Get some perspective dude. Sure the web today is mostly a bunch of TV/magazine reporters turned equally uninformed feeders of spin dried info, and the masses are as passive as ever.
But look to the future. What is it: CNN or Slashdot?
Here is an example of a virtual monopoly (90% of the market) that vigorously protects itself by means of litigation giddy lawyers. It is not something that we should be supporting people.
At least Microsoft isn't suing based on a bunch of bogus patents... yet...
The American government as all the right in the world to watch and record and analyze and study the dataflows on the Internet, just like anyone else has. If the FBI wants to act as an online security consultant, then that is completly fine with me.
The problem is the lack of cryptography to protect yourself (which of course is their fault), and the fact that online crime is prosecuted by an authoritian state in meatspace. Information crimes should be fought with information methods.
Given that the these two huge holes in our human rights go away, I will gladly assume that every information generated by me on Internet (be it a random Telnet package or a slashdot post) falls into everybody's hands (including the American, Iraqee, and Chinese governments).
You think that CONTROL of information will thrive on the Internet? em, I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion (other than that TV happens to be a prime medium for bullshit).
I suppose the Internet will make other kinds of information control like cencorship, ip, and alike easier as well?
Am I the only one who used have this happen to him all the time back in the Usenet days. I remember particular times when AOLers would flood entire newsgroups with hundreds of clearly libelous and extremely offensive comments about me.
Personally, I was more proud then upset about this. You have to take any public Internet discussion for what it is. You are not without (or even impeded) in your ability to defend yourself, and one single poster has little or no power.
And if Yahoo were so happy to compily with this, do you really think that they would refuse to give out logged ip adresses of anonymous posts? The difference isn't exactly huge.
Between this and the attempted stealing (not that I support copyrights or anything) of all the contents of GeoCities, I think Yahoo is showing its true face.
Just like any revolution, ours is likely to have a whole bunch of whores ready to sell out at any turn. Its just about weeding them out...
Yes, the IPs or DNS's themselves will not refer to the specific user on AOL or most DialUp IPs. However, AOL in their turn keep records of who was using what IP at what time, so getting the info out is a simple Query for them. And AOL have proved time and time again that they are more than willing to cooperate with anyone to give out that sort of information.
As most/. readers know, it is a complete myth the Internet provides a good environment for being anonymous. Unless you are really good at spoofing and alike (right?) your only option is to trust someone (your isp, a remailer, the messageboard) between you and the law not to give out your name.
Thank god for the good old "Keep him on the phone for another ten seconds!" days of the circuit switched networks...
This is not a problem with free markets going wrong, it is the non free part of the market that is causing all these problems. If the market were truely free, ie no trademark rules, this would not be a problem at all.
The current trademark and ip rules are completely wrong for the information society, and making the market less free, will only make it worse.
Don't blame the free market, freedom is what the Internet is all about.
Don't blaim the companies, they are simple entities that are around to make money in whatever way they can. The beauty of the free market is that holes in the law will be dsicovered and immediatly exploited, so they can be fixed.
Blame the fucked up laws and legal system, blame the government, the law makers, and the voters. Hell, blame the system...
It is an interesting idea that could blwo some power back in to radio by making it more Internet-like (less "mass media"), but on the other hand, its lifetime is a few years at most. Icecast is where the future of streaming music is, not the FM.
We have MP3 playing machines now, I wonder when can see are gonna see the first radio set that plugs into the home network and streams music off the net (except for my old Pentium with mpg123 in the bookcase).
No, you are the stupid one, you are the looser. If you got hacked by a "script-kiddie" then you were the one who's computer security was fucked up, and you should take responsibility for it like a man instead of falling back of some quasi-Fascist law enforcement so afraid of technology they are happy to fuck just about anybody over if it could be deamed "computer crime related."
Whatever "bussiness to run" it is you have, it is neither the beginning or the end of the world for anybody else, but our basic freedoms are. And one of those basic freedoms, is that the network packets I create on my computer, just like all other information (or thought, or speech) that I create, should be allowed to contain whatever the fuck I want.
I've never tried running a maliscious script or exploit in my life, and I don't find it the slightest bit "cool", but attitudes like yours work very hard towards changing my minds in that area...
The NSA (and this is their long spiny fingers in action) is made up of either morally devoid or completely brainwashed people ("Must not give freedom, freedom leads to chaos, must not give" etc), but they are no doubt intelligent. They know they cannot stop crypto, they know that terrorists and foreign governments mostly have, or could have, unbreakable crypto today.
But, just like Microsoft who can't stop Linux, they know that if they use everything in their power to make it as clumsy and complicated for Crypto to be widely used, they can keep it out the hands of the every day man (their real favorite targets) for as long as possible.
And its working, until people either smarten up or the courts do, Crypto will never reach widespread use.
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To my knowledge, the earliest version of Quake2 we saw had version 2.92 or something, so the number sare not quite as bad as they seem.
Quake2 has had 4-5 patch levels since release, QW has had about 10 versions (but it was always labeled as an unsupported work in progress).
It is my understanding that it is hard, but still possible, to get ahold of them. I live in Europe though, maybe they are selling out faster over there...
Without a doubt, the best option today is to get a double slot1 motherboard and get two of the "slockets" that allow you to put a socket 370 Celerons in SMP.
Which Celeron is still a bit of an issue, but the 300 OCed to 450 (100 fsb) is probably still the best price to performance. I understand the 466 Celerons do 525 (with 75 fsb), so that might be better, but they are at least double the price.
Or maybe one should wait for the Athlon, but the above MB + Processors still costs less than the cited prices for the Athlons...
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550 to 600, that is an increase of under 10% (damn my math rules!), and in the important numbers the Athlon was above even that.
Look at the Quake2 Crusher benchmark at low res (the best way to test FP performance bar none) and the Athlon did over 70 fps, against the P3 not even managing 50. That is what I call impressive (Are you impressed?:-) ).
I have heard about several very general Patents regarding Video systems as well. Trust me when the pop up, you will see them.
The funny thing with these things is that they always miss the mark on exactly what it should be. I mean, I thought of the exact Rio (except I wanted 10BaseT and 2.5'' HD) the first time I saw an mp3 file, as I'm sure a million others did.
And instead, the patent goes to these babbling assholes who want keypads on their players where people select music?
//Hobbex (I'm off to patent LCD screen embedded in Contact lenses)
The logic behind it is that it has nothing to do with Terrorists, the Mafia, or the Chinese. Anyone that determined can get their own crypto system as it is, and not even the American Government is stupid enough to think they can stop them.
In reality it is just a huge FUD campaign against the whole Crypto technology. By passing a bunch of confusing and unenforceable laws they are slowing/destroying the standardization of strong public-key crypto techniques and development of key distribution systems etc.
Face it, the FBI, NSA,CIA, Justice Department, have been spying on YOU, the American people, for years. Loosing that ability because Crypto is widely accepted is what they are afraid of, not terrorists.
The problem is discussed with some depth in Chapter 6.1 of the Second Edition. it deals with mostly (Partially) Blind Signatures I think.
IIRC this does not solve the technical impossibility of being anonymous on the Internet however. As long as you can't find an IRC/proxy service that you can trust to protect you, they can find you...
The problem with SDMI is simply one of Mathematics, not of consumer rights or privacy or the big bloated music industry. In an information age, what can and can't be done with information is controlled by math and only math. I can send a private letter to you because encryption is mathematically possible and explored, but you cannot send me a file that I can only read 3 times. Controlling information like that is simply not possible (short of implanting a chip into everybody's brain).
So, with Mathematics against it, formats like this have to rely on proprietary closed systems, control over hardware, and legal methods to keep us from cracking them right open.
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I'm pretty sure I was the best Doom/Quake player in my school back in highschool.
I didn't get me any cheerleaders.
In fact, there were no Quake cheerleaders... maybe they all went for the Starcraft dudes...
>I believe you've confused "right" with >"technological capability."
More like "mathematically capability". Which is the same thing as "right" (if there is such a thing as a "right" at all) if you ask me...
Get some perspective dude. Sure the web today is mostly a bunch of TV/magazine reporters turned equally uninformed feeders of spin dried info, and the masses are as passive as ever.
But look to the future. What is it: CNN or Slashdot?
I know what I think...
Here is an example of a virtual monopoly (90% of the market) that vigorously
protects itself by means of litigation giddy lawyers. It is not something that
we should be supporting people.
At least Microsoft isn't suing based on a bunch of bogus patents... yet...
The American government as all the right in the world to watch and record and analyze and study the dataflows on the Internet, just like anyone else has. If the FBI wants to act as an online security consultant, then that is completly fine with me.
The problem is the lack of cryptography to protect yourself (which of course is their fault), and the fact that online crime is prosecuted by an authoritian state in meatspace. Information crimes should be fought with information methods.
Given that the these two huge holes in our human rights go away, I will gladly assume that every information generated by me on Internet (be it a random Telnet package or a slashdot post) falls into everybody's hands (including the American, Iraqee, and Chinese governments).
You think that CONTROL of information will thrive on the Internet? em, I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion (other than that TV happens to be a prime medium for bullshit).
I suppose the Internet will make other kinds of information control like cencorship, ip, and alike easier as well?
Am I the only one who used have this happen to him all the time back in the Usenet days. I remember particular times when AOLers would flood entire newsgroups with hundreds of clearly libelous and extremely offensive comments about me.
Personally, I was more proud then upset about this. You have to take any public Internet discussion for what it is. You are not without (or even impeded) in your ability to defend yourself,
and one single poster has little or no power.
And if Yahoo were so happy to compily with this, do you really think that they would refuse to give out logged ip adresses of anonymous posts? The difference isn't exactly huge.
Between this and the attempted stealing (not that I support copyrights or anything) of all the contents of GeoCities, I think Yahoo is showing its true face.
Just like any revolution, ours is likely to have a whole bunch of whores ready to sell out at any turn. Its just about weeding them out...
Yes, the IPs or DNS's themselves will not refer to the specific user on AOL or most DialUp IPs. However, AOL in their turn keep records of who was using what IP at what time, so getting the info out is a simple Query for them. And AOL have proved time and time again that they are more than willing to cooperate with anyone to give out that sort of information.
/. readers know, it is a complete myth the Internet provides a good environment for being anonymous. Unless you are really good at spoofing and alike (right?) your only option is to trust someone (your isp, a remailer, the messageboard) between you and the law not to give out your name.
As most
Thank god for the good old "Keep him on the phone for another ten seconds!" days of the circuit switched networks...
Just so you know it, the current Peter Jackson version of The Lord of the Ring is very real...
See www.theonering.net.
This is not a problem with free markets going wrong, it is the non free part of the market that is causing all these problems. If the market were truely free, ie no trademark rules, this would not be a problem at all.
The current trademark and ip rules are completely wrong for the information society, and making the market less free, will only make it worse.
Don't blame the free market, freedom is what the Internet is all about.
Don't blaim the companies, they are simple entities that are around to make money in whatever way they can. The beauty of the free market is that holes in the law will be dsicovered and immediatly exploited, so they can be fixed.
Blame the fucked up laws and legal system, blame the government, the law makers, and the voters. Hell, blame the system...
It is an interesting idea that could blwo some power back in to radio by making it more Internet-like (less "mass media"), but on the other hand, its lifetime is a few years at most. Icecast is where the future of streaming music is, not the FM.
We have MP3 playing machines now, I wonder when can see are gonna see the first radio set that plugs into the home network and streams music off the net (except for my old Pentium with mpg123 in the bookcase).
No, you are the stupid one, you are the looser. If you got hacked by a "script-kiddie" then you were the one who's computer security was fucked up, and you should take responsibility for it like a man instead of falling back of some quasi-Fascist law enforcement so afraid of technology they are happy to fuck just about anybody over if it could be deamed "computer crime related."
Whatever "bussiness to run" it is you have, it is neither the beginning or the end of the world for anybody else, but our basic freedoms are. And one of those basic freedoms, is that the network packets I create on my computer, just like all other information (or thought, or speech) that I create, should be allowed to contain whatever the fuck I want.
I've never tried running a maliscious script or exploit in my life, and I don't find it the slightest bit "cool", but attitudes like yours work very hard towards changing my minds in that area...
> Can't blame the company for stupid customers.
And the American Legal System is what? A nightmare I had after 14 Taco's and the too many rides on a rollercoster? (See I'm not off topic!)
The NSA (and this is their long spiny fingers in action) is made up of either morally devoid or completely brainwashed people ("Must not give freedom, freedom leads to chaos, must not give" etc), but they are no doubt intelligent. They know they cannot stop crypto, they know that terrorists and foreign governments mostly have, or could have, unbreakable crypto today.
But, just like Microsoft who can't stop Linux, they know that if they use everything in their power to make it as clumsy and complicated for Crypto to be widely used, they can keep it out the hands of the every day man (their real favorite targets) for as long as possible.
And its working, until people either smarten up or the courts do, Crypto will never reach widespread use.
To my knowledge, the earliest version of Quake2 we saw had version 2.92 or something, so the number sare not quite as bad as they seem.
Quake2 has had 4-5 patch levels since release, QW has had about 10 versions (but it was always labeled as an unsupported work in progress).
It is my understanding that it is hard, but still possible, to get ahold of them. I live in Europe though, maybe they are selling out faster over there...
Without a doubt, the best option today is to get a double slot1 motherboard and get two of the "slockets" that allow you to put a socket 370 Celerons in SMP.
Which Celeron is still a bit of an issue, but the 300 OCed to 450 (100 fsb) is probably still the best price to performance. I understand the 466 Celerons do 525 (with 75 fsb), so that might be better, but they are at least double the price.
Or maybe one should wait for the Athlon, but the above MB + Processors still costs less than the cited prices for the Athlons...
550 to 600, that is an increase of under 10% (damn my math rules!), and in the important numbers the Athlon was above even that.
:-) ).
Look at the Quake2 Crusher benchmark at low res (the best way to test FP performance bar none) and the Athlon did over 70 fps, against the P3 not even managing 50. That is what I call impressive (Are you impressed?
I have heard about several very general Patents regarding Video systems as well. Trust me when the pop up, you will see them.
The funny thing with these things is that they always miss the mark on exactly what it should be. I mean, I thought of the exact Rio (except I wanted 10BaseT and 2.5'' HD) the first time I saw an mp3 file, as I'm sure a million others did.
And instead, the patent goes to these babbling assholes who want keypads on their players where people select music?
//Hobbex (I'm off to patent LCD screen embedded in Contact lenses)
The logic behind it is that it has nothing to do with Terrorists, the Mafia, or the Chinese. Anyone that determined can get their own crypto system as it is, and not even the American Government is stupid enough to think they can stop them.
In reality it is just a huge FUD campaign against the whole Crypto technology. By passing a bunch of confusing and unenforceable laws they are slowing/destroying the standardization of strong public-key crypto techniques and development of key distribution systems etc.
Face it, the FBI, NSA,CIA, Justice Department, have been spying on YOU, the American people, for years. Loosing that ability because Crypto is widely accepted is what they are afraid of, not terrorists.
> Finnish people, who have little reason to use cracker in the american sense, refer to copy-protection breakers as crackers.
and anyone who thinks Finland has no white trash has never been on cruise between Helsinki and Stockholm...
... you were off topic anyway.
The problem is discussed with some depth in Chapter 6.1 of the Second Edition. it deals with mostly (Partially) Blind Signatures I think.
IIRC this does not solve the technical impossibility of being anonymous on the Internet however. As long as you can't find an IRC/proxy service that you can trust to protect you, they can find you...
The problem with SDMI is simply one of Mathematics, not of consumer rights or privacy or the big bloated music industry. In an information age, what can and can't be done with information is controlled by math and only math. I can send a private letter to you because encryption is mathematically possible and explored, but you cannot send me a file that I can only read 3 times. Controlling information like that is simply not possible (short of implanting a chip into everybody's brain).
So, with Mathematics against it, formats like this have to rely on proprietary closed systems, control over hardware, and legal methods to keep us from cracking them right open.
That is the problem.
Can somebody comfirm this? I sort of assumed they really meant every file. Or am I confusing stream and connection?