It's been on that IP for a while now because they own the IP block. I explained here before how they handle the backbone for the site and try to make it more redundant (which doesn't seem to help much lately)
Personally I like the concept of anoNet more and it's a bit more interesting too, as it allows all the usual software (browser, p2p software, http/irc server etc) to work.
anoNet is a decentralized friend-to-friend network built using VPNs and software BGP routers. anoNet works by making it difficult to learn the identities of others on the network allowing them to anonymously host content and IPv4 services.
It is impossible on the Internet to communicate with another host without knowing its IP address. Thus, the anoNet realizes that you will be known to your peer, along with the/30 subnet used for communicating with them. A routing protocol, BGP, allows any node to advertise any routes they like, and this seemingly chaotic method is what provides users with anonymity. Once a node advertises a new route, it is hard for anyone else to determine if it is a route to another machine in another country via VPN, or just a dummy interface on that users machine.
It's a fun thing to try out, since you can normally use mirc and browse on the anoNet sites that end in.ano tld. There's web search engine, irc server, bittorrent tracker, private WoW server and probably other "real internet" stuff too.
Activities
Please note that any resource listed in this section can only be reached when your connection to the VPN is active. If it is not, you will get unexpected results.
Once you have connected to the VPN itself, you may do any number of things: To get the full anoNet experience, use one of our cache DNS servers (1.0.9.53 or 1.10.11.1) so that you can resolve anoNet domains! Getting your own domain such as example.ano is no problem, just ask! - Visit our Wiki, wiki.ano (http://1.0.9.3). - Visit our IRC network using 1.0.9.1 or 1.0.1.1 port 6667 (6697 for SSL) with your favourite IRC client. Join #anonet and we can help you get started with anoNet. - If you would like a more secure form of communication, you can use our SILC server at silc.ano:706 - Visit our message forum talk.ano (http://1.0.9.4), where you can discuss anything under the sun! Literally. That is what this network is about -- free speech. - Use the anoNet jabber network (jabber.ano port 5222 or 5223 ssl for v1 clients), where you can chat with others using your favourite Jabber client! Jabber directory at users.jabber.ano - Grab yourself a webmail account mail.ano (http://1.0.9.6) if you don't want to run your own mail server. anoNet has no spam. - Search anoNet using our spidering search engine search.ano (http://1.0.9.8). - Use our Bittorrent tracker anotorrent.ano (http://1.0.9.200) - There is an open Icecast streaming server at stream.icecast.ano (1.0.9.16) port 8000, password anonet. It supports 20 streams and 200 listeners. The directory server is at icecast.ano (http://1.0.9.16) - Once again to promote free speech we have a multi-user blog at anojournal.ano (http://1.0.9.13) - If file sharing is your thing we have ed2k and dc++ servers. - If gaming is for you, there is a bnetd server. (Starcraft, Starcraft: Brood Wars, Warcraft II, Warcraft III, Diablo, Diablo II) - We also have World of Warcraft server setup (Running MaNGOS and a combination of SDB and Modb)
Remember, you can be a server too! Do you want to play a multi-player game? Go ahead! Install a game server, advertise it around (if you like), and get people to play with you! Not only can you be a game server, but you can offer files, stream media, host your own web page, or anything else you want! There is far too much to the network to list here, if it sounds like something you would be interested in, then connect up.
You missed my point. Of course there will be new sites. But in the same time it will be harder for casual people to get their pirated copies and go for the extra work to do it. Some might test legal alternatives too and actually find them useful and convenient (steam, spotify, some tv show services in my country have actually become really convenient to use, even lots of more than to pirate).
That's a delightful theory, rather like "If we make hiring prostitutes/taking drugs/whatever sufficiently onerous and legally dangerous, people will stop doing it."
Are you saying making those illegal and having consequences when caught have absolutely no effect on if people will do them? Of course it doesn't limit those who really want to, but it limits those people actions who dont care as much and can be without too.
If you read more than the title you'd know this is about after the time TPB was in court in June, and after all the shit that has been going around it (GGF sale, countless downtimes, court problems in several countries)
But funnily TPB doesn't respond now (again, like countless times recently)
Actually when the working and secure P2P solutions shrink, most people will just stop using them. When it becomes so that only possibility is to use something like darknets for P2P, only the hardcore pirates will be there and normal/casual people just wont bother.
I dont think their purpose even is to completely win the battle, but to make it inconvenient enough for casual people to get stuff for free. It's the same thing with DRM - it doesn't keep the hardcore pirates off who are there to break it, but it surely keeps casual people from copying to friends and so on.
If the big torrent sites will start having lots of trouble with law and courts, they will close the shop. All the big sites TPB, Mininova, Demonoid and Isohunt are either down or on changing their model (mininova) under pressure. Yeah lots of small sites and copycats will obviously pop in, but they wont be that kind of "big" sites anymore and will have less users and casual people will have harder time finding what they want.
It's useless to care about the pirates who would do it anyway, is a smaller group and usually dont have that much disposable income anyway. But it's the casual people and adults - your idea about piracy will change after you start getting more disposable income, like happened for me and lots of my friends and now happily buy what we enjoy (and another reason was the quality improvement and easiness of Steam and Spotify and other legit services).
It will improve the local internet connection, which is the parents problem as well (since the torrent client is slowing down the other internet usage). Torrent client will analyze how much latency grows and tries to optimize that.
But I'm more unsure about how exactly will this improve ISP's network. They do not have global latency problems because of torrenting but only bandwidth capability problems, and torrent clients have no way to know if bandwidth usage at the ISP level is too much (or where it is).
Blizzard won on two arguments: first, that if a game is loaded into RAM, that can be considered an unauthorized copy of the game and as such a breach of copyright; second, that selling Glider was interfering with Blizzard's contractual relationship with its customers.
Exactly so. And then the persons who make a fuss over $5 happily spend $50+ for one night out at bars, which always isn't really even that nice night out.
It's the same way in Finland too, but they have to write in tv/magazine ads that users are signing up for a subscription service, how much it will cost and how to unsubscribe. However they're run by the large operators have been for years, and I dont have a such a problem with them since users are still clearly told what they're subscribing for. Never the less its still a pretty stupid service.
But even if it's a legitimately free one-month trial, which they then have to cancel, it still seems shady with most of the services: they're generally products nobody sane would actually pay for, so it's very transparent that the entire point is hoping that some people will forget to cancel, i.e. trick people into accidentally paying for something that they wouldn't have actually bought.
Lots of mobile phone operators have those subscription-based ringtone etc services which you pay $19+ a month and they start occasionally sending you random chiptunes. I have no idea why any sane person would like to subscribe for that, but since people know the terms, price and subscribe to it themself it's obviously legal. Providing stupid sounding service isn't illegal, it's just stupidness and ignorance from the people who sign up for it.
Old saying goes "He who asks is not a fool, he who pays is"
This just seems like crying from those who don't have other options in their games than to directly pay with money. It's good to offer another options for people.
And so what if they get more back and have more to spend on advertising in turn? It just means their game is more successful (in terms of monetization) than the alternatives.
This has nothing to do with Facebook. There are laws that the lead-generation offers have to follow like showing the terms and price of the offer. If they aren't following them, you report them to police or FCC.
Unless he's doing some fun rounding I'm unaware of.
There are many ways of rounding a number y to an integer q.
round down (or take the floor): q is the largest integer that does not exceed y. round up (or take the ceiling): q is the smallest integer that is not less than y.
methods are called directed rounding, as the displacements from the original number y to the rounded value q are all directed towards or away the same limiting value (0, +, or -).
If y is positive, round-down is the same as round-towards-zero, and round-up is the same as round-away-from-zero. If y is negative, round-down is the same as round-away-from-zero, and round-up is the same as round-towards-zero. In any case, if y is integer, q is just y. The following table illustrates these rounding methods:
How much further along would server side be if Microsoft had truly worked with the Java community instead of going it's own way with.Net?
To be honest I'd take.NET over the piece of slow shit that Java is over any day. And.NET supports a lot more languages than just Java, which I'm not really a fan either.
How much better would cellphones be if Microsoft had not bought, and slowly strangled, Danger?
I doubt Danger has had really any effect on Mobile world. And actually Windows Mobile is a lot more open than the other alternatives that there have been, in DRM sense and who can develop for them and how (tho finally we got Android aswell)
Considering Microsoft hasn't really ever been too much worried about piracy of Windows and I think Gates even said once it was good for it at some level, and that Windows (especially Windows Mobile, the only actually open kind in Mobile world until Android), I don't think he is that much for DRM. Piracy was dead-easy on the first xbox too.
One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students—Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans—for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.[15]
At the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for computer time. Rather than use the system via teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including programs in FORTRAN, LISP, and machine language.
Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students.
That gotta give some hacker and geekiness points;)
Even if that was true, he understood what other geeks needed. Plain business men probably aren't going to understand that.
And if you're ever read some book by Bill Gates, you'd notice he does have quite (interesting, I might add) ideas. Not just with OS and such, but with technology general and how to combine it with everyday life.
Slashdot Mirror
I hope this gets implemented to Slashdot too, this kind of posting just isn't enough!
It's been on that IP for a while now because they own the IP block. I explained here before how they handle the backbone for the site and try to make it more redundant (which doesn't seem to help much lately)
Personally I like the concept of anoNet more and it's a bit more interesting too, as it allows all the usual software (browser, p2p software, http/irc server etc) to work.
anoNet is a decentralized friend-to-friend network built using VPNs and software BGP routers. anoNet works by making it difficult to learn the identities of others on the network allowing them to anonymously host content and IPv4 services.
It is impossible on the Internet to communicate with another host without knowing its IP address. Thus, the anoNet realizes that you will be known to your peer, along with the /30 subnet used for communicating with them. A routing protocol, BGP, allows any node to advertise any routes they like, and this seemingly chaotic method is what provides users with anonymity. Once a node advertises a new route, it is hard for anyone else to determine if it is a route to another machine in another country via VPN, or just a dummy interface on that users machine.
It's a fun thing to try out, since you can normally use mirc and browse on the anoNet sites that end in .ano tld. There's web search engine, irc server, bittorrent tracker, private WoW server and probably other "real internet" stuff too.
Activities
Please note that any resource listed in this section can only be reached when your connection to the VPN is active. If it is not, you will get unexpected results.
Once you have connected to the VPN itself, you may do any number of things:
To get the full anoNet experience, use one of our cache DNS servers (1.0.9.53 or 1.10.11.1) so that you can resolve anoNet domains! Getting your own domain such as example.ano is no problem, just ask!
- Visit our Wiki, wiki.ano (http://1.0.9.3).
- Visit our IRC network using 1.0.9.1 or 1.0.1.1 port 6667 (6697 for SSL) with your favourite IRC client. Join #anonet and we can help you get started with anoNet.
- If you would like a more secure form of communication, you can use our SILC server at silc.ano:706
- Visit our message forum talk.ano (http://1.0.9.4), where you can discuss anything under the sun! Literally. That is what this network is about -- free speech.
- Use the anoNet jabber network (jabber.ano port 5222 or 5223 ssl for v1 clients), where you can chat with others using your favourite Jabber client! Jabber directory at users.jabber.ano
- Grab yourself a webmail account mail.ano (http://1.0.9.6) if you don't want to run your own mail server. anoNet has no spam.
- Search anoNet using our spidering search engine search.ano (http://1.0.9.8).
- Use our Bittorrent tracker anotorrent.ano (http://1.0.9.200)
- There is an open Icecast streaming server at stream.icecast.ano (1.0.9.16) port 8000, password anonet. It supports 20 streams and 200 listeners. The directory server is at icecast.ano (http://1.0.9.16)
- Once again to promote free speech we have a multi-user blog at anojournal.ano (http://1.0.9.13)
- If file sharing is your thing we have ed2k and dc++ servers.
- If gaming is for you, there is a bnetd server. (Starcraft, Starcraft: Brood Wars, Warcraft II, Warcraft III, Diablo, Diablo II)
- We also have World of Warcraft server setup (Running MaNGOS and a combination of SDB and Modb)
Remember, you can be a server too! Do you want to play a multi-player game? Go ahead! Install a game server, advertise it around (if you like), and get people to play with you!
Not only can you be a game server, but you can offer files, stream media, host your own web page, or anything else you want!
There is far too much to the network to list here, if it sounds like something you would be interested in, then connect up.
(main site seems to be down atm, but this one works)
You missed my point. Of course there will be new sites. But in the same time it will be harder for casual people to get their pirated copies and go for the extra work to do it. Some might test legal alternatives too and actually find them useful and convenient (steam, spotify, some tv show services in my country have actually become really convenient to use, even lots of more than to pirate).
That's a delightful theory, rather like "If we make hiring prostitutes/taking drugs/whatever sufficiently onerous and legally dangerous, people will stop doing it."
Are you saying making those illegal and having consequences when caught have absolutely no effect on if people will do them? Of course it doesn't limit those who really want to, but it limits those people actions who dont care as much and can be without too.
This is cloud computing like jumping on top of other car with yours is cloud driving.
If you read more than the title you'd know this is about after the time TPB was in court in June, and after all the shit that has been going around it (GGF sale, countless downtimes, court problems in several countries)
But funnily TPB doesn't respond now (again, like countless times recently)
Actually when the working and secure P2P solutions shrink, most people will just stop using them. When it becomes so that only possibility is to use something like darknets for P2P, only the hardcore pirates will be there and normal/casual people just wont bother.
I dont think their purpose even is to completely win the battle, but to make it inconvenient enough for casual people to get stuff for free. It's the same thing with DRM - it doesn't keep the hardcore pirates off who are there to break it, but it surely keeps casual people from copying to friends and so on.
If the big torrent sites will start having lots of trouble with law and courts, they will close the shop. All the big sites TPB, Mininova, Demonoid and Isohunt are either down or on changing their model (mininova) under pressure. Yeah lots of small sites and copycats will obviously pop in, but they wont be that kind of "big" sites anymore and will have less users and casual people will have harder time finding what they want.
It's useless to care about the pirates who would do it anyway, is a smaller group and usually dont have that much disposable income anyway. But it's the casual people and adults - your idea about piracy will change after you start getting more disposable income, like happened for me and lots of my friends and now happily buy what we enjoy (and another reason was the quality improvement and easiness of Steam and Spotify and other legit services).
OK, I'm happily joining in here from Germany!
It will improve the local internet connection, which is the parents problem as well (since the torrent client is slowing down the other internet usage). Torrent client will analyze how much latency grows and tries to optimize that.
But I'm more unsure about how exactly will this improve ISP's network. They do not have global latency problems because of torrenting but only bandwidth capability problems, and torrent clients have no way to know if bandwidth usage at the ISP level is too much (or where it is).
On top of that Apple has a good case here because Blizzard already won similar argument before
Blizzard won on two arguments: first, that if a game is loaded into RAM, that can be considered an unauthorized copy of the game and as such a breach of copyright; second, that selling Glider was interfering with Blizzard's contractual relationship with its customers.
Exactly so. And then the persons who make a fuss over $5 happily spend $50+ for one night out at bars, which always isn't really even that nice night out.
It's the same way in Finland too, but they have to write in tv/magazine ads that users are signing up for a subscription service, how much it will cost and how to unsubscribe. However they're run by the large operators have been for years, and I dont have a such a problem with them since users are still clearly told what they're subscribing for. Never the less its still a pretty stupid service.
And why should they if they enjoy that? Why they should do something for their whole life that they don't enjoy?
But even if it's a legitimately free one-month trial, which they then have to cancel, it still seems shady with most of the services: they're generally products nobody sane would actually pay for, so it's very transparent that the entire point is hoping that some people will forget to cancel, i.e. trick people into accidentally paying for something that they wouldn't have actually bought.
Lots of mobile phone operators have those subscription-based ringtone etc services which you pay $19+ a month and they start occasionally sending you random chiptunes. I have no idea why any sane person would like to subscribe for that, but since people know the terms, price and subscribe to it themself it's obviously legal. Providing stupid sounding service isn't illegal, it's just stupidness and ignorance from the people who sign up for it.
Old saying goes "He who asks is not a fool, he who pays is"
This just seems like crying from those who don't have other options in their games than to directly pay with money. It's good to offer another options for people.
And so what if they get more back and have more to spend on advertising in turn? It just means their game is more successful (in terms of monetization) than the alternatives.
This has nothing to do with Facebook. There are laws that the lead-generation offers have to follow like showing the terms and price of the offer. If they aren't following them, you report them to police or FCC.
(btw, Facebook does allow lead-generation offers and also has pretty strict rules about advertisement)
In geek terms, that would be the same as measuring 'lines of code' to measure how great a peace of code is.
After all the spaghetti code and dirty workarounds I've seen, I think your analogy is a bit flawed.
But you are welcome to try with a car analogy.
Unless he's doing some fun rounding I'm unaware of.
There are many ways of rounding a number y to an integer q.
round down (or take the floor): q is the largest integer that does not exceed y.
round up (or take the ceiling): q is the smallest integer that is not less than y.
methods are called directed rounding, as the displacements from the original number y to the rounded value q are all directed towards or away the same limiting value (0, +, or -).
If y is positive, round-down is the same as round-towards-zero, and round-up is the same as round-away-from-zero. If y is negative, round-down is the same as round-away-from-zero, and round-up is the same as round-towards-zero. In any case, if y is integer, q is just y. The following table illustrates these rounding methods:
How much further along would server side be if Microsoft had truly worked with the Java community instead of going it's own way with .Net?
To be honest I'd take .NET over the piece of slow shit that Java is over any day. And .NET supports a lot more languages than just Java, which I'm not really a fan either.
How much better would cellphones be if Microsoft had not bought, and slowly strangled, Danger?
I doubt Danger has had really any effect on Mobile world. And actually Windows Mobile is a lot more open than the other alternatives that there have been, in DRM sense and who can develop for them and how (tho finally we got Android aswell)
So the conclusion is that because Bill doesn't have guts to do anything even after that, he really is a true geek!
Considering Microsoft hasn't really ever been too much worried about piracy of Windows and I think Gates even said once it was good for it at some level, and that Windows (especially Windows Mobile, the only actually open kind in Mobile world until Android), I don't think he is that much for DRM. Piracy was dead-easy on the first xbox too.
Plus which, it doesn't help that Ballmer is a flaming sociopath who should be on medication not running a multi-billion dollar corporation.
I always thought that was required from *all* CEO's of multi-billion dollar corporations.
Also like how Wikipedia article tells on his early life,
One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students—Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans—for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.[15]
At the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for computer time. Rather than use the system via teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including programs in FORTRAN, LISP, and machine language.
Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students.
That gotta give some hacker and geekiness points ;)
Even if that was true, he understood what other geeks needed. Plain business men probably aren't going to understand that.
And if you're ever read some book by Bill Gates, you'd notice he does have quite (interesting, I might add) ideas. Not just with OS and such, but with technology general and how to combine it with everyday life.