Strangely, I've never heard of arabs, muslims, or al-quaeda protesting the WTO or world bank. I doubt that they, or any other terrorist organization (Timothy McVeigh gun nuts, Waco-ites, Japanese death cults, etc) has been involved in this.
Christ, Dubya himself doesn't persecute his own protesters nearly as much as the WTO does.
A mythical group of people who are neither rich nor poor, generally believed to own real property of significant, if minor, value. They would have reasonable balances in savings accounts and/or retirement accounts, and the means to retire to a comfortable life before they die of old age. In much the same way that biology can prove that there isn't enough fish in Loch Ness to support a sea serpent, simple economic theory relegates a supposed "middle class" to works of fiction such as sunday paper editorials and presidential campaign commercials.
See also: compassionate conservatism, journalism, projected deficit
The nation needs more retail associates to sell to the droves of Enron executives spending their ill-gotten gains. We also need more construction workers to build palaces for our newly founded aristocracy. You should be set, as long as you can survive on a 900 calorie a day starvation diet while affording no heating this winter. Personally, I've found that newspaper is both cheap and a great insulator for my cardboard box. Stock up now before they start gouging prices for it at the vending machine!
Forget the name, funding was killed shortly before the prototype was to be built. IFR? Something like that. But its waste is difficult to reprocess, supposedly as difficult as doing it from scratch.
There are reactor designs that are basically worthless as far as weapons proliferation.
Heat pollution could be a concern, but can it be any worse than what we have now? It would still be a net gain to lose the atmospheric pollution and only have the heat to worry about... does anyone have anything like real numbers?
If crack cocaine is so bad, why do people kill for it?
They've addicted a great many people to really shitty, mindless entertainment. Anyone that has seen the fall network lineups with its hordes of reality shows and nauseating sitcoms has to see this, I would think... there's no other way they could survive, nothing else could cause it's consumption short of some form of addiction.
I don't have any sympathy for crack dealers when their poison is stolen from them, why would I feel different towards the MPAA?
I wouldn't take you up on the garfield wager, I know a losing bet when I see one.
It's far from certain that the MPAA and its sister organizations can strangle the entire planet at once, thereby sidestepping market forces altogether.
The pendulum analogy is flawed. It assumes that there is some natural universal law that dictates that once things reach their limit, it is inevitable that it swing back the other way. This is indeed true when applied to certain situations, but nothing says that it applies to every situation, or even to this one.
The MPAA has the financial resources and the political might to possibly "tie" that pendulum down as soon as it swings far enough their way. If you help swing it, are you so certain that they won't nail it in place at the edge of its arc?
This is exactly why it would be more practical to just move Alpa Centauri closer to us. Why travel for 4 years (even if it seems like an instant to you), when you can travel for say, 3 days at normal speed, and arrive there?
The trouble is, you only have 2 real options, each with several implementations. You have Tor-like networks, which supplement their lack of content with outproxying to the internet. And then you have your freenet-like networks, completely internal (which I prefer ideologically).
The former seem to desire preserving the layer 3 protocols, meaning that they are (nearly) true networks that we are used to. However, even they have drawbacks... hidden services aren't currently able to have anything similar to domain names.
The latter, seem almost hellbent on being layer 7 protocols... and personally, I just can't see why people put up with this. It's not 1986 anymore, and even if it were... many BBS's had more functionality. Freenet in particular has only 2 functionalities that I'm aware of. Quasi-websites, and quasi-usenet (frost). How is this a solution for a project like bnetd? Even assuming that it's anonymity is strong, a major software project needs the infrastructure for people to coordinate. No email, no CVS... it just won't work.
And remember, even p2p is a dumb way to do what it was intended to do... napster wasn't invented because it's the ideal way to move mp3s... it was because even at the time, lawyers were spidering the web looking for someone's PWS website with MP3s. FTP's, when they could be found, had already been pushed underground by the anti-piracy efforts. P2P is the best effort solution against a nasty problem, not an ideal. Anyone with any sense, savviness or skill wants what p2p truly implies, that is, being a *peer* in the true networking sense of the word.
Allow me to describe another possibility. IPv4 itself allows for quite large private networks, 10net could concievably serve 16 million users. What we really need, is a way to string wires to each other, wires that are quite long, and not easily snooped on. We have that too. It goes by many names, but the category of software is called VPN. VPN software has many benefits, not the least of which it is deniable. If you're caught with freenet on your computer... you're using freenet. If you're caught with OpenVPN though, maybe you're trying to bypass how crappy WEP is, or connect to a work machine securely.
We need more than just a private network though, else the first narc who manages to get connected, can shut it down. We need a plausible way to be anonymous, and who can trust a mathematician? Your ass is *literally* on the line, if it doesn't work. The guys who do crypto are brilliant, but me, I want something I can understand without a PhD in number theory.
Well, first off, on this network, your internet IP needs to be exposed to as few people as possible. Freenet doesn't protect you from someone determining whether you participate. So, if we're passing packets around, we want that to be to as few hosts as possible. Second, we want to avoid creating any databases that correlate your 10.x.x.x address with an internet address or other identifying tidbit of info. That part is easy... routing IPv4 only requires knownledge of the geometry of the network, and which 10.x.x.x addresses are where within that geometry.
Take this for a small example of such a network. A - B - C
A: 10.1.1.2 B: 10.1.1.3 C: 10.1.1.4
"A" can send packets to C, without knowing anything other than the 10.1.1.4 address. If the person in charge of A invites B, and tells B "invite someone else, and never tell me who it is", then A can't know who C is. And A only sends VPN tunnel packets to B, no one else.
There are ways to make this stronger though. Suppose all 3 hosts are in the same jurisdiction. When C innocently invites a narc (narcs are sneaky), the narc instantly knows C's identity. The narc is in the same jurisdiction and can easily get a subpoena or a search warrant on C's computer, on his ISP records, etc. B's identity is known quickly. B is also in the same jurisdiction... the same tactic will then reveal A's identity.
If anything and everything can be a TLD, why have them at all? Sure, domain names are cheap in the com/net/org space, but only now that they've deforested the entire namespace. Oops, did I say deforest? I meant *clear-cut*. Hmm, even that's not strong enough, strip-mined maybe?
You know, we don't have to put up with this crap, don't you? We could just build our own internet, and avoid commercializing it...
There are ways, but you'd need to revert to an older software. Or find one sitting on a shelf for 2 years. Forget which model I have exactly, but I've got backups of it that I'd give out to a like-minded tinkerer.
Still working on how to handle Cband satellite with the tivo guide though.
Redundant moderations on the 3rd non-nested comment. Lame.
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Strangely, I've never heard of arabs, muslims, or al-quaeda protesting the WTO or world bank. I doubt that they, or any other terrorist organization (Timothy McVeigh gun nuts, Waco-ites, Japanese death cults, etc) has been involved in this.
Christ, Dubya himself doesn't persecute his own protesters nearly as much as the WTO does.
Middle class, definition:
A mythical group of people who are neither rich nor poor, generally believed to own real property of significant, if minor, value. They would have reasonable balances in savings accounts and/or retirement accounts, and the means to retire to a comfortable life before they die of old age. In much the same way that biology can prove that there isn't enough fish in Loch Ness to support a sea serpent, simple economic theory relegates a supposed "middle class" to works of fiction such as sunday paper editorials and presidential campaign commercials.
See also: compassionate conservatism, journalism, projected deficit
He resigned so that he could become Director of the newly formed Secret Police.
The nation needs more retail associates to sell to the droves of Enron executives spending their ill-gotten gains. We also need more construction workers to build palaces for our newly founded aristocracy. You should be set, as long as you can survive on a 900 calorie a day starvation diet while affording no heating this winter. Personally, I've found that newspaper is both cheap and a great insulator for my cardboard box. Stock up now before they start gouging prices for it at the vending machine!
I don't believe in sasquatch or Roswell aliens either.
Just got one today. If you're looking in Richmond, might be able to give you a few pointers.
Forget the name, funding was killed shortly before the prototype was to be built. IFR? Something like that. But its waste is difficult to reprocess, supposedly as difficult as doing it from scratch.
There are reactor designs that are basically worthless as far as weapons proliferation.
Heat pollution could be a concern, but can it be any worse than what we have now? It would still be a net gain to lose the atmospheric pollution and only have the heat to worry about... does anyone have anything like real numbers?
If crack cocaine is so bad, why do people kill for it?
They've addicted a great many people to really shitty, mindless entertainment. Anyone that has seen the fall network lineups with its hordes of reality shows and nauseating sitcoms has to see this, I would think... there's no other way they could survive, nothing else could cause it's consumption short of some form of addiction.
I don't have any sympathy for crack dealers when their poison is stolen from them, why would I feel different towards the MPAA?
I wouldn't take you up on the garfield wager, I know a losing bet when I see one.
It's far from certain that the MPAA and its sister organizations can strangle the entire planet at once, thereby sidestepping market forces altogether.
The pendulum analogy is flawed. It assumes that there is some natural universal law that dictates that once things reach their limit, it is inevitable that it swing back the other way. This is indeed true when applied to certain situations, but nothing says that it applies to every situation, or even to this one.
The MPAA has the financial resources and the political might to possibly "tie" that pendulum down as soon as it swings far enough their way. If you help swing it, are you so certain that they won't nail it in place at the edge of its arc?
I hope they work quickly, my awstats icon is already stale. All 3 hits with it in the last year. ;)
We're talking about a Mars voyage. The only acceptable game is Doom.
"And there I was, with only a shotgun and some ammo, and these demons were pouring out of a dimensional gate to hell!"
This is exactly why it would be more practical to just move Alpa Centauri closer to us. Why travel for 4 years (even if it seems like an instant to you), when you can travel for say, 3 days at normal speed, and arrive there?
Whilst it is still unclear how exactly a floating broadband hub could haul its data back down to earth wirelessly with acceptable bandwidth
Gyro-stabilized laser to a downlink station with a big fiber pipe.
The trouble is, you only have 2 real options, each with several implementations. You have Tor-like networks, which supplement their lack of content with outproxying to the internet. And then you have your freenet-like networks, completely internal (which I prefer ideologically).
The former seem to desire preserving the layer 3 protocols, meaning that they are (nearly) true networks that we are used to. However, even they have drawbacks... hidden services aren't currently able to have anything similar to domain names.
The latter, seem almost hellbent on being layer 7 protocols... and personally, I just can't see why people put up with this. It's not 1986 anymore, and even if it were... many BBS's had more functionality. Freenet in particular has only 2 functionalities that I'm aware of. Quasi-websites, and quasi-usenet (frost). How is this a solution for a project like bnetd? Even assuming that it's anonymity is strong, a major software project needs the infrastructure for people to coordinate. No email, no CVS... it just won't work.
And remember, even p2p is a dumb way to do what it was intended to do... napster wasn't invented because it's the ideal way to move mp3s... it was because even at the time, lawyers were spidering the web looking for someone's PWS website with MP3s. FTP's, when they could be found, had already been pushed underground by the anti-piracy efforts. P2P is the best effort solution against a nasty problem, not an ideal. Anyone with any sense, savviness or skill wants what p2p truly implies, that is, being a *peer* in the true networking sense of the word.
Allow me to describe another possibility. IPv4 itself allows for quite large private networks, 10net could concievably serve 16 million users. What we really need, is a way to string wires to each other, wires that are quite long, and not easily snooped on. We have that too. It goes by many names, but the category of software is called VPN. VPN software has many benefits, not the least of which it is deniable. If you're caught with freenet on your computer... you're using freenet. If you're caught with OpenVPN though, maybe you're trying to bypass how crappy WEP is, or connect to a work machine securely.
We need more than just a private network though, else the first narc who manages to get connected, can shut it down. We need a plausible way to be anonymous, and who can trust a mathematician? Your ass is *literally* on the line, if it doesn't work. The guys who do crypto are brilliant, but me, I want something I can understand without a PhD in number theory.
Well, first off, on this network, your internet IP needs to be exposed to as few people as possible. Freenet doesn't protect you from someone determining whether you participate. So, if we're passing packets around, we want that to be to as few hosts as possible. Second, we want to avoid creating any databases that correlate your 10.x.x.x address with an internet address or other identifying tidbit of info. That part is easy... routing IPv4 only requires knownledge of the geometry of the network, and which 10.x.x.x addresses are where within that geometry.
Take this for a small example of such a network.
A - B - C
A: 10.1.1.2
B: 10.1.1.3
C: 10.1.1.4
"A" can send packets to C, without knowing anything other than the 10.1.1.4 address. If the person in charge of A invites B, and tells B "invite someone else, and never tell me who it is", then A can't know who C is. And A only sends VPN tunnel packets to B, no one else.
There are ways to make this stronger though. Suppose all 3 hosts are in the same jurisdiction. When C innocently invites a narc (narcs are sneaky), the narc instantly knows C's identity. The narc is in the same jurisdiction and can easily get a subpoena or a search warrant on C's computer, on his ISP records, etc. B's identity is known quickly. B is also in the same jurisdiction... the same tactic will then reveal A's identity.
How do you protect against this? First, we insist
If it were, it would have read something like this...
it is not like the original ubergeeks sat around the u berkeley lab setting up darpanet in the 1960s
and said hey lets invent an infinitely superior music distribution model that no one can make money off of
but that is exactly what the did
Of course, it would then ramble on for at least 10 more micro-paragraphs, none of which would use punctuation or capitalization.
Ugh. Tivo slices *you* make. Over ethernet. Because serial is slow as fuck.
Like I said, get the early software. On a series 1. And just *don't* subscribe. Don't plug it into a phone line. Make your own slices.
If anything and everything can be a TLD, why have them at all? Sure, domain names are cheap in the com/net/org space, but only now that they've deforested the entire namespace. Oops, did I say deforest? I meant *clear-cut*. Hmm, even that's not strong enough, strip-mined maybe?
You know, we don't have to put up with this crap, don't you? We could just build our own internet, and avoid commercializing it...
Don't plug in the phone line. As I hinted, there are ways to load the guide data, via serial or ethernet.
There are ways, but you'd need to revert to an older software. Or find one sitting on a shelf for 2 years. Forget which model I have exactly, but I've got backups of it that I'd give out to a like-minded tinkerer.
Still working on how to handle Cband satellite with the tivo guide though.
The Tivo hardware is awesome though. Solution? Don't subscribe to their service, and roll back to a non-DRMed version of the software.
That's funny, mine already arrived. And they even filled it out for me!
Redundant moderations on the 3rd non-nested comment. Lame.
Danes might be interested in speaking on a network like mine. The internet isn't our network anymore. Anyone who acts like it is, is just begging for trouble...