It seems they want to dismiss the crack pretty fast because they don't want people to know that every so often they might have to buy a new device to play their old content.
I (am starting to) think this whole thing has nothing to do with piracy, it only is going to exist to sell more hardware devices - making old systems no good, and your recordings also no good.
I always just leave my searches "open" in Gnucleus (IMHO the best) and my search just grows and grows.
It's great for when you are looking for seasons and not just episodes of your favorite shows to archive.
Say for example, I want to get divx copies of the Friends episodes my girlfriend has on tape, I simply just search Friends AVI and leave it open. All the time it finds new hosts, and even gives me more places to download my existing selections from.
This is true... sometimes I get *excited* when I type and things flow out.
If they do go out of business we may be in trouble... or it may open their wires up to smaller start-ups.
Of course there is always the chance that someone like AT&T will buy their lines and charge more than they do...
Hopefully they can get out of this mess for internet users' sake and not for the sake of their shareholders. A delay in internet services because there is problems changing the ownership of the backbones will hurt everyone's stocks.
There has been many news reports that _WE_ (U.S. companies) have been gouging them for years, charging more than what we should, simply because they have no other choice.
We are taking advantage of the fact that there isn't many choices to go with. Soon enough though someone else will come along and tell them: "you are paying too much" and steal our lucrative, and maybe illegal practice.
well, i'm guessing it would be a hard task unless they simply give a hash that doesn't fit the file... at that point my client can check it against the hash and flag it 'wrong hash' or 'incomplete' or 'crap'...
just a thought, i'm no genius, just suggesting the work around.
I also remember that we are charging Africa like 3 times the amount they should be paying for linking up with our wires. (don't know the exact number/figure/percentage so I'm sorry if I'm wrong) There is profit being made.
Simply, if I was selling crack.. and everyone wanted it I would certainly be getting more with some of my profits and not just jacking up the price without trying to fill the gap.
If they aren't going to balance the two, then they are simply gouging. You don't have to spend all of your profit on more cables but please don't just roll in it... bastards in business suits.
Your p2p application (which supports metadata, hashes etc) will wait to add a downloaded file to the "shared" section until after you view it.
This would cut down on some short divx'd files (which won't play "out of the box") bogus mp3 files (overpeer) and whatever else.
A system which flags files as "ok" could come under attack because overpeer could just flag their files "ok" as well.
The system I suggested above would only of course work with files downloaded, not files you have existing on your computer. Of course through the hash system you could be verified against other people.
Overpeer... create mp3's backwards from one-way hashes! Good luck you bastards!
Considering we already have hash systems in Gnutella apps... they can suck me.
I wouldn't think peole using more bandwidth would make the prices go up, I would think that it is the companies that don't use their profits to lay more cable.
Supply and demand. Demand went up the first day someone got DSL/Cable. Question is when did the supply?
Worldcomm didn't go out of business because everyone is downloading porn. It did because some companies, like them, are shady.
Actually I think the supply is there - it's just being controlled liked the oil cartel.
Space could provide a new rain of resources, or it could bankrupt us. But its habitation does offer two other advantages. The first: internation cooperation. No single nation can afford the price of extraterrestial development. To turn the wastelands of asteroids and planets into lands of plenty would involve consortia including Russia, Europe, and Japan. Those partnerships are already under development, though too often we are not involved in them.......... -Howard Bloom, The Lucifer Principle (Chapter:Tennis Time And The Mental Clock)
We are already getting behind, and space could be the one thing that would bring this planet's superpowers together.
Another quote:
The second, and perhaps more important advantage of following in the footsteps of Captain Kirk: man has as yet invented no way to prevent war. We have found no method for shaking the consequences of our biological curse, our animal brain's addiction to violence. We cannot free ourselves from our nature as cells in a superorganismic beast constantly driven to pecking order tournaments with its neighbors. We have found no technique for evading the fact that those competitions are all too often deadly." -Howard Bloom, The Lucifer Principle (Chapter:Tennis Time And The Mental Clock)
Either a threat of thermonuclear war (as Sagan, Erhard, B.Fuller thought) will bring us together or space exploration will.
Simply the bigger picture is that this is the bigger picture.
It is our destiny to return to space, the place from which we came when we were just particles....
The point is they want to do it. The 'nauts realize that there are dangers involved, and maybe their 'nauts aren't such pussies. (I guess it's like being a police/fire person.)
I would take the mission (if I could get over the initial launch, but that is another thing...) at the risk of my life. To have the remote chance that you are the first would be great in it's own right.
Our politicians just don't want to take the risk as well.
I'm sure they have 6 billion somewhere... plus they do have lots of military technology laying around to sell to lots of nations - maybe even the U.S.A.
It was actually nice when playing games online like Phantasy Star Online because you could tell someone in Spain (for example, likely Japan) to join you back at 234 and they didn't have to convert anything or ask "your time or mine?".
You would be suprised how this would help people here in the USA because once on IRC it took me 45 minutes to individually tell people what time we meant by 9 o'clock.
But I think this "metric" system stinks. Swatch time was "cool"... but just that, cool.
Exactly. Considering the times are based on natural events it should stay that way.
"Well... it's been only one day but my watch says 1.2314. I'm glad we switched to this new version of time!"
Don't go screwing with a good thing. The time system we have now is somewhat an average of what ancient astronomy has come up with... it's worked pretty good so far.
There is always the option to not let it update.... that is usually the most secure.
The thing that bothers me is that my software firewall never asked to access the net to update the time. Of course it's because the core OS parts are all or nothing when it comes to internet access....
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It seems they want to dismiss the crack pretty fast because they don't want people to know that every so often they might have to buy a new device to play their old content.
I (am starting to) think this whole thing has nothing to do with piracy, it only is going to exist to sell more hardware devices - making old systems no good, and your recordings also no good.
Well, maybe the wave of the future won't be "GPL" but "FDL"
We somehow opened the world of information to us with the internet but now it's going to be closed to a pin-hole size.
Was this about Kermit or Junkmail?
I always just leave my searches "open" in Gnucleus (IMHO the best) and my search just grows and grows.
It's great for when you are looking for seasons and not just episodes of your favorite shows to archive.
Say for example, I want to get divx copies of the Friends episodes my girlfriend has on tape, I simply just search Friends AVI and leave it open. All the time it finds new hosts, and even gives me more places to download my existing selections from.
Well, look at this too: Dreamcast vs. PS2
Although it is harder to find the broadband adapter. But getting a DC for ~$50 brings the price to $150, plus no mod chip.
Many clients (not all of course) are configured against "greedy" users so everything downloaded would be put into the shared section automatically.
This started with napster and is present on everything I've used.
This is true... sometimes I get *excited* when I type and things flow out.
If they do go out of business we may be in trouble... or it may open their wires up to smaller start-ups.
Of course there is always the chance that someone like AT&T will buy their lines and charge more than they do...
Hopefully they can get out of this mess for internet users' sake and not for the sake of their shareholders. A delay in internet services because there is problems changing the ownership of the backbones will hurt everyone's stocks.
There has been many news reports that _WE_ (U.S. companies) have been gouging them for years, charging more than what we should, simply because they have no other choice.
We are taking advantage of the fact that there isn't many choices to go with. Soon enough though someone else will come along and tell them: "you are paying too much" and steal our lucrative, and maybe illegal practice.
As I've already replied to another comment: my client would realize the hash doesn't fit the file.
/dev/null or "Recycle Bin"
/.'s filter will take it---
Then it would go the way of
---I've got to add this so
As I've already replied to another comment: my client would realize the hash doesn't fit the file.
/dev/null or "Recycle Bin"
Then it would go the way of
well, i'm guessing it would be a hard task unless they simply give a hash that doesn't fit the file... at that point my client can check it against the hash and flag it 'wrong hash' or 'incomplete' or 'crap'...
just a thought, i'm no genius, just suggesting the work around.
I was kind of joking.
They do have nuclear bombs... maybe they have come up with a nifty way to use those to get to the moon.
Thank you.
I also remember that we are charging Africa like 3 times the amount they should be paying for linking up with our wires. (don't know the exact number/figure/percentage so I'm sorry if I'm wrong) There is profit being made.
Simply, if I was selling crack.. and everyone wanted it I would certainly be getting more with some of my profits and not just jacking up the price without trying to fill the gap.
If they aren't going to balance the two, then they are simply gouging. You don't have to spend all of your profit on more cables but please don't just roll in it... bastards in business suits.
awww shut up, my linux machine doesn't even have a monitor hooked up to it.
I've got yet another work around suggestion.
Your p2p application (which supports metadata, hashes etc) will wait to add a downloaded file to the "shared" section until after you view it.
This would cut down on some short divx'd files (which won't play "out of the box") bogus mp3 files (overpeer) and whatever else.
A system which flags files as "ok" could come under attack because overpeer could just flag their files "ok" as well.
The system I suggested above would only of course work with files downloaded, not files you have existing on your computer. Of course through the hash system you could be verified against other people.
Overpeer... create mp3's backwards from one-way hashes! Good luck you bastards!
Considering we already have hash systems in Gnutella apps... they can suck me.
I wouldn't think peole using more bandwidth would make the prices go up, I would think that it is the companies that don't use their profits to lay more cable.
Supply and demand. Demand went up the first day someone got DSL/Cable. Question is when did the supply?
Worldcomm didn't go out of business because everyone is downloading porn. It did because some companies, like them, are shady.
Actually I think the supply is there - it's just being controlled liked the oil cartel.
We are already getting behind, and space could be the one thing that would bring this planet's superpowers together.
Another quote:
Either a threat of thermonuclear war (as Sagan, Erhard, B.Fuller thought) will bring us together or space exploration will.
Simply the bigger picture is that this is the bigger picture.
It is our destiny to return to space, the place from which we came when we were just particles....
I don't think that is the point.
The point is they want to do it. The 'nauts realize that there are dangers involved, and maybe their 'nauts aren't such pussies. (I guess it's like being a police/fire person.)
I would take the mission (if I could get over the initial launch, but that is another thing...) at the risk of my life. To have the remote chance that you are the first would be great in it's own right.
Our politicians just don't want to take the risk as well.
I'm sure they have 6 billion somewhere... plus they do have lots of military technology laying around to sell to lots of nations - maybe even the U.S.A.
It was actually nice when playing games online like Phantasy Star Online because you could tell someone in Spain (for example, likely Japan) to join you back at 234 and they didn't have to convert anything or ask "your time or mine?".
You would be suprised how this would help people here in the USA because once on IRC it took me 45 minutes to individually tell people what time we meant by 9 o'clock.
But I think this "metric" system stinks. Swatch time was "cool"... but just that, cool.
Why do nerds have to screw up everything for everyone else?
I just don't get it. VCR programming now this.
Exactly. Considering the times are based on natural events it should stay that way.
"Well... it's been only one day but my watch says 1.2314. I'm glad we switched to this new version of time!"
Don't go screwing with a good thing. The time system we have now is somewhat an average of what ancient astronomy has come up with... it's worked pretty good so far.
At the risk of being a troll I thought this was cooler
Shows the step by step process of the 9/11 attacks.
There is always the option to not let it update.... that is usually the most secure.
The thing that bothers me is that my software firewall never asked to access the net to update the time. Of course it's because the core OS parts are all or nothing when it comes to internet access....
No, IE shows code which is just ghey.... who wants to go surfing the net reading HTML the whole time?