3) Closed source RTOS hardware integration bugs are nearly impossible to debug, because the source is CLOSED. You have to wait for a Field Application Engineer to get flow in, on your dollar, to write your stupid driver.
Just because the RTOS is not open source does not mean that developers do not have access to the source. We use the Nucleus RTOS on a project with a MPC850. The source to the RTOS is not open, but we have the source and can, and have done, whatever we want with it. I have not used many other RTOSs, but cannot imagine using one where you need the vendor to write drivers and fix bugs for you. Our projects would never get finished if that were the case.
That's interesting. When I was in college I hung around some people who were doing work for the university hospitals. They were writing software, under SunOS/X11, that would scan an x-ray of tissue to determine what level of clotting was occuring in the vessels, and recommend treatment. It was a little more involved than that and I'm not a doctor, but that is the gist of it. Anyway, this code had to be analyzed not only by the programmers, but it had to be analyzed by third parties for reasons of insurance/lawyers. Hardware was not allowed to change, software was not allowed to change, at least not without going through the whole process again. Basically, after it was completed and working, it was going to take at least a year of testing and validation before it was allowable to use on/for actual people.
So, my experience was quite a bit different.. Though, after reading your post if I'm ever in an emergency room, I'm going to check out the manufacturer of my monitor.. "Yes, could I have a second monitor please....for redundancy."
Right, and also, ADSL can and does support identical up and down speeds, up to 1 Mb/s. SDSL supports this up to 1.5 Mb/s. But with ADSL you can keep increasing the download speed while keeping the upload at 1 Mb/s. The download speed can reach 7+ Mb/s while SDSL is stuck at 1.5 Mb/s. And from what I've seen SDSL is much more expensive to set up.
I've got a "synchronous" ADSL line btw. 768 Kb/s up and down.
Imagine my shock when 6 months later I saw an internet price list showing the Black Lotus card at $500.00 each! I had had 2 of them....
Yeah, the black lotus and the mox(es) were ungodly expensive. I quit playing before Fallen Empires was released. I had atleast one of every red and black card up until Fallen Empires (not counting the alpha run). I sold all of my cards to a local dealer, and actually made quite a profit when it was all said and done. Then I blew most of the money on a 3DO and games. Even though the console tanked, Return Fire was/is the best multiplayer game ever IMHO.
Unless software and business method patents are upheld, the future is filled with Microsofts. They operate by stealing the technology of other companies and then repackaging it as their own.
So? Nothing is stopping us from taking it and making it free either. Stuff like this scares large companies sh*tless, which is why you will probably never see this become a reality in the US. This country is headed in the exact opposite direction. We want to put a price tag on everything.
Oh no, I'm glad to see Britain making this move, but it's just not going to matter over here. Too much money saying otherwise. Of course, you never know what an economic crash can stir up..;*)
...you just reference a bunch of open-source stuff...
Man, I never really thought about what college would have been like with today's Internet. Granted, when I went to school, the Internet existed, but USENET was the only real place to get reliable information, I was never much of a BBSer.. I guess I had many books, and still do, but here in the present I rely on the Internet quite heavily for information, maybe too much?
But anyway, on the cheating subject. Most of us in CS probably had a little group of CS friends. Some were cut out for it more than others but they were your friends and that was cool.. Well, I used to help some of them out by giving them copies of mostly finished coding assignments. Part of it at the time was probably a little bit of an ego thing, but also I wanted to help.. I was always paranoid, however, so I would optimize, clean up, document, and otherwise alter my code so it really looked nothing like what I had given my friends. One day, toward the end of the semester, four of my friends got busted for all having essentially the same program - mine. Each received 0's for the assignment, which dropped them by at least a grade level. Me, I was ok because I always rewrote. I never let my friends copy my code again, though, it helped that they never asked after that. That was kind of a wake up call for us..
IANA physicist, but isn't the speed of sound proportional to the density of the material through which it travels ( as a rule of thumb )?
As in, the less dense a material, the lower the speed of sound becomes.
So, this guy really doesn't have to go that fast to break the speed of sound with the air density he'll be travelling through. I mean, he's not going to be able to maintain faster than sound travel as air pressure approaches 1 atmosphere.
So really, who cares, it's relative. Astronauts doing space walks have probably gone faster in relation to the earth than this guy will. If I'm in space and I strap a rocket to my back, to propel myself faster than the speed of sound at sea level on earth, well, so what?
It's a cool stunt, but if he really wants to impress me, travel at 343 m/s 10 feet off the floor of the Arizona desert. Probably traveling horizontally rather than vertically though..
Basically, AT&T is in debt up to their eyeballs and need cash. I live in one of the markets being acquired, and can't wait. I don't use AT&T for broadband anymore, been with Qwest for a year on a buisness DSL plan and have been very happy. I still use AT&T for digital cable, but I hardly watch t.v. Besides, I'm pretty sure it would defy some law of the universe for Mediacom to charge more for less than what I'm currently getting from AT&T digital cable.
If I remember correctly, the way they were detecting NATing was that the NATing software on the NAT box would always use outgoing ports in a small, rarely used, range. Like only using ports 60000-62000 for outgoing NATed traffic. So, even though that doesn't conclusively mean you're NATing, many ISPs assumed you were. Obviously, this is a relatively easy thing to change/fix and, AFAIK, many NAT implementations now look very "natural" coming off the box.
When was the last time you *paid* for a Windows-based mag?..or would have had to? They give them away. They make money by throwing ads in front of you, not by selling you a subscription. Targeted advertising, improved spam, if you will.
From a personal point-of-view, I do not like industry mags at all, Linux, Windows, the whole lot. Like I said, they are all ads, nice to look at, but I'm sure as heck not paying for 'em. If I need information I'll be lucky to find what I'm looking for on the Internet, let alone smashed between ads in a magazine.
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Is it possible the speeds you were quoted were for ADSL? SDSL has a greater range than ADSL. But at 16000 feet 384Kb SDSL is about the best you can get. So I can understand your situation. What I don't understand is how your neighbor is getting those speeds at 16000 feet. Maybe your neighbor is hooked to a CO that is closer and owned by the same company, but just not available to you (for whatever reason)? Either that or his line quality is insanely good.
Usually. But for people running Linux who are not sure what's really running on their system (hey, we were all there once) I would suggest becoming familiar with all the processes running on your system. You don't have to know everything about them, but just get a feel for what they do. A good thing is to just do a 'ps ax' and check it all out, running a 'netstat -anp' as root is good too, the top section of the output lets you see what programs are listening for incoming connections on the network. If you see a process/program and you don't know what it does, like 'named', 'portmap', etc., just get on the web and do a little searching. You will find that you probably don't want to be running some things that are running, so you will have to figure out how to stop those from running on boot up (it varies from distro to distro). It's some work, but I think you will be happy you did it and you'll definitely be more comfortable with Linux.
Anyway, I said usually above because distros like RedHat (which I use) run everything under the sun when you first install. It's quite sad actually. About 90% of the processes RedHat runs by default at startup, the average user does not even need, and in the case of several programs, particularly BIND (named), they put you in a real bad situation. People just assume (and probably should assume) that a base/default install is safe and minimal, not true with some of the distros, so that's why I suggest the above.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
Bill is really into art, which you probably know from his corbis junk. In his home he has large LCD panels on the walls that display these "paintings". How many he has, exact size, etc, I'm not sure. I'm fairly sure this is true since the company I work for supplied some hardware to the people who set these up, and this is what we were told the use was going to be.
Also, I have heard a rumor that he has a river, yes, a river flowing "through" his house. I want to say you can even fly fish in it, but that might just be my imagination getting carried away.
Regardless, yeah, this guy is wired.. I have never heard much about Paul Allen's digs though.. I'll bet out of any of those Microsofties, he's probably the most wired.
they'll flat out tell you that if your patent is weak, don't waste their time, or yours for that matter
No offense, but are you sure you were talking to lawyers? How is filing a doomed patent a waste of the lawyers time? They get paid regardless. Now, maybe they were thinking long term and wanted to build a relationship of trust with their client by steering them away from costly and poor decisions..
Yup, but since I'm staying on the topic, this scenario is about a parent who is looking not only at his child's web viewing habits, but the web viewing habits of every child in that school. I don't need to know what your kid looks at on the web, and you don't need to know what mine looks at on the web.
As far as police going through my sock drawer, if the police have probable cause or a warrant, they can knock themselves out. They are police, you (so I'm assuming), I, and the father in question are not police officers.
That's fine, but you don't have a right to know what my kid is doing on a public computer. Just like if you suspect my kid is doing drugs, I'd better not catch you in my house going through their drawers.
Actually, that gave me an idea, why even have sensorware? I mean, just have a public web site that dumps the logs from these institutions showing time/date, username, and url.
Hell, let people search the logs by username.
Then forgetting to log out from your terminal would once again cause you a fair amount public embarassment, criminal charges, etc.
This is complete b.s., but if that's the way they are going to do it, they may as well cut out the middle man and provide all this data to the public by default, why waste tax dollars everytime some parent wants to go on a witch hunt, or whatever they plan on doing.
Yeah, it's a public terminal, so what? Public terminals are how government is bridging the digital divide. So, basically those who have can browse the net without being watched (well, we won't get into that now), and those who do not have, can browse everything that does not piss people off.. Great.
The exit polls showed as personal income rose so did the tendency to vote republican. Also, statistics have shown that persons with higher incomes are also more likely to have Internet access.
Slashdot is not the Internet. If slashdot were the Internet, it still would be a close race, but Nader would have got 14% of the vote, Browne would have got 7%, and last, but not least, Jeff would have garnered 3%..;)
I was just stating the obvious, not necessarily endorsing it. But assuming I was, by your logic, we should, and will, never upgrade interfaces because it might adversely affect the installed user base.
Sorry, way it goes. Change is going to happen sometime, better now than later. People keep talking about how hard and temperamental computers are to use, and how we should make them easier. Funny, that about 90% of those hardware issues could probably be directly attributed to the serial ports, parallel ports, and the ISA bus. Yes, that's all there was, but they are still a pain to deal with when something goes wrong. My mom can install a PCI card or a USB scanner, but set up jumpers on an ISA card or change the IRQ or base address on a serial port. Doubtful.
As far as existing hardware and operating systems go, they *do* make hardware PCI modems. I can't help it if someone bought a gateway and are stuck with odd, proprietary video and a winmodem. If I want to run certain operating systems, it's my job to make sure my hardware is supported. Just because one owns a computer doesn't mean they have some right to run the operating system of their choice, even if it is linux.
In fact, I just bought a printer last year, first one I've ever owned, and I'm not as young, or wealthy, as you think I am. I connect to it through the parallel interface. I can't see myself ever needing a new printer, barring equipment failure of course. Because of me, and you, and many others, there will be a market for a parallel port interface. Whether the port will be on the motherboard, a PCI card, or a USB-to-parallel router, who knows? Point is if there is a demand, there is a product, and that goes for all the interfaces.
The reason these "old" interfaces are going the way of the dodo is because, well, they are old and we have better alternatives that people are actually adopting this time.
Plus it doesn't hurt that the PC99 spec eliminates the ISA bus and steers people away from serial, parallel, and PS/2.
IANAL, but here is what will probably happen...
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People keep on touting the anonymous aspect of freenet and gnutella. The problem is, is that it doesn't really matter where the data originates or where it ends up. Now, encryption makes it very difficult to peek at data being transmitted between nodes, but the last node on the chain gets decrypted data, and can finger the machine that it was received from. No, I'm not talking about the originator of the data, rather, the last system that packets physically came from.
You see, it's against the law to transmit some types of data, be it child porn, warez, or whatever. If that type of data is coming from your system, too bad, you are breaking the law. This was almost the case with ISPs until laws were passed protecting them from their customer's use of their networks, but guess what? There are no laws protecting you from yourself! If an official connects to your node and downloads the DeCSS code, they can come take your system(s) and charges can be filed. Why? Because the decrypted, "illegal" data, was received from your system, and that's all that matters. If you feel that running freenet relieves you from your responsiblity for data transmissions from your systems, according to the law, you would be wrong, unless, of course, you are an ISP.
Basically, if you run freenet, you assume the risk, just like if you setup an anonymous ftp server allowing uploads, you assume the risk.
Somebody please correct me if I am mistaken, but with the laws that we have in place, that's how I see things.
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3) Closed source RTOS hardware integration bugs are nearly impossible to debug, because the source is CLOSED. You have to wait for a Field Application Engineer to get flow in, on your dollar, to write your stupid driver.
Just because the RTOS is not open source does not mean that developers do not have access to the source. We use the Nucleus RTOS on a project with a MPC850. The source to the RTOS is not open, but we have the source and can, and have done, whatever we want with it. I have not used many other RTOSs, but cannot imagine using one where you need the vendor to write drivers and fix bugs for you. Our projects would never get finished if that were the case.
That's interesting. When I was in college I hung around some people who were doing work for the university hospitals. They were writing software, under SunOS/X11, that would scan an x-ray of tissue to determine what level of clotting was occuring in the vessels, and recommend treatment. It was a little more involved than that and I'm not a doctor, but that is the gist of it. Anyway, this code had to be analyzed not only by the programmers, but it had to be analyzed by third parties for reasons of insurance/lawyers. Hardware was not allowed to change, software was not allowed to change, at least not without going through the whole process again. Basically, after it was completed and working, it was going to take at least a year of testing and validation before it was allowable to use on/for actual people.
So, my experience was quite a bit different.. Though, after reading your post if I'm ever in an emergency room, I'm going to check out the manufacturer of my monitor.. "Yes, could I have a second monitor please..
Right, and also, ADSL can and does support identical up and down speeds, up to 1 Mb/s. SDSL supports this up to 1.5 Mb/s. But with ADSL you can keep increasing the download speed while keeping the upload at 1 Mb/s. The download speed can reach 7+ Mb/s while SDSL is stuck at 1.5 Mb/s. And from what I've seen SDSL is much more expensive to set up.
I've got a "synchronous" ADSL line btw. 768 Kb/s up and down.
Imagine my shock when 6 months later I saw an internet price list showing the Black Lotus card at $500.00 each! I had had 2 of them....
Yeah, the black lotus and the mox(es) were ungodly expensive. I quit playing before Fallen Empires was released. I had atleast one of every red and black card up until Fallen Empires (not counting the alpha run). I sold all of my cards to a local dealer, and actually made quite a profit when it was all said and done. Then I blew most of the money on a 3DO and games. Even though the console tanked, Return Fire was/is the best multiplayer game ever IMHO.
Unless software and business method patents are upheld, the future is filled with Microsofts. They operate by stealing the technology of other companies and then repackaging it as their own.
So? Nothing is stopping us from taking it and making it free either. Stuff like this scares large companies sh*tless, which is why you will probably never see this become a reality in the US. This country is headed in the exact opposite direction. We want to put a price tag on everything.
Oh no, I'm glad to see Britain making this move, but it's just not going to matter over here. Too much money saying otherwise. Of course, you never know what an economic crash can stir up..
Man, I never really thought about what college would have been like with today's Internet. Granted, when I went to school, the Internet existed, but USENET was the only real place to get reliable information, I was never much of a BBSer.. I guess I had many books, and still do, but here in the present I rely on the Internet quite heavily for information, maybe too much?
But anyway, on the cheating subject. Most of us in CS probably had a little group of CS friends. Some were cut out for it more than others but they were your friends and that was cool.. Well, I used to help some of them out by giving them copies of mostly finished coding assignments. Part of it at the time was probably a little bit of an ego thing, but also I wanted to help.. I was always paranoid, however, so I would optimize, clean up, document, and otherwise alter my code so it really looked nothing like what I had given my friends. One day, toward the end of the semester, four of my friends got busted for all having essentially the same program - mine. Each received 0's for the assignment, which dropped them by at least a grade level. Me, I was ok because I always rewrote. I never let my friends copy my code again, though, it helped that they never asked after that. That was kind of a wake up call for us..
IANA physicist, but isn't the speed of sound proportional to the density of the material through which it travels ( as a rule of thumb )? As in, the less dense a material, the lower the speed of sound becomes.
So, this guy really doesn't have to go that fast to break the speed of sound with the air density he'll be travelling through. I mean, he's not going to be able to maintain faster than sound travel as air pressure approaches 1 atmosphere.
So really, who cares, it's relative. Astronauts doing space walks have probably gone faster in relation to the earth than this guy will. If I'm in space and I strap a rocket to my back, to propel myself faster than the speed of sound at sea level on earth, well, so what?
It's a cool stunt, but if he really wants to impress me, travel at 343 m/s 10 feet off the floor of the Arizona desert. Probably traveling horizontally rather than vertically though..
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Basically, AT&T is in debt up to their eyeballs and need cash. I live in one of the markets being acquired, and can't wait. I don't use AT&T for broadband anymore, been with Qwest for a year on a buisness DSL plan and have been very happy. I still use AT&T for digital cable, but I hardly watch t.v. Besides, I'm pretty sure it would defy some law of the universe for Mediacom to charge more for less than what I'm currently getting from AT&T digital cable.
If I remember correctly, the way they were detecting NATing was that the NATing software on the NAT box would always use outgoing ports in a small, rarely used, range. Like only using ports 60000-62000 for outgoing NATed traffic. So, even though that doesn't conclusively mean you're NATing, many ISPs assumed you were. Obviously, this is a relatively easy thing to change/fix and, AFAIK, many NAT implementations now look very "natural" coming off the box.
When was the last time you *paid* for a Windows-based mag?
From a personal point-of-view, I do not like industry mags at all, Linux, Windows, the whole lot. Like I said, they are all ads, nice to look at, but I'm sure as heck not paying for 'em. If I need information I'll be lucky to find what I'm looking for on the Internet, let alone smashed between ads in a magazine.
Is it possible the speeds you were quoted were for ADSL? SDSL has a greater range than ADSL. But at 16000 feet 384Kb SDSL is about the best you can get. So I can understand your situation. What I don't understand is how your neighbor is getting those speeds at 16000 feet. Maybe your neighbor is hooked to a CO that is closer and owned by the same company, but just not available to you (for whatever reason)? Either that or his line quality is insanely good.
Usually. But for people running Linux who are not sure what's really running on their system (hey, we were all there once) I would suggest becoming familiar with all the processes running on your system. You don't have to know everything about them, but just get a feel for what they do. A good thing is to just do a 'ps ax' and check it all out, running a 'netstat -anp' as root is good too, the top section of the output lets you see what programs are listening for incoming connections on the network. If you see a process/program and you don't know what it does, like 'named', 'portmap', etc., just get on the web and do a little searching. You will find that you probably don't want to be running some things that are running, so you will have to figure out how to stop those from running on boot up (it varies from distro to distro). It's some work, but I think you will be happy you did it and you'll definitely be more comfortable with Linux.
Anyway, I said usually above because distros like RedHat (which I use) run everything under the sun when you first install. It's quite sad actually. About 90% of the processes RedHat runs by default at startup, the average user does not even need, and in the case of several programs, particularly BIND (named), they put you in a real bad situation. People just assume (and probably should assume) that a base/default install is safe and minimal, not true with some of the distros, so that's why I suggest the above.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
Well, this might not be entirely accurate.
Bill is really into art, which you probably know from his corbis junk. In his home he has large LCD panels on the walls that display these "paintings". How many he has, exact size, etc, I'm not sure. I'm fairly sure this is true since the company I work for supplied some hardware to the people who set these up, and this is what we were told the use was going to be.
Also, I have heard a rumor that he has a river, yes, a river flowing "through" his house. I want to say you can even fly fish in it, but that might just be my imagination getting carried away.
Regardless, yeah, this guy is wired.. I have never heard much about Paul Allen's digs though.. I'll bet out of any of those Microsofties, he's probably the most wired.
So does 80% of the Napster users, if not more, by downloading Music files and keeping them longer than a day.
That is not true, you cannot download them, period.
Check out http://www.soundby tin g.com/html/top_10_myths/myths_index.html
#8 is the one you're looking for. Btw, the same goes for arcade ROMs too.
they'll flat out tell you that if your patent is weak, don't waste their time, or yours for that matter
No offense, but are you sure you were talking to lawyers? How is filing a doomed patent a waste of the lawyers time? They get paid regardless. Now, maybe they were thinking long term and wanted to build a relationship of trust with their client by steering them away from costly and poor decisions..
HAHAHAHA.. Oh, sorry.. heh..
Yup, but since I'm staying on the topic, this scenario is about a parent who is looking not only at his child's web viewing habits, but the web viewing habits of every child in that school. I don't need to know what your kid looks at on the web, and you don't need to know what mine looks at on the web.
As far as police going through my sock drawer, if the police have probable cause or a warrant, they can knock themselves out. They are police, you (so I'm assuming), I, and the father in question are not police officers.
That's fine, but you don't have a right to know what my kid is doing on a public computer. Just like if you suspect my kid is doing drugs, I'd better not catch you in my house going through their drawers.
Actually, that gave me an idea, why even have sensorware? I mean, just have a public web site that dumps the logs from these institutions showing time/date, username, and url.
Hell, let people search the logs by username.
Then forgetting to log out from your terminal would once again cause you a fair amount public embarassment, criminal charges, etc.
This is complete b.s., but if that's the way they are going to do it, they may as well cut out the middle man and provide all this data to the public by default, why waste tax dollars everytime some parent wants to go on a witch hunt, or whatever they plan on doing.
Yeah, it's a public terminal, so what? Public terminals are how government is bridging the digital divide. So, basically those who have can browse the net without being watched (well, we won't get into that now), and those who do not have, can browse everything that does not piss people off.. Great.
Seems about right...
The exit polls showed as personal income rose so did the tendency to vote republican. Also, statistics have shown that persons with higher incomes are also more likely to have Internet access.
Slashdot is not the Internet. If slashdot were the Internet, it still would be a close race, but Nader would have got 14% of the vote, Browne would have got 7%, and last, but not least, Jeff would have garnered 3%..
But we don't demonstrate it by encouraging them to knock off work at 5:00 pm and go home to the families that they don't have!
Well, of course not! Heck, if they went home at 5:00 pm, they might actually go out and meet members of the opposite sex and *start* a family.
I was just stating the obvious, not necessarily endorsing it. But assuming I was, by your logic, we should, and will, never upgrade interfaces because it might adversely affect the installed user base.
Sorry, way it goes. Change is going to happen sometime, better now than later. People keep talking about how hard and temperamental computers are to use, and how we should make them easier. Funny, that about 90% of those hardware issues could probably be directly attributed to the serial ports, parallel ports, and the ISA bus. Yes, that's all there was, but they are still a pain to deal with when something goes wrong. My mom can install a PCI card or a USB scanner, but set up jumpers on an ISA card or change the IRQ or base address on a serial port. Doubtful.
As far as existing hardware and operating systems go, they *do* make hardware PCI modems. I can't help it if someone bought a gateway and are stuck with odd, proprietary video and a winmodem. If I want to run certain operating systems, it's my job to make sure my hardware is supported. Just because one owns a computer doesn't mean they have some right to run the operating system of their choice, even if it is linux.
In fact, I just bought a printer last year, first one I've ever owned, and I'm not as young, or wealthy, as you think I am. I connect to it through the parallel interface. I can't see myself ever needing a new printer, barring equipment failure of course. Because of me, and you, and many others, there will be a market for a parallel port interface. Whether the port will be on the motherboard, a PCI card, or a USB-to-parallel router, who knows? Point is if there is a demand, there is a product, and that goes for all the interfaces.
People need to chill...
The reason these "old" interfaces are going the way of the dodo is because, well, they are old and we have better alternatives that people are actually adopting this time.
Plus it doesn't hurt that the PC99 spec eliminates the ISA bus and steers people away from serial, parallel, and PS/2.
People keep on touting the anonymous aspect of freenet and gnutella. The problem is, is that it doesn't really matter where the data originates or where it ends up. Now, encryption makes it very difficult to peek at data being transmitted between nodes, but the last node on the chain gets decrypted data, and can finger the machine that it was received from. No, I'm not talking about the originator of the data, rather, the last system that packets physically came from.
You see, it's against the law to transmit some types of data, be it child porn, warez, or whatever. If that type of data is coming from your system, too bad, you are breaking the law. This was almost the case with ISPs until laws were passed protecting them from their customer's use of their networks, but guess what? There are no laws protecting you from yourself! If an official connects to your node and downloads the DeCSS code, they can come take your system(s) and charges can be filed. Why? Because the decrypted, "illegal" data, was received from your system, and that's all that matters. If you feel that running freenet relieves you from your responsiblity for data transmissions from your systems, according to the law, you would be wrong, unless, of course, you are an ISP.
Basically, if you run freenet, you assume the risk, just like if you setup an anonymous ftp server allowing uploads, you assume the risk.
Somebody please correct me if I am mistaken, but with the laws that we have in place, that's how I see things.