This is weird, the other night I had a dream that I was in Paris, near the Eiffel tower and I saw a cable going up to the sky, and I remember one slashdot story I had read about a space elevator.
This is real, I really had this dream about 2 days ago.
To me SPAM is mailing one email to hundreds or thousands of email addresses, and what it's being proposed here is mailing multiple different emails, with different opinions about a subject to one or a couple email addresses.
Also, it mentions:
"Since each Votester peer only sends a few messages (such as once per day, or once per hour, etc.) no individual peer can be considered to be engaging in illegal harassment, hacking, denial of service, etc."
I don't think it will be a DDOS because it's not a software that looks for other machines and breaks their security and then every machine starts to send requests to the target system, it's just emailing and accessing by HTTP the target system once in a while.
This software should be limited to only send emails and requests once per day or once por hour, being once per hour the fastest, and NEVER once per minute or per second.
I agree with Just Some Guy, you have to use moderation and not go to extremes. But if you discipline a child he will know that it's wrong to put her crayons into the DVD player, or put dirt in his mouth.
I see a lot of diference in the way we educate and discipline a child here in México. If a child is behaving badly we spank him, and he learns that what he was doing is bad. In countries like the USA they have children seeking legal action against their parents for disciplining them. And they have a lot of "illneses" spring up, like "Attention Defficit Disorder", but that's just overprotection, like don't letting them explore the whole internet.
Even if all the technical barriers are crossed, and you have a system where no one through the Internet or whatever network, can pinpoint who voted for who, and no one can vote more than once, and the database is very secure, etc. It CAN NOT BE DONE because you don't secure the right to a secret vote, phisically.
For example, here in México there is a lot of vote buying by some political parties, and a lot of people try to force them to vote for that party (PRI). So even if the voting system is as SECURE AS EVER, with each person needing a password and login in to verify you, etc., some people could gather a lot of voters and watch them vote for that political party and maybe give them some food and money because they voted for them.
I don't agree that bad licenses are good to Open Source software, but I think that the Open Sources community relies a lot on closed software. We try to copy other programs, like Excel and Gnumeric, etc.
I really think that we should start to create our own programs from scratch, no trying to copy visually other software, good things will emerge from that.
First of all, I think you could join a group like Geekcorps they take IT to developing countries and partner with local businesses. There is also a story about them that was posted here in/.
Another cool thing is to help people start LUG's in towns and cities that are lacking one. For example, here in Tijuana, México there is a LUG being formed (TJLUG), and we are getting help from people of the LUG across the border in San Diego, CA (KPLUG) and from another LUG in Ensenada, México (ELUG). So those 2 LUG's that are well organized and have experience can help other LUG's to be started and everyone wins.
Also, going to schools and donating some time to help in the computers labs, teach children, etc.
I don't think this technology can be used with monitors, because the article says that the LEP's have a very short lifetime, and I think they are not very useful with this short lifetime of 1,000 hours (that's 41.66 days). Only if they get the blue LEP to work for the same time as the red LEP (100,000 hours or 11.41 years) maybe it could work for monitors.
I see it as a good technology for phones and some devices you don't use for a long time and maybe some advertising, until that lifetime hurdle can be jumped.
In a society with an economic format like capitalism using Open Source to it's fullest can't be done. Capitalism, by definition, is always looking to gather money, capital, etc. It's not about helping the communuty (like Open Source) but it is about helping ME AND ONLY ME.
I like the Open Source philosophy because it gives all freedom to all society to use the software so it helps EVERYONE and not ONLY ME.
Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful. Software differs from material objects--such as chairs, sandwiches, and gasoline--in that it can be copied and changed much more easily. These possibilities make software as useful as it is; we believe software users should be able to make use of them.
It states socially useful, so until a society uses a communist, democratic system Open Source will only be a hobby practiced by us geeks with another full time job to pay other persons so they amass their fortunes and to amass our fortune, and fighting between ourselves.
So, answering this question, I recommend you DON'T go with open source now, maybe some day... hopefully one day!
To be sure, Napster makes it a condition of use that you won't modify the browser to invade someone's privacy, find their computer's unique IP address, modify, erase or damage any information contained on the computer of any user connected to the Napster service.
Media inforcer finds the IP address of the users on Napster, based on the name of the files they are sharing. I don't know if NetPD does that or just reports the Napster username.
There is a site called Zeropaid that puts up a Gnutella server with false images with names like: daughter13suck.jpg, etc...
And it posts images of gnutella showing the IP address of the people who are downloading the false images. The images are at the Zeropaid Wall of Shame.
It's in the shape of an audio cassete, it comes with 32 MB of storage space, you can stick it in your car stereo, living room stereo, walkman, etc., it costs $199.95 dollars and it has a USB interface to transfer files from your computer to Rome. It even has a button that doesn't do anything (Menu Button), jejeje.
I haven't used it, but I think the idea is pretty cool!!!
Is Alan Turing in the Inventors Hall of Fame? He is the Father of Computer Science! I didn't use the Apple I or II, but if Wozniak is there Turing should be there.
Does anyone know if this Hall of Fame is only for US inventors? Or for inventors who patented their inventions in the US Patents office? If this is the case, they should put Bezos in there for their incredible(sic) 1-Click buying patent. jajaja
I saw a programm on Discovery Channel today, where they discussed this propulsion system and others, that are more faster.
The one that caught my eye is an parachute like system, where the ship moves with the energy emmited by the sun, and it accelerates constantly and in 1 year going at 10% the speed of light!
Altough to reach that speed it will need to have the sun following it, and that can't be used.
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What more gain do you want than having your software used by thousands of people. Or having your music listened by thousands. I'm not saying it's easy, and we all need to change the way we think. Of course you'll get gain! If you do something that people want, I can assure you you'll receive a lot.
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We are living in a part of history that is seeing a lot of changes. I see this type of stories like the battle of the new way of doing things versus the old way of doing things, and all those executives and groups of persons are trying to keep everything static and without change, because they profit a lot of this way of doing things. I see the future as everything being Open, and we are definitely seeing this in the computer industry. Soon no one will have to worry about money. If we were in such a society, people could share their work for free, distribute it, being books, music, software, videos, etc. Everyone will have the chance to experience the creation of that person, and the person that created it will not need any monetary reward, because his necessities will be rewarded and all the rewards he wants is people appreciating what he does, and the intellectual boost he gets doing such work.
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This is weird, the other night I had a dream that I was in Paris, near the Eiffel tower and I saw a cable going up to the sky, and I remember one slashdot story I had read about a space elevator.
This is real, I really had this dream about 2 days ago.
Also, it mentions:
I don't think it will be a DDOS because it's not a software that looks for other machines and breaks their security and then every machine starts to send requests to the target system, it's just emailing and accessing by HTTP the target system once in a while.
This software should be limited to only send emails and requests once per day or once por hour, being once per hour the fastest, and NEVER once per minute or per second.
I see a lot of diference in the way we educate and discipline a child here in México. If a child is behaving badly we spank him, and he learns that what he was doing is bad. In countries like the USA they have children seeking legal action against their parents for disciplining them. And they have a lot of "illneses" spring up, like "Attention Defficit Disorder", but that's just overprotection, like don't letting them explore the whole internet.
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For example, here in México there is a lot of vote buying by some political parties, and a lot of people try to force them to vote for that party (PRI). So even if the voting system is as SECURE AS EVER, with each person needing a password and login in to verify you, etc., some people could gather a lot of voters and watch them vote for that political party and maybe give them some food and money because they voted for them.
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I really think that we should start to create our own programs from scratch, no trying to copy visually other software, good things will emerge from that.
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Another cool thing is to help people start LUG's in towns and cities that are lacking one. For example, here in Tijuana, México there is a LUG being formed (TJLUG), and we are getting help from people of the LUG across the border in San Diego, CA (KPLUG) and from another LUG in Ensenada, México (ELUG). So those 2 LUG's that are well organized and have experience can help other LUG's to be started and everyone wins.
Also, going to schools and donating some time to help in the computers labs, teach children, etc.
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I see it as a good technology for phones and some devices you don't use for a long time and maybe some advertising, until that lifetime hurdle can be jumped.
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I like the Open Source philosophy because it gives all freedom to all society to use the software so it helps EVERYONE and not ONLY ME.
Like this paragraph taken from gnu.org:
It states socially useful, so until a society uses a communist, democratic system Open Source will only be a hobby practiced by us geeks with another full time job to pay other persons so they amass their fortunes and to amass our fortune, and fighting between ourselves.So, answering this question, I recommend you DON'T go with open source now, maybe some day... hopefully one day!
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Media inforcer finds the IP address of the users on Napster, based on the name of the files they are sharing. I don't know if NetPD does that or just reports the Napster username.
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And it posts images of gnutella showing the IP address of the people who are downloading the false images. The images are at the Zeropaid Wall of Shame.
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It's in the shape of an audio cassete, it comes with 32 MB of storage space, you can stick it in your car stereo, living room stereo, walkman, etc., it costs $199.95 dollars and it has a USB interface to transfer files from your computer to Rome. It even has a button that doesn't do anything (Menu Button), jejeje.
I haven't used it, but I think the idea is pretty cool!!!
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Does anyone know if this Hall of Fame is only for US inventors? Or for inventors who patented their inventions in the US Patents office? If this is the case, they should put Bezos in there for their incredible(sic) 1-Click buying patent. jajaja
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The one that caught my eye is an parachute like system, where the ship moves with the energy emmited by the sun, and it accelerates constantly and in 1 year going at 10% the speed of light!
Altough to reach that speed it will need to have the sun following it, and that can't be used.
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What more gain do you want than having your software used by thousands of people. Or having your music listened by thousands. I'm not saying it's easy, and we all need to change the way we think. Of course you'll get gain! If you do something that people want, I can assure you you'll receive a lot.
We are living in a part of history that is seeing a lot of changes. I see this type of stories like the battle of the new way of doing things versus the old way of doing things, and all those executives and groups of persons are trying to keep everything static and without change, because they profit a lot of this way of doing things. I see the future as everything being Open, and we are definitely seeing this in the computer industry. Soon no one will have to worry about money. If we were in such a society, people could share their work for free, distribute it, being books, music, software, videos, etc. Everyone will have the chance to experience the creation of that person, and the person that created it will not need any monetary reward, because his necessities will be rewarded and all the rewards he wants is people appreciating what he does, and the intellectual boost he gets doing such work.
Why don't all of us start to put that information on our web pages... let's see them try to censor the whole web.