If you are into Mormon pogroms, WordPerfect was based in Utah (Provo?) at least by the time of WP 5.1. So probably money from them went to the Mormon church (at least from the wages tenth). I don't know after they were bought by Corel. __
I have heard about Win2000 destroying OS/2 Boot Manager and Lilo if on the same disk on every boot, but I have heard it is not true as well. Then I have heard of tricks to circumvent.
Well, Manhattan is above its carrying capacity, Japanese cities are. That's why they import everything. The current distribution system enables that New-Yorkers and Japanese receive food, fuel, energy, and the rest and send the garbage elsewhere. And Ethiopia can't.
As I said, the land can produce more than enough to sustain the people, modulo the occasional drought, but also California and Japan are earthquake areas, and twisters frequently attack the Atlantic coast of the US.
You remembered me that the CNN commentator said that anyway lots more will die in Ethiopia from AIDS than from famine. __
The problem us not population growth. Remember, more people means more brains, more workforce (that's what open source is about, a surplus of people that can be directed to solve their problems, instead of trying to merely survive).
The problem is consumption growth.
India (which is leaving the third world in some aspects) has two?-fold the population of the US, but their pollution, imports, consumption is lesser. Who is burning oil into CO2? Not Burkina Faso, certainly.
I don't remebers the numbers, but the average American (and the Europeans and Japanese and me) is worth several tens of third-worlders in energy, oil and materials consumption?
There is a science-fiction story "Beggars in Spain" written by some woman, about genetical engineering to make people sleepless. They end being smarter, richer, better than we sleepers. Then there is persecution and a gap between subspecies. The story was extended with more volumes.
Anyway, you don't waste your sleeping time. Your brain processes your day (dreams). __
According to some Unicef data (no URL) I read, during the horrible Ethiopian famine (remember "We are the world"?), Ethiopia actually exported grain to pay for their foreign debt. I don't know about the current one (you know there are people dying from hunger in Ethiopia now, don't you?), but I heard a CARE man on CNN that the country managed to increase food production and depend less on imports. Thus they stood longer, but not enough.
Food donation and these patches can help in emergencies (Mozambique), but they will not solve the world food problem. Food produced in the 1st world (powder milk!) makes third world dependent of big companies. As the worthy anonymous I am answering to says, the Earth produces more than enough to feed mankind. It's the current economical and political organization that makes the distribution so unfair. __
SciTech has been contracted by IBM to make a "light" version of their drivers, so that IBM can take developers off video card support. I have heard good things about performance, but it could be because the previous IBM or manufacturer drivers were worse or just the switch to the newer GRADD driver model. Meanwhile, Scitech keeps improving a beta OS/2 version of their commercial "full" drivers __
And how will this freenet help those oppressed people. What's to stop those evil governments or corporations or whatever from making managing any freenet node illegal? __
RISKS postings (web archive and Usenet are about the risks of computers. They are a good source for anechdotes on funny or scaring uses and misuses of cryptography. __
I know that http://www.slashdot.org/ gives me the latest version of Slashdot (modulo net delay).
But in Freenet, any dynamically generated document would have to have a different and cumbersome name for each generation. This makes impractical to publish dynamically on Freenet, isn't it? __
Some things should be censored, and I'm not talking about the bluebox plans. Nazi sites for example may need some form of censorship, I'm afraid the whole freenet thing could become a nazi haven
Including "nazi" in a discussion is not very welcome. Somebody could link to that Usenet law "Mixing the nazis in any discussion is the best way to stop any intelligent treatment". Anyway, if you think that there should be limits to freedom of speech, then Freenet is not for you. That's a fact.
Besides, my current view is that you combat bad speech with good speech, not with censorship, but I may be wrong. __
Well, in my understanding, if Spam Inc. puts 2000 MB of garbage into Freenet, if that garbage is not demanded it would be only stored once and not replicated, and if it is demanded, it is not garbage. Then maybe a programmed decay or node faults without backup would remove randomly information scarcely stored.
Since It will be virtually impossible to forcibly remove a piece of information from Freenet, if a Trojan horse manages to run in my system and it is programmed to silently broadcast sensible information (my/etc/password, email directory,...) on the Freenet filesystem, any attacker can read this information from anywhere in the world without anybody knowing who was the perpetrator. In current schemes, the Trojan sends the info to somewhere and you can watch this somewhere and deduce who gets profit from this.
From what I read, in Freenet storage is unlimited but the scarce resource is URLs, names, URIs or whatever you call them.
How do you organize so that interesting documents have a name like "GNU license" instead of "/software/free/GNU/GPL/COPYING" because some decided that it would be funny to post a blank pixel with the name "GNU license"? How do you avoid that "the good name are all taken"? __
You say that Freenet can people freedom of speech.
Let's imagine a country with an authoritarian and powerful enough government (suppose that penguins carry red flags there:) ). Freedom of speech is not a right in this country.
How would you justify using Freenet in this country for ~good~ uses so that this government don't decide to make a crime to be a Freenet node? I mean, in the ~free~ world:), if they find you using Freenet, you can always plead freedom of speech or not knowing what is passing through the server, but there are places where this is useless __
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If you are into Mormon pogroms, WordPerfect was based in Utah (Provo?) at least by the time of WP 5.1. So probably money from them went to the Mormon church (at least from the wages tenth). I don't know after they were bought by Corel.
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I have heard about Win2000 destroying OS/2 Boot Manager and Lilo if on the same disk on every boot, but I have heard it is not true as well.
:)
Then I have heard of tricks to circumvent.
You'd better check somedbody else
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There is an equivalent API: DIVE (Direct Interface to Video Extensions) but I can't compare both.
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Umm. So you think the world would be better if Gates dies?
Ms Reno, have you thought of this? }:)
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Well, Manhattan is above its carrying capacity, Japanese cities are.
That's why they import everything. The current distribution system enables that New-Yorkers and Japanese receive food, fuel, energy, and the rest and send the garbage elsewhere. And Ethiopia can't.
As I said, the land can produce more than enough to sustain the people, modulo the occasional drought, but also California and Japan are earthquake areas, and twisters frequently attack the Atlantic coast of the US.
You remembered me that the CNN commentator said that anyway lots more will die in Ethiopia from AIDS than from famine.
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The problem us not population growth. Remember, more people means more brains, more workforce (that's what open source is about, a surplus of people that can be directed to solve their problems, instead of trying to merely survive).
The problem is consumption growth.
India (which is leaving the third world in some aspects) has two?-fold the population of the US, but their pollution, imports, consumption is lesser.
Who is burning oil into CO2? Not Burkina Faso, certainly.
I don't remebers the numbers, but the average American (and the Europeans and Japanese and me) is worth several tens of third-worlders in energy, oil and materials consumption?
Who should try to restrain themselves?
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There is a science-fiction story "Beggars in Spain" written by some woman, about genetical engineering to make people sleepless. They end being smarter, richer, better than we sleepers. Then there is persecution and a gap between subspecies. The story was extended with more volumes.
Anyway, you don't waste your sleeping time. Your brain processes your day (dreams).
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According to some Unicef data (no URL) I read, during the horrible Ethiopian famine (remember "We are the world"?), Ethiopia actually exported grain to pay for their foreign debt.
I don't know about the current one (you know there are people dying from hunger in Ethiopia now, don't you?), but I heard a CARE man on CNN that the country managed to increase food production and depend less on imports. Thus they stood longer, but not enough.
Food donation and these patches can help in emergencies (Mozambique), but they will not solve the world food problem.
Food produced in the 1st world (powder milk!) makes third world dependent of big companies.
As the worthy anonymous I am answering to says, the Earth produces more than enough to feed mankind. It's the current economical and political organization that makes the distribution so unfair.
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SciTech has been contracted by IBM to make a "light" version of their drivers, so that IBM can take developers off video card support.
I have heard good things about performance, but it could be because the previous IBM or manufacturer drivers were worse or just the switch to the newer GRADD driver model.
Meanwhile, Scitech keeps improving a beta OS/2 version of their commercial "full" drivers
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And how will this freenet help those oppressed people. What's to stop those evil governments or corporations or whatever from making managing any freenet node illegal?
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There was a free OS/2 version of StarOffice 5.1, Sun modified changed the labels and 5.1a came.
Now they dropped OS/2 support.
Easy come, easy gone.
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RISKS postings (web archive and Usenet are about the risks of computers. They are a good source for anechdotes on funny or scaring uses and misuses of cryptography.
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That post was a reply to an anonymous post.
You are reading threaded. It's the first post of the thread what sets the order.
Don't get paranoid.
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Does Freenet make a good PGP public key storage?
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Is it possible to measure the popularity or difussion of a Freenet document?
Maybe sampling time to reception from widely-sparse nodes?
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Suppose that, for some reason, you decide that Freenet is a bad idea and you want to kill the project.
Given it is free software and the current state of the development, could you stop it? Could anybody? And a natural disaster?
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FreeNet is free software.
How do you pay your bills?
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I know that http://www.slashdot.org/ gives me the latest version of Slashdot (modulo net delay).
But in Freenet, any dynamically generated document would have to have a different and cumbersome name for each generation. This makes impractical to publish dynamically on Freenet, isn't it?
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Once some info enters Freenet, nobody can control it.
Do you value privacy?
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Another difference of Freenet from HTTP is resistence to damage through replication.
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Including "nazi" in a discussion is not very welcome. Somebody could link to that Usenet law "Mixing the nazis in any discussion is the best way to stop any intelligent treatment".
Anyway, if you think that there should be limits to freedom of speech, then Freenet is not for you. That's a fact.
Besides, my current view is that you combat bad speech with good speech, not with censorship, but I may be wrong.
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Well, in my understanding, if Spam Inc. puts 2000 MB of garbage into Freenet, if that garbage is not demanded it would be only stored once and not replicated, and if it is demanded, it is not garbage.
Then maybe a programmed decay or node faults without backup would remove randomly information scarcely stored.
Innit?
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Since It will be virtually impossible to forcibly remove a piece of information from Freenet, if a Trojan horse manages to run in my system and it is programmed to silently broadcast sensible information (my /etc/password, email directory,...) on the Freenet filesystem, any attacker can read this information from anywhere in the world without anybody knowing who was the perpetrator.
In current schemes, the Trojan sends the info to somewhere and you can watch this somewhere and deduce who gets profit from this.
Is there some provision against this?
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From what I read, in Freenet storage is unlimited but the scarce resource is URLs, names, URIs or whatever you call them.
How do you organize so that interesting documents have a name like "GNU license" instead of "/software/free/GNU/GPL/COPYING" because some decided that it would be funny to post a blank pixel with the name "GNU license"?
How do you avoid that "the good name are all taken"?
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You say that Freenet can people freedom of speech.
:) ). Freedom of speech is not a right in this country.
:), if they find you using Freenet, you can always plead freedom of speech or not knowing what is passing through the server, but there are places where this is useless
Let's imagine a country with an authoritarian and powerful enough government (suppose that penguins carry red flags there
How would you justify using Freenet in this country for ~good~ uses so that this government don't decide to make a crime to be a Freenet node?
I mean, in the ~free~ world
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