There is nothing wrong with having only 300 people playing on a server - they can get to know each other better than on a server with a million of people chopping trees.
This actually shows that open source should be about creating the tools for people to make these worlds, not for ruuning the servers themselves.
Another thing following from my argument is that a distributed server, call it peer to peer if you want, is better.
What it takes to create such a server is doing very "engine" like things, to allow player and wizard migration between different servers.
By new versions of the OS.. They will forget the servers for the old OS one day and you will get stuck.. One day, this might be an interesting way to get money from MS for shutting your old Whistler down.
Anyway the pig-lation encryption is too weak and won't stand up in court - but consider the beauty of using a number-driven story generator like the erasmotron to encrypt the file INSIDE a story which is copyrighted and is then ENCRYPTED to protect that copyright:-) With a real encryption.
Of course, your filename would have to be rather longish to qualify to be copyrightable, like When_the_whale_landed_on_the_beach_me_and_my_broth er_..._back_Copyright_2001_by_Joe_Doe.
Which leads me to:
I have been thinking the best way to encode filenames would be using the Erasmotron story generator.
Cygwin from www.cygnus.com already gives you a bash on Windows, and you can switch on tab expansion for filenames in the dos-cmd shell by some registry hack (tested under win2k).
You have fair use rights to make one backup.
Maybe it is even written in your license you got when you bought the thing.
Sue Sony to give you backups for free.
Then break all your stuff. Buy puts on Sony. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Basically it gives you the ability to follow back to the source of an attacker.
The best argument I heard against it was that ISPs first should do some decent outgoing filtering to catch SMURF - attacks.
Of course you might be able to abuse the system by faking a malicious attack from the host to be attacked. I doubt that this would be fun for script kids though, since using multiple hosts sounds much more impressive.
Well I wonder whether you could do better than that person... Prototypes get tested and modeled because it costs a lot of effort to put them up there, and because everyone today seems to expect a space ride to be less dangerous than a train ride. Maybe because desasters tend to reflect badly on further funding.. Dale Earnhardt died, but people still want to see racing. Maybe astronauts shood wear addidas gear.
Actually One-Click as Business Patents is ok, because that would mean Amazon gets the patent for systematically placing ads that allow one-click purchchasing on other websites.
Which is kind of ingenious, although obvious to someone skilled in the art of programming.
Unfortunately,
this is not described this way in their US p.a.
People right and left accidently DO implement cookie caching in their websites which happen to match the software patent described by Amazon.
Lawyers often don't even make an effort to create a patent that tells what is patent. You could probably throw out 95% of patents on the grounds that
The patent does not state which group of claims in the patent it considered as the actual claims ( instead of statement of facts surrounding the invention ).
The patent does state some Sci-Fi, but does not help in actually explaining the method used to produce the effect described by the patent.
Actually any software invention should be open source one the patent runs out.
www.munich.de > traceroute www.stuttgart.de
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www.munich.de> traceroute www.stuttgart.de
traceroute to www.stuttgart.de, 60 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 www.munich.de (111.111.111.111) 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms
2 munich.dtag.de (212.183.251.1) 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms
3 boned.dtag.de (212.183.1.1) 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms
4 HH-gw10.usa.net.dtag.de (212.183.3.1) 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms
5 nyc-gw13.usa.net.dtag.de (212.183.3.1) 342 ms 341 ms 341 ms
6 devil01.apdfw.com (204.181.126.82) 400 ms 321 ms 511 ms
7 madmax.ft-monroe.cmpu.net (204.181.110.10) 291 ms 160 ms 320 ms
8 cisco.2501-2.deepspace.net (204.181.110.1) 4261 ms 4280 ms 4291 ms
9 ftmadmax.net.mars (204.181.110.10) 4210 ms 4200 ms 4241 ms
10 23-189.orbital.nasa.gov (128.183.50.1) 8222 ms 8221 ms 8221 ms
11 rtr-cne-e.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.50.1) 8222 ms 8221 ms 8221 ms
12 rtr-wan1-cf.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.251.1) 8222 ms 8221 ms 8221 ms
13 rtr-internet-ef.gsfc.nasa.gov (192.43.240.36) 8226 ms 8224 ms 8224 ms
14 sl-mae-e-f0-0.sprintlink.net (192.41.177.241) 8227 ms 8325 ms 8318 ms
15 sl-bb5-dc-6-1-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.25) 8341 ms 8347 ms *
16 sl-bb3-dc-4-0-0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.0.6) 8329 ms * 8348 ms
17 144.232.8.113 (144.232.8.113) 8351 ms 8343 ms 8340 ms
18 sl-bb1-atl-4-0-0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.198) 8340 ms * 8361 ms
19 sl-bb5-fw-1-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.98) 8386 ms 8384 ms 8379 ms
20 sl-bb1-fw-4-0-0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.150) 8386 ms 8385 ms *
21 sl-gw13-fw-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.30.17) 8387 ms * *
22 sl-comp-3-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.137.14) 8391 ms 8390 ms *
23 sl-stuttgart-1-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.138.14) 8391 ms 8390 ms *
24 www.stuttgart.de (222.222.222.222) 8391 ms 9040 ms *
Of course whether you want to really want to give that out depends on how much you want to protect your [a-z][a-z][a-z].
I disagree with point 1.)
I tink an employee may very well choose to code only under GPL as part of his contract.
If his superiors in the chain of contract have a problem with that, it is their problem.
Nethack is not turn-based in the sense that you could play it multiplayer, or do lots of actions during one turn. It is more like constantly hitting the pause key in a real time game.
One issue here is that the WWW is NOT the internet. This misuse of language is getting dangerous now, as otherwise, censoring might stay more confined.
I think that people concerned to keep the internet operable as a medium for ideas exchange should start to redefine the internet, by subsets of the internet, with a different base of dns servers, and every subset should require everyone that attach to it to sign a license: a license in which they agree that all content they release onto it becomes public domain (and that they have the rights to all material they release), a license where everyone agrees to deep crosslinking, a license where people state that they are old enough to view censored material, and maybe even a license where people state that the computer on this network may be hacked by anyone. Licenses would be orthogonal, you don't have to sign it - unless you want to be part of that network.
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This actually shows that open source should be about creating the tools for people to make these worlds, not for ruuning the servers themselves.
Another thing following from my argument is that a distributed server, call it peer to peer if you want, is better.
What it takes to create such a server is doing very "engine" like things, to allow player and wizard migration between different servers.
This is the land of Eric. Behold the list of those who entered and did not leave.
Really enter(yes/no) ?
By new versions of the OS .. ..
They will forget the servers for the old OS one day and you will get stuck
One day, this might be an interesting way to get money from MS for shutting your old Whistler down.
...
I can see it now - project xanadu finally hits gold by attaching a copyright notice to every bit.
If you ask me, Judge Kaplan is a joker who thought that if his decision was going to be appealed anyway, he might as well do friends a favor.
Erasmotron happy slashdotting!
Anyway the pig-lation encryption is too weak and won't stand up in court - but consider the beauty of using a number-driven story generator like the erasmotron to encrypt the file INSIDE a story which is copyrighted and is then ENCRYPTED to protect that copyright :-) With a real encryption.
Which leads me to:
I have been thinking the best way to encode filenames would be using the Erasmotron story generator.
Cygwin from www.cygnus.com already gives you a bash on Windows, and you can switch on tab expansion for filenames in the dos-cmd shell by some registry hack (tested under win2k).
You have fair use rights to make one backup.
Maybe it is even written in your license you got when you bought the thing.
Sue Sony to give you backups for free.
Then break all your stuff. Buy puts on Sony. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Sculpturing, like, mount rushmore (sp?)
-nt
-nt
Basically it gives you the ability to follow back to the source of an attacker.
The best argument I heard against it was that ISPs first should do some decent outgoing filtering to catch SMURF - attacks.
Of course you might be able to abuse the system by faking a malicious attack from the host to be attacked. I doubt that this would be fun for script kids though, since using multiple hosts sounds much more impressive.
Well I wonder whether you could do better than that person .. . .. Dale Earnhardt died, but people still want to see racing.
Prototypes get tested and modeled because it costs a lot of effort to put them up there, and because everyone today seems to expect a space ride to be less dangerous than a train ride.
Maybe because desasters tend to reflect badly on further funding
Maybe astronauts shood wear addidas gear.
Which is kind of ingenious, although obvious to someone skilled in the art of programming.
Unfortunately,
- this is not described this way in their US p.a.
- People right and left accidently DO implement cookie caching in their websites which happen to match the software patent described by Amazon.
Lawyers often don't even make an effort to create a patent that tells what is patent. You could probably throw out 95% of patents on the grounds thatY2K - the beginning of the end
-nt
www.munich.de> traceroute www.stuttgart.de
traceroute to www.stuttgart.de, 60 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 www.munich.de (111.111.111.111) 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms
2 munich.dtag.de (212.183.251.1) 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms
3 boned.dtag.de (212.183.1.1) 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms
4 HH-gw10.usa.net.dtag.de (212.183.3.1) 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms
5 nyc-gw13.usa.net.dtag.de (212.183.3.1) 342 ms 341 ms 341 ms
6 devil01.apdfw.com (204.181.126.82) 400 ms 321 ms 511 ms
7 madmax.ft-monroe.cmpu.net (204.181.110.10) 291 ms 160 ms 320 ms
8 cisco.2501-2.deepspace.net (204.181.110.1) 4261 ms 4280 ms 4291 ms
9 ftmadmax.net.mars (204.181.110.10) 4210 ms 4200 ms 4241 ms
10 23-189.orbital.nasa.gov (128.183.50.1) 8222 ms 8221 ms 8221 ms
11 rtr-cne-e.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.50.1) 8222 ms 8221 ms 8221 ms
12 rtr-wan1-cf.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.251.1) 8222 ms 8221 ms 8221 ms
13 rtr-internet-ef.gsfc.nasa.gov (192.43.240.36) 8226 ms 8224 ms 8224 ms
14 sl-mae-e-f0-0.sprintlink.net (192.41.177.241) 8227 ms 8325 ms 8318 ms
15 sl-bb5-dc-6-1-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.25) 8341 ms 8347 ms *
16 sl-bb3-dc-4-0-0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.0.6) 8329 ms * 8348 ms
17 144.232.8.113 (144.232.8.113) 8351 ms 8343 ms 8340 ms
18 sl-bb1-atl-4-0-0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.198) 8340 ms * 8361 ms
19 sl-bb5-fw-1-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.98) 8386 ms 8384 ms 8379 ms
20 sl-bb1-fw-4-0-0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.150) 8386 ms 8385 ms *
21 sl-gw13-fw-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.30.17) 8387 ms * *
22 sl-comp-3-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.137.14) 8391 ms 8390 ms *
23 sl-stuttgart-1-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.138.14) 8391 ms 8390 ms *
24 www.stuttgart.de (222.222.222.222) 8391 ms 9040 ms *
Trace complete
Of course whether you want to really want to give that out depends on how much you want to protect your [a-z][a-z][a-z].
I disagree with point 1.)
I tink an employee may very well choose to code only under GPL as part of his contract.
If his superiors in the chain of contract have a problem with that, it is their problem.
Nethack is not turn-based in the sense that you could play it multiplayer, or do lots of actions during one turn. It is more like constantly hitting the pause key in a real time game.
I look forward to this
I think that people concerned to keep the internet operable as a medium for ideas exchange should start to redefine the internet, by subsets of the internet, with a different base of dns servers, and every subset should require everyone that attach to it to sign a license: a license in which they agree that all content they release onto it becomes public domain (and that they have the rights to all material they release), a license where everyone agrees to deep crosslinking, a license where people state that they are old enough to view censored material, and maybe even a license where people state that the computer on this network may be hacked by anyone. Licenses would be orthogonal, you don't have to sign it - unless you want to be part of that network.