> So we're introducing a whole new delivery mechanism just for you. eShit! Instead of going to the movies, or renting a video, subscribe to our new eShit! program. Here's how it works: > > 1) we give you a bucket of steaming shit >2) that's it!
Why would I want to pay good money for someone to deliver me one of Jack Valenti's lawyers?
I guess I could find a use for the bucket, though.
> e.g. The USPO apparently taking the view that using a computer equates to innovation (even if the method involved predates Christ.)
U.S. PATENT #333,666,333: Method of obtaining absolution for sins from [name withheld, commonly pronounced "JHVH"], through the ritual slaying of a ram, goat, dollar bill, SCSI card, or other sacrifice on an altar made of (innovation!) computer cases. Although some have claimed that the nailing of the Son of God to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, others hold to the claim that while he was "a nice guy", Christ was not, in fact, the Son of God, and therefore, these methods for obtaining absolution are still required while awaiting the One True Messiah.
(I now claim royalties on Judaism, and will soon be suing the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury for infringement because Christianity is, after all, a derivative work... hey, it almost worked for RAMBUS, didn't it?;-)
> Pretty soon the hackers will realize to have a Denial of Service attack they will need lots of microwaves...lots of microwaves.
Given the average skr1pt k1ddi3's sk1llz, I say let 'em try. Microwave ovens with minor problems (but perfectly good magnetrons and high voltage power supplies) get tossed out on the sidewalk every weekend. An AC inverter and a car battery can make a nice backpack-portable power source.
When, the next morning, skr1pt k1ddi3z start showing up at hospitals with internal burns and need hand amputations, or eyeballs with cornea and/or vitreous humor cooked from the inside out, or are found dead in an alley from brain hemmorage, I'll just think of it as evolution in action.
Maybe someday we'll mutate into humans that have nerves that sense pain/heat in our internal organs. Until then, anyone who fscks around with magnetrons like this is on a one-way trip outa the gene pool.
> I remember when I first bought an 8 bits SoundBlaster to play DOOM, it was a truely unforgettable moment.
Same moment, different card. Gravis Ultrasound. Totally blew me the hell away. Plugged it into my stereo and cranked it the hell up and didn't get any sleep that night. Must've pissed off the neighbors. Fuck 'em, I didn't care!!!
> OHhh LUXURY!! There were 150 of us in a septic tank!:)
Yeah, at least you've got monthly additions of enzymes to help you decompose the PHB-shit they dumped on you! I remember when we had to eat our bosses' shit ourselves, and by God, we liked it!
> I can give you many many innocent looking photos that have quite a bit of randomness in them. (and a few nicely
staged UFO photos, but that my hobby:-)
"Hi, mom. Went hiking in the mountains last weekend. While I was hiking, it started to rain. I heard what I thought was thunder and saw this really cool wedged-shape plane just screaming through the clouds. Never seen anything like it before in my life. Like a stealth fighter but way more weirdly-shaped, and totally faster. I guess it was a sonic boom, not thunder. I was lucky enough to get a high-res pic of it as it passed over my head. Sorry about the raindrops that fell on the lens. Here's the pic!"
(Boy, it's amazing how hard you have to work to keep the Harry Fox Agency off your ass for mailing steganographically-embedded song lyrics and guitar tablatures these days!)
> Any college Dorm Network Administrator can tell you how expensive reliable bandwidth is. Last month an unchecked
DiVX FTP site here at Rutgers trafficked nearly 15 gigs A DAY, costing the university almost 10 grand in surcharges
due to it's "bursty-bandwidth" contract. In short, there is no such thing as a free lunch.
But there is such a thing as a caching server.
Suppose we build this p2pnet thingy. Suppose someone puts a DiVX FTP site on it. Suppose each node in the city acts as a router (any router-like software you like) and as a caching server (Freenet), and refuses to transfer data outside of the IPv6 area it recognizes as "accessible via wireless".
No, I, in Chicago, can't grab the DiVX in the Rutgers dorm. But you, sitting half a mile away, can. The only "bandwidth" that's used is the wireless bandwidth between yourself and the node(s) that hold the DiVX. The packets never touch your Rutgers' pipe.
If I want the DiVX, I do the same thing you do, except I do it from a node somewhere in Chicago.
Each cluster of nodes only has to download the DiVX once, and cache it locally, provided that there's sufficient space on each node. 40G hard drives are cheap these days.
> High-bandwidth, low-latency local connections. In fact, look at the traffic on any university
campus network (open MP3 fileshares, porn, the odd discussion board, lots of network games, etc. etc.). This is what
network traffic on your community network should look like.
Hell, half the time it's what the corporate LAN looks like:)
Seriously, yeah, that's the killer app.
If each base station has a 40G hard drive, you've got a pretty nice local caching system. For pr0n and MP3z, as you suggested, only a few nodes actually need to use "cheap internet links" to slurp data from distant networks. The rest can be distributed (Freenet-style) and stored on the nodes in the city.
For high-bandwidth, low-latency gaming, it might be a problem if you wanted to play Counterstrike with someone halfway across the country, but if the p2pnet gets big enough, how bad a thing is it if you can "only" play with the several hundred players in your city.
Just as Code Red II took advantage of cheap high-bandwidth connections to rapidly infect hosts within "nearby" netblocks (rather than wasting time probing IP addresses at random), our imaginary p2pnet could have slow connectivity outside the local area, but blazingly-fast bandwidth for the 1000s of hosts that are local.
It's basically the inverse of the current internet - rather than relying on a thick backbone (which has evolved into a single point of failure) pipe and capillary-like dialup links at the end user, you have the thin pipes going between cities (the long-haul data), and the fat pipes at the users' end.
Internet: Narrowband (56k, DSL, cable) clients rely on broadband backbone (OC-192 and up) to talk to other narrowband clients anywhere in the world.
P2pnet: Broadband clients (megabit) talk to each other wherever possible, but are restricted by geographical location. Most of the time, the desired content is on a cache somewhere nearby. Only rarely do they request stuff from remote sites, relying on one of several relatively-clogged links (DSL/cable/T-1) to the" old Internet".
If you're trying to build something whereby anyone in the world can buy stuff, or read your magazine, or trade stocks, you build Internet.
If you're trying to build something that'll allow a tech like Freenet to scale, you build P2pnet.
> It isn't opinion whether the key is between "How about 83A20000 and 83A2FFFF?". Assuming you knew
the key it would be fact, not speculation.
Very well. The key is somewhere between 00000000 and FFFFFFFF.
Now what do we do?
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>No government has ever managed to regulate anything with absolute certainty. People speed all the time, despite
the presence of Police on the streets. [... ]
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said
Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that
it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know
that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power
and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick,
and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares
so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live
without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens'
What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that
can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and
you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.
Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you
understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
- fair use excerpt from "Atlas Shrugged".
You don't have to buy into the rest of her philosophy to see that she hit the nail on the head here.
> Couldn't they save a ton by
buying one of those very detailed 3D models of the Earth they use in sci-fi flicks and hooking it up to a
giant renderfarm?
Exactly.
And for that matter, if you wanna get kids interested in geography, hook it up with Terraserver. Sure, the pics aren't live, but high-resolution satellite photos of damn near everywhere on earth are a seriously-cool idea. Imagine a "globe" you could render in 3-D and "zoom in" to your home town. Sweeeeet.
(And but for the data storage requirements, pretty doable on today's tech.)
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> 1) we give you a bucket of steaming shit
>2) that's it!
Why would I want to pay good money for someone to deliver me one of Jack Valenti's lawyers?
I guess I could find a use for the bucket, though.
U.S. PATENT #333,666,333: Method of obtaining absolution for sins from [name withheld, commonly pronounced "JHVH"], through the ritual slaying of a ram, goat, dollar bill, SCSI card, or other sacrifice on an altar made of (innovation!) computer cases. Although some have claimed that the nailing of the Son of God to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, others hold to the claim that while he was "a nice guy", Christ was not, in fact, the Son of God, and therefore, these methods for obtaining absolution are still required while awaiting the One True Messiah.
(I now claim royalties on Judaism, and will soon be suing the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury for infringement because Christianity is, after all, a derivative work... hey, it almost worked for RAMBUS, didn't it? ;-)
Given the average skr1pt k1ddi3's sk1llz, I say let 'em try. Microwave ovens with minor problems (but perfectly good magnetrons and high voltage power supplies) get tossed out on the sidewalk every weekend. An AC inverter and a car battery can make a nice backpack-portable power source.
When, the next morning, skr1pt k1ddi3z start showing up at hospitals with internal burns and need hand amputations, or eyeballs with cornea and/or vitreous humor cooked from the inside out, or are found dead in an alley from brain hemmorage, I'll just think of it as evolution in action.
Maybe someday we'll mutate into humans that have nerves that sense pain/heat in our internal organs. Until then, anyone who fscks around with magnetrons like this is on a one-way trip outa the gene pool.
Same moment, different card. Gravis Ultrasound. Totally blew me the hell away. Plugged it into my stereo and cranked it the hell up and didn't get any sleep that night. Must've pissed off the neighbors. Fuck 'em, I didn't care!!!
Y'know, I disagree with you so vehemently that I'm gonna hafta... uh... go to a porn convention just to make sure I'm right.
When either Eric Raymond or Bill Gates is elected President, we'll know for sure.
Yeah, at least you've got monthly additions of enzymes to help you decompose the PHB-shit they dumped on you! I remember when we had to eat our bosses' shit ourselves, and by God, we liked it!
> http://store.yahoo.com/modernhumoriststore/compan
I like the ones at http://www.despair.com. Beats the fsck out of those damn "Successories".
Representative sample: Mediocrity
Where did you expect her legs to go?
Best of all, get promoted high enough that you get a nice view of the hot secretary moving her arse!
"Hi, mom. Went hiking in the mountains last weekend. While I was hiking, it started to rain. I heard what I thought was thunder and saw this really cool wedged-shape plane just screaming through the clouds. Never seen anything like it before in my life. Like a stealth fighter but way more weirdly-shaped, and totally faster. I guess it was a sonic boom, not thunder. I was lucky enough to get a high-res pic of it as it passed over my head. Sorry about the raindrops that fell on the lens. Here's the pic!"
(Boy, it's amazing how hard you have to work to keep the Harry Fox Agency off your ass for mailing steganographically-embedded song lyrics and guitar tablatures these days!)
But there is such a thing as a caching server.
Suppose we build this p2pnet thingy. Suppose someone puts a DiVX FTP site on it. Suppose each node in the city acts as a router (any router-like software you like) and as a caching server (Freenet), and refuses to transfer data outside of the IPv6 area it recognizes as "accessible via wireless".
No, I, in Chicago, can't grab the DiVX in the Rutgers dorm. But you, sitting half a mile away, can. The only "bandwidth" that's used is the wireless bandwidth between yourself and the node(s) that hold the DiVX. The packets never touch your Rutgers' pipe.
If I want the DiVX, I do the same thing you do, except I do it from a node somewhere in Chicago.
Each cluster of nodes only has to download the DiVX once, and cache it locally, provided that there's sufficient space on each node. 40G hard drives are cheap these days.
Hell, half the time it's what the corporate LAN looks like :)
Seriously, yeah, that's the killer app.
If each base station has a 40G hard drive, you've got a pretty nice local caching system. For pr0n and MP3z, as you suggested, only a few nodes actually need to use "cheap internet links" to slurp data from distant networks. The rest can be distributed (Freenet-style) and stored on the nodes in the city.
For high-bandwidth, low-latency gaming, it might be a problem if you wanted to play Counterstrike with someone halfway across the country, but if the p2pnet gets big enough, how bad a thing is it if you can "only" play with the several hundred players in your city.
Just as Code Red II took advantage of cheap high-bandwidth connections to rapidly infect hosts within "nearby" netblocks (rather than wasting time probing IP addresses at random), our imaginary p2pnet could have slow connectivity outside the local area, but blazingly-fast bandwidth for the 1000s of hosts that are local.
It's basically the inverse of the current internet - rather than relying on a thick backbone (which has evolved into a single point of failure) pipe and capillary-like dialup links at the end user, you have the thin pipes going between cities (the long-haul data), and the fat pipes at the users' end.
Internet: Narrowband (56k, DSL, cable) clients rely on broadband backbone (OC-192 and up) to talk to other narrowband clients anywhere in the world.
P2pnet: Broadband clients (megabit) talk to each other wherever possible, but are restricted by geographical location. Most of the time, the desired content is on a cache somewhere nearby. Only rarely do they request stuff from remote sites, relying on one of several relatively-clogged links (DSL/cable/T-1) to the" old Internet".
If you're trying to build something whereby anyone in the world can buy stuff, or read your magazine, or trade stocks, you build Internet.
If you're trying to build something that'll allow a tech like Freenet to scale, you build P2pnet.
Very well. The key is somewhere between 00000000 and FFFFFFFF.
Now what do we do?
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens' What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
- fair use excerpt from "Atlas Shrugged".
You don't have to buy into the rest of her philosophy to see that she hit the nail on the head here.
But if the goal is to shovel MP3z over a P2P network, the latency doesn't matter, as long as there's throughput.
Hmph. In my house it's the bedroom. *rimshot* ;)
Probably nobody, I mean, "yuulghvv gllk mmallll" probably violates some parental control setting...
>USER- *click yes*
>MSN- "Are you sure?"
>USER- *click yes again*
>MSN- "You must reboot"
Unless, of course, it contains a .vbs attachment, in which case it's automatically opened with a cheery:
"Hello! Someone send you this file to get your advice!"
Could be worse. Imagine what Shelly Reynolds' [gal for the new MSN voiceovers] husband has to not think of during sex.
AOL: "You've got mail!"
MSN/Win9x: "You've got mail! Now go tell your friends to use MSN!.
MSN/WinXP: "You've got mail! Click here to pay $0.35 to read the first 1024 characters..."
No idea, but I also like their conversion of PDFs to text, and caching of the text.
I also love the cache because I can read sites that are 404'd. Great for digging up old specs on hardware.
It's a good start, but since we still don't get any hits for...
http://images.google.com/images?q=natalie+portman+ grits
Exactly.
And for that matter, if you wanna get kids interested in geography, hook it up with Terraserver. Sure, the pics aren't live, but high-resolution satellite photos of damn near everywhere on earth are a seriously-cool idea. Imagine a "globe" you could render in 3-D and "zoom in" to your home town. Sweeeeet.
(And but for the data storage requirements, pretty doable on today's tech.)