What's your NAT-routers working scheme? TCP over pigeon carriers?
seen a dozen NAT-solutions and none of them had problems diverting UDP packets... heck, it could even portmap them. cooooool eh? firewalls are another thing. but firewalls without NAT are mostly used in corporate environments are they? so there's no need for UDP gaming of employees.
but hey, what about game server farms... they have to protect themselves, too. but the UDP-packets come through. miraculous...
ok guy. this was *wrong*. it's a point on the radar screen. a small green glowing dot. (or something like that) that point is MOVING when the source of radar reflection is moving. you can do anything you want, IF the plane has a radar reflection that is even small but visible, you cannot hide the real speed of that thing. it may SEEM to move slowly, but simple maths will do it: radar contact X has moved in 10 seconds from point A to point B. and if A and B represent a real world distance of several kilometres, you KNOW this thing is NO bird.
maybe the dot is too small to notice, or you cannot judge if you caught two birds, one at A and one 10 secs later at B or a stealth plane, but you definetly have some kind of clue, when you draw an imagined line from A to B and if in the next radar scanner sweep the "bird" shows up at a point C. and when the three sightings of a "bird" at points A, B and C are absolutely collinear points you can have a 90 percent confidence this thing has NO feathers of any kind. do this five or six radar sweeps in a row and you have points A,B,C,D,E,F and if these points trace like perfectly line or a lightly bend curve only a mach 2 airplane would fly as smaller aircrafts will take turns much quicker, you know its time to get up from your seat and grab your favorite anti-aircraft missile launcher and go outside...
oh and by the way you could try to get EM-echoes of that "bird" from nearby broadcasting stations or mobile phone towers, these thousands of turrets make spotting those cool stealth planes extremely easy.
>If you have a large refrigerator it may use up to 1.5 KW when the compressor is running.
What fucking fridge needs 1500W? Are you crazy? MY fridge (110cm x 60 cm x 60 cm inkluding a -18C deep-frost compartment inside) uses up 50W when the compressor is running. I tested this recently with a watt-meter. The lightbulb inside uses another 10W when the door is open. 50+10=60W - So my fridge uses at absolute maximum 60W. With 1500W I could have TWENTY-FIVE of your fridges running... Talk about efficiency;) - and that fridge is almost 5 years old... looks like it's time to dump that old 1960's cooling monster and get a new one...
our household dissipated 800KW/h last year. that averages to 2,2KW/h per day - to 0,091KW/h per hour = 0,091KW=91W average power consumption per hour in that year. and I would consider myself as an energy waster... so the PEAK power consumption is WELL ABOVE 2KW, and that peak power must be available for dish washer/washing machine or the entire house is dark, but... you surely cannot average 2KW per household generally. with 2KW average you could have 22 households of the size like mine satisfied (as AVERAGE, not as peak!!!) industry is the power drain: aluminium works use enormous amounts of power. same with silicon plants etc. 100MW is a good guess for a small-to-medium city in europe. for US, its a rather small town with A/Cs hanging from every window and your monster fridges;)
you remember the saying "four eyes see more than two"?
windows is pre-installed on virtually all PCs right? so virtually everyone is "field-testing" their code, right? virtually every single script-kiddie is poking through the system to find an exploit, virtually every single it-security firm is stress-testing ms-products...
as long as you do not believe that such a thing as "error/bug/security hole free code" can ever exist, the amount of bugs found often corresponds to number of test cases probed.
ms is less secure than open-source because in OSS everyone can look at the code and try dozens of test cases in his mind, while with closed source they have to be tried out manually.
every book on statistics can tell you: don't mix correlation with causality - don't misinterpret "many bugs on ms, few bugs on OSS" to "ms causes many bugs", as there may be other causes of those bugs. (so i.e. an incredibly enormous number of test cases out there)
this is not very different from casual traffic violations. only harder. imagine you are driving too fast or parking at the no-stop sign. and then the friendly officer comes presenting a ticket.
now imagine a private corporation owns a freeway/highway/whatever and they have a strict policy of rules if you want to use their roads. (do not repair your car yourself - "security of vehicle", do not let someone other than the car company's official contractor repair your vehicle - "security and genuity of spare parts" etc etc. etc.) soo, and if they find your car on "their" highway, they will totally WRECK it, if they think you violated their policy. exactly the same - someone puts up unreasonably perverted rules of "fair use" for some property they own. and then shoots everyone that violates these rules - on suspection, not on proved guilt. this sucks, and would even think we're approaching a point, when somebody VERY VERY unhappy with RIAA &co. will "revenge" the consumers with his trigger. not that I would advertise this, as it is illegal and cruel BUT i would not be surprised if this happens soon.
don't bet on that. most pple use linux on servers. servers=big margins - so that 1percent market share makes out 30-40percent income. server hardware is mostly up to date, is in frequent replacement when parts burn out and has veeeeery good margins on it - remember that athlon XP vs. MP difference: PRICE - nothing more.
(and I would even doubt this is a correct figure, must be some more ~5percent) - one cannot really get rich with private users, they always buy the lowest price possible - server farms, enterprise environments buy fastest performance available/max bang for the buck. enterprise environments will shit on DRM because they dont need that. they dont play mp3, they dont rip dvd's so they will surely be upset if DRM is forced upon them with higher costs...
i could not. i would miss electrical lighting so much, in summer it would be tolerable but in winter here it would be catastrophic. light only from 8:30 to 16:30h - whoa, that would SUCK enormously.
and thats just the lighting - no fridges, no computers, no nothing. heck i would have to read a BOOK - a REAL book - with candlelight. phew. sounds like a bad dream. but all long-time food storage would be next to useless, and all fish, cheese, meat etc. is rotting away. haha only cereals to eat, today, tomorrow and the next weeks...
heck put down all electricity RIGHT NOW. people somehow managed to live without it for THOUSANDS of years, large parts of the earth are doing it still up to this day, so anyone could do well two weeks without them.
yep, make it an automated spider like a search engine, and that spider has two different branches (or even more), one of them in australia at the nations biggest provider (whoever that is), to get a good statistic of which websites the average australian user can reach. then there's another server running the spider in an uncensored country, for example the us, the netherlands, sweden, the principality of sealand for the paranoid and let those two servers run synchronized spidering of the web. when the international server can reach something the australian cannot, the url (or the domain) is put on a "suspected ban" list, and elemenents from the suspected list are rechecked once a while to absolutely ensure that theres no link down, TTL problem etc. but a REAL censorship. since this dual-servers would require traffic costs a gogo, a group of people would be needed to start such a thing. but the servers itself don't need that much harddisk space, since it doesn't keep a search index, a cache or anything like the big search engines do... to ease the search procedures, it may help to have user comments/submissions of suspected censored websites (a la "oh there was this EFF-homepage/this perfectly-legal-pr0n-site i used to check once a week, now it's gone - is it censored now or just down?"), that would make the spidering much easier since we got starting points in "grey areas" of the net, and don't have to double check the teletubbie-fanclub-webring...
yep, thats it: separate the server from the client portion of the p2p-system.
first: a super-node like server, that collects all info from the content-servers and brokers the connection from the clients, processes search requests etc. second: a content-server, the "criminal" part, where all the data is hosted. this server handles only OUTGOING connections, it always uses push-method to send the data. third and last: the client, that open a listen port on the client machine. for downloads, it connects first to the brokers to search their database of content, and then signals download requests *to the brokers*, the brokers keep those requests in a "mailbox", that all servers check every x seconds. if a download request is found, the *server* starts sending the files to the client. that way numerous issues are solved: -the content-servers cannot be wild-card searched, no one can make greedy searches to know what content a particular user hosts. this ensures a certain amount of privacy for the content-sharing peers. if MPAA-paid detectives find that host at ip foo.bar hosts "metallica - enter xman.mp3", it is rather difficult to find how much more content that particular node is sharing.
-the clients put newly downloaded stuff directly in the shared folder as usual, but after many succesful downloads, no "evidence" is piled up on a part of the network that is viewable from outside. these clients have open sockets, so that the push-connections from the servers are coming through, but they are more like a sink-hole than anything else. cannot be queried.
- the brokers have another open port for the the servers and the clients, they aggregate supply and demand, but cannot be held liable for anything they do, since they do not host anything themselves.
those three parts of the "phoenix123 p2p network of the future(TM)" are either combined on one machine using different ports or distributed through the network like the system eDonkey2000 uses. maybe some kind of reward should be given for downloading clients, that have a broker and/or a content server running - slightly higher download priority maybe. (sure there will be hacks to spoof an open client etc, but nevermind - if the network load is low enough not many will care. people cannibalizing free-as-in-beer p2p-networks are just shabby)
this is just a small thought, maybe it's useful maybe it's not. problems with pple behind NAT-gateways are to mention... (maybe the brokers could detect such a situation and instruct the server to temporarily open ONE port just for ONE file for ONE client, so that the firewalled client can download its stuff) - oh and btw all the programming HAS to be done in java. performance issues aside, it is absolutely crucial that all platforms can run this, be it linux, win32 or mac or whatever AND java is mostly immune to buffer overflow issues unlike c++. critical points would be that the brokers do not know what its connected server have, all servers process their own search-requests and pass the results back to the brokers. ideally, this would lead to massive content servers that are totally nebulous, you cannot prove they exist unless you download one file, you cannot prove they have anything more than that single file (so the pirated content value is too low for court appeal) unless you download more, but for that, you would have to make a VERY VERY lucky guess on the filename. critical is also the broker-architecture, that ensures, no one can flood the network with endless greedy searches. maybe the broker shut down connected nodes (clients or other brokers) that appear to flood them or are cancer nodes that behave wrong. with the broker filtering and limiting the forwarding of search results and download requests, each broker has a limited scope on the network and unless a sufficient amount of nodes is compromised, nobody could map out anything. add a lousy 10bit encryption or a resolving "data-envelope" that only the intended recipient can open, and the necessary amount to track each individual exponentially diverts to positive infinity.
if it's bullshit, reply. if it's the coolest thing you ever thought of, reply, too! - java programmer willing to do such a thing with help of others... and YES!, it will run on linux. and on mac os X and if we code 1337 enough, maybe on MIDlet devices;)
oh what the heck... FINALLY someone points that out.
he is right, AND fasttrack (kazaa, grokster et al) also use HASHES of some sort to download a file. and there already are some forums where information about dead filenames is collected. for that, its only important for long video files, mp3's so small, false downloads don't matter much.
man: there are two things that guarantees, that copyprotected cds won't play: prebuffering via anti-shock memory (needs error-correction-codes from subchannels) and ability to read a cd's filesystem (cannot recognize bogus TOC of copyprotected cd)
so EVERY good discman has shock-protection buffer memory ("ESP", "ASP" etc etc) and EVERY player with this shock-protection prebuffering DOES NOT play a copyrighted cd. car stereos do not, same with mp3-cd players and DVD-players -
and even if your poor little discman reads and plays that damn silver-disc-resembling-a-cd, it will probably suck trying to correct all those intentional read-errors... thereby emptying its batteries much much quicker than normal when listening to real audio-cds.
german hi-fi magazine "stereoplay" (the final judgement for all the hi-fi "i can hear the difference between 320kbit mp3 and CD-quality"-folk here in germany) tested copyprotected celine dion-crap with hitech lab equipment and found significant decrease in sound quality, enormous increase in bit errors and the total lack of resistance of said cds to even minor scratches and neglible physical defects. said magazine recommended for all hifi-folk to not use any copyprotected cds at all. it also showed the ways to circumvent the protections and to create cd-r copies of the fragile scratch-sensitive cds: that old pencil or post-it trick we all knew plus a list of urls for cd-burners that can raw-read and even a list of burning programs that can defeat the protection. they said, those techniques cannot restore the audio quality but it can ensure you can play those cds in car and hi end stereos(3-beam pickup laser or greater is sufficent for total silence when cd has copyprotection) and it is at least a bit more resistant to scratches. todays cd-r's can stand more abuse than copyrighted original ones;) think about it...
oh and btw, they showed that on a broadcast in the main "official" channel, at primetime in a very well-respected and competent technical advisory show... YES and they even showed the pencil and paper trick before approx. 10 mio. viewers at prime time. poor DMCA-ridden USA, we in germany have the benefit of state-owned tv-channels informing us germans about the issue of crap-cds and the ways of overcoming their protections;) - first time - and probably last time:( - i am proud of europe;)
oh man I scanned the entire article just to read THIS motherf*cking comment. NO NO NO bandwidth usage DOES NOT use up valuable oil resources, it DOES NOT pollute the environment, it DOES NOT increase green house effect.
switches and isp's and stuff surely consume power, but not that much. don't talk like this, bandwidth is more like data and less like real goods. data can be multiplied times over with barely any extra cost while real world goods cannot be.
oh, and by the way, electricity is dirt cheap compared to those >60$/GB mentioned earlier. you can leave your water heater, electrical whatever on at full blast one night if its really cold and you don't end up in mental asylum after the electricity bill
addendum: it's actually 4min 32sec of silence. and the silence is not pure. it has static in it. but since I pirated that album I cannot tell if covenant experimented with lower case music or the original cd-grabber used a shitty old mitsumi cd-rom to extract the audio tracks or his mp3-encoder was flawed...
covenant (an "upper case" electronic band) made a track called "you can make your own music". - that was actually 1 minute binary zero silence. Was hard to get on Kazaa, since I wanted the album in full and didn't know it was only nothing.;) So I kept searching for days for this song... Everyone is filtering out binary zero's when encoding. It's a shame
never before have i had such interesting language insights. where can i get more info like that? playing with language is fun - and a good way to impress your friends;)
it is. read the article and you will find out for yourself. IT'S THAT STUPID CLICK-THE-ATTACHMENT-WHOSE-NAME-SOUNDS-INTERESTING SCHEME. NOTHING SPECIAL HERE - user has to click on bogus scr-file with bogus name and bogus file size. if one cannot distinguish any "good" file from a faked one with X no person here has tried to understand the virus' concept and did just comment bogus like "we don' need no filesharing we are all honest" or "music industry is to blame" and the like. i loaded my kazaa LiTE (only stupid people use the "real" spyware-infested original) and searched for *.scr (the extension of the virii files) and voilà X thousand hits.
summary: the virus is NOT clever, user action IS necessary in EVERY case of infection. it closely resembles the outlook-attachment-virii-scheme, so it can only infect users that: a) ignores extension b) has its extensions still hidden in windows c) don't cares
this virus relies on the fact that windows can RUN many more files than most people think. maybe some online-virus-scanners check exe, com, dll, doc, xls, boot-sectors, MBRs etc. files (mine (free for personal use) does include scr, btw) but of course PEOPLE do not suspect all other files to be malicious. windows can execute some even nastier things: LNK(!), PIF(LNK&PIF-extension is HIDDEN even when UNHIDE extension is selected. to show pif and lnk exts the use of REGEDIT can't be avoided), SCR, EXE, COM (d'oh!), HTA (html-executable/precompiled html(?)) and a lot more. but pif and lnk's are the best to hide your malicious code. even i tripped in an XYZ.jpg.pif - worm once. (shame on me) try to send someone you favorite fun-program (no virus, but looks like one maybe) and name it XYZ.jpg.pif and send it via outlook. (the victim must use outlook express prior to version 6 and the file must not exceed normal JPG file sizes or it will be too obvious.) soo and then the file arrives at the victim in his outlook, but outlook prior to version IE6 *hides* the PIF-extension of the file if you choose download/save attachment... - so everyone assumes "jpg is safe" and opens it directly. or is cautios and saves it on disk and opens it from there. but even then the.pif is hidden, the only thing the person can spot then is the "MS-DOS"-like symbol of the well known jpg-file...
don't execute anything you download. have your always-on virus scanner scan all files if in doubt. yes that will cost performance. but reinstall is a lot more time and you guys probably won't notice any lag on that ATA-133 hd's anyway.
oh you sick bastards, can't you use REAL metrics? (i mean "decimal") sure, it's european and the invention of the DEVIL, but all those "MPH"s and "square inches" make me puke.
some of the slashdot crowd must be from subhuman species i think, since NO PERSON HERE can calculate that damn simple speed of light correctly. that is a task my little sister (13) could do with a pocket calculator and the most basic collection of only semi-scientific formulas.
so, let me as a european person, who is normally very comforted in the decimal metric system, since conversion of units isn't killing my brain that way, i will tell you what speed of light is in miles per second, miles per hour and if i am REAL smart even how much inches, feet or other retarded unit you use. (sun microsystems would punch you all with a line through your math books and writing DEPRECATED in yellow and red letters all around your homeworks)
ok, but we start with real metrics.
according to my book of constants and formulas - the german "tafelwerk" of 2002 - the speed of light is this season at about 2,99792458*10^8 meter/second in vacuum.
that means it is 299'792'458 meter per second.
meter per second multiplied by 3600 - old babylonian 60*60=360 anachronism carried up until today:( - leads to 1'079'252'848'800 meters per hour divided by muahuahua *1'000*: 1'079'252'848,8 kilometres per hour. according to my _Tafelwerk_, ultimate standard of metrics and the height of highschool science, one mile is exactly 1,6093 kilometers. by the powerful forces of mathematics, i can translate this magically to "1 kilometer equals exactly 0,62138818119679363698502454483316 feet". wow. that was cool. compared with the above results, we get: speed of light 186'287'490,21313614615050021748586 miles per second. and its getting even cooler...
that value times 3600 gives
670'634'964'767,29012614180078294911 miles per hour. phew. my windows calc.exe was using up almost 0.000001 percent of my rusty pentium 450... ok lets move on, i promised inch per century so i will calculate that now... we now start again with the meters... 299792458 meter per second = 946'073'047'258'080'000 meter per century (taken 365,25 days per year to approximately cope with that pesky evil tool of satan the gregorian calendar) meter per century multiplied with muahuha 1000 gives millimeters. 1 inch equals 25,4 millimeters. that means one millimeter equals 0,03937007874015748031496062992126 inches. given that, we can now clearly see, that the speed of light expressed in the most impractical of the ultimately dumbest set of metric units is c=37'246'970'364'491'338'582,677165354085 inches per century. einstein would rise from the dead and come strangling you and eating the remnants of your brain stem if he would hear you kids fumbling with the speed of light. if you go to hell, you will be tortured forever by michelson & morley (yes they are subcommanders in hell for using decimal metrics). they would cut away your eyelids and force you to stare in 1 million mercury lamps for the rest of eternity and make you count the photons. or they give you precision mechanic tasks, where you have to do ultimately exact measurements all handcrafted and you are forced to measure and compare all that golden small parts in 1/n inches hahahahahaha. NOO NO no no calculator allowed. no pencil and paper allowed. but your flesh and skin if you urgently need to write down your mathematics. how much bigger is a caliber of a 3/397 inch bolt compared to a caliber of a bolt that is 13337/209337 inches in diameter? HMMMMM? dunno? need to recompile kernel? hmmm. lets redirect console output to the laser printer of hell writing with 1Gigawatt laser on your retina. oh. gigawatt is defined as a decimal metric unit. oh im damned NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
people don't like crap. realplayer is crap. so people don't like realplayer.
i never listen to mp3's with WMP, only brain-amputees would. 20+MB RAM-hog bloated WMP to do something winamp needs only 5-7 for.
i am soo glad, netscape, aol, realplayer et al. have no chance against ms. if you like ms or not, but products of hahaha netscape, aol, quicktime and realplayer are inferior tools of homo neandertalensis compared to even the ms(mediocre) quality.
in WMP i can switch to non-perverted display mode. realplayer, quicktime etc. load 3 times as long just to present me with a fucking dialog asking if i want Premium_BullShit Pro Ver.4 that will surely load much longer and have their windows cluttered even more.
before you bitch about ms, take a moment to think of a world, where AOL *shiver* would produce the OS that every mom+pop is forced to buy with their pc's. just imagine what horrifying programs of doom realplayer's realnetworks would produce, if they were to code the next windows-shell like "explorer" aka "program-manager" etc.. think about HUNDREDS of blinking "CLICK HERE FOR BULLSHIT" icons on your desktop. icons that cannot be killed, your screen resized in 80% workspace for your spreadsheet or c++_IDE and 20% PERMANENTLY occupied by instant-messenger/advertisement to "realexplorer PRO"/bonzi-buddy/random_unneccessary_bullshit and desktop-firewalls/ad-aware disallowed. eh and your internet-connection is permanent, spying and cannot be filtered or shut off...
i would suggest you take at least four weeks business school for beginners and rethink your article before posting again a dozen articles here full of agitation.
communism DOESN'T work, let me tell you as I am from former east-germany, have experienced real authentic marxistic-leninistic communism(tm) and you can trust me if I say: communism can't beat shit. you can't buy anything, have to wait in long lines for every every fcking consumer good from lemonade in summer to toothpaste. (oh and not to mention 18 years waiting for a - lousy excuse of a - car, or the lottery-like chances of getting telephone or the price of average_wage_complete times 8 to buy a television)
don't ever post again if you don't have anything else to say but your idealistic *dreams* of society.
-- "If I am rich and you are poor, and we divide my wealth and you then spend your share and you are poor again?" - "Then we divide again?"
i must disagree, it IS possible, that life does not cover the whole surface of a region (whether on mars or on earth).
think of the great deserts on earth. and think mars as an incredible huge spherical desert. if you land a rover in sahara you have to be very lucky to get an image of anything organic in 10 kilometres around. sure there are maybe some desert snakes, insects etc. etc., but if you have only one barely mobile point of view, one lander & rover in the whole sahara..., chances to see a sign of life are very low.
and life has NOT expanded all over sahara for as long as X million years. life exists there and they have an ecology etc., but if you got a lander in the middle of it, that scans the surroundings on multispectral film, that lonely 20cm desert snake in 10km distance won't be visible. insects and don't say hubble is any better in detecting small patches of photosynthetical microorganisms. and don't forget that most of earth itself was a lifeless desert billions of years AFTER life has evolved in the oceans.
and please/.'ers, stop calling fraud and scam if anything unbelievable comes around. test it, call it something between the extremes "hard to believe", "maybe true, but cannot be proofed or falsed" (like this article) and "ok it's tested by x many people, so it may be true". it seems to me that the/.-readers are disbelieving in anything, any one article claiming anything scientific was torn apart, called a scam, called not proofed. read that article, it says anything more than "wee found sumthin' and its maybe chlorophyll, we are investigating some more n' then tell ya". the public is funding scientists, so the public can be told of anything that may interest the public. look at area51 to know what paranoia science in secrecy produce.
learn to TRUST something sometimes. or at least learn to judge such claims in favor of the publishers, then against them and then weigh the arguments against each other. it is not true that everyone tries to scam the world everytime.
if you cannot trust anyone else than yourself and your own experiences, it is a problem of yours, not the others.
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Never underestimate the terror potential of CD-ROMs. And mice.
/me crawls in agony before the evil glowing red optical pickup waiting for the big bang
What's your NAT-routers working scheme? TCP over pigeon carriers?
seen a dozen NAT-solutions and none of them had problems diverting UDP packets...
heck, it could even portmap them. cooooool eh?
firewalls are another thing. but firewalls without NAT are mostly used in corporate environments are they? so there's no need for UDP gaming of employees.
but hey, what about game server farms... they have to protect themselves, too. but the UDP-packets come through. miraculous...
ok guy. this was *wrong*. it's a point on the radar screen. a small green glowing dot. (or something like that) that point is MOVING when the source of radar reflection is moving. you can do anything you want, IF the plane has a radar reflection that is even small but visible, you cannot hide the real speed of that thing. it may SEEM to move slowly, but simple maths will do it: radar contact X has moved in 10 seconds from point A to point B. and if A and B represent a real world distance of several kilometres, you KNOW this thing is NO bird.
maybe the dot is too small to notice, or you cannot judge if you caught two birds, one at A and one 10 secs later at B or a stealth plane, but you definetly have some kind of clue, when you draw an imagined line from A to B and if in the next radar scanner sweep the "bird" shows up at a point C.
and when the three sightings of a "bird" at points A, B and C are absolutely collinear points you can have a 90 percent confidence this thing has NO feathers of any kind. do this five or six radar sweeps in a row and you have points A,B,C,D,E,F and if these points trace like perfectly line or a lightly bend curve only a mach 2 airplane would fly as smaller aircrafts will take turns much quicker, you know its time to get up from your seat and grab your favorite anti-aircraft missile launcher and go outside...
oh and by the way you could try to get EM-echoes of that "bird" from nearby broadcasting stations or mobile phone towers, these thousands of turrets make spotting those cool stealth planes extremely easy.
>If you have a large refrigerator it may use up to 1.5 KW when the compressor is running.
;) - and that fridge is almost 5 years old... looks like it's time to dump that old 1960's cooling monster and get a new one...
;)
What fucking fridge needs 1500W? Are you crazy? MY fridge (110cm x 60 cm x 60 cm inkluding a -18C deep-frost compartment inside) uses up 50W when the compressor is running. I tested this recently with a watt-meter. The lightbulb inside uses another 10W when the door is open. 50+10=60W - So my fridge uses at absolute maximum 60W. With 1500W I could have TWENTY-FIVE of your fridges running...
Talk about efficiency
our household dissipated 800KW/h last year. that averages to 2,2KW/h per day - to 0,091KW/h per hour = 0,091KW=91W average power consumption per hour in that year. and I would consider myself as an energy waster... so the PEAK power consumption is WELL ABOVE 2KW, and that peak power must be available for dish washer/washing machine or the entire house is dark, but... you surely cannot average 2KW per household generally. with 2KW average you could have 22 households of the size like mine satisfied (as AVERAGE, not as peak!!!)
industry is the power drain: aluminium works use enormous amounts of power. same with silicon plants etc.
100MW is a good guess for a small-to-medium city in europe. for US, its a rather small town with A/Cs hanging from every window and your monster fridges
unified as one only works if the other is of the opposite sex. if that's not the case - kill 'em!
you remember the saying "four eyes see more than two"?
windows is pre-installed on virtually all PCs right? so virtually everyone is "field-testing" their code, right? virtually every single script-kiddie is poking through the system to find an exploit, virtually every single it-security firm is stress-testing ms-products...
as long as you do not believe that such a thing as "error/bug/security hole free code" can ever exist, the amount of bugs found often corresponds to number of test cases probed.
ms is less secure than open-source because in OSS everyone can look at the code and try dozens of test cases in his mind, while with closed source they have to be tried out manually.
every book on statistics can tell you: don't mix correlation with causality - don't misinterpret "many bugs on ms, few bugs on OSS" to "ms causes many bugs", as there may be other causes of those bugs. (so i.e. an incredibly enormous number of test cases out there)
just my 0.02
this is not very different from casual traffic violations. only harder. imagine you are driving too fast or parking at the no-stop sign. and then the friendly officer comes presenting a ticket.
now imagine a private corporation owns a freeway/highway/whatever and they have a strict policy of rules if you want to use their roads. (do not repair your car yourself - "security of vehicle", do not let someone other than the car company's official contractor repair your vehicle - "security and genuity of spare parts" etc etc. etc.) soo, and if they find your car on "their" highway, they will totally WRECK it, if they think you violated their policy.
exactly the same - someone puts up unreasonably perverted rules of "fair use" for some property they own. and then shoots everyone that violates these rules - on suspection, not on proved guilt. this sucks, and would even think we're approaching a point, when somebody VERY VERY unhappy with RIAA &co. will "revenge" the consumers with his trigger.
not that I would advertise this, as it is illegal and cruel BUT i would not be surprised if this happens soon.
don't bet on that. most pple use linux on servers. servers=big margins - so that 1percent market share makes out 30-40percent income. server hardware is mostly up to date, is in frequent replacement when parts burn out and has veeeeery good margins on it - remember that athlon XP vs. MP difference: PRICE - nothing more. (and I would even doubt this is a correct figure, must be some more ~5percent) - one cannot really get rich with private users, they always buy the lowest price possible - server farms, enterprise environments buy fastest performance available/max bang for the buck. enterprise environments will shit on DRM because they dont need that. they dont play mp3, they dont rip dvd's so they will surely be upset if DRM is forced upon them with higher costs...
i could not. i would miss electrical lighting so much, in summer it would be tolerable but in winter here it would be catastrophic. light only from 8:30 to 16:30h - whoa, that would SUCK enormously.
and thats just the lighting - no fridges, no computers, no nothing. heck i would have to read a BOOK - a REAL book - with candlelight. phew. sounds like a bad dream. but all long-time food storage would be next to useless, and all fish, cheese, meat etc. is rotting away. haha only cereals to eat, today, tomorrow and the next weeks...
heck put down all electricity RIGHT NOW. people somehow managed to live without it for THOUSANDS of years, large parts of the earth are doing it still up to this day, so anyone could do well two weeks without them.
yep, make it an automated spider like a search engine, and that spider has two different branches (or even more), one of them in australia at the nations biggest provider (whoever that is), to get a good statistic of which websites the average australian user can reach. then there's another server running the spider in an uncensored country, for example the us, the netherlands, sweden, the principality of sealand for the paranoid and let those two servers run synchronized spidering of the web. when the international server can reach something the australian cannot, the url (or the domain) is put on a "suspected ban" list, and elemenents from the suspected list are rechecked once a while to absolutely ensure that theres no link down, TTL problem etc. but a REAL censorship.
since this dual-servers would require traffic costs a gogo, a group of people would be needed to start such a thing. but the servers itself don't need that much harddisk space, since it doesn't keep a search index, a cache or anything like the big search engines do...
to ease the search procedures, it may help to have user comments/submissions of suspected censored websites (a la "oh there was this EFF-homepage/this perfectly-legal-pr0n-site i used to check once a week, now it's gone - is it censored now or just down?"), that would make the spidering much easier since we got starting points in "grey areas" of the net, and don't have to double check the teletubbie-fanclub-webring...
yep, thats it: separate the server from the client portion of the p2p-system.
;)
first: a super-node like server, that collects all info from the content-servers and brokers the connection from the clients, processes search requests etc.
second: a content-server, the "criminal" part, where all the data is hosted. this server handles only OUTGOING connections, it always uses push-method to send the data.
third and last: the client, that open a listen port on the client machine. for downloads, it connects first to the brokers to search their database of content, and then signals download requests *to the brokers*, the brokers keep those requests in a "mailbox", that all servers check every x seconds. if a download request is found, the *server* starts sending the files to the client.
that way numerous issues are solved:
-the content-servers cannot be wild-card searched, no one can make greedy searches to know what content a particular user hosts. this ensures a certain amount of privacy for the content-sharing peers. if MPAA-paid detectives find that host at ip foo.bar hosts "metallica - enter xman.mp3", it is rather difficult to find how much more content that particular node is sharing.
-the clients put newly downloaded stuff directly in the shared folder as usual, but after many succesful downloads, no "evidence" is piled up on a part of the network that is viewable from outside. these clients have open sockets, so that the push-connections from the servers are coming through, but they are more like a sink-hole than anything else. cannot be queried.
- the brokers have another open port for the the servers and the clients, they aggregate supply and demand, but cannot be held liable for anything they do, since they do not host anything themselves.
those three parts of the "phoenix123 p2p network of the future(TM)" are either combined on one machine using different ports or distributed through the network like the system eDonkey2000 uses. maybe some kind of reward should be given for downloading clients, that have a broker and/or a content server running - slightly higher download priority maybe. (sure there will be hacks to spoof an open client etc, but nevermind - if the network load is low enough not many will care. people cannibalizing free-as-in-beer p2p-networks are just shabby)
this is just a small thought, maybe it's useful maybe it's not. problems with pple behind NAT-gateways are to mention... (maybe the brokers could detect such a situation and instruct the server to temporarily open ONE port just for ONE file for ONE client, so that the firewalled client can download its stuff) - oh and btw all the programming HAS to be done in java. performance issues aside, it is absolutely crucial that all platforms can run this, be it linux, win32 or mac or whatever AND java is mostly immune to buffer overflow issues unlike c++. critical points would be that the brokers do not know what its connected server have, all servers process their own search-requests and pass the results back to the brokers.
ideally, this would lead to massive content servers that are totally nebulous, you cannot prove they exist unless you download one file, you cannot prove they have anything more than that single file (so the pirated content value is too low for court appeal) unless you download more, but for that, you would have to make a VERY VERY lucky guess on the filename. critical is also the broker-architecture, that ensures, no one can flood the network with endless greedy searches. maybe the broker shut down connected nodes (clients or other brokers) that appear to flood them or are cancer nodes that behave wrong.
with the broker filtering and limiting the forwarding of search results and download requests, each broker has a limited scope on the network and unless a sufficient amount of nodes is compromised, nobody could map out anything. add a lousy 10bit encryption or a resolving "data-envelope" that only the intended recipient can open, and the necessary amount to track each individual exponentially diverts to positive infinity.
if it's bullshit, reply. if it's the coolest thing you ever thought of, reply, too! - java programmer willing to do such a thing with help of others... and YES!, it will run on linux. and on mac os X and if we code 1337 enough, maybe on MIDlet devices
oh what the heck...
FINALLY someone points that out.
he is right, AND fasttrack (kazaa, grokster et al) also use HASHES of some sort to download a file.
and there already are some forums where information about dead filenames is collected. for that, its only important for long video files, mp3's so small, false downloads don't matter much.
(!(!(legal))) resolves to (legal)
... BUMMER. and, hey: that saying is "whats not forbidden is allowed" (could never be the other way around except for north korea)
hahaha
;) think about it...
;) - first time - and probably last time :( - i am proud of europe ;)
man: there are two things that guarantees, that copyprotected cds won't play: prebuffering via anti-shock memory (needs error-correction-codes from subchannels) and ability to read a cd's filesystem (cannot recognize bogus TOC of copyprotected cd)
so EVERY good discman has shock-protection buffer memory ("ESP", "ASP" etc etc) and EVERY player with this shock-protection prebuffering DOES NOT play a copyrighted cd. car stereos do not, same with mp3-cd players and DVD-players -
and even if your poor little discman reads and plays that damn silver-disc-resembling-a-cd, it will probably suck trying to correct all those intentional read-errors... thereby emptying its batteries much much quicker than normal when listening to real audio-cds.
german hi-fi magazine "stereoplay" (the final judgement for all the hi-fi "i can hear the difference between 320kbit mp3 and CD-quality"-folk here in germany) tested copyprotected celine dion-crap with hitech lab equipment and found significant decrease in sound quality, enormous increase in bit errors and the total lack of resistance of said cds to even minor scratches and neglible physical defects.
said magazine recommended for all hifi-folk to not use any copyprotected cds at all. it also showed the ways to circumvent the protections and to create cd-r copies of the fragile scratch-sensitive cds: that old pencil or post-it trick we all knew plus a list of urls for cd-burners that can raw-read and even a list of burning programs that can defeat the protection. they said, those techniques cannot restore the audio quality but it can ensure you can play those cds in car and hi end stereos(3-beam pickup laser or greater is sufficent for total silence when cd has copyprotection) and it is at least a bit more resistant to scratches. todays cd-r's can stand more abuse than copyrighted original ones
oh and btw, they showed that on a broadcast in the main "official" channel, at primetime in a very well-respected and competent technical advisory show... YES and they even showed the pencil and paper trick before approx. 10 mio. viewers at prime time. poor DMCA-ridden USA, we in germany have the benefit of state-owned tv-channels informing us germans about the issue of crap-cds and the ways of overcoming their protections
oh man I scanned the entire article just to read THIS motherf*cking comment. NO NO NO bandwidth usage DOES NOT use up valuable oil resources, it DOES NOT pollute the environment, it DOES NOT increase green house effect.
switches and isp's and stuff surely consume power, but not that much. don't talk like this, bandwidth is more like data and less like real goods. data can be multiplied times over with barely any extra cost while real world goods cannot be.
oh, and by the way, electricity is dirt cheap compared to those >60$/GB mentioned earlier. you can leave your water heater, electrical whatever on at full blast one night if its really cold and you don't end up in mental asylum after the electricity bill
addendum: it's actually 4min 32sec of silence. and the silence is not pure. it has static in it. but since I pirated that album I cannot tell if covenant experimented with lower case music or the original cd-grabber used a shitty old mitsumi cd-rom to extract the audio tracks or his mp3-encoder was flawed...
covenant (an "upper case" electronic band) made a track called "you can make your own music". - that was actually 1 minute binary zero silence. Was hard to get on Kazaa, since I wanted the album in full and didn't know it was only nothing. ;) So I kept searching for days for this song...
Everyone is filtering out binary zero's when encoding. It's a shame
oh man, that was way cool!
;)
never before have i had such interesting language insights.
where can i get more info like that?
playing with language is fun - and a good way to impress your friends
it is. read the article and you will find out for yourself.G SCHEME. NOTHING SPECIAL HERE -
.pif is hidden, the only thing the person can spot then is the "MS-DOS"-like symbol of the well known jpg-file...
IT'S THAT STUPID CLICK-THE-ATTACHMENT-WHOSE-NAME-SOUNDS-INTERESTIN
user has to click on bogus scr-file with bogus name and bogus file size.
if one cannot distinguish any "good" file from a faked one with X
no person here has tried to understand the virus' concept and did just comment bogus like "we don' need no filesharing we are all honest" or "music industry is to blame" and the like.
i loaded my kazaa LiTE (only stupid people use the "real" spyware-infested original) and searched for *.scr (the extension of the virii files) and voilà X thousand hits.
summary: the virus is NOT clever, user action IS necessary in EVERY case of infection. it closely resembles the outlook-attachment-virii-scheme, so it can only infect users that: a) ignores extension b) has its extensions still hidden in windows c) don't cares
this virus relies on the fact that windows can RUN many more files than most people think. maybe some online-virus-scanners check exe, com, dll, doc, xls, boot-sectors, MBRs etc. files (mine (free for personal use) does include scr, btw) but of course PEOPLE do not suspect all other files to be malicious.
windows can execute some even nastier things: LNK(!), PIF(LNK&PIF-extension is HIDDEN even when UNHIDE extension is selected. to show pif and lnk exts the use of REGEDIT can't be avoided), SCR, EXE, COM (d'oh!), HTA (html-executable/precompiled html(?)) and a lot more. but pif and lnk's are the best to hide your malicious code. even i tripped in an XYZ.jpg.pif - worm once. (shame on me) try to send someone you favorite fun-program (no virus, but looks like one maybe) and name it XYZ.jpg.pif and send it via outlook. (the victim must use outlook express prior to version 6 and the file must not exceed normal JPG file sizes or it will be too obvious.) soo and then the file arrives at the victim in his outlook, but outlook prior to version IE6 *hides* the PIF-extension of the file if you choose download/save attachment... - so everyone assumes "jpg is safe" and opens it directly. or is cautios and saves it on disk and opens it from there. but even then the
don't execute anything you download.
have your always-on virus scanner scan all files if in doubt. yes that will cost performance. but reinstall is a lot more time and you guys probably won't notice any lag on that ATA-133 hd's anyway.
oh you sick bastards, can't you use REAL metrics? (i mean "decimal") sure, it's european and the invention of the DEVIL, but all those "MPH"s and "square inches" make me puke.
:( - leads to 1'079'252'848'800 meters per hour divided by muahuahua *1'000*: 1'079'252'848,8 kilometres per hour. according to my _Tafelwerk_, ultimate standard of metrics and the height of highschool science, one mile is exactly 1,6093 kilometers. by the powerful forces of mathematics, i can translate this magically to "1 kilometer equals exactly 0,62138818119679363698502454483316 feet". wow. that was cool. compared with the above results, we get: speed of light 186'287'490,21313614615050021748586 miles per second.
some of the slashdot crowd must be from subhuman species i think, since NO PERSON HERE can calculate that damn simple speed of light correctly.
that is a task my little sister (13) could do with a pocket calculator and the most basic collection of only semi-scientific formulas.
so, let me as a european person, who is normally very comforted in the decimal metric system, since conversion of units isn't killing my brain that way, i will tell you what speed of light is in miles per second, miles per hour and if i am REAL smart even how much inches, feet or other retarded unit you use. (sun microsystems would punch you all with a line through your math books and writing DEPRECATED in yellow and red letters all around your homeworks)
ok, but we start with real metrics. according to my book of constants and formulas - the german "tafelwerk" of 2002 - the speed of light is this season at about
2,99792458*10^8 meter/second in vacuum.
that means it is 299'792'458 meter per second.
meter per second multiplied by 3600 - old babylonian 60*60=360 anachronism carried up until today
and its getting even cooler... that value times 3600 gives
670'634'964'767,29012614180078294911 miles per hour.
phew. my windows calc.exe was using up almost 0.000001 percent of my rusty pentium 450...
ok lets move on, i promised inch per century so i will calculate that now...
we now start again with the meters... 299792458 meter per second = 946'073'047'258'080'000 meter per century (taken 365,25 days per year to approximately cope with that pesky evil tool of satan the gregorian calendar) meter per century multiplied with muahuha 1000 gives millimeters. 1 inch equals 25,4 millimeters. that means one millimeter equals 0,03937007874015748031496062992126 inches. given that, we can now clearly see, that the speed of light expressed in the most impractical of the ultimately dumbest set of metric units is c=37'246'970'364'491'338'582,677165354085 inches per century. einstein would rise from the dead and come strangling you and eating the remnants of your brain stem if he would hear you kids fumbling with the speed of light. if you go to hell, you will be tortured forever by michelson & morley (yes they are subcommanders in hell for using decimal metrics). they would cut away your eyelids and force you to stare in 1 million mercury lamps for the rest of eternity and make you count the photons.
or they give you precision mechanic tasks, where you have to do ultimately exact measurements all handcrafted and you are forced to measure and compare all that golden small parts in 1/n inches hahahahahaha. NOO NO no no calculator allowed. no pencil and paper allowed. but your flesh and skin if you urgently need to write down your mathematics. how much bigger is a caliber of a 3/397 inch bolt compared to a caliber of a bolt that is 13337/209337 inches in diameter? HMMMMM? dunno? need to recompile kernel? hmmm. lets redirect console output to the laser printer of hell writing with 1Gigawatt laser on your retina. oh. gigawatt is defined as a decimal metric unit. oh im damned NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
hehe, ONE question gentlemen,
_ WMP_and_realplayer_did_not?
Why_did_Winamp_succeed__against_eeevil_monopolist
people don't like crap. realplayer is crap. so people don't like realplayer.
i never listen to mp3's with WMP, only brain-amputees would. 20+MB RAM-hog bloated WMP to do something winamp needs only 5-7 for.
i am soo glad, netscape, aol, realplayer et al. have no chance against ms. if you like ms or not, but products of hahaha netscape, aol, quicktime and realplayer are inferior tools of homo neandertalensis compared to even the ms(mediocre) quality.
in WMP i can switch to non-perverted display mode. realplayer, quicktime etc. load 3 times as long just to present me with a fucking dialog asking if i want Premium_BullShit Pro Ver.4 that will surely load much longer and have their windows cluttered even more.
before you bitch about ms, take a moment to think of a world, where AOL *shiver* would produce the OS that every mom+pop is forced to buy with their pc's. just imagine what horrifying programs of doom realplayer's realnetworks would produce, if they were to code the next windows-shell like "explorer" aka "program-manager" etc..
think about HUNDREDS of blinking "CLICK HERE FOR BULLSHIT" icons on your desktop. icons that cannot be killed, your screen resized in 80% workspace for your spreadsheet or c++_IDE and 20% PERMANENTLY occupied by instant-messenger/advertisement to "realexplorer PRO"/bonzi-buddy/random_unneccessary_bullshit and desktop-firewalls/ad-aware disallowed. eh and your internet-connection is permanent, spying and cannot be filtered or shut off...
not that all house-builders and enterprise-founders are working only for the debt, are they?
i thought some of the corporations really rise up, pay their debt back and survive on their own...
i would suggest you take at least four weeks business school for beginners and rethink your article before posting again a dozen articles here full of agitation.
communism DOESN'T work, let me tell you as I am from former east-germany, have experienced real authentic marxistic-leninistic communism(tm) and you can trust me if I say: communism can't beat shit.
you can't buy anything, have to wait in long lines for every every fcking consumer good from lemonade in summer to toothpaste. (oh and not to mention 18 years waiting for a - lousy excuse of a - car, or the lottery-like chances of getting telephone or the price of average_wage_complete times 8 to buy a television)
don't ever post again if you don't have anything else to say but your idealistic *dreams* of society.
--
"If I am rich and you are poor, and we divide my wealth and you then spend your share and you are poor again?" - "Then we divide again?"
i must disagree, it IS possible, that life does not cover the whole surface of a region (whether on mars or on earth).
/.'ers, stop calling fraud and scam if anything unbelievable comes around. test it, call it something between the extremes "hard to believe", "maybe true, but cannot be proofed or falsed" (like this article) and "ok it's tested by x many people, so it may be true". /.-readers are disbelieving in anything, any one article claiming anything scientific was torn apart, called a scam, called not proofed. read that article, it says anything more than "wee found sumthin' and its maybe chlorophyll, we are investigating some more n' then tell ya". the public is funding scientists, so the public can be told of anything that may interest the public. look at area51 to know what paranoia science in secrecy produce.
think of the great deserts on earth. and think mars as an incredible huge spherical desert. if you land a rover in sahara you have to be very lucky to get an image of anything organic in 10 kilometres around. sure there are maybe some desert snakes, insects etc. etc., but if you have only one barely mobile point of view, one lander & rover in the whole sahara..., chances to see a sign of life are very low.
and life has NOT expanded all over sahara for as long as X million years. life exists there and they have an ecology etc., but if you got a lander in the middle of it, that scans the surroundings on multispectral film, that lonely 20cm desert snake in 10km distance won't be visible. insects
and don't say hubble is any better in detecting small patches of photosynthetical microorganisms. and don't forget that most of earth itself was a lifeless desert billions of years AFTER life has evolved in the oceans.
and please
it seems to me that the
learn to TRUST something sometimes. or at least learn to judge such claims in favor of the publishers, then against them and then weigh the arguments against each other.
it is not true that everyone tries to scam the world everytime.
if you cannot trust anyone else than yourself and your own experiences, it is a problem of yours, not the others.
(distrust ALL politicians, though.)