Seriously, three second-life articles a day is a bit much, isn't it? Isn't it time to fork off secondlife.slashdot.org and leave the games section to deal with, you know, actual games.
All true. Amiga was clever, cool for it's time, and got totally eclipsed by commoditized hardware. Now you can emulate one on your PC if you're feeling nostalgic.
Hmm... sounds like the karate intimidation shout, ki-yai. Maybe the defendant can claim the plaintiff was, through double-meaning of the abbreviation of the writing in question, implicitly threatening to decapitate the defendant with a lethal roundhouse head-kick and thus deserved to be detained? Maybe? No?
Umm... in desperate times, a pack of fast-moving skinnies could hunt and kill the slow-moving fatties for food and thereby suvive 8-15 weeks. Then add primitive meat preservation technology such as smoking or salting, you could probably stretch that to 6 months, which might be long enough to get some agriculture going and start rebuilding the tech tree for WW4.
Watching the US military slaughter at least 43525 muslim civlians in the pointless invasion of Iraq changes you. Especially if you're a muslim. So if you were afraid of muslims before, turn your fear up a notch, and congratulate your leaders on a nice job making the worst of a bad situation.
I live in Sydney, Australia and normally I'd pour scorn on the stupid American society... but the last time I was at Sydney airport I noticed signs to the tune of "If you make jokes about bombs in this area you will be arrested". I always make jokes about bombs at airports... just seems natural. Now I have to keep an eye out for the thought police. Stupid world. I am gonna amass some money and move to a free country one of these days, if such a place still exists.
Hmmm. Osama bin Laden also knows how to eliminate all the world's problems. So does George W. Bush. So do all their supporters. Some people "know" that letting women vote and own property is the source of all the world's problems. A lot of people know a lot of things.
Anyway, I think eliminating men is not an elegant solution. Let me suggest an alternative. Let each person undertake to educate and improve themselves, view others with compassion, and change the world with small kindnesses not large exterminations.
I reckon the source of all the world's problems is willful ignorance, arrogant ideals and ignoble deeds. That's just one opinion.
Print the image out faintly, perhaps in grayscale, and let him trace and fill in the image himself. Computers just aren't that good at recognising the boundaries of objects in pictures; a preschooler could probably do a better job than a computer and it'll make it less "boring" for him too...
They probably also realise that anyone with enough of a hardon over this movie to sign a petition is going to pay to see it six times over whether Saruman is in it or not. Then they're going to buy the standard edition dvd, the extended edition, the directors cut edition, the special collector's edition, and the trilogy boxed set the day they're released. I don't think The Man would really give two shits about this silly petition.
Looks to me like this 'OSNF' thing is a pretty standard panhandling gimmick... put a million bucks in loose change in your hat and rattle it noisily at the rich-looking guy in the nice blue suit.
Is there any reason for IBM not to donate a few million?
I was diagnosed with Pathetic Pectorals Disorder (PPD). My local psuedoscientist prescribed me some horse steroids and now I can live a normal, huge-chested life. Thanks, Doc!
The only way you're gonna get a clear picture is to the get two or more biased ones and average them out. Actually antiwar.com probably isn't extreme enough to balance cnn... maybe throw in some loonie lefty sources as well? Whatever you do, don't just settle for one source... one man's bias is another man's impartiality.
The shortsightedness of the above is that it doesn't acknowledge that a checksum is merely a convenience, not the name of the game. If someone falsely publishes a checksum that a trusted checksum directory states is good, then it's simply a longer operation for a user to discover that the checksum is actually false... but this still leads to the blacklisting of the publisher, and not everyone needs to download the file in its entirety to discover this.
Cool. So where do you find a trusted checksum directory on a p2p network?
You can kind of compare it to the way people associate. People who have nothing to contribute are ignored. People who sell lies and false promises are isolated or blackballed. If we don't want to put up with somebody's crap. We stay away from them. Why wouldn't this work with a digital network?
Hmm... indeed... why not. That would be an improvemnt compared to the current p2p state of the art that has us connecting to random, untrusted peers.
Kinda like the good old pre-internet days of sharing c64 games. You have a small group of trusted friends you trade games with, they each have their friends, and so on, and soon enough everyone has thousands of games they couldn't otherwise afford. Come to think of it, this primitive system worked *better* than today's evolutionary dead end of trusting strangers...
Hmm... so... as everyone has rushed to point out, the fundamental problem with p2p file sharing is a lack of trust between peers. I see a lot of talk about fixing this with cryptographic magic, but not much talk about simply choosing your peers more carefully.
Crypto would be nice if we could get it to work, but the enemy has the resources to keep fighting it the same way we've fought copy-protection mechanisms all these years... I don't see this path leading us to paradise.
So why not consider some of the advantages of a manually built file-sharing network of trust:
it'd take a hell of a lot more resources for the enemy to break all the world's friendships than it takes them to break an algorithm. throw a roomful of competent mathemeticians at kazaa and watch it burn... throw all the world's corporate and political power at stopping people from being friends and see how far you get:)
peers near you in the network, since they're your friends or friends of friends, are more likely to have common interests, hence more likely to have the files you're looking for, so the search doesn't have to go very far. if you're lucky you're geographically close and close together on the internet topography, perhaps even using the same isp, so can expect better speed and reliability in transfers and searches...
saboteurs will have a hard time getting anywhere near you on the network... when your peers trust you, and you denounce a traitor, bye bye mr traitor... reputation is everything!
And the disadvantages:
ummm... "supernodes" are less likely to exist, or if they do they might become enticing targets for the gestapo to attack... so the network might suffer gnutella-like lameness if a search has to go very far. hopefully this is mitigated by the "common interests" benefit above...
if you limit search depth, you may not find what you're looking for even if it's out there somewhere. if you don't limit search depth, you bog the network down. so you have to limit search depth. so a much sought-after file might take a while to propogate into your radar range... and an obscure file might stay out of your reach forever:(
I haven't thought deeply about this. Still, it's the system people have been using since the dawn of civilization to defeat "the man", just with a bit of internet-assisted speedup...
I don't think there's any software out there which does this, looks like everyone's too busy trying to invent a perfect system to bother implementing a time-honoured "good-enough" solution.
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Yes, well the rest of us have two kidneys, sucker!
And second life can't hook you up with some weed either...
Seriously, three second-life articles a day is a bit much, isn't it? Isn't it time to fork off secondlife.slashdot.org and leave the games section to deal with, you know, actual games.
Well the copyright license on the logos distributed with the firefox source is NON-FREE. So it's a copyright issue.
Makes one wonder if this whole "Intellectual Property (tm)" thing is worth the bother.
They can sell it on ebay and buy food. Think about all the slashdotters with hardons for this thing that can't normally get access to it.
All true. Amiga was clever, cool for it's time, and got totally eclipsed by commoditized hardware. Now you can emulate one on your PC if you're feeling nostalgic.
I woulda thought they'd die of heart failure before they reach retirement age.
Hmm... sounds like the karate intimidation shout, ki-yai. Maybe the defendant can claim the plaintiff was, through double-meaning of the abbreviation of the writing in question, implicitly threatening to decapitate the defendant with a lethal roundhouse head-kick and thus deserved to be detained? Maybe? No?
Umm... in desperate times, a pack of fast-moving skinnies could hunt and kill the slow-moving fatties for food and thereby suvive 8-15 weeks. Then add primitive meat preservation technology such as smoking or salting, you could probably stretch that to 6 months, which might be long enough to get some agriculture going and start rebuilding the tech tree for WW4.
Watching the US military slaughter at least 43525 muslim civlians in the pointless invasion of Iraq changes you. Especially if you're a muslim. So if you were afraid of muslims before, turn your fear up a notch, and congratulate your leaders on a nice job making the worst of a bad situation.
I live in Sydney, Australia and normally I'd pour scorn on the stupid American society... but the last time I was at Sydney airport I noticed signs to the tune of "If you make jokes about bombs in this area you will be arrested". I always make jokes about bombs at airports... just seems natural. Now I have to keep an eye out for the thought police. Stupid world. I am gonna amass some money and move to a free country one of these days, if such a place still exists.
Hmmm. Osama bin Laden also knows how to eliminate all the world's problems. So does George W. Bush. So do all their supporters. Some people "know" that letting women vote and own property is the source of all the world's problems. A lot of people know a lot of things.
Anyway, I think eliminating men is not an elegant solution. Let me suggest an alternative. Let each person undertake to educate and improve themselves, view others with compassion, and change the world with small kindnesses not large exterminations.
I reckon the source of all the world's problems is willful ignorance, arrogant ideals and ignoble deeds. That's just one opinion.
Print the image out faintly, perhaps in grayscale, and let him trace and fill in the image himself. Computers just aren't that good at recognising the boundaries of objects in pictures; a preschooler could probably do a better job than a computer and it'll make it less "boring" for him too...
Great moments in science.
Looks like some European dude has found a loophole in the steel tariffs :)
They probably also realise that anyone with enough of a hardon over this movie to sign a petition is going to pay to see it six times over whether Saruman is in it or not. Then they're going to buy the standard edition dvd, the extended edition, the directors cut edition, the special collector's edition, and the trilogy boxed set the day they're released. I don't think The Man would really give two shits about this silly petition.
blair witch project gave my sense of balance a bit of a thrashing...
Looks to me like this 'OSNF' thing is a pretty standard panhandling gimmick... put a million bucks in loose change in your hat and rattle it noisily at the rich-looking guy in the nice blue suit.
Is there any reason for IBM not to donate a few million?
I was diagnosed with Pathetic Pectorals Disorder (PPD). My local psuedoscientist prescribed me some horse steroids and now I can live a normal, huge-chested life. Thanks, Doc!
too prowar. wheras antiwar.com is not as antiwar as some far-left sources...
The only way you're gonna get a clear picture is to the get two or more biased ones and average them out. Actually antiwar.com probably isn't extreme enough to balance cnn... maybe throw in some loonie lefty sources as well? Whatever you do, don't just settle for one source... one man's bias is another man's impartiality.
The shortsightedness of the above is that it doesn't acknowledge that a checksum is merely a convenience, not the name of the game. If someone falsely publishes a checksum that a trusted checksum directory states is good, then it's simply a longer operation for a user to discover that the checksum is actually false... but this still leads to the blacklisting of the publisher, and not everyone needs to download the file in its entirety to discover this.
Cool. So where do you find a trusted checksum directory on a p2p network?
Hmm... indeed... why not. That would be an improvemnt compared to the current p2p state of the art that has us connecting to random, untrusted peers.
Kinda like the good old pre-internet days of sharing c64 games. You have a small group of trusted friends you trade games with, they each have their friends, and so on, and soon enough everyone has thousands of games they couldn't otherwise afford. Come to think of it, this primitive system worked *better* than today's evolutionary dead end of trusting strangers...
Hmm... so... as everyone has rushed to point out, the fundamental problem with p2p file sharing is a lack of trust between peers. I see a lot of talk about fixing this with cryptographic magic, but not much talk about simply choosing your peers more carefully.
Crypto would be nice if we could get it to work, but the enemy has the resources to keep fighting it the same way we've fought copy-protection mechanisms all these years... I don't see this path leading us to paradise.
So why not consider some of the advantages of a manually built file-sharing network of trust:
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it'd take a hell of a lot more resources for the enemy to break all the world's friendships than it takes them to break an algorithm. throw a roomful of competent mathemeticians at kazaa and watch it burn... throw all the world's corporate and political power at stopping people from being friends and see how far you get
:)
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peers near you in the network, since they're your friends or friends of friends, are more likely to have common interests, hence more likely to have the files you're looking for, so the search doesn't have to go very far. if you're lucky you're geographically close and close together on the internet topography, perhaps even using the same isp, so can expect better speed and reliability in transfers and searches...
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saboteurs will have a hard time getting anywhere near you on the network... when your peers trust you, and you denounce a traitor, bye bye mr traitor... reputation is everything!
And the disadvantages:<body>
<div style="display: none">
<h1>Stuff for google</h1>
Unless I'm mistaken google doesn't handle style sheets very intelligently.
Just use something like this, or maybe an external style sheet to fool it.
All the stuff in the div tag should be indexed by google but not displayed
in a browser.
</div>
Then put you visible content here.
Maybe they've fixed this by now? Would be a chore to handle external style sheets correctly though...
</body>
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