I am increasingly convinced that this country would be much better off today if our founding fathers had extended the principal of separation of church and state to also apply to private enterprise.
Though one could also argue there is no fundamental difference between the two. If nothing else Scientology has certainly blurred the line a bit.
Securing MUAs shouldn't be too big of a problem. ISPs just have to charge a replacement fee when a user's private key is compromised. Same as landlords charging a lock replacement fee when you loose your keys. The vast majority of users will wise up pretty quick after being slapped with a couple of 50$ fees.
DKIM allows a domain admin to create a hierarchy of authorized keys. So each MUA can have it's own key-pair .
Winamp actualy copied that feature from foobar2000.
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From a quick read of the article it sounds like what they've done is implemented a slightly more sophistcated/less deterministic version of the ultrapeer/hub system already in use by Gnutella/G2 Basicaly quereies are routed such that they are guarenteed to reach a "highly-connected node" which is the equivalent of an ultrapeer/hub node. The main difference is the folks at UCLA have come up with a novel method of picking ultrapeers, but the end result isn't much different.
As cute as that little pun is, PnP on WinNT 5.x Just Works(TM) the vast majority of the time and life is good. It's one area were Windows has a clear advantage over Linux and it's great to see the gap is finally starting to be closed.
Though I fear Linus' hardliner stance on ABI compatibility will hinder all this. Idealogical issues aside, from a user's standpoint a stable ABI for drivers is a significant plus for a desktop OS. I can only hope at some point the Linux kernel becomes stable enough for it to be considered.
I don't think thunderbird was ever meant to be a alt.binaries.* downloader, there's plently of other readers made specificaly for downloading warez from usenet.
well your post certainly isn't a troll, though whether it's ontopic or not is a bit more debatable. It seems to me this is more due a shortcoming of the moderation system than anything else. If there was only a -1 Stupid option we wouldn't have this problem.
Even if we make the big assumption that SCO does own the rights to some of the code in Linux, there's still a lot of legit GPL code there. If you license their code you can no longer use that with the rest of Linux since you'd be linking code under a non-GPL compatible license with GPLed code. But then IANAL.
I'm aware of the supposed improvments made recently, but task manager doesn't lie. The last time I gave freenet a trial run was a couple of weeks ago, and it quickly ate the full 128MB the JVM would allow and after a few hours was using 25-50% of my CPU. This is simply unaccepable for an app that's meant to run in the background 24/7. I know I could get another system to run it on, but that's quite a bit of work just to run one app and I don't have room here in the dorm anyways.
...now give me an implementation that doesn't use 120MB of memory and 50% of my CPU. Freenet has been a total resource pig for quite a while now, I'm surprised there hasn't been more emphasis on reducing it's usage.
They were running Gentoo yet they apparently didn't even attempt to get the Althon 64 running the AMD64 port. Both POVRay and Vorbis-tools are already marked stable on AMD64, would have at least made the comparison a lot more interesting.
I don't know of anyone who actualy uses the GUI with foobar, you just bind some global hotkeys for the functions you use the most and use thoes with foobar sitting in the systray. It's great because it doesn't matter what you have running, you can always control the player with just a keystroke and absolutly no lost screen real esate. Foobar also has nice added features like replaygain and a masstagger that's seccond to none.
Yes, if you absolutly positivly need to be anonymous Freenet is the way to go. But the parent was talking about Freenet making Bittorrent obsolete, which is never going to happen because Freenet has to sacrifice too much efficency to maintain anonimity.
Sure it'd be great if Freenet was working nicly, but that's a big if. It's been in development for more than 3 years now and they're still not even close to having a network that's ready for use by the masses. I'm not sure it'll ever get to that point either. One of the golden rules of P2P is that bandwidth is precious, yet Freenet merily uses n times the amount of data being moved in bandwidth passing that data up a chain of nodes to preserve anonimity. This is probably going to forever relagate Freenet to solution-in-search-of-a-problem staus as the vast majority of people arn't that worried about anonimity.
Unfortunately that probably isn't feasible with the current stat of things. You see the memory bus is pushed to it's absolute limits as it is with the chips soldered to the PCB, a socket connection would degrade the signal enough you wouldn't be able to run the memory bus nearly as fast. Not to mention a socket system that could even come close to the 700+MHz bus speeds we currently see would be prohibitively expensive.
What we can hope for is the return of SLI type configurations when PCI-X becomes the card interface of choice and MBs support multiple full speed slots (yep, initialy PCI-X motherboards will only have one 16x slot).
Seeing as it's goning to be running Linux, I'd say the chances of playing a win32 only game on it are pretty slim. It's gonna be a while before wine supports directx 9.
A 10G jolt isn't as bad as it sounds, figher pilots only have to worry because they experiance high Gs for relativly long periods of time. People can take 20Gs or more over a fraction of a second without too much trouble assuming they're well restrained.
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I am increasingly convinced that this country would be much better off today if our founding fathers had extended the principal of separation of church and state to also apply to private enterprise.
Though one could also argue there is no fundamental difference between the two. If nothing else Scientology has certainly blurred the line a bit.
Securing MUAs shouldn't be too big of a problem. ISPs just have to charge a replacement fee when a user's private key is compromised. Same as landlords charging a lock replacement fee when you loose your keys. The vast majority of users will wise up pretty quick after being slapped with a couple of 50$ fees.
DKIM allows a domain admin to create a hierarchy of authorized keys. So each MUA can have it's own key-pair .
Winamp actualy copied that feature from foobar2000.
From a quick read of the article it sounds like what they've done is implemented a slightly more sophistcated/less deterministic version of the ultrapeer/hub system already in use by Gnutella/G2 Basicaly quereies are routed such that they are guarenteed to reach a "highly-connected node" which is the equivalent of an ultrapeer/hub node. The main difference is the folks at UCLA have come up with a novel method of picking ultrapeers, but the end result isn't much different.
As cute as that little pun is, PnP on WinNT 5.x Just Works(TM) the vast majority of the time and life is good. It's one area were Windows has a clear advantage over Linux and it's great to see the gap is finally starting to be closed.
Though I fear Linus' hardliner stance on ABI compatibility will hinder all this. Idealogical issues aside, from a user's standpoint a stable ABI for drivers is a significant plus for a desktop OS. I can only hope at some point the Linux kernel becomes stable enough for it to be considered.
...one, zero: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/Half-Life%202%20P reload%20Cache.torrent
I don't think thunderbird was ever meant to be a alt.binaries.* downloader, there's plently of other readers made specificaly for downloading warez from usenet.
Ok, the VIA chipsets from the late 90s and early 2000s were crap, we know.
IT'S NOT A PROBLEM ANYMORE, NVIDIA AND SIS BOTH HAVE QUALITY CHIPSETS FOR AMD AND VIA HAS CLEANED UP IT'S ACT.
I'm sorry for shouting but damn, this hasn't been a valid argument for years and intel zealots are still spouting off about it.
Apparently the trailer link doesn't work in firefox, here's a direct link to save you the trouble: http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/batmanbeg ins/teaser/teaser_hi_a.mov
Of course, home builts arn't counted in these numbers either so you've still got new systems running linux that weren't accounted for.
well your post certainly isn't a troll, though whether it's ontopic or not is a bit more debatable. It seems to me this is more due a shortcoming of the moderation system than anything else. If there was only a -1 Stupid option we wouldn't have this problem.
Ok disregard this post, two seconds after hitting submit I realized that not only am I not a lawyer but also an idiot.
Even if we make the big assumption that SCO does own the rights to some of the code in Linux, there's still a lot of legit GPL code there. If you license their code you can no longer use that with the rest of Linux since you'd be linking code under a non-GPL compatible license with GPLed code. But then IANAL.
I'm aware of the supposed improvments made recently, but task manager doesn't lie. The last time I gave freenet a trial run was a couple of weeks ago, and it quickly ate the full 128MB the JVM would allow and after a few hours was using 25-50% of my CPU. This is simply unaccepable for an app that's meant to run in the background 24/7. I know I could get another system to run it on, but that's quite a bit of work just to run one app and I don't have room here in the dorm anyways.
...now give me an implementation that doesn't use 120MB of memory and 50% of my CPU. Freenet has been a total resource pig for quite a while now, I'm surprised there hasn't been more emphasis on reducing it's usage.
They were running Gentoo yet they apparently didn't even attempt to get the Althon 64 running the AMD64 port. Both POVRay and Vorbis-tools are already marked stable on AMD64, would have at least made the comparison a lot more interesting.
I don't know of anyone who actualy uses the GUI with foobar, you just bind some global hotkeys for the functions you use the most and use thoes with foobar sitting in the systray. It's great because it doesn't matter what you have running, you can always control the player with just a keystroke and absolutly no lost screen real esate. Foobar also has nice added features like replaygain and a masstagger that's seccond to none.
Yes, if you absolutly positivly need to be anonymous Freenet is the way to go. But the parent was talking about Freenet making Bittorrent obsolete, which is never going to happen because Freenet has to sacrifice too much efficency to maintain anonimity.
Sure it'd be great if Freenet was working nicly, but that's a big if. It's been in development for more than 3 years now and they're still not even close to having a network that's ready for use by the masses. I'm not sure it'll ever get to that point either. One of the golden rules of P2P is that bandwidth is precious, yet Freenet merily uses n times the amount of data being moved in bandwidth passing that data up a chain of nodes to preserve anonimity. This is probably going to forever relagate Freenet to solution-in-search-of-a-problem staus as the vast majority of people arn't that worried about anonimity.
Unfortunately that probably isn't feasible with the current stat of things. You see the memory bus is pushed to it's absolute limits as it is with the chips soldered to the PCB, a socket connection would degrade the signal enough you wouldn't be able to run the memory bus nearly as fast. Not to mention a socket system that could even come close to the 700+MHz bus speeds we currently see would be prohibitively expensive.
What we can hope for is the return of SLI type configurations when PCI-X becomes the card interface of choice and MBs support multiple full speed slots (yep, initialy PCI-X motherboards will only have one 16x slot).
Well, it's going to be even longer before Bochs supports DX9 then.
Seeing as it's goning to be running Linux, I'd say the chances of playing a win32 only game on it are pretty slim. It's gonna be a while before wine supports directx 9.
Sorry try again, an exocet would get shredded by the Phalanx.
Steve Gibson must have been carrying it.
A 10G jolt isn't as bad as it sounds, figher pilots only have to worry because they experiance high Gs for relativly long periods of time. People can take 20Gs or more over a fraction of a second without too much trouble assuming they're well restrained.