You could easily use stenography in an html page. Even better in an image, even totally better in a binary file - eg a zip file or program. Your filesharing client pretends to be an HTTP server/client sending normal data, the other side knows this and will 'download' files/images on your 'website' and decrypt them. While a clever filter could check that jpegs/gifs are valid, how are you going to check that a zipped binary exicutable in a multitude of formats/builds is valid, or even if data in that executable is encrypted? This holds true for almost any 'innocent' protocal - instant messaging, netmeetinhg/videoconferencing, ftp, online games etc.
The RIAA/MPAA would love to have this (cake) and eat it! They would have this tax in effect but file sharing would still be illigal. Kind of like the way you pay for tv channels but still get adverts and the networks complain when you skip them.
Also you cant really block just file sharing traffic, many have tried and failed, and eventually all traffic will just be encrypted on the fly so it will just look all the same to any filter/evesdropper - it doesnt even need to be strong encryption, just strong enough that it would take a few minutes to break on the fastest machines and variable enough so that the end user can set the strength/key length at will and wham, nothing can stop it, you'll just increase the strength every few months in acordance with moores law and the filters wont be able to catch up. It would need an initial way to get a secure connection and avoid a man-in-the-middle attack by the ISP and then you could create additional connections over that.
A great day for justice, and i hope other European countries take note (especially my mine - UK).
Does anyone else think "The right to bare arms" was actually ment to include all arms - such as arms against corporate control - i.e software & hardware tools and filesharing apps to allow freedom of information and speech and the ability to reverse engineer freely? The whole point to that right was to prevent a dictatorship, or a big-brother state, and those tools are as vital as guns in that respect.
My brother got a nice expensive Apple notebook only to discover that playing video in full screen on quicktime was feature you had to pay extra for! needless to say, one crack later and my respect for apple went down. I wonder if this wonderous feature is free yet?
How come anyone who was clean-shaven had zero-stubble all through the film? even frodo and sam who were miles from bloody anywhere looked like they had been on the mac-3 like crazy!? Also that giant spider moved abit to fast for my liking, the physics didnt seem right, but apart from that yeah it was cool
WTF is NTen? no i cant be bothered to google it. I dont use Outlook dont be stupid, and fact is there are too many serious issues in windows that havnt been addressed just one example
Do you expect the Linux Kernel team to fix problems with Open Office? NO YOU DON'T! So why do you expect it from Microsoft?
The Linux Kernel team have nothing to do with OpenOffice, and the OpenOffice team provide an excellent piece of software for free! I would expect the makers of a commercial software product who also own the OS it runs on to produce bloody tight code, so in answer to your stupid question: YES I WOULD EXPECT MICROSOFT TO FIX OFFICE SINCE THEY CREATED IT!
Are they serious? This is the type of crap that they stick in an important SP!?! A fucking pop-up killer?? how hard could this have been to implement 5 years ago? what about fixing vb-script worms in outlook? _now_ they decide to turn the firewall on by default? why dont the older nt's have firewalls? It seems that NT doesnt stand for New Technology, it doesnt even have the technology of running water. Thats not even the tip of the iceberg that gets bashed into by corporate servers every day. If you are running an important system with Windows, your gonna get a big titanic hole in the side of your PC. Patch _that_ Microsoft!
How about various DRM and TCPA cracking projects? I'll donate cycles to anyone who wants to publically humiliate Bill Gates, Senitor Fritz (he still around?) or any of the other crack heads that fancy controlling what i do with my own computer in my own home.
Thats very true, but i would be much happier knowing that people are wasting bandwidth on kazaa (uploads) than other things - because kazaa etc is techically a service back into society - you are being part of a distributed network, doing your bit for the team. Ok so it strains the ISP, but i think its time the ISPs realised that people use their connections very differently than they did 5 years ago and its the ISPs job to keep its business model - ie the packages it offers, up to date and maybe charge by bandwidth or give the option.
Ive been pissed about by ISPs here in the UK. The two i've been with most my net life are ClaraNet and Surfanytime, but im sure they are all the same. The problem is that they really really want you to think their service is unlimited as in all-you-can-eat, but if you look in their T&C it quite clearly says that its not unlimited. I think another problem was that sometimes it wasnt stated exactly how many hours "not unlimited" ment - but that was quickly added by the lawyers. What they are really selling is infact a standard service - eg 200 hours a month at 10: 10/200 = 5p per hour but they are advertising it in a way that says "you just pay 10 a month, no phone bill, thats all" when what they should be advertising is "you pay 5p per hour and no phone bill" or "you pay 10 and get 200 hours a month free with no phone bill".
Being a geek i went over the limits month after month and this resulted in alsorts of things ranging from emails that "recommended" i upgrade my account to the more expensive version or just being charged standard rates for the extra use. I wouldnt mind but they should damn well make it clear - the same clear as those "smoking damages your health" things on cigarette packs and bill boards"
Anyway, now im on tiscali adsl which is fine (just downloaded 2gb of mandrake iso's and a couple of debians this week - they better not complain.;)
AP, Saddam Hussein has been rescued from a farm house near Tikrit, Iraq. The leader had gone missing - presumed kidnapped by loyalists months before. Mr Hussein has already been reunited with long-time friend Donald Rumsfeld by video phone who was reported to say "Hey Saddam! Hows it going? i havnt seen you for years". There was some speculation that video footage of Saddam Hussein recieving a medical check violated the geniva convention but that was quickly dismissed by the ex-leader saying "I've got no problem with the cameras aslong as they arnt from fucking OK Magazine or the Sun!".
Meanwhile the Queen of England, in spirit of inviting potential dictators around for tea has already asked Mr Hussein to join her in Buckingham palace. Tony Blair and George W. Bush are impatient to find out just where Saddam put the weapons they sold him
There is currently a lack of interoperability between digital content technologies that makes it challenging for consumers to easily get the content they want, in the format, platform and other preferences they choose.
"While the internet and its protcols e.g www/http, filesharing etc are well suited to almost eveyrone in the world, we the suits find it challenging to make more money from less work."
Additionally, there is currently no technology framework in place that allows all market participants to ensure that the business agreements they make are respected.
"We have come to the conclusion that the business model that has been in use since the dawn of mankind (you give me this i give you that) does not work. We want to sell you a book, but we dont trust you to burn it after 24 hours so you can return and buy another one."
Today, there does not exist a technical and business framework to achieve interoperability across multiple technology platforms and enable new business models. The Content Reference Forum plans to change that.
"We had an old business model working before, but unfortunately there has been a change in technology and instead of moving on we want it our way."
The Content Reference Forum (CRF) is a recently formed standards group of leading technology and content-related companies established to develop a universal way to distribute digital content across various media and geographies.
"We have decided to join forces with our other corporate friends and make what is known in the business world as 'A big fucking unstoppable snow-ball monopoly bull-doser'"
The organization's goal is to create a dynamic marketplace where participants can promote, sell and legitimately share content; consumers can get the right content for their location, platform and preferences; and the underlying commercial agreements and rights surrounding the content are respected.
"We realised that eventualy everyone would figure out our plans so we sugar coated a potentially useless idea with the solution to a totally random problem: people get pissed off when they have to select their country and media format from a drop-down list."
CRF's work will benefit many different audiences including content and technology companies as well as services companies (e.g. cable, telecommunications, cellular) and related businesses (e.g. Internet portals/media companies, wireless companies, computer manufacturers, consumer electronics makers, entertainment companies).
"This will benefit us... and a few choice friends"
Consumers will also eventually benefit as it becomes easier for them to find and share the content they want in the way they want it.
"Consumers will eventually realise that if they do what we say we wont sue them. They will also be able to use our complicated, badly designed content search system and have the ability to select their country and media format from a drop-down list."
The technology is context sensitive. It's the antithesis to one-size-fits-all mass market distribution models. This makes it quite powerful and consumer friendly. The user's situation is relevant and respected including the rendering environment, location, existing relationship with content provider(s), and language preferences.
"We're going to write this little java app that lets you set the background colour of your online shop, and you can select your country from a drop-down list!"
If i can see it i can copy it ergo your entire specification (that you spent millions in business lunches on) is flawed. Not only that but the whole idea of DRM is the most idiotic and undemocratic imaginable. You (the greedy corporations) have helped move our society backwards by miles and have helped pass laws that will take years to unravel and fix. Your goal will make open source software impossible _and_ make open source hardware impossible. There is no way in hell you can tell me that you have the right to decide what people can do in their own homes, what hardware they can build, what software they can write and what things they can talk about which is basically what your going to do - intended or not.
If i want to write a program (that does not violate remote computers) then thats my right. If i want to build hardware or fab chips that are not 'leathal weapons' then thats also my right, and finally if i want to talk about what ive done, that is absolutely 100% my right and you can go and stick your rights up your wrong hole.
Maybe the patch server accidently patched its self causing a feedback loop of patches upon patches, thus creating a patch of a patch of the original patch. This would cause a dependancy update on the client (the patch server) which figured it needed to patch the other patch that patched a patched server in Washington that mirrored the patched patch server in Redmond until the patch created a patch and thus hash difference. A new patch was then generated to patch the patched patch server back to the unpatched patch server that mirrored the patched patch server. This patch triggered a second patch to patch customer machines to match them to the patched servers patch but the trigger was ignored by the second patch server because it was not correctly patched, thus causing a third patch to patch the patched patch servers' patch and remove the previous patch on the unpatched patch servers mirror. Now a hole in the update server caused a buffer overflow (which was subsequently patched from a Redmond support center) that single handedly caused 4 bogus patch notifications to be forwarded to a patch distributing load balancing server that patched 3 other local systems before patching back at the patcher - ie the original machine that patched the mirror of the patch server.
Seriously, how are they going to spin the media attention when someone actually gets shot for a filesharing offence (and no they were not armed)? Its gotta happen some time or another, and on that day, that tiny bit of respect for the USA that i have somewhere (its very very tiny at the moment sorry) will just vanish totally and i will just give up and hope the rest of the world steps in. We are about to reach a stage in society where we see kids on "The Worlds Wildest Police Videos" getting beaten to the floor by cops for using kazaa and George Bush talking about how evil and un-american the "Al Gore" filesharing internet is and how China must be invaded to stop piracy and save the economy. Every day we get one step closer to wacky futuristic sci-fi films where big brother makes you vanish if you say the wrong thing, and its a pitty because we got so far in the last century going in the totally opposite more free direction.
Have you praised your great leader George II today? sorry, didnt mean to make America sound like a medieval British inbred monarchy.
Innovation comes mosty from geeks who have time and equipment to play with. In computing, equipment generally means just a computer so you can have lots of innovation from anywhere. With other things it means labs and expensive toys and some time and freedom to play - usually at universities or corporate labs.
So let me get this straight. The NHS is dumping MS because it costs too much, but they are now going to spend 2.3Bn (is that a british billion or american? must be american) on Linux? Could they not reuse hardware? Im totally for ridding the world of Microsoft but sometimes it seems people are just bandwagon jumping and have no idea what they are doing.
PS. Running a medical computer system is not bloody state-of-the art. If microsofts' OS had been stable years ago then they wouldnt need to upgrade every year just to use some database app thats probably 10 years old itself.
That all depends: if their project seems unforfilling and pointless (which after the PM has been at it it probably will) then yes they are gonna be playing quake anyway. But a good project gets people engaged.
What if we were to pay C-Level's half their current salary to stay at home? The deal would be that they stay at home and have no input into the company and in return they get half wages. It would solve all management problems instantly (by removing them).
All i know is that if project managers went on strike for a week, they would come back to find the entire project had been completely redesigned from scratch, it would be amazingly efficient and well structured and it would work perfectly and within budget, whats more it would have 100 new useful features. If programmers went on strike for a week they would come back and find a list of 100 random, totally flawed and un-thought-out things to do on thier desks.
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This is more a Kazaa issue and less to do with filesharing in general but the fact remains that once you have planted the idea in peoples minds there is absolutely no way you are going to get rid of filesharing, so the RIAA and its buddies can go stick their supeonas up their asses because as far as im concerned if its our god-given right to own firearms!? its fucking certainly our god given right to share binary streams with anyone we like and id like _that_ on a bill of rights 10 times more than i would care about guns. Just remember "that filesharing network is for *cough* hunting^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbackups *cough* only.
I keep hearing people say this but ive had no problems (in the UK), i always get good files and will still be using my Kazaa lite until something better comes out. I've even connected to supernodes in the US and no problems on everything from rare songs to RIAA teeny-pop crap!?
its just the design philosophy - if your designing a windows based ATM system you are automatically a retard before you even start. thus your whole design is going to suck and your whole way of thinking about the design is going to suck.
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You could easily use stenography in an html page. Even better in an image, even totally better in a binary file - eg a zip file or program. Your filesharing client pretends to be an HTTP server/client sending normal data, the other side knows this and will 'download' files/images on your 'website' and decrypt them. While a clever filter could check that jpegs/gifs are valid, how are you going to check that a zipped binary exicutable in a multitude of formats/builds is valid, or even if data in that executable is encrypted? This holds true for almost any 'innocent' protocal - instant messaging, netmeetinhg/videoconferencing, ftp, online games etc.
The RIAA/MPAA would love to have this (cake) and eat it! They would have this tax in effect but file sharing would still be illigal. Kind of like the way you pay for tv channels but still get adverts and the networks complain when you skip them.
Also you cant really block just file sharing traffic, many have tried and failed, and eventually all traffic will just be encrypted on the fly so it will just look all the same to any filter/evesdropper - it doesnt even need to be strong encryption, just strong enough that it would take a few minutes to break on the fastest machines and variable enough so that the end user can set the strength/key length at will and wham, nothing can stop it, you'll just increase the strength every few months in acordance with moores law and the filters wont be able to catch up. It would need an initial way to get a secure connection and avoid a man-in-the-middle attack by the ISP and then you could create additional connections over that.
A great day for justice, and i hope other European countries take note (especially my mine - UK).
Does anyone else think "The right to bare arms" was actually ment to include all arms - such as arms against corporate control - i.e software & hardware tools and filesharing apps to allow freedom of information and speech and the ability to reverse engineer freely? The whole point to that right was to prevent a dictatorship, or a big-brother state, and those tools are as vital as guns in that respect.
My brother got a nice expensive Apple notebook only to discover that playing video in full screen on quicktime was feature you had to pay extra for! needless to say, one crack later and my respect for apple went down. I wonder if this wonderous feature is free yet?
How come anyone who was clean-shaven had zero-stubble all through the film? even frodo and sam who were miles from bloody anywhere looked like they had been on the mac-3 like crazy!? Also that giant spider moved abit to fast for my liking, the physics didnt seem right, but apart from that yeah it was cool
WTF is NTen? no i cant be bothered to google it. I dont use Outlook dont be stupid, and fact is there are too many serious issues in windows that havnt been addressed just one example
Do you expect the Linux Kernel team to fix problems with Open Office? NO YOU DON'T! So why do you expect it from Microsoft?
The Linux Kernel team have nothing to do with OpenOffice, and the OpenOffice team provide an excellent piece of software for free! I would expect the makers of a commercial software product who also own the OS it runs on to produce bloody tight code, so in answer to your stupid question: YES I WOULD EXPECT MICROSOFT TO FIX OFFICE SINCE THEY CREATED IT!
Are they serious? This is the type of crap that they stick in an important SP!?! A fucking pop-up killer?? how hard could this have been to implement 5 years ago? what about fixing vb-script worms in outlook? _now_ they decide to turn the firewall on by default? why dont the older nt's have firewalls? It seems that NT doesnt stand for New Technology, it doesnt even have the technology of running water. Thats not even the tip of the iceberg that gets bashed into by corporate servers every day. If you are running an important system with Windows, your gonna get a big titanic hole in the side of your PC. Patch _that_ Microsoft!
How about various DRM and TCPA cracking projects? I'll donate cycles to anyone who wants to publically humiliate Bill Gates, Senitor Fritz (he still around?) or any of the other crack heads that fancy controlling what i do with my own computer in my own home.
Maybe they can give me a spell check too?
Thats very true, but i would be much happier knowing that people are wasting bandwidth on kazaa (uploads) than other things - because kazaa etc is techically a service back into society - you are being part of a distributed network, doing your bit for the team. Ok so it strains the ISP, but i think its time the ISPs realised that people use their connections very differently than they did 5 years ago and its the ISPs job to keep its business model - ie the packages it offers, up to date and maybe charge by bandwidth or give the option.
Ive been pissed about by ISPs here in the UK. The two i've been with most my net life are ClaraNet and Surfanytime, but im sure they are all the same. The problem is that they really really want you to think their service is unlimited as in all-you-can-eat, but if you look in their T&C it quite clearly says that its not unlimited. I think another problem was that sometimes it wasnt stated exactly how many hours "not unlimited" ment - but that was quickly added by the lawyers. What they are really selling is infact a standard service - eg 200 hours a month at 10: 10/200 = 5p per hour but they are advertising it in a way that says "you just pay 10 a month, no phone bill, thats all" when what they should be advertising is "you pay 5p per hour and no phone bill" or "you pay 10 and get 200 hours a month free with no phone bill".
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Being a geek i went over the limits month after month and this resulted in alsorts of things ranging from emails that "recommended" i upgrade my account to the more expensive version or just being charged standard rates for the extra use. I wouldnt mind but they should damn well make it clear - the same clear as those "smoking damages your health" things on cigarette packs and bill boards"
Anyway, now im on tiscali adsl which is fine (just downloaded 2gb of mandrake iso's and a couple of debians this week - they better not complain.
AP, Saddam Hussein has been rescued from a farm house near Tikrit, Iraq. The leader had gone missing - presumed kidnapped by loyalists months before. Mr Hussein has already been reunited with long-time friend Donald Rumsfeld by video phone who was reported to say "Hey Saddam! Hows it going? i havnt seen you for years". There was some speculation that video footage of Saddam Hussein recieving a medical check violated the geniva convention but that was quickly dismissed by the ex-leader saying "I've got no problem with the cameras aslong as they arnt from fucking OK Magazine or the Sun!".
Meanwhile the Queen of England, in spirit of inviting potential dictators around for tea has already asked Mr Hussein to join her in Buckingham palace. Tony Blair and George W. Bush are impatient to find out just where Saddam put the weapons they sold him
2013 *71% = 1429 people who will potentially sue you if you try and tell them their network is insecure.
There is currently a lack of interoperability between digital content technologies that makes it challenging for consumers to easily get the content they want, in the format, platform and other preferences they choose.
"While the internet and its protcols e.g www/http, filesharing etc are well suited to almost eveyrone in the world, we the suits find it challenging to make more money from less work."
Additionally, there is currently no technology framework in place that allows all market participants to ensure that the business agreements they make are respected.
"We have come to the conclusion that the business model that has been in use since the dawn of mankind (you give me this i give you that) does not work. We want to sell you a book, but we dont trust you to burn it after 24 hours so you can return and buy another one."
Today, there does not exist a technical and business framework to achieve interoperability across multiple technology platforms and enable new business models. The Content Reference Forum plans to change that.
"We had an old business model working before, but unfortunately there has been a change in technology and instead of moving on we want it our way."
The Content Reference Forum (CRF) is a recently formed standards group of leading technology and content-related companies established to develop a universal way to distribute digital content across various media and geographies.
"We have decided to join forces with our other corporate friends and make what is known in the business world as 'A big fucking unstoppable snow-ball monopoly bull-doser'"
The organization's goal is to create a dynamic marketplace where participants can promote, sell and legitimately share content; consumers can get the right content for their location, platform and preferences; and the underlying commercial agreements and rights surrounding the content are respected.
"We realised that eventualy everyone would figure out our plans so we sugar coated a potentially useless idea with the solution to a totally random problem: people get pissed off when they have to select their country and media format from a drop-down list."
CRF's work will benefit many different audiences including content and technology companies as well as services companies (e.g. cable, telecommunications, cellular) and related businesses (e.g. Internet portals/media companies, wireless companies, computer manufacturers, consumer electronics makers, entertainment companies).
"This will benefit us... and a few choice friends"
Consumers will also eventually benefit as it becomes easier for them to find and share the content they want in the way they want it.
"Consumers will eventually realise that if they do what we say we wont sue them. They will also be able to use our complicated, badly designed content search system and have the ability to select their country and media format from a drop-down list."
The technology is context sensitive. It's the antithesis to one-size-fits-all mass market distribution models. This makes it quite powerful and consumer friendly. The user's situation is relevant and respected including the rendering environment, location, existing relationship with content provider(s), and language preferences.
"We're going to write this little java app that lets you set the background colour of your online shop, and you can select your country from a drop-down list!"
If i can see it i can copy it ergo your entire specification (that you spent millions in business lunches on) is flawed. Not only that but the whole idea of DRM is the most idiotic and undemocratic imaginable. You (the greedy corporations) have helped move our society backwards by miles and have helped pass laws that will take years to unravel and fix. Your goal will make open source software impossible _and_ make open source hardware impossible. There is no way in hell you can tell me that you have the right to decide what people can do in their own homes, what hardware they can build, what software they can write and what things they can talk about which is basically what your going to do - intended or not.
If i want to write a program (that does not violate remote computers) then thats my right. If i want to build hardware or fab chips that are not 'leathal weapons' then thats also my right, and finally if i want to talk about what ive done, that is absolutely 100% my right and you can go and stick your rights up your wrong hole.
Maybe the patch server accidently patched its self causing a feedback loop of patches upon patches, thus creating a patch of a patch of the original patch. This would cause a dependancy update on the client (the patch server) which figured it needed to patch the other patch that patched a patched server in Washington that mirrored the patched patch server in Redmond until the patch created a patch and thus hash difference. A new patch was then generated to patch the patched patch server back to the unpatched patch server that mirrored the patched patch server. This patch triggered a second patch to patch customer machines to match them to the patched servers patch but the trigger was ignored by the second patch server because it was not correctly patched, thus causing a third patch to patch the patched patch servers' patch and remove the previous patch on the unpatched patch servers mirror. Now a hole in the update server caused a buffer overflow (which was subsequently patched from a Redmond support center) that single handedly caused 4 bogus patch notifications to be forwarded to a patch distributing load balancing server that patched 3 other local systems before patching back at the patcher - ie the original machine that patched the mirror of the patch server.
Which explains the big bang
Seriously, how are they going to spin the media attention when someone actually gets shot for a filesharing offence (and no they were not armed)? Its gotta happen some time or another, and on that day, that tiny bit of respect for the USA that i have somewhere (its very very tiny at the moment sorry) will just vanish totally and i will just give up and hope the rest of the world steps in. We are about to reach a stage in society where we see kids on "The Worlds Wildest Police Videos" getting beaten to the floor by cops for using kazaa and George Bush talking about how evil and un-american the "Al Gore" filesharing internet is and how China must be invaded to stop piracy and save the economy. Every day we get one step closer to wacky futuristic sci-fi films where big brother makes you vanish if you say the wrong thing, and its a pitty because we got so far in the last century going in the totally opposite more free direction.
Have you praised your great leader George II today? sorry, didnt mean to make America sound like a medieval British inbred monarchy.
Innovation comes mosty from geeks who have time and equipment to play with. In computing, equipment generally means just a computer so you can have lots of innovation from anywhere. With other things it means labs and expensive toys and some time and freedom to play - usually at universities or corporate labs.
So let me get this straight. The NHS is dumping MS because it costs too much, but they are now going to spend 2.3Bn (is that a british billion or american? must be american) on Linux? Could they not reuse hardware? Im totally for ridding the world of Microsoft but sometimes it seems people are just bandwagon jumping and have no idea what they are doing.
PS. Running a medical computer system is not bloody state-of-the art. If microsofts' OS had been stable years ago then they wouldnt need to upgrade every year just to use some database app thats probably 10 years old itself.
That all depends: if their project seems unforfilling and pointless (which after the PM has been at it it probably will) then yes they are gonna be playing quake anyway. But a good project gets people engaged.
What if we were to pay C-Level's half their current salary to stay at home? The deal would be that they stay at home and have no input into the company and in return they get half wages. It would solve all management problems instantly (by removing them).
All i know is that if project managers went on strike for a week, they would come back to find the entire project had been completely redesigned from scratch, it would be amazingly efficient and well structured and it would work perfectly and within budget, whats more it would have 100 new useful features. If programmers went on strike for a week they would come back and find a list of 100 random, totally flawed and un-thought-out things to do on thier desks.
This is more a Kazaa issue and less to do with filesharing in general but the fact remains that once you have planted the idea in peoples minds there is absolutely no way you are going to get rid of filesharing, so the RIAA and its buddies can go stick their supeonas up their asses because as far as im concerned if its our god-given right to own firearms!? its fucking certainly our god given right to share binary streams with anyone we like and id like _that_ on a bill of rights 10 times more than i would care about guns. Just remember "that filesharing network is for *cough* hunting^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbackups *cough* only.
I keep hearing people say this but ive had no problems (in the UK), i always get good files and will still be using my Kazaa lite until something better comes out. I've even connected to supernodes in the US and no problems on everything from rare songs to RIAA teeny-pop crap!?
its just the design philosophy - if your designing a windows based ATM system you are automatically a retard before you even start. thus your whole design is going to suck and your whole way of thinking about the design is going to suck.