Actually, P2P in a way solves a problem with present network design. Much of the time, there's a fairly small amount of traffic, but there are also significant spikes (/. effect, new Slackware release). You have to build capacity (mirror systems, etc.) to handle the spikes gracefully, or tick off users who go away empty-handed.
I completely agree. Anyone who doesn't believe these claims should read the latest story on BitTorrent and Red Hat 9. Notice how people are getting very slow speeds from the official FTPs but excellent speeds from P2P. P2P allows for greater speeds than official sources. This is why one would use P2P rather than an official source. Speed.
Update: 03/31 23:45 GMT by J: After roughly four hours, BitTorrent has transferred over 500 full copies of all 3 ISOs, and a total of over 1.5 TB, at 170 Mbytes/sec. Thanks to the more than 3000 people who helped each other download the data, and especially to the more than 200 who got full copies and still have their clients open, to keep serving data to everyone else:)
Mr. dotslash: Most guns are used [...] illegaly in the commission of crimes.
Mr. FallLine: [...] most guns are NOT used for the commission of crimes
Neither of you two have substantiated your claims with a hard statistic.
The presence of a gun in the home makes it nearly three times more likely that someone will be murdered by a family member or intimate partner. - Source
Read the above, twice if necessary: its an example of a quotation, citing my source and substantiating my otherwise baseless claims. This is where you start your argument. From the cited fact, all discussion stems.
As is, you and dotslash's comments mean nothing. You haven't backed up any of your information. You're saying "X is Y", but others are saying "X is Z". Who am I to believe? None of you.
Things look pretty bad for Kazaa, since it has control over all of the items listed above, and it presumably operates Kazaa "root supernodes." I suspect that they are liable, at least for vicarious infringement, based on the operation of root supernodes.
He [Janus Friis] told me FastTrack has a "supernode server to fetch seed IP addresses when not available locally" but the supernode server is only used by "Older versions of Kazaa Media Desktop". He added "Let me also direct your attention to the fact that Grokster is an older customized version of KMD/FT".
Only older FT clients use the supernode server; the latest Kazaa is totally decentralized. But this probably will have little effect on the ruling - Kazaa has in fact admitted to operating a root supernode server. Whether this matters at all is debatable.
In Linux, each program is backwards compatible with the previous major kernels. You can run ipchains and it's modules on linux 2.4, even though 2.4 uses iptables and so forth.
Can you run freebsd 3.x software on freebsd 4.x?
The AC already replied, but I just want to point out he or she is correct. FreeBSD 5.0, by default, includes compatiable libraries and interfaces to run older code. This includes compat2, compat3, and (with the release of 5.0) compat4. There are kernel options, such as COMPAT_FREEBSD4, which can be removed if you wish to sacrifice the ability to run older 4.0 applications for some space. You can even enable the syscall.master option COMPAT4 to transparently wrap 4.0 syscalls when appropriate.
Therefore:
In Linux, each program is backwards compatible with the previous major kernels.
In FreeBSD, each program is backwards compatible with the previous major and minor kernels
In Windows, each program is backwards compatible with the previous versions of Windows and DOS
You have no argument, as all major operating systems support backwards compatibility in one form or another. Programmers don't just break interfaces at their whim (unless they submit Linux patches). In fact, I would go as far to say that FreeBSD is more backwards compatible than many other operating systems: FreeBSD can run Linux executables.
Quote now has verb and noun forms, the noun part of speech being equivalent to "quotation", dated 1888. Quote (noun) can also be used to mean "quotation mark".
Quotation and quotation mark are indeed valid, but so is using quote as a noun.
I can't find the original pr but here is the Wikipedia entry:
MD5 (Message Digest Algorithm 5) is a message digest algorithm (and cryptographic hash function) with a 128-bit hash value. MD5 is one of a series of message digest algorithms designed by professor Ronald Rivest of MIT. It is an improvement upon its predecessor, MD4, made in response to some analytic work indicating that MD4 was likely to be insecure. MD4 was subsequently shown to be cryptographically insecure. MD5 has been widely used, and was originally thought to be cryptographically secure. However, work in Europe in 1994 uncovered weaknesses which make further use of MD5 questionable. Specifically, it has been shown that special pairs of messages can be generated which have the same hash. Unlike MD4, it is still thought to be very difficult to produce a message with a given hash.
He's not talking about SCP, but SFTP. Unfortunately, SFTP is a hack job and no good clients are available making SCP the dominant protocol. I've never even used SFTP - there isn't a good, GUI, Win32 client available (WinSCP rocks by the way).
I checked on Osirusoft with a random dynamic Verizon DSL IP address. Results are interesting:
(127.0.0.3) 4.60.0.0 is DNSbl listed. by dun.dnsrbl.net
(127.0.0.3) 4.60.0.0 is DNSbl listed. by blackholes.five-ten-sg.com
(127.0.0.2) 4.60.0.0 is DNSbl listed. by spamguard.leadmon.net
Dial-Up/Cable/DSL IP Range - Use your providers SMTP Gateway
(127.0.0.2) 4.60.0.0 is DNSbl listed. by work.drbl.croco.net
weight: 1; vote.drbl.bilim-systems.net/0.4 vote.drbl.trecom.tomsk.ru/0.4 vote.drbl.kaa.ru/0.2
dsl-verizon.net 0212221906
dsl-verizon.net
Quite a few sites use Osirusoft's DNSRBL database and as a result inadvertendly block mail from these DSL customers. Oh well, at least VZ provides its customers with an SMTP server.
Man, I don't use Linux. Thanks for jumping to conclusions. I use a variation of BSD, and I would never switch to a Linux distribution. Additionally, I fail to see how switching to this sort Linux distribution will help improve X. But then again, I believe IHBT.
Gracious. I just couldn't resist that last part. I agree it was a poor choice to place at the end, in plain view.
For those historically impaired, "The White Man's Burden" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling published in 1899. Its a euphemism justifying imperialism. Nowadays, this isn't patriotism - its jingoism.
Even if Google is blocked, its a mere casualty in the war of the search engines. Sure, its the best, but there are countless search engines amongst the World Wide Web. If China aggressively makes their search engine be the best in the nation, it will give engines like Yahoo! (who wants to become the next Google), Teoma, and Metacrawler a distinct advantage over Google. As a result, I predict each engine will improve to the point of a singularity, and we won't end up with One Great Engine (Google), but rather, dozens of excellent high-quality search engines to choose from. Then we will see some real competition.
If China blocks Google, the Chinese will have one less engine to choose from, but that does not amount to zero - in fact, countless free search engine alternatives exist. Many of them can be found on Google.
What do you suggest otherwise? Going in and bombing them and forcing them to live how I live
This is exactly what I would suggest.
just because I think I'm right?
Not only do you think capitalism and democracy is right, the entire first-world thinks it is the most humane economic and government policy. What has caused the United States of America to become the most powerful and successful nation of today? Capitalism. What has allowed the United States of America to become the most humane, safe, and free place to live? Democracy. Capitalism and democracy are not the end result - they are a system, that when allowed to control decisions over time make the government and economy the most fair in the world.
We should bomb savage nations, because their people do not have the advantages and fairness of the USA. Actually, I'm not stuck on bombing, but the nations have to be taken over and have a modern national government set in place, if their human rights violations are so bold, so crass, so inhuman.
I'm probably going to get moderated for this, but I'm hoping that following the I-nation other, prehistoric nations will continue to succumb to enlightenment, and see the white light that is white man's burden.
Circumvention: Technically-minded users will be able to use http caches, ssh tunnels, open WinGates, and whatnot to defeat the block. History has shown that if people really want to get to a site, they will. Admittedly, proxying your connection slows it down significantly, and few Chinese are likely to use Google for their everyday search engine for this very reason. On the other hand, China is home to some skilled hackers.
Public Opinion: If the China search engine sucks more than Google, average citizens may rise up against the Chinese government's blacklisting effort and call for access to Google. Google is already widely acclaimed for this to be larger than one may expect, if it needs to happen. Heck, Google is even a verb - and if Chinese can't Google, there may be some disgust. This may lead to wide circumvention or lobbying for a change in the law. On the other hand, the Chinese government may completely ignore its criticism.
Its difficult to predict which side will win -- but I hope for the best. There are too many mitigating factors for my crystal ball to function correctly at this moment, sorry.
Now that Google has a serious competitor (due to the enormous population of China), it will try to improve to compete fairly. So will the China search system.
As much as I like Google, it has a monopoly on non-suckiness of search engines. If China's search can compete, unfairly or fairly, it won't be a mere arms race - only good can come of this.
Parsing "HTML" (and I use the term in quotes to indicate the tag soup that makes up most pages, rather than standard compliant HTML) is currently a very difficult task. Parsing standards compliant HTML, on the other hand, is a relatively simple task (or if not simple, at least well-defined). If every page on the WWW strictly followed standards, pages would be smaller (on average), would render faster, and there wouldn't be so much ambiguity about how a page will look across different browsers.
The only things Google is essentially missing are:
!DOCTYPE - This is redundant in a simple HTML page, because small pages have a low enough tag vocabulary that it is unnecessary to say which tags are used. Seriously, all web browsers will treat text/html's as HTML, and parse accordiningly, without requiring that redundant document type declaration. Strict, loose, whatever -- its all HTML, all the tags are the same.
Unquoted Attributes - These are heavily unnecessary. The only time a tag attribute needs to be quoted is if it contains non-identifier characters, or less strictly, spaces or quotes. No web browsers complain about unquoted attributes, and in my opinion unnecessary quoting is harmful and wasteful. SGML-derived languages already have a reputation for being bloated, HTML does not need to exacerbate this fact.
I'm all for standards-compliance, but Google displays well in all browsers. You don't have to worry about annoying features like frames, iframes, layers, ilayers, active scripting, applets, active content, multimedia, popups. Google doesn't abuse any of those. Its HTML is relatively standard, within reason.
Instead of changing Google to fit the standards, the standards should be changed to fit Google.
Another one of those "it's easy to fix if you just type the following cryptic commands". I know how to fix it, but look if the key is distinctively marked backspace it should do backspace. Yes Control-H would have been nice for a help page but guess what? It was already taken!
What are you complaining about? If you don't like cryptic commands, unreasonable key bindings, ambigious configuration options - Emacs is not for you. How about vi? Its a model editor so ^H in text edit mode won't be misinterpreted as a command, in any case; you have to enter command mode to enter commands. For this reason and this reason alone, vi is infinitely superior to emacs or its forks.
Everybody knows that pressing backspace in the original Emacs brought up the help page (I'm not making this up).
If you set your backspace key to ^? instead of ^H this shouldn't happen. Control-H is logically enough, help, while character 127 is the delete (DEL) character at the end of the ASCII table. Just do "stty erase ^?".
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Update: 03/31 23:45 GMT by J: After roughly four hours, BitTorrent has transferred over 500 full copies of all 3 ISOs, and a total of over 1.5 TB, at 170 Mbytes/sec. Thanks to the more than 3000 people who helped each other download the data, and especially to the more than 200 who got full copies and still have their clients open, to keep serving data to everyone else :)
How much did the Red Hat FTP's serve that day?
Mr. dotslash: Most guns are used [...] illegaly in the commission of crimes.
Mr. FallLine: [...] most guns are NOT used for the commission of crimes
Neither of you two have substantiated your claims with a hard statistic.
Read the above, twice if necessary: its an example of a quotation, citing my source and substantiating my otherwise baseless claims. This is where you start your argument. From the cited fact, all discussion stems.
As is, you and dotslash's comments mean nothing. You haven't backed up any of your information. You're saying "X is Y", but others are saying "X is Z". Who am I to believe? None of you.
Back up your facts, or back up that ass.
Only older FT clients use the supernode server; the latest Kazaa is totally decentralized. But this probably will have little effect on the ruling - Kazaa has in fact admitted to operating a root supernode server. Whether this matters at all is debatable.
Therefore:
You have no argument, as all major operating systems support backwards compatibility in one form or another. Programmers don't just break interfaces at their whim (unless they submit Linux patches). In fact, I would go as far to say that FreeBSD is more backwards compatible than many other operating systems: FreeBSD can run Linux executables.
Quotation and quotation mark are indeed valid, but so is using quote as a noun.
Hope this clears things up.
How can I do anonymous SCP?
You mean like Gnutella?
Repeat after me: fuck MD5.
MD5 is flawed.
Use SHA-1 instead.
Or better yet (some say), TigerTree.
All of which Gnutella uses.
Man, I don't use Linux. Thanks for jumping to conclusions. I use a variation of BSD, and I would never switch to a Linux distribution. Additionally, I fail to see how switching to this sort Linux distribution will help improve X. But then again, I believe IHBT.
That dude was just kidding, there is no way to make X perform as well as XP. Trust me.
For those historically impaired, "The White Man's Burden" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling published in 1899. Its a euphemism justifying imperialism. Nowadays, this isn't patriotism - its jingoism.
But I hope we all can agree, that America (the continent) or Europe are the best places to live. Not Africa. Not Asia. Not China.
If China blocks Google, the Chinese will have one less engine to choose from, but that does not amount to zero - in fact, countless free search engine alternatives exist. Many of them can be found on Google.
We should bomb savage nations, because their people do not have the advantages and fairness of the USA. Actually, I'm not stuck on bombing, but the nations have to be taken over and have a modern national government set in place, if their human rights violations are so bold, so crass, so inhuman.
I'm probably going to get moderated for this, but I'm hoping that following the I-nation other, prehistoric nations will continue to succumb to enlightenment, and see the white light that is white man's burden.
- Circumvention: Technically-minded users will be able to use http caches, ssh tunnels, open WinGates, and whatnot to defeat the block. History has shown that if people really want to get to a site, they will. Admittedly, proxying your connection slows it down significantly, and few Chinese are likely to use Google for their everyday search engine for this very reason. On the other hand, China is home to some skilled hackers.
- Public Opinion: If the China search engine sucks more than Google, average citizens may rise up against the Chinese government's blacklisting effort and call for access to Google. Google is already widely acclaimed for this to be larger than one may expect, if it needs to happen. Heck, Google is even a verb - and if Chinese can't Google, there may be some disgust. This may lead to wide circumvention or lobbying for a change in the law. On the other hand, the Chinese government may completely ignore its criticism.
Its difficult to predict which side will win -- but I hope for the best. There are too many mitigating factors for my crystal ball to function correctly at this moment, sorry.In similar vain to Visual C++ and Visual Basic, we already have Visual Perl and Visual Python [1].
[1] But they aren't written by Microsoft.
Now that Google has a serious competitor (due to the enormous population of China), it will try to improve to compete fairly. So will the China search system.
As much as I like Google, it has a monopoly on non-suckiness of search engines. If China's search can compete, unfairly or fairly, it won't be a mere arms race - only good can come of this.
This is a good thing for everyone.
- !DOCTYPE - This is redundant in a simple HTML page, because small pages have a low enough tag vocabulary that it is unnecessary to say which tags are used. Seriously, all web browsers will treat text/html's as HTML, and parse accordiningly, without requiring that redundant document type declaration. Strict, loose, whatever -- its all HTML, all the tags are the same.
- Unquoted Attributes - These are heavily unnecessary. The only time a tag attribute needs to be quoted is if it contains non-identifier characters, or less strictly, spaces or quotes. No web browsers complain about unquoted attributes, and in my opinion unnecessary quoting is harmful and wasteful. SGML-derived languages already have a reputation for being bloated, HTML does not need to exacerbate this fact.
I'm all for standards-compliance, but Google displays well in all browsers. You don't have to worry about annoying features like frames, iframes, layers, ilayers, active scripting, applets, active content, multimedia, popups. Google doesn't abuse any of those. Its HTML is relatively standard, within reason.Instead of changing Google to fit the standards, the standards should be changed to fit Google.
Does this DJ also rip and upload the CDs they receive from the RIAA? If not, its not sharing. We need to stop this kind of leeching.