The irony of bittorrent is that while the technology is designed to be somewhat decentralized, from a piracy standpoint it actually works better when everyone goes to one site. In order for a file to remain healthy for an extended period of time, a minimum number of people have to be always downloading/uploading that file. So if you want to download a ten week old episode of The OC, the only way you're going to find that is if the 8 other people in the entire country are looking for it in the same place. A real replacement for suprnova has yet to emerge, indicating that the lawsuits are working.
Can google maintain 100% spam free IM like AIM has? I'm growing more tired of AIM with every update, and still no decent end-to-end encryption. But I'll take it over spam-filled ICQ any day of the week.
BitTorrent does not check the hash of the complete download. That data is not stored in the torrent file. (I'm 98% sure) You may be able to check it yourself if the file's originator included the hash information (obviously not stored in the torrented files).
In any case, it doesn't matter. Your only option would be to download the entire file over again, and you still have the possibility of downloading another piece of data that is corupted but has a colliding hash.
Given the way BitTorrent works, it would be easy for someone who found the collison early to poison almost everyone downloading file, since that corrupted segment will then be uploaded to other people, who will in turn upload it to other people.
I believe you are correct but your reasoning is not.
In order to put two different pieces with the same SHA-1 checksum in a file, odds are your file is garbage anyway. You could not do this with someone elses file (as you mention, a copyright file).
You could however, very simply, send incorrect data (on purpose) that matches the hash in the torrent file. Users' bittorrent clients would believe the file to be complete when it is in fact corrupted. This would result in 100% of the users who downloaded that segment from you getting a corrupted file.
The BBC did not "junk" its episodes. It archived them very poorly, and a single wharehouse fire wiped out most of the missing 1st and 2nd Doctor episodes.
No one seems to be talking about another clear use for such software, helping students write better essays! If you give students a tool that will accurately estimate their grade, they will submit better essays, thereby indirectly making teachers lives easier. Teachers can tweak the grader software to their liking, then distribute those settings for the program on their class website (all English teachers have one of those right?). Students will get instant, and meaningful, feedback. Heck, you could require that students grade their essays beforehand, and submit that automated grade with the paper. This would give teachers a loose guideline when they really grade the papers.
I'd be happy if they settled on ctrl+c for copy and ctrl+v for paste. Before you can even think about standarizing the Linux desktop, you need to purge the incessant desire to be different for the sake of being different. Recognize what works in Windows and co-opt it.
I can't remember the last English movie I saw. There's a reason for that. Spider Man, Greek Wedding, and Pirates are all incredibly wonderful movies, regardless of what side of the ocean you're one. The word of mouth, especially for Greek Wedding, helped, not hurt, the box office.
Perhaps you'd be more happy catching Mr Bean's latest? No one in America did.
It seems rather obvious that we need a paradigm shift in the way we benchmark our hardware. I like benchmarks of things I actually do with me computer. For example, the time it takes a setup to encode an mp3 or svcd file. Some people are using benchmarks like these, but there is no readily available program suite that benchmarks your system using these real life scenarios. Sure, I could do them myself, but I wouldn't know how my system performs to other systems if there isn't a standard benchmark.
Here at UC Davis, almost all the math teachers (and probably other departments) use linux desktops in their offices. I was rather suprised. Does anyone else have any examples of Linux desktop (non)use in higher education?
Yes. But even if there weren't, lack of negative evidence is not the same as positive evidence. It's up to those who make the claim to establish that Marilyn had six toes; it's not up to others to disprove it.
That seems to run counter to the whole point of the site. Urban Myths (by definition) sometimes can't be proven. So if you set out to debunk these myths, it is in fact your job to disprove them. If you are unable to disprove the myth, you should't claim its false simply because of lack of positive evidence.
Well, from what we saw from 2000, the announcment of a winner (no matter how unofficial) can have negative consequences on the actual outcome of the election.
Also, when you do this, you automatically have a recount of every vote (the machine count and the physical stamped ballots that are counted). Each polling location would have to address any discrepency between these 2 numbers before they even send their results to the state office.
My mp3s are going to get bigger. Niether are movies or comic books. In fact, if anything they'll get smaller. So while there are some things that require us to buy larger and larger harddrives (such as higher quality digital images), for most people it just means more mp3s.
I have a fairly newbish question. Why dooesn't MIT and such just, NOT log ips, or at least not log them in a way that connects them to some user. Then it will be impossible for them to comply with any such request.
Bittorrent doesn't work like that. When you distribute the load to two trackers, you're cutting your peer population by half, effectively missing the point of using bittorrent in the first place. You need to make sure the user population is all in one pot, especially if you want to maximize when the entire file is already distributed (and therfore, the time during which your server is using exactly 0 bandwidth)
Well, as for your radio example. The American people own the airwaves. And I don't mean that in some hippy-free-love kind of way, we the airwaves literally belong to the people of the united states, and we decide through our representives (in theory) who gets to use our airwaves.
So, we aren't regulating Clear Channel. Regulation is when you tell some guy who owns property that he can't cut down his trees. Its our property, we decide how many trees get down. We decide how many licenses we want to give to a specific company in a specific locale.
Ah, thats true about the site/tracker being on the same machine. But I don't see that happening in any serious situation (these sites could barely stay up for a day when they weren't plauged with *AA cease and desist letters). As far as the seperate query and tracker services thats pretty much was these sites were doing, almost.
In any case, you would still have a single point of contention that the *AAs could target.
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Which makes perfect sense, since PHP is becoming a contender to J2EE.
bittorrent evolved beyond that limitation a long time ago. multi-tracker torrents are now the norm.
The irony of bittorrent is that while the technology is designed to be somewhat decentralized, from a piracy standpoint it actually works better when everyone goes to one site. In order for a file to remain healthy for an extended period of time, a minimum number of people have to be always downloading/uploading that file. So if you want to download a ten week old episode of The OC, the only way you're going to find that is if the 8 other people in the entire country are looking for it in the same place. A real replacement for suprnova has yet to emerge, indicating that the lawsuits are working.
#farscape on efnet has also kept the flame burning during the dark months since cancellation.
Can google maintain 100% spam free IM like AIM has? I'm growing more tired of AIM with every update, and still no decent end-to-end encryption. But I'll take it over spam-filled ICQ any day of the week.
BitTorrent does not check the hash of the complete download. That data is not stored in the torrent file. (I'm 98% sure) You may be able to check it yourself if the file's originator included the hash information (obviously not stored in the torrented files).
In any case, it doesn't matter. Your only option would be to download the entire file over again, and you still have the possibility of downloading another piece of data that is corupted but has a colliding hash.
Given the way BitTorrent works, it would be easy for someone who found the collison early to poison almost everyone downloading file, since that corrupted segment will then be uploaded to other people, who will in turn upload it to other people.
I believe you are correct but your reasoning is not.
In order to put two different pieces with the same SHA-1 checksum in a file, odds are your file is garbage anyway. You could not do this with someone elses file (as you mention, a copyright file).
You could however, very simply, send incorrect data (on purpose) that matches the hash in the torrent file. Users' bittorrent clients would believe the file to be complete when it is in fact corrupted. This would result in 100% of the users who downloaded that segment from you getting a corrupted file.
If I had any mod points... going on 2 years now
10 print "Home"
20 print "Sweet"
30 goto 10
The BBC did not "junk" its episodes. It archived them very poorly, and a single wharehouse fire wiped out most of the missing 1st and 2nd Doctor episodes.
IPod clones are coming. Not in time for Christmas, but by next year a 10 gb 'ipod' will be less then 200.
It may have all been a hoax, but the idea gave us "The Saint" in which the guy from "True Genius" steals the secret of cold fusion.
No one seems to be talking about another clear use for such software, helping students write better essays! If you give students a tool that will accurately estimate their grade, they will submit better essays, thereby indirectly making teachers lives easier. Teachers can tweak the grader software to their liking, then distribute those settings for the program on their class website (all English teachers have one of those right?). Students will get instant, and meaningful, feedback. Heck, you could require that students grade their essays beforehand, and submit that automated grade with the paper. This would give teachers a loose guideline when they really grade the papers.
I'd be happy if they settled on ctrl+c for copy and ctrl+v for paste. Before you can even think about standarizing the Linux desktop, you need to purge the incessant desire to be different for the sake of being different. Recognize what works in Windows and co-opt it.
I can't remember the last English movie I saw. There's a reason for that. Spider Man, Greek Wedding, and Pirates are all incredibly wonderful movies, regardless of what side of the ocean you're one. The word of mouth, especially for Greek Wedding, helped, not hurt, the box office.
Perhaps you'd be more happy catching Mr Bean's latest? No one in America did.
It seems rather obvious that we need a paradigm shift in the way we benchmark our hardware. I like benchmarks of things I actually do with me computer. For example, the time it takes a setup to encode an mp3 or svcd file. Some people are using benchmarks like these, but there is no readily available program suite that benchmarks your system using these real life scenarios. Sure, I could do them myself, but I wouldn't know how my system performs to other systems if there isn't a standard benchmark.
Here at UC Davis, almost all the math teachers (and probably other departments) use linux desktops in their offices. I was rather suprised. Does anyone else have any examples of Linux desktop (non)use in higher education?
Well, from what we saw from 2000, the announcment of a winner (no matter how unofficial) can have negative consequences on the actual outcome of the election.
Thank you! Thats exactly what I've been saying.
Also, when you do this, you automatically have a recount of every vote (the machine count and the physical stamped ballots that are counted). Each polling location would have to address any discrepency between these 2 numbers before they even send their results to the state office.
However, some things will never change.
My mp3s are going to get bigger. Niether are movies or comic books. In fact, if anything they'll get smaller. So while there are some things that require us to buy larger and larger harddrives (such as higher quality digital images), for most people it just means more mp3s.
I have a fairly newbish question. Why dooesn't MIT and such just, NOT log ips, or at least not log them in a way that connects them to some user. Then it will be impossible for them to comply with any such request.
Bittorrent doesn't work like that. When you distribute the load to two trackers, you're cutting your peer population by half, effectively missing the point of using bittorrent in the first place. You need to make sure the user population is all in one pot, especially if you want to maximize when the entire file is already distributed (and therfore, the time during which your server is using exactly 0 bandwidth)
Well, as for your radio example. The American people own the airwaves. And I don't mean that in some hippy-free-love kind of way, we the airwaves literally belong to the people of the united states, and we decide through our representives (in theory) who gets to use our airwaves.
So, we aren't regulating Clear Channel. Regulation is when you tell some guy who owns property that he can't cut down his trees. Its our property, we decide how many trees get down. We decide how many licenses we want to give to a specific company in a specific locale.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Ah, thats true about the site/tracker being on the same machine. But I don't see that happening in any serious situation (these sites could barely stay up for a day when they weren't plauged with *AA cease and desist letters). As far as the seperate query and tracker services thats pretty much was these sites were doing, almost.
In any case, you would still have a single point of contention that the *AAs could target.