Before you moderate this "troll," realize that it is the result of informed research. Mostly from relatively recent articles on Ace's Hardware.
Basically, RAMBUS has the theoretical capability to be significantly faster than SDRAM (not DDR, more later). However, the controllers have problems that prevent this. Basically, RDRAM can keep many pages open and many devices active at a time (more than SDRAM), but the i820 doesn't do this. So the chipset is crippling the RDRAM. Also, as soon as multiple devices are put on the bus, the latencies increase, so if too many chips are present things slow down. This is because of the longer wires needed. at 400MHz (not 800 - its DDR) that really matters. Also, RDRAM has been hindered by low yields and hence higher cost. It is now down to about double PC133 (see pricewatch). Also, the chips are more complex. However, the specs say that a good controller ought to be able to outperform PC133. Not by huge amounts, but by enough to matter. i820 is far from a good controller. Something to think about: the EV7 (maybe EV68, I can't remember) is going to use RDRAM. (also on Ace's hardware). However, it is going to increase performance by using 8 channels in parallel. So until there is a good desktop controller, and RDRAM is similar in price, AND the benchmarks say it's better, I'm using DDR SDRAM. But, the technology isn't inherently bad, just having more than it's share of problems.
Had you read the article, it explained that the ICANN allows plaintifs to pick the arbitration body. As the WIPO arbitrates such disputes and finds for plaintifs 84% of the time, plaintiffs pick WIPO. So, the WIPO has majority market share, and they are producing new guidelines. ICANN basically put WIPO in charge.
I can play UT with 15 bots... on a PII-350 w/GF256DDR. Granted, their novice bots, but they still shoot in about the right direction. I kick the crap out of them, but you do that for Doom too... 15 bots, double speed, insta-gib...1550 FPH... Not great frame rate, but playable (30 maybe?) And I think the bots are more intelligent than doom monsters. It gets old kinda fast, so I only do that when in serious need of stress relief.
OK, I know intel is pushing this (somewhat) as for gaming and such, but does it really matter? Right now it seems to me the graphics card is the limiting factor. If you look at Q3A/UT benchmarks, and decide that you wish to run your game at say 60FPS, then a 1GHz processor only does marginally better than a 700MHz processor. Granted, it goes significantly better at 640x480, at 150FPS, but who really cares? When you get to the resolution where frame rates drop to 60FPS, its b/c of the graphics card not the CPU. The fact that it can drive 150FPS in ANY resolution means that the chip is not the bottleneck.
That's not to say there aren't uses, like any kind of simulation or software rendering, but not for the mass market. *maybe* high quality speech recog will benefit, but currently I think this is only useful for commercial apps. Of course, that doesn't stop me from running a 900MHz Duron (as soon as it gets here...)
But they seem to be trying to do so retroactively.
"We did not intend to change the law and have worked diligently to assure that the issue of work-for-hire is resolved without prejudice to anyone's position," she [RIAA President Hilary Rosen] said in the release.
So they lobied to get it in, except now it turns out they didn't??? I think the RIAA is having some PR problems they are trying to fix here...
Also, the FBI Unversity is the best in the world, by any standard. By admiting only one student, we have managed to keep the faculty per student ratio very high, at an unprecedented 12 faculty members per student. Furthermore, average class size is at a record low of exactly one student per class. SAT scores, incoming GPA, and many other measures of incoming student body are kept at record highs, easily surpassing inferior universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and other Ivy League schools. The school has an excellent computer securities department, making it the ideal choice for a review of carnivore.
So these older titles shipped on diskettes, and then the diskettes failed, and in a moment of nostalgia someone wants to play an old game or something. The publishers had a card in the box saying they would replace the diskettes if they failed. So is there any recourse when they don't? I guess one could try something in small claims court, but would that work? Is there really any other way to get these old titles back? I still have several old shareware titles (registered! imagine that!) that I *occasionaly* dig out and play. I now have them moved to CDROM, which makes things easier, but if I hadn't I'd be grateful for such a site.
Even better: WMP7. Windows Media Player 7 has one-click audio CD creation (or some such.. I haven't used it yet.). Should be able to go after them for promoting music piracy. I don't see HOW anyone is going to use this except to create copies of CDs or compilations of CDs. Granted, it may be for personal use, but people are saying that that's not legal... Sounds fun to me:)
That's really easy. This is being sold to companies, not consumers. So suppose it takes a programmer 2 days to write an easy-to-use program. No matter how much they pay, that's a LOT more than $80. In fact, it's $80 only if they pay the programmer minimum wage.
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DoS attacks, flatplanet.net would be a good place
aren't we already doing this? I mean, the site seems down due to slashdot... Just find something new about them every day or so, post a story, and voila!
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I like it... but a few thoughts.
You get the IP of the person responding in the packet directly, don't you? so just blacklist and send out a broadcast spam alert. Anything already on your blacklist is ignored, no alert. Then maybe if you get a certain number of SPAM alerts about an IP (5 or so?) you add it to your blacklist. Now, this opens a bunch of other problems for abuse. Maybe just temporarily blacklist on alerts, and have additional alerts continue it. Maybe only send a blacklist if you can successfully download the first 100 bytes to prevent IP spoofing. I'm sure there are other ways... I have other toughts, but I think the gnutelladev / gnutellang lists are a better place for them.
OK, I have been using the gnotella 0.73 client for a while now, and I like it's spam protection. While its not great, its akin to first-gen email spam filters. It helps. It currently has options to ignore vbs files, ignore htm and html files, and ignore flatplanet spam. not enough, but a start.
I think the better (read: less flamable) way to do is to use forced flow systems. Essentially, put pumps in the tub to circulate the LN2 so that stuff stays cool enough. Of course, this means that everything needs to stay well below boiling point, and so you need refrigeration. But I bet it could be made to work for the duration of the competition:)
OK, from what I hear from those who've researched it, PCB can take an extreme thermal change about once fairly reliably. Also, CMOS can go twice as fast (ALL of it) if you chill it to liquid nitrogen temperatures (I think that's 70K, anyone know for sure?). SO, if I want to win this next year, can I just bring in my liquid nitro vat with computer in it? Is there any survivability requirement? I mean, I put it together, double the clock speed (need to think about this here... what can I OC? CPU, yes. graphics, yes. memory, yes. FSB, maybe. HDD, probly not... seems tough.) and produce out-of-this world frame rates. Of course, it costs $2000 for the computer, which dies as soon as I decide I can't afford the liquid nitro it needs. Also, liquid nitro is great because it doesn't conduct electricity but conducts heat quite well. Also, if we are just doing it for the contest, we can let it boil off, which provides VERY efficient heat dissipation...
OK, I'm sorry I don't have good links available, but here goes. There was a pice on ZDNN a while back about growth of the US power grid. In 1990, computers used less than 1% of US power, they now use 13%. Power capacity (or grid capacity, not sure which -- there's a difference) has grown only 4%. The problem is expected to get worse, not better, esp. with deregulation of the industry. The Register had a piece a while ago about how new colo facilities seem to want to locate in London for the high connectivity, but, as a result of power restrictions, had to specially contract with the power utilities to get extra capacity added and more lines run, costing in the millions for a new colo for power setup alone. Anyway, that's all I remember...
Several things...
They can't shut it down, because there are other people out there with servers over whom they have no control. And, they are arguably doing all they can to prevent piracy by not listing pirated stuff and limiting to 100K. Admittedly, this doesn't solve everything, but it helps. It's as if Napster looked at every song header and decided whether it was OK or not. Sure, you can use wrapster or whatever, but that's clear abuse of the system (to a greater degree at least).
And, I agree there should be a massive indexing service. I would even consider doing a simple perl script one if I had a place to put it and a bit more knowhow... Then that server could be indexed easily by web search engines.
OK, it's very cool. Now what can we learn from it? I agree that basic research is a Good Thing, but is there anything more specific that we hope to learn about? I'm trying not to sound all pissy or anything, I'm just interested to hear people's thoughts. I think its VERY cool that we got this rare event with the telescopes (for that matter, anyone have any info on how rare it is?)
But that's not the point. It's a matter of time (days? weeks?) before some person writes a little program that you download, give it some name of a distributed file, and it searches it out for you and puts it together, proerly verifying hashes and all. A little more work for the comp and a bit more work for the person writing it, but not for the end user. You will get the people who are somewhat tech-savvy (ie average napster user) and interested in trying something new, untested, and small user base (very few napster users), but there will be such people. So it will discourage some casual pirates, but not by the mechanism you suggest. It will be the lack of publicity and the small user base, instead.
From the publius site, it seems that there is no flagging as "interesting" or whatever. If you have the URL-equiv, you can get to it. There will obviously be sites (perhaps including some supported by AT&T) that catalog such URLs and list the interesting ones. They may or may not be censoring, depending on your interpretation.
I think that things can't be deleted in any way because of the distributed thing. AT&T can't delete something without removing from all the servers, and they can't do that.
Ok, here's what it looks like to me. Publius is more secure in protecting the servers from the content they host; Publius has ability to maintain a "pseudonym" without outside software; Publius has the ability to hyperlink. Here's some elaboration:
Secure servers: It is publicly known who runs the servers, but it can be kept private what server has what. In order to download something, I need to know where to get the key shares. The server doesn't know that. Also, a server can't know what it's hosting without the ability to download it. However, things are less secure in that all this means that if I know how to get something I know who is hosting it, and a govt. etc. could use an attack based on such. So servers are both more and less secure.
The last two are really just based on the document format and software architecture.
This was all written without knowledge of the code, and is jst my interpretation of the web site.
Having read the articles and looked at the pictures, how do I use the thing??? There's no keyboard, no stylus/grafiti thing, just an IR and radio comm thing. It syays it has a touch screen, but does it do handwriting recognition or something? no mention of this. So do I pull out my Palm and IR link to type in commands? Or do I need to bring my wireless keyboard with me? I will believe that there *might* be uses (I haven't found any) if I can use it somehow.
After much duct tape, electrical tape, solder, etc. My ride-on lawnmower now has HDTV, a DVD player, and 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound. It also has a NIC running over 802.11b to the home network and internet connection, all properly hacked together off the lawnmower alternator. The power was unclean at first, but that got fixed after only 3 computers and 2 DVD players. The TV seems to not like the bumps, and is slowly getting more staticky (sp?). Oh yeah, I decided I needed a splashguard after that incident with the neighbor's cat, so now it's waterproof too. Anyway, my wife is now telling me to stop mowing the lawn all the time. I can't decide whether I just shouldn't mow it three times a week or if she's just mad about the rosebush. But all in all, not too bad. Lemme know if you want more details.
I have a decryption algorithm. It seems to fail at exact decryption, but seems to get the general gist across.
313373 5cr1pt k1ddi3 -> Can someone help me with this install script?
g0t 2007 -> still working on this one. As best I can tell, it's gibberish.
m3 hax0r 0x900d -> Red Hat works! wow! and I have root access! this kicks ass!
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I like color also, but it seems to me that much of what I can do with a palm I can do in black and white. I mean, do I really need appointments in color? sure I can prioritize/categorize, but how important is that? I'm not saying color isn't good, but as I understand it it drains batteries MUCH faster. So, is there a way to solve this problem? I would prefer B/W with longer battery life to color, but seeing as I can't afford either...
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Basically, RAMBUS has the theoretical capability to be significantly faster than SDRAM (not DDR, more later). However, the controllers have problems that prevent this. Basically, RDRAM can keep many pages open and many devices active at a time (more than SDRAM), but the i820 doesn't do this. So the chipset is crippling the RDRAM. Also, as soon as multiple devices are put on the bus, the latencies increase, so if too many chips are present things slow down. This is because of the longer wires needed. at 400MHz (not 800 - its DDR) that really matters. Also, RDRAM has been hindered by low yields and hence higher cost. It is now down to about double PC133 (see pricewatch). Also, the chips are more complex. However, the specs say that a good controller ought to be able to outperform PC133. Not by huge amounts, but by enough to matter. i820 is far from a good controller. Something to think about: the EV7 (maybe EV68, I can't remember) is going to use RDRAM. (also on Ace's hardware). However, it is going to increase performance by using 8 channels in parallel. So until there is a good desktop controller, and RDRAM is similar in price, AND the benchmarks say it's better, I'm using DDR SDRAM. But, the technology isn't inherently bad, just having more than it's share of problems.
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Had you read the article, it explained that the ICANN allows plaintifs to pick the arbitration body. As the WIPO arbitrates such disputes and finds for plaintifs 84% of the time, plaintiffs pick WIPO. So, the WIPO has majority market share, and they are producing new guidelines. ICANN basically put WIPO in charge.
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so..umm...what is one? you seem to know... What advantages do they provide? What are nurbs and what do they provide?
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I can play UT with 15 bots... on a PII-350 w/GF256DDR. Granted, their novice bots, but they still shoot in about the right direction. I kick the crap out of them, but you do that for Doom too... 15 bots, double speed, insta-gib...1550 FPH... Not great frame rate, but playable (30 maybe?) And I think the bots are more intelligent than doom monsters. It gets old kinda fast, so I only do that when in serious need of stress relief.
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That's not to say there aren't uses, like any kind of simulation or software rendering, but not for the mass market. *maybe* high quality speech recog will benefit, but currently I think this is only useful for commercial apps. Of course, that doesn't stop me from running a 900MHz Duron (as soon as it gets here...)
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"We did not intend to change the law and have worked diligently to assure that the issue of work-for-hire is resolved without prejudice to anyone's position," she [RIAA President Hilary Rosen] said in the release.
So they lobied to get it in, except now it turns out they didn't??? I think the RIAA is having some PR problems they are trying to fix here...
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Also, the FBI Unversity is the best in the world, by any standard. By admiting only one student, we have managed to keep the faculty per student ratio very high, at an unprecedented 12 faculty members per student. Furthermore, average class size is at a record low of exactly one student per class. SAT scores, incoming GPA, and many other measures of incoming student body are kept at record highs, easily surpassing inferior universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and other Ivy League schools. The school has an excellent computer securities department, making it the ideal choice for a review of carnivore.
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So these older titles shipped on diskettes, and then the diskettes failed, and in a moment of nostalgia someone wants to play an old game or something. The publishers had a card in the box saying they would replace the diskettes if they failed. So is there any recourse when they don't? I guess one could try something in small claims court, but would that work? Is there really any other way to get these old titles back? I still have several old shareware titles (registered! imagine that!) that I *occasionaly* dig out and play. I now have them moved to CDROM, which makes things easier, but if I hadn't I'd be grateful for such a site.
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Even better: WMP7. Windows Media Player 7 has one-click audio CD creation (or some such.. I haven't used it yet.). Should be able to go after them for promoting music piracy. I don't see HOW anyone is going to use this except to create copies of CDs or compilations of CDs. Granted, it may be for personal use, but people are saying that that's not legal... Sounds fun to me :)
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That's really easy. This is being sold to companies, not consumers. So suppose it takes a programmer 2 days to write an easy-to-use program. No matter how much they pay, that's a LOT more than $80. In fact, it's $80 only if they pay the programmer minimum wage.
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aren't we already doing this? I mean, the site seems down due to slashdot... Just find something new about them every day or so, post a story, and voila!
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I like it... but a few thoughts. You get the IP of the person responding in the packet directly, don't you? so just blacklist and send out a broadcast spam alert. Anything already on your blacklist is ignored, no alert. Then maybe if you get a certain number of SPAM alerts about an IP (5 or so?) you add it to your blacklist. Now, this opens a bunch of other problems for abuse. Maybe just temporarily blacklist on alerts, and have additional alerts continue it. Maybe only send a blacklist if you can successfully download the first 100 bytes to prevent IP spoofing. I'm sure there are other ways... I have other toughts, but I think the gnutelladev / gnutellang lists are a better place for them.
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OK, I have been using the gnotella 0.73 client for a while now, and I like it's spam protection. While its not great, its akin to first-gen email spam filters. It helps. It currently has options to ignore vbs files, ignore htm and html files, and ignore flatplanet spam. not enough, but a start.
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I think the better (read: less flamable) way to do is to use forced flow systems. Essentially, put pumps in the tub to circulate the LN2 so that stuff stays cool enough. Of course, this means that everything needs to stay well below boiling point, and so you need refrigeration. But I bet it could be made to work for the duration of the competition:)
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OK, from what I hear from those who've researched it, PCB can take an extreme thermal change about once fairly reliably. Also, CMOS can go twice as fast (ALL of it) if you chill it to liquid nitrogen temperatures (I think that's 70K, anyone know for sure?). SO, if I want to win this next year, can I just bring in my liquid nitro vat with computer in it? Is there any survivability requirement? I mean, I put it together, double the clock speed (need to think about this here... what can I OC? CPU, yes. graphics, yes. memory, yes. FSB, maybe. HDD, probly not... seems tough.) and produce out-of-this world frame rates. Of course, it costs $2000 for the computer, which dies as soon as I decide I can't afford the liquid nitro it needs. Also, liquid nitro is great because it doesn't conduct electricity but conducts heat quite well. Also, if we are just doing it for the contest, we can let it boil off, which provides VERY efficient heat dissipation...
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OK, I'm sorry I don't have good links available, but here goes. There was a pice on ZDNN a while back about growth of the US power grid. In 1990, computers used less than 1% of US power, they now use 13%. Power capacity (or grid capacity, not sure which -- there's a difference) has grown only 4%. The problem is expected to get worse, not better, esp. with deregulation of the industry. The Register had a piece a while ago about how new colo facilities seem to want to locate in London for the high connectivity, but, as a result of power restrictions, had to specially contract with the power utilities to get extra capacity added and more lines run, costing in the millions for a new colo for power setup alone. Anyway, that's all I remember...
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They can't shut it down, because there are other people out there with servers over whom they have no control. And, they are arguably doing all they can to prevent piracy by not listing pirated stuff and limiting to 100K. Admittedly, this doesn't solve everything, but it helps. It's as if Napster looked at every song header and decided whether it was OK or not. Sure, you can use wrapster or whatever, but that's clear abuse of the system (to a greater degree at least).
And, I agree there should be a massive indexing service. I would even consider doing a simple perl script one if I had a place to put it and a bit more knowhow... Then that server could be indexed easily by web search engines.
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OK, it's very cool. Now what can we learn from it? I agree that basic research is a Good Thing, but is there anything more specific that we hope to learn about? I'm trying not to sound all pissy or anything, I'm just interested to hear people's thoughts. I think its VERY cool that we got this rare event with the telescopes (for that matter, anyone have any info on how rare it is?)
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But that's not the point. It's a matter of time (days? weeks?) before some person writes a little program that you download, give it some name of a distributed file, and it searches it out for you and puts it together, proerly verifying hashes and all. A little more work for the comp and a bit more work for the person writing it, but not for the end user. You will get the people who are somewhat tech-savvy (ie average napster user) and interested in trying something new, untested, and small user base (very few napster users), but there will be such people. So it will discourage some casual pirates, but not by the mechanism you suggest. It will be the lack of publicity and the small user base, instead.
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I think that things can't be deleted in any way because of the distributed thing. AT&T can't delete something without removing from all the servers, and they can't do that.
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Secure servers: It is publicly known who runs the servers, but it can be kept private what server has what. In order to download something, I need to know where to get the key shares. The server doesn't know that. Also, a server can't know what it's hosting without the ability to download it. However, things are less secure in that all this means that if I know how to get something I know who is hosting it, and a govt. etc. could use an attack based on such. So servers are both more and less secure.
The last two are really just based on the document format and software architecture.
This was all written without knowledge of the code, and is jst my interpretation of the web site.
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Having read the articles and looked at the pictures, how do I use the thing??? There's no keyboard, no stylus/grafiti thing, just an IR and radio comm thing. It syays it has a touch screen, but does it do handwriting recognition or something? no mention of this. So do I pull out my Palm and IR link to type in commands? Or do I need to bring my wireless keyboard with me? I will believe that there *might* be uses (I haven't found any) if I can use it somehow.
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After much duct tape, electrical tape, solder, etc. My ride-on lawnmower now has HDTV, a DVD player, and 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound. It also has a NIC running over 802.11b to the home network and internet connection, all properly hacked together off the lawnmower alternator. The power was unclean at first, but that got fixed after only 3 computers and 2 DVD players. The TV seems to not like the bumps, and is slowly getting more staticky (sp?). Oh yeah, I decided I needed a splashguard after that incident with the neighbor's cat, so now it's waterproof too. Anyway, my wife is now telling me to stop mowing the lawn all the time. I can't decide whether I just shouldn't mow it three times a week or if she's just mad about the rosebush. But all in all, not too bad. Lemme know if you want more details.
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313373 5cr1pt k1ddi3 -> Can someone help me with this install script?
g0t 2007 -> still working on this one. As best I can tell, it's gibberish.
m3 hax0r 0x900d -> Red Hat works! wow! and I have root access! this kicks ass!
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I like color also, but it seems to me that much of what I can do with a palm I can do in black and white. I mean, do I really need appointments in color? sure I can prioritize/categorize, but how important is that? I'm not saying color isn't good, but as I understand it it drains batteries MUCH faster. So, is there a way to solve this problem? I would prefer B/W with longer battery life to color, but seeing as I can't afford either...
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