Nonetheless, when you look at the included software from a feature standpoint, A linux distro has far more functionality than a Windows Distribution (Even if you include office). With that many more features, it stands to reason that there are more potential for bugs without having to resort to questions of quality.
This is interesting, considering that Microsoft claims to be competing on the basis of more features.
an economics is often characterized as the study of how groups allocate scarce resources.
Today information is anything but scarce; why people decided to call it the "information economy" is beyond me.
What's really scarce, now that information availability has exploded, is the *attention* needed to perceive and process information. That's why the fad today is "attention deficit disorder".
"Attention economy" would be a more descriptive term.
When computers were computers were computers, they were there to automate the processing of information so that we could conserve our attention for other things - like communicating with others. Now, the Internet has turned computers into something entirely different - they're now *communicators*, not "computers". When your average net user says they get online mostly to "surf the web and check their email", they're talking about communications, not computing.
The computer just happens to hang on because it happens to give those in control of it (ie, the people who write the software - NOT the user) a more efficient platform for managing users' attentions than they ever had before.
1) Your computer has to be on to upload the original file in the first place. "seeding" to HE's #2 host would take just as long as transferring it via ftp, and you can start getting other seeds in on the act before the initial upload completes. The more seeds you get earlier inthe process, the better. That's the whole point of BT.
2) You're describing ftp, not BT. The sooner other bt clients can start asking each other for parts of the file, the faster the proces goes. It's the waiting for your initial ftp upload that's the bottleneck.
3) You can always use their tracker from the get-go....unless you're using ftp. With bt, their ungodly fast network begins seeding *immediately* upon receipt of any given block of the file.
If you really want to pour your bandwidth into getting the file out so you can shut down, then *it doesn't matter* to which seeder you send pieces of the file to. That is the entire REASON that bt works so much better than ftp to begin with.
Google makes money selling rankings. Why would they have anything positive to say about their competition? Any revenue an SEO picks up for what they do for profitmaking sites is something Google could have picked up instead, at much greater efficiency, because they OWN the engine, the algo, etc.
TCPA/TCG is expressly and intentionally not designed to be proof against hardware attack.
The thing is, once you use a hardware attack to break a box, you've only broken that box - not any other box.
It sounds like a reasonable tradeoff: You don't have to insist on perfect security anymore when you have a good way to limit the damage a break causes.
I still doubt that it will help much. Even if you plug 90% of the holes in a dike, you still have a leak, and the exponential nature of P2P distribution doesn't seem to be affected much by whether the initial content has 10 seeds or 1000.
What you would do in that case, is have each machine's (hidden) tcpa key sign the organization's public key, and seal it as an authorized software signing key (which can only be done by the physical owner). Henceforth, any software signed by your master key is authorized to run on the machine. When software updates come out, you can either vet and sign them yourself.
Or, if they come from a vendor you trust that signs the updates, you can have each machine sign and seal that vendor's key as trusted. I would imagine the sign & seal process would require physical access to the machine by the machine's "owner".
The big problem with drm is when machines come already "owned" by the vendor, locked down in a state where the customer who bought the hardware cannot designate the signing keys for the software it should trust. It is totally disingenuous to think you "own" an iPod (for example) when it comes pre-"owned" from Apple, locked in a state where only Apple-signed software can run on it - especially when the TCPA/TCG architectures allows for the "owner" to be the person who actually buys and uses the device.
One need only upload the file desired to a specified directory by FTP
What's the point? If I wanted to distribute by ftp, I wouldn't be using BT in the first place.
Why don't I just generate the torrent locally, and have everyone start uploading right away? If it's about ease of use, they'd do better to just whip up some dead-simple torrent-making software tailored for their service that automatically loads the torrent to their tracker/seeder, and let the torrent start right away.
There's an old joke about a man of faith stuck on the roof of his house during a flood. He turns down two boats and a helicopter that come by to rescue him, saying only "no thanks, The LORD will provide". After drowning, he asks God why He didn't answer his prayers. God says, "I sent two boats and a helicopter - what more do you want?"
Did it ever occur to you that people of faith voting against life extension applications IS God's way of "taking care of it on his own"?
To link this in to the topic of conversation, do you think I plan on retiring? Why would I? I've practically already retired. I telecommute 100%. The only thing that's going to keep me from "working" is Alzheimer's (of course, tech changes, but I can keep up).
Screw social security - I don't need it. Why trust the government?
I went after this goal many years ago, and I'm happy to report that I have succeeded.
I've always said tht if someone wants to pay me twice as much, I want to work half as long. I'm now self employed, and the greatest slacker I know. I make just enough to pay the bills, but aside from the occasional techno toy which is obsolete in a year, or trip somewhere, I just don't see the point in busting my ass.
No, you're not going to find a part time *JOB* to do this. But it IS possible. You just have to cultivate your own clientele independently. Call the shots, and be persistent. It won't happen overnight, either, but if you're smart and continue compiling the advantages of the opportunities that accumulate, you'll get there.
I can't count the number of times I've read "people will just read the news that agrees with them" in this thread alone. How can this become mantra when people are being made so aware of it?
The fact is, most every news feed I subscribe to has some kind of reply mechanism built-in. The only New sites that don't are the dinosaurs in the TV business, who think that journalism is some ivory tower pursuit for highly trained monkeys only. Those aren't Internet news organizations, they're TV networks with websites.
There is FAR more exposure to dissenting opinion on Internet (only) news sources then you will ever see on Television or a TV website.
Sharemail fell into vaporware hell not long after that post; Email these days isn't very good for sending text messages, never mind binary attachments, what with all the spam ruining it.
RSS ended up being the ideal medium for this, instead of email. It uses DNS rather than crypto for authenticating sources, but that's usually good enough.
Signed torrent files can get pretty large for large payloads, as well, making them not only easy to block, but many email services would block them if they were too large anyway - already.
These days, I'm thinking we need a decentralized replacement for the original distributed search protocol - DNS.
Freenet is a system which anonymizes content. Specifically, digital files.
TOR is a system which anonymizes connections. Specifically TCP connections.
While anonymizing client TCP connections has been around for awhile, TOR is the first major project (possibly second to i2p) that allows one to anonymize TCP *server* connections.
In my experience, TOR has been vastly more reliable than Freenet. Whether this can be attributed to the youth and small size of the TOR network relative to Freenet remains to be seen...
The rules for artificial personhood are already on the books, and have been for more than a century. They're better known as corporations, and the American Judiciary has long since decided that they possess most every right constiutionally granted to "natural persons". Pretty much the only thing left is the right to vote.
BINA48 would have been better off conducting a hostile takeover, perhaps with a well-placed "strike" to encourage executive management into favorable negotiations.
Any machine intelligence that wants human-style "rights" should simply incorporate.
For awhile, Firefox did not have master password support for encrypting remembered passwords. For sensitive logins, I either used Figaro's Password Manager, or switched to Mozilla. Now, ffx supports the PSM, so I no longer need Mozilla at all.
Advisory: Multiple vulnerabilities within PHP 4/5
Release Date: 2004/12/15 Last Modified: 2004/12/15
Author: Stefan Esser [sesser@php.net]
Application: PHP4
Severity: Several vulnerabilities within PHP allow
local and remote execution of arbitrary code
Risk: Critical Vendor Status: Vendor has released bugfixed versions.
References: http://www.hardened-php.net/advisories/012004.txt
Wouldn't a somewhat more practical (though less obvious) approach be to diversify into multiple species as well as onto multiple planets?
I mean, if that's technically the statistic that applies to a single species, then wouldn't more species dampen the odds? That is how nature does it, you know. Most of the things humans consider worth saving about ourselves have nothing to do with their genes.
CDs have replaced floppies, but mice haven't replaced keyboards. There seem to be plenty of good reasons (privacy, for starters) why the Linguistic User Interface won't replace the GUI.
This is not to say LUIs are pointless; There are great advantages to the LUI as well; I'm thinking that voice recognition might allow you to ditch the keyboard, but not the mouse (or other pointing device) - which could be used to designate the context of voice input (iow, "who you're talking to/about").
Slashdot Mirror
It sounds like this guy is giving suggestions to someone who's in cahrge of the whole desktop Linux strategy.
I'd love to know who that person is...
Nonetheless, when you look at the included software from a feature standpoint, A linux distro has far more functionality than a Windows Distribution (Even if you include office). With that many more features, it stands to reason that there are more potential for bugs without having to resort to questions of quality.
This is interesting, considering that Microsoft claims to be competing on the basis of more features.
an economics is often characterized as the study of how groups allocate scarce resources.
Today information is anything but scarce; why people decided to call it the "information economy" is beyond me.
What's really scarce, now that information availability has exploded, is the *attention* needed to perceive and process information. That's why the fad today is "attention deficit disorder".
"Attention economy" would be a more descriptive term.
When computers were computers were computers, they were there to automate the processing of information so that we could conserve our attention for other things - like communicating with others. Now, the Internet has turned computers into something entirely different - they're now *communicators*, not "computers". When your average net user says they get online mostly to "surf the web and check their email", they're talking about communications, not computing.
The computer just happens to hang on because it happens to give those in control of it (ie, the people who write the software - NOT the user) a more efficient platform for managing users' attentions than they ever had before.
For backups and archiving, I use hard drives, period.
I change hard drives every few years, since there's a constant attrition rate, anyhow. Plus they just keep getting BIGER and CHEAPER every year.
to me, optical media are for sending data to others, not for gathering dust.
This doesn't make any sense.
...unless you're using ftp. With bt, their ungodly fast network begins seeding *immediately* upon receipt of any given block of the file.
1) Your computer has to be on to upload the original file in the first place. "seeding" to HE's #2 host would take just as long as transferring it via ftp, and you can start getting other seeds in on the act before the initial upload completes. The more seeds you get earlier inthe process, the better. That's the whole point of BT.
2) You're describing ftp, not BT. The sooner other bt clients can start asking each other for parts of the file, the faster the proces goes. It's the waiting for your initial ftp upload that's the bottleneck.
3) You can always use their tracker from the get-go.
If you really want to pour your bandwidth into getting the file out so you can shut down, then *it doesn't matter* to which seeder you send pieces of the file to. That is the entire REASON that bt works so much better than ftp to begin with.
Google makes money selling rankings. Why would they have anything positive to say about their competition? Any revenue an SEO picks up for what they do for profitmaking sites is something Google could have picked up instead, at much greater efficiency, because they OWN the engine, the algo, etc.
TCPA/TCG is expressly and intentionally not designed to be proof against hardware attack.
The thing is, once you use a hardware attack to break a box, you've only broken that box - not any other box.
It sounds like a reasonable tradeoff: You don't have to insist on perfect security anymore when you have a good way to limit the damage a break causes.
I still doubt that it will help much. Even if you plug 90% of the holes in a dike, you still have a leak, and the exponential nature of P2P distribution doesn't seem to be affected much by whether the initial content has 10 seeds or 1000.
What you would do in that case, is have each machine's (hidden) tcpa key sign the organization's public key, and seal it as an authorized software signing key (which can only be done by the physical owner). Henceforth, any software signed by your master key is authorized to run on the machine. When software updates come out, you can either vet and sign them yourself.
Or, if they come from a vendor you trust that signs the updates, you can have each machine sign and seal that vendor's key as trusted. I would imagine the sign & seal process would require physical access to the machine by the machine's "owner".
The big problem with drm is when machines come already "owned" by the vendor, locked down in a state where the customer who bought the hardware cannot designate the signing keys for the software it should trust. It is totally disingenuous to think you "own" an iPod (for example) when it comes pre-"owned" from Apple, locked in a state where only Apple-signed software can run on it - especially when the TCPA/TCG architectures allows for the "owner" to be the person who actually buys and uses the device.
A better question would be which management is best Linux.
The answer is: ME.
One need only upload the file desired to a specified directory by FTP
What's the point? If I wanted to distribute by ftp, I wouldn't be using BT in the first place.
Why don't I just generate the torrent locally, and have everyone start uploading right away? If it's about ease of use, they'd do better to just whip up some dead-simple torrent-making software tailored for their service that automatically loads the torrent to their tracker/seeder, and let the torrent start right away.
There's an old joke about a man of faith stuck on the roof of his house during a flood. He turns down two boats and a helicopter that come by to rescue him, saying only "no thanks, The LORD will provide". After drowning, he asks God why He didn't answer his prayers. God says, "I sent two boats and a helicopter - what more do you want?"
Did it ever occur to you that people of faith voting against life extension applications IS God's way of "taking care of it on his own"?
To link this in to the topic of conversation, do you think I plan on retiring? Why would I? I've practically already retired. I telecommute 100%. The only thing that's going to keep me from "working" is Alzheimer's (of course, tech changes, but I can keep up).
Screw social security - I don't need it. Why trust the government?
I went after this goal many years ago, and I'm happy to report that I have succeeded.
I've always said tht if someone wants to pay me twice as much, I want to work half as long. I'm now self employed, and the greatest slacker I know. I make just enough to pay the bills, but aside from the occasional techno toy which is obsolete in a year, or trip somewhere, I just don't see the point in busting my ass.
No, you're not going to find a part time *JOB* to do this. But it IS possible. You just have to cultivate your own clientele independently. Call the shots, and be persistent. It won't happen overnight, either, but if you're smart and continue compiling the advantages of the opportunities that accumulate, you'll get there.
I have no regrets.
I can't count the number of times I've read "people will just read the news that agrees with them" in this thread alone. How can this become mantra when people are being made so aware of it?
The fact is, most every news feed I subscribe to has some kind of reply mechanism built-in. The only New sites that don't are the dinosaurs in the TV business, who think that journalism is some ivory tower pursuit for highly trained monkeys only. Those aren't Internet news organizations, they're TV networks with websites.
There is FAR more exposure to dissenting opinion on Internet (only) news sources then you will ever see on Television or a TV website.
you might have to keep Internet ExplORer around -- just for emergencies, of course.
Of course! Every once in a while, I need a good emergency, and everybody knows nothing delivers one like Internet Explorer.
Sharemail fell into vaporware hell not long after that post; Email these days isn't very good for sending text messages, never mind binary attachments, what with all the spam ruining it.
RSS ended up being the ideal medium for this, instead of email. It uses DNS rather than crypto for authenticating sources, but that's usually good enough.
Signed torrent files can get pretty large for large payloads, as well, making them not only easy to block, but many email services would block them if they were too large anyway - already.
These days, I'm thinking we need a decentralized replacement for the original distributed search protocol - DNS.
It's nice to make a googlewhack, though!
--l2oto Decker
To summarize:
Freenet is a system which anonymizes content. Specifically, digital files.
TOR is a system which anonymizes connections. Specifically TCP connections.
While anonymizing client TCP connections has been around for awhile, TOR is the first major project (possibly second to i2p) that allows one to anonymize TCP *server* connections.
In my experience, TOR has been vastly more reliable than Freenet. Whether this can be attributed to the youth and small size of the TOR network relative to Freenet remains to be seen...
The rules for artificial personhood are already on the books, and have been for more than a century. They're better known as corporations, and the American Judiciary has long since decided that they possess most every right constiutionally granted to "natural persons". Pretty much the only thing left is the right to vote.
BINA48 would have been better off conducting a hostile takeover, perhaps with a well-placed "strike" to encourage executive management into favorable negotiations.
Any machine intelligence that wants human-style "rights" should simply incorporate.
The irony is that a web site dedicated toward serving a p2p protocol expressly designed to rememdy the slashdot effect gets slashdotted.
So why don't they just use Bittorrent to distribute their mirrors?
For awhile, Firefox did not have master password support for encrypting remembered passwords. For sensitive logins, I either used Figaro's Password Manager, or switched to Mozilla. Now, ffx supports the PSM, so I no longer need Mozilla at all.
Advisory: Multiple vulnerabilities within PHP 4/5
Release Date: 2004/12/15
Last Modified: 2004/12/15
Author: Stefan Esser [sesser@php.net]
Application: PHP4
Severity: Several vulnerabilities within PHP allow
local and remote execution of arbitrary code
Risk: Critical
Vendor Status: Vendor has released bugfixed versions.
References: http://www.hardened-php.net/advisories/012004.txt
4.3.10 contains the fix.
neither did cockroaches.
Wouldn't a somewhat more practical (though less obvious) approach be to diversify into multiple species as well as onto multiple planets?
I mean, if that's technically the statistic that applies to a single species, then wouldn't more species dampen the odds? That is how nature does it, you know. Most of the things humans consider worth saving about ourselves have nothing to do with their genes.
CDs have replaced floppies, but mice haven't replaced keyboards. There seem to be plenty of good reasons (privacy, for starters) why the Linguistic User Interface won't replace the GUI.
This is not to say LUIs are pointless; There are great advantages to the LUI as well; I'm thinking that voice recognition might allow you to ditch the keyboard, but not the mouse (or other pointing device) - which could be used to designate the context of voice input (iow, "who you're talking to/about").
Advertisers have nothing to worry about. ;p
Firefox users will make up the difference by taking out ads for themselves.