Yes, I've been looking into that too. They sure are fast!
As far as I can see, you delegate a hostname to them (say www1.yourdomain.com), and they have it resolve differently from different locations. The only bad thing I can find here is that they claim to have a patent pending on the strategy. Let's hope they don't get it.
Isn't it obvious? They want to remain in control of the clients, so they can add ads to the linux version too eventually. And they're afraind of clones for windows.
Actually, napster does. Ok, so the ui doesn't throw em at you. But since your client downloads directly from the person who has the mp3, your getting their ip anyway. Try netstat.
I'm currently working on an open source 'clone'. I started 2 weeks ago, and haven't got very far yet. Soon I'm gonna put up some real info, but the temporary page is at http://www.var.cx/dfsi
If I get to many hits (you never know with/.), the web server may be shut down (It's operated on a cablemodem, I don't want trouble with my isp). Try again later. As soon as I've got something acceptable, I'll put it on freshmeat.
I am offended. (not that that is always a bad thing, but in this case it is). Signal11 is definately one of the most frequent posters on slashdot, but his posts are on average the most insightful of anyone here on/. And as for the accusation that he doesn't listen to others, have a look at his user page yourself. Nearly all replies. He reads opinions, and is prepared to have a discussion about them. People like him are the life-force of slashdot.
Free use or not, can it be GPL'd if its patented? Wouldn't that mean that if one day they want to collect license fees, I could just take the GPL'd source and use taht for free? IANAL.
Why does the NSA patent anything? Are they afraid of the competition? It's not exactly like it's gonna stop the KGB (What do you mean, no USRR?) etc from using it....
According to netcraft, transmeta runs apache and linux (Who would have guessed;-) ). But it runs apache 1.1.1! Isn't that risking it a bit, even if there is nothing to hide on that box?
JavaScript links don't matter, I could just as well link to my page containing thousands of hostile javascript applets. But AFAIK you can't run any js without somebody clicking on your link.
Who said they have to be different architectures? They just said different, not connected networks. And anyway, one machine would already be infected/0wned/whatever, so you could have it write a boot sector virus to the disk for the other one. But you don't need asm. How about perl? A bit on the slow side, but it could work. Or shell scripts? I know of at least one.bat virus (Ok, it wasn't very successfull, but it would only have to infect 1 other comp).
>"Cyber-warfare" is essentially useless today : the group being attacked can disconnect their systems, and >genuine military systems have no business being connect to a public network anyway.
Not really. As long as I can still get some form of targeted virus into their system, be it through a infiltrant, or a floppy they use in both machines (ARGH), they're still in trouble.
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Yes, I've been looking into that too. They sure are fast!
As far as I can see, you delegate a hostname to them (say www1.yourdomain.com), and they have it resolve differently from different locations. The only bad thing I can find here is that they claim to have a patent pending on the strategy. Let's hope they don't get it.
For more info look at their 'Tech Literature'.
Weehoo, double standards. Gotta love it. :-)
I think that the real problem here is that society doesn't have a problem with generals that order to kill millions, only with people that kill a few.
"Kill one and your a murderer, kill one million and your an king, kill everybody and you're god."
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
I don't recall the exact definition, but I believe 1 isn't prime.
Would you trust your friendly IRC op? It's a clone that works (or to be precise: will work I hope) over IRC.
I'm not blaming em, I'm just stating the obvious. (It's the easiest to state, right?).
Isn't it obvious? They want to remain in control of the clients, so they can add ads to the linux version too eventually. And they're afraind of clones for windows.
Open source client? Working on it :-).
http://www.var.cx/dfsi.
Actually, napster does. Ok, so the ui doesn't throw em at you. But since your client downloads directly from the person who has the mp3, your getting their ip anyway. Try netstat.
I'm currently working on an open source 'clone'. I started 2 weeks ago, and haven't got very far yet.
/.), the web server may be shut down (It's operated on a cablemodem, I don't want trouble with my isp). Try again later. As soon as I've got something acceptable, I'll put it on freshmeat.
Soon I'm gonna put up some real info, but the temporary page is at http://www.var.cx/dfsi
If I get to many hits (you never know with
I am offended. (not that that is always a bad thing, but in this case it is). Signal11 is definately one of the most frequent posters on slashdot, but his posts are on average the most insightful of anyone here on /.
And as for the accusation that he doesn't listen to others, have a look at his user page yourself. Nearly all replies. He reads opinions, and is prepared to have a discussion about them. People like him are the life-force of slashdot.
Free use or not, can it be GPL'd if its patented? Wouldn't that mean that if one day they want to collect license fees, I could just take the GPL'd
source and use taht for free? IANAL.
What's wrong with cable modem? It modulates and demodulates, right?
Why does the NSA patent anything? Are they afraid of the competition? It's not exactly like it's gonna stop the KGB (What do you mean, no USRR?) etc from using it....
Actually, GNU textutils, which is AFAICS completely GPL'd, contains MD5 code which RSA have also patented I believe.
A program can prevent itself from being swapped out, gpg does this.
In the free list? I assume it's never written to disk unencrypted.
Shoutcast? What shoutcast? I can't find any references to shoutcast or icecast, or any cast for that matter.
According to netcraft, transmeta runs apache and linux (Who would have guessed ;-) ). But it runs apache 1.1.1! Isn't that risking it a bit, even if there is nothing to hide on that box?
JavaScript links don't matter, I could just as well link to my page containing thousands of hostile javascript applets. But AFAIK you can't run any js without somebody clicking on your link.
Who said they have to be different architectures? They just said different, not connected networks. And anyway, one machine would already be infected/0wned/whatever, so you could have it write a boot sector virus to the disk for the other one. But you don't need asm. How about perl? A bit on the slow side, but it could work. Or shell scripts? I know of at least one .bat virus (Ok, it wasn't very successfull, but it would only have to infect 1 other comp).
Actually, here in holland we have 5!
Pleased? I'd be laughing my head off..
FireWire AFAIK. (Capitalisation is mine).
>"Cyber-warfare" is essentially useless today : the group being attacked can disconnect their systems, and
>genuine military systems have no business being connect to a public network anyway.
Not really. As long as I can still get some form of targeted virus into their system, be it through a infiltrant, or a floppy they use in both machines (ARGH), they're still in trouble.