How can the anti-war/anti-america protests call themselves "The Second Superpower". Please! What are their powers exactly? The powers to "annoy", their powers to stop traffic until they're thrown off of the streets, the power to get bulldozed, the power to jump off bridges, not very impression powers IMO. And what do those powers accomplish? The public's annoyance with them and their lack of respect and legitimacy towards them.
Now this? Oh boy, my article isn't turning up on Google! Google must be conservative fat cats! Give it a rest. I'm actually appaled that Google would post this up. What rubbish.
No....more like someone who constantly interrupts a guest they've invited to speak. I've seen O'Reilly have guests on who don't manage to complete one sentence in the entire show because he just won't let them.
That's because they mostly don't know what the hell they're talking about. O'Reilly is the host of the show, if he wants to interupt people who are talking out of their ass, he has the right to do so. It's also a waste of air time when guests start rambling on (and they do do that if you don't interupt them). O'Reilly does know what he's talking about and his views I mostly agree with. Like when he analyzed the Oscars, where Adrien Brody gave his little "anti-war/pro-peace" speach "... by playing in this movie, I learned how bad war really is" (Or something like that). He pointed out that the guy in the movie, Wladyslaw Szpilman, would of been pro-war with Saddam (just as he was probably pro-war with Hitler).
I'm a democrat/liberal, but I'm tired of all the anti-war/american/bush rhetoric on other networks. O'Reilly's opinions are refreshing.
Camino is great, but there are barely enough developers to cover the front end, the main body of the Mozilla project being behind a cross platform Phoenix project is a Good Thing?.
I don't have a Mac, but what about Safari? All I hear are good things about it, plus I would think Mozilla doesn't really "mesh" in with the OSX UI.
Yes, I know what PFS/TTH and hash verfication and what not is, I'm asking is the SHA1 or MD5 of the ENTIRE FILE included? Meaning, if I downloaded the file and hashed it, would that hash be avaliable in the.torrent?
Using BitTorrent to distribute content such as Linux ISO's is great step foward in legitimizing and making good use of P2P.
I've been using BitTorrent for a few months now, and it does what it's suppost to do wonderfully. The true strength of BitTorrent is that you aren't really on a network, so there is limited network traffic. (Where Gnutella1 and other such networks can ussually can be pretty big on). Also, the Partial File Sharing it uses works how it's suppost to work. Your uploading the file your downloading, always. Not so on eMule or other networks that have PFS, where even though your downloading the file you may not be uploading it because your busy uploading other files. This is the problem with PFS on other networks. (Which I hope they address soon, I'm helping Shareaza to address it).
Another stregth of BitTorrent is that the network spec is so simple, so I could see the many different client applications being developed around it. In addition, the BitTorrent application is rather simple, as the article above suggests, to where you just install it and it "seems" to work seamlessly with IE or your other browser. So users don't have to tinker around with network settings and other crap.
Now, the weakenesses. BitTorrent is not really decentralized. (It's like eMule) There is not one global network. You have to download the torrent file and then connect to a server which regulates traffic (connects you to other users downloading that file). This means that server can be taken down (or Ddos'd - like pretty much all popular BitTorrent spots, like this one, are being now) or overloaded, or go down (and then your tranfer is screwed).
Another weakness of BitTorrent is that after you download your file, and after you close the tranfer, your not sharing the file anymore. So you just downloaded the file and stopped sharing it. This often causes problems on BitTorrent circles (and I would say it's biggest problem) to where people need other users to "re-seed" the file, or re-open the file on the network so users can download segments they didn't complete. So, in theory, only popular torrents work. If you have a website where you place your home-made MP3's up for download, via BitTorrent, and only a few people download them, then you'll have to "seed" that torrent forever, because the users downloading them stop sharing them by default after they finish the transfer. (Though users are encouraged to keep the torrent open for hours after they finish, to help the network). Also, larger files work better. Smaller files, since they finish faster, are often downloaded and finished before other users can join the "swarm circle".
Anyways, in conclusion, I wouldn't call "BitTorrent" the "next generation" as the article makes it out to be. It has it's strenths and weaknesses. Other networks, such as Gnutella2, are evolving with better distribution systems to match the functionality of BitTorrent. And since the files you download on these servents are shared indefinately by default, it doesn't "share" some of the flaws of BitTorrent's system.
An interesting parody. The big difference? Linux represented a huge leap forward because it was open source. Gnutella 2 is not a leap forward. It does things like arbitrarily create a new, completely unstandardized messaging system. As any Gnutella developer knows, the problems facing Gnutella, as with most p2p systems, have little to do with the underlying messages. They have to do with topology and the intelligence of the algorithms. Changing every Gnutella message does nothing to address these issues.
Gnutella1 doesn't work. Gnutella2 does. That seems like a leap forward to me. I could go on to explain why G1 doesn't work and G2 does, but I'd be here all night. Just because Gnutella2 introduces a new packet structure or complex systems such as hub clustering, doesn't move away from the fact that it works better than Gnutella1. The G2 specs isn't just about changing subsystems such as packet structure or changing "Ultrapeers" to "Hubs", it's much more than that. Perhaps you should read them.
Linux also didn't hijack the Unix name (don't try to make the case that "Linux" is a varient of "Minix"). Everyone was using the Unix name for all sorts of Unix variants. Gnutella 2 is a marketting stunt, and you are furthering that stunt right now. Honestly, if you knew more about what you were doing, I think you'd be embarrassed about your above comment.
I think you use the word "hijack" too lightly. Hijack means steal something someone else owned. Did you own Gnutella? Legally, Mike didn't do anything wrong. Regarding morally, Mike did first propose G2 to the GDF in hopes of getting the GDF to accept it and move the entire existing gnutella community forward. The GDF pushed G2 out, and thus it became a seperate competing entity. Perhaps Mike could of changed it, but many disagree. Including Swabby of Gnucleus.
Honestly, if you look at yourself rejecting a superior protocol over your rule of an existing stale one, you'd be embarassed of yourself. You've played with GUESS for God knows how long, that failed. Now it's on to outdegree, something G2 introduced. Lets just step down from our high-horses and enter reality and work towards something which your customers can be prowed of.
Can you say DDoS? Would be fun and easy to get an entire network of gnutella clients to respond to one ip.
Looks like somebody didn't read the entire G2 Specs. Miss the part about Search Security, have we? Just so you don't have to get your Anonymous ass up and look, here it is for you:
In an environment where a single query injection may result in a number of responses, acting as a virtual "traffic amplifier", it is desirable to verify that the return address is indeed that of the original sender. This prevents the network from being used as a method of generating a large-scale traffic generator.
The Gnutella2 network uses a system of "query keys" to solve this problem.
Before a search client can transmit a query to a particular hub, it must obtain a "query key" for that hub and include it in the transmission. Query keys are unique to the hub generating them and the return address with which they are associated and generally expire after a relatively long period of time.
Search clients request a query key by sending a query key request to a hub, which includes the intended return address for the key. The hub generates a key unique to that return address and dispatches it there. This makes it impossible to get a query key for an IP which is not controlled, and prevents keys from being shared between two nodes (key stealing).
When receiving a query from a foreign node, Gntuella2 hubs check the query key against the one they have issued for the query's requested return address and proceed only if there is a match. If and only if the query key matches will the query acknowledgement be sent, or the search processed locally and forwarded to local leaves and neighbouring hubs.
This has several positive effects. If a query does not have a valid key for the receiving hub, it will not be processed and will thus not generate a traffic amplification effect which may be used in a denial of service attack on a third party host. Secondly, the query key mechanism ensures that queries are only processed if they were transmitted from a host which has control over the host in the return address (in the normal case, this is the same host). This means that flood control mechanisms can remain just as effective as in the TCP case. Similarly, host blocking is possible as the original query source can be verified.
A community has used the term Gnutella for years without someone swooping in and stealing after making ZERO contributions to the network previosly.
Huh? Mike had made lots of contributions to the GDF before and even now. Such as Remote queueing, and the Partial File Sharing Standard. Mike didn't "steal" anything. The GDF doesn't own Gnutella, thus you can't take it away from it.
Frankly, doesn't matter what the protocol is called. It's better than anything out there now and it's going to improve File Sharing and P2P technology.
ED2K really isn't a "Network", persay. It's centralized. In addition, the content on it is pretty much limited to ShareReactor. Overnet has the possibility of being different, since it's decentralized and more user friendly (though Overnet's main software isn't very user friendly).
I find that Shareaza has the best GUI and set of features. Gnutella2 is surperior to ED2K (and Overnet, AFAIK) since it has systems that allow metadata, thumbnail preview of video in search results, uses less bandwidth etc. I've tested Overnet before and it didn't seem to be global (though that might of changed by now).
Clients with multiple network support seem to be getting more popular now. MLdonkey recently added Gnutella1 support, and as you mentioned eMule has Overnet support now. Which is a good thing, perhaps it's time to use a client because of it's features instead of the size of the network.
WinMX has some intersting things on their roadmap, such as a way of viewing video in a chatroom with all users viewing in sync. WinMX is plauged with it's horriable UI (it should be used as an example of what not to do in CS classes) and with it's queue system. They say it's going to be improved in their next version, but they've attempted to fix it before (with no luck). Who knows what will happen next.
It's time for open/free networks to dominate the user bases, and ED2K/Overnet/Gnutella2 are all good canidates.
Within Shareaza, you can fill out a "Type" attribute for video files through it's video schema. You can set the "Type" to "Adult". So if everyone who had pr0n on the network set the metadata to Type: Adult, then you could search using Shareaza for all files with that type. (And get all pr0n) Or, if you wanted to, you could perhaps filter them out somehow (though, that capability really isn't there yet, though you can set security rules in Shareaza to filter out all search results with "certain keywords").
This, hopefully, will be the "re-birth" of Gnutella, or at least of a new open free P2P protocol. And the fact that this protocol looks to be, and pretty much is, the most technical, feature rich and advanced protocol currently out is fantastic. I can't wait until someone adds an "Anonymous layer".
No word yet if any of the classic Gnutella clients (such as BearShare, Limewire etc.) will be adopting Gnutella2 at all (although Gnucleus has vowed to in the future). However, there are some that are open source/GPL'd, such as GTK for *NIX, Aquisition for OSX or Limewire in Java.
Incase the specs get/.'d, here is a URI (need Shareaza to download it).
Bah, Berman has fell victim of the conservative trekkies. There are a lot of people who already like Enterprise. And majority of the people who like Enterprise are a "new breed" (IMO) of Star Trek fans (such as myself) who have never seen Star Trek before, but like this series.
The reason I like Enterprise is because it's more "humble". There really isn't a prerequisite to the show, so I was able to be introduced to "Star Trek" just as the crew (staff) of the show is. It's less technical and deals more with the human experience. (Like Voyager) I heard that people dislike the intro, but I think it works very well. It keeps up the "human"/"humble" theme. Even though the orchestra openings are good, I don't think there's a problem with the opening song (Faith of the Heart). (BTW, if you want to see what the Orchestra version would of been like, a "leaked" recording is here*.)
Now that I got into Enterprise, I've also started watching Voyager nightly, and now TNG on the "New TNN" and I'm having a new appreciation for Star Trek as a really good collection of shows, instead of the stereotype "geek" show that I used to make fun of.
Anyways, I hope they don't mess up the series. The last few episodes ("Stigma" & "Canamar") have been pretty good, "Stigma" went on about the politics of an AIDS-like disease among the Vulkcans (via Mind Meld). Though, they should of done something like that years ago.
I'll keep watching.
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Good Post. Mod em' up.
Characterizing supporters of this war as "wanting to kill Iraqis" is slanderous. Admittedly, there's a handful of Iraqis, all of them with the surname "Hussein", whom we'd like to see dead. But no one wants to see innocent Iraqi civillians dead. Too bad Saddam would rather put some of them through a paper shredder himself. No, few are "passionate" about this war. Many supporters of it feel a certain ambivalence. It's something we have to do, but few are happy that we have to do it. There are a few exceptions. Iraqi expatriates living in the US are very glad indeed that this war is happening. Why don't you find one and ask why they came here? Hint: it usually wasn't for the cheese.
So true. Saddam doesn't give a crap about his people. So much that he has civilians (men, women and children) creating a "Human Shield" ring around himself. Wow, how nice.
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During Aaron Brown's chat with some Pentagon bigwig or another, you could distinctly hear laughing and clapping in the background of CNN's studios. Brown's face showed that he heard it too.
I heard that too. Perhaps they calculated they'd beat American Idol in ratings tonite?
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Interestingly, EVERYONE that I've spoken to also think this.
Yep. According to all of the forwarded "Chain IM"'s I'm recieving, that seems to be true.
"we pray that all the people who have gone to war will come home safe and be unharmed and that the war will not start and Saddam Husain will destroy all of his nuclear weapons please put your status on busy to show a sign of respect to the soldiers pleaze send to everyone online"
All of the comments on here seem to be mostly regarding PC Games/"Computer Games". What about consoles? (Gamecube, Playstation etc.). Is it different? Which is easier? I would think console would be easier, since you don't have to test install anything or test on multiple platforms etc.
Has anyone noticed that "Tomorrowland" in Disneyland is starting to looking like, well, yesterday?... but wasn't Tommorrowland supposed to show off the crazy inventions of the future?
Yea, Disneyland did recently update their Tomarrowland from the 1950's version to the "2000" version. But if you ask me, it isn't much of a change.
Disney, take heed! Don't just devote an attraction to the newest technologies. The industry moves too fast these days to keep up. Instead, why not show mock-ups of these sorts of retro-tractions? I can think of a ton of cool interactive exhibits they could produce (think Jetsons), even with their cost-cutting mantra of recent. Now if only they'd bring back those RocketRods!
The RocketRods were closed, AFAIK, because someone fell off. Or I think, some woman had a heart attack or something? Whenever somebody gets hurt on one of Disney's rides, it just gets closed down. Like the Skyride, which I liked, was closed down because someone jumped off and landed in the Submarine "pool" (Or at least, that's what I heard).
The problem with BitTorrent is that it's system is flawed. When you close the window after downloading, your not sharing anymore. Thus people often find they can download 80% of the file and can't ever get the rest. Thus, only downloading 0day releases within a few days of their release is only when BitTorrent works well.
Also, you can't search on BitTorrent. You have to find websites to download from. If the website gets shut down, so does the ability to get the files.
No, they are childish and unwarrented. There aren't any excuses for that behavior.
If the GDF would of acted mature in reaction to Gnutella2 when it was first proposed to the GDF, then this would of never of happened. Gnutella2 would of replaced Gnutella1 and remained "Gnutella". Or at least the GDF could of discussed G2 in a technical context, which did not happen.
No "hard work" was stolen. Shareaza did not use GUESS in any way to create G2, so I hope that's not what your implying. Sure, G2 uses some things discussed within the GDF. But anybody can suggest concepts, but it's not as easy when you go and try to code it in.
Look at GUESS. How long was that discussed? Now that's dropped for "Outdegree", something Gnutella2 came up with.
The GDF needs to let their death-grip of the Gnutella throne go and accept Mike as a legitimate contributer trying to help.
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Exactly.
How can the anti-war/anti-america protests call themselves "The Second Superpower". Please! What are their powers exactly? The powers to "annoy", their powers to stop traffic until they're thrown off of the streets, the power to get bulldozed, the power to jump off bridges, not very impression powers IMO. And what do those powers accomplish? The public's annoyance with them and their lack of respect and legitimacy towards them.
Now this? Oh boy, my article isn't turning up on Google! Google must be conservative fat cats! Give it a rest. I'm actually appaled that Google would post this up. What rubbish.
That's because they mostly don't know what the hell they're talking about. O'Reilly is the host of the show, if he wants to interupt people who are talking out of their ass, he has the right to do so. It's also a waste of air time when guests start rambling on (and they do do that if you don't interupt them). O'Reilly does know what he's talking about and his views I mostly agree with. Like when he analyzed the Oscars, where Adrien Brody gave his little "anti-war/pro-peace" speach "... by playing in this movie, I learned how bad war really is" (Or something like that). He pointed out that the guy in the movie, Wladyslaw Szpilman, would of been pro-war with Saddam (just as he was probably pro-war with Hitler).
I'm a democrat/liberal, but I'm tired of all the anti-war/american/bush rhetoric on other networks. O'Reilly's opinions are refreshing.
Yes, I know what PFS/TTH and hash verfication and what not is, I'm asking is the SHA1 or MD5 of the ENTIRE FILE included? Meaning, if I downloaded the file and hashed it, would that hash be avaliable in the .torrent?
Is the SHA1 or MD5 of the file included in the .torrent, or just for file segments? If not, why not?
Using BitTorrent to distribute content such as Linux ISO's is great step foward in legitimizing and making good use of P2P.
I've been using BitTorrent for a few months now, and it does what it's suppost to do wonderfully. The true strength of BitTorrent is that you aren't really on a network, so there is limited network traffic. (Where Gnutella1 and other such networks can ussually can be pretty big on). Also, the Partial File Sharing it uses works how it's suppost to work. Your uploading the file your downloading, always. Not so on eMule or other networks that have PFS, where even though your downloading the file you may not be uploading it because your busy uploading other files. This is the problem with PFS on other networks. (Which I hope they address soon, I'm helping Shareaza to address it).
Another stregth of BitTorrent is that the network spec is so simple, so I could see the many different client applications being developed around it. In addition, the BitTorrent application is rather simple, as the article above suggests, to where you just install it and it "seems" to work seamlessly with IE or your other browser. So users don't have to tinker around with network settings and other crap.
Now, the weakenesses. BitTorrent is not really decentralized. (It's like eMule) There is not one global network. You have to download the torrent file and then connect to a server which regulates traffic (connects you to other users downloading that file). This means that server can be taken down (or Ddos'd - like pretty much all popular BitTorrent spots, like this one, are being now) or overloaded, or go down (and then your tranfer is screwed).
Another weakness of BitTorrent is that after you download your file, and after you close the tranfer, your not sharing the file anymore. So you just downloaded the file and stopped sharing it. This often causes problems on BitTorrent circles (and I would say it's biggest problem) to where people need other users to "re-seed" the file, or re-open the file on the network so users can download segments they didn't complete. So, in theory, only popular torrents work. If you have a website where you place your home-made MP3's up for download, via BitTorrent, and only a few people download them, then you'll have to "seed" that torrent forever, because the users downloading them stop sharing them by default after they finish the transfer. (Though users are encouraged to keep the torrent open for hours after they finish, to help the network). Also, larger files work better. Smaller files, since they finish faster, are often downloaded and finished before other users can join the "swarm circle".
Anyways, in conclusion, I wouldn't call "BitTorrent" the "next generation" as the article makes it out to be. It has it's strenths and weaknesses. Other networks, such as Gnutella2, are evolving with better distribution systems to match the functionality of BitTorrent. And since the files you download on these servents are shared indefinately by default, it doesn't "share" some of the flaws of BitTorrent's system.
That's just a coincidence. Shareaza is Australian. Many Australians use "aza" in suffices, thus "Shareaza".
Gnutella1 doesn't work. Gnutella2 does. That seems like a leap forward to me. I could go on to explain why G1 doesn't work and G2 does, but I'd be here all night. Just because Gnutella2 introduces a new packet structure or complex systems such as hub clustering, doesn't move away from the fact that it works better than Gnutella1. The G2 specs isn't just about changing subsystems such as packet structure or changing "Ultrapeers" to "Hubs", it's much more than that. Perhaps you should read them.
I think you use the word "hijack" too lightly. Hijack means steal something someone else owned. Did you own Gnutella? Legally, Mike didn't do anything wrong. Regarding morally, Mike did first propose G2 to the GDF in hopes of getting the GDF to accept it and move the entire existing gnutella community forward. The GDF pushed G2 out, and thus it became a seperate competing entity. Perhaps Mike could of changed it, but many disagree. Including Swabby of Gnucleus.
Honestly, if you look at yourself rejecting a superior protocol over your rule of an existing stale one, you'd be embarassed of yourself. You've played with GUESS for God knows how long, that failed. Now it's on to outdegree, something G2 introduced. Lets just step down from our high-horses and enter reality and work towards something which your customers can be prowed of.
Looks like somebody didn't read the entire G2 Specs. Miss the part about Search Security, have we? Just so you don't have to get your Anonymous ass up and look, here it is for you:
Huh? Mike had made lots of contributions to the GDF before and even now. Such as Remote queueing, and the Partial File Sharing Standard. Mike didn't "steal" anything. The GDF doesn't own Gnutella, thus you can't take it away from it.
Frankly, doesn't matter what the protocol is called. It's better than anything out there now and it's going to improve File Sharing and P2P technology.
Because the Gnutella name is not trademarked/copyrighted. It is "Open/Free". Nobody owns Gnutella, just as Mike does not own Gnutella2.
To me, it's silly. It's like the Internet. Do people who own the Internet (??) sue the people who created Internet2? No.
ED2K really isn't a "Network", persay. It's centralized. In addition, the content on it is pretty much limited to ShareReactor. Overnet has the possibility of being different, since it's decentralized and more user friendly (though Overnet's main software isn't very user friendly).
I find that Shareaza has the best GUI and set of features. Gnutella2 is surperior to ED2K (and Overnet, AFAIK) since it has systems that allow metadata, thumbnail preview of video in search results, uses less bandwidth etc. I've tested Overnet before and it didn't seem to be global (though that might of changed by now).
Clients with multiple network support seem to be getting more popular now. MLdonkey recently added Gnutella1 support, and as you mentioned eMule has Overnet support now. Which is a good thing, perhaps it's time to use a client because of it's features instead of the size of the network.
WinMX has some intersting things on their roadmap, such as a way of viewing video in a chatroom with all users viewing in sync. WinMX is plauged with it's horriable UI (it should be used as an example of what not to do in CS classes) and with it's queue system. They say it's going to be improved in their next version, but they've attempted to fix it before (with no luck). Who knows what will happen next.
It's time for open/free networks to dominate the user bases, and ED2K/Overnet/Gnutella2 are all good canidates.
Sure does.
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Within Shareaza, you can fill out a "Type" attribute for video files through it's video schema. You can set the "Type" to "Adult". So if everyone who had pr0n on the network set the metadata to Type: Adult, then you could search using Shareaza for all files with that type. (And get all pr0n) Or, if you wanted to, you could perhaps filter them out somehow (though, that capability really isn't there yet, though you can set security rules in Shareaza to filter out all search results with "certain keywords").
This, hopefully, will be the "re-birth" of Gnutella, or at least of a new open free P2P protocol. And the fact that this protocol looks to be, and pretty much is, the most technical, feature rich and advanced protocol currently out is fantastic. I can't wait until someone adds an "Anonymous layer".
/.'d, here is a URI (need Shareaza to download it).
U 3A FICBDU&dn=Gnutella2%20Specs%20Draft.htm
No word yet if any of the classic Gnutella clients (such as BearShare, Limewire etc.) will be adopting Gnutella2 at all (although Gnucleus has vowed to in the future). However, there are some that are open source/GPL'd, such as GTK for *NIX, Aquisition for OSX or Limewire in Java.
Incase the specs get
magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:PMKP57E2TXFI2Z37M3A7CJ2
Bah, stupid Slashdot can't do MAGNET URI's. Here it is on ShareLive.
Bah, Berman has fell victim of the conservative trekkies. There are a lot of people who already like Enterprise. And majority of the people who like Enterprise are a "new breed" (IMO) of Star Trek fans (such as myself) who have never seen Star Trek before, but like this series.
The reason I like Enterprise is because it's more "humble". There really isn't a prerequisite to the show, so I was able to be introduced to "Star Trek" just as the crew (staff) of the show is. It's less technical and deals more with the human experience. (Like Voyager) I heard that people dislike the intro, but I think it works very well. It keeps up the "human"/"humble" theme. Even though the orchestra openings are good, I don't think there's a problem with the opening song (Faith of the Heart). (BTW, if you want to see what the Orchestra version would of been like, a "leaked" recording is here*.)
Now that I got into Enterprise, I've also started watching Voyager nightly, and now TNG on the "New TNN" and I'm having a new appreciation for Star Trek as a really good collection of shows, instead of the stereotype "geek" show that I used to make fun of.
Anyways, I hope they don't mess up the series. The last few episodes ("Stigma" & "Canamar") have been pretty good, "Stigma" went on about the politics of an AIDS-like disease among the Vulkcans (via Mind Meld). Though, they should of done something like that years ago.
I'll keep watching.
So true. Saddam doesn't give a crap about his people. So much that he has civilians (men, women and children) creating a "Human Shield" ring around himself. Wow, how nice.
I heard that too. Perhaps they calculated they'd beat American Idol in ratings tonite?
Yep. According to all of the forwarded "Chain IM"'s I'm recieving, that seems to be true.
"we pray that all the people who have gone to war will come home safe and be unharmed and that the war will not start and Saddam Husain will destroy all of his nuclear weapons
please put your status on busy to show a sign of respect to the soldiers
pleaze send to everyone online"
No, it's called Shareaza :)
All of the comments on here seem to be mostly regarding PC Games/"Computer Games". What about consoles? (Gamecube, Playstation etc.). Is it different? Which is easier? I would think console would be easier, since you don't have to test install anything or test on multiple platforms etc.
Yea, Disneyland did recently update their Tomarrowland from the 1950's version to the "2000" version. But if you ask me, it isn't much of a change.
The RocketRods were closed, AFAIK, because someone fell off. Or I think, some woman had a heart attack or something? Whenever somebody gets hurt on one of Disney's rides, it just gets closed down. Like the Skyride, which I liked, was closed down because someone jumped off and landed in the Submarine "pool" (Or at least, that's what I heard).
The problem with BitTorrent is that it's system is flawed. When you close the window after downloading, your not sharing anymore. Thus people often find they can download 80% of the file and can't ever get the rest. Thus, only downloading 0day releases within a few days of their release is only when BitTorrent works well.
Also, you can't search on BitTorrent. You have to find websites to download from. If the website gets shut down, so does the ability to get the files.
No, they are childish and unwarrented. There aren't any excuses for that behavior.
If the GDF would of acted mature in reaction to Gnutella2 when it was first proposed to the GDF, then this would of never of happened. Gnutella2 would of replaced Gnutella1 and remained "Gnutella". Or at least the GDF could of discussed G2 in a technical context, which did not happen.
No "hard work" was stolen. Shareaza did not use GUESS in any way to create G2, so I hope that's not what your implying. Sure, G2 uses some things discussed within the GDF. But anybody can suggest concepts, but it's not as easy when you go and try to code it in.
Look at GUESS. How long was that discussed? Now that's dropped for "Outdegree", something Gnutella2 came up with.
The GDF needs to let their death-grip of the Gnutella throne go and accept Mike as a legitimate contributer trying to help.
Don't use Mutella! It re-queries the network every 60 seconds and is bringing the network to it's knees (Gnutella1 that is, G2 is unaffected).