Since the system was devised to counter the Slashdot effect, why don't we just use meta-bittorrents? Create a tarball of say 5000 torrents, and make one torrent of it...
For a while, the only freely available codec for Vorbis was floating point. However, there's been an integer decoder for a while (Tremor, IIRC), and it's now BSD-licensed.
AFAIC, that's bullshit. I re-encoded all my mp3s (mostly 100kbit VBRs) to quality-1 oggs with no detectable loss of sound quality, and a savings of about 25% on file size.
That is true... but I'll never write anything for Qt, even if given the choice between being electrocuted by my testicles and writing a fucking Qt app.;o)
I while back, I was going to write an Open-Source clone called GNAA (GNAA's Not Axis & Allies)... unfortunately, that banner's been taken over by a variety of crapflooders here...
Bad analogy. There is a difference between the medium and the content. However, with Freenet, you are effectively required to drive the getaway car for those who have committed actions you object to.
No other P2P system that I am aware of has that feature; while others may use KaZaa/Gnutella/OpenNap to transmit material that I wish to have no part of, I am not required to be an active participant in the exchange of said material.
Of course, if you do this, you no longer have deniability about the content of your node; you may have deleted the kiddie porn, but left the MP3's intact, which is still illegal, right?
However, how can anyone else (specifically the RIAA/MPAA) know that you decrypted the content and deleted stuff? If they can't prove that you did that, then they can't shoot down your plausible deniability defense (any more than they would be able to shoot it down otherwise).
Despite being a troll, a lot of great points are raised in Creepy Crawler's post. Far too many games are just "Let's take a crappy game and tack on enough sex that hormonally crazed teenage boys will buy it in hordes."
This is not to say that games with a sex component are ipso facto bad, but that you can't cover up for a lack of quality in the underlying game with sex. Now, if you've got quality, then sex is the icing on the cake.
All this brings to mind, though, the question of why you'd amp up the sex quotient on an XBox game... it's not like those controllers are really going to allow one-handed play!
Spamassassin supports Bayesian filtering (and IIRC, it also uses a Bayesian approach to tweak the values of its filters, which makes it more reliable than simple Bayesian approaches).
All you need to do is add a button that pipes the message into "sa-learn --spam --single".
The RIAA almost certainly does that already. It's not that difficult with Gnutella or similarly architected networks (hell, most Gnutella clients I've seen allow you to see what's being searched for).
The only problem with devfs (actually Mandrake's build of it) is that in current Cooker, there are unresolved symbols in pam that prevent devfsd from starting, which in turn prevents the init scripts from running. Booting in failsafe mode avoids this problem, but loses devfsd.
If Mandrake puts out a testing kernel, it will live in Mandrake Contribs (which aren't included on the CDs, generally), and will probably not even be included in contribs for the final version, but only track the Cooker development branch.
Same here. I've converted basically my whole family (except for my stepfather) to Opera. My younger stepbrother even uses Mandrake exclusively (except when he has to take his computer to his mother's, where he has to use Windows to get on AOL).
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How about distributing .torrents through, say, Gnutella? Hell, why not move .torrents to other infrastructures (IRC, Usenet, etc.)?
Since the system was devised to counter the Slashdot effect, why don't we just use meta-bittorrents? Create a tarball of say 5000 torrents, and make one torrent of it...
As iTunes is AAC (MPEG-4 audio) with DRM wrapped around it, I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to wrap DRM around Ogg.
For a while, the only freely available codec for Vorbis was floating point. However, there's been an integer decoder for a while (Tremor, IIRC), and it's now BSD-licensed.
AFAIC, that's bullshit. I re-encoded all my mp3s (mostly 100kbit VBRs) to quality-1 oggs with no detectable loss of sound quality, and a savings of about 25% on file size.
However, if you see someone get aboard your bus with guns, you are within your rights to deny them service.
That is true... but I'll never write anything for Qt, even if given the choice between being electrocuted by my testicles and writing a fucking Qt app. ;o)
I while back, I was going to write an Open-Source clone called GNAA (GNAA's Not Axis & Allies)... unfortunately, that banner's been taken over by a variety of crapflooders here...
Bad analogy. There is a difference between the medium and the content. However, with Freenet, you are effectively required to drive the getaway car for those who have committed actions you object to.
No other P2P system that I am aware of has that feature; while others may use KaZaa/Gnutella/OpenNap to transmit material that I wish to have no part of, I am not required to be an active participant in the exchange of said material.
However, how can anyone else (specifically the RIAA/MPAA) know that you decrypted the content and deleted stuff? If they can't prove that you did that, then they can't shoot down your plausible deniability defense (any more than they would be able to shoot it down otherwise).
A distributed crapflood... I got first non-GNAA post, and I was like the 40th post...
For the record, PD beat autopr0n, posting a JonKatz/Junis reference within a minute of my challengs.
Anybody who took the Under wins!
On how long before there's a JonKatz reference?
Despite being a troll, a lot of great points are raised in Creepy Crawler's post. Far too many games are just "Let's take a crappy game and tack on enough sex that hormonally crazed teenage boys will buy it in hordes."
This is not to say that games with a sex component are ipso facto bad, but that you can't cover up for a lack of quality in the underlying game with sex. Now, if you've got quality, then sex is the icing on the cake.
All this brings to mind, though, the question of why you'd amp up the sex quotient on an XBox game... it's not like those controllers are really going to allow one-handed play!
Seconded.
UMass uses this textbook, and it is most excellent. I still have my copy lying around.
Odd, in Boston most of the FM stations are .4 MHz apart...
The problem with US Cellular is that you've always gotta be worried about drunken baseball fans attacking you.
Spamassassin supports Bayesian filtering (and IIRC, it also uses a Bayesian approach to tweak the values of its filters, which makes it more reliable than simple Bayesian approaches).
All you need to do is add a button that pipes the message into "sa-learn --spam --single".
Most US universities close for the summer in May... UMass is generally a couple of weeks later than the rest, and I was out by the 20th.
Yes, there's summer semester, but that's generally not heavily residential.
The RIAA almost certainly does that already. It's not that difficult with Gnutella or similarly architected networks (hell, most Gnutella clients I've seen allow you to see what's being searched for).
The only problem with devfs (actually Mandrake's build of it) is that in current Cooker, there are unresolved symbols in pam that prevent devfsd from starting, which in turn prevents the init scripts from running. Booting in failsafe mode avoids this problem, but loses devfsd.
If Mandrake puts out a testing kernel, it will live in Mandrake Contribs (which aren't included on the CDs, generally), and will probably not even be included in contribs for the final version, but only track the Cooker development branch.
Web guy: What are the Mets?
User: Overpaid bums who always get injured and completely suck.
YANKEES SUCK!! YANKEES SUCK!!!
That's what he was saying, dumbass.
Same here. I've converted basically my whole family (except for my stepfather) to Opera. My younger stepbrother even uses Mandrake exclusively (except when he has to take his computer to his mother's, where he has to use Windows to get on AOL).