Back when Morpheus got kicked off the network, sharman proved that they can remove clients from their non-centralized fasttrack network. They did this by changing the code in Kazaa to force-upgrade the supernodes (and thus all the clients) and changed it so that at a certain date they would all stop allowing connections to/from morpheus clients. They were able to do this because Kazaa clients were dominant on the network.
Now, think if Kazaa LT becomes the most popular fasttrack client. If sharman tries this again they would only succeed in knocking themselves off the network. The ubersystem would then truely become free (unless the kazaa LT guys do a fasttrack force-upgrade scheme).
1) Other life doesn't have to be like us. Just because we haven't seen life based on something else doesn't prove that it cannot exist. Maybe the most common form of life in the universe are hydrogen based blimp's floating in the atmosphere of gas giants around red dwarfs! We simply don't know yet!
2) In regards to the comment about there not being complex life, I suggest the book "Non-Zero" which talks about the concept that once life comes around, it will ALWAYS progress towards more complex lifeforms. (barring cataclysmic events) This is simple darwinism, the first lifeform to innovate will prosper until its prey catches up, ad infinium.
Personally, I like to maintain optimism. For example, I believe that faster-than-light travel (not necessarily "moving" FTL though) are possible simply because the universe would suck if we're confined to one or two planets forever. It may be irrational now, but "scientists" have said things were impossible which are now commonplace.
on this end, yes, but on the other end it has timed out. For example, if I leave mIRC open and connected when hibernating, I simply time out after a few minutes from the server. When I boot back up, it things I got disconnected and connects right back up.
Now... I wonder if I can download from an ftp site with my computer off...:)
You could pull all sorts of little pranks like this, and at only a few cents for a few thousand views... So many opportunities:)
One part I found amusing was that the first letter implied that they thought she was trying to sell something and maybe didn't know that her ads were confusing:) I just hope that pranks like this won't drive companies away from self service plans though...
Win2000 also has hibernate. It's the primary reason I upgraded from 98 to 2k! Hibernate is the best feature since... ever!:)
Seriously though, the ability to turn off my computer at night, and come back in the morning and still have all my windows come up, all my files still be open, even winamp will immediately continue playing when the computer boots up. The only drawback is that all your hardware has to support it, if I plug in my TV Capture card I can't hibernate anymore.
Slashdot is reporting that Google is opening their API. Slashdot's Hemos was unable to be reached for a reply, but Slashdot's CmdrTaco decided to post the story anyway.
Why does your school need to monitor the screens? To catch slackers? Just give them an F!
On a related note, we had a student who installed a screen capture trojan on the other computers in our lab. We caught him when he was cheating at network Hearts with his classmates, but I'm sure he would have used it on tests to grab answers from classmates if we hadn't caught him. Unfortunately, the administration didn't comprehend just how dangerous this screen cap program was. Fortunately, one of the admin's was a student who did understand:)
Some companies do indeed own everything you say/do/think while at work. Some even try to own what you do outside of work. Read the fine print in your contract to make sure you know YOUR rights, don't assume that your rights are the same as some other guy on the internet!
Sueing your company for a DMCA violation would be cool though:) I hope there's some way to do it to the RIAA:)
On a similar note, my cousin had a computer at home that his company supplied. He knew it was being monitored, and he wanted me to disable the monitoring so that he could use it for personal surfing at night (off hours). I told him that since it was the company's computer, and the company's internet connection, it was really up to them to decide company policy. I suggested that he get his own computer and connection, or to work it out with his company to let him use it for personal use. In the end, he left the company.
Excellent point. One of the reasons I have always hated consoles (ie N, N64, Sega, etc) is that the system (and the time invested) has no redeeming purpose. In the early days of PC's (386 era) we would spend substantial amounts of time just trying to get the damn computer to work. During that time we would learn a LOT about how it all worked, how to debug, how to program, etc, which has now lead me to a $75,000 a year job right out of college. People addicted to games like this today don't go through any of that, they just spend time in the game world and don't really learn much that translates into the real world...
The FCC isn't interested in increasing the number of radio stations out there. The RIAA doesn't want more broadcasters competing with them. What the government and big business want is as few channels and companies as possible so that they can have tighter and tighter control. For example, if you set up a pirate radio station (ie. you don't pay the FCC's fees), then the FCC will come and shut you down ASAP. This isn't because they're "protecting the airwaves", it's because you aren't paying them. It's been affordable to set up your own FM station for a long time, but the FCC's licenses are extremely high in order to keep normal people off the air.
I'm not sure about the actual numbers, but I think it's in the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to keep an FM music station on the air.
I've got a SBLive also, but it's now sitting in a box. I found that the Asus KT266E (I think) has an onboard sound card that sounds just as good as the live. IANAA (I am not an audiophile) though.
Not THAT many people need dual nic's, most just connect dirrect or to a hub or DSL router.
I run out of slots by having: SCSII controller, two extra video cards (three monitors).
So yeah, even if they just added one more it would probably be nice, there's always more stuff to plug in that's cool:)
They just need to name it something catchy. Like the Death Tax. Until they named it that, it kept failing.
The Patriot Act would not have passed if it hadn't been named the patriot act and been voted on at the time it was. I think the senators who wrote it should be brought up on Treason charges since they betrayed the American people.
Not if the complaints are justified. If slashdot posted an email address and said "send emails to this guy to clog his inbox" then that would be an attack.
A lot of it comes down to intent, and unfortunately I agree that lawyers and juries probably wouldn't understand the distinction without a good lawyer explaining it:)
Denial of Service attacks tend to use malformed packets and other malicious tricks. If your server has a web server on it, and it is merely responding to valid requests initiated by real individuals, that's not an attack that is trying to DoS the system. If, on the other hand, slashdot told everyone to send as many pings as possible, all at once, then that would be an attack.
A lot of people are confusing "Internet" with "Web". The Internet is the connections made between computers. This can happen on any port, any protocol. The Web is just data that comes from the Internet via HTTP. When you see a "pop-up" it is simply your web browser choosing to allow the web page to pop up a window.
So, the answers are (1) install a local firewall, don't allow odd connections (you may want to pay someone to administer your firewall), (2) Use a web browser that markets itself as a spam fighter (the closest now is a proxy such as WebWasher)
These two steps will make your internet use a far more enjoyable experience.
What I would really like to see is more alternatives start up. For example, a co-op RIAA where non-corporate artists can go to get help with promotion and distribution of their music. Similarly, a co-op MPAA for non-corporate movies. The giants will hate that and try to shut them down through the legal system (as well as paying companies such as ClearChannel to specifically NOT play their music (thank you 1996 Comm Act) to force them out of the market.
Anyway, that's my hope. The tighter the corporate market gets, the more rebels will emerge.
Scheme #3: They're trying to "encourage" the bandwidth hogs to leave. If their network is overloaded then getting, say, 30% of their highest-usage-yet-lowest-paying customers to leave, and increasing the price for the 70% of those in the top 5%, would all add up. Their network gets less cluttered, and they're making more money. Sure they lose some users, but they make the call about who they want and don't want to do business with.
I'm waiting for the day when companies realize that their customers are more important than their dollars represent. What happened to keeping your buyers happy?
A good counterpoint would be the movie The Abyss (james cameron). In the theater release, it was just a fun movie that lacked any deep meaning. In the directors cut, 45 minutes of philosophical stuff was put back in which utterly changed the plot of the movie. In this case, the studios forced the director to remove all that because it wasn't as marketable in the theaters.
So, remember that the theater version is designed to make as much money in the opening weekend as possible, which means that it's the studios calling the shots, not the director.
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Back when Morpheus got kicked off the network, sharman proved that they can remove clients from their non-centralized fasttrack network. They did this by changing the code in Kazaa to force-upgrade the supernodes (and thus all the clients) and changed it so that at a certain date they would all stop allowing connections to/from morpheus clients. They were able to do this because Kazaa clients were dominant on the network.
:)
Now, think if Kazaa LT becomes the most popular fasttrack client. If sharman tries this again they would only succeed in knocking themselves off the network. The ubersystem would then truely become free (unless the kazaa LT guys do a fasttrack force-upgrade scheme).
The future is bright
Travis
gnucleus is gnutella, not fasttrack.
Huge difference, I've never found anything that I was looking for on gnutella, unfortunately...
Travis
Don't forget that a LOT of people will search google for "amazon.com" and never, ever look at the address bar.
Travis
Yeah, here in the real world I was nearly fired when I asked a coworker about the syntax for substr().
Schools really need to prepare people for reality more, in the real world collaboration is a GOOD thing.
Travis
If an 18 year old has sex with his girlfriend, who is two days younger than him and still 17, does that make him a pedophile?
I don't know about you, but I don't consider 17 year olds "children", yet in the eyes of the law they are.
The term "child" is too broad, methinks.
Travis
1) Other life doesn't have to be like us. Just because we haven't seen life based on something else doesn't prove that it cannot exist. Maybe the most common form of life in the universe are hydrogen based blimp's floating in the atmosphere of gas giants around red dwarfs! We simply don't know yet!
2) In regards to the comment about there not being complex life, I suggest the book "Non-Zero" which talks about the concept that once life comes around, it will ALWAYS progress towards more complex lifeforms. (barring cataclysmic events) This is simple darwinism, the first lifeform to innovate will prosper until its prey catches up, ad infinium.
Personally, I like to maintain optimism. For example, I believe that faster-than-light travel (not necessarily "moving" FTL though) are possible simply because the universe would suck if we're confined to one or two planets forever. It may be irrational now, but "scientists" have said things were impossible which are now commonplace.
Travis
on this end, yes, but on the other end it has timed out. For example, if I leave mIRC open and connected when hibernating, I simply time out after a few minutes from the server. When I boot back up, it things I got disconnected and connects right back up.
:)
Now... I wonder if I can download from an ftp site with my computer off...
Travis
You could pull all sorts of little pranks like this, and at only a few cents for a few thousand views... So many opportunities :)
:) I just hope that pranks like this won't drive companies away from self service plans though...
One part I found amusing was that the first letter implied that they thought she was trying to sell something and maybe didn't know that her ads were confusing
Win2000 also has hibernate. It's the primary reason I upgraded from 98 to 2k! Hibernate is the best feature since ... ever! :)
Seriously though, the ability to turn off my computer at night, and come back in the morning and still have all my windows come up, all my files still be open, even winamp will immediately continue playing when the computer boots up. The only drawback is that all your hardware has to support it, if I plug in my TV Capture card I can't hibernate anymore.
I was about to submit this story:
Slashdot is reporting that Google is opening their API. Slashdot's Hemos was unable to be reached for a reply, but Slashdot's CmdrTaco decided to post the story anyway.
:)
Why does your school need to monitor the screens? To catch slackers? Just give them an F!
:)
On a related note, we had a student who installed a screen capture trojan on the other computers in our lab. We caught him when he was cheating at network Hearts with his classmates, but I'm sure he would have used it on tests to grab answers from classmates if we hadn't caught him. Unfortunately, the administration didn't comprehend just how dangerous this screen cap program was. Fortunately, one of the admin's was a student who did understand
** read your contract **
:) I hope there's some way to do it to the RIAA :)
Some companies do indeed own everything you say/do/think while at work. Some even try to own what you do outside of work. Read the fine print in your contract to make sure you know YOUR rights, don't assume that your rights are the same as some other guy on the internet!
Sueing your company for a DMCA violation would be cool though
On a similar note, my cousin had a computer at home that his company supplied. He knew it was being monitored, and he wanted me to disable the monitoring so that he could use it for personal surfing at night (off hours). I told him that since it was the company's computer, and the company's internet connection, it was really up to them to decide company policy. I suggested that he get his own computer and connection, or to work it out with his company to let him use it for personal use. In the end, he left the company.
Excellent point. One of the reasons I have always hated consoles (ie N, N64, Sega, etc) is that the system (and the time invested) has no redeeming purpose. In the early days of PC's (386 era) we would spend substantial amounts of time just trying to get the damn computer to work. During that time we would learn a LOT about how it all worked, how to debug, how to program, etc, which has now lead me to a $75,000 a year job right out of college. People addicted to games like this today don't go through any of that, they just spend time in the game world and don't really learn much that translates into the real world...
But then again, it's their life and their choice.
The FCC isn't interested in increasing the number of radio stations out there. The RIAA doesn't want more broadcasters competing with them. What the government and big business want is as few channels and companies as possible so that they can have tighter and tighter control. For example, if you set up a pirate radio station (ie. you don't pay the FCC's fees), then the FCC will come and shut you down ASAP. This isn't because they're "protecting the airwaves", it's because you aren't paying them. It's been affordable to set up your own FM station for a long time, but the FCC's licenses are extremely high in order to keep normal people off the air.
I'm not sure about the actual numbers, but I think it's in the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to keep an FM music station on the air.
Travis
I've got a SBLive also, but it's now sitting in a box. I found that the Asus KT266E (I think) has an onboard sound card that sounds just as good as the live. IANAA (I am not an audiophile) though.
:)
Not THAT many people need dual nic's, most just connect dirrect or to a hub or DSL router.
I run out of slots by having: SCSII controller, two extra video cards (three monitors).
So yeah, even if they just added one more it would probably be nice, there's always more stuff to plug in that's cool
They just need to name it something catchy. Like the Death Tax. Until they named it that, it kept failing.
:)
The Patriot Act would not have passed if it hadn't been named the patriot act and been voted on at the time it was. I think the senators who wrote it should be brought up on Treason charges since they betrayed the American people.
Gosh, and I haven't even started drinking yet
Travis
Does Brin also go by Katz?
:)
Travis
3 pence dumbass, that's less than a US dollar. Please let me know where to find a 1GHz CPU for $1.
Travis
Not if the complaints are justified. If slashdot posted an email address and said "send emails to this guy to clog his inbox" then that would be an attack.
:)
A lot of it comes down to intent, and unfortunately I agree that lawyers and juries probably wouldn't understand the distinction without a good lawyer explaining it
Travis
Denial of Service attacks tend to use malformed packets and other malicious tricks. If your server has a web server on it, and it is merely responding to valid requests initiated by real individuals, that's not an attack that is trying to DoS the system. If, on the other hand, slashdot told everyone to send as many pings as possible, all at once, then that would be an attack.
A lot of people are confusing "Internet" with "Web". The Internet is the connections made between computers. This can happen on any port, any protocol. The Web is just data that comes from the Internet via HTTP. When you see a "pop-up" it is simply your web browser choosing to allow the web page to pop up a window.
So, the answers are (1) install a local firewall, don't allow odd connections (you may want to pay someone to administer your firewall), (2) Use a web browser that markets itself as a spam fighter (the closest now is a proxy such as WebWasher)
These two steps will make your internet use a far more enjoyable experience.
Travis
And eventually you end up in a shack in Montana.
What I would really like to see is more alternatives start up. For example, a co-op RIAA where non-corporate artists can go to get help with promotion and distribution of their music. Similarly, a co-op MPAA for non-corporate movies. The giants will hate that and try to shut them down through the legal system (as well as paying companies such as ClearChannel to specifically NOT play their music (thank you 1996 Comm Act) to force them out of the market.
Anyway, that's my hope. The tighter the corporate market gets, the more rebels will emerge.
Travis
Scheme #3: They're trying to "encourage" the bandwidth hogs to leave. If their network is overloaded then getting, say, 30% of their highest-usage-yet-lowest-paying customers to leave, and increasing the price for the 70% of those in the top 5%, would all add up. Their network gets less cluttered, and they're making more money. Sure they lose some users, but they make the call about who they want and don't want to do business with.
I'm waiting for the day when companies realize that their customers are more important than their dollars represent. What happened to keeping your buyers happy?
Travis
A good counterpoint would be the movie The Abyss (james cameron). In the theater release, it was just a fun movie that lacked any deep meaning. In the directors cut, 45 minutes of philosophical stuff was put back in which utterly changed the plot of the movie. In this case, the studios forced the director to remove all that because it wasn't as marketable in the theaters.
So, remember that the theater version is designed to make as much money in the opening weekend as possible, which means that it's the studios calling the shots, not the director.