I would be very wary of something like this right now. Call me paranoid, but with Bush and Ashroft chopping away at civil rights left and right, I would not move to an IP based phone system. Already then can track calls and such I'm sure, but there is bound to be some difficulty integrating some of this information. IP sounds too easy to get a handle on... besides the fast my phone line will work if the power goes out.
Wouldn't the duplex of the connection matter more? If you could send and recieve simultaneously, you would be able to relay to the next listener and so forth.
One issue I see immediately is that basically anyone with a broadband connection should rely to a higher capactiy line as fast as possible, to facilitate a star instead of a chain. (The sooner the stream is stared, the lower the possability of a single netfault disrupting the stream)
I have a Mac, so I can't really do anything with this right now, but I would hope there is implemented or plans to implement some kind of a supernode structure as present in gnutella... or perhaps relay connection roaming to the fastest nodes (client could buffer from both providers as high cap gets up to speed and then switch over.... kinda like cell phones?)
Reading this article and especially these comments (one in particular) just bore the shit out of me.
The one comment is the "I am a white christian male who is a genius and never gets laid and people envy me". Please email me sir, for you are a large part of the same problem that put George Bush illegally into the most powerful position in the world.
As far as China attacking the United States on any level, the CIA and FBI and all those government agencies have to justify their existance. Call me Tin Foil Hat, but I believe the possibility exists that Sept. 11th was allowed. I believe the government of this country may be corrupt on so many levels, it's unthinkable. The untied states government is being innundated with greedy politicians intent on using their office to manipulate the laws to them and their white christain genius golfing buddies can make more money OFF OF US. China is not the problem. They will have their own revolution in time. Those people aren't going to stand in poverty forever.
As far as the United States goes, if you can convice the people there is a threat from the outside, they will not see the threats on the inside. The administration is quietly moving around, destroying the environment, looting the economy. In 6 years, if we are unlucky, this could be one huge back robbery.
We are not respected. We are not envied. We were. Now, we are a nation of greedy, fat consumers (yes geek, look at thou belly and man titties) who have NO CONCEPTION for the most part of what is going on in the outside world. We want Felcity and Ally, we want new cars and cheap gas. The rest of the world is eclipsing us in so many senses, morally, ethically, socially, technologically.
I am not tolling the bell, there are excellent pockets of innovation and love and life and all that (California) but then there are cancerous pockets of people who still believe in a big man up in the sky who is some kind of an aggressive puppetmaster (The Southern US and Mid East... oops, did I just compare the right to the wrong? maybe the right are wrong).
China is not the problem. Wake up sheep. Read 1984,stop watching TV, talk to people below you economic class. The biggest threat we have right now is the rights our own government is erroding. Excuse me if I have to leave now, I have to go opiate myself on a diet of fulling yet totally nutriounless fast food and have Dr. Phil tell me how to be a better consum... er... person.
The RIAA and MPAA represent a group of talentless people. They are shrewd businessmen, but have no inherent value in the system. Politicians are leaping to join them in that honor. All these debates and malarky about digital rights management and all that amounts to old white men who are afraid of working for a living. They believe themselves to be SO important in the functioning of the system, they forget the world ran on without their industry for a long long time.
Digital Rights and all this clipper/patriot/DCMA/etc represents knee-jerk reactions to this:
Our leaders have sold out the people for their own cause. We no longer have ethical people who arise on platforms of achievement and such. We have politicans who cower and are required to raise so much money to maintain their status, there's nothing else they can really do.
Grassroots America was eroded after the 60s. The political machine crushed rights and the corporations continue to turn the knife over and over again. There was a reprieve from 1990-2000, as the internet was new and no one knew how to control it. That was a great equalizer and they see that. The corporations know what it can do and now are trying to reign it in.
Further, technology is creating growth, and growth is exponential. I'm sure the stagecoach owners were upset when the car came along. The one's who did not adapt failed and the ones who did probably made a killing.
America is the victory of personal space and such, but with that personal space comes selfishness...
uh oh, here comes the rant:
I hate these people doing this! Napster was one of the greatest tools I have ever used. I went from listening to music from the 60s and 70s to the latest in cutting edge electronica. And I had access to it all. Fuck the BS the record companies are selling... I was interested in the live mixes that they don't sell. So what they are saying to me personally is fuck you, you know what you like, but we don't care. This makes us money and you can listen to this. FUCK THAT! I love my Paul Oakie live sets... I love my DJ Cabin Boy sets who no one else has ever even heard of, but it motivates me everyday. This discovery of electronic music was like a new hobby and has introduced me to new people, new cultures, new ideas, etc. And the RIAA and MPAA think that's wrong. Well, I'm fucking sorry stagecoach, the car is coming. You can struggle to keep your head up, but you will eventually drown because you have no talent. You are a middleman who has no talent and makes your money of EXPLOITATION, just like Sadam Hussein, Castro, and all the other dictators. The car is coming, you better stop bitching and open a gas station. And the politicians... well, look at the % of the world that is American and has to subscribe to your laws and then tell me you are important.
He qoutes figures and throws around the number billions all day long...
The reality is much of content has become a facility of the service. HBO makes really cool shows so people subscribe to HBO. AOL bought time-warner so the content would attract people to the service with exclusive content deals. And Jack Valenti says PCs need to be copy=protected. He needs this because HOLLYWOOD HAS RUN OUT OF IDEAS AND IS COPYING ITSELF AND THEY WANT EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS ON DOING THIS!
I hate the MPAA and the RIAA and all the other middlemen with no talent taking advantage of IP laws for their own benefit.
Yes movies will be sent at the speed of light all over the globe, but if the industry would advance and come up with new ideas and disseminate these ideas, that would be a great thing! Think of the good this could do for the world... oh sorry, I meant that all creativity should fatten Jack's pocket and all the people's pocket's who think his shit is cholocate.
Taken to the extreme, the only way they will ever ensure rights management (whatever that means) is to encrypt the data stream from head to tail. This is a boon for everyone involved. Hardware manufacturers will build new hardware to support encrypted content, software manufacturers will write software to run on that hardware, chip makers will make chips fast enought o support the new software. It's a win from top to bottom in the industry. People will pay per view/listen and the rights stream will be assured. The government will love it because they get to collect taxes. This is a Orwellian Utopia. Of course Michael Eisner loves it. The only person who gets screwed is the consumer.
Screwed is the right word. This will kill independent/non-commerical artistic work (you won't be able to use that perfect U2 song for your student film). It will cause a huge social detriment (If I hadn't pirated everything I could get my hands on ten years ago, I would be a administrative assistant instead of a network architect. Side note: I would also not be recommending the purchases of volume license of the program to businesses).
This is our society marching towards a new caste system. We are already being turned into one big sheep, consuming what we are given.
There is a huge solution, though... Let's turn the TV off and stop listening to commercial radio. Expand your horizons and listen to indy media. Take a walk or read a book, or hell, write a book. Stop playing video games and watching TV. Stop wasting life with instant gratification.
Mass media is the new religion (how many people attend the church of the West Wing every Wednesday?) and religion is a tool to keep the masses in check. How does that make you feel? How does it make you feel that Michael Eisner is using the money you paid for your kids to see the lastest proprietary disney fable as a detriment to their creative futures?
I think we should start up the old BBS system with some new modifications. Neighborhood networks could really work, through stringing wires or fiber to a wireless spiderweb that ensconsed a whole area. The internet is a powerful resource that developed in an environment that really did not understand it.
Now, it has been commercialized and the true economy of it has yet to be exploited. It will though. The first sign is the flaggering dedication to online tax prohibition. The internet will be a tool for control, just out of it's very nature. Judging by the current response to cable television, DVDs, and digital entertainment in general, Most people will accept this complacently. However, for those of us who are not satisfied with simply recieving from a small body of marketed information, we may need another network.
With content the way it's going, the free music and software movement could be strangeled from the headend. The companies keep making files and pipes continuously larger, but cap the transmission speed and the internet has become effectively rigid and it won't be long before it's no longer feasible to send each other music files.
I, for one, envision a network neighborhood with self-contained DNS servers, mail servers, VPN borders, all connected by high-speed wireless connections. Three or four incoming pipes, using linux to move packets.
Once enough of these networks were in place, VPN tunnels could be initiated to create a secure supernetwork on top of the internet.
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I would be very wary of something like this right now. Call me paranoid, but with Bush and Ashroft chopping away at civil rights left and right, I would not move to an IP based phone system. Already then can track calls and such I'm sure, but there is bound to be some difficulty integrating some of this information. IP sounds too easy to get a handle on... besides the fast my phone line will work if the power goes out.
Wouldn't the duplex of the connection matter more? If you could send and recieve simultaneously, you would be able to relay to the next listener and so forth.
One issue I see immediately is that basically anyone with a broadband connection should rely to a higher capactiy line as fast as possible, to facilitate a star instead of a chain. (The sooner the stream is stared, the lower the possability of a single netfault disrupting the stream)
I have a Mac, so I can't really do anything with this right now, but I would hope there is implemented or plans to implement some kind of a supernode structure as present in gnutella... or perhaps relay connection roaming to the fastest nodes (client could buffer from both providers as high cap gets up to speed and then switch over.... kinda like cell phones?)
Reading this article and especially these comments (one in particular) just bore the shit out of me.
The one comment is the "I am a white christian male who is a genius and never gets laid and people envy me". Please email me sir, for you are a large part of the same problem that put George Bush illegally into the most powerful position in the world.
As far as China attacking the United States on any level, the CIA and FBI and all those government agencies have to justify their existance. Call me Tin Foil Hat, but I believe the possibility exists that Sept. 11th was allowed. I believe the government of this country may be corrupt on so many levels, it's unthinkable. The untied states government is being innundated with greedy politicians intent on using their office to manipulate the laws to them and their white christain genius golfing buddies can make more money OFF OF US. China is not the problem. They will have their own revolution in time. Those people aren't going to stand in poverty forever.
As far as the United States goes, if you can convice the people there is a threat from the outside, they will not see the threats on the inside. The administration is quietly moving around, destroying the environment, looting the economy. In 6 years, if we are unlucky, this could be one huge back robbery.
We are not respected. We are not envied. We were. Now, we are a nation of greedy, fat consumers (yes geek, look at thou belly and man titties) who have NO CONCEPTION for the most part of what is going on in the outside world. We want Felcity and Ally, we want new cars and cheap gas. The rest of the world is eclipsing us in so many senses, morally, ethically, socially, technologically.
I am not tolling the bell, there are excellent pockets of innovation and love and life and all that (California) but then there are cancerous pockets of people who still believe in a big man up in the sky who is some kind of an aggressive puppetmaster (The Southern US and Mid East... oops, did I just compare the right to the wrong? maybe the right are wrong).
China is not the problem. Wake up sheep. Read 1984,stop watching TV, talk to people below you economic class. The biggest threat we have right now is the rights our own government is erroding. Excuse me if I have to leave now, I have to go opiate myself on a diet of fulling yet totally nutriounless fast food and have Dr. Phil tell me how to be a better consum... er... person.
Peace.
nickrussell@hotmail.com
The RIAA and MPAA represent a group of talentless people. They are shrewd businessmen, but have no inherent value in the system. Politicians are leaping to join them in that honor. All these debates and malarky about digital rights management and all that amounts to old white men who are afraid of working for a living. They believe themselves to be SO important in the functioning of the system, they forget the world ran on without their industry for a long long time.
Digital Rights and all this clipper/patriot/DCMA/etc represents knee-jerk reactions to this:
Our leaders have sold out the people for their own cause. We no longer have ethical people who arise on platforms of achievement and such. We have politicans who cower and are required to raise so much money to maintain their status, there's nothing else they can really do.
Grassroots America was eroded after the 60s. The political machine crushed rights and the corporations continue to turn the knife over and over again. There was a reprieve from 1990-2000, as the internet was new and no one knew how to control it. That was a great equalizer and they see that. The corporations know what it can do and now are trying to reign it in.
Further, technology is creating growth, and growth is exponential. I'm sure the stagecoach owners were upset when the car came along. The one's who did not adapt failed and the ones who did probably made a killing.
America is the victory of personal space and such, but with that personal space comes selfishness...
uh oh, here comes the rant:
I hate these people doing this! Napster was one of the greatest tools I have ever used. I went from listening to music from the 60s and 70s to the latest in cutting edge electronica. And I had access to it all. Fuck the BS the record companies are selling... I was interested in the live mixes that they don't sell. So what they are saying to me personally is fuck you, you know what you like, but we don't care. This makes us money and you can listen to this. FUCK THAT! I love my Paul Oakie live sets... I love my DJ Cabin Boy sets who no one else has ever even heard of, but it motivates me everyday. This discovery of electronic music was like a new hobby and has introduced me to new people, new cultures, new ideas, etc. And the RIAA and MPAA think that's wrong. Well, I'm fucking sorry stagecoach, the car is coming. You can struggle to keep your head up, but you will eventually drown because you have no talent. You are a middleman who has no talent and makes your money of EXPLOITATION, just like Sadam Hussein, Castro, and all the other dictators. The car is coming, you better stop bitching and open a gas station. And the politicians... well, look at the % of the world that is American and has to subscribe to your laws and then tell me you are important.
FUCK ALL OF YOU, GIVE ME MY DAMN MUSIC.
He qoutes figures and throws around the number billions all day long...
The reality is much of content has become a facility of the service. HBO makes really cool shows so people subscribe to HBO. AOL bought time-warner so the content would attract people to the service with exclusive content deals. And Jack Valenti says PCs need to be copy=protected. He needs this because HOLLYWOOD HAS RUN OUT OF IDEAS AND IS COPYING ITSELF AND THEY WANT EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS ON DOING THIS!
I hate the MPAA and the RIAA and all the other middlemen with no talent taking advantage of IP laws for their own benefit.
Yes movies will be sent at the speed of light all over the globe, but if the industry would advance and come up with new ideas and disseminate these ideas, that would be a great thing! Think of the good this could do for the world... oh sorry, I meant that all creativity should fatten Jack's pocket and all the people's pocket's who think his shit is cholocate.
This is just a rant, mod me to the basement.
Taken to the extreme, the only way they will ever ensure rights management (whatever that means) is to encrypt the data stream from head to tail. This is a boon for everyone involved. Hardware manufacturers will build new hardware to support encrypted content, software manufacturers will write software to run on that hardware, chip makers will make chips fast enought o support the new software. It's a win from top to bottom in the industry. People will pay per view/listen and the rights stream will be assured. The government will love it because they get to collect taxes. This is a Orwellian Utopia. Of course Michael Eisner loves it. The only person who gets screwed is the consumer.
Screwed is the right word. This will kill independent/non-commerical artistic work (you won't be able to use that perfect U2 song for your student film). It will cause a huge social detriment (If I hadn't pirated everything I could get my hands on ten years ago, I would be a administrative assistant instead of a network architect. Side note: I would also not be recommending the purchases of volume license of the program to businesses).
This is our society marching towards a new caste system. We are already being turned into one big sheep, consuming what we are given.
There is a huge solution, though... Let's turn the TV off and stop listening to commercial radio. Expand your horizons and listen to indy media. Take a walk or read a book, or hell, write a book. Stop playing video games and watching TV. Stop wasting life with instant gratification.
Mass media is the new religion (how many people attend the church of the West Wing every Wednesday?) and religion is a tool to keep the masses in check. How does that make you feel? How does it make you feel that Michael Eisner is using the money you paid for your kids to see the lastest proprietary disney fable as a detriment to their creative futures?
I think we should start up the old BBS system with some new modifications. Neighborhood networks could really work, through stringing wires or fiber to a wireless spiderweb that ensconsed a whole area. The internet is a powerful resource that developed in an environment that really did not understand it.
Now, it has been commercialized and the true economy of it has yet to be exploited. It will though. The first sign is the flaggering dedication to online tax prohibition. The internet will be a tool for control, just out of it's very nature. Judging by the current response to cable television, DVDs, and digital entertainment in general, Most people will accept this complacently. However, for those of us who are not satisfied with simply recieving from a small body of marketed information, we may need another network.
With content the way it's going, the free music and software movement could be strangeled from the headend. The companies keep making files and pipes continuously larger, but cap the transmission speed and the internet has become effectively rigid and it won't be long before it's no longer feasible to send each other music files.
I, for one, envision a network neighborhood with self-contained DNS servers, mail servers, VPN borders, all connected by high-speed wireless connections. Three or four incoming pipes, using linux to move packets.
Once enough of these networks were in place, VPN tunnels could be initiated to create a secure supernetwork on top of the internet.