They used the word "hashing" but it's actually more of "what does this actually look/sound like" type fingerprint rather than a hash like SHA1/MD4/MD5.
MusicBrainz uses a fingerprinting scheme like this to id music files by how they sound.
Um, fiber is by far less expensive (google give me <a href="http://www.electrical-contractor.net/Techno<nobr>l<wbr></wbr></nobr> ogy/Fiber_Optics/Fiber-Copper_Cost.htm">this </a> to back that up).
I was so ready to post that comment I didn't even realize the article is *about* TeleTruth. From the article itself:
Now some factions are pushing regulators to take a harder look inside this can of worms. In February a small watchdog group, TeleTruth, petitioned the Securities & Exchange Commission to launch an investigation. A coalition of 42 consumer groups, irked by a California state audit that accuses SBC (nyse: SBC - news - people ) of overcharging customers by $350 million, has filed a plea with the FCC. It demands:"When will the Commission systematically determine if violations of accounting requirements... have resulted in interstate overcharges, not only in California, but in all states in which SBC conducts its operations?" It calls the missing $5 billion in gear "the tip of the iceberg."
You can read about many of the other scams the teleco's are in at TeleTruth. Some quotes from their front page:
"Teletruth estimates that customers paid Verizon Pennsylvania $785 per household for a fiber-optic service they will never receive."
"50% of All Small Business phonebills have mistakes. ---And that's why we have announced our "Send Us Your Phone Bill" campaign in the Verizon territory to help business and residential customers recover overcharges on their Verizon telephone bills."
"New Networks Institute (NNI) estimates that consumers have already paid over $45 billion in extra telephone charges, and continue to pay over $8 billion annually. As monopoly providers of local phone service, the Bells are still subject to some regulation, yet they are among the most profitable companies in America today. Bell profit margins are more than double that of the major competitive long distance companies and other regulated utilities and literally 167% above the profit margins of some of America's best-known companies. Much of this excess profit is a result of the financial incentives that were supposed to build the infrastructure for America's digital future."
The guy behind all this is Bruce Kushnick. I've yet to find any one claiming he's anything but on the level. If you have please email me.
TuneTagger is my own first attempt at this. The MB Tagger, the windows only version, has advanced by leaps and bounds and the server interface has changed to accomdate it. I haven't had the time to catch up, maybe this weekend.
At first I coded this in Python/GTK, but with the new server interface you don't need a web browser as much, so the rewrite will use Python/wxWindows which will run on W32/MacOSX/Linux.
The telecos have been making promises to get all of the US on higher bandwidth connections. They made these promises to the FCC. FCC said great, raise your prices for basic services so that you can build these new service.
So prices raised, telecos earn $48 Billion, with $8 Billion more coming in every year, customers get nothing. Do you understand why we must protest to congress?
It would be intresting to see what happens to the students who where like me and had to test edge cases of the rules (I was a unit test in the rules!).
In both Mnet (http://mnet.sf.net/) and Freenet you don't know what you are actually sharing, just that the software is managing a part of your hard drive. In Mnet you most likely don't even have a full file to share with others, only a small percentage of the file.
The thing your missing here is the SCALE. Who knew that a culture would take to expressing their desires thru a game, thus making the game so important.
I know we have baseball players knocking homeruns in the name of their EverQuest characters, but I don't think we have the Mob trying to get Sony to give them some virtural weapons.
Here's why:
The arts project does even mention video
from their site:
>aRts simulates a complete "modular analog
>synthesizer" on your - digital - computer.
>Create sounds & music using small
>modules like oscillators for creating
>waveforms, various filters, modules for
>playing data on your speakers, mixers,
>faders
I only took a brief glance, but only being intrested in video, moved on.
Also keep in mind gstreamer has been developing for over a year and a half.
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LAMP - A good start, but no encoding. Just another player
xthreatre(sic) - smpeg player... no heavy lifting
xmovie - Another Andy Williams production. Much heavy lifting. Wish Ridge Run would hire hime. --
xine - uses avifile and mpeg2dec in an application to display video. It works, but so what? The heavy lifting is in those two libs.
xmms - same here.
oms - yep, yep. mpeg2dec. I know I've seen messages over a year ago to them from Erik trying to get them on board the gstreamer project but they really just wanted a DVD app at the time.
>1. The ability to load a platform-independant
>module that provides any arbitrary codec, and all
>your movie or sound players will make use of the >module.
Write a plug in for x in gstreamer and you can use it in all gstreamer apps. ("Platform-independant"? Not sure what this is supposed to mean. )
>2. Something that can take advantage of hardware
>acceleration (MJPEG or MPEG accelerators, and
>capture cards)
In gstreamer this is up to the plug in to be know about these things.
>3. Is network transparent like X, for remote
>displaying over a high-speed network (none of
>them do this right, yet) Really look at
>gstreamer.
One of the demo Erik was working on orignally was using Internet2 to do something much like this.
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They used the word "hashing" but it's actually more of "what does this actually look/sound like" type fingerprint rather than a hash like SHA1/MD4/MD5.
MusicBrainz uses a fingerprinting scheme like this to id music files by how they sound.
Um, fiber is by far less expensive (google give me <a href="http://www.electrical-contractor.net/Techno<nobr>l<wbr></wbr></nobr> ogy/Fiber_Optics/Fiber-Copper_Cost.htm">this </a> to back that up).
Sure if you don't mind the concurrent 5 connection limit.
Looks like this site does use correct html. Comes out all messed up in Mozilla.
If you are going to mention something easily found on a website like opensecrets.org, *LINK* to the damn thing, don't just talk about it.
You can read about many of the other scams the teleco's are in at TeleTruth. Some quotes from their front page:
"Teletruth estimates that customers paid Verizon Pennsylvania $785 per household for a fiber-optic service they will never receive."
"50% of All Small Business phonebills have mistakes. ---And that's why we have announced our "Send Us Your Phone Bill" campaign in the Verizon territory to help business and residential customers recover overcharges on their Verizon telephone bills."
Also if you have a lot more time than I do you can read "The Unauthorized Bio of the Baby Bells" and How The Bells Stole America's Digital Future. Excerpt from the latter:
"New Networks Institute (NNI) estimates that consumers have already paid over $45 billion in extra telephone charges, and continue to pay over $8 billion annually. As monopoly providers of local phone service, the Bells are still subject to some regulation, yet they are among the most profitable companies in America today. Bell profit margins are more than double that of the major competitive long distance companies and other regulated utilities and literally 167% above the profit margins of some of America's best-known companies. Much of this excess profit is a result of the financial incentives that were supposed to build the infrastructure for America's digital future."
The guy behind all this is Bruce Kushnick. I've yet to find any one claiming he's anything but on the level. If you have please email me.
My blog post about this
TuneTagger is my own first attempt at this. The MB Tagger, the windows only version, has advanced by leaps and bounds and the server interface has changed to accomdate it. I haven't had the time to catch up, maybe this weekend.
At first I coded this in Python/GTK, but with the new server interface you don't need a web browser as much, so the rewrite will use Python/wxWindows which will run on W32/MacOSX/Linux.
Free free to help.
The telecos have been making promises to get all of the US on higher bandwidth connections. They made these promises to the FCC. FCC said great, raise your prices for basic services so that you can build these new service.
So prices raised, telecos earn $48 Billion, with $8 Billion more coming in every year, customers get nothing. Do you understand why we must protest to congress?
Read all about it here
Still trying to figure out the best way to fight this problem.
Achord is a DHT that can give some Anonymity protections.
It would be intresting to see what happens to the students who where like me and had to test edge cases of the rules (I was a unit test in the rules!).
In both Mnet (http://mnet.sf.net/) and Freenet you don't know what you are actually sharing, just that the software is managing a part of your hard drive. In Mnet you most likely don't even have a full file to share with others, only a small percentage of the file.
non-profit according to who's laws? the US? EU? Russian?
Could you actually give an example or a page talking about these "hijinx" instead of just saying they happened?
As near as I can tell, they arn't using BitTorrent, which is a shame because it's perfect for just this.
it's a helper app. You can build it for any browser that knows how to open a helper app for certain files.
The thing your missing here is the SCALE. Who knew that a culture would take to expressing their desires thru a game, thus making the game so important.
I know we have baseball players knocking homeruns in the name of their EverQuest characters, but I don't think we have the Mob trying to get Sony to give them some virtural weapons.
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One big hole with your theory is that anyone that wants to find out the real story can use whois.
Just because people are unaware of what the facts are doesn't mean they can act like those facts are not relevant.
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Here's why: The arts project does even mention video from their site: >aRts simulates a complete "modular analog >synthesizer" on your - digital - computer. >Create sounds & music using small >modules like oscillators for creating >waveforms, various filters, modules for >playing data on your speakers, mixers, >faders I only took a brief glance, but only being intrested in video, moved on. Also keep in mind gstreamer has been developing for over a year and a half.
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I now see what you mean, quicktime is bigger. I was only thinking of the file format, which is cool, but not all that gstreamer is shooting for.
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LAMP - A good start, but no encoding. Just another player xthreatre(sic) - smpeg player... no heavy lifting xmovie - Another Andy Williams production. Much heavy lifting. Wish Ridge Run would hire hime.
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Because, quicktime is not the only file format you find. You have AVI's, mpeg, etc.
Gstreamer's scope is much larger than quicktime's. Read more about it to understand why.
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xine - uses avifile and mpeg2dec in an application to display video. It works, but so what? The heavy lifting is in those two libs.
xmms - same here.
oms - yep, yep. mpeg2dec. I know I've seen messages over a year ago to them from Erik trying to get them on board the gstreamer project but they really just wanted a DVD app at the time.
>1. The ability to load a platform-independant
>module that provides any arbitrary codec, and all
>your movie or sound players will make use of the >module.
Write a plug in for x in gstreamer and you can use it in all gstreamer apps. ("Platform-independant"? Not sure what this is supposed to mean. )
>2. Something that can take advantage of hardware
>acceleration (MJPEG or MPEG accelerators, and
>capture cards)
In gstreamer this is up to the plug in to be know about these things.
>3. Is network transparent like X, for remote
>displaying over a high-speed network (none of
>them do this right, yet) Really look at
>gstreamer.
One of the demo Erik was working on orignally was using Internet2 to do something much like this.
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Here is a letter to the editor. This story seems old... hope they get their computers back.
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1) Buying up as many ATI All-In-Wonder Pros PCI's that I can.
2) Drop as 'em into a box and try and get XFree86 4 to span over all the outputs.
3) Modify xawtv (if needed) so that so you can see the inputs from a diffrent card in each session of xawtv.
4) Get TV-out working. Plug each card into a TV (I have a bunch I've been collecting for this).
Presto! Videowall!
Next we need a mpeg2 encoder board to record stuff. And more PCI slots :)
I'd want to watch CNN, MTV, ZDNET, SCI-FI, and the Comedy channel all the time. :)
Idealy I'd write my own software for viewing using gstreamer, but we'll see...
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http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20847 It goes on for pages. There is a patch, tho it's not in the nightlys. Just plain screwy
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