Secondly, what type of redundancy is going to be built into this system....if you're serving tiny pieces of a file from thousands of boxen, it seems to me that if even one of those fragments doesn't make it all the way downstream, the whole file would be worthless. Has Swarmcast done anything to prevent this from happening.
One of the main benefits of distributed anything is that there's an incredible amount of redundancy because every node is willing to contribute a little towards achieving your goal.
Are you trolling?
First of all, what type of security is going to be implemented to prevent hacks.
Against what? To prevent against file modification, checksums can be distributed from a single point since they're much smaller. All other security problems will be the same as any other P2P system. --
IMHO, it would have been nice to have a standard store-and-forward protocol years ago.
The core developers of the internet probably have very little trouble getting full-time connections to the internet. Until the advent of DSL and cable though, many of us were stuck with dialup connections. I've longed for an SMTP-like protocol that my programs could use to talk to each other when their connection was down.
Even for "permanent" connections, this protocol is useful. Connections go down from time to time, so apps that absolutely need 100% reliability need to build in code to wait and retransmit later when the link is back up. Instead of having each app implement this in a different way, a standard store-and-forward tcp protocol could have been designed. --
1. If people don't swallow these checmically-coated surfaces, they'll be okay. 2. People need specific kinds of germs-- the rest of them can die and we won't care. 3. These surface won't magically kill every single germ, so important germs aren't going to be in any more danger than they are from boiling water or bleach cleaning solutions. --
The point isn't to change software buyers' minds. The point is to reduce commercial support for Linux, which would in turn reduce the appeal to normal people and hackers alike. --
Is someone legally liable if they do the same thing, but immediately after their "threatening" sentance, clearly state that they're joking? Or can the statement of non-intent be removed like the rest of the context was? --
That might be a hard question... if technology like that had more than a very remote chance of existing. However, it doesn't. If it ever materializes, the laws can be changed. (hopefully in a more democratic way than they are now)
That's only half the story though. The other half is that the big companies would like to get the market to accept their data format, and only their data format. Once they do that, they can not only have a gatekeeper that keeps pirate copies out. But then they can also keep independant works out of the hands of normal people, either through explicit policy, or through red tape. --
...We will make all software written during the project Open Source as well as all the hows and whats of setting up the network and database. If there is someone we can help by sharing what we've got, we'll share it.
Q: That's insane, what will Grub's revenue be if it doesn't charge for the software?
A: Open Source is not synonymous with NOT making money! We have come up with a hybrid business model that uses four distinct methods for generating revenue...
By placing the crawler closer to the data (i.e. on the web server itself) our client will be able to analyze and index the data local to the system on which it is running.
Q: So if I were a system admin or a website author I'd want to run the client?
A: Yes! Anyone that provides web hosting/authoring services will have a use for running our client. In addition to crawling a portion of the Internet, the client can index the admin's/author's entire site each and every night, and then submit that summary to grub's servers for incorporation into the database. Running the client will allow them to provide an added value for their clients - having their web pages updated to the biggest index, each and every day.
So there are supposed to be selfish reasons for people to run grub nodes. --
Would people switch from something they know and understand to something they don't and costs more and gives no additional benefit? Nope.
So how did encyrpted DVD's get into the marketplace? Those "features" were globbed onto a next-gen format. And the corporations can keep doing these sorts of things, as long as the coolness factor of the new format outweighs the annoyances. --
Are they trying to prevent pirate/bootlegs? Why would watermarking prevent that?
Judge: Okay, RIAA, you win. Napster, you must comply and take down the songs that RIAA says you must take down.
(time passes) RIAA (in a whiney voice) Your honor, names alone aren't enough, can't you do something?
(time passes) RIAA: (all cocky) Your honor, we have a program that can automatically identify which songs are ours. Please have Napster remove all songs which this program identifies as ours. Judge: So this will stop copyright infringement of the major labels, but will allow songs from individual artists who want their songs to be traded to be traded? Sounds good to me. Napster, I order you to comply. --
If you're in it just for the reviews, GameRankings.com is a good alterternative. It's a meta-review site, averaging and linking to almost every online review of console/PC games.
Still, I'm gonna miss the peep show. I'm sad to see you go, Daily Radar. --
Slashdot Mirror
FYI, ACDSee's scrollwheel support also helps, and is probably better for quickly scrolling past some of the crap that shows up on usenet sometimes.
--
By freezing a standard too quickly, bad implementations can be propogated more often than necessary.
--
Well, you could always strap a Yagi to your keyboard, but I don't think you'd want to do that...
--
In this case, someone considering Open Motif has the choice to use an alternative that provides similar functionality.
With DVDs, you don't have an alternative. And even if you did, a "product with similar functionality" doesn't make sense.
--
However, combining "time warping" with all of Tivo's other stuff is novel.
Novel ideas always build off of prexisting ideas. As such, patents should be and are considered novel even if they build off of previous patents.
--
Secondly, what type of redundancy is going to be built into this system. ...if you're serving tiny pieces of a file from thousands of boxen, it seems to me that if even one of those fragments doesn't make it all the way downstream, the whole file would be worthless. Has Swarmcast done anything to prevent this from happening.
One of the main benefits of distributed anything is that there's an incredible amount of redundancy because every node is willing to contribute a little towards achieving your goal.
Are you trolling?
First of all, what type of security is going to be implemented to prevent hacks.
Against what? To prevent against file modification, checksums can be distributed from a single point since they're much smaller. All other security problems will be the same as any other P2P system.
--
That reference to the dreamcast network driver sticks out like a sore thumb. It doesn't run on an SH4, but it has drivers for the DC's NIC? Why?
--
Except that "farmer with shotgun causing network outages" is replaced with "Ferengi threatening IPN backbone if they're not paid soon".
--
The core developers of the internet probably have very little trouble getting full-time connections to the internet. Until the advent of DSL and cable though, many of us were stuck with dialup connections. I've longed for an SMTP-like protocol that my programs could use to talk to each other when their connection was down.
Even for "permanent" connections, this protocol is useful. Connections go down from time to time, so apps that absolutely need 100% reliability need to build in code to wait and retransmit later when the link is back up. Instead of having each app implement this in a different way, a standard store-and-forward tcp protocol could have been designed.
--
A planets, its moons, and its immediate satelites can essentially be linked into one internet. IPN is only used between planets or further.
--
1. If people don't swallow these checmically-coated surfaces, they'll be okay. 2. People need specific kinds of germs-- the rest of them can die and we won't care. 3. These surface won't magically kill every single germ, so important germs aren't going to be in any more danger than they are from boiling water or bleach cleaning solutions.
--
The point isn't to change software buyers' minds. The point is to reduce commercial support for Linux, which would in turn reduce the appeal to normal people and hackers alike.
--
Is someone legally liable if they do the same thing, but immediately after their "threatening" sentance, clearly state that they're joking? Or can the statement of non-intent be removed like the rest of the context was?
--
Why not? Laws which govern contracts can be copyrighted, so it seems only natural that contracts could be copyrighted as well.
--
That's only half the story though. The other half is that the big companies would like to get the market to accept their data format, and only their data format. Once they do that, they can not only have a gatekeeper that keeps pirate copies out. But then they can also keep independant works out of the hands of normal people, either through explicit policy, or through red tape.
--
Ahh, I see now.
--
- Q: What exactly does grub.org do?
So there are supposed to be selfish reasons for people to run grub nodes.A: grub.org is a company with a single purpose -
...We will make all software written during the project Open Source as well as all the hows and whats of setting up the network and database. If there is someone we can help by sharing what we've got, we'll share it.
Q: That's insane, what will Grub's revenue be if it doesn't charge for the software?
A: Open Source is not synonymous with NOT making money! We have come up with a hybrid business model that uses four distinct methods for generating revenue...
By placing the crawler closer to the data (i.e. on the web server itself) our client will be able to analyze and index the data local to the system on which it is running.
Q: So if I were a system admin or a website author I'd want to run the client?
A: Yes! Anyone that provides web hosting/authoring services will have a use for running our client. In addition to crawling a portion of the Internet, the client can index the admin's/author's entire site each and every night, and then submit that summary to grub's servers for incorporation into the database. Running the client will allow them to provide an added value for their clients - having their web pages updated to the biggest index, each and every day.
--
Will it kill my connection as efficiently as BearShare does?
--
So how did encyrpted DVD's get into the marketplace? Those "features" were globbed onto a next-gen format. And the corporations can keep doing these sorts of things, as long as the coolness factor of the new format outweighs the annoyances.
--
Exactly. It's a topic that's so emotion-laden, that it shuts down people's higher-level thought processes as soon as they hear it.
Of course, this discussion is already stuck in never-never land, so there's little point in discussing it, but ahh well...
--
I thought Port was a type of Wine, not an alternative to it.
--
Judge: Okay, RIAA, you win. Napster, you must comply and take down the songs that RIAA says you must take down.
(time passes)
RIAA (in a whiney voice) Your honor, names alone aren't enough, can't you do something?
(time passes)
RIAA: (all cocky) Your honor, we have a program that can automatically identify which songs are ours. Please have Napster remove all songs which this program identifies as ours.
Judge: So this will stop copyright infringement of the major labels, but will allow songs from individual artists who want their songs to be traded to be traded? Sounds good to me. Napster, I order you to comply.
--
Still, I'm gonna miss the peep show. I'm sad to see you go, Daily Radar.
--
I read that site every day after lunch. No more peep show... Now what do I do?
--
Get a second monitor to read documentation from. Not only would it pay for itself within 4 books, but it's more useful than a stack of spent books.
--