Yeah, your average.torrent file is about 15K (according to my OLDTORRENTS dir), so that's a lot of segments, a lot of bandwidth, and a lot more memory required to cache thousands upon thousands of torrents.
DNS administrators will simply stop caching TXT records
It's more likely they'd patch their DNS servers to filter out only the suspect non-text TXT records, which means the torrents would have their SHA1 hashes dropped and would be useless.
Why is it so much worse to see someone get blown then to see them get their head blown off?
Because sex embarrasses the bitter, hypocritical old farts, but violence and wargames are necessary to prime the next generation of warriors to go out and kill the other tribe's breeding heathens?:)
without the key component (that feeling in your stomach)
That feeling is actually in your inner ear, and it can be simulated by stimulating it with lowlevel electrical shocks. I remember a couple companies were working on bringing this kind of device to the mass market, but it never materialized, probably for legal reasons.
As long the average intelligence of the population continues to increase (which is arguable), then I'm all for overpopulation, because the more thinking people are alive, the faster we evolve technologically.
And it's that same advancing tech that allows for advances in food production, health, etc, which is why society didn't collapse from overpopulation as was the hot prediction in the 70s.
If/When the bait and switch occurs, people will begin to realize that "Trusted Computing" means that they're the ones not being trusted, and their freedom to do as they please has been taken by megacorps. No more mp3s? No more pirated Windows or Office or Games? Not being able to print an image off some website? Having your camcorder shutdown when it detects MPAA/RIAA-tagged content? What the fuck?!
That's leaves a gaping hole for a huge blackmarket in Open Software & Hardware. It would also be a big boost for wireless mesh networking.
So, because you're a pessimistic, paranoid, isolationist, luddite, so should everyone be? Only you know the Right Way?
Humankinds appetite for communication and connectedness will continue to grow, and despite my "Brain-2-Network" interface, I'll still be able to stop and smell the flowers.
Simstim can never replace reality
Never say never, or did you mean to say "I hope it's never possible, because it conflicts with my current belief systems"?
I heard a slightly different version: Han sees Greedo draw his blaster -- which have been outlawed by Empireland Security -- so Han whispers into his comm to report the incident, as any good patriot must. Storm Troopers arrive moments later to remove the dirty, antenna-head terrorist.
In order for it to work seemlessly, the "image proxy for the eye(s)" would have to see exactly what the eye sees, which probably means that a camera external to the eye - such as on your glasses rims - wouldn't be accurate enough. It would also have to be combined with another eye-tracking camera that looks back at your eyeball to figure out in which direction you were looking in. Jitter and overlay alignment problems would be annoying.
So I'll be waiting a bit longer for my artificial eyeball implants and/or optic nerve mod.
There are already "3D printers" used in industry for Rapid Prototyping, and there'll be consumer versions of these in a few years as price comes down. So what are you talking about? Who's sitting on the "3d printer" patent?
Can't wait for it myself.
First generation 3D printer + "liquid plastic cartridges" == never having to waste money or time buying stupid little knick nacks, figurines, replacement parts, etc. Of course, this printer will kill a few traditional businesses that made a living selling "cheap plastic shit" but this is nothing compared to true "desktop manufacturing" as nanotech matures.
Yes, great fantasy anime. I love it. Even though its premise is completely retarded.
I mean, really, humans manually cleaning up space debris in 2075? This will obviously be automated in the future (as will most jobs), but then that wouldn't make for a good story.
Now with the Miva site (which are notorious for not being indexed) I will have to come up with a revised strategy.
Here's an example Miva page, whose URL is: "http://www.miva.com/products/demo/Merchant/mercha nt.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=Miva_fresh&Category_ Code=mushrooms"
Most search engines don't like cgi URLs like that. Better to url rewrite with slashes.
Droid: The laser will imprint your registration number on your brain tissue. Please hold still.
Alita: On my BRAIN?
Droid: Finger prints, voice prints and retina patterns can be changed. Can you think of a better way to tell one cyborg from another?
Until we *do* have the ability to change our structure on the atomic level (with nanotech), licensed morticians would probably be required to burn the prints, retina, and RFIDs off the corpse to be buried.
I don't see why people think Nautilus is such a P.O.S. I use the commandline mostly, but when using Nautilus, it's snappy and functional enough for me.
My main gripe about it would probably be that it sucks up 100% of the CPU when files in the currently displayed directory are being updated - such as moving a large file into the dir, or when downloading a torrent. That's probably been fixed in 2.4, but I don't know (I'm still running 2.2 on RH9).
Forcing ISPs to be accountable for all traffic going through their routers will only speed up the development of stealthy P2P (and wireless for that matter).
The best they could do is close off all ports other than FTP, POP3, and HTTP and throttle down the bandwidth (even more than normal) for all "suspicious" encrypted traffic that is most likely "terrorist p2p VPN" activity.
Because, even though the post is marginally interesting, I really didn't want it to be modded up where too many people would see it and suck up all the site's limited bandwidth. thankfully someone was kind enough to cancel out a spiteful up mod with a troll downmod. Anyway, sorry you had to see the troll pics. >:)
My girlfriend used to work on her art website the oldfashioned way: shuttling files through WS_FTP and editing the basic HTML with notepad.exe. Eventually the site grew too large and unwieldy for her to manage so she asked me to do something.
I set her up with a MovableType blog - even though her webhost provided a ready-to-use blog called Bloxsom - so she could keep people up to date and interact with the other artsy-fartsy bloggers. I also setup an art Gallery for her to more easily manage and show off (and sell) her photography.
She says she'd never go back to the way she did it before because of all the time the web interfaces save her. I imagine these kinds of CMS's will only get more popular as time goes on; and I for one am GLAD to see the barrier to entry being lowered for people would rather spend their time taking pictures than fucking around with archane nuts and bolts.
(PS. please don't mod this up - don't want a/.'ing... and I'm not using reverse psychology you... you sweaty, basement-dwelling, cocksucking mods. crap. now that would be a mod up out of revenge, so here's a link to goatse.cx and tubgirl - nobody mods that shit up).
There is no easy middle ground anymore, and that's the problem. As for a solution, I don't have one myself
Actually, there is a middle ground, but there's not enough pressure for it to viably emerge, yet. Between 100% FREE and 100% totalitarian DRM control, there's the Street Performer Protocol.
Respect for perpetual copyright is nil these days, and it CANNOT be enforced without resorting to global police state control.
Millions, and soon billions of people will be sharing copies of old files regardless of ineffectual law. Without a copy monopoly, artificial scarcity no longer works, so what's scarce now? UNIQUE CREATION of NEW content IS! THAT is what will become worth paying for in the future, IMO. People will choose to pool their money up front for what they want, with the knowledge that the end result will be free to freeloaders. (A return to patronage in other words).
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Yeah, your average .torrent file is about 15K (according to my OLDTORRENTS dir), so that's a lot of segments, a lot of bandwidth, and a lot more memory required to cache thousands upon thousands of torrents.
DNS administrators will simply stop caching TXT records
It's more likely they'd patch their DNS servers to filter out only the suspect non-text TXT records, which means the torrents would have their SHA1 hashes dropped and would be useless.
d8:announce36:http://tsazz.sytes.net:6969/announce 13:creation datei1069918597e4:infod6:lengthi366858240e4:name32 :enterprise.311.hdtv-lol.[BT].avi12:piece lengthi1048576e6:pieces7000:***HASH SNIPPED***
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Because sex embarrasses the bitter, hypocritical old farts, but violence and wargames are necessary to prime the next generation of warriors to go out and kill the other tribe's breeding heathens? :)
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That feeling is actually in your inner ear, and it can be simulated by stimulating it with lowlevel electrical shocks. I remember a couple companies were working on bringing this kind of device to the mass market, but it never materialized, probably for legal reasons.
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And it's that same advancing tech that allows for advances in food production, health, etc, which is why society didn't collapse from overpopulation as was the hot prediction in the 70s.
So yes, 12 billion minds are better than 6.
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Yeah. Supply & Demand.
If/When the bait and switch occurs, people will begin to realize that "Trusted Computing" means that they're the ones not being trusted, and their freedom to do as they please has been taken by megacorps. No more mp3s? No more pirated Windows or Office or Games? Not being able to print an image off some website? Having your camcorder shutdown when it detects MPAA/RIAA-tagged content? What the fuck?!
That's leaves a gaping hole for a huge blackmarket in Open Software & Hardware. It would also be a big boost for wireless mesh networking.
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Humankinds appetite for communication and connectedness will continue to grow, and despite my "Brain-2-Network" interface, I'll still be able to stop and smell the flowers.
Simstim can never replace reality
Never say never, or did you mean to say "I hope it's never possible, because it conflicts with my current belief systems"?
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Hmm. Nope. Can't think of anything funny.
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I have. Many times. Peaceful bliss... :)
In order for it to work seemlessly, the "image proxy for the eye(s)" would have to see exactly what the eye sees, which probably means that a camera external to the eye - such as on your glasses rims - wouldn't be accurate enough. It would also have to be combined with another eye-tracking camera that looks back at your eyeball to figure out in which direction you were looking in. Jitter and overlay alignment problems would be annoying.
So I'll be waiting a bit longer for my artificial eyeball implants and/or optic nerve mod.
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Can't wait for it myself.
First generation 3D printer + "liquid plastic cartridges" == never having to waste money or time buying stupid little knick nacks, figurines, replacement parts, etc. Of course, this printer will kill a few traditional businesses that made a living selling "cheap plastic shit" but this is nothing compared to true "desktop manufacturing" as nanotech matures.
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For perfectionists, sometimes doing it right means not doing it at all. :)
"Perfection is the enemy of progress", and "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."
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I mean, really, humans manually cleaning up space debris in 2075? This will obviously be automated in the future (as will most jobs), but then that wouldn't make for a good story.
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Human Resource #761965B:
Corporatization of Personality: Complete.
Humanity Remaining: None.
Political Correctness Rating: 9.93
Sphincter Hardness (Mohs Scale): 10.1
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Here's an example Miva page, whose URL is: "http://www.miva.com/products/demo/Merchant/mercha nt.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=Miva_fresh&Category_ Code=mushrooms"
Most search engines don't like cgi URLs like that. Better to url rewrite with slashes.
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Droid: The laser will imprint your registration number on your brain tissue. Please hold still.
Alita: On my BRAIN?
Droid: Finger prints, voice prints and retina patterns can be changed. Can you think of a better way to tell one cyborg from another?
Until we *do* have the ability to change our structure on the atomic level (with nanotech), licensed morticians would probably be required to burn the prints, retina, and RFIDs off the corpse to be buried.
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My main gripe about it would probably be that it sucks up 100% of the CPU when files in the currently displayed directory are being updated - such as moving a large file into the dir, or when downloading a torrent. That's probably been fixed in 2.4, but I don't know (I'm still running 2.2 on RH9).
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The best they could do is close off all ports other than FTP, POP3, and HTTP and throttle down the bandwidth (even more than normal) for all "suspicious" encrypted traffic that is most likely "terrorist p2p VPN" activity.
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I set her up with a MovableType blog - even though her webhost provided a ready-to-use blog called Bloxsom - so she could keep people up to date and interact with the other artsy-fartsy bloggers. I also setup an art Gallery for her to more easily manage and show off (and sell) her photography.
She says she'd never go back to the way she did it before because of all the time the web interfaces save her. I imagine these kinds of CMS's will only get more popular as time goes on; and I for one am GLAD to see the barrier to entry being lowered for people would rather spend their time taking pictures than fucking around with archane nuts and bolts.
(PS. please don't mod this up - don't want a /.'ing ... and I'm not using reverse psychology you ... you sweaty, basement-dwelling, cocksucking mods. crap. now that would be a mod up out of revenge, so here's a link to goatse.cx and tubgirl - nobody mods that shit up).
Eww... Why would you want to wedge yourself into an analog hole?
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Actually, there is a middle ground, but there's not enough pressure for it to viably emerge, yet. Between 100% FREE and 100% totalitarian DRM control, there's the Street Performer Protocol.
Respect for perpetual copyright is nil these days, and it CANNOT be enforced without resorting to global police state control.
Millions, and soon billions of people will be sharing copies of old files regardless of ineffectual law. Without a copy monopoly, artificial scarcity no longer works, so what's scarce now? UNIQUE CREATION of NEW content IS! THAT is what will become worth paying for in the future, IMO. People will choose to pool their money up front for what they want, with the knowledge that the end result will be free to freeloaders. (A return to patronage in other words).