If you go to the limewire site, click on the "network size" menu option and than the "historical", you will get a nice graph of the gnutella network size. You will notice two significant increases in network size over the past few months.
What's amazing is since you posted about 12 hours ago, the network has increased to about 280,000 clients. And climbing -- I refreshed after 5 minutes and the green bar was a couple pixels higher.
This didn't kill file sharing. And Neitzche was right -- what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Take away all the proprietary networks, please, RIAA. Throw us into that brier patch, br'er bear.
Motorists could put these things to especially good use.
Many GM models already have heads-up displays. I own one such a model, and although some may dismiss it as a "high-tech toy," I am actually very pleased with it because my eyes never leave the road. It helps to make me a safer driver. (I should get a break on my insurance, but I don't.);-P
I agree with some of the other replies, though, saying that drivers need less distractions. But I think it can be developed so as to not be distracting, and simply enhance the information coming into your eyeballs.
And as you said, cars will drive themselves before too long, so we've got a convergence happening.
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Er, IIRC existing scanners were not made illegal by this law, only new ones.
I believe we're both right: the existing scanners weren't recalled, and the FBI didn't raid the houses of those on the scanner manufacturers' customer lists.
However, the use of the scanners in that particular band was declared illegal.
At the time, I thought it was ridiculous. I never in my wildest dreams[1] imagined that scanner legislation was merely the tip of the iceberg.
[1] - Those were filled with grits and Natalie.
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Heck, even Bill Nye the Science Guy (aka `science for the ADD afflicted') doesn't have a show anymore.
Of course he does -- he's on BattleBots, on the Comedy Channel. Not a highly educational show, but they do have the occasional spot about how to build a robot.
(I know the quote was from your parent, but I didn't want to click on Parent and put myself 1/1000 closer to having to pay again. 1/2;-)
I too had electronics kits when I was a kid, and I firmly believe that my interest in them led to my interest in computers, which has given me a well-above-average lifestyle.
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Still, I'd question the constitutionality of a law that made existing equipment functionality retroactively illegal.
Don't. There's a shining example that many will remember: scanners and cell phones.
These scanners were completely legal. Then when the cell phone industry found that people could listen in on conversations, rather than doing the right thing and fixing their technology so it couldn't be eavesdropped upon, they went crying to Congress and got a law passed that said it was illegal to use the scanners. And sell the scanners. And then, when the tech companies sold scanners that could easily be jumpered to remove the protection, they passed another law saying they couldn't do that, either.
Don't think it can't happen again.
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...Recording Industry Ass. of America President Hillary Rosen...
I couldn't have said it better myself.
I'm certain that Thomas Greene put that abbr. in there on purpose, based on his "lapdog", "flacks", "sneering contempt", "bought", etc.
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We all thought the tech companies were different from the other megacorps because they were started by people like us. They aren't different.
The smaller ones sometimes are. I spent a third of my life with a startup that became wildly successful. In its youth, it cared a lot about employees; we'd have picnics, weekend parties at hotels and resorts, to motivate us to keep working the crazy 80-100 hour weeks we worked (I'm serious).
Now, it's a big company, and is trampling all over the employees' rights. I feel bad for the few originals who are still left there. The founder was kicked out! They're shedding old employees because their stock options are an expense. Very sad.
The worst part? They still "force" the employees to work weekends. It's the employees "option" to come in or not; legal told the managers to word it that way. But experience demonstrates that it's most definitely not optional -- at layoff time, those who had lives are canned.
Back to the topic: if the SSSCA is passed, expect to see the economy go from "recovery from recession" to "full-blown depression rivalling the Great one."
I worked at Maine Yankee, a now-defunct nuclear plant, and we had a FORTRAN program on a MODCOMP computer (no file system -- everything was in root directory).
There was a program that would test the access control lists. The program was named "testACL", and everyone pronounced it "test-A-C-L".
In a meeting, I pronounced it as a single word -- "testicle". Everyone lost it.;-)
...configured to automagically collect pr0n-videos from all of the newsservers...
...beautiful html-pages with all kind of info (size, length, codecs etc)...
Man, I must be getting old. The kids' language keeps changing. I mean, I can understand size and length in relation to porn stars, but what part of the anatomy does "codecs" refer to?
(You can make it ugly by replacing the "d" with a "t"...)
Leave your TV on some stupid ass channel when not at home, trade grocery cards(please make sure you cant cash a check with it)...
I was just thinking about banner ads. I remember seeing a lot of amateur web sites with banners to pay their hosting fees, saying "please click on our sponsors so we can pay our bills!"
I think a neat plug-in might be something that scanned the most-recently loaded page for banner ads, and then pretended to click on them (not sure exactly how to do this without using a lot of bandwidth for the ad to come down; make the connection, then quickly break it? Pretend the connection came from a different IP? Something like that).
This would serve two purposes: it would, in the short term, provide funds to those sites that you frequent; and in the long term, it would eliminate that form of advertising, while at the same time emptying the pockets of the ad-man.
...and lend you cell phone to your aged aunt selma who couldnt figure out how to use it if her life depended on it.
My grandmother just got a cell phone, and programmed my number in. She has called me by accident no less than 5 times in the last week, the phone being activated in her purse. Each time she calls, I call her back, asking her to look up the "key guard" or "key lock" feature in the instruction book, but she just doesn't seem to understand it.
She's not going senile; she's very sharp, conversationally, and remembers events with clarity. It's just that the technology is beyond her.
Also, I find that I start to think in French if I've been speaking it for a few hours.
My wife is from Brazil, and doesn't speak English. We communicate in Portuguese, which I've been learning for the past three years.
I have found that an excellent way to practice my language skills is to attempt to do my thinking in Portuguese. It's not always easy, especially when I don't know the right word in Portuguese, but generally I can think a "concept" using smaller words.
My thoughts may seem like child's thoughts[1], in this respect, but everyone I talk to (in Portuguese) is amazed at how little accent I have. Some Brazilians have asked me where (in Brazil) I'm from! My grammar and conjugation give me away; I haven't had lessons (other than the "Better Off Dead" style < Howard Cosell>language lessons</Howard Cosell>-).
I also try to translate song lyrics, in real-time, as I listen to the song. It's not always possible, but it's a great way to flex my skills.
[1] - Children pick up language much faster than adults. Perhaps I've hit on something?
I think the answer as to why the Republicrats are behaving this way will become immediately apparent.
They've only brib^W contributed $1,660,652 from 2/26/1999 through 11/3/2000. This doesn't seem like a whole lot of money to me, especially when they have 31 billion in the bank.
But then, the data is missing the last 16 months' worth of hus^W donations. Perhaps that's where the real story is.
(PS doing the calculation was exceedingly easy -- just copied-and-pasted the data into Notepad, saved it, then imported it into Excel. I like that I was able to use Microsoft's tools to help expose them.;-)
Maybe have a subscription service where every week I get mailed the latest Aerosmith / Beastie Boys hits and mix in a few new bands I've never heard of.
I was subscribed to such a service in 1994, called Rock Video Monthly. The service sent a VHS tape once a month with music videos on it, usually about 10 or so.
There are some bands I love that I would not have heard about otherwise: Melissa Ferrick, James, Rusted Root, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Crash Test Dummies, Dinosaur Jr, October Project, Cowboy Junkies, and more.
Therefore, I would like to propose a ban on people. Clearly without the pernicious evil of people we could alleviate most, if not all of society's problems.
How is a senile mother supposed to raise a 10 year old child? Once again selfishness of the parent seems to have won out over long term best interests for the child.
Your question is valid whether or not the mother used a process to eliminate bad genes in her child.
Which means your conclusion is inappropriate. The "long term best interests for the child" are gone either way once the child reaches 10. With that in mind, wouldn't it be better for future generations to eliminate senility? Either way the immediate next generation is screwed.
But using this technique, her grandchildren will not have senile parents. Ignoring this technique, history will continue to repeat itself.
I applaud her decision.
(Or were you trying to say that in your world, she would simply not reproduce?)
We need to take a look at the Russian model: if you criminalise demand, all you are doing is spending a lot of time, effort and money into turning a lot of people into criminals. Far better to bring it in out of the cold, ask We, the People what we actually want, and come to a fair compromise.
I completely agree.
The interesting thing is, your statement directly applies to another massive failure in attempting to control supply and demand: the War On (some) Drugs.
So many of my tax dollars are being wasted, in military missions in countries we haven't officially declared war on, to eliminate entrepreneurs who see a market demand and are attempting to fill it. And on the other side, my tax dollars are being wasted on silly propaganda, saying, in effect, "Our most recent two Presidents explored recreational drug use. You should not!"
They said to the toothbrush sellers "Go ahead, supply the demand. Come in out of the cold, run the shops, pay taxes. Everybody wins."
Imagine the surplus we'd have if we stopped wasting tax dollars on military missions which don't control the supply, and propaganda which doesn't control the demand? Add to that the tax dollars generated by controlled sales, and we'd have much better government services at our disposal. Better roads. Broadband for everyone. Etc.
In addition, look to Prohibition for effects. Back then we saw alcohol dealers shooting each other in the streets. We don't see alcohol dealers doing that today. Taken to its logical conclusion, the violence assoicated with the fulfilling of a market demand is only due to the fact that this market is illegal.
Obviously, there are drugs that are addictive and lead people to destructive behaviors. But most of those are already legal (alcohol, tobacco, caffeine). Who has seen a bar fight in Amsterdam?
I'm careening way off topic; let's bring it back: the RIAA is attempting a form of "Prohibition" now. They're just using acronyms and doublespeak to blind us from the fact that they are simply extending the United States' war on its own citizens and their desires.
How is someone else's decision on how to have or not have children any of your freakin' business?
If you want to adopt a child, feel free. We won't stop you. But don't think you can make parenting decisions for someone else. You can't, and hopefully you never will. (China's a different story.)
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Hey, Ayn, I have an answer for you: Les Vadasz is John Galt.
Here's a direct link to the graph.
What's amazing is since you posted about 12 hours ago, the network has increased to about 280,000 clients. And climbing -- I refreshed after 5 minutes and the green bar was a couple pixels higher.
This didn't kill file sharing. And Neitzche was right -- what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Take away all the proprietary networks, please, RIAA. Throw us into that brier patch, br'er bear.
MusicCity should send someone to Australia to squeeze them.
Send hit men.
Many GM models already have heads-up displays. I own one such a model, and although some may dismiss it as a "high-tech toy," I am actually very pleased with it because my eyes never leave the road. It helps to make me a safer driver. (I should get a break on my insurance, but I don't.) ;-P
I agree with some of the other replies, though, saying that drivers need less distractions. But I think it can be developed so as to not be distracting, and simply enhance the information coming into your eyeballs.
And as you said, cars will drive themselves before too long, so we've got a convergence happening.
I believe we're both right: the existing scanners weren't recalled, and the FBI didn't raid the houses of those on the scanner manufacturers' customer lists.
However, the use of the scanners in that particular band was declared illegal.
At the time, I thought it was ridiculous. I never in my wildest dreams[1] imagined that scanner legislation was merely the tip of the iceberg.
[1] - Those were filled with grits and Natalie.
Of course he does -- he's on BattleBots, on the Comedy Channel. Not a highly educational show, but they do have the occasional spot about how to build a robot.
(I know the quote was from your parent, but I didn't want to click on Parent and put myself 1/1000 closer to having to pay again. 1/2 ;-)
I too had electronics kits when I was a kid, and I firmly believe that my interest in them led to my interest in computers, which has given me a well-above-average lifestyle.
Don't. There's a shining example that many will remember: scanners and cell phones.
These scanners were completely legal. Then when the cell phone industry found that people could listen in on conversations, rather than doing the right thing and fixing their technology so it couldn't be eavesdropped upon, they went crying to Congress and got a law passed that said it was illegal to use the scanners. And sell the scanners. And then, when the tech companies sold scanners that could easily be jumpered to remove the protection, they passed another law saying they couldn't do that, either.
Don't think it can't happen again.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
I'm certain that Thomas Greene put that abbr. in there on purpose, based on his "lapdog", "flacks", "sneering contempt", "bought", etc.
The smaller ones sometimes are. I spent a third of my life with a startup that became wildly successful. In its youth, it cared a lot about employees; we'd have picnics, weekend parties at hotels and resorts, to motivate us to keep working the crazy 80-100 hour weeks we worked (I'm serious).
Now, it's a big company, and is trampling all over the employees' rights. I feel bad for the few originals who are still left there. The founder was kicked out! They're shedding old employees because their stock options are an expense. Very sad.
The worst part? They still "force" the employees to work weekends. It's the employees "option" to come in or not; legal told the managers to word it that way. But experience demonstrates that it's most definitely not optional -- at layoff time, those who had lives are canned.
Back to the topic: if the SSSCA is passed, expect to see the economy go from "recovery from recession" to "full-blown depression rivalling the Great one."
There was a program that would test the access control lists. The program was named "testACL", and everyone pronounced it "test-A-C-L".
In a meeting, I pronounced it as a single word -- "testicle". Everyone lost it. ;-)
(You can make it ugly by replacing the "d" with a "t"...)
I was just thinking about banner ads. I remember seeing a lot of amateur web sites with banners to pay their hosting fees, saying "please click on our sponsors so we can pay our bills!"
I think a neat plug-in might be something that scanned the most-recently loaded page for banner ads, and then pretended to click on them (not sure exactly how to do this without using a lot of bandwidth for the ad to come down; make the connection, then quickly break it? Pretend the connection came from a different IP? Something like that).
This would serve two purposes: it would, in the short term, provide funds to those sites that you frequent; and in the long term, it would eliminate that form of advertising, while at the same time emptying the pockets of the ad-man.
My grandmother just got a cell phone, and programmed my number in. She has called me by accident no less than 5 times in the last week, the phone being activated in her purse. Each time she calls, I call her back, asking her to look up the "key guard" or "key lock" feature in the instruction book, but she just doesn't seem to understand it.
She's not going senile; she's very sharp, conversationally, and remembers events with clarity. It's just that the technology is beyond her.
My wife is from Brazil, and doesn't speak English. We communicate in Portuguese, which I've been learning for the past three years.
I have found that an excellent way to practice my language skills is to attempt to do my thinking in Portuguese. It's not always easy, especially when I don't know the right word in Portuguese, but generally I can think a "concept" using smaller words.
My thoughts may seem like child's thoughts[1], in this respect, but everyone I talk to (in Portuguese) is amazed at how little accent I have. Some Brazilians have asked me where (in Brazil) I'm from! My grammar and conjugation give me away; I haven't had lessons (other than the "Better Off Dead" style < Howard Cosell> language lessons </Howard Cosell> ;-).
I also try to translate song lyrics, in real-time, as I listen to the song. It's not always possible, but it's a great way to flex my skills.
[1] - Children pick up language much faster than adults. Perhaps I've hit on something?
They've only brib^W contributed $1,660,652 from 2/26/1999 through 11/3/2000. This doesn't seem like a whole lot of money to me, especially when they have 31 billion in the bank.
But then, the data is missing the last 16 months' worth of hus^W donations. Perhaps that's where the real story is.
(PS doing the calculation was exceedingly easy -- just copied-and-pasted the data into Notepad, saved it, then imported it into Excel. I like that I was able to use Microsoft's tools to help expose them. ;-)
I was subscribed to such a service in 1994, called Rock Video Monthly. The service sent a VHS tape once a month with music videos on it, usually about 10 or so.
There are some bands I love that I would not have heard about otherwise: Melissa Ferrick, James, Rusted Root, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Crash Test Dummies, Dinosaur Jr, October Project, Cowboy Junkies, and more.
Helloooooo, Skynet .
Did you make the same apologies for the DMCA, and were then surprised at Dmitri?
Every decision I make is geared toward my survival. This is, inherently, selfish.
Your question is valid whether or not the mother used a process to eliminate bad genes in her child.
Which means your conclusion is inappropriate. The "long term best interests for the child" are gone either way once the child reaches 10. With that in mind, wouldn't it be better for future generations to eliminate senility? Either way the immediate next generation is screwed.
But using this technique, her grandchildren will not have senile parents. Ignoring this technique, history will continue to repeat itself.
I applaud her decision.
(Or were you trying to say that in your world, she would simply not reproduce?)
My God man, you type 552 wpm?
RIAA, keep off my grass. (Hey, perhaps therein lies the problem -- they're already on it.)
I completely agree.
The interesting thing is, your statement directly applies to another massive failure in attempting to control supply and demand: the War On (some) Drugs.
So many of my tax dollars are being wasted, in military missions in countries we haven't officially declared war on, to eliminate entrepreneurs who see a market demand and are attempting to fill it. And on the other side, my tax dollars are being wasted on silly propaganda, saying, in effect, "Our most recent two Presidents explored recreational drug use. You should not!"
They said to the toothbrush sellers "Go ahead, supply the demand. Come in out of the cold, run the shops, pay taxes. Everybody wins."
Imagine the surplus we'd have if we stopped wasting tax dollars on military missions which don't control the supply, and propaganda which doesn't control the demand? Add to that the tax dollars generated by controlled sales, and we'd have much better government services at our disposal. Better roads. Broadband for everyone. Etc.
In addition, look to Prohibition for effects. Back then we saw alcohol dealers shooting each other in the streets. We don't see alcohol dealers doing that today. Taken to its logical conclusion, the violence assoicated with the fulfilling of a market demand is only due to the fact that this market is illegal.
Obviously, there are drugs that are addictive and lead people to destructive behaviors. But most of those are already legal (alcohol, tobacco, caffeine). Who has seen a bar fight in Amsterdam?
I'm careening way off topic; let's bring it back: the RIAA is attempting a form of "Prohibition" now. They're just using acronyms and doublespeak to blind us from the fact that they are simply extending the United States' war on its own citizens and their desires.
Hmm, I must have been under a rock, what's a leexa bus? Is that something Jar Jar drove?
Sounds like you have control issues.
How is someone else's decision on how to have or not have children any of your freakin' business?
If you want to adopt a child, feel free. We won't stop you. But don't think you can make parenting decisions for someone else. You can't, and hopefully you never will. (China's a different story.)
In other words, you do not get full-blown SCA unless you inherit the S allele from both parents.
So then Senator Hollings' baby will be resistant to malaria?