Here is a pretty darn good example of why elected officials are bad. An excerpt from the article on Salon reads:
"Karl Auerbach, a board member-elect of ICANN, said he was worried that the routers controlling the flow of data through the Internet would crash when the new characters are introduced."
I don't know about you, but this is like saying that your radio would crash if it picked up a Korean broadcast. Where oh where do they find these people? Oh wait, he was elected by a vote of the people.
Why not just offer up a position on the board to the top three people graduating from a CS class at a reputable school every year? Then you are bound to get fresh ideas, and you should get people that have half a clue.
Hmm, I wonder if you could use something like moderation points. The more points people give you by downloading your files, the more points you have to spend downloading from other people. It wouldn't be automatic either, if someone downloads a file from you, and it sucks, they don't have to give you a point.
Perhaps Gnutella and the like need some way to dynamically enable uploads. Maybe something as simple as checking to see how busy your pipe has been for the last half hour, and if it has been idle then open the floodgates.
This sort of thing will do much better once there are some widespread industry standards on bandwidth shaping. It would be great if there was a way to keep a certain portion of your pipe open for critical traffic, and let the rest be used for whatever. Unfortunately that requires the ISP to coordinate and cooperate with the end user. Yeah, that'll happen.
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You notice the 12 year olds more for the same reason that you notice and remember the car that cut you off this morning on the way to work. You'll remember that jerk in the red mustang far longer than the other thousand cars you passed on the way in.
I've played a number of MMRPGs, and there are a lot of the jokers that you are talking about, though I don't believe they are in any way the majority. They just tend to make the most noise and so are more memorable, like Pat Robertson or Rush Limbaugh.
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Don't be a dumbass. Porn doesn't destroy marriages, people that can't control their own behavior do. I suppose you believe guns kill too???
What I want to know is, why? What the hell difference does it make? Are they just pissed because someone is making a profit off of their work? Why don't they sell them then? It isn't like you can buy all the notes and then buy a Stanford degree, you still have to pay the tuitiona and get the grades.
So if I delay making the notes until after class, are those free for distribution? How many times do I have to rewrite them before they are mine and only mine?
I have this sinking feeling that the stated objectives of carnivore are not the end goal here. I am curious if Carnivore could in fact me a means for the federal government to essentially put an "on/off" switch at every major traffic distribution point in U.S., with the intent that someday when the need presents itself, any and/or all of these points can very quickly be shut off.
Is Carnivore really a way for the federal government to attempt to put into place a means to shut down the Internet on a large scale when it suits their purpose?
This would be great for something like visualization of network traffic and perhaps for security analysis. The ability to turn raw IP address, ports, time, and amount of data into something visual would be phenomenal. It is done to a limited extent today, but I think this would provide a much needed new light on the subject.
I remember seeing something on beyond 2000 a while back about a security organization somewhere in Europe that was developing a method of analyzing data by creating an interconnected 3D mesh of objects. The display was on a flatpanel of course, this would make something like that much more useful.
My thoughts exactly. If we can build something like a space tether, I imagine we can just build a sea-floor tether, and slap a platform somewhere above sea level.
Look ma, internationwal waters. The biggest navy owns me.
Religious stuff non commercial? What world are you living in? Check out how much stuff the Mormons own sometime. Organized religion is nothing more than a business, supported by weak minded folk in search of a crutch.
They didn't say they wanted to hack through firewalls, just not be detected by them. There is a big difference. If you are reaching out and touching tcp port 80 on a webserver, to see if it is there, you probably won't get noticed by a firewall, it is when you do it to 254 different addresses that you might raise an eyebrow (though unlikely with current network security skillsets). He wants to be able to do just that, reach out and verify that there is something there without anyone knowing (this can be extended to include traceroutes and other mapping techniques). Not exactly cracking into a site if you ask me.
I must be missing something. I fail to see how this will prevent duplication of the music/text/whatever. At some point in your device you have to produce output, that output can't be encrypted, or you wouldn't be able to understand it. So at the very least, you should be able to tap into the data stream, say where it enters the sound card, and gain access to the unencrypted format.
What makes you think it would only cost him 50k to move it to Mexico? I bet that wouldn't even begin to cover the bribes and payoffs to get it in the country. Then once he was there, I can only imagine how many "officials" from the Mexican Space Agency he would run into that require a small fee for their approval.
Yeah, moving it to Mexico sounds like a great idea.
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Yeah, I think we will see something come down the road soon. You can almost cobble one together now, a video capture card (ATI all in wonder or something), IBM 75 gig drive, and an X10 DVD anywhere setup. With that hardware you should be able to accomplish the same thing that the TIVO is doing, all you need now is for someone to set up some service on the web that can pull channel information for your location's broadcast/cable/satellite/... services.
You don't really need the X10 stuff, though I don't really want my computer sitting next to my TV in the living room.
Anyways, the pieces are there, someone just needs to write the software.
Has anyone noticed that there is an entirely different culture out there when comparing the folks that code for M$ vs. NIX? It is kinda tough to pinpoint, but one example that sticks in my head is the first time I checked out TUCOWS. I was used to Freshmeat, and man what a difference. It seemed like every program on TUCOWS was either shareware or crippleware, hardly any freeware, and almost no source code. Compare this to freshmeat where freeware and source code are the standard fare.
I guess that is one of the things that turned me on to NIX coding. The people that I interact with either in IRC or usenet are just more friendly and willing to help (assuming RTFM) than their M$ counterparts in the same places.
I'm glad you mentioned that. You know I get so sick of listening to people piss and moan about hazardous waste, be it chemical or nuclear or whatever. Make as much of the stuff as you want, we will be able to get rid of it in the forseeable future.
I'm just not willing to believe that in the next 100 years we won't be able to make rockets that are 99.999% reliable, and relatively cheap to send up. So, take it as a given that in 2100 we will be able to send the stuff up for reasonable dollar amounts with a reasonable amount of risk. In that case, store the stuff on a 100 acre lot in some desert somewhere.
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How long do you suppose it will be before we see this joker in the news?
Don't forget the 5 miles of power cord for the camera.
What, like the janitor?
Yeah it does.
Any FPS game with god-mode turned on.
Golf, with no score and unlimited mulligans turned on.
So what you are saying is that Gary Coleman is screwed as far as making any sort of porn goes, as well as Ralph Maccio(sp?).
Not that anyone would want to see that...
It may be a troll, but it is also funny as hell.
Here is a pretty darn good example of why elected officials are bad. An excerpt from the article on Salon reads:
"Karl Auerbach, a board member-elect of ICANN, said he was worried that the routers controlling the flow of data through the Internet would crash when the new characters are introduced."
I don't know about you, but this is like saying that your radio would crash if it picked up a Korean broadcast. Where oh where do they find these people? Oh wait, he was elected by a vote of the people.
Why not just offer up a position on the board to the top three people graduating from a CS class at a reputable school every year? Then you are bound to get fresh ideas, and you should get people that have half a clue.
Just a thought.
Hmm, I wonder if you could use something like moderation points. The more points people give you by downloading your files, the more points you have to spend downloading from other people. It wouldn't be automatic either, if someone downloads a file from you, and it sucks, they don't have to give you a point.
Perhaps Gnutella and the like need some way to dynamically enable uploads. Maybe something as simple as checking to see how busy your pipe has been for the last half hour, and if it has been idle then open the floodgates.
This sort of thing will do much better once there are some widespread industry standards on bandwidth shaping. It would be great if there was a way to keep a certain portion of your pipe open for critical traffic, and let the rest be used for whatever. Unfortunately that requires the ISP to coordinate and cooperate with the end user. Yeah, that'll happen.
You notice the 12 year olds more for the same reason that you notice and remember the car that cut you off this morning on the way to work. You'll remember that jerk in the red mustang far longer than the other thousand cars you passed on the way in.
I've played a number of MMRPGs, and there are a lot of the jokers that you are talking about, though I don't believe they are in any way the majority. They just tend to make the most noise and so are more memorable, like Pat Robertson or Rush Limbaugh.
Don't be a dumbass. Porn doesn't destroy marriages, people that can't control their own behavior do. I suppose you believe guns kill too???
What I want to know is, why? What the hell difference does it make? Are they just pissed because someone is making a profit off of their work? Why don't they sell them then? It isn't like you can buy all the notes and then buy a Stanford degree, you still have to pay the tuitiona and get the grades.
So if I delay making the notes until after class, are those free for distribution? How many times do I have to rewrite them before they are mine and only mine?
I have this sinking feeling that the stated objectives of carnivore are not the end goal here. I am curious if Carnivore could in fact me a means for the federal government to essentially put an "on/off" switch at every major traffic distribution point in U.S., with the intent that someday when the need presents itself, any and/or all of these points can very quickly be shut off.
Is Carnivore really a way for the federal government to attempt to put into place a means to shut down the Internet on a large scale when it suits their purpose?
Here is an example of a 3D filesystem viewer. Something like this would be very useful, I wish someone would finish this one.
This would be great for something like visualization of network traffic and perhaps for security analysis. The ability to turn raw IP address, ports, time, and amount of data into something visual would be phenomenal. It is done to a limited extent today, but I think this would provide a much needed new light on the subject.
I remember seeing something on beyond 2000 a while back about a security organization somewhere in Europe that was developing a method of analyzing data by creating an interconnected 3D mesh of objects. The display was on a flatpanel of course, this would make something like that much more useful.
My thoughts exactly. If we can build something like a space tether, I imagine we can just build a sea-floor tether, and slap a platform somewhere above sea level.
Look ma, internationwal waters. The biggest navy owns me.
You must be from Kansas.
Religious stuff non commercial? What world are you living in? Check out how much stuff the Mormons own sometime. Organized religion is nothing more than a business, supported by weak minded folk in search of a crutch.
They didn't say they wanted to hack through firewalls, just not be detected by them. There is a big difference. If you are reaching out and touching tcp port 80 on a webserver, to see if it is there, you probably won't get noticed by a firewall, it is when you do it to 254 different addresses that you might raise an eyebrow (though unlikely with current network security skillsets). He wants to be able to do just that, reach out and verify that there is something there without anyone knowing (this can be extended to include traceroutes and other mapping techniques). Not exactly cracking into a site if you ask me.
I must be missing something. I fail to see how this will prevent duplication of the music/text/whatever. At some point in your device you have to produce output, that output can't be encrypted, or you wouldn't be able to understand it. So at the very least, you should be able to tap into the data stream, say where it enters the sound card, and gain access to the unencrypted format.
What makes you think it would only cost him 50k to move it to Mexico? I bet that wouldn't even begin to cover the bribes and payoffs to get it in the country. Then once he was there, I can only imagine how many "officials" from the Mexican Space Agency he would run into that require a small fee for their approval.
Yeah, moving it to Mexico sounds like a great idea.
Yeah, I think we will see something come down the road soon. You can almost cobble one together now, a video capture card (ATI all in wonder or something), IBM 75 gig drive, and an X10 DVD anywhere setup. With that hardware you should be able to accomplish the same thing that the TIVO is doing, all you need now is for someone to set up some service on the web that can pull channel information for your location's broadcast/cable/satellite/... services.
You don't really need the X10 stuff, though I don't really want my computer sitting next to my TV in the living room.
Anyways, the pieces are there, someone just needs to write the software.
Has anyone noticed that there is an entirely different culture out there when comparing the folks that code for M$ vs. NIX? It is kinda tough to pinpoint, but one example that sticks in my head is the first time I checked out TUCOWS. I was used to Freshmeat, and man what a difference. It seemed like every program on TUCOWS was either shareware or crippleware, hardly any freeware, and almost no source code. Compare this to freshmeat where freeware and source code are the standard fare.
I guess that is one of the things that turned me on to NIX coding. The people that I interact with either in IRC or usenet are just more friendly and willing to help (assuming RTFM) than their M$ counterparts in the same places.
I'm glad you mentioned that. You know I get so sick of listening to people piss and moan about hazardous waste, be it chemical or nuclear or whatever. Make as much of the stuff as you want, we will be able to get rid of it in the forseeable future.
I'm just not willing to believe that in the next 100 years we won't be able to make rockets that are 99.999% reliable, and relatively cheap to send up. So, take it as a given that in 2100 we will be able to send the stuff up for reasonable dollar amounts with a reasonable amount of risk. In that case, store the stuff on a 100 acre lot in some desert somewhere.