1) Arrogant prick? How? My "cheap ass" comment? It was a joke. Or was it calling 800mhz slow? It doesn't matter if you're still using 100mhz systems, the fact is, by today's standards that is slow.
2) Sounds like you have some real issues with the OSS hivemind (I guess there is one, you refer to it as if it is a single entity), go take them up with that...not me.
The fact is, Mozilla/Firefox (largely Firefox recently) is gaining ground on IE. Free software advocate or not, that is a *good thing*.
Whatever though, I'm sure something I said in that post offended you or someone else.
You've got a system problem. I've NEVER had FF take 10 seconds to load (except the first time on profile creation) and that's systems as slow as 800mhz.
Well, it works great for me. Tops out my downstream connection regularly (300 to 400kbps...supposed to be 300 but I do get over that often).
The tracker just needs to be well managed like empornium where if you don't keep your ratios up you'll be disabled. It encourages people to upload more. Most ISO torrents I've found give me pretty good speeds too.
Funny you should mention specs like that.....I just got done developing a web app that meets just those requirements (except multiple search criteria are limited to AND only...no OR/NOT) for any dataset.
If you'd like to look at it (I've got no problem sharing code/ideas...I don't work for a corporate outfit) shoot me an email myth @ my homepage minus www.
I've used allofmp3.com. It works great. Have spent over $120 there in the past several months. Have around 8 gigs of music from them. (Some I have deleted for various reasons).
They recently upp'ed their price though. It's now 2cent per meg instead of 1cent per meg. No biggie really.
That sentence* was worded poorly. I should have turned it around. Those with something to hide (terrorists for example, since that's who they want to snoop on) are in many (most?) cases already encrypting their communications in such a manner. Those usenet posts like I posted above give any group of individuals both security and anonymity when communicating.
We're talking about two different things here. I'm talking about the futility of large scale internet wiretapping....you're talking about privacy as a right. I agree with what you're saying, I'm just trying to make a different point.
Mankind is going to use that excuse until encryption is completely transparent. You can't make mankind as a whole less more informed....so encryption can't be something they have to go out and do...it has to be done for them.
Hopefully the next generation of IM clients and email protocol (if we ever replace what we have...) will come with a PGP style encryption built in. (Why, oh why was this not part of the Jabber spec?) If it's transparent enough to the user then they will use it and not even need to know.
* - I realized this after I typed it, but it was too late once I posted it. I certainly don't mean that anyone who uses encryption is suspicious. Only those who DO have something to hide AND have the know-how (terrorists and other organizations) (it's not THAT hard) are more than likely already doing it.
Wait....so are you saying that just because there's a computer in the car that doesn't mean that the entire car can be controlled remotely??? Sir, I don't think you watch enough movies. Not nearly enough.
True, but my point was that there ARE people using it to communicate NOW. These people are the ones with something to hide (like you said, most normal people don't encrypt their communications) and their communications can't be sniffed. So monitoring the internet is already a futile attempt.
However, SIMP from Secway is a relatively easy (read: transparent once it's setup) to use product to encrypt your IMs if you're overly paranoid.
I'm not worried about John User. Everyone: you, me, John User, etc.. have 3 options:
1) Not give a shit about the feds monitoring everything you do.
2) Lobby to enact laws to prevent this (or repeal the ones that allow it)
3) Prevent it from working (until said prevention is illegal).
All 3 are feasible, of course #2 is the hardest and #1 is the most common.
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Because all the pop culture kiddies read hacker stories?
What are you talking about?
1) Arrogant prick? How? My "cheap ass" comment? It was a joke. Or was it calling 800mhz slow? It doesn't matter if you're still using 100mhz systems, the fact is, by today's standards that is slow.
2) Sounds like you have some real issues with the OSS hivemind (I guess there is one, you refer to it as if it is a single entity), go take them up with that...not me.
The fact is, Mozilla/Firefox (largely Firefox recently) is gaining ground on IE. Free software advocate or not, that is a *good thing*.
Whatever though, I'm sure something I said in that post offended you or someone else.
Except that the person I was replying to was referring to a 1ghz system.
Sorry if I offended your cheap-ass though....=P
You've got a system problem. I've NEVER had FF take 10 seconds to load (except the first time on profile creation) and that's systems as slow as 800mhz.
Got 64 megs of RAM on that thing maybe?
Perhaps we shouldn't let them run faster than the other players too? Or not have any better reflexes.
Well, it works great for me. Tops out my downstream connection regularly (300 to 400kbps...supposed to be 300 but I do get over that often).
The tracker just needs to be well managed like empornium where if you don't keep your ratios up you'll be disabled. It encourages people to upload more. Most ISO torrents I've found give me pretty good speeds too.
Yes.
No one says that about their beta software (which is what Firefox 0.9.3 is)
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Yea, damn Canadians. At least loyalty still means something in America.
Anarchist government? That's an oxymoron, no?
Funny you should mention specs like that.....I just got done developing a web app that meets just those requirements (except multiple search criteria are limited to AND only...no OR/NOT) for any dataset.
If you'd like to look at it (I've got no problem sharing code/ideas...I don't work for a corporate outfit) shoot me an email myth @ my homepage minus www.
I often find useful information on forums myself....
Besides, as another poster mentioned, forums != blogs
What the hell happened to that link? Are you missing some keys?
Yea...it's strange like that. You can talk about a TV show, but when you try to talk to someone about a forum discussion they just look at you weird.
Or is it just me?
I think you're at the wrong website, sir.
I've used allofmp3.com. It works great. Have spent over $120 there in the past several months. Have around 8 gigs of music from them. (Some I have deleted for various reasons).
They recently upp'ed their price though. It's now 2cent per meg instead of 1cent per meg. No biggie really.
It's not our fault those Iraqis were on our land before we got there.
Here's a interesting thread on just how legit this company is....
(read the last page)
http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?threadid=770
That sentence* was worded poorly. I should have turned it around. Those with something to hide (terrorists for example, since that's who they want to snoop on) are in many (most?) cases already encrypting their communications in such a manner. Those usenet posts like I posted above give any group of individuals both security and anonymity when communicating.
We're talking about two different things here. I'm talking about the futility of large scale internet wiretapping....you're talking about privacy as a right. I agree with what you're saying, I'm just trying to make a different point.
Mankind is going to use that excuse until encryption is completely transparent. You can't make mankind as a whole less more informed....so encryption can't be something they have to go out and do...it has to be done for them.
Hopefully the next generation of IM clients and email protocol (if we ever replace what we have...) will come with a PGP style encryption built in. (Why, oh why was this not part of the Jabber spec?) If it's transparent enough to the user then they will use it and not even need to know.
* - I realized this after I typed it, but it was too late once I posted it. I certainly don't mean that anyone who uses encryption is suspicious. Only those who DO have something to hide AND have the know-how (terrorists and other organizations) (it's not THAT hard) are more than likely already doing it.
Wait....so are you saying that just because there's a computer in the car that doesn't mean that the entire car can be controlled remotely??? Sir, I don't think you watch enough movies. Not nearly enough.
True, but my point was that there ARE people using it to communicate NOW. These people are the ones with something to hide (like you said, most normal people don't encrypt their communications) and their communications can't be sniffed. So monitoring the internet is already a futile attempt.
However, SIMP from Secway is a relatively easy (read: transparent once it's setup) to use product to encrypt your IMs if you're overly paranoid.
I'm not worried about John User. Everyone: you, me, John User, etc.. have 3 options:
1) Not give a shit about the feds monitoring everything you do.
2) Lobby to enact laws to prevent this (or repeal the ones that allow it)
3) Prevent it from working (until said prevention is illegal).
All 3 are feasible, of course #2 is the hardest and #1 is the most common.
Monitoring this .......
Unfortunately, "could care less" is somewhat more common according to according to google....
It is, but you'd be suprised how many times people screw it up.