Most people just aren't as deligent as you about cleaning up corrupted stuff they download as you are.
This is precisely the reason I wrote an application to scan my file library and retrieve the Bitzi ticket (www.bitzi.com) for the files. Any negatively rated files are flagged for my attention.
This should be a built-in feature of P2P clients.
The drawback of course is that bitzi is a central site, and the traffic from many users doing what I'm doing would easily overload the site. So, I have rules in place in the application to only check files over 20mb and archive files (which potentially contain executable code). Thus, my collection of 2500 files is reduced to less than 100 files that need to be checked.
I rescan every week or so, in case copies of some files (cam'ed movies for instance) are superceeded by superior versions (the DVD rip). When this happens I can remove the old version and update with a better quality version.
I'd love to see a P2P version of the file rating system, but currently Bitzi is the best I have access to, so thats what I use.
I've posted basicly this information on the BearShare forums. I got absolutely no supporters, everybody that replied thought it was completely unworkable.
Anyway, ideas abound, but getting anyone to agree is worse than herding cats.
I wrote an app that scans my library for files with negative Bitzi ticket ratings (www.bitzi.com).
I suggested on the BearShare forums that it should be a standard feature (particularly for large files like movies), so people won't keep low quality files around, but no one thought it was a good idea.
The magnetic domains where the one bit was are presumably weaker or smaller because they were flipped, not reinforced like the zero bit domains
Also note that the head positioning within the track is an analog process. Each time a particular track is written, there will be small sidebands that are not overwritten, providing more clues as to the previous data. Research indicates that multiple sidebands are present, each containing information about previous writes,
To a trained eye, their "cleverly crafted" network requests are going to stick out like a sore thumb
I'm not so sure thats true. I see searches for file hashs all the time. It would be trivial to write a client that encodes its data to be transmitted in what appear to be file hashes. It wouldn't take too many high bandwidth peers to monitor pretty much the entire network for these encoded data packets. Also consider that only a few of these encoded packets need be transmitted, once the listener is aware that a specific host is ready to send its data, they'd simply initiate a file transfer off the network and send whatever they need (encoded in a video file or PW protected zip if one was paranoid).
These things need not happen within minutes or even hours of each other. Outgoing traffic on the infected machine could be made to look like any kind of user data.
I think both are valid, I prefer to organize things into directories.
BUT, I want all files to have a block of metadata that goes with the file, even if I transfer it to another system. This metadata should contain keywords, descriptions, creators contact info, etc. Maybe in XML.
If it isn't part of the concept of a file, its not very useful. In todays networked world, files move around from system to system, if the meta info doesn't go with it, its not right. Anybody can create a file database that does this kind of stuff that is seperate from the file, but thats just a bandaid.
As an atheist, I wouldn't say I value life more than a theist, I just don't expect that there will be anything good or bad at the end.
It seems to me that many people believe in a god because they want to know that someone is in control, that things happen for a reason, even if they don't or can't comprehend that reason.
Basicly, I think that religion is their way of dealing with uncertanty. I just deal with it differently.
I don't agree with that. As someone else pointed out, if you want your trash handled in a secure manner, you either need to do it yourself, or contract with someone else to do it. Most trash companies have no obligation to keep the trash they have collected from you, which is now their property, private.
I wonder how important tactile feedback is for the user? It seems very important to most of us, but we've been typing that way for years or decades. Would someone who never learned a standard keyboard think that an lcd keyboard with no tactile feedback was as easy to use as a regular keyboard?
(Williams makes some very small turbojet engines, famously for use in cruise missiles)
"...an endurance of up to 26 minutes was anticipated"
This really makes me wonder. If you were building a device that was designed to fly really fast, for a really short time, at the end of which it would be blown into lots of very small pieces, how much time would you spend making it durable?
Is the 26 minutes less related to the amount of fuel it carries than the amount of time it takes for the bearings and whatnot to wear out?
While making an accurate map of a small town (for the pizza delivery guys) in texas, I thought it would be entertaining to put in a map dragon. While searching for a nice looking one, I ran across some web pages stating that the whole map dragon thing was actually pretty rare, only a few authetic antique maps had them.
So, is the map dragon thing really more fiction than fact?
Do what? The idea is that anyone providing a broadband connection sells an totally unlimited connection, no rate caps, no port blocking, no restrictions on users running servers. Then then keep track of how many bytes are transfered up and downstream, and charge based on that.
Rates could be different for up and downstream and be either continious or tiered.
Home users get ultra-fast connections and can run their personal web and mail servers on their own equipment, and pay only for the resources they actually use (ie, a low base rate plus the traffic charges). If Joe sixpack leaves gnutella up with access to his ripped, DVD collection, he pays for it.
Frightening. I wonder if anyone has done studies to determine what the social dynamics involved in running large organizations are. Are their configurations that can maintain a lean, effecient structure, and tend to self-correct, eliminating paper-pushers who are interested only in moving up in managment?
Perhaps computer technology can help. Can a computer system help to eliminate the layers of managment, allowing a CEO to more directly manage teams of employees?
Who studies this stuff, whats the field called, and who develops the solutions and markets it to businesses?
They'll tolerate suck lines at $16-$25 while bitching about it all the time
Or they'll just dump the land line and get a mobile phone with unlimited off-peak hours for $30/mo. It still sucks, but at least it can suck all the time, instead of just when you are at home.
Many don't include email addresses, for obvious reasons, however, they almost always include one or more valid http links. SOOOoooo, just put all the valid links into a a little script file which is used by a program that simply downloads each page in the list in turn (and follows any links on the page, on a random delay).
If we could get about 100k or so people to do this, spammers sites would be under a continious slashdot effect. Rate limit it on the local machine to keep the local bandwidth usage reasonable.
Hey, you could make a program that uses security flaws in windows to zombie machines, then use them to DDOS spammers websites!
I always hear people talk about how they don't like narration, but I've never had a problem with it. I'd rather have some narration, particularly in a story that has been compressed from a book, than have a story that misses the point of the book.
But then I'm not a movie snob, when I go to a movie I just want to experiance a good story, regardless of the style of the storytelling.
The reason perfect speech recognition is AI-complete is that it requires perfect speech understanding to choose between homophones
Can't much of that be taken care of grammaticly? Obviously grammer checkers can't be perfect (hell, most real people can't identify correct grammer), but it ought not be terribly difficult to make it close enough to be pretty damn good.
I can't imagine wanting true natural language recognition anyway, for giving commands for something I would expect people to want brief commands with fairly rigid syntax. Like 'lights on' as opposed to 'house, its two dark inn hear, turn on the lights'
Here's how I see it, there will be commercials on almost all the time, the bottom 1/8th of the screen will be the 'free market zone' where local stations or advertisers can deluge you with information 24/7.
I have no problem with that, many of the networks around here do that to advertise whatever is on next anyway (as if I need that, I have tvguide.com and a digital guide right on the cable box).
What irritates me is that they resize without regard to the aspect ratio of the picture. Picard looks stupid squashed vertically by 15%. Hell, they even have the extra info in the TV cutoff area on the left and right, they could shrink the image, maintan aspect ratio, and probably still have a full width picture.
You could always watch about a minute behind the live feed, and during that minute a crew of people could use real human intelligence to use in-painting techniques to remove ads. The crew could sell the information as patches to the broadcasts to which one could subscribe for a low low montly fee, and you could cancel any time you want (various restrictions apply, check your local store for details)
In an environmet like a car where I'm always in the same place relative to the control system, I'd much rather have a touch screen with a well designed menu system.
Now, in my house, where I tend to move around alot, I'd like to be able to address the system by voice. Perhaps Walk into a room and adjust the light level or temperature, or change the radio staion or tv channel. That would be useful (even more so with presense detection).
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Most people just aren't as deligent as you about cleaning up corrupted stuff they download as you are.
This is precisely the reason I wrote an application to scan my file library and retrieve the Bitzi ticket (www.bitzi.com) for the files. Any negatively rated files are flagged for my attention.
This should be a built-in feature of P2P clients.
The drawback of course is that bitzi is a central site, and the traffic from many users doing what I'm doing would easily overload the site. So, I have rules in place in the application to only check files over 20mb and archive files (which potentially contain executable code). Thus, my collection of 2500 files is reduced to less than 100 files that need to be checked.
I rescan every week or so, in case copies of some files (cam'ed movies for instance) are superceeded by superior versions (the DVD rip). When this happens I can remove the old version and update with a better quality version.
I'd love to see a P2P version of the file rating system, but currently Bitzi is the best I have access to, so thats what I use.
I've posted basicly this information on the BearShare forums. I got absolutely no supporters, everybody that replied thought it was completely unworkable.
Anyway, ideas abound, but getting anyone to agree is worse than herding cats.
I wrote an app that scans my library for files with negative Bitzi ticket ratings (www.bitzi.com).
I suggested on the BearShare forums that it should be a standard feature (particularly for large files like movies), so people won't keep low quality files around, but no one thought it was a good idea.
Works fine on my system tho.
The magnetic domains where the one bit was are presumably weaker or smaller because they were flipped, not reinforced like the zero bit domains
Also note that the head positioning within the track is an analog process. Each time a particular track is written, there will be small sidebands that are not overwritten, providing more clues as to the previous data. Research indicates that multiple sidebands are present, each containing information about previous writes,
I don't want my neighbor messing with my car any more than I want him messing with my processes.
In either case, he'd darn well better identify himself and assume legal liability for any damage he does.
To a trained eye, their "cleverly crafted" network requests are going to stick out like a sore thumb
I'm not so sure thats true. I see searches for file hashs all the time. It would be trivial to write a client that encodes its data to be transmitted in what appear to be file hashes. It wouldn't take too many high bandwidth peers to monitor pretty much the entire network for these encoded data packets. Also consider that only a few of these encoded packets need be transmitted, once the listener is aware that a specific host is ready to send its data, they'd simply initiate a file transfer off the network and send whatever they need (encoded in a video file or PW protected zip if one was paranoid).
These things need not happen within minutes or even hours of each other. Outgoing traffic on the infected machine could be made to look like any kind of user data.
I think both are valid, I prefer to organize things into directories.
BUT, I want all files to have a block of metadata that goes with the file, even if I transfer it to another system. This metadata should contain keywords, descriptions, creators contact info, etc. Maybe in XML.
If it isn't part of the concept of a file, its not very useful. In todays networked world, files move around from system to system, if the meta info doesn't go with it, its not right. Anybody can create a file database that does this kind of stuff that is seperate from the file, but thats just a bandaid.
As an atheist, I wouldn't say I value life more than a theist, I just don't expect that there will be anything good or bad at the end.
It seems to me that many people believe in a god because they want to know that someone is in control, that things happen for a reason, even if they don't or can't comprehend that reason.
Basicly, I think that religion is their way of dealing with uncertanty. I just deal with it differently.
(and garbage is *obviously* one of those)
I don't agree with that. As someone else pointed out, if you want your trash handled in a secure manner, you either need to do it yourself, or contract with someone else to do it. Most trash companies have no obligation to keep the trash they have collected from you, which is now their property, private.
I wonder how important tactile feedback is for the user? It seems very important to most of us, but we've been typing that way for years or decades. Would someone who never learned a standard keyboard think that an lcd keyboard with no tactile feedback was as easy to use as a regular keyboard?
(Williams makes some very small turbojet engines, famously for use in cruise missiles)
"...an endurance of up to 26 minutes was anticipated"
This really makes me wonder. If you were building a device that was designed to fly really fast, for a really short time, at the end of which it would be blown into lots of very small pieces, how much time would you spend making it durable?
Is the 26 minutes less related to the amount of fuel it carries than the amount of time it takes for the bearings and whatnot to wear out?
While making an accurate map of a small town (for the pizza delivery guys) in texas, I thought it would be entertaining to put in a map dragon. While searching for a nice looking one, I ran across some web pages stating that the whole map dragon thing was actually pretty rare, only a few authetic antique maps had them.
So, is the map dragon thing really more fiction than fact?
Do what? The idea is that anyone providing a broadband connection sells an totally unlimited connection, no rate caps, no port blocking, no restrictions on users running servers. Then then keep track of how many bytes are transfered up and downstream, and charge based on that.
Rates could be different for up and downstream and be either continious or tiered.
Home users get ultra-fast connections and can run their personal web and mail servers on their own equipment, and pay only for the resources they actually use (ie, a low base rate plus the traffic charges). If Joe sixpack leaves gnutella up with access to his ripped, DVD collection, he pays for it.
Frightening. I wonder if anyone has done studies to determine what the social dynamics involved in running large organizations are. Are their configurations that can maintain a lean, effecient structure, and tend to self-correct, eliminating paper-pushers who are interested only in moving up in managment?
Perhaps computer technology can help. Can a computer system help to eliminate the layers of managment, allowing a CEO to more directly manage teams of employees?
Who studies this stuff, whats the field called, and who develops the solutions and markets it to businesses?
They'll tolerate suck lines at $16-$25 while bitching about it all the time
Or they'll just dump the land line and get a mobile phone with unlimited off-peak hours for $30/mo. It still sucks, but at least it can suck all the time, instead of just when you are at home.
companies are barely making money on broadband as it is.
If they'd charge based on usage and eliminate all the restrictions on home/business usage (no servers, etc) they might be able to make some money.
be coming from starships in nearby space which have either warp/hyperdrive
What? Why just those two? Ultradrive and ramscoops need not apply?
Many don't include email addresses, for obvious reasons, however, they almost always include one or more valid http links. SOOOoooo, just put all the valid links into a a little script file which is used by a program that simply downloads each page in the list in turn (and follows any links on the page, on a random delay).
If we could get about 100k or so people to do this, spammers sites would be under a continious slashdot effect. Rate limit it on the local machine to keep the local bandwidth usage reasonable.
Hey, you could make a program that uses security flaws in windows to zombie machines, then use them to DDOS spammers websites!
I always hear people talk about how they don't like narration, but I've never had a problem with it. I'd rather have some narration, particularly in a story that has been compressed from a book, than have a story that misses the point of the book.
But then I'm not a movie snob, when I go to a movie I just want to experiance a good story, regardless of the style of the storytelling.
No amound of memeory is "enough"
Not if you're trying to run java apps.
The reason perfect speech recognition is AI-complete is that it requires perfect speech understanding to choose between homophones
Can't much of that be taken care of grammaticly? Obviously grammer checkers can't be perfect (hell, most real people can't identify correct grammer), but it ought not be terribly difficult to make it close enough to be pretty damn good.
I can't imagine wanting true natural language recognition anyway, for giving commands for something I would expect people to want brief commands with fairly rigid syntax. Like 'lights on' as opposed to 'house, its two dark inn hear, turn on the lights'
Jenna would be one year too young to be President. In 2012
Thats ok, I'm sure she can find a good fake ID to present to the election commision (or whoever checks those details)
Here's how I see it, there will be commercials on almost all the time, the bottom 1/8th of the screen will be the 'free market zone' where local stations or advertisers can deluge you with information 24/7.
I have no problem with that, many of the networks around here do that to advertise whatever is on next anyway (as if I need that, I have tvguide.com and a digital guide right on the cable box).
What irritates me is that they resize without regard to the aspect ratio of the picture. Picard looks stupid squashed vertically by 15%. Hell, they even have the extra info in the TV cutoff area on the left and right, they could shrink the image, maintan aspect ratio, and probably still have a full width picture.
You could always watch about a minute behind the live feed, and during that minute a crew of people could use real human intelligence to use in-painting techniques to remove ads. The crew could sell the information as patches to the broadcasts to which one could subscribe for a low low montly fee, and you could cancel any time you want (various restrictions apply, check your local store for details)
In an environmet like a car where I'm always in the same place relative to the control system, I'd much rather have a touch screen with a well designed menu system.
Now, in my house, where I tend to move around alot, I'd like to be able to address the system by voice. Perhaps Walk into a room and adjust the light level or temperature, or change the radio staion or tv channel. That would be useful (even more so with presense detection).
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