Looks like the previous submitter was thinking the same thing and hit the submit button a few seconds before me...
Catch suspicious traffic at the ISP level
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Instead of filtering torrents, your local ISP should be redirecting their deep packet inspection efforts on thwarting spambots. Regardless how deep it is buried in your OS, at some point it is going to have to announce its presence when it starts spewing spam. With >90% of the internet being choked up with spam, shouldn't ISPs worry about spambots rather than P2P? If spam is detected, a friendly email could be sent back to the source indicating that your PC is likely infected with malware.
Also, if more people ( not everybody ) switched to alternative operating systems such as Macs and Linux, (preferrably different distros) it would be much harder for malware to propogate, as they would have to split their efforts at hiding in many different targets and spreading between incompatible systems.
What is funny, is they are still going to have to provide drivers for all the new hardware that isn't invented yet in order to support low end laptops for the next few years. Looks like they won't be disbanding their XP dev team quite yet..
About the time the 386 was still considered a high end PC, a former roommate of mine who was doing a software engineering related Master's degree was convinced that no home user would ever find a use for multi-threading, except for printer spooling. He was as obviously wrong as Bill was with his 640K comment.
Even your humble word processor can be broken into hundered of threads, I would bet OpenOffice has dozens. Today, threads are considered expensive as RAM once was, but in the 16 core world they will be considered cheap. For example, separate threads could easily be dedicated to handling: Screen & Window rendering & management Controls management (scroll bars) Local mouse tracking Keystroke entry Printing Menu command dispatcher Page breaks Paragraph breaks Automatic hypenation & indentation Footnotes & references Font kerning On the fly spell checking On the fly grammar checking Gathering statistics such as word/paragraph/page counts, readability level, etc. Undo/Redo list management Disk drive I/O management Autosave management Dynamic links with other documents or web Macros
And this is just a simple word processer, never mind what else is going on in the background - web page updates, streaming audio/video, downloads, kernel processes, TCP/IP stack handling, etc. Running "top" on my desktop shows 129 tasks, and I don't think I am an atypical user. Sure, only a small fraction of these need to be doing useful work at any given time, but I am not running any CPU intensive apps at this instant. If I start ripping CDs in the background or assembling.rar files into a DVD the CPU gets hammered pretty quickly. Imagine if I could rip each track simultaneously? What if each.rar component could be reintegrated in parallel? What if my screen was broken into 16 or more parts, each rendered by separate core, communicating only what they need to over shared memory.
Checking programs for race conditions/deadlock and other contentions will get very tough, I can see help coming here from automated code analysis tools. And I can see C/C++ eventually giving way to inherently parallel languages, or being extended.
I had actually proposed this here more than a year ago. I think this is the way to go, perhaps alternatively with Verilog or System C. Too bad they don't have a search capability of your old postings or I would have linked to it.
Unfortunately, it is still only a "closed source" crack proprietary to SlySoft. You would have to run their software under wine and we would be back to square 1 if anything bad happened to SlySoft. The good folks at doom9 still need to keep working on this. muslix64 and DVD Jon, are you listening?
If it wasn't for Moore's law, Linux would have long since caught up with them. Imagine if hardware hit a wall, and technology couldn't advance beyond say what existed in 2000 or 2005. Then MS couldn't sell a more complex OS or office suite, and customers would be "stuck" with Win 2000 XP. There would be security patches or hard tuned optimizations to make it a bit faster, but that would be it. They couldn't justify the release an expensive major update for existing customers. Users would dead end at office 2000 or office 2003, since there would be no incentive to update. Office 2007 and/or Vista would not run at all, or would run impossibly slow on such machines.
Eventually, Open Office and Linux would catch and match them feature for feature, so new customers would have no incentive to go with the proprietary solution, since their protocols would eventually be reverse engineered bug for bug, feature for feature, driver for driver. The only way MS keeps Linux at bay is by releasing new feature laden stuff that takes advantage of new, updated hardware.
My prediction: The end of Moore's law will herald the end of Microsoft.
I can see one useful purpose of so called "Patent trolls."
Lets say you are a brilliant engineer/inventor, but a lousy businessman. You like to tinker away in your workshop, but have no ability or interest in marketing, managing employees, or filling out business tax forms. So you come up with ideas, and let somebody else handle the patent licensing so you can get back to doing what you love - inventing new stuff.
The real problem is that there are a lot of bogus patents granted that shouldn't be, and there needs to be better control over "submarine" patents. You shouldn't be able to pop up years later and raise patent claims against well established industry standards - Once the draft specification has been published, the onus should be on patent holders to come forward with any claims within a reasonable amount of time, say six months. You snooze, you lose.
Sorry, but there is NO SUCH THING as an "infringing torrent". You might as well talk about infringing MD5 hashes. This is crucial, I hope TPB's lawyers drive this issue home.
Yeah, but now you could get absolutely hammered for $0.05, and when you upchuck your dinner you can recycle it into more booze for next weeks party. Waste not!
For anybody who has been living under a rock, there is a US presidential election underway. There may be no better opportunity to bring these things to the forefront and make the candidates publicly show their hand as to where they stand on these issues. We have to know who is isn't owned by the copyright cartels. Given her husband signed the DMCA into law, I wouldn't put much faith in Hillary. (And don't say he had to - the president has something called a VETO which can be overridden, but requires a lot more votes and would at the very least be a symbolic guesture.)
(I don't live in the US, but this is a prime example as to how sooner or later we will all continue to feel the pressure to adopt similar laws if the wrong man or woman gets the job)
When the purpose of the law is to sow a minefield to rob honest and otherwise law abiding people, then it is time for the people to rise up and become outlaws if necessary. As it was with the underground railroad in the US - unjust and immoral laws must be opposed.
> Instead of attempting to out-tech Big Content there should be a focus on improving consumer rights.
In the long run, yes - this is the primary objective. But if this tool is just one more head of a hydra that overzealous ISPs or the **AA have to fight then it is a good thing, even if you or I never use it and it only works for a limited time. If they have to fight this war on 100 fronts then they will soon find that even their pockets have a limited depth and decide the fight is not worth it. Yeah, ads suck but if I was to use it, I could see starting this up on a separate screen of my desktop cube and not looking at the screen (and ads)until the download is complete.
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I could find a way around Bell's upstream throttling. (I have a 3rd party ISP)
Anyone manage to find a Bell throttling workaround for deluge? ( or any other Linux P2P) Turning on encryption hasn't helped.
Looks like the previous submitter was thinking the same thing and hit the submit button a few seconds before me...
Instead of filtering torrents, your local ISP should be redirecting their deep packet inspection efforts on thwarting spambots. Regardless how deep it is buried in your OS, at some point it is going to have to announce its presence when it starts spewing spam. With >90% of the internet being choked up with spam, shouldn't ISPs worry about spambots rather than P2P? If spam is detected, a friendly email could be sent back to the source indicating that your PC is likely infected with malware.
Also, if more people ( not everybody ) switched to alternative operating systems such as Macs and Linux, (preferrably different distros) it would be much harder for malware to propogate, as they would have to split their efforts at hiding in many different targets and spreading between incompatible systems.
What is funny, is they are still going to have to provide drivers for all the new hardware that isn't invented yet in order to support low end laptops for the next few years. Looks like they won't be disbanding their XP dev team quite yet..
About the time the 386 was still considered a high end PC, a former roommate of mine who was doing a software engineering related Master's degree was convinced that no home user would ever find a use for multi-threading, except for printer spooling. He was as obviously wrong as Bill was with his 640K comment.
.rar files into a DVD the CPU gets hammered pretty quickly. Imagine if I could rip each track simultaneously? What if each .rar component could be reintegrated in parallel? What if my screen was broken into 16 or more parts, each rendered by separate core, communicating only what they need to over shared memory.
Even your humble word processor can be broken into hundered of threads, I would bet OpenOffice has dozens. Today, threads are considered expensive as RAM once was, but in the 16 core world they will be considered cheap. For example, separate threads could easily be dedicated to handling:
Screen & Window rendering & management
Controls management (scroll bars)
Local mouse tracking
Keystroke entry
Printing
Menu command dispatcher
Page breaks
Paragraph breaks
Automatic hypenation & indentation
Footnotes & references
Font kerning
On the fly spell checking
On the fly grammar checking
Gathering statistics such as word/paragraph/page counts, readability level, etc.
Undo/Redo list management
Disk drive I/O management
Autosave management
Dynamic links with other documents or web
Macros
And this is just a simple word processer, never mind what else is going on in the background - web page updates, streaming audio/video, downloads, kernel processes, TCP/IP stack handling, etc. Running "top" on my desktop shows 129 tasks, and I don't think I am an atypical user. Sure, only a small fraction of these need to be doing useful work at any given time, but I am not running any CPU intensive apps at this instant. If I start ripping CDs in the background or assembling
Checking programs for race conditions/deadlock and other contentions will get very tough, I can see help coming here from automated code analysis tools. And I can see C/C++ eventually giving way to inherently parallel languages, or being extended.
I had actually proposed this here more than a year ago. I think this is the way to go, perhaps alternatively with Verilog or System C. Too bad they don't have a search capability of your old postings or I would have linked to it.
You mean you wouldn't "Boldly go where everyman has gone before?"
And let them know you notice, and request that they complain to Bell. I wonder if it is even legal, since they have already paid for the bandwidth.
Unfortunately, it is still only a "closed source" crack proprietary to SlySoft. You would have to run their software under wine and we would be back to square 1 if anything bad happened to SlySoft. The good folks at doom9 still need to keep working on this. muslix64 and DVD Jon, are you listening?
2001 was actually released in 1968.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)
(I am old enough to *barely* remember it being shown in the local theatre) - Of course I have both it and the sequel in my DVD collection!
If it wasn't for Moore's law, Linux would have long since caught up with them. Imagine if hardware hit a wall, and technology couldn't advance beyond say what existed in 2000 or 2005. Then MS couldn't sell a more complex OS or office suite, and customers would be "stuck" with Win 2000 XP. There would be security patches or hard tuned optimizations to make it a bit faster, but that would be it. They couldn't justify the release an expensive major update for existing customers. Users would dead end at office 2000 or office 2003, since there would be no incentive to update. Office 2007 and/or Vista would not run at all, or would run impossibly slow on such machines.
Eventually, Open Office and Linux would catch and match them feature for feature, so new customers would have no incentive to go with the proprietary solution, since their protocols would eventually be reverse engineered bug for bug, feature for feature, driver for driver. The only way MS keeps Linux at bay is by releasing new feature laden stuff that takes advantage of new, updated hardware.
My prediction: The end of Moore's law will herald the end of Microsoft.
> The mentality I speak of is "The entire world around me should be adjusted to fit my way of thinking or doing things."
It also seems to be a common mentality with certain industry cartels and corporations - The RIAA/MPAA, and Microsoft for example...
The cryptographic attack on Apples DRM (And Vista's protected video ) could be aided by the so-called "Cold Boot Attack" discussed a couple of days ago. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/21/1543234
In fact, this could be useful for cracking BD+ under Vista as well....
I can see one useful purpose of so called "Patent trolls."
Lets say you are a brilliant engineer/inventor, but a lousy businessman. You like to tinker away in your workshop, but have no ability or interest in marketing, managing employees, or filling out business tax forms. So you come up with ideas, and let somebody else handle the patent licensing so you can get back to doing what you love - inventing new stuff.
The real problem is that there are a lot of bogus patents granted that shouldn't be, and there needs to be better control over "submarine" patents. You shouldn't be able to pop up years later and raise patent claims against well established industry standards - Once the draft specification has been published, the onus should be on patent holders to come forward with any claims within a reasonable amount of time, say six months. You snooze, you lose.
Sorry, but there is NO SUCH THING as an "infringing torrent". You might as well talk about infringing MD5 hashes. This is crucial, I hope TPB's lawyers drive this issue home.
This is good news, yet I wonder why they went with Fedora instead of a localized distro?
( http://bayanihan.gov.ph/ )
Yeah, but now you could get absolutely hammered for $0.05, and when you upchuck your dinner you can recycle it into more booze for next weeks party. Waste not!
For anybody who has been living under a rock, there is a US presidential election underway. There may be no better opportunity to bring these things to the forefront and make the candidates publicly show their hand as to where they stand on these issues. We have to know who is isn't owned by the copyright cartels. Given her husband signed the DMCA into law, I wouldn't put much faith in Hillary. (And don't say he had to - the president has something called a VETO which can be overridden, but requires a lot more votes and would at the very least be a symbolic guesture.)
(I don't live in the US, but this is a prime example as to how sooner or later we will all continue to feel the pressure to adopt similar laws if the wrong man or woman gets the job)
> The two together is just about as close to Christmas in January as you can get
Actually, Christmas does fall in January if you belong to one of the few Christian groups who use the Julian Calendar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Julian_calendar
If you have accumulated that much gold, WoW probably is your life, or at least your bread and butter
Anybody accumulating that much gold in the game is undoubtably a gold farmer making a career of WoW.
I rememeber a Dilbert episode where the PHB was given your $10 laptop:
http://pics.livejournal.com/allah_sulu/pic/0002f3h8/g13
Very good multimedia presentation of what New York will look like in the near and far future if we would just leave it alone.
http://www.worldwithoutus.com/multimedia.html
When the purpose of the law is to sow a minefield to rob honest and otherwise law abiding people, then it is time for the people to rise up and become outlaws if necessary. As it was with the underground railroad in the US - unjust and immoral laws must be opposed.
George Orwell was about 25 years too early in his predictions.
> Instead of attempting to out-tech Big Content there should be a focus on improving consumer rights.
In the long run, yes - this is the primary objective. But if this tool is just one more head of a hydra that overzealous ISPs or the **AA have to fight then it is a good thing, even if you or I never use it and it only works for a limited time. If they have to fight this war on 100 fronts then they will soon find that even their pockets have a limited depth and decide the fight is not worth it. Yeah, ads suck but if I was to use it, I could see starting this up on a separate screen of my desktop cube and not looking at the screen (and ads)until the download is complete.