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  1. guaranteed profit on Blizzard Stomps Bnetd in DMCA Case · · Score: 1

    Sounds like retailers have guaranteed profit by now.

    Just buy from yourself, reject the EULA and send the title to the producer for a refund.

  2. Re:I love the idea, but . . . on GIA to use P2P to Avoid Litigaton · · Score: 1
    . . . how do we vet the legitimacy of the information posted?

    Reputation of the source? (with new source==neutral)

  3. Re:Question on Freenet 0.5.2 Released · · Score: 1
    ... get a court order for Freenet to give up IP addresses of users who have downloaded the client?
    Each freenet client contains a webserver that allows others to download the freenet software.

    Currently it is off by default but that is easy to change.
  4. Re:Good idea, bad content on Freenet 0.5.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Speculation:

    Freenet might help making child porn unprofitable. As soon as material appears on freenet everybody can get it for free.
    That leaves us with those who are not in it for the money.

    Want to do something against the rest?
    Pick up all material you can find, make it into a freesite and promise a $10000 bounty for identifying the participants.

  5. Safari Functionality on Chimera Developer Considers Dropping It · · Score: 1

    Safari might become a really good browser in the future, but it is definitely intended to be a "minimal configuration" browser.
    Apple will never include complicated options that might break many pages.
    Just look at the filter settings in iCab. (Java, Java-Script, iframe, images, cookies, ...)
    If Chimera would adopt something similar it could easily become the browser of choice for power users.

  6. Re:Starve record companies, not artists. on Chained Melodies · · Score: 1
    Lots of musicians make their work openly available.

    I have not seen much from those, probably because they have no advertising etat. Are there any sites that make a good starting point?

  7. Re:Freenet... Why? on IEEE Computing Covers Freenet · · Score: 1

    No. Freenet makes a few copies of a document when it is inserteed.

    Freenet makes copies of a document when it is requested (via nodes that don't have a copy).

    Freenet forgets douments that are not requested.

    The result is that popular documents are distributed all over the net which is a nice way of distributing the load of the requests. No Slashdot-Effect.

    Unpopular documents are stored on fewer nodes so they take up not much of the available storage capacity. (If they are too unpopular they will drop out of the net.)

    So freenet is not only resistant to censorship, it is also an efficient way to distribute documents that will be in high demand because freenet is a distributed cache.

  8. Re:Break this or shut up.... on Blaming Encryption · · Score: 1

    burn after use!

  9. Re:Hear Hear on Freedom Flees in Terror · · Score: 1

    ...majority says that personal freedom is for terrorists...

    Yes. Their children wil have to become terrorists to get their freedom back.

  10. are they telling us everything? on DoubleClick DoubleCross · · Score: 1

    > DoubleClick defends the practice,
    > insisting that it allows better targeting
    > of online ads -- and thus makes
    > consumers' online experiences at
    > once more relevant and more profitable
    > for advertisers.

    If all they want to do is target their ads they could set up a page where we could customize their ads. (lots of checkboxes)

    Then they could place a cookie on the users machine that tells them *exactly* which ads to serve to which user.

    So we could keep our privacy and they could save the costs for maintaining a large database.

    Just guess why they are not choosing the simple way!

    --
    PGP-Key ID: DSS: 0xB4C11ED9 RSA: 0x682F4f5D

  11. prior art on Patenting Your Computer's Inventions · · Score: 1

    Could a computer's invention count as prior art?

    Just assume someone lets a large cluster of machines produce "inventions" and publishes the results (on a website?).

    Would this stop others from patenting those inventions?

    What if projects like distributed.net would do this?