You might as well accuse any node on the series of hops between your computer and the "dirty file-sharing bastard" who is actually seeding the file, of copyright infringement.
Request = I am looking for X. Response = X is located here, here and here.
It's a protocol router, nothing more or less than say the DNS system, or an indexing service like Google.
This nonsense that "they know they are infringing because they can read the filenames" is just that... nonsense.
The next version of popular torrent software should think about hashing the file names also... then the only request / response passing through the tracker will be "Hash 0x345fed017 is located at IP 1.2.3.4".
Try proving that a one-way hash of a filename is "infringing", and that the tracker can do anything about "taking it down".
Economists from Iceland manage to lose billions of other countries money, and in return give them ash from a seemingly infinite supply of volcanoes. Talk about selling sand to the Arabs.
Developers and inventors have to eat too... perhaps, but this is a University we are talking about, where students go to learn. Apparently the first they must learn is how to profit.
BOTNETS can be used to distribute porn, but they are much more likely to be used for anoymous proxies, spam networks, credit card fraud etc.
Saying botnets = porn is just as insipid as saying PostOffice = porn. It's just the magic P-word to get the people / media into their frenzy. Because everyone knows "ALL porn is kiddy porn, even if you don't actually specify that".
Typing 'rsync -av/home/user/mnt/external' takes longer than drag & drop
Yes, for all positive values of "longer".
And of course, you haven't considered the time spend trawling the newsgroups and forums to establish what the correct arcane CLI incantation is to perform the rsync. Hmm, was it -av, or -avzxp ? Are my files in/home, or did my distro put them in some other wierd place ?
As opposed to "here's a picture of some files, here's a picture of a disk, drag these things from here to here, done".
Really, most normal people do not have entire MAN pages glued to the inside of their eyelids (heh, but most normal people don't read Slashdot either, so there you go).
rsync IS more powerful, with myriad switches and extra options, I'm not debating that. But to say it is "easier" is a huge distortion of the truth.
And where do people go when "conventional wisdom" tells them "do NOT question conventional wisdom, you are an uninformed fool" ?
In some parts of the world, 1500 years of conventional wisdom says that mutilating a girl's sex organs is the proper thing to do. Does that mean it should never be questioned, even by the uninformed ?
You, like the current crop of AGW crazies, would have us all believe that questioning (by the informed OR uninformed) is verboten, and only the high-priests are allowed to hold the "holy knowledge". Bollocks to you.
Can't Slashdot editors find ANYTHING newsworthy that isn't about Apple ?
Fucks sake, the content of this article boils down to "Apple's latest iDevice is equivalent to a gold plated toaster, where user choice has been minimized, but leads to a better overall toast experience".
It might be gold-plated, but it's still a turd underneath, and no amount of iHype or Apple apologists will change that.
The worst way to sell your Chinese Sweatshop tat is to spam completely unrelated newsgroups, Mr Qinglin Chen of 195 Huangpu Road, Guangdong, China. Let's see what that does to your Google pagerank.
Your personal choices and affiliations are your business... I was merely trying to make the point that the 0.01% of Facebook users who DO care about privacy does NOT make the issue "highly contentious". Perhaps a "vocal minority" would have been a better description.
The couple of hundred people who regularly complain on Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, Twitter etc about the "evil" Facebook no-privacy policy, yet are too dumb to delete their accounts.
On the other hand...
N million other Facebook users who really don't give a fuck, and just want to comment on their friends latest Boyfriend / Girlfriend / Coffee Shop visit.
"Highly contentious" is hardly the right description.
Slashdot Mirror
William, Shatner, is that, you ?
Tin soldiers ? Lead is a banned substance.
Had I KNOWN the correct link, I would have posted it, unfortunately my psychic powers were playing up earlier.
Posting a link to the homepage of Microsoft's Search Abomination^HEngine is about as useful as posting a link to Goatse.
Until we have a 100% accurate universe simulator
Then we'll have two universes, one of which has a mouse, keyboard and LCD attached.
Not to mention where your going to put the thing (hint, it won't fit in your basement).
2003 called, they want their "latest words" back.
Believer : Jesus died for our sins.
Non-believer: Jesus lied for our sins ... three days later he was up and about again.
And if you'd formatted your link correctly, even other people could have visited it.
Mod parent up.
You might as well accuse any node on the series of hops between your computer and the "dirty file-sharing bastard" who is actually seeding the file, of copyright infringement.
Request = I am looking for X. Response = X is located here, here and here.
It's a protocol router, nothing more or less than say the DNS system, or an indexing service like Google.
This nonsense that "they know they are infringing because they can read the filenames" is just that ... nonsense.
The next version of popular torrent software should think about hashing the file names also ... then the only request / response passing through the tracker will be "Hash 0x345fed017 is located at IP 1.2.3.4".
Try proving that a one-way hash of a filename is "infringing", and that the tracker can do anything about "taking it down".
Economists from Iceland manage to lose billions of other countries money, and in return give them ash from a seemingly infinite supply of volcanoes. Talk about selling sand to the Arabs.
Developers and inventors have to eat too ... perhaps, but this is a University we are talking about, where students go to learn. Apparently the first they must learn is how to profit.
Kind of scary that he won't fuck his dog, but he will fuck his sister (and hit her too, he missed out violence form the list). Priorities ?
BOTNETS can be used to distribute porn, but they are much more likely to be used for anoymous proxies, spam networks, credit card fraud etc.
Saying botnets = porn is just as insipid as saying PostOffice = porn. It's just the magic P-word to get the people / media into their frenzy. Because everyone knows "ALL porn is kiddy porn, even if you don't actually specify that".
Says the idiot who replied to it, and myself, the third-party idiot who is pointing this out here.
And there was me thinking a house of learning and innovation was actually making a positive contribution to the infant mortality rate.
Then I saw the magic words "and filed a patent for", and realised like everything else, it's all about the money. Whatever happened to altruism ?
Because it gets the religious types in a frenzy, and all those anonymous letters and leaflet campaigns carry a lot of weight around the FTC.
Botnets, spams and malware aren't good headlines, PORN (36 point Verdana Bold Italic) is !
Because Americans are a bunch of sexually-repressed prudes in public, but just as perverted and fucked up behind closed doors as the rest of us ?
Take your pick.
Typing 'rsync -av /home/user /mnt/external' takes longer than drag & drop
Yes, for all positive values of "longer".
And of course, you haven't considered the time spend trawling the newsgroups and forums to establish what the correct arcane CLI incantation is to perform the rsync. Hmm, was it -av, or -avzxp ? Are my files in /home, or did my distro put them in some other wierd place ?
As opposed to "here's a picture of some files, here's a picture of a disk, drag these things from here to here, done".
Really, most normal people do not have entire MAN pages glued to the inside of their eyelids (heh, but most normal people don't read Slashdot either, so there you go).
rsync IS more powerful, with myriad switches and extra options, I'm not debating that. But to say it is "easier" is a huge distortion of the truth.
And where do people go when "conventional wisdom" tells them "do NOT question conventional wisdom, you are an uninformed fool" ?
In some parts of the world, 1500 years of conventional wisdom says that mutilating a girl's sex organs is the proper thing to do. Does that mean it should never be questioned, even by the uninformed ?
You, like the current crop of AGW crazies, would have us all believe that questioning (by the informed OR uninformed) is verboten, and only the high-priests are allowed to hold the "holy knowledge". Bollocks to you.
Or after you open 4 tabs in Firefox.
The mouse is under the table, the cat is on the chair, and the monkey is on the branch.
1920's peephole porn ... 1 pixel x 1 pixel x 1 frame every 5 minutes
Can't Slashdot editors find ANYTHING newsworthy that isn't about Apple ?
Fucks sake, the content of this article boils down to "Apple's latest iDevice is equivalent to a gold plated toaster, where user choice has been minimized, but leads to a better overall toast experience".
It might be gold-plated, but it's still a turd underneath, and no amount of iHype or Apple apologists will change that.
Bye bye karma, see you again sometime.
Nonsense.
A search for "daveime slashdot.org" yields 1480 results ... the most recent being 18 hours ago.
Comments DO get added to the Google hivemind very quickly.
The worst way to sell your Chinese Sweatshop tat is to spam completely unrelated newsgroups, Mr Qinglin Chen of 195 Huangpu Road, Guangdong, China. Let's see what that does to your Google pagerank.
Your personal choices and affiliations are your business ... I was merely trying to make the point that the 0.01% of Facebook users who DO care about privacy does NOT make the issue "highly contentious". Perhaps a "vocal minority" would have been a better description.
One the one hand ...
The couple of hundred people who regularly complain on Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, Twitter etc about the "evil" Facebook no-privacy policy, yet are too dumb to delete their accounts.
On the other hand ...
N million other Facebook users who really don't give a fuck, and just want to comment on their friends latest Boyfriend / Girlfriend / Coffee Shop visit.
"Highly contentious" is hardly the right description.