I don't see that the value gain by the spamming nodes is equal to, or greater, than the loss by the rest of the nodes. That makes the variance of n even more pronounced.
AllOfMP3.com says they're going to stop being so controversial "after Russian copyright law changes in September". What is that change they're referring to?
That law treats a network as if its only value is its interconnectedness. Especially while some nodes send more info than they receive, some nodes are more valuable, and some connections are more valuable. Unless the actual information transmitted has no value to the network.
Which is what I've gathered from Metcalfe's InfoWorld columns since then.
Now that it's (reportedly) proven crackable, it should be a matter only of time before someone gets a cracked Skype protocol into an open Asterisk module.
A real patent of Skype's protocol (if a protocol patent could be considered "real") would have published all the details, precisely to protect by law what Skype instead protects by secrecy.
Of course China's mafia government would have found ways to to protect their local "infringers" if it gave them control over Skype's important telecom traffic.
An open protocol using open software from more than a single (point of failure) source is a lot more reliable in the face of large scale attackers, like a government. SIP and IAX are safer.
Read the articles to which I linked. Lots of poor people, who are disproportionately Black in Georgia, don't have the required IDs. They represent an artificial barrier to voting which keeps their populations less represented at the polls. It's like a modern poll tax.
The judge in the Georgia case decided that the evidence of the role of ID in fraud vs disenfranchisement resulted in disenfranchisement.
The greater effect of voter purges based on false name-similarity (as in Florida 2000), despite IDs establishing the voters authentic name, than multiple voting with fake names has been demonstrated quite a lot in the past few elections. The reverse has no authentic evidence that I know of.
When the government fines pricefixers, the money goes into the slushfund to pay for, eg, a bigger Iraq War.
When they award damages, the money goes to people who actually bought the product anyway.
What about the people who didn't buy the product, because it was too expensive? The remedy can never go back in time to redo the results. But the pricefixers should have to sell their product at least as much below a competitive price as they fixed it above one. Maybe even just giving away free at the same rate they sold at the fixed prices.
The people create a government to protect our rights. The government we've created that now sits in Washington protects only the appearance of protection. This November, you can fire your House Representative, and probably one of your Senators. Get to work!
Of course Net Doublecharge allows for fatter pipes. Instead we'll get fatter CEOs and less equal access to Internet bandwidth and services.
Because "Net Neutrality" means equal access to everyone who's paying for their direct connection. Not adding blackmail charges to rich nodes' traffic that happens to traverse your network, though they've already paid their full fee to their direct connection, which has in turn paid you.
That's what "Net Neutrality" means, vs Net Doublecharge. Despite the illegible gibberish and random pseudothinking in telco stooge articles like that one in the summary.
Cite some of these successful tests, Anonymous asshole Coward. Not the rigged Star Wars tests that prove only a Republican Congress will spend $BILLIONS on defense contractor bullshit. Or that an Anonymous Coward will defend their ripoffs with predictable bullshit like "dumbass".
Your friends, if you even have any, are robbing America and faking security. Shitheads.
If I had Bush's job, I wouldn't have let N Korea get the bomb. Or the missile tech.
I wouldn't have invaded Iraq, leaving us with so few conventional options in N Korea, Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
I'd know that diplomacy means a lot more than "do nothing".
If I had his job now, I'd be using the CIA and NSA to do a lot more than spy on Americans. And I'd be really pissed that Bush pushed us so down in the hole by screwing up everything else I now had to fix. Like anyone else should be, even if we're not the president.
There is no explicit security in the changelogs. As I pointed out, faking changelogs is just an inconvenience to an attacker, but it is more than "nothing".
The lack of changelogs I mentioned was occasional, in the Ubuntu Update Manager.
And including the signing in the Update Manager GUI would add security to the process.
If you were less smug about the apt features you might be more interested in the lack of their implementation in Ubuntu, where they would do some good. Even if Ubuntu isn't operating on more hosts than Debian already, that relative popularity won't last.
"Why are you keeping me in Guantanamo for 4 years without right to a lawyer? PATRIOT ACT."
Actually, that one just went down in flames last month when the Supreme Court decided against Bush in Hamdan. Though Bush's DoJ didn't invoke the Patriot Acts, it did claim more fundamental Constitutional authority that the Court decided didn't exist.
Now we just have to see whether Bush tells the Supreme Court to go to blazes.
Do you know how many prisoners in Abu Ghraib and Afghanistan have been tortured and killed? Do you know how many were grabbed for any reason other than a US officer said to grab so many locals, and there were that many nearby? Or grabbed because on an unchallenged charge from a neighbor?
Is that the American way? "Not as bad as the Nazis"?
That's one reason why I like Ubuntu's Update Manager: it shows the changelog for each package it's offering to upgrade. And one reason why the recent lack of changelogs is troubling.
Of course an attacker could fake changelogs, though it's an extra step. It might be nice to include signed authentication of at least the changelog, if not the package itself, to ensure authenticity of upgrades. Debian's apt (and its descendants, like Ubuntu) seem perfectly suited for automating such authentication without adding any user complexity.
Now we know why Bush likes to stand by and do nothing while N Korea, Iran and everyone else puts nukes on missiles. It's marketing for Northrup Grumman and the rest of the Star Wars missile defense snakeoil salesmen. When it doesn't work, it will be too late for anyone to ask for a refund.
This is all just more simcurity bullshit. On 9/11/2001, the US was under direct major attack in NYC and DC. For hours no one knew whether there would be more attacks, whether escalated with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, missiles, or anything.
The Emergency Broadcast System, which generations of Americans have been drilled in for precisely that scenario, was silent.
And no one even noticed it was missing. The first notice I heard of it was last year, when some obscure TV comedian's standup routine mentioned it.
The current Homeland Security system is so much more a charade than our Cold War systems that we can expect nothing but failures from it.
And every proven failure destroys America's ability to protect and govern ourself, as we learn to distrust the government to do anything, even though it used to at least do so adequately.
I fully expect widespread DHS alerts during the Republican campaign season now underway, that stretches through November 2006, past 2008, and whenever it's necessary to scare Americans out of the wits we might use to change the course we're on.
No, you're just misreading Wikipedia, itself no real authority, to serve your own selfimage.
Nerds are people who have unusual interests which compete with their social skills. Geeks are people who have technical proficiency in some specific field.
Neither are necessarily creators of anything they're interested in. However, geeks proficiency makes them likely to create. Nerds are just friendless weirdos.
If you were a geek, you'd know that. You're just another nerd, even if that's news to you that doesn't matter.
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I don't see that the value gain by the spamming nodes is equal to, or greater, than the loss by the rest of the nodes. That makes the variance of n even more pronounced.
AllOfMP3.com says they're going to stop being so controversial "after Russian copyright law changes in September". What is that change they're referring to?
Its value to the spammers increased its value.
That law treats a network as if its only value is its interconnectedness. Especially while some nodes send more info than they receive, some nodes are more valuable, and some connections are more valuable. Unless the actual information transmitted has no value to the network.
Which is what I've gathered from Metcalfe's InfoWorld columns since then.
I routinely make longer DNA sequences, and give the shorter ones away as gifts to women who I like.
Now that it's (reportedly) proven crackable, it should be a matter only of time before someone gets a cracked Skype protocol into an open Asterisk module.
A real patent of Skype's protocol (if a protocol patent could be considered "real") would have published all the details, precisely to protect by law what Skype instead protects by secrecy.
Of course China's mafia government would have found ways to to protect their local "infringers" if it gave them control over Skype's important telecom traffic.
An open protocol using open software from more than a single (point of failure) source is a lot more reliable in the face of large scale attackers, like a government. SIP and IAX are safer.
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Read the articles to which I linked, or another of my replies for another summary.
Read the articles to which I linked. Lots of poor people, who are disproportionately Black in Georgia, don't have the required IDs. They represent an artificial barrier to voting which keeps their populations less represented at the polls. It's like a modern poll tax.
The judge in the Georgia case decided that the evidence of the role of ID in fraud vs disenfranchisement resulted in disenfranchisement.
The greater effect of voter purges based on false name-similarity (as in Florida 2000), despite IDs establishing the voters authentic name, than multiple voting with fake names has been demonstrated quite a lot in the past few elections. The reverse has no authentic evidence that I know of.
When the government fines pricefixers, the money goes into the slushfund to pay for, eg, a bigger Iraq War.
When they award damages, the money goes to people who actually bought the product anyway.
What about the people who didn't buy the product, because it was too expensive? The remedy can never go back in time to redo the results. But the pricefixers should have to sell their product at least as much below a competitive price as they fixed it above one. Maybe even just giving away free at the same rate they sold at the fixed prices.
They're doing everything they can not to pass real laws, and barely failing at that.
Like reauthorizing the which almost failed, or passed amended to death. While Georgia, one of the states specifically covered by the Act, almost forced many of its Black voters out of their voting rights again.
The people create a government to protect our rights. The government we've created that now sits in Washington protects only the appearance of protection. This November, you can fire your House Representative, and probably one of your Senators. Get to work!
Of course Net Doublecharge allows for fatter pipes. Instead we'll get fatter CEOs and less equal access to Internet bandwidth and services.
Because "Net Neutrality" means equal access to everyone who's paying for their direct connection. Not adding blackmail charges to rich nodes' traffic that happens to traverse your network, though they've already paid their full fee to their direct connection, which has in turn paid you.
That's what "Net Neutrality" means, vs Net Doublecharge. Despite the illegible gibberish and random pseudothinking in telco stooge articles like that one in the summary.
This device is the Matrix. I never believed that movie BS about needing humans' electrical energy. It needs our software libarary.
To hack through captchas for porn. It really is the hive mind.
Cite some of these successful tests, Anonymous asshole Coward. Not the rigged Star Wars tests that prove only a Republican Congress will spend $BILLIONS on defense contractor bullshit. Or that an Anonymous Coward will defend their ripoffs with predictable bullshit like "dumbass".
Your friends, if you even have any, are robbing America and faking security. Shitheads.
If I had Bush's job, I wouldn't have let N Korea get the bomb. Or the missile tech.
I wouldn't have invaded Iraq, leaving us with so few conventional options in N Korea, Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
I'd know that diplomacy means a lot more than "do nothing".
If I had his job now, I'd be using the CIA and NSA to do a lot more than spy on Americans. And I'd be really pissed that Bush pushed us so down in the hole by screwing up everything else I now had to fix. Like anyone else should be, even if we're not the president.
Does Ubuntu? Its GUIs like Update Manager allow extra features without extra user complexity, as I mentioned. But I don't see signing features - yet.
There is no explicit security in the changelogs. As I pointed out, faking changelogs is just an inconvenience to an attacker, but it is more than "nothing".
The lack of changelogs I mentioned was occasional, in the Ubuntu Update Manager.
And including the signing in the Update Manager GUI would add security to the process.
If you were less smug about the apt features you might be more interested in the lack of their implementation in Ubuntu, where they would do some good. Even if Ubuntu isn't operating on more hosts than Debian already, that relative popularity won't last.
"Why are you keeping me in Guantanamo for 4 years without right to a lawyer? PATRIOT ACT."
Actually, that one just went down in flames last month when the Supreme Court decided against Bush in Hamdan. Though Bush's DoJ didn't invoke the Patriot Acts, it did claim more fundamental Constitutional authority that the Court decided didn't exist.
Now we just have to see whether Bush tells the Supreme Court to go to blazes.
Do you know how many prisoners in Abu Ghraib and Afghanistan have been tortured and killed? Do you know how many were grabbed for any reason other than a US officer said to grab so many locals, and there were that many nearby? Or grabbed because on an unchallenged charge from a neighbor?
Is that the American way? "Not as bad as the Nazis"?
That's one reason why I like Ubuntu's Update Manager: it shows the changelog for each package it's offering to upgrade. And one reason why the recent lack of changelogs is troubling.
Of course an attacker could fake changelogs, though it's an extra step. It might be nice to include signed authentication of at least the changelog, if not the package itself, to ensure authenticity of upgrades. Debian's apt (and its descendants, like Ubuntu) seem perfectly suited for automating such authentication without adding any user complexity.
Now we know why Bush likes to stand by and do nothing while N Korea, Iran and everyone else puts nukes on missiles. It's marketing for Northrup Grumman and the rest of the Star Wars missile defense snakeoil salesmen. When it doesn't work, it will be too late for anyone to ask for a refund.
This is all just more simcurity bullshit. On 9/11/2001, the US was under direct major attack in NYC and DC. For hours no one knew whether there would be more attacks, whether escalated with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, missiles, or anything.
The Emergency Broadcast System, which generations of Americans have been drilled in for precisely that scenario, was silent.
And no one even noticed it was missing. The first notice I heard of it was last year, when some obscure TV comedian's standup routine mentioned it.
The current Homeland Security system is so much more a charade than our Cold War systems that we can expect nothing but failures from it.
And every proven failure destroys America's ability to protect and govern ourself, as we learn to distrust the government to do anything, even though it used to at least do so adequately.
I fully expect widespread DHS alerts during the Republican campaign season now underway, that stretches through November 2006, past 2008, and whenever it's necessary to scare Americans out of the wits we might use to change the course we're on.
No, you're just misreading Wikipedia, itself no real authority, to serve your own selfimage.
Nerds are people who have unusual interests which compete with their social skills.
Geeks are people who have technical proficiency in some specific field.
Neither are necessarily creators of anything they're interested in. However, geeks proficiency makes them likely to create. Nerds are just friendless weirdos.
If you were a geek, you'd know that. You're just another nerd, even if that's news to you that doesn't matter.