I guess you're talking about the extended mode, which makes it look a bit like a mail client (a left-over from its predecessor WinJab) ? You can turn it off permanently in the preferences to make Exodus look like a typical IM client. And it's the best one for Windows, IMHO.
Obviously, your node has to have some way of identifying the content of its datastore, right ? How are you going to answer requests from other nodes if it doesn't ? IIRC, files are requested by hashes or cryptographic keys. So if I have a key to a file I don't want on my computer, and my node is able to serve it from its own datastore, then it should be possible to remove it, no ? If this is a misunderstanding, please clear it up.
About the second point: yes, I was specifically talking about machines that are online 24/7. The last time I used it, there was no way to mark your own files as "do not purge". So what if they're not popular (at that time) ? If I want to keep them available, I shouldn't have to keep uploading them to my own damn datastore.
For most of the people who replied to my posting, free speech is apparently a black-and-white issue, but I think Freenet would be gaining more users if they would accept other views as well. I would be more than willing to dedicate bandwidth and storage to civil rights matters for example, but I absolutely don't want to be responsible for distributing MP3s for Nazi bands. And I'm not trying to force this on other people, this is just about my own datastore. There's a difference between banning and not participating in distribution.
"but then the (FBI/police/freemasons) could force you to use THEIR blacklists..."
I'd say if the police has that much power in your country, then they're probably just going to shut down your Freenet node.
My intention was not to discuss the limits or extent of speech under this topic. All I wanted to say is that the current model "all freedom for the producer of information, but none for the Freenet participant" is what is keeping me from contributing. And I guess I'm not the only one.
That's not how I understood it. AFAIK, everything disappears automatically if nobody requests it. Even your own files, because instead of sharing a folder, you upload stuff to your datastore, which is part of the distributed cache that is Freenet. Am I wrong ?
The idea of Freenet is really great, but there were two things in the implementation that really annoyed me:
1) I cannot control what is in my datastore. Free speech or not, I'm not going to cache your kiddieporn for you. So if I know that there's a file I don't want, give me a way to blacklist it. If it's encrypted then it's another story.
2) My files aren't shared permanently. If nobody requests the files I injected, they are thrown out after a while, even if my node is online 24/7. That's just plain stupid.
If I'm wrong or this has changed, please feel free to correct me.
Solaris with George Clooney (he doesn't seem to play a russian on top of that)
The Dead Zone with the nerd from The Breakfast Club replacing Christopher Walken. Ok, I haven't seen any of his other movies, and I can kinda see why they cast him. I guess we'll see...
Regarding The Italian Job: I wonder what they're going to replace the Minis with (which they're going to do, apparently). And letting Mark Wahlberg fill the footsteps of Michael Caine: yeah, that worked so well with Heston in Planet of the Apes, let's do it again ! The last time I was this irritated was when Alec Baldwin got to play Steve McQueen's part in The Getaway. The horror...
No kidding, the soundtrack is pretty much the 80s station from GTA3 !
And I thought that all the music was intentionally created as a parody...
Maybe they were able to license those tracks cheap because they are so crappy ?:)
And speaking of the GTA3 radio stations, they're one of best parts of the game IMHO, all the over-the-top station jingles and advertisements. The hilarious DJ personas (the pedophiliac running the classical station, the air-headed 80s chick, the homies on "Game Radio"). You can tell that a lot of work has been poured into this. And of course "Chatterbox", I could go on and on...
But that's obviously a side of the game the "anti-violence" crusaders will be unable/unwilling to see.
What actually happened is that they changed the text on the site, I saw both versions. Did you really believe he copied and pasted the site update, then edited out the word "server" ? This is really a new low in conspiracy theories...
So the platform name "Linux RH 7.1/SuSE 7.1 (x86/GTK 2)" was too ambiguous ? I guess that explains why it was so incredibly hard to find the 2.0 documentation and project plan on the site. </rant>
Why don't you just keep the new OpenSSL version ? If you don't have too much stuff that depends on OpenSSL, rebuilding some packages from SRPM shouldn't be a problem.
I'm not sure, but don't all the mod chips require a hacked Microsoft BIOS ? That might make selling them quite illegal. Except for openxbox.de, who are basically selling an empty mod chip that you can flash over the parallel port, IIRC.
About boycotting, the thought of letting Microsoft spend time and money to establish this nice fixed-spec PC all over the world and then releasing a Linux distribution for it, that would be just beautiful...
Odd, I installed the SRPM, changed all the necessary flags in the spec file and it compiled without a hitch. I do have an up-to-date OpenSSL library, though.
Did you read the article ? The part where it describes the per-user ID that is transmitted when requesting song or movie information was quite clear to me.
Of course, the ID and the information that is requested will never be linked...
Blimey, I'm sure lucky then to own one of the dozens of players that do exactly this, and it's just a cheapo Yamakawa player even. How would I be able to watch my RC1 discs otherwise ? (Region coding, who cares?)
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Years ago I saw an ad in a german magazine for a "color clock".
The clock face was 12 (or 6, I'm not sure) colored sectors and the hands were replaced by a disc with one sector cut out.
I thought it was a stupid idea. When someone asks for the time you'd answer "well, it's almost red, but we still have a bit of yellow left" ?
Four instances of people being hit with lawsuits for libel after criticising racist Bundesgrenzschutz actions. Although they shot themselves in the foot with the last one, since they apparently got a public grilling in court.:)
You won't find much about this in the mainstream news of course, too edgy.
So, should the BGS be able to single out persons based on race criteria ? Not in my opinion, since it is racist after all.
Is it legitimate because the U.S. customs police does the same ? Of course not.
My comment was only about the ever-emerging police state in Germany, but since you touched censorship as well:
Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better to have freedom of speech similar to the U.S., because then people wouldn't waste their time with petty things like censoring websites. Instead they would have to deal directly with the people who are trying to spread fascism, going after the cause, not the symptoms. Given the current bunch of politicians though, it could also horribly fail.
The Günther Grass incident is something that happens a lot, unfortunately. In the Third Reich you had to prove you're an Aryan. Today it can happen very quickly that you have to prove you're not a Nazi. Doesn't seem like much progress.
No kidding, the german Bundesgrenzschutz (translates pretty much to "border police", but that's probably not the same) likes to arrest and sue people for libel. Their definition of libel includes asking them whether they're checking that person because of skin color.
So yes, you are encouraged to stand up against racism, but not if practiced by the police.
As much as I am for full disclosure, it's highly unlikely that a malicious third party will find a way to exploit your seatbelts, so let's find another analogy.:)
Then you're going to like this:
The german interior minister is pursuing a plan to include your fingerprints on your ID card ! Plus more unspecified biometric data. You see, in the wake of 9/11 every german citizen is potentially a criminal, so you better have their fingerprints ready ! And that asshole still calls himself a social-democrat...
But I'm still undecided whether the crack-down on rave parties by the french government as an anti-terrorist measure is more loony.
Something I found even more amusing than the drooling over standard DVD features was the author's opinion on the documentary:
"... It is surprisingly honest and candid, with far more revealing moments than I ever anticipated. [...]
My greatest disappointment was Rick McCallum continually using curse words in the feature - directly contrary to the fanfare of TPM being a kid's movie and the like. Fortunately Lucasfilm did have the foresight to bleep most of the offending words, but it still detracted very much from an almost perfect documentary."
Surprised when your featurette turned out to be more of a documentary ?
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I guess you're talking about the extended mode, which makes it look a bit like a mail client (a left-over from its predecessor WinJab) ? You can turn it off permanently in the preferences to make Exodus look like a typical IM client. And it's the best one for Windows, IMHO.
I think I'm going to answer all replies in here:
Obviously, your node has to have some way of identifying the content of its datastore, right ? How are you going to answer requests from other nodes if it doesn't ? IIRC, files are requested by hashes or cryptographic keys. So if I have a key to a file I don't want on my computer, and my node is able to serve it from its own datastore, then it should be possible to remove it, no ? If this is a misunderstanding, please clear it up.
About the second point: yes, I was specifically talking about machines that are online 24/7. The last time I used it, there was no way to mark your own files as "do not purge". So what if they're not popular (at that time) ? If I want to keep them available, I shouldn't have to keep uploading them to my own damn datastore.
For most of the people who replied to my posting, free speech is apparently a black-and-white issue, but I think Freenet would be gaining more users if they would accept other views as well. I would be more than willing to dedicate bandwidth and storage to civil rights matters for example, but I absolutely don't want to be responsible for distributing MP3s for Nazi bands. And I'm not trying to force this on other people, this is just about my own datastore. There's a difference between banning and not participating in distribution.
"but then the (FBI/police/freemasons) could force you to use THEIR blacklists..."
I'd say if the police has that much power in your country, then they're probably just going to shut down your Freenet node.
My intention was not to discuss the limits or extent of speech under this topic. All I wanted to say is that the current model "all freedom for the producer of information, but none for the Freenet participant" is what is keeping me from contributing. And I guess I'm not the only one.
"nothing can ever be deleted from the FreeNet"
That's not how I understood it. AFAIK, everything disappears automatically if nobody requests it. Even your own files, because instead of sharing a folder, you upload stuff to your datastore, which is part of the distributed cache that is Freenet. Am I wrong ?
The idea of Freenet is really great, but there were two things in the implementation that really annoyed me:
1) I cannot control what is in my datastore. Free speech or not, I'm not going to cache your kiddieporn for you. So if I know that there's a file I don't want, give me a way to blacklist it. If it's encrypted then it's another story.
2) My files aren't shared permanently. If nobody requests the files I injected, they are thrown out after a while, even if my node is online 24/7. That's just plain stupid.
If I'm wrong or this has changed, please feel free to correct me.
If you just can't get enough of it, try this version.
More upcoming gems:
Solaris with George Clooney (he doesn't seem to play a russian on top of that)
The Dead Zone with the nerd from The Breakfast Club replacing Christopher Walken. Ok, I haven't seen any of his other movies, and I can kinda see why they cast him. I guess we'll see...
Regarding The Italian Job: I wonder what they're going to replace the Minis with (which they're going to do, apparently). And letting Mark Wahlberg fill the footsteps of Michael Caine: yeah, that worked so well with Heston in Planet of the Apes, let's do it again ! The last time I was this irritated was when Alec Baldwin got to play Steve McQueen's part in The Getaway. The horror...
Yeah, right.
No kidding, the soundtrack is pretty much the 80s station from GTA3 ! And I thought that all the music was intentionally created as a parody...
:)
Maybe they were able to license those tracks cheap because they are so crappy ?
And speaking of the GTA3 radio stations, they're one of best parts of the game IMHO, all the over-the-top station jingles and advertisements. The hilarious DJ personas (the pedophiliac running the classical station, the air-headed 80s chick, the homies on "Game Radio"). You can tell that a lot of work has been poured into this. And of course "Chatterbox", I could go on and on...
But that's obviously a side of the game the "anti-violence" crusaders will be unable/unwilling to see.
What actually happened is that they changed the text on the site, I saw both versions. Did you really believe he copied and pasted the site update, then edited out the word "server" ? This is really a new low in conspiracy theories...
GnuPG is partly backed by the german government:
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So the platform name "Linux RH 7.1/SuSE 7.1 (x86/GTK 2)" was too ambiguous ? I guess that explains why it was so incredibly hard to find the 2.0 documentation and project plan on the site.
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Why don't you just keep the new OpenSSL version ? If you don't have too much stuff that depends on OpenSSL, rebuilding some packages from SRPM shouldn't be a problem.
I'm not sure, but don't all the mod chips require a hacked Microsoft BIOS ? That might make selling them quite illegal. Except for openxbox.de, who are basically selling an empty mod chip that you can flash over the parallel port, IIRC.
About boycotting, the thought of letting Microsoft spend time and money to establish this nice fixed-spec PC all over the world and then releasing a Linux distribution for it, that would be just beautiful...
Odd, I installed the SRPM, changed all the necessary flags in the spec file and it compiled without a hitch. I do have an up-to-date OpenSSL library, though.
Did you read the article ? The part where it describes the per-user ID that is transmitted when requesting song or movie information was quite clear to me.
Of course, the ID and the information that is requested will never be linked...
Blimey, I'm sure lucky then to own one of the dozens of players that do exactly this, and it's just a cheapo Yamakawa player even. How would I be able to watch my RC1 discs otherwise ? (Region coding, who cares?)
"drauf" is colloquial german for "darauf"
...who doesn't take T seriously !
Years ago I saw an ad in a german magazine for a "color clock".
:)
The clock face was 12 (or 6, I'm not sure) colored sectors and the hands were replaced by a disc with one sector cut out.
I thought it was a stupid idea. When someone asks for the time you'd answer "well, it's almost red, but we still have a bit of yellow left" ?
Now a hexadecimal clock I'd buy immediately.
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Four instances of people being hit with lawsuits for libel after criticising racist Bundesgrenzschutz actions. Although they shot themselves in the foot with the last one, since they apparently got a public grilling in court. :)
You won't find much about this in the mainstream news of course, too edgy.
So, should the BGS be able to single out persons based on race criteria ? Not in my opinion, since it is racist after all.
Is it legitimate because the U.S. customs police does the same ? Of course not.
My comment was only about the ever-emerging police state in Germany, but since you touched censorship as well:
Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better to have freedom of speech similar to the U.S., because then people wouldn't waste their time with petty things like censoring websites. Instead they would have to deal directly with the people who are trying to spread fascism, going after the cause, not the symptoms. Given the current bunch of politicians though, it could also horribly fail.
The Günther Grass incident is something that happens a lot, unfortunately. In the Third Reich you had to prove you're an Aryan. Today it can happen very quickly that you have to prove you're not a Nazi. Doesn't seem like much progress.
No need to go back that far, this page is linked to right at the top of the release notes of the post-0.9.4 versions.
No kidding, the german Bundesgrenzschutz (translates pretty much to "border police", but that's probably not the same) likes to arrest and sue people for libel. Their definition of libel includes asking them whether they're checking that person because of skin color.
So yes, you are encouraged to stand up against racism, but not if practiced by the police.
As much as I am for full disclosure, it's highly unlikely that a malicious third party will find a way to exploit your seatbelts, so let's find another analogy. :)
Then you're going to like this:
The german interior minister is pursuing a plan to include your fingerprints on your ID card ! Plus more unspecified biometric data. You see, in the wake of 9/11 every german citizen is potentially a criminal, so you better have their fingerprints ready ! And that asshole still calls himself a social-democrat...
But I'm still undecided whether the crack-down on rave parties by the french government as an anti-terrorist measure is more loony.
"... It is surprisingly honest and candid, with far more revealing moments than I ever anticipated. [...] My greatest disappointment was Rick McCallum continually using curse words in the feature - directly contrary to the fanfare of TPM being a kid's movie and the like. Fortunately Lucasfilm did have the foresight to bleep most of the offending words, but it still detracted very much from an almost perfect documentary."
Surprised when your featurette turned out to be more of a documentary ?