Um, Indianapolis has at least 3 newspapers: the Recorder, the Star & News and the DePauw.
As for those "rednecks": apparently they are more informed then you. Let me guess, you are an east-coast liberal "big city" guy who is intellectually superior to everyone in the Midwest?
"While I enjoy my Stewart's Key Lime soda, bag of Tim's Cascade Chips (original flavor), and listen to They Might Be Giants I will somewhere in the back of my mind, sincerly hope you're enjoying your Pepsi, Cheetos, and *NSYNC"
How ironic.
What exactly is the difference between Stewarts Key Lime Soda and Pepsi, They might be Giants and NSYNC? I can get them both at the supermarket or cd store. They are both mass produced/mass market/mainline items. There is no difference.
You have been rooked by Stewarts and TMBG marketing campaigns into believing that those items are somehow "non-mainstream". Well guess what: 20 million college kids drink Stewarts and listen to TMBG. You ARE the mainstream, just another cog in the marketing machine.
As for "Tim's Cascade Chips", if they could become mainstream, they would. They probably simply lack the nescessary funding.
Exactly. You kids need to develop the self-control to reject the crap. I can almost guarentee that vast majority of the people here complaining about the popular American culture (McDonalds, Taco Bell, Madonna, etc) are active participants in the culture.
The fact that 95% of the population lacks self control is very telling.
"A better anology would be the collusion of some soft drink companies to "buy" more linear feet to prevent other soft drink companies from selling their wares"
Well, there is a limited "X" amount of shelf space. If you or your business group can afford to buy it all and prevent your competitors from offering their product, that is called BUSINESS. Its it not evil or unethical.
Well, I know that Washington DC and Seattle don't have 128kbps service, just 28.8 service.
As you can tell from the coverage map at http://www.ricochet.com/about_us/coverage_maps/ind ex.html it is doubtful that the "128kbps available now" coverage is 50 million.
"Copyright owners do not OWN the content they publish. They own the COPYRIGHT. The Public owns the publication."
Er, the copyright defines "ownership" therefore copyright owners DO own content they publish. The Public does not "own" the publication. Unless you have some odd definition of "own" you are very mistaken.
Uh, I know a lot about South Africa. What does that have to do with poor countries invesing in fission reactors? And yes: South Africa is a POOR COUNTRY.
Where did I say the USA is perfect? I don't even live in the US.
I didn't say that transient nodes were a bad thing, just that when they are down their data is inaccessible so in order to achieve high availability of the data you need to make sure that the data is accessible in an available node (obviously).
The current version doesn't deal well with transient nodes. The theory that once the number of nodes reaches a critical mass, the problem will go away is misguided. Freenet needs a much higher ratio of permanent nodes to transient nodes then it has now. That won't happen in in this decade.
Eventually there will be some sort of mirroring scheme incorporated.
Um, I am not an Opensource zealot. As a matter of fact, I don't support the Open Source concept at all. I support open standards and protocols, not open source. I don't even use Linux.
Beyond that, I don't download binaries from the Internet where I DON'T KNOW WHO THE PERSON/COMPANY IS THAT WROTE IT. Neither should you.
Downloading binaries from established sources is fine with me. This is not an established source. I have no idea who he is.
As for "WORD WOULD GET AROUND AND NOBODY WOULD DOWNLOAD IT ANYMORE.": thats great. I just don't want to be the one who finds out first.
Where do I go to find out the "word" that the binary is OK to download, or infected with BackOrifice?
The basic problem right now is that MOST nodes are "transient", meaning that they are not connected to the Internet most/all of the time.
The problem here is that any data stored on that node will be inaccessible while the node is down. To fix this, nodes that do not have a known history of being non-transient should always have their data mirrored by non-transient nodes.
Also, TRANSIENT should be CHECKED by default in the Freenet configuration! Most nodes are transient.
Ideally, all nodes should be mirrored by other nodes. The number of nodes mirroring should be determined by the average uptime of the source node.
For example, if node X is only connected to Freenet 75% of the time, its data should be mirrored by 5 nodes that have an average uptime of 75% or better. If node Y is connected to Freenet 99% of the time, its data should be mirrored by 2 nodes that have an average uptime of 50% or better.
Obviously someone will need to pick better heuristics than that.
From the web page:
"How much does FreeWeb cost?
As its name suggests, FreeWeb is absolutely free.
There are none of the web hosting charges, domain registration charges or virtual domain/DNS referral fees."
I think he misunderstands what the "Free" in "Freenet" really refers to.
Free means FREEDOM! Free not as in "free beer".....well you heard that one already.
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Unfortunately, 68k a month doesn't get you very far.
Remember: you have to pay salaries, benefits, taxes, equipment costs, lease costs, utilities, etc...
Um, Indianapolis has at least 3 newspapers: the Recorder, the Star & News and the DePauw.
As for those "rednecks": apparently they are more informed then you. Let me guess, you are an east-coast liberal "big city" guy who is intellectually superior to everyone in the Midwest?
Really? One newspaper?
Name one city in the US where you can't easily obtain about 15 newspapers (NYT, USA Today, Tribune, etc.
Name one city where you can't get cable TV with 40 channels of crap.
Good for you! You will likely become a more well adjusted, intelligent individual (unlike me :-)).
Keep it up!
Heh:
"While I enjoy my Stewart's Key Lime soda, bag of Tim's Cascade Chips (original flavor), and listen to They Might Be Giants I will somewhere in the back of my mind, sincerly hope you're enjoying your Pepsi, Cheetos, and *NSYNC"
How ironic.
What exactly is the difference between Stewarts Key Lime Soda and Pepsi, They might be Giants and NSYNC? I can get them both at the supermarket or cd store. They are both mass produced/mass market/mainline items. There is no difference.
You have been rooked by Stewarts and TMBG marketing campaigns into believing that those items are somehow "non-mainstream". Well guess what: 20 million college kids drink Stewarts and listen to TMBG. You ARE the mainstream, just another cog in the marketing machine.
As for "Tim's Cascade Chips", if they could become mainstream, they would. They probably simply lack the nescessary funding.
Exactly. You kids need to develop the self-control to reject the crap. I can almost guarentee that vast majority of the people here complaining about the popular American culture (McDonalds, Taco Bell, Madonna, etc) are active participants in the culture.
The fact that 95% of the population lacks self control is very telling.
"A better anology would be the collusion of some soft drink companies to "buy" more linear feet to prevent other soft drink companies from selling their wares"
Well, there is a limited "X" amount of shelf space. If you or your business group can afford to buy it all and prevent your competitors from offering their product, that is called BUSINESS. Its it not evil or unethical.
Money talks.
No, you LICENSED a copy, big difference.
Well, I know that Washington DC and Seattle don't have 128kbps service, just 28.8 service.
d ex.html it is doubtful that the "128kbps available now" coverage is 50 million.
As you can tell from the coverage map at http://www.ricochet.com/about_us/coverage_maps/in
"Every machine running linux is another Microsoft employee out of work."
Yeah, screw the employees! Lets all hang out at the village and take photographs of each other, because that is SO much more worthwhile!!!
You may own the physical book, but you do not own the content of the book.
It always amazes me that some people need to actually SEE misery to comprehend it...
"Copyright owners do not OWN the content they publish. They own the COPYRIGHT. The Public owns the publication."
Er, the copyright defines "ownership" therefore copyright owners DO own content they publish. The Public does not "own" the publication. Unless you have some odd definition of "own" you are very mistaken.
The rich get around the "Death Tax". With enough money you can get around anything. No rich person ever got less rich via the Death Tax.
Its the small business owner/farmer that gets screwed over by the tax.
Too bad sonny, can't pay the tax? You will have to sell the farm.
You can get the hydrogen from petrol, methanol, natural gas or a variety of other sources.
I didn't say fuel cells generate "new power". Fisson doesn't generate "new power" either.
The fact is that fuel cells will work simply (low maintenance) and safely in these situations. Nuclear power cannot.
Granted you have to get your hands on some natural gas, but fission doesn't happen out of the aether either.
Extremely rare and not what the original poster was thinking of.
Normally this is not the case.
Uh, I know a lot about South Africa. What does that have to do with poor countries invesing in fission reactors? And yes: South Africa is a POOR COUNTRY.
Where did I say the USA is perfect? I don't even live in the US.
Wierdo.
What are you talking about? The DNS system relies on a centralized DNS system, not the authors personal computer.
What is your agenda here? What is the reason your are spreading FUD?
I didn't say that transient nodes were a bad thing, just that when they are down their data is inaccessible so in order to achieve high availability of the data you need to make sure that the data is accessible in an available node (obviously).
The current version doesn't deal well with transient nodes. The theory that once the number of nodes reaches a critical mass, the problem will go away is misguided. Freenet needs a much higher ratio of permanent nodes to transient nodes then it has now. That won't happen in in this decade.
Eventually there will be some sort of mirroring scheme incorporated.
Um, I am not an Opensource zealot. As a matter of fact, I don't support the Open Source concept at all. I support open standards and protocols, not open source. I don't even use Linux.
Beyond that, I don't download binaries from the Internet where I DON'T KNOW WHO THE PERSON/COMPANY IS THAT WROTE IT. Neither should you.
Downloading binaries from established sources is fine with me. This is not an established source. I have no idea who he is.
As for "WORD WOULD GET AROUND AND NOBODY WOULD DOWNLOAD IT ANYMORE.": thats great. I just don't want to be the one who finds out first.
Where do I go to find out the "word" that the binary is OK to download, or infected with BackOrifice?
Radioactive elements don't sit around in nature in big chunks giving off massive amounts of radiation as spent fuel does.
BTW, the idea of poor countries investing in FISSION REACTORS is laughable. I've never heard of this magazine, and I hope I never hear of it again.
Think fuel cells.
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Also, TRANSIENT should be UNCHECKED by default in the Freenet configuration. Most nodes are transient.
The basic problem right now is that MOST nodes are "transient", meaning that they are not connected to the Internet most/all of the time.
The problem here is that any data stored on that node will be inaccessible while the node is down. To fix this, nodes that do not have a known history of being non-transient should always have their data mirrored by non-transient nodes.
Also, TRANSIENT should be CHECKED by default in the Freenet configuration! Most nodes are transient.
Ideally, all nodes should be mirrored by other nodes. The number of nodes mirroring should be determined by the average uptime of the source node.
For example, if node X is only connected to Freenet 75% of the time, its data should be mirrored by 5 nodes that have an average uptime of 75% or better. If node Y is connected to Freenet 99% of the time, its data should be mirrored by 2 nodes that have an average uptime of 50% or better.
Obviously someone will need to pick better heuristics than that.
Also,
From the web page:
"How much does FreeWeb cost?
As its name suggests, FreeWeb is absolutely free.
There are none of the web hosting charges, domain registration charges or virtual domain/DNS referral fees."
I think he misunderstands what the "Free" in "Freenet" really refers to.
Free means FREEDOM! Free not as in "free beer".....well you heard that one already.
Excellent. An end-user technology is quite worthless unless the end-user can figure it out.
.exe from an unknown source.
The old Freenet Windows client may work, but the process involved to get it going is way to complex.
This looks like a step in the right direction, however I am not going to install an