Granted, my limited research didn't really turn up anything concrete, but I recall reading that MUTE still allowed someone to grab your IP address when requesting a file.
If it works like I think it does, wouldn't content objectionable to you still be routed through your node?Where do you draw the line?
If you run a Freenet node, you will distribute child pornography. There is no way to prevent it.
Other than arrest and procecute those who make it. Why aren't any of the (few) busts I hear about ever for the Makers of Child Porn(TM)? It's always someone who saw some picture as a result of entrapment or overly broad obscenety laws
How does this cut down the demand? I'm sure the guys who make it are getting off on it, distributed or not.
I think the point you're missing is the importance of the anonymous part. There are lots of places (including the US), where you can be 'disappeared' for expressing a certain view.
I don't think Freenet is about 'avoiding responsibility', I think it is about protecting yourself from those who find your opinions 'distasteful'.
Yup. Sadly, that may include pictures of porn. And it may include photos and reports of people getting killed for going to a democratic rally.
Porn will be made and distributed with or without Freenet. What about censored, unpopular, unjust information?
It's easy to sit back in your Aeon chair and say, "Well if they can't be bothered to run over to the local AP wire office, then their story must be false."
That's exactly what the government wants you to think, no tinfoil hat needed.
This story's turned into a child porn witchhunt. Every insightful post I've seen on the value of free speech is replied to by some AC idiot,(who is using the cover of anonymous posting to post his drivel - how ironic) who says that if he can't control the free distribution of information then it shouldn't be distributed.
Guess what? Before you ask or accuse, I don't like the idea of child porn. Duh. Does anyone other than the small minority of people who have some deep seated issue? Quit parroting every politico seeking reelection.
Just because you find ponography (to you) of any sort, doesn't mean that something like Freenet is bad or not needed. There is an ever increasing inabillity to exercise free speech every day. Read your ISP's TOS. Try and get a letter to the editor printed that is critical of the paper. Try to buy an ad during the SuperBowl.
Why isn't this figured out by now? I kill someone with a hammer. Oh, outlaw hammers! Nevermind that with that same hammer I could help fix a poor family's house. I know, "But you still killed someone with the hammer!"
It's rather obvious to me that those who would filter free speech are the world's biggest pussies. Frankly, I enjoy and use my human! (NOT GOVERNMENT GIVEN) right of free speech every day.
Those who would filter it miss the whole point, and miss the irony of the fact that they are encouraging the removal of any personal responsibility, free action or speech.
Yeah! Freedom of Speech is great as long as I like it! You can recite that over and over, when you're in prison for saying something that your new leader didn't like.
I think you are right on the Money. If the arcade had several different control configurations, say one machine with a steering wheel, one with a couple of trackballs, one with joysticks and a few buttons, and perhaps one with the rediculous number of buttons that todays fighting games demand(how many damn fingers do you have?), I could see a nice spread of games with the controllers needed to play them.
I know there have been rotating 'All-Controllers' out there, but you need to be able to have multiple machines in order to distribute the people.
Why shouldn't I be able to walk up to a blank machine - order up Super Sprint, Cyberball 2xxx, Atari Castles (one of my all time favorites), or hell, even Rescue Raiders.
The tech is out there, but the industry is slow to respond. Of course, licensing will be a problem, but hey guys, you did it to yourself. It would be rather ironic if arcade manufacturers were killed by licensing issues.
Lastly, do we really need another fighting game? I stopped going to arcades when I couldn't find anything that didn't yell "FATALITY" at me.
Why a Tablet PC? If you've read past/. articles, and several posts here, many say the same thing. Pen and Paper.
If you don't have a desktop already, then really you should look at a laptop. You're going to get more use out of it, you'll have better battery life and you won't be spending assloads of dollars for a product in search of a market.
If you have an overwhelming need for a Tablet Pc, I'd like to hear it. Are you planning on working for UPS when you get out of school?
Without more information, the educated/. masses (like those who have tried and rejected this tech, those who have finished school, and those who don't see a clear reason for tablet PCing) can't answer your question.
If you want a computer that you'll be glad you spent the money on, get an iBook or 12-15" Powerbook. My 15" Aluminum Powerbook is my first laptop, and my first Apple, and there is no way I would ever buy another (windows) PC.
Pine (running on your mail server) allows you to log in and check your email remotely, even with a Tandy 102 (which I own - less power than an Apple II, runs basic programs for 2 weeks or more on four AA batteries.), or dumb terminal.
You can also check the recent Slashdot stories of Contiki - this OS for Commie64s lets you surf the net.
This is a good example of how thin clients are nothing new. And how old machines can do more than they are given credit for.
I don't think my principles are misguided; I don't have a problem with not answering or turning off a cell phone, pager, or email. Other people still jump to answer the phone (my wife included); I tell her to get the phone when it is convienient, not whenever it rings.
The telephone in any form is a tool, one that shouldn't rule anyone's life - people seem to be Pavlov's dogs when it comes to a piece of tech clomoring for attention.
The people I talk to know that they are important to me - again, my reasons for not having a cell are more privacy and financially based (I'd rather have internet access) rather than any feeling of being 'leashed'.
I would say having principles that exclude any unnecessary tech are fine - as with anything, moderation is a good thing (as long as you're not some crazed Unabomber Luddite). Communication is worth more to me when I'm not distracted with driving (heh) or 'on the go'.
I'm sure when prices come down some more, I'll look at having a cell phone again for those rare trips out of town, but currently I'm either at home or at work, (with 10 minutes in-between) and pretty easy to reach.
Hear, Hear! I get documents in Office format when they could be made just as easily as HTML in any email program!
I do tell anyone that is sending me any document to save it as an rtf file or I will not take it. Not can't. (I could easily fire up Office on the mac), but won't.
I don't want (crappy) user formatting for the stuff they send me (I layout books among other things) - and these 'authors' want to bold and italisise everything, not to mention giant 96pt Comic Sans titles and headings.
I'm all for powerful word processing, but not at the cost of readabillity, usabillity, and compatabillity.
The first is the 'authors' fault. The rest is Microsoft's.
I like to do my part to ensure interoperabillity.:)
Frankly, not everyone has a phone. My current phone number is registered under my wife's name, and I don't have a cell phone. Before I got married, I went a couple years with no phone. If people wanted to talk to me, they had to stop by.
Unless the Gub'mint is handing out free telphone service, there will always be those on the edge of society that don't have any electronic way to reach them.
Of course, with payphones waving byebye, or increasing their cost (50 cents? I remember when it was ten...), it is getting harder for those without phone service to function on a 'normal' level.
My wife and I are always talking about getting a cell phone, but she doesn't want to be reached anywhere she goes, and I don't like the idea of a GPS tracked number associated with me.
Plus, you'd think that service would be cheaper now that everyone and their brother has one - I'm a cheapskate who doesn't think that a cell is 'worth' it yet - it helps that I now live in a small town where everything is 5 minutes away.
All that said, your theory or proposal doesn't sound that far-fetched. Technology now or will soon allow the govenment to know absolutely everything about its citizens, and those in power like to stay there. The thing is that this plan, like all other information gathering, tracking, and ID-ing, will fail to document those who have the cash to 'stay out of the system'. When was the last time you ever saw anyone rich on jury duty?
This national ID=phone number idea will work great everyone who isn't very rich or very poor. And that's a lot of people.
I'm thinking you're ripe for a defense department contract.
This is so beyond the crap that Poo Duffy puts out, it's sick.
"Hey is that a Sting song? No! It's Pee Diddly! And he's *talking over a Sting song*!"
"You're kidding! You mean that's him *talking over Bruce Hornsby too*!?"
"Yes! Can you believe it? He's taken rap to a whole new level of blandness! In fact, his music doesn't even scare white people!"
Funny, you pay your license fees and you're heralded as a star or 'visionary', even when you are absolutely talentless. And he wasn't even the first...the Beasty Boys put out a record before all this 'sampling' bullshit started; now they wouldn't be able to afford to make 'Paul's Boutique'. There are many others...
This is the best Beatles-based remix I've ever heard,
and something I'll listen to again - thanks for drawing the world's attention to it, EMI!
I think you're forgetting that an Apple II can store hundreds of programs on one floppy. The software was smaller back then. Sure, there are more advanced? word processors, spreadsheets, games and such on a Knoppix disc, but if you break it down to true functionality, not a lot has changed. You can still check your email, play a very entertaining game, work on a text document with fonts and formatting, and balance your checkbook. You can even surf the net (somewhat) with an Apple II gs.
(I'm not even talking a 3.5 floppy either.) Prodos will let you mount a hardrive too.
It's all about scale, and how things like floppies, thin clients, and disco keep coming around in some form or another. That's what I was pointing out. And kinda trolling too;)
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scale my windows in expose, and continue to use them at the smaller size. Perfect for when I just need to see everything at the same time.
The strange thing with Live CDs is that we've effectively moved to really big floppies. What's the difference between an booting an Apple II and a Knoppix PC? Hardware notwithstanding, you can store a similar amount of software on each, that do similar things (word processing, graphics, games, ect.). The Apple even boots faster.
'Tremors: The Series' is another in a long line of 'colon' shows.
IE - shows that had a colon in the title, like 'Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction', 'Code Name: Eternity', 'Poltergiest: The Legacy', 'The Crow: Stairway to Heaven', Highlander: The Series', and 'Highlander: The Raven'.
Strangely enough, a colon is where the scripts come from.
Go worry about something else! I don't download movies because they are of poor quality, poor quality, and poor quality. Two apply to you.
Why anyone would peg their bandwidth for 2 days to grab a flick when you can rent it and burn a copy is beyond me.
Bittorrent shines for grabbing stuff, sure, but I think most people just collect crap, then burn it to disk or throw it on a HD and equate that with penis size.
So, Movie Industry, I really can't see this costing you zillions, or hundreds of thousands for that matter.
The people who want to will go to the theater, buy it on DVD, or rent it. The ones who don't, won't.
Again, if you're going to hunt people down, go after the pressing plants making thousands of copies AND SELLING THEM!
I highly doubt there are more than a few dirty whores who are selling copies of stuff they download. You know who you are. You suck.
any feature that would entice me to upgrade from the last version Connectix kicked out.
AFAIK, (and IIRC) the first release of VPC from MS contained a spash screen change and made all previous disk images obsolete. You have to convert them to the 'new' MS style, and then they are unreadable by previous versions.
It has been awhile, but I think that was one of the reasons I stopped upgrading. If MS 'fixes' the BeOS keyboard issue (any keypress freezes the machine), I may reconsider, but beyond that - why should I encourage MS's poor behavior in business and coding?
VPC under MS is supposed to be faster (21%), but whatever. I don't think the connectix version had this issue. That said, this security issue looks to be rather difficult to implement..so maybe this is a non-issue and FUD.
I'm a longtime PC Acid user (not a dance/electronica guy neither;) and have been wanting to move to the mac (protools) for quite awhile - I have an Aardvark q10 (ten plus inputs) which is amazing, and have been planning to drop the card in my g3 now that the OS X drivers have been released.
Sadly, I can't use it with my much nicer 15" PB.:(
For midi input - I recently got a M-Audio Radium 49 which is $150 at musician's freind.com (though I had to wait for 2 months to get it), and it's very nice with sliders and knobs that can be assigned to organ drawbars or pretty much anything.
Frankly, I didn't like garage band that much - maybe it's the time I have invested in Acid, maybe how GB seems too simple at times (I find myself trying to find things in the menus that aren't there), or maybe the fact I don't have a proper interface for my powerbook.
I agree with another poster how the pianos are great and the amp modeling is cool, but for my needs, soundtrack or Protools with an Mbox is probably where I'll need to go.
Or maybe I'm not giving it a chance? I've wanted Sonic Foundry to port Acid over forever, but now that sony's got it I'm sure I'll never see it.
Anyone working with Soundtrack out there? How does that compare to Acid, Protools or GarageBand in your experience?
Granted, I'm not the 'target market' for GB, and I will most likely use the midi instruments on some things here and there, so I'm happy for the most part.
Shameless plug: If you liked the CD I linked to, I'm selling them for a fiver and shipping. You can read my Journal for more about that.:)
of a mouse in chains. But it wasn't any ordinary mouse - this mouse was gigantic and fat. It ate everything it saw, and stomped on the things it couldn't bend down to eat.
The mouse was very old; seemed like it had been around forever. Whenever anyone talked about the mouse, it'd better be good or *stomp*! No one was allowed to take a picture of the mouse or fashion its likeness in any way.
All the people around the mouse were tired parents in chains - as long as you put chains on when you were in the presence of the mouse you were safe. As soon as you took the chains off - *stomp*!
Does that mean if I hang around long enough that someone will name their OSS project after me? Like 'Teamhasnoi P2P client'? (Would actually be a good name - remainds people to be selfless in their sharing, based off an annoying maxim that everyone knows, could even mean that it contains no spyware.
Sweet. The revelolution will be bittorrented!
Of course, that would mean I could no longer easily google myself....hmm. What a crappy name teamhasnoi is!
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If it works like I think it does, wouldn't content objectionable to you still be routed through your node?Where do you draw the line?
How does this cut down the demand? I'm sure the guys who make it are getting off on it, distributed or not.
I don't think Freenet is about 'avoiding responsibility', I think it is about protecting yourself from those who find your opinions 'distasteful'.
Yup. Sadly, that may include pictures of porn. And it may include photos and reports of people getting killed for going to a democratic rally.
Porn will be made and distributed with or without Freenet. What about censored, unpopular, unjust information?
It's easy to sit back in your Aeon chair and say, "Well if they can't be bothered to run over to the local AP wire office, then their story must be false."
That's exactly what the government wants you to think, no tinfoil hat needed.
Guess what? Before you ask or accuse, I don't like the idea of child porn. Duh. Does anyone other than the small minority of people who have some deep seated issue? Quit parroting every politico seeking reelection.
Just because you find ponography (to you) of any sort, doesn't mean that something like Freenet is bad or not needed. There is an ever increasing inabillity to exercise free speech every day. Read your ISP's TOS. Try and get a letter to the editor printed that is critical of the paper. Try to buy an ad during the SuperBowl.
Why isn't this figured out by now? I kill someone with a hammer. Oh, outlaw hammers! Nevermind that with that same hammer I could help fix a poor family's house. I know, "But you still killed someone with the hammer!"
It's rather obvious to me that those who would filter free speech are the world's biggest pussies. Frankly, I enjoy and use my human! (NOT GOVERNMENT GIVEN) right of free speech every day.
Those who would filter it miss the whole point, and miss the irony of the fact that they are encouraging the removal of any personal responsibility, free action or speech.
Yeah! Freedom of Speech is great as long as I like it! You can recite that over and over, when you're in prison for saying something that your new leader didn't like.
I know there have been rotating 'All-Controllers' out there, but you need to be able to have multiple machines in order to distribute the people.
Why shouldn't I be able to walk up to a blank machine - order up Super Sprint, Cyberball 2xxx, Atari Castles (one of my all time favorites), or hell, even Rescue Raiders.
The tech is out there, but the industry is slow to respond. Of course, licensing will be a problem, but hey guys, you did it to yourself. It would be rather ironic if arcade manufacturers were killed by licensing issues.
Lastly, do we really need another fighting game? I stopped going to arcades when I couldn't find anything that didn't yell "FATALITY" at me.
If you don't have a desktop already, then really you should look at a laptop. You're going to get more use out of it, you'll have better battery life and you won't be spending assloads of dollars for a product in search of a market.
If you have an overwhelming need for a Tablet Pc, I'd like to hear it. Are you planning on working for UPS when you get out of school?
Without more information, the educated /. masses (like those who have tried and rejected this tech, those who have finished school, and those who don't see a clear reason for tablet PCing) can't answer your question.
If you want a computer that you'll be glad you spent the money on, get an iBook or 12-15" Powerbook. My 15" Aluminum Powerbook is my first laptop, and my first Apple, and there is no way I would ever buy another (windows) PC.
If this is your 'get stuff done for school machine', OS X is seriously the way to go. Really. Read what this really smart guy said about the difference between Mac and PC.
You will send me a check because you'll be so happy with it.
Remember Tablet PCs = job at UPS. You don't want to see what you can do for Brown, do you?
You can also check the recent Slashdot stories of Contiki - this OS for Commie64s lets you surf the net. This is a good example of how thin clients are nothing new. And how old machines can do more than they are given credit for.
The telephone in any form is a tool, one that shouldn't rule anyone's life - people seem to be Pavlov's dogs when it comes to a piece of tech clomoring for attention.
The people I talk to know that they are important to me - again, my reasons for not having a cell are more privacy and financially based (I'd rather have internet access) rather than any feeling of being 'leashed'.
I would say having principles that exclude any unnecessary tech are fine - as with anything, moderation is a good thing (as long as you're not some crazed Unabomber Luddite). Communication is worth more to me when I'm not distracted with driving (heh) or 'on the go'.
I'm sure when prices come down some more, I'll look at having a cell phone again for those rare trips out of town, but currently I'm either at home or at work, (with 10 minutes in-between) and pretty easy to reach.
I do tell anyone that is sending me any document to save it as an rtf file or I will not take it. Not can't. (I could easily fire up Office on the mac), but won't.
I don't want (crappy) user formatting for the stuff they send me (I layout books among other things) - and these 'authors' want to bold and italisise everything, not to mention giant 96pt Comic Sans titles and headings.
I'm all for powerful word processing, but not at the cost of readabillity, usabillity, and compatabillity.
The first is the 'authors' fault. The rest is Microsoft's.
I like to do my part to ensure interoperabillity. :)
Unless the Gub'mint is handing out free telphone service, there will always be those on the edge of society that don't have any electronic way to reach them.
Of course, with payphones waving byebye, or increasing their cost (50 cents? I remember when it was ten...), it is getting harder for those without phone service to function on a 'normal' level.
My wife and I are always talking about getting a cell phone, but she doesn't want to be reached anywhere she goes, and I don't like the idea of a GPS tracked number associated with me.
Plus, you'd think that service would be cheaper now that everyone and their brother has one - I'm a cheapskate who doesn't think that a cell is 'worth' it yet - it helps that I now live in a small town where everything is 5 minutes away.
All that said, your theory or proposal doesn't sound that far-fetched. Technology now or will soon allow the govenment to know absolutely everything about its citizens, and those in power like to stay there. The thing is that this plan, like all other information gathering, tracking, and ID-ing, will fail to document those who have the cash to 'stay out of the system'. When was the last time you ever saw anyone rich on jury duty?
This national ID=phone number idea will work great everyone who isn't very rich or very poor. And that's a lot of people.
I'm thinking you're ripe for a defense department contract.
"Hey is that a Sting song? No! It's Pee Diddly! And he's *talking over a Sting song*!"
"You're kidding! You mean that's him *talking over Bruce Hornsby too*!?"
"Yes! Can you believe it? He's taken rap to a whole new level of blandness! In fact, his music doesn't even scare white people!"
Funny, you pay your license fees and you're heralded as a star or 'visionary', even when you are absolutely talentless. And he wasn't even the first...the Beasty Boys put out a record before all this 'sampling' bullshit started; now they wouldn't be able to afford to make 'Paul's Boutique'. There are many others...
This is the best Beatles-based remix I've ever heard, and something I'll listen to again - thanks for drawing the world's attention to it, EMI!
It's all about scale, and how things like floppies, thin clients, and disco keep coming around in some form or another. That's what I was pointing out. And kinda trolling too ;)
Instant 20" display (to scale :)
So where is the advance in technology?
"Wheeeee! Wheee! Oops, my battery's dead."
And the tired 'PPC doesn't play games' troll is more over than Farscape.
Bzzt. Try again.
IE - shows that had a colon in the title, like 'Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction', 'Code Name: Eternity', 'Poltergiest: The Legacy', 'The Crow: Stairway to Heaven', Highlander: The Series', and 'Highlander: The Raven'.
Strangely enough, a colon is where the scripts come from.
I've been itching to get my hands on NASA's Photoshop filters since 1969!
BTW: Kill Bill was worth the 6 bucks to see in the theater, IMHO. But I see about 3 movies a year, so what do I know? This year: Big Fish - good.
Why anyone would peg their bandwidth for 2 days to grab a flick when you can rent it and burn a copy is beyond me.
Bittorrent shines for grabbing stuff, sure, but I think most people just collect crap, then burn it to disk or throw it on a HD and equate that with penis size.
So, Movie Industry, I really can't see this costing you zillions, or hundreds of thousands for that matter.
The people who want to will go to the theater, buy it on DVD, or rent it. The ones who don't, won't.
Again, if you're going to hunt people down, go after the pressing plants making thousands of copies AND SELLING THEM!
I highly doubt there are more than a few dirty whores who are selling copies of stuff they download. You know who you are. You suck.
Doh! here you go...
AFAIK, (and IIRC) the first release of VPC from MS contained a spash screen change and made all previous disk images obsolete. You have to convert them to the 'new' MS style, and then they are unreadable by previous versions.
It has been awhile, but I think that was one of the reasons I stopped upgrading. If MS 'fixes' the BeOS keyboard issue (any keypress freezes the machine), I may reconsider, but beyond that - why should I encourage MS's poor behavior in business and coding?
VPC under MS is supposed to be faster (21%), but whatever. I don't think the connectix version had this issue. That said, this security issue looks to be rather difficult to implement..so maybe this is a non-issue and FUD.
Sadly, I can't use it with my much nicer 15" PB. :(
For midi input - I recently got a M-Audio Radium 49 which is $150 at musician's freind.com (though I had to wait for 2 months to get it), and it's very nice with sliders and knobs that can be assigned to organ drawbars or pretty much anything.
Frankly, I didn't like garage band that much - maybe it's the time I have invested in Acid, maybe how GB seems too simple at times (I find myself trying to find things in the menus that aren't there), or maybe the fact I don't have a proper interface for my powerbook.
I agree with another poster how the pianos are great and the amp modeling is cool, but for my needs, soundtrack or Protools with an Mbox is probably where I'll need to go.
Or maybe I'm not giving it a chance? I've wanted Sonic Foundry to port Acid over forever, but now that sony's got it I'm sure I'll never see it.
Anyone working with Soundtrack out there? How does that compare to Acid, Protools or GarageBand in your experience?
Granted, I'm not the 'target market' for GB, and I will most likely use the midi instruments on some things here and there, so I'm happy for the most part.
Shameless plug: If you liked the CD I linked to, I'm selling them for a fiver and shipping. You can read my Journal for more about that. :)
I'm more concerned with saving the props and the soundstage!
The mouse was very old; seemed like it had been around forever. Whenever anyone talked about the mouse, it'd better be good or *stomp*! No one was allowed to take a picture of the mouse or fashion its likeness in any way.
All the people around the mouse were tired parents in chains - as long as you put chains on when you were in the presence of the mouse you were safe. As soon as you took the chains off - *stomp*!
I really have to lay off the homemade guacamole.
Sweet. The revelolution will be bittorrented!
Of course, that would mean I could no longer easily google myself....hmm. What a crappy name teamhasnoi is!