk of having the second post here moderated as "redundant"...
This seems like it could be pretty bad. All genetic engineering breakthroughs seem to be good ideas, but really worry me. I mean, generating heart tissue with cloning technology, while I didn't realize this was previously impossible, is wonderful. But is it just me, or can we now clone dinosaurs and keep them in a sort of jurassic zoo, or park? DOesn't that sound like it could be a problem? --Colbey
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The first thought that came to mind when reading the specs was that college admins will ban this too. By the time I got to the end of the specs, it was pretty obvious I wasn't the first to have thought of this. But here's my quesrtion...Will college sysadmins WANT to ban this? Working off the (dubious) premise that the sysadmins are only worried about bandwidth hogs, will this "bandwidth shaping" feature prevent The Napster Problem? Yeah, I love napster, but it's kind of annoying when web pages can load faster on my 56K modem at home than here at college.
So I guess my question is, is this bandwidth shaping for real? If so, how is that possible?
-Colbey
You can see right when the pulled the plug on napster. At least the network is blazingly fast now.
Hmmm...something interesting about those graphs...once Napster was banned, incoming traffic got cut by roughly 60%, but outgoing traffic went to zero! (No, of course, it only went near zero, indistinguishable from 0 on that scale.) So can't universities just set some sort of per-capita per-diem upload cap, and free up all of that outgoing bandwidth? Or just go asyncronous (i wish I could spell) somehow? It wouldn't cut down on downloading, or recieving any illegal material, but it would sure go a long way to solving that bandwidth problem...
--Josh Rosenberg (Colbey)
-Colbey (Josh Rosenberg)
What is it that interests you so much about your usual topics, such as corporatism? What particular event or reason triggered you to care about your chosen crusades? Also, since you describe yourself as a non-geek, why the interest in us?
--Colbey (Josh Rosenberg)
--Josh Rosenberg (Colbey)
--Josh Rosenberg (Colbey)
Now onto the bigger battles. Amazon, DVD CCA, and (though this one seems less clear-cut) RIAA vs. everyone. But it's heading in the right direction....
--Josh Rosenberg (Colbey)
Pure science, like math, should not be patented. Patents are for unique inventions.
-Colbey
--Colbey
And after all of that, I still think I hate it.
--Colbey
Maybe I missed something on the page, but how do you get the stuff from your computer to the....the thing? USB would make sense, I think, but I didn't see it mentioned anywhere...
--Colbey
This seems like it could be pretty bad. All genetic engineering breakthroughs seem to be good ideas, but really worry me. I mean, generating heart tissue with cloning technology, while I didn't realize this was previously impossible, is wonderful. But is it just me, or can we now clone dinosaurs and keep them in a sort of jurassic zoo, or park? DOesn't that sound like it could be a problem?
--Colbey