There is a case to be made, I think, that if certain ports were disabled for home users a serious dent could be made in this P2P population -- not to mention the great deal of bandwidth freed up for more serious Internet activity.
O RLY?
"In fact, some Bittorrent clients are pick alternate ports at random during startup to help avoid ISP filtering.
I would recommend a high port range, like 59052-59059, and also be sure you have those ports forwarded if you own a router. I've done this with Azureus, ABC, and Bitcomet and could leech and seed fine."
Keep in mind however; these numbers do not represent the population of the BitTorrent community, which would surely add many millions more."
Damn right they don't. MPAA and RIAA don't quite know how to tackle that one. Kazaa et al are small potatoes compared to the really good, private, Bittorrent trackers.
"The Times Online is reporting on disturbing findings from the arctic. Polar bears appear to be drowning when they attempt long sea crossings as a result of receding summer ice."
So that means the bears that do survive will be better swimmers than previous. Evolution wins again!
It's probably a good idea after the public controversy over "whats his name". On one hand no matter what changes are endorsed their will always be vandalists.
Your linguistic prowess makes it clear that you have much experience battling the contributions of these "vandalists" on Wikipedia.
With people like you providing expert detail, like "what's his name," in "that one article," I have no doubt Wikipedia will shine above the rest as a beacon of enlightenment and knowledge in the churning wasteland of the internets.
Wikipedia is _about_ stuff, you probably posted your crap in its entirety.. If your crap was popular someone would have posted something _about_ it.
Great logic. By your rationale, Wikipedia should just turn off the ability to add new articles. After all, if it were popular enough, someone would have posted about it by now.
He's referring to "ELOTHES (Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs)" , which is basically a parodical half-assed-fantasy-realm much like you'd find in Everquest, or a merchandising-based children's cartoon.
As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia has some issues. As a model of how and where distributed intellect fails, it's almost shockingly comprehensive.
When we were first considering making Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs available as a publically manageable satirical metanarrative, we dropped the basic timeline on Wikipedia because I liked the way their software went about things. Of course, a phalanx of pedants leapt into action almost immediately to scour - from the sacred corpus of their data - our revolting fancruft.
That's okay with me. I wasn't aware they thought they were making a real encyclopedia for big people at the time, and if I had, I'd have sought out one of the many other free solutions. I had seen the unbelievably detailed He-Man and Pokémon entries and assumed - like any rational person would - that Pokémaniacs were largely at the rudder of the institution.
I am almost certain that - while they prune their deep mine of trivia - they believe themselves to be engaged in the unfolding of humanity's Greatest Working.
Reponses to criticism of Wikipedia go something like this: the first is usually a paean to that pure democracy which is the project's noble fundament. If I don't like it, why don't I go edit it myself? To which I reply: because I don't have time to babysit the Internet. Hardly anyone does. If they do, it isn't exactly a compliment.
Any persistent idiot can obliterate your contributions. The fact of the matter is that all sources of information are not of equal value, and I don't know how or when it became impolitic to suggest it. In opposition to the spirit of Wikipedia, I believe there is such a thing as expertise.
The second response is: the collaborative nature of the apparatus means that the right data tends to emerge, ultimately, even if there is turmoil temporarily as dichotomous viewpoints violently intersect. To which I reply: that does not inspire confidence. In fact, it makes the whole effort even more ridiculous. What you've proposed is a kind of quantum encyclopedia, where genuine data both exists and doesn't exist depending on the precise moment I rely upon your discordant fucking mob for my information.
What a poorly-written article. It's like they just cruised through Wikipedia and copy-and-pasted a bunch of stuff.
Ars Technica used to be good, but now that they're making almost a half-mil a year with their subscriptions and product sales, the article quality has gone waaaay downhill. Nothing like a few bucks and minor notoriety to make a blogger fat and lazy.
And just like with Flickr, when the Yahoo business weasels force everyone to get a Yahoo login, it's going to piss of a heck of a lot of people. How's that for suporting the "community" that they just paid a big chunk of good money for?
Mr Schachter is an intelligent man with his own vision. Many companies were bidding on del.icio.us. I have faith that he joined the company that allowed him to keep as much of his original vision as possible.
So how long until Yahoo changes their name from Del.icio.us to "Yahoo Social Bookmarking Service", just like they changed Konfabulator to "Yahoo Widget Engine", Oddpost to "Yahoo Mail" and Launch.com to "Yahoo Music"...?
I think the subject pretty much sums it up. Doesn't matter if the current holder of the power is the most righteous guy on earth. Once the power is concentrated and usable, it's just a matter of time until it gets abused by some person or some gang.
The American idea of dividing the powers up and setting them at each other's throats was really clever. Unfortunately, no one knows the future, and things have evolved in a way where the powers are bigger and more concentrated than any English king's powers ever were. Unanticipated side effect of the 17th Amendment. (Yeah, the idea of an evolving document was pretty good, too, but it also got misused...)
I don't care how righteous or benevolent your intentions are.. information is power, and historically, power in human societies is always abused.
"Don't know if this is standard procedure, but I was pretty annoyed when, while installing the new version, there were no less then three attempts to integrate yahoo into my computer. Can't these portals release software without trying to take over your computer?"
Yahoo! has released a new version of Konfabulator, now rechristened 'Yahoo Widget Engine'.
This is the difference between Yahoo and Google. Yahoo is about marketing, Google is about substance. Case in point: Google buys Picasa, it stays "Picasa". Yahoo buys Konfabulator, and it becomes "Yahoo Widget Engine." Yahoo buys Oddpost, and it becomes "Yahoo Mail".
At a certain point, the obsessive-compulsive Yahoo branding effort becomes counterproductive. Google realizes this, and leaves the names be.
I'm sure there are plenty of mechanics (not that I'm dissing the profession in any way) who'd prolly love to supplement their income with a few quick "house-call" repair jobs.
Dude, I'm hearing you. It's easy enough to find a mechanic who will "fix" the SMOG test. Imagine how easy it will be for criminals to circumvent this GPS tracking.
The only people this will hurt is law-abiding citizens. Criminals will get around it.
thing is, they already do this-- it's called the fuel tax. The only benefit the GPS solution has over the fuel tax is that big brother gets to track your every move.
Well, regardless of the truth of what I said, the Apple zealots modded it down. Heaven forbid anyone make their computer purchase using actual logic or common sense.
I don't think thats the problem. IMHO, the issue is more hardware than software related...
Which is exactly my point. A linux machine with a bad stick of ram is going to barf just as often as a windows or apple machine with that same bad stick of ram. But-- is the IT department going to know enough about the apple or linux machine to be able to immediately identify the bad ram as the problem? I'm guessing not.
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This isn't really self-awareness, just some good vision techniques. It recognizes key features of it's "face" compared to the normal face.
But the real question is, can it find Sarah Connor?
I've found that Advance Wars 1&2 are good travel games.
Aye, Mate. Same with Fire Emblem.
To boot Knoppix, I'm going to have to wait 5 minutes?
Hey, that's faster than usual. I usually have time to go make a sandwich.
IGN reports that difficulties in hammering out a screenplay have resulted in more delays for the Ender's Game
Sounds like endgame for Ender's Game.
(Maybe we could get Uwe Boll to direct it?)
There is a case to be made, I think, that if certain ports were disabled for home users a serious dent could be made in this P2P population -- not to mention the great deal of bandwidth freed up for more serious Internet activity.
O RLY?
"In fact, some Bittorrent clients are pick alternate ports at random during startup to help avoid ISP filtering.
I would recommend a high port range, like 59052-59059, and also be sure you have those ports forwarded if you own a router. I've done this with Azureus, ABC, and Bitcomet and could leech and seed fine."
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Keep in mind however; these numbers do not represent the population of the BitTorrent community, which would surely add many millions more."
Damn right they don't. MPAA and RIAA don't quite know how to tackle that one. Kazaa et al are small potatoes compared to the really good, private, Bittorrent trackers.
Jack Thompson gets an entire page to himself.
That's good. Just what the guy needs. More notoriety and attention.
"The Times Online is reporting on disturbing findings from the arctic. Polar bears appear to be drowning when they attempt long sea crossings as a result of receding summer ice."
So that means the bears that do survive will be better swimmers than previous. Evolution wins again!
It's probably a good idea after the public controversy over "whats his name". On one hand no matter what changes are endorsed their will always be vandalists.
Your linguistic prowess makes it clear that you have much experience battling the contributions of these "vandalists" on Wikipedia.
With people like you providing expert detail, like "what's his name," in "that one article," I have no doubt Wikipedia will shine above the rest as a beacon of enlightenment and knowledge in the churning wasteland of the internets.
Wikipedia is _about_ stuff, you probably posted your crap in its entirety.. If your crap was popular someone would have posted something _about_ it.
Great logic. By your rationale, Wikipedia should just turn off the ability to add new articles. After all, if it were popular enough, someone would have posted about it by now.
He's referring to "ELOTHES (Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs)" , which is basically a parodical half-assed-fantasy-realm much like you'd find in Everquest, or a merchandising-based children's cartoon.
http://elothtes.pbwiki.com/
As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia has some issues. As a model of how and where distributed intellect fails, it's almost shockingly comprehensive.
When we were first considering making Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs available as a publically manageable satirical metanarrative, we dropped the basic timeline on Wikipedia because I liked the way their software went about things. Of course, a phalanx of pedants leapt into action almost immediately to scour - from the sacred corpus of their data - our revolting fancruft.
That's okay with me. I wasn't aware they thought they were making a real encyclopedia for big people at the time, and if I had, I'd have sought out one of the many other free solutions. I had seen the unbelievably detailed He-Man and Pokémon entries and assumed - like any rational person would - that Pokémaniacs were largely at the rudder of the institution.
I am almost certain that - while they prune their deep mine of trivia - they believe themselves to be engaged in the unfolding of humanity's Greatest Working.
Reponses to criticism of Wikipedia go something like this: the first is usually a paean to that pure democracy which is the project's noble fundament. If I don't like it, why don't I go edit it myself? To which I reply: because I don't have time to babysit the Internet. Hardly anyone does. If they do, it isn't exactly a compliment.
Any persistent idiot can obliterate your contributions. The fact of the matter is that all sources of information are not of equal value, and I don't know how or when it became impolitic to suggest it. In opposition to the spirit of Wikipedia, I believe there is such a thing as expertise.
The second response is: the collaborative nature of the apparatus means that the right data tends to emerge, ultimately, even if there is turmoil temporarily as dichotomous viewpoints violently intersect. To which I reply: that does not inspire confidence. In fact, it makes the whole effort even more ridiculous. What you've proposed is a kind of quantum encyclopedia, where genuine data both exists and doesn't exist depending on the precise moment I rely upon your discordant fucking mob for my information.
(Penny Arcade)
What a poorly-written article. It's like they just cruised through Wikipedia and copy-and-pasted a bunch of stuff.
Ars Technica used to be good, but now that they're making almost a half-mil a year with their subscriptions and product sales, the article quality has gone waaaay downhill. Nothing like a few bucks and minor notoriety to make a blogger fat and lazy.
And just like with Flickr, when the Yahoo business weasels force everyone to get a Yahoo login, it's going to piss of a heck of a lot of people. How's that for suporting the "community" that they just paid a big chunk of good money for?
Why not just use one of the many P2P services available, and download MP3s of the CDs you already own?
Better yet (and less of a legal gray area), pay your 8-year old nephew $0.25 per disc to rip your music for you.
Mr Schachter is an intelligent man with his own vision. Many companies were bidding on del.icio.us. I have faith that he joined the company that allowed him to keep as much of his original vision as possible.
You mean like when AOL bought Nullsoft for WinAmp? That turned out greaaaat.....
So how long until Yahoo changes their name from Del.icio.us to "Yahoo Social Bookmarking Service", just like they changed Konfabulator to "Yahoo Widget Engine", Oddpost to "Yahoo Mail" and Launch.com to "Yahoo Music"...?
I think the subject pretty much sums it up. Doesn't matter if the current holder of the power is the most righteous guy on earth. Once the power is concentrated and usable, it's just a matter of time until it gets abused by some person or some gang.
The American idea of dividing the powers up and setting them at each other's throats was really clever. Unfortunately, no one knows the future, and things have evolved in a way where the powers are bigger and more concentrated than any English king's powers ever were. Unanticipated side effect of the 17th Amendment. (Yeah, the idea of an evolving document was pretty good, too, but it also got misused...)
I don't care how righteous or benevolent your intentions are.. information is power, and historically, power in human societies is always abused.
"Don't know if this is standard procedure, but I was pretty annoyed when, while installing the new version, there were no less then three attempts to integrate yahoo into my computer. Can't these portals release software without trying to take over your computer?"
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LOL. And you're calling me a fanboy?
Yahoo! has released a new version of Konfabulator, now rechristened 'Yahoo Widget Engine'.
This is the difference between Yahoo and Google. Yahoo is about marketing, Google is about substance. Case in point: Google buys Picasa, it stays "Picasa". Yahoo buys Konfabulator, and it becomes "Yahoo Widget Engine." Yahoo buys Oddpost, and it becomes "Yahoo Mail".
At a certain point, the obsessive-compulsive Yahoo branding effort becomes counterproductive. Google realizes this, and leaves the names be.
I'm sure there are plenty of mechanics (not that I'm dissing the profession in any way) who'd prolly love to supplement their income with a few quick "house-call" repair jobs.
Dude, I'm hearing you. It's easy enough to find a mechanic who will "fix" the SMOG test. Imagine how easy it will be for criminals to circumvent this GPS tracking.
The only people this will hurt is law-abiding citizens. Criminals will get around it.
thing is, they already do this-- it's called the fuel tax. The only benefit the GPS solution has over the fuel tax is that big brother gets to track your every move.
You can disbelieve evolution all you want, but you'll be sorry when the apes keep us chained and in cages, and the statue of liberty is in shambles on the beach.
Viva La Evolucion!
Well, regardless of the truth of what I said, the Apple zealots modded it down. Heaven forbid anyone make their computer purchase using actual logic or common sense.
I don't think thats the problem. IMHO, the issue is more hardware than software related...
Which is exactly my point. A linux machine with a bad stick of ram is going to barf just as often as a windows or apple machine with that same bad stick of ram. But-- is the IT department going to know enough about the apple or linux machine to be able to immediately identify the bad ram as the problem? I'm guessing not.