Thank you for providing me with a good example of the right-wing propaganda I mentioned in my previous post.
If you quit buying what fauxnews sells you and do your homework, you will see that therapies using ESCs are practiced all over the world with stunning results. The most amazing progress is made in regenerating heart tissue and there's also some stunning progress in spinal cord injuries.
They have exhausted their other options when it comes to delaying embryonig stem-cell research.
Since several states have started passing budgets with money dedicated to embryonic stem cell research, its oponents have been growing increasingly rabid and vicious in the last few months. The 3B dollars approved under proposition 71 in California have been delayed so far for more than a year. Expect those well-meaning folk trying to save your soul at the expense of your body to jump on this news and integrate it in their propaganda machine ASAP.
If you are subscribed to the google news feed on the topic ("stem cell" or "stem cells" are good candidate strings (does that thing take regexp btw?)) you will see that almost every week a major new scientific announcement is made. There are signs of improvement for a lot of diseases previously thought incurable. Not all of this stuff gets mentioned in the mainstream media in the US.
Its not nearly as annoying as the people who expect everyone else to watch their favorite series or reality shows and to know what happened to which character, how and when.
Oh, and how excited they are when they get the last season on DVD, my oh my.
Living without a tv is entirely possible
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I'm sure many others will say this.
I've been living without a TV for almost 2 years now, and honestly I missed it badly only during the first few months. After that, I discovered that I'm actually getting much more rest while at home, feel generally less-stressed, and most importantly - can concentrate on strenous coding tasks for longer stretches at a time.
And following the tv show "you can't live without" is just as easy thanks to bittorrent..;-)
"They also don't care about breaking media monopolies, changing distribution paradigms"
Its not the darknets that do that. It is the p2p developers because no matter how many hundred thousand people can access a file from a darknet, its the common p2p user which makes the difference in the end of the day.
It still is an ordinary tool, just like there is a multitude of other tools available in varying degrees to the different social stratums. I fail to see the consequntiality of making "the software tool" in particular accessible and free in the degree the Debian project is aiming.
I'm not saying any other distros are making any difference in society - but to my knowledge they are not claiming to do so either.
Software is... software. Its not a cure for some social ills, its purpose is defined by the usability it brings to people.
Software which places such usability in second place becomes something else.. a propaganda tool perhaps? If Debian continues to keep such course, the only reason I see for using it is to make a political statement.
I wish the Debian project would stop pretending and become a political party or something.
It is possible only according to the suits in the government. The p2p traffic accounts for ~2/3rds of the internet traffic nowadays, so unless you have an echelon-type system good luck!
(and that is not counting all the anonimity-protecting nets such as freenet, MUTE, and the new i2p (don't remember link, sorry).
the nice thing about the current ng routing scheme is that there's plenty of room for research on how to tune it even further.
Note: if you haven't read the article, this won't make much sense to you.
For one, the number of reference points doesn't have to be fixed; if/when memory and cpu power allows us, we could have variable number of reference points per node. This opens the door to other decisions, such as whether we encourage clustering reference points. If yes, we add new ref points closer to others. If not, we remove a ref point the density within some keyspace interval gets too big. Another option is to add a new ref point whenever the n previous estimates turn out to be more than x% correct, and remove one if otherwise.
Another direction to go into is curve fitting. If cpu power allows us, we could use various techniques of polynomial or Fourrier interpolation within the existing reference points to draw more accurate curve of time vs. keyspace./me wanders if embedding fortran in java makes sense;))
One possible approach is to host the sites that link to.torrent files on Freenet. Now, you can't run a tracker on freenet, and the people downloading the files will not be anonymous. Neither will be the person running the tracker, but the site maintainer will be protected by Freenet.
While RIAA/MPAA could still go after individual trackers, they would not be able to shut down the entire operation.
The Freenet client Frost already includes a board (something like a newsgroup) for sharing.torrent files; if anyone is willing to help me embed a BitTorrent client in it, pls contact me _in_ frost.
I'm one of the main developers for freenet (see zab_ on the opn irc logs the cvs logs)
When 60% of the code (measured in locs) is workarounds for jvm bugs, you know you have problems.
If the sun QA dept. had pulled their act together, this release would have happend at least a month ago.
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The investments are concentrating only on RedHat..
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I remember I was very happy back in october (november?) when I read at/. about the netscape and intel investment, so happy that I found it unbelievable. Things have changed a lot since then, and this pattern has repeated several times.
The news about linux gaining momentum were also wonderful, but the futher investments in RedHat by IBM, HP, etc.. and now SAP do worry me, and they should worry you too. Selling out and betraying the open source spirit is completely out of question, but this neglection of the other distributions so openly displayed by the investors is more than worrying. Don't get me wrong - I like RedHat and have always used it, but: if you want to buy server from Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM,SAP, even Sun and you want linux, all that you'll get will be redhat. Since these companies are the ones that shape the corporate market anyway, the possibility of those making the decisions for big corporations to remain completely ignorant about the great diversity of distributions, and which is worse, they will become ignorant about the possibility of compiling and building a linux system from the scratch. Since the corporate market shapes somewhat the overall direction of software progress, this situation might have some unpleasant long term consequences.
I do hope, however, that redhat will be succesful in meeting the needs of that market and not forget that it is one of several distributions.
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They are afraid of him. The guy has some really good songs that they never wanted to see the light of day.
Thank you for providing me with a good example of the right-wing propaganda I mentioned in my previous post.
If you quit buying what fauxnews sells you and do your homework, you will see that therapies using ESCs are practiced all over the world with stunning results. The most amazing progress is made in regenerating heart tissue and there's also some stunning progress in spinal cord injuries.
They have exhausted their other options when it comes to delaying embryonig stem-cell research.
Since several states have started passing budgets with money dedicated to embryonic stem cell research, its oponents have been growing increasingly rabid and vicious in the last few months. The 3B dollars approved under proposition 71 in California have been delayed so far for more than a year. Expect those well-meaning folk trying to save your soul at the expense of your body to jump on this news and integrate it in their propaganda machine ASAP.
If you are subscribed to the google news feed on the topic ("stem cell" or "stem cells" are good candidate strings (does that thing take regexp btw?)) you will see that almost every week a major new scientific announcement is made. There are signs of improvement for a lot of diseases previously thought incurable. Not all of this stuff gets mentioned in the mainstream media in the US.
Its not nearly as annoying as the people who expect everyone else to watch their favorite series or reality shows and to know what happened to which character, how and when.
Oh, and how excited they are when they get the last season on DVD, my oh my.
ROFL
:):):)
This is good. Really good. I like it
I'm sure many others will say this.
;-)
I've been living without a TV for almost 2 years now, and honestly I missed it badly only during the first few months. After that, I discovered that I'm actually getting much more rest while at home, feel generally less-stressed, and most importantly - can concentrate on strenous coding tasks for longer stretches at a time.
And following the tv show "you can't live without" is just as easy thanks to bittorrent..
"They also don't care about breaking media monopolies, changing distribution paradigms"
Its not the darknets that do that. It is the p2p developers because no matter how many hundred thousand people can access a file from a darknet, its the common p2p user which makes the difference in the end of the day.
Limewire's DAAP implementation is actually working - you can share your downloaded files with other
people's iTunes on the local network.
I couldn't get ourTunes to even try and open the multicast socket, lets hope they get their act together sooner.
It still is an ordinary tool, just like there is a multitude of other tools available in varying degrees to the different social stratums. I fail to see the consequntiality of making "the software tool" in particular accessible and free in the degree the Debian project is aiming.
I'm not saying any other distros are making any difference in society - but to my knowledge they are not claiming to do so either.
Software is... software. Its not a cure for some social ills, its purpose is defined by the usability it brings to people.
Software which places such usability in second place becomes something else.. a propaganda tool perhaps? If Debian continues to keep such course, the only reason I see for using it is to make a political statement.
I wish the Debian project would stop pretending and become a political party or something.
Limewire does not have any spyware and is Open Source (GPL). (yes I do work for them)
It is possible only according to the suits in the government. The p2p traffic accounts for ~2/3rds of the internet traffic nowadays, so unless you have an echelon-type system good luck!
(and that is not counting all the anonimity-protecting nets such as freenet, MUTE, and the new i2p (don't remember link, sorry).
the nice thing about the current ng routing scheme is that there's plenty of room for research on how to tune it even further.
/me wanders if embedding fortran in java makes sense ;))
Note: if you haven't read the article, this won't make much sense to you.
For one, the number of reference points doesn't have to be fixed; if/when memory and cpu power allows us, we could have variable number of reference points per node. This opens the door to other decisions, such as whether we encourage clustering reference points. If yes, we add new ref points closer to others. If not, we remove a ref point the density within some keyspace interval gets too big. Another option is to add a new ref point whenever the n previous estimates turn out to be more than x% correct, and remove one if otherwise.
Another direction to go into is curve fitting. If cpu power allows us, we could use various techniques of polynomial or Fourrier interpolation within the existing reference points to draw more accurate curve of time vs. keyspace.
One possible approach is to host the sites that link to .torrent files on Freenet. Now, you can't run a tracker on freenet, and the people downloading the files will not be anonymous. Neither will be the person running the tracker, but the site maintainer will be protected by Freenet.
.torrent files; if anyone is willing to help me embed a BitTorrent client in it, pls contact me _in_ frost.
While RIAA/MPAA could still go after individual trackers, they would not be able to shut down the entire operation.
The Freenet client Frost already includes a board (something like a newsgroup) for sharing
Or close to it.
I'm one of the main developers for freenet (see zab_ on the opn irc logs the cvs logs)
When 60% of the code (measured in locs) is workarounds for jvm bugs, you know you have problems.
If the sun QA dept. had pulled their act together, this release would have happend at least a month ago.
zab
I remember I was very happy back in october (november?) when I read at /. about the netscape and intel investment, so happy that I found it unbelievable. Things have changed a lot since then, and this pattern has repeated several times.
The news about linux gaining momentum were also wonderful, but the futher investments in RedHat by IBM, HP, etc.. and now SAP do worry me, and they should worry you too. Selling out and betraying the open source spirit is completely out of question, but this neglection of the other distributions so openly displayed by the investors is more than worrying. Don't get me wrong - I like RedHat and have always used it, but:
if you want to buy server from Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM,SAP, even Sun and you want linux, all that you'll get will be redhat. Since these companies are the ones that shape the corporate market anyway, the possibility of those making the decisions for big corporations to remain completely ignorant about the great diversity of distributions, and which is worse, they will become ignorant about the possibility of compiling and building a linux system from the scratch. Since the corporate market shapes somewhat the overall direction of software progress, this situation might have some unpleasant long term consequences.
I do hope, however, that redhat will be succesful in meeting the needs of that market and not forget that it is one of several distributions.