When the Open Source community is dancing on the empty husk of a company SCO will be, the execs of SCO will have sold all their stock, pilaged all SCO assets and disappeared to some tropical beach somewhere rather then answering for the smear-campaign that they started.
To extend a flawed analogy, gravity *is* your centerboard. In the absence of gravity, you are correct in saying that you cannot go "upwind". However, orbital mechanics can be your friend and will take you upwind if you bleed some of the energy out (by lowering the tangential velocity at a given point) of your orbit.
Additionally, there is the supposition that Freenet can be classified as a "Common Carrier" and therefore immune to the legality of its content.
Otherwise the government would be charging every phone company and ISP out there whenever an illegal conversation/communication was intercepted that was being relayed by their equipment.
There are legitimate, legal uses for Freenet and if those are popular then that content will be more accessible. If child porn is popular then the world is packed with a pile of sick people. The only thing that one can do is join the network and request things that are legal/legitimate in their eyes and maybe make an Anti-child-porn website to give their views on the subject. This will drown out the requests for illegal/illegitimate content. The only thing that people are doing by shunning Freenet is ensuring that things that they do not agree with are accessible longer.
that the USPO will be happy to give since they get money whether it is valid or not. Ximian will have a hard time outspending MS in the court room to prove that it is bogus though (the US government couldn't do it). Conveniently, it will likely prevent any legal running of MS.NET services on a Mono platform in the meanwhile.
It is possible to launch a satellite with a booster into LEO. The satellite could then get to GEO that way. However, the real reason why they don't do this sort of thing with the shuttle is that the shuttle is extremely expensive to launch anything. It has a way higher price per kilo to orbit cost then any other launch vehicle.
They will experience a mild increase in radiation. I believe that they are already flying through the Van Allan Belts which give them a good dose each orbit. There are kept in the possition they are due to the magnetic field so they may even get less radiation then they normally do.
Geostationary satellites (the vast majority of communication satellites) are even farther out still and won't even notice.
The EM noise and damping caused by the sun's radiation hitting our magnetic field and atmosphere make communication to GEO *harder*. If neither were around we would have better communication (for course we wouldn't be around though).
Try out a static key rather then one of the ones that are on the gateway page. Due to the crazy network activity, daily updated keys (aka Date Based Redirects aka DBRs) are not being updated today. Here are a few keys for you to try for people still sticking with it: A good site with an overview of freenet principles (may be slightly outdated):
SSK@qe3ZRJg1Nv1XErADrz7ZYjhDidUPAgM/nubile/11//
Yesterday's edition of The Freedom Engine (note the ?date= parameter will only work for the mainpage... it will not give you yesterday's version of any link on the page including images):
SSK@efagrRWmaC0Ne4ztzKRv5R2yW4cPAgM/propaganda Hope these work for you.
You need to leave your node on for a few hours
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Freenet is experiencing (and slowly adapting to) the large influx of users generated from this slashdot story. While Freenet is not vulnerable to a flood of request coming from well established nodes, it definitely is turning out that it is vulnerable to an influx of new, untrained nodes.
Just keep your node running (in permanent mode if you have a static IP/DNS... not transient) so that the rest of Freenet learns about it. Then you will get a far better idea of request times. As it stands now, Freenet is very very bogged down but it should adapt without people leaving.
Freenet is not a new project so it definitely was not spawned due to the code release.It does have significantly different goals and architecture then Zero-Knowledge. As far as I know there is not cross over coding going on.
When you first jump on, your nodes routing table is fresh and its initial guess for where things are is very poor. As you run a permenent node for a while, the routing table gets more refined and responses get faster. By no means are they quite as fast as you'd get from a unloaded web server. But I get the The Freedom Engine showing up in about 15 seconds. It takes quite some time to completely load (since some of the links present on the page just don't exist so the node has to time out its search).
It is worth noting that transient nodes will always be slow since they don't integrate fully into the Freenet. That is the price you pay for being a leech; that and the total lack of plausible deniability.
The current breakage with kaffe is due to kaffe bugs that were reported to the kaffe dev team by the freenet dev team. The decision was made by the freenet developers to not try to work around this particular one since there is still one free/open source environment/compiler that will build Freenet. This would be gcj. Otherwise, Freenet works fine with many other JREs that may not be open source but they are free of purchasing costs. It is pretty fussy about beta JREs so make sure that your java is up to date and a stable release.
What I meant was this:
Out of the pirates *who were going to see the movie in the first place* (I suspect that your dorm buddies are not in that group), how many will see it regardless of whether they downloaded it first?
If it is a good movie, the number will be very close to 100%
If it is a bad movie that looked good in the previews the number will be more like 0%
If it was a bad movie that looked bad in the previews, I suspect that people wouldn't bother downloading it *or* seeing it in theatres.
The point was that this might force the movie industry to make the quality of their films better or have some value added to the theatre experience.
The truth is that people watch movies over and over and actually *like* to see them on the big screen with big sound and are willing to pay for it.
When VCRs were first introduced, the movie and TV industry had the same negative reaction to it that they are having to the internet and p2p filesharing. But now, video sales are their greatest revenue eventhough there is nothing stopping you from from taping a retail video on a second VCR and passing it on. There used to be a time where companies eventually learned to capitalize on new technology rather then legislate it out of exisitance.
And those $ that I was talking about were not US$.
Out of the people who download this movie, how many will not subsequently see it in the theatre? My guess would be that someone who goes through the effort of downloading a gigabyte+ file is a big fan and that would not prevent them from paying out the movie fee and seeing it again.
So in the end, the only money that the movie industry loses is the money it spends on lawsuits to fight this.
The only things that I can see stopping someone from seeing a movie at the theatres that they already saw online are:
1) the movie was crappy enough that it was not worth the $15 that they are charging to go the the movies these days (doubtful in this case judging by the trailers)
2) that someone could not afford the $15 to see the movie in the theatres (doubtful since someone/someone's parents who can offord the computer equipment and broadband connection necessary to download these trailers can certainly afford the movie ticket price)
So the main effect that these pirate prereleases have on the movie industry is to force them to make their movie theatre pricing consistent with the quality of their offerings... I can see now why they would be upset.
I have heard of NASA making control mechanism for jet pilots that register eye movements and brain waves to control planes. What... are they going to put a joystick in everyone's hands and flash a picture of a big building in front of everyone and wait for the "steer into building" brain wave?
Guess what folks... the next terrorist attack will come where you least expect it to or from an opening that free society is not willing to close up... yet.
As far as I know, this is the only MP3 recorder out there that can input directly from your tape deck.
I don't know if those tape adaptors for CD players can handle both recording and playback. Does anyone know if something exists like this and a matching regular MP3 player/recorder that can interface in such a fashion?
I would personally rather have the mp3 player outside the tape deck then having the player be cooked inside... those things get pretty hot (particularly auto cassette players).
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When the Open Source community is dancing on the empty husk of a company SCO will be, the execs of SCO will have sold all their stock, pilaged all SCO assets and disappeared to some tropical beach somewhere rather then answering for the smear-campaign that they started.
To extend a flawed analogy, gravity *is* your centerboard. In the absence of gravity, you are correct in saying that you cannot go "upwind". However, orbital mechanics can be your friend and will take you upwind if you bleed some of the energy out (by lowering the tangential velocity at a given point) of your orbit.
Additionally, there is the supposition that Freenet can be classified as a "Common Carrier" and therefore immune to the legality of its content.
Otherwise the government would be charging every phone company and ISP out there whenever an illegal conversation/communication was intercepted that was being relayed by their equipment.
There are legitimate, legal uses for Freenet and if those are popular then that content will be more accessible. If child porn is popular then the world is packed with a pile of sick people. The only thing that one can do is join the network and request things that are legal/legitimate in their eyes and maybe make an Anti-child-porn website to give their views on the subject. This will drown out the requests for illegal/illegitimate content. The only thing that people are doing by shunning Freenet is ensuring that things that they do not agree with are accessible longer.
I think that the outcome of this request might give us a window into the future of how "trusted computing" will treat Free Software.
My Prediction: It will be similar to how a baby treats a diaper.
But we'll see...
why not make pants out of it!
It would be good for those long Canadian winters to have electric pants. A perfect example of necessity spawning innovation.
that the USPO will be happy to give since they get money whether it is valid or not. Ximian will have a hard time outspending MS in the court room to prove that it is bogus though (the US government couldn't do it). Conveniently, it will likely prevent any legal running of MS .NET services on a Mono platform in the meanwhile.
That might have a chance of having less matches then an AND ... but there is a better chance that I don't know what I'm talking about :]
It is possible to launch a satellite with a booster into LEO. The satellite could then get to GEO that way. However, the real reason why they don't do this sort of thing with the shuttle is that the shuttle is extremely expensive to launch anything. It has a way higher price per kilo to orbit cost then any other launch vehicle.
Not without a place to put his fulcrum he won't!
They will experience a mild increase in radiation. I believe that they are already flying through the Van Allan Belts which give them a good dose each orbit. There are kept in the possition they are due to the magnetic field so they may even get less radiation then they normally do.
Geostationary satellites (the vast majority of communication satellites) are even farther out still and won't even notice.
The EM noise and damping caused by the sun's radiation hitting our magnetic field and atmosphere make communication to GEO *harder*. If neither were around we would have better communication (for course we wouldn't be around though).
Try out a static key rather then one of the ones that are on the gateway page. Due to the crazy network activity, daily updated keys (aka Date Based Redirects aka DBRs) are not being updated today. Here are a few keys for you to try for people still sticking with it:
... it will not give you yesterday's version of any link on the page including images):
2 00 21028
A good site with an overview of freenet principles (may be slightly outdated):
SSK@qe3ZRJg1Nv1XErADrz7ZYjhDidUPAgM/nubile/11//
Yesterday's edition of The Freedom Engine (note the ?date= parameter will only work for the mainpage
SSK@rBjVda8pC-Kq04jUurIAb8IzAGcPAgM/TFE//?date=
Some good satirical propaganda poster images:
SSK@efagrRWmaC0Ne4ztzKRv5R2yW4cPAgM/propaganda
Hope these work for you.
Freenet is experiencing (and slowly adapting to) the large influx of users generated from this slashdot story. While Freenet is not vulnerable to a flood of request coming from well established nodes, it definitely is turning out that it is vulnerable to an influx of new, untrained nodes.
Just keep your node running (in permanent mode if you have a static IP/DNS... not transient) so that the rest of Freenet learns about it. Then you will get a far better idea of request times. As it stands now, Freenet is very very bogged down but it should adapt without people leaving.
Freenet is not a new project so it definitely was not spawned due to the code release.It does have significantly different goals and architecture then Zero-Knowledge. As far as I know there is not cross over coding going on.
When you first jump on, your nodes routing table is fresh and its initial guess for where things are is very poor. As you run a permenent node for a while, the routing table gets more refined and responses get faster. By no means are they quite as fast as you'd get from a unloaded web server. But I get the The Freedom Engine showing up in about 15 seconds. It takes quite some time to completely load (since some of the links present on the page just don't exist so the node has to time out its search).
It is worth noting that transient nodes will always be slow since they don't integrate fully into the Freenet. That is the price you pay for being a leech; that and the total lack of plausible deniability.
The current breakage with kaffe is due to kaffe bugs that were reported to the kaffe dev team by the freenet dev team. The decision was made by the freenet developers to not try to work around this particular one since there is still one free/open source environment/compiler that will build Freenet. This would be gcj. Otherwise, Freenet works fine with many other JREs that may not be open source but they are free of purchasing costs. It is pretty fussy about beta JREs so make sure that your java is up to date and a stable release.
I just wonder what kind:
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French Cruller
Plain
Sugared
Jelly filled
... for the first (Troll, -1)
What I meant was this: Out of the pirates *who were going to see the movie in the first place* (I suspect that your dorm buddies are not in that group), how many will see it regardless of whether they downloaded it first?
If it is a good movie, the number will be very close to 100%
If it is a bad movie that looked good in the previews the number will be more like 0%
If it was a bad movie that looked bad in the previews, I suspect that people wouldn't bother downloading it *or* seeing it in theatres.
The point was that this might force the movie industry to make the quality of their films better or have some value added to the theatre experience.
The truth is that people watch movies over and over and actually *like* to see them on the big screen with big sound and are willing to pay for it.
When VCRs were first introduced, the movie and TV industry had the same negative reaction to it that they are having to the internet and p2p filesharing. But now, video sales are their greatest revenue eventhough there is nothing stopping you from from taping a retail video on a second VCR and passing it on. There used to be a time where companies eventually learned to capitalize on new technology rather then legislate it out of exisitance.
And those $ that I was talking about were not US$.
31% of 10 is not such a big deal
... it is quite a big deal for that unlucky 1/10th of a person!
Well
Or would that be a result of a customer response of something like "My brain likes Linux and is switching; my body belongs to Windows."
I didn't know that Prince was an 3l33t d00d.
Out of the people who download this movie, how many will not subsequently see it in the theatre? My guess would be that someone who goes through the effort of downloading a gigabyte+ file is a big fan and that would not prevent them from paying out the movie fee and seeing it again.
... I can see now why they would be upset.
So in the end, the only money that the movie industry loses is the money it spends on lawsuits to fight this.
The only things that I can see stopping someone from seeing a movie at the theatres that they already saw online are:
1) the movie was crappy enough that it was not worth the $15 that they are charging to go the the movies these days (doubtful in this case judging by the trailers)
2) that someone could not afford the $15 to see the movie in the theatres (doubtful since someone/someone's parents who can offord the computer equipment and broadband connection necessary to download these trailers can certainly afford the movie ticket price)
So the main effect that these pirate prereleases have on the movie industry is to force them to make their movie theatre pricing consistent with the quality of their offerings
Did they just finish evaluating the latest stable distros from each company or are they looking at the betas that just developed into FSB compliance?
I have heard of NASA making control mechanism for jet pilots that register eye movements and brain waves to control planes. What ... are they going to put a joystick in everyone's hands and flash a picture of a big building in front of everyone and wait for the "steer into building" brain wave?
... the next terrorist attack will come where you least expect it to or from an opening that free society is not willing to close up ... yet.
Guess what folks
Now their computers are made of pressed particle-board.
As far as I know, this is the only MP3 recorder out there that can input directly from your tape deck.
... those things get pretty hot (particularly auto cassette players).
I don't know if those tape adaptors for CD players can handle both recording and playback. Does anyone know if something exists like this and a matching regular MP3 player/recorder that can interface in such a fashion?
I would personally rather have the mp3 player outside the tape deck then having the player be cooked inside