since you are here and all, how about some words on how 0.7 is supposed to be more anonymous than 0.5? Using the Chinese freedom-fighter example, my understanding is that the authorities could bust all members of a cell by busting just one member, then seeing which IP address's were the ones most visited (the members of the "darknet"), while with the existing freenet 0.5, no node out of all freenet users is more or less likely to be visited by any other node, so a cell would be safe. Or am I reading it wrong? thats just what i've got from the discussions.
A lot of people, and I mean a LOT of people make shorts just for the heck of
it; whether or not there is talent, there is artistic spirit, as in doing
something when you know you are more likely to get sued than to make any sort of
money...
A good example
is here; the guy just wanted to do a Godzilla animation with no commercial
plans whatsoever, just for the halibut, and the "owners" of the big lizard (no,
the other big lizard) said "take it down, or we will send our ninja copyright
lawyers after you!"
Oh yeah? well my Amiga would blow the doors off your crappy IBM! And my Mediavision Pro Audio Spectrum totally ROCKS in comparison to your lamer sound blaster!
Heh. As a computer store owner back in 93-95, I got to hear some of the stupidest arguments....
My prefered video card back in the day, yo, was the trident T9000 with 512k of RAM. simple, always worked. Being in the Industry pipeline, as I was, I was able to get a 9680 with 4mb of Vram back in the last days of '95... I was the shit.
I think what we might have here is the fallacy of equality raising it's head again. Steve Jobs was NOT just another person in business and marketing; he was a business and marketing genius. Woz was/is also a genius; but Jobs could take ANY half-way decent product and make a mint off of it, While Woz and the apple required a genius, not just someone "good at their jobs", to start the personal PC revolution. Jobs would have done well with a decent product of any description; I don't think Woz could have done well without a top-level business wizard.
I have to disagree with that, AC. There are lots, and lots, and lots, and lots of excellent valuable ideas, concepts, things being made. If you don't have someone to sell your idea, concept or thing, you are not going to make any money. I know. believe me, I know. The only way The Woz would have made a pile of money off the Apple without Jobs, is if he was lucky enough to have another Jobs-type stumble across him.
Only cost effective in Tennessee; they subsidize it do to an ancient compact between bellsouth and the state. you can replace your regular phone line with a ISDN, and end up getting 2 lines for $35/month, and bellsouth internet doesn't charge extra for ISDN.
...and it was produced by Standard Oil, right? You can make Hydrogen with a nuclear reactor. you can also make it with pretty much any steam source. 1 cold war era nuclear bomb could potentially generate enough hydrogen to run the state of texas's autos for 2-3 months or more, if every car in texas was converted over to H. (Info provided to me by a Navy nuclear engineer)
Well, actually as a Ex-smoker I can't get it completely right, but I think it goes more like this: It's my body. I can do what I want with it. I'll abide reasonable restrictions on where I smoke, so as to not endanger the sensibilities of people who are picky about such things. If the government is allowed to pollute the air my kids breath, then I am allowed to pollute the air their kids breath. I'll stop when they do. I'll stop complaining about high tobacco taxes when they tax everything equally, instead of picking on me. My health care may cost the government more when I'm older. since I pay income tax, and I'm a citizen, it's my money anyway. stop whining.
In Kentucky, we are allowed to use reasonable force, also. And, to date, we still have the tools (firearms) to do so. AT my Tennessee house, direct quote from the deputy last summer: "try to make sure the rounds don't hit the neighbors houses. Oh, and if he falls out the door, make sure to drag him back in before you call us".
not to mention the hardcoded DRM and the fact that XP is to Win2k as WinME was to Win98SE. I have a legal license to XP pro, but it will never darken my Hard Drive.
Ok. How's this then: put up your habitat, then give it about 1/6th G equivalent spin. Many, many people have thought it likely that reduced gravity will extend the human lifetime signifigantly, like maybe even a 50% increase. Reduced gravity would also make some of the problems the elderly face less of a bother; getting around would be MUCH easier. If someone puts something like this up, I can easily see the upper-class elderly (who are capable of making the trip) putting there $$$ into a trust to pay for their living in orbit. And, when their money runs out, it would be IMPOSSIBLE to send them back to 1 G, so you can just shove 'em out the airlock.
It would be easy to fake any e-mail you want on a system you control. seriously, laughably, easy. Going back in time, as in inserting your faked e-mail into an offsite tape backup, would be a little harder. On the other hand, the people looking for evidence are very unlikely to be able to properly access your offsite library; they are most likely going to order the company geeks to do it for them, unless you are talking about a government sponsored full-bore witchhunt, of course.
Not in Canada. Hmm. So I could use a shell account located in Canada...copy the movie from the FTP server to my shell server, at which time it would be legally in my possesion under canadian law. And since it would be a legal copy, I could then move it to my US home computer. gotta be a problem with that somewhere....
That sounds awfully cool. I had been thinking about belieze; I actually know some landowners down there, it's essentially still commonwealth. However, I've pretty much ruled out anything that close to the equator; If I'm going to uproot my kids, I need to think more long term and global warming + equator seem to be a big no-no. Currently, I'm looking pretty hard at southern Alaska; 5 minute drive or boat trip to canada, decent personal property laws, and it seldom gets far below freezing during the winter; the only drawback being it seldom gets above 60 F in the summer. I just wish Vermont and NH weren't so close to the peoples republic of New York; can't beat the (non-existant) gun laws there.
Remember all the problems Yahoo had with france? I think it makes more sense for any information company to block all french government IP's; If a bunch of idiots is going to continually harass and annoy you, don't deal with them.
y'know, that is a REALLY interesting thought. If I was to take $100,000 in life insurance and do a really detailed will... naa, I would have to pre-buy the casket and gravesite to make sure the wiring would work... It would work, but I would have to have money to burn to set things up before i die. But it WOULD be cool. the moment the casket is lowered down, the dark fiber lights up...
amazingly large number of replies generated to my original post considering it's "offtopic", eh?
People who are looking to immigrate these days are doing so most likely because of the Patriot Act, which is a symptom of the Bush Administration. Therefore the post was completely on topic.
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since you are here and all, how about some words on how 0.7 is supposed to be more anonymous than 0.5? Using the Chinese freedom-fighter example, my understanding is that the authorities could bust all members of a cell by busting just one member, then seeing which IP address's were the ones most visited (the members of the "darknet"), while with the existing freenet 0.5, no node out of all freenet users is more or less likely to be visited by any other node, so a cell would be safe.
Or am I reading it wrong? thats just what i've got from the discussions.
sooo...
a funny justification of evil?
I guess I get it.
masters of magic.
all the Europa universalis based games.
and oddly enough, "the movies" from lionhead. addictive game.
A lot of people, and I mean a LOT of people make shorts just for the heck of it; whether or not there is talent, there is artistic spirit, as in doing something when you know you are more likely to get sued than to make any sort of money...
A good example is here; the guy just wanted to do a Godzilla animation with no commercial plans whatsoever, just for the halibut, and the "owners" of the big lizard (no, the other big lizard) said "take it down, or we will send our ninja copyright lawyers after you!"
Oh yeah? well my Amiga would blow the doors off your crappy IBM!
And my Mediavision Pro Audio Spectrum totally ROCKS in comparison to your lamer sound blaster!
Heh.
As a computer store owner back in 93-95, I got to hear some of the stupidest arguments....
My prefered video card back in the day, yo, was the trident T9000 with 512k of RAM. simple, always worked.
Being in the Industry pipeline, as I was, I was able to get a 9680 with 4mb of Vram back in the last days of '95... I was the shit.
I think what we might have here is the fallacy of equality raising it's head again.
Steve Jobs was NOT just another person in business and marketing; he was a business and marketing genius.
Woz was/is also a genius; but Jobs could take ANY half-way decent product and make a mint off of it, While Woz and the apple required a genius, not just someone "good at their jobs", to start the personal PC revolution.
Jobs would have done well with a decent product of any description; I don't think Woz could have done well without a top-level business wizard.
I have to disagree with that, AC.
There are lots, and lots, and lots, and lots of excellent valuable ideas, concepts, things being made.
If you don't have someone to sell your idea, concept or thing, you are not going to make any money.
I know. believe me, I know.
The only way The Woz would have made a pile of money off the Apple without Jobs, is if he was lucky enough to have another Jobs-type stumble across him.
Only REAL men use ARJ.
"g: Garble with password"
Only cost effective in Tennessee; they subsidize it do to an ancient compact between bellsouth and the state.
you can replace your regular phone line with a ISDN, and end up getting 2 lines for $35/month, and bellsouth internet doesn't charge extra for ISDN.
...and it was produced by Standard Oil, right?
You can make Hydrogen with a nuclear reactor. you can also make it with pretty much any steam source.
1 cold war era nuclear bomb could potentially generate enough hydrogen to run the state of texas's autos for 2-3 months or more, if every car in texas was converted over to H.
(Info provided to me by a Navy nuclear engineer)
Well, actually as a Ex-smoker I can't get it completely right, but I think it goes more like this:
It's my body. I can do what I want with it. I'll abide reasonable restrictions on where I smoke, so as to not endanger the sensibilities of people who are picky about such things.
If the government is allowed to pollute the air my kids breath, then I am allowed to pollute the air their kids breath. I'll stop when they do.
I'll stop complaining about high tobacco taxes when they tax everything equally, instead of picking on me.
My health care may cost the government more when I'm older. since I pay income tax, and I'm a citizen, it's my money anyway. stop whining.
we're a persecuted minority; most people just don't understand it's possible to love the 1st and 2nd amendment equally, either.
In Kentucky, we are allowed to use reasonable force, also.
And, to date, we still have the tools (firearms) to do so.
AT my Tennessee house, direct quote from the deputy last summer: "try to make sure the rounds don't hit the neighbors houses. Oh, and if he falls out the door, make sure to drag him back in before you call us".
not to mention the hardcoded DRM and the fact that XP is to Win2k as WinME was to Win98SE.
I have a legal license to XP pro, but it will never darken my Hard Drive.
Ok.
How's this then: put up your habitat, then give it about 1/6th G equivalent spin.
Many, many people have thought it likely that reduced gravity will extend the human lifetime signifigantly, like maybe even a 50% increase.
Reduced gravity would also make some of the problems the elderly face less of a bother; getting around would be MUCH easier.
If someone puts something like this up, I can easily see the upper-class elderly (who are capable of making the trip) putting there $$$ into a trust to pay for their living in orbit.
And, when their money runs out, it would be IMPOSSIBLE to send them back to 1 G, so you can just shove 'em out the airlock.
It would be easy to fake any e-mail you want on a system you control.
seriously, laughably, easy.
Going back in time, as in inserting your faked e-mail into an offsite tape backup, would be a little harder.
On the other hand, the people looking for evidence are very unlikely to be able to properly access your offsite library; they are most likely going to order the company geeks to do it for them, unless you are talking about a government sponsored full-bore witchhunt, of course.
I froze when I read about Jack Chalker having died; I hadn't heard.
Whatever you are smoking, I want none of it.
Not in Canada.
Hmm.
So I could use a shell account located in Canada...copy the movie from the FTP server to my shell server, at which time it would be legally in my possesion under canadian law.
And since it would be a legal copy, I could then move it to my US home computer.
gotta be a problem with that somewhere....
That sounds awfully cool.
I had been thinking about belieze; I actually know some landowners down there, it's essentially still commonwealth.
However, I've pretty much ruled out anything that close to the equator; If I'm going to uproot my kids, I need to think more long term and global warming + equator seem to be a big no-no.
Currently, I'm looking pretty hard at southern Alaska; 5 minute drive or boat trip to canada, decent personal property laws, and it seldom gets far below freezing during the winter; the only drawback being it seldom gets above 60 F in the summer.
I just wish Vermont and NH weren't so close to the peoples republic of New York; can't beat the (non-existant) gun laws there.
Kentucky ones do, also. 10 seconds in a microwave fixes 'em.
I was going to alter it, make myself a senator or something, but i got lazy.
Remember all the problems Yahoo had with france?
I think it makes more sense for any information company to block all french government IP's; If a bunch of idiots is going to continually harass and annoy you, don't deal with them.
y'know, that is a REALLY interesting thought.
If I was to take $100,000 in life insurance and do a really detailed will... naa, I would have to pre-buy the casket and gravesite to make sure the wiring would work...
It would work, but I would have to have money to burn to set things up before i die.
But it WOULD be cool. the moment the casket is lowered down, the dark fiber lights up...
amazingly large number of replies generated to my original post considering it's "offtopic", eh?
People who are looking to immigrate these days are doing so most likely because of the Patriot Act, which is a symptom of the Bush Administration. Therefore the post was completely on topic.