If you are interesting in a palm, the M500 can be found on ebay for around $30USD. It's a great little piece of hardware, and can do everything that you need. It has 8MB of built-in memory, and you can expand that with a SD card, but I've never found a need for that as most palm apps are tiny. It's a greyscale device, but that nets you longer battery life, and frankly it is easier to read off of for long periods, aka reading ebooks. If you are considering the palm, you'll of course want some distractions *games* and I suggest SFCave and Traffic as both are simple yet fun games that are quick to learn and play.
Ok, you didn't read the article too well yourself now, did you. He mentions PGP a few times, but in no way does he say that is what P2P networks have to do. For a description of why encrypting the data is important, I point you to a link on the MUTE page:
I suggest you read the bit at the very bottom of the page. It descibes how encryption can help prevent the RIAA from catching you.
To make a brief summary of the article, the encryption would mean the RIAA could not see what you were trying to find, or even what you were actually downloading. Sure they could know that you might be downloading something illegal, but you could just as easily be downloading a new song your buddy wrote.
So basically, maybe you should educate yourself, before you start making ill-thought remarks.
It's a pretty solid concept as far as defeating the RIAA for another round. I find it interesting that no matter what the RIAA does, someone always counters it. You figure they would adopt a new strategy, instead of just wasting enormous amounts of money on annoying everyone.
Having read the all three of the books the compromise TLOTR, I feel the need to note that:
a) the books are simply amazing, probably one of the best pieces of literature written in the 20th century.
b) the movies are are very entertaining, with some of the CG i've ever seen.
c) anyone who has seen the movies before reading the books has missed out on a truely great experience.
The movies I think are an excellent suppliment / add-on to the books. If you see the movie before you read the books, the books then become tainted, and you start seeing all the characters as they are portrayed in the movies. You also start to compare the movie to the book, instead of the more accurately book to movie view.
In closing, TLOTR:TROTK is one of the best movies created this year. I'm just depressed for all the poor people who haven't read the books first.
I used XP for a time, mostly to play games (before I found out about the excellent work at winex). About a month before I stopped using XP, all on it's own, Windows crashed, did a sys restore, and deleted 2gb of my stuff. I checked for viruses (there were none). XP just fucked up.
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If you are interesting in a palm, the M500 can be found on ebay for around $30USD. It's a great little piece of hardware, and can do everything that you need. It has 8MB of built-in memory, and you can expand that with a SD card, but I've never found a need for that as most palm apps are tiny. It's a greyscale device, but that nets you longer battery life, and frankly it is easier to read off of for long periods, aka reading ebooks. If you are considering the palm, you'll of course want some distractions *games* and I suggest SFCave and Traffic as both are simple yet fun games that are quick to learn and play.
Ok, you didn't read the article too well yourself now, did you. He mentions PGP a few times, but in no way does he say that is what P2P networks have to do. For a description of why encrypting the data is important, I point you to a link on the MUTE page:
The Article
I suggest you read the bit at the very bottom of the page. It descibes how encryption can help prevent the RIAA from catching you.
To make a brief summary of the article, the encryption would mean the RIAA could not see what you were trying to find, or even what you were actually downloading. Sure they could know that you might be downloading something illegal, but you could just as easily be downloading a new song your buddy wrote.
So basically, maybe you should educate yourself, before you start making ill-thought remarks.
I found it interesting that mere days after Clay Shirky article was posted on slashdot, a program that essentially describes his solution is posted.
If you haven't read the article, you can find it here:
The Article
It's a pretty solid concept as far as defeating the RIAA for another round. I find it interesting that no matter what the RIAA does, someone always counters it. You figure they would adopt a new strategy, instead of just wasting enormous amounts of money on annoying everyone.
Having read the all three of the books the compromise TLOTR, I feel the need to note that:
a) the books are simply amazing, probably one of the best pieces of literature written in the 20th century.
b) the movies are are very entertaining, with some of the CG i've ever seen.
c) anyone who has seen the movies before reading the books has missed out on a truely great experience.
The movies I think are an excellent suppliment / add-on to the books. If you see the movie before you read the books, the books then become tainted, and you start seeing all the characters as they are portrayed in the movies. You also start to compare the movie to the book, instead of the more accurately book to movie view.
In closing, TLOTR:TROTK is one of the best movies created this year. I'm just depressed for all the poor people who haven't read the books first.
Maybe you should "smell the coffee"
I used XP for a time, mostly to play games (before I found out about the excellent work at winex). About a month before I stopped using XP, all on it's own, Windows crashed, did a sys restore, and deleted 2gb of my stuff. I checked for viruses (there were none). XP just fucked up.
Linux has never failed for me.