To the best of my knowledge, Shareaza completely bypassed the GDF "Gnutella Developers Forum" - taking ideas that were in discussion there, but without contributing anything back, and now they have the shier audacity to co-opt the name Gnutella as their own.
This is like someone branching Linux, applying a few tweaks (none or few of which are actually their own idea), and then calling it "Linux 2".
Don't reward people who circumvent open development forums like the GDF by letting them co-opt the name "Gnutella".
"next revolution in P2P" (which it actually, IMO, is)
Hardly. Directed searches for information (rather than the Gnutella/Gnutella2)-style broadcast search, has been around for a while now. For example, Freenet has employed a directed search from day one (albeit with a slightly different application), and FASD is a good example of how this can be generalized to fuzzy searching.
Calling Gnutella2 the "next revolution in P2P" would be like calling the latest model in horse-pulled carriages the "next revolution in transportation" years after the advent of the motor car.
The problem isn't so much with people saying that the Holocaust didn't happen, the problem is that there is a lot of lies surrounding the Holocaust, and laws like this inhibit people who want to know the truth - don't we owe it to those who died to separate fact from myth?
I advise reading the book "The Holocaust Industry" (written by a Jew), which details much of the seedier side of the Holocaust, including people who claim to have been in concentration camps - but who were later proven to have spent the war in Switzerland, of misdirection of funds intended for Holocaust victims.
One good example is that this law makes it illegal to suggest that less than 6,000,000 Jews were murdered, might it have been 5,999,999? Oops, you just broke the law.
There are many who think that the number was actually lower than 6 Million based on census information and other data at the time. Now, some would have you believe that even thinking that less than 6 million Jews might have died during WWII is disrespectful to the memory of those that died, but how much more disrespectful is it to censor the truth, to misuse funds intended for the families of the real victims, or to pretend that you suffered when you didn't?
The Freenet team are very receptive to feedback and suggestions. If you want to help resolve the issues that you have encountered, email support@freenetproject.org and we will try to ensure that 0.5.1 is better.
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By allowing child pornography to circulate over it.
Unfortunately it would be impossible to build functionality into Freenet to prevent distribution of child pornography without subverting the entire purpose of the Freenet architecture.
As I understand it, freesites proliferate based on usage; the more people who look at something, the more widely it gets distributed.
The main "portal" freesite contain several links to kiddie porn, and thus supports the distribution of it.
No, those who click on those links support distribution of the freesites they are visiting. If I tell you that child pornography is available in Belgium, and you go to Belgium to look at that child pornography, who is at fault - me or you?
...given that most Slashdot readers seem to be advocates of Open Source operating systems on commodity hardware, why the enthusiasm for encouraging people to switch to OSX - a closed source operating system made by the poster-child for locking people into overpriced hardware?
People might like to think that Apple is somehow better than Microsoft, but trust me - if they had Microsoft's monopoly, their behavior would be no better, in fact, given that they would have a monopoly on hardware too - things would be much worse.
I'm not sure why you think I give a flying rat's ass about market-share.
I don't care whether you care about market-share, but the success of an Open Source project is reasonably measured by how many users it has in proportion to other similar projects.
Debian's installer is simple, easy-to-use (for those that know what they're doing), and gets the job done.
This sentence completely sums up what is wrong with what you are saying. Something is not easy-to-use if you need to add the condition that people need to know what they are doing.
That's just uninformed, one-sided bullshit.
No, that statement is uninformed (since you have no idea of the extent of my experience with Debian), and your entire post is, by your own admission, blatantly one-sided.
Debian was not made for you. Debian was made for people like me, who don't want arbitrary installation choices made for them to making installation "easier."
Firstly, much of the article wasn't complaining about that, it was complaining about things which are simply dumb or demonstrate carelessness on the part of those responsible for installation.
Secondly, if you want Debian to only be of interest to "people like you", then you should be prepared for it to continue to decline in market-share relative to Redhat, because people with the time or inclination to spend hours or days tinkering just to get sound or networking working are a dying breed.
When you think about it the only difference between linux (and particularly Debian) and windows is that windows presumes (and Redhat is trying to emulate) that the user is an idiot (especially with regards to hardware) and Debian does not.
That is exactly the wrong attitude. I am not an idiot because I want a fully working and configured system in 20 minutes, rather than after hours or days of tinkering. I am not an idiot because I expect the installer to avoid asking me things that it could find out itself or which I have already told it.
Debian's installation is totally unpolished, inconvenient, and it basically sucks. That argument that it is only inconvenient if you are a newbie is bunk - it is inconvenient for anyone that doesn't have time to burn configuring every tiny little detail. Yes, apt-get might be wonderful, but it will be much easier for Redhat and co to incorporate Debian's advantages than it will be for Debian to incorporate Redhat's. That is simply a fact.
Debian will never succeed until it takes the installation process seriously.
Why is this specific to music disks? Why not have a general requirement that software and hardware which contains Digital Restrictions Management technology must be labeled as such, so that people are aware that they are paying for something that will serve to restrict their abilities to exercise their fair user rights under copyright law?
If I own something, it should do what I tell it to. It shouldn't act as a watchdog for large media corporations.
The very paper you links to shows that median request path length is N^0.28. Logarithmic, that's not.
The important thing is that it is sub-linear.
Freenet has probabilistic, polynomial-time lookup and unbounded routing table size.
Lookup of what? The routing table size is bounded.
Freenet's worst-case performance -- i.e., when its routing table state is cold -- is O(N)
You are using confused terminology. "Freenet" doesn't have a routing table, the individual participant nodes do.
Chord's worst-case performance is still logarithmic.
This worst case assumes that nodes in the Chord network don't fail, but given that nodes in any P2P network are prone to failure, this really isn't a worst-case at-all.
While Freenet achieves many of these goals, there are at least two differences between Freenet and what most people would expect of a distributed hashtable:
Freenet doesn't guarantee retrievability of information
Freenet does its best to protect the anonymity of its users
You are sooooooo wrong, and it is you that have been modded up unjustly, since you clearly don't know what you are talking about.
Freenet searches do not work like Gnutella, as you would know if you knew anything about Freenet.
Freenet's search has, through multiple independent simulation-based studies (cited in the link I give above), been demonstrated to have logarithmic scalability, not the linear scalability you claim.
To inject some facts into this conversation - Freenet isn't exactly the same as a distributed hashtable, as it doesn't guarantee retrievability of information, but this is probably an inevitable consequence of achieving Freenet's goals, and Freenet's developers aren't shy about it.
The claims you have made about Freenet are total FUD.
Like in peer-to-peer networks, there is no central server in the system that contains a list of where all the data, or files in the cabinet, are located. Instead, each server has a partial list of where data is stored in the system. The trick for the researchers is creating a "lookup" algorithm that allows the location of data to be found in a short series of steps.
This sounds similar to the problem solved by Freenet. Nodes in the Freenet network each have approximate information about where they should route requests for data, allowing data to be retrieved quickly and efficiently. Freenet also addresses issues of how data can be trusted and authenticated.
One important difference is that Freenet doesn't guarantee retrievability of data, rather the more popular and recent the data, the more chance there is that it can be retrieved. This makes it more like a publication system (think radio or TV) than a distributed file-system.
If the initial theme is good - nobody should need to change it. I recently installed the Redhat 8.0 beta, and decided to stick with the default theme which is attractive and consistent, my only minor gripe being that it would be nice if they found a matching theme for Mozilla (they managed to do this with Xmms).
I have long believed that the obsession with themability is a huge red-herring, and is totally unnecessary in a desktop OS. Select an attractive consistent theme for the various themeable applications, and 99.9% of users won't need to change it.
I'll often start with some bare-bones code that isn't correct (refers to functions that don't exist yet etc) and then flesh it out.
That is fine, when you refer to an undefined function, a skeleton will automatically be created elsewhere in the code to maintain correctness (perhaps adding the fleshing out of this skeleton to an automatic TODO list).
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This is like someone branching Linux, applying a few tweaks (none or few of which are actually their own idea), and then calling it "Linux 2".
Don't reward people who circumvent open development forums like the GDF by letting them co-opt the name "Gnutella".
Calling Gnutella2 the "next revolution in P2P" would be like calling the latest model in horse-pulled carriages the "next revolution in transportation" years after the advent of the motor car.
Because keyboards are by-far the most efficient way to get information into a computer, so who would want a computer that doesn't have one?
This may seem simplistic, but often the smartest people can miss the simplest flaws.
In some European countries, the price of Gas (or Petrol) can be three times what it is in the US due to 75% taxation.
I advise reading the book "The Holocaust Industry" (written by a Jew), which details much of the seedier side of the Holocaust, including people who claim to have been in concentration camps - but who were later proven to have spent the war in Switzerland, of misdirection of funds intended for Holocaust victims.
One good example is that this law makes it illegal to suggest that less than 6,000,000 Jews were murdered, might it have been 5,999,999? Oops, you just broke the law.
There are many who think that the number was actually lower than 6 Million based on census information and other data at the time. Now, some would have you believe that even thinking that less than 6 million Jews might have died during WWII is disrespectful to the memory of those that died, but how much more disrespectful is it to censor the truth, to misuse funds intended for the families of the real victims, or to pretend that you suffered when you didn't?
The Freenet team are very receptive to feedback and suggestions. If you want to help resolve the issues that you have encountered, email support@freenetproject.org and we will try to ensure that 0.5.1 is better.
We thought this was a bug too - until we discovered that Mozilla 1.2 (and probably older versions) were transparently ungzipping the tgz file.
People might like to think that Apple is somehow better than Microsoft, but trust me - if they had Microsoft's monopoly, their behavior would be no better, in fact, given that they would have a monopoly on hardware too - things would be much worse.
Negative moderation should be a rare occurance on Slashdot - and should be used extremely judiciously.
Secondly, if you want Debian to only be of interest to "people like you", then you should be prepared for it to continue to decline in market-share relative to Redhat, because people with the time or inclination to spend hours or days tinkering just to get sound or networking working are a dying breed.
Debian's installation is totally unpolished, inconvenient, and it basically sucks. That argument that it is only inconvenient if you are a newbie is bunk - it is inconvenient for anyone that doesn't have time to burn configuring every tiny little detail. Yes, apt-get might be wonderful, but it will be much easier for Redhat and co to incorporate Debian's advantages than it will be for Debian to incorporate Redhat's. That is simply a fact.
Debian will never succeed until it takes the installation process seriously.
If I own something, it should do what I tell it to. It shouldn't act as a watchdog for large media corporations.
It was indeed used in Requiem.
Freenet searches do not work like Gnutella, as you would know if you knew anything about Freenet.
Freenet's search has, through multiple independent simulation-based studies (cited in the link I give above), been demonstrated to have logarithmic scalability, not the linear scalability you claim.
To inject some facts into this conversation - Freenet isn't exactly the same as a distributed hashtable, as it doesn't guarantee retrievability of information, but this is probably an inevitable consequence of achieving Freenet's goals, and Freenet's developers aren't shy about it.
The claims you have made about Freenet are total FUD.
One important difference is that Freenet doesn't guarantee retrievability of data, rather the more popular and recent the data, the more chance there is that it can be retrieved. This makes it more like a publication system (think radio or TV) than a distributed file-system.
I have long believed that the obsession with themability is a huge red-herring, and is totally unnecessary in a desktop OS. Select an attractive consistent theme for the various themeable applications, and 99.9% of users won't need to change it.