I'm sorry, but I'm not a retard. Among other things, that means you don't get to invoke a "the meaning of the word changes over time" defense. What you are actually engaging in, is a smear campaign orchestrated by copyright cartels who are in the process of buying legislation to suit them. Since it's unlikely you are in any way a "big player" that means you are simply a fool who buys into the propaganda they constantly spew.
Maybe you feel violated somehow. Why that makes you think that it's a good idea to give these sudhuman, corporate parasites the tools they need to enslave humanity, well, that's a mystery to me. Didn't ever say I had all the answers...
Quite a few reasons, not all of which are freenet's fault.
Fault of the users: 1) It assumes that the average warez dude actually be aware of all the copyright nazidom going on, at a "current events" level of awareness. 2) It assumes they are smart enough to recognize that freenet would be a solution to the legal problems that they *will* eventually face. 3) It assumes that they are smart enough to use it (this will cease to be a problem when the freenet guys figure out how to dumb down the interface enough). 4) It assumes they are smart enough to actually install it.
Fault of Freenet: 1) It uses 1 gig of traffic for every 10 megs you personally download. 2) It uses 500 megs of storage for every 10 megs you download. 3) The limiting factor for downloading a file known to exist on freenet is your patience, not your bandwidth.
Peerguardian is a joke. When it comes time to sue you, the MPAA or their BayTSP minions will simply use a consumer broadband account to gather the evidence. Duh.
If we knew every single employee of both companies, adn we have our spies working at all major ISPs on the lookout for those names (and assuming they don't use other names), we *might* be able to have some level of protection. Maybe. That's assuming that "our guy" isn't out sick the say they sign up, or the day that their cable modem gets a new DHCP lease.
P2p still sits on the internet, and for that reason, it's no safer than anything else. You have to build your own network, and it has to have moderately strong anonymity. Nothing else will work.
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Again, he only gives an example. No where does it say (or imply) that that example is exhaustive of all possible examples, or that it's the only function that satisfies the conditions he has set forth.
Besides which, you need to get a fucking sense of humor, and maybe a brain. If you have to settle for one or the other, go for the brain.
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Sadly for you, the english language is challenging. He said only that the two files "contain" the hash of the other, not that they are the hash of the other. See the difference? That means the only effective restriction is that the files each be 128 bits or larger.
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The first file is 92.8 gigs. The second is 14.3 terabytes. I thought I would warn you to clean out your inbox first, so that you don't go over your mailserver quota.
I also have five more solutions, though they aren't small like the one I'm submitting. I'd be willing to submit them too, though you'll have to buy the HDs and pay freight to have them shipped.
B) 601.4 petabytes and 993,563,124 exabytes C) 886 terabytes* and 221,454,442,899 exabytes D) 6.82 x 10^884 exabytes and 1.31 x 10^1019 exabytes E) 4.2 gigabytes and 6.24 x 10^2034 exabytes F) 904 terabytes and 8.12 x 10^4086 exabytes
* Note: Interestingly, though not necessarily mathematically significant, this file contains a 900 meg block of bytes that is valid mpeg2 and depicts slightly grainy video that shows what looks like a man that closely resembles Hugh Grant** fellating a younger George W. Bush. Numerologists should remember that this doesn't mean that the video is real, nor should it be considered such.
** Note: If you know anyone that goes by the nickname of "Bubby" and could have passed for a Hugh Grant look-a-like from 1980-1990, please email me with a picture of their face. We might be able to collaborate on a best-seller, guaranteed book deal.
I hate to accuse them of posting the story three times, because I know they work very hard to make sure it's only posted twice.
PS Actually, I don't think I'll have time to read it today, can you please re-post the story tomorrow, so I don't have to dig through the "previous stories" link?
What? That they've already strip-mined all the old story-telling formats? Movies, song, etc? Don't worry, they're already moving on, like a plague of locusts, to the next field... your video games may not suck yet, give it 10 years. It's no longer a garage industry, and DRM intends to make sure it stays that way.
What happens, in this indy game you want to play (the equivalent of an indy band mp3 right now) refuses to play, because Microsoft Windows 2009 claims that the binary is unsafe, and a digital signature would cost the indy company $50,000 that they can't afford?
Society may want there to be "no more mass", but we're talking about a group of industries with a strangehold on entertainment, billions of dollars to spend on lawyers, politicians, and propaganda, who may very well just make it so that there are no machines capable of breaking DRM.
Doesn't work that way. The burdens they'll place on us, the ones you and I see coming in the future, are just esoteric enough that it's only obvious to people like you and I. And they'll take just long enough, that people will get used to them slowly, and never experience the shock and outrage that would be required for a proper backlash to occur.
More so, with our supermegacorporateconglomerates that we have today, it will truly be universal. There will be no competing products for people to "vote for with their dollars". The only way to vote against DRM then, will be to become some type of mountain man Ted Kascinzki-style, who abhors and retreats from any and all entertainment (and in the case of computer software, even useful computer tools/utilities).
Go ahead, wait for magic capitalism to "correct" this, to rescue you from it.
Assuming that it's not just out of laziness and/or stupidity... it comes with an automatic implied "(but just barely)", in other words, they could care only slightly less, and then only with great effort. Doesn't work in the printed word, because you can't have the phrase dripping with the vile sarcasm that makes it complete. Maybe I'll post a link to a wav file...
Typically, the cost of the wire itself is an afterthought. It's the cost of labor. 200 seats, in something as nicely laid out as a typical jetliner? That's 2 bundles of wires down each side, probably under the floor. Special upholstery and jackmounts for the seatback? Assuming it was done when they were re-upholstering them anyway, maybe $15,000. Just a "pulled out of my ass guess".
Which, even on a slim profit margin (and let me tell you, at least for the jet phones, they're pretty fat, I assume this would be the same), would pay itself back fairly quickly, especially if laptops and 24/7 internet use are upward trends.
Not to mention, the 3 people in this thread that have already given examples of just this, and its not so ridiculous, eh? I'll reconsider if I ever read an actual study that suggests that A) wireless on jets is cheaper to implement and B) scalable enough to meet demand 5 years from now.
Kinda pointless, isn't it, if every wifi host on the network is colliding with every other, and its so crowded that backoff rarely finds open air to try again. The uplink is going to be unused, because the wifi traffic is 90% collision detection.
Wifi networks where everyone doesn't see everyone else are particularly problematic.
Exchange public keys, so you can do crypto. Then, using public crypto, send throw-away public keys to the other guy, every 20 seconds, and encrypt your conversation with them. Since these keys were only ever in ram, not on the HD, they can't use them to decrypt the messages. I think.
The chimera thing was interesting, so maybe half of season 2. Amazing potential, squandered on a "the atavus have been here all along" story that even Mutant X doesn't stoop to.
Currenly 10-20 users. On some flights, that could easily be more like 40-50 now, even today. 5 years from now? Wouldn't be suprised if it were 80+, every day, peaking at half the passengers. Not to mention, that if you use a wired switch/router, you can start doing QoS for that one bottleneck. Can't even think it with 802.11.
OCR nightmare? Wouldn't be the simplest, these things fade pretty badly. But they're often simple dotmatrix fonts, and very regular, and you can make some assumptions about all the characters on it. For instance, the right column should always be numbers... no getting those 5s confused with S.
And yeh, pump that data into a Quicken-like program, and it could be very nice.
Haven't found a scanner I've liked yet. One will turn up at the flea market, or the thrift stores soon, though.;-)
Andromeda had alot of potential in the first and second season. As someone that hates Sorbo, I was suprised when I started watching it. There are still a few episodes that stand out as "excellent, for any series, not just Andromeda".
Just so I don't get flamed, the episode where Dylan Hunt notices a scar on the body of Rhade that shouldn't be there, his longtime friend (and seemingly) his betrayer. Done through a series of flashbacks, it was directed rather well (one of the few instances where flashbacks have ever been done well on a TV series that I have ever seen), not to mention an excellent story that does time travel only done better by B5.
**SPOILER WARNING STOP READING NOW**
As it turns out, Rhade actually succeeded in killing Captain Hunt at the beginning of the story (episode 1), only to be trapped in time dilation 300 years himself. It isn't obvious at first that the only reason he does so, is because he believes the commonwealth incapable of defeating an unbelievable threat, and his own species the saviors of the galaxy, should they take control. 300 years in the future, it's obvious that they only staged the rebellion because they are warmongers, who end up making the galaxy even more vulnerable. Following the same course that Dylan will (later, already???) take/took, he tries to restore the commonwealth through diplomacy, humanitarianism, and any other avenue available to him.
The scene where he has the engineer create a holographic AI "version" of the friend he himself killed, seems particularly sad. Especially because the actors manage to keep all traces of emotion out of it (they could easily have hammed it up so bad it would be awful).
When a freak temporal/dimensional accident (which until now, has only been used twice, unlike every other star trek episode) gives him the option of going back in time, he takes it... even knowing that it will mean his own death (this for a species for whom personal survival is *always* priority #1). He kills the younger version of himself, takes his uniform, and loses a fight with Dylan that obviously he could always have easily won. Still not sure... was it because he now knows that only his friend can save everyone? Or is it at least partly because he has felt guilty ever since that betrayal, and it's the only way to atone?
Also funny, for those that watch it semi-regularly. Dylan Hunt is always trying to appeal to the (non-existent) good nature of Tyr, who continually betrays him (in smaller ways). Rhade sees right through it, and when the final, unallowable betrayal comes, has already outsmarted him and just shoots him dead, barely even wasting any words on the lowlife.
Of course, the latest season is just awful. Much like with Earth: Final Conflict, another roddenberry series that started off fantastic, and went downhill. Well, dropped off a cliff, in that case.
Not claiming to be a genius, but it does occur to me that only the most distant seats hit the 100ft, the ones near it only a few feet, the ones in the middle at 30-60ft, etc.
Now, go read about how 802.11x, and how it does collision detection. Multiply that by even a small fraction of 350 users, most of whom aren't sending to traffic to each other (though the occassional LAN game might happen), but all vying for a single uplink.
It's an iBook. The antenna is already chewed halfway through in that hinge. Better bring the cat5.
(I've replaced somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 antennas for iBooks. They are in one of two conditions: chewed halfway through, and chewed completely through.)
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You mean they'll start offering an email service that doesn't allow you to use standard pop3-capable email clients?!?!?!
I'm sorry, but I'm not a retard. Among other things, that means you don't get to invoke a "the meaning of the word changes over time" defense. What you are actually engaging in, is a smear campaign orchestrated by copyright cartels who are in the process of buying legislation to suit them. Since it's unlikely you are in any way a "big player" that means you are simply a fool who buys into the propaganda they constantly spew.
Maybe you feel violated somehow. Why that makes you think that it's a good idea to give these sudhuman, corporate parasites the tools they need to enslave humanity, well, that's a mystery to me. Didn't ever say I had all the answers...
Quite a few reasons, not all of which are freenet's fault.
Fault of the users:
1) It assumes that the average warez dude actually be aware of all the copyright nazidom going on, at a "current events" level of awareness.
2) It assumes they are smart enough to recognize that freenet would be a solution to the legal problems that they *will* eventually face.
3) It assumes that they are smart enough to use it (this will cease to be a problem when the freenet guys figure out how to dumb down the interface enough).
4) It assumes they are smart enough to actually install it.
Fault of Freenet:
1) It uses 1 gig of traffic for every 10 megs you personally download.
2) It uses 500 megs of storage for every 10 megs you download.
3) The limiting factor for downloading a file known to exist on freenet is your patience, not your bandwidth.
Wow. Be careful what you say, someone might mistakenly think you're vaguely aware of the difference between morality and legality.
Or are you iplying that it was ok to own slaves prior to the 1860s? I mean, after all, it was legal...
Peerguardian is a joke. When it comes time to sue you, the MPAA or their BayTSP minions will simply use a consumer broadband account to gather the evidence. Duh.
If we knew every single employee of both companies, adn we have our spies working at all major ISPs on the lookout for those names (and assuming they don't use other names), we *might* be able to have some level of protection. Maybe. That's assuming that "our guy" isn't out sick the say they sign up, or the day that their cable modem gets a new DHCP lease.
P2p still sits on the internet, and for that reason, it's no safer than anything else. You have to build your own network, and it has to have moderately strong anonymity. Nothing else will work.
Again, he only gives an example. No where does it say (or imply) that that example is exhaustive of all possible examples, or that it's the only function that satisfies the conditions he has set forth.
Besides which, you need to get a fucking sense of humor, and maybe a brain. If you have to settle for one or the other, go for the brain.
Sadly for you, the english language is challenging. He said only that the two files "contain" the hash of the other, not that they are the hash of the other. See the difference? That means the only effective restriction is that the files each be 128 bits or larger.
Where can I get some EFF grant money?
The first file is 92.8 gigs. The second is 14.3 terabytes. I thought I would warn you to clean out your inbox first, so that you don't go over your mailserver quota.
I also have five more solutions, though they aren't small like the one I'm submitting. I'd be willing to submit them too, though you'll have to buy the HDs and pay freight to have them shipped.
B) 601.4 petabytes and 993,563,124 exabytes
C) 886 terabytes* and 221,454,442,899 exabytes
D) 6.82 x 10^884 exabytes and 1.31 x 10^1019 exabytes
E) 4.2 gigabytes and 6.24 x 10^2034 exabytes
F) 904 terabytes and 8.12 x 10^4086 exabytes
* Note: Interestingly, though not necessarily mathematically significant, this file contains a 900 meg block of bytes that is valid mpeg2 and depicts slightly grainy video that shows what looks like a man that closely resembles Hugh Grant** fellating a younger George W. Bush. Numerologists should remember that this doesn't mean that the video is real, nor should it be considered such.
** Note: If you know anyone that goes by the nickname of "Bubby" and could have passed for a Hugh Grant look-a-like from 1980-1990, please email me with a picture of their face. We might be able to collaborate on a best-seller, guaranteed book deal.
I hate to accuse them of posting the story three times, because I know they work very hard to make sure it's only posted twice.
PS Actually, I don't think I'll have time to read it today, can you please re-post the story tomorrow, so I don't have to dig through the "previous stories" link?
What? That they've already strip-mined all the old story-telling formats? Movies, song, etc? Don't worry, they're already moving on, like a plague of locusts, to the next field... your video games may not suck yet, give it 10 years. It's no longer a garage industry, and DRM intends to make sure it stays that way.
What happens, in this indy game you want to play (the equivalent of an indy band mp3 right now) refuses to play, because Microsoft Windows 2009 claims that the binary is unsafe, and a digital signature would cost the indy company $50,000 that they can't afford?
Society may want there to be "no more mass", but we're talking about a group of industries with a strangehold on entertainment, billions of dollars to spend on lawyers, politicians, and propaganda, who may very well just make it so that there are no machines capable of breaking DRM.
Doesn't work that way. The burdens they'll place on us, the ones you and I see coming in the future, are just esoteric enough that it's only obvious to people like you and I. And they'll take just long enough, that people will get used to them slowly, and never experience the shock and outrage that would be required for a proper backlash to occur.
More so, with our supermegacorporateconglomerates that we have today, it will truly be universal. There will be no competing products for people to "vote for with their dollars". The only way to vote against DRM then, will be to become some type of mountain man Ted Kascinzki-style, who abhors and retreats from any and all entertainment (and in the case of computer software, even useful computer tools/utilities).
Go ahead, wait for magic capitalism to "correct" this, to rescue you from it.
Assuming that it's not just out of laziness and/or stupidity... it comes with an automatic implied "(but just barely)", in other words, they could care only slightly less, and then only with great effort. Doesn't work in the printed word, because you can't have the phrase dripping with the vile sarcasm that makes it complete. Maybe I'll post a link to a wav file...
Badlife! Badlife! Attention all units, sterilize the badlife first! Badlife!
Unfortunately, that's split among all the wifi users on the jet. Read more carefully.
Typically, the cost of the wire itself is an afterthought. It's the cost of labor. 200 seats, in something as nicely laid out as a typical jetliner? That's 2 bundles of wires down each side, probably under the floor. Special upholstery and jackmounts for the seatback? Assuming it was done when they were re-upholstering them anyway, maybe $15,000. Just a "pulled out of my ass guess".
Which, even on a slim profit margin (and let me tell you, at least for the jet phones, they're pretty fat, I assume this would be the same), would pay itself back fairly quickly, especially if laptops and 24/7 internet use are upward trends.
Not to mention, the 3 people in this thread that have already given examples of just this, and its not so ridiculous, eh? I'll reconsider if I ever read an actual study that suggests that A) wireless on jets is cheaper to implement and B) scalable enough to meet demand 5 years from now.
I have a few ideas about how we might start.
Kinda pointless, isn't it, if every wifi host on the network is colliding with every other, and its so crowded that backoff rarely finds open air to try again. The uplink is going to be unused, because the wifi traffic is 90% collision detection.
Wifi networks where everyone doesn't see everyone else are particularly problematic.
Exchange public keys, so you can do crypto. Then, using public crypto, send throw-away public keys to the other guy, every 20 seconds, and encrypt your conversation with them. Since these keys were only ever in ram, not on the HD, they can't use them to decrypt the messages. I think.
I have trouble following it myself.
The chimera thing was interesting, so maybe half of season 2. Amazing potential, squandered on a "the atavus have been here all along" story that even Mutant X doesn't stoop to.
Currenly 10-20 users. On some flights, that could easily be more like 40-50 now, even today. 5 years from now? Wouldn't be suprised if it were 80+, every day, peaking at half the passengers. Not to mention, that if you use a wired switch/router, you can start doing QoS for that one bottleneck. Can't even think it with 802.11.
OCR nightmare? Wouldn't be the simplest, these things fade pretty badly. But they're often simple dotmatrix fonts, and very regular, and you can make some assumptions about all the characters on it. For instance, the right column should always be numbers... no getting those 5s confused with S.
;-)
And yeh, pump that data into a Quicken-like program, and it could be very nice.
Haven't found a scanner I've liked yet. One will turn up at the flea market, or the thrift stores soon, though.
Andromeda had alot of potential in the first and second season. As someone that hates Sorbo, I was suprised when I started watching it. There are still a few episodes that stand out as "excellent, for any series, not just Andromeda".
Just so I don't get flamed, the episode where Dylan Hunt notices a scar on the body of Rhade that shouldn't be there, his longtime friend (and seemingly) his betrayer. Done through a series of flashbacks, it was directed rather well (one of the few instances where flashbacks have ever been done well on a TV series that I have ever seen), not to mention an excellent story that does time travel only done better by B5.
**SPOILER WARNING STOP READING NOW**
As it turns out, Rhade actually succeeded in killing Captain Hunt at the beginning of the story (episode 1), only to be trapped in time dilation 300 years himself. It isn't obvious at first that the only reason he does so, is because he believes the commonwealth incapable of defeating an unbelievable threat, and his own species the saviors of the galaxy, should they take control. 300 years in the future, it's obvious that they only staged the rebellion because they are warmongers, who end up making the galaxy even more vulnerable. Following the same course that Dylan will (later, already???) take/took, he tries to restore the commonwealth through diplomacy, humanitarianism, and any other avenue available to him.
The scene where he has the engineer create a holographic AI "version" of the friend he himself killed, seems particularly sad. Especially because the actors manage to keep all traces of emotion out of it (they could easily have hammed it up so bad it would be awful).
When a freak temporal/dimensional accident (which until now, has only been used twice, unlike every other star trek episode) gives him the option of going back in time, he takes it... even knowing that it will mean his own death (this for a species for whom personal survival is *always* priority #1). He kills the younger version of himself, takes his uniform, and loses a fight with Dylan that obviously he could always have easily won. Still not sure... was it because he now knows that only his friend can save everyone? Or is it at least partly because he has felt guilty ever since that betrayal, and it's the only way to atone?
Also funny, for those that watch it semi-regularly. Dylan Hunt is always trying to appeal to the (non-existent) good nature of Tyr, who continually betrays him (in smaller ways). Rhade sees right through it, and when the final, unallowable betrayal comes, has already outsmarted him and just shoots him dead, barely even wasting any words on the lowlife.
Of course, the latest season is just awful. Much like with Earth: Final Conflict, another roddenberry series that started off fantastic, and went downhill. Well, dropped off a cliff, in that case.
Not claiming to be a genius, but it does occur to me that only the most distant seats hit the 100ft, the ones near it only a few feet, the ones in the middle at 30-60ft, etc.
Now, go read about how 802.11x, and how it does collision detection. Multiply that by even a small fraction of 350 users, most of whom aren't sending to traffic to each other (though the occassional LAN game might happen), but all vying for a single uplink.
It's an iBook. The antenna is already chewed halfway through in that hinge. Better bring the cat5.
(I've replaced somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 antennas for iBooks. They are in one of two conditions: chewed halfway through, and chewed completely through.)