Of course not. It holds back the very people who area already fighting in the first place, and makes no difference to the other people, because all of these sites are very targeted-audience.
You might want to consider "Flite", which is a lightweight version of Festival with the Scheme and stuff ripped out -- less flexible, but FAR smaller and faster. It lives at http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/
Both of those paradoxes result not from anything fundamental about the universe, but from simple mistreatment of math.
Let's look at achilles and the turtle, for the moment. This paradox goes along the lines of: "Achilles and a turtle are having a 100m race. Achilles runs 10 times as fast as the turtle, but the turtle gets a 10m head start.
By the time Achilles gets 10m, to where the turtle started, the turtle will have gone 1m. By the time Achilles gets the extra 1m, the turtle will gave gone another 0.1m. By the time he gets 0.1m, the turtle will till be 0.01m ahead... ad infinitum. Therefore Achilles will never catch the turtle.
There are a few ways to get around this: 1) Just let Achilles go 11m;) The turtle will have gone 1.1m, and Achilles will be ahead. This simply avoids thinking too hard about the moment when they pass.
Apply a little Calculus, which _loves_ quotients of increasingly-small numbers. This will, of course, tell you that Achilles is passing the turtle at a rate of 9m/s (assuming that the first 10m took achilles 1sec). Perhaps what this means is that a snapshot in time is really useless unless you can also encapsulate the way things are _changing_ at that moment. And that doesn't really sound like news either.
Of course, the fact that we live in a world where they can claim that people are stealing something that they BROADCAST over a whole hemisphere is an entirely different issue.
1) Okay. Making CP is not a good thing for reasons you've mentioned and others. 2) Freedom of speech has nothing to do with that 3) Freedom of speech _does_ have to do with people being able to distribute content to people who want it, free from censorship 4) At least if people are grabbing it off of freenet they're not paying for it (irrelevant for someone who uses freenet for storage rather than publishing, but the other stuff works)
Anyway. The point is that besides the fact that it's (supposedly) constitutionally protected, a lot of people seem to think that freedom of speech (and a bunch of related things) is a natural right. Coercion of children is bad and illegal and etc. Attack that. k?
Information doesn't want to be free, and RMS really should be regretting his unfortunate choice of words by now.
But the _truth_, and what he hopefully meant, was that you can either keep information to yourself, or you can give it away, but you can't have your information and eat it to.
Copyright is a farce; the GPL was designed specifically to be a tool to use copyright to subvert copyright. Hence "copyleft".
But the real point is that if you give bits away, you can't pretend to still have control over them. A lot of software companies need to learn this, as do a lot of record labels, publishers, and a whole host of other people.
Someday things will settle down. Today is not the day.
True. But just because it's a "release" don't forget that that first digit is a 0.
There are other methods; they're just not quite pretty yet, and not in heavy use yet. The most obvious leap forward is DistributionServlet, which is a way to download a copy of the freenet software from a trusted friend, rather than the freenetproject website -- and the seednodes you get that way also come from your friend. It helps integration into the network (because of the possible slashdotting issues mentioned above), and it protects against some types of blackhat attacks as well. Unless your friend is compromised -- but I said "trusted friend." If your trust is misplaced, that's not my fault.
And don't forget out-of-band methods; you can still always take your node software, export your routing table, put it on a usb keyfob or something, and give it to a friend.
Having said all of that, no, Freenet can't really stand up to a concerted attack by a very large adversary -- and probably never will be able to. But it goes a lot farther than anything I've ever seen, and it's only getting better.
(Ignoring all but the first paragraph) Nono, linux has had _that_ since forever. Now they're making it smarter in a way that improves the "user experience" significantly.
Get your facts straight before you troll. Oh wait nevermind, facts take all of the fun out of it.
That wouldn't be altruistic, that would be more selfish -- because it's smarter.
The problem the article describes isn't one of selfishness, but of stupidity. The optimum solution is for everyone (aka each router) to be selfish _and_ smart.
The patch has options for either or both. The speaker mode is disabled by default due to potential disruptiveness.:)
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That's exactly what it does. It simply transmits the message that was passed to panic(), after snprintf-expansion.
As for the parent message, it has two modes of operation, currently, keyboard-LEDs and/or pc-speaker, but the latest version (v3) is potentially compatible with any sort of LED or beeper, if someone writes the code. The beeper, in fact, uses the same beep function as the VC's, which was already set up to be multi-arch-compatible in just that way.
In other words, yes, I _am_ trying to make this reasonably useful.:)
Slashdot Mirror
That would be exactly where you would find it, most likely.
Of course not. It holds back the very people who area already fighting in the first place, and makes no difference to the other people, because all of these sites are very targeted-audience.
You might want to consider "Flite", which is a lightweight version of Festival with the Scheme and stuff ripped out -- less flexible, but FAR smaller and faster. It lives at http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/
The original poster said that it was "not reccomended" by RMS.
RMS did not reccomend it.
What the hell are you arguing about?
Iuhidden nodefS!
Both of those paradoxes result not from anything fundamental about the universe, but from simple mistreatment of math.
... ad infinitum. Therefore Achilles will never catch the turtle.
;)
Let's look at achilles and the turtle, for the moment. This paradox goes along the lines of:
"Achilles and a turtle are having a 100m race. Achilles runs 10 times as fast as the turtle, but the turtle gets a 10m head start.
By the time Achilles gets 10m, to where the turtle started, the turtle will have gone 1m. By the time Achilles gets the extra 1m, the turtle will gave gone another 0.1m. By the time he gets 0.1m, the turtle will till be 0.01m ahead
There are a few ways to get around this:
1) Just let Achilles go 11m
The turtle will have gone 1.1m, and Achilles will be ahead. This simply avoids thinking too hard about the moment when they pass.
Apply a little Calculus, which _loves_ quotients of increasingly-small numbers. This will, of course, tell you that Achilles is passing the turtle at a rate of 9m/s (assuming that the first 10m took achilles 1sec). Perhaps what this means is that a snapshot in time is really useless unless you can also encapsulate the way things are _changing_ at that moment. And that doesn't really sound like news either.
Um.
:)
Look up the ecogeek definition of the word "sustainable". It's not anything like any human meaning.
Then reconsider your post.
Of course, the fact that we live in a world where they can claim that people are stealing something that they BROADCAST over a whole hemisphere is an entirely different issue.
Okay. a few things.
1) Okay. Making CP is not a good thing for reasons you've mentioned and others.
2) Freedom of speech has nothing to do with that
3) Freedom of speech _does_ have to do with people being able to distribute content to people who want it, free from censorship
4) At least if people are grabbing it off of freenet they're not paying for it (irrelevant for someone who uses freenet for storage rather than publishing, but the other stuff works)
Anyway. The point is that besides the fact that it's (supposedly) constitutionally protected, a lot of people seem to think that freedom of speech (and a bunch of related things) is a natural right. Coercion of children is bad and illegal and etc. Attack that. k?
it's hard to get a solid estimate of freenet users, but sensible techniques have set a lower bound of at least a couple thousand.
that simple
Information doesn't want to be free, and RMS really should be regretting his unfortunate choice of words by now.
But the _truth_, and what he hopefully meant, was that you can either keep information to yourself, or you can give it away, but you can't have your information and eat it to.
Copyright is a farce; the GPL was designed specifically to be a tool to use copyright to subvert copyright. Hence "copyleft".
But the real point is that if you give bits away, you can't pretend to still have control over them. A lot of software companies need to learn this, as do a lot of record labels, publishers, and a whole host of other people.
Someday things will settle down. Today is not the day.
True. But just because it's a "release" don't forget that that first digit is a 0.
There are other methods; they're just not quite pretty yet, and not in heavy use yet. The most obvious leap forward is DistributionServlet, which is a way to download a copy of the freenet software from a trusted friend, rather than the freenetproject website -- and the seednodes you get that way also come from your friend. It helps integration into the network (because of the possible slashdotting issues mentioned above), and it protects against some types of blackhat attacks as well. Unless your friend is compromised -- but I said "trusted friend." If your trust is misplaced, that's not my fault.
And don't forget out-of-band methods; you can still always take your node software, export your routing table, put it on a usb keyfob or something, and give it to a friend.
Having said all of that, no, Freenet can't really stand up to a concerted attack by a very large adversary -- and probably never will be able to. But it goes a lot farther than anything I've ever seen, and it's only getting better.
--hobbs
(Ignoring all but the first paragraph)
Nono, linux has had _that_ since forever. Now they're making it smarter in a way that improves the "user experience" significantly.
Get your facts straight before you troll. Oh wait nevermind, facts take all of the fun out of it.
Then either
1) It really should be classified, or
2) Allchin was lying under oath.
Whatever.
That wouldn't be altruistic, that would be more selfish -- because it's smarter.
The problem the article describes isn't one of selfishness, but of stupidity. The optimum solution is for everyone (aka each router) to be selfish _and_ smart.
Good to see that _someone_ mentions Mises on this thread. :)
Either this page that I found is pulling my leg, or it was actually composed on a C64. :)
Parent isn't Offtopic, it's Informative.
optoisolator?
WP has the best conversion stuff out there, from _any_ format, IMO.
That would be sweet. :)
Might I mention that you can do this with a serial-controlled LCD and serial-console, though?
The patch has options for either or both. The speaker mode is disabled by default due to potential disruptiveness. :)
That's exactly what it does. It simply transmits the message that was passed to panic(), after snprintf-expansion.
:)
As for the parent message, it has two modes of operation, currently, keyboard-LEDs and/or pc-speaker, but the latest version (v3) is potentially compatible with any sort of LED or beeper, if someone writes the code. The beeper, in fact, uses the same beep function as the VC's, which was already set up to be multi-arch-compatible in just that way.
In other words, yes, I _am_ trying to make this reasonably useful.