The Gestapo'd be embarrassed by these lightweights....
I bet Hogan is behind it all!
I can hear it now... 'HoooGAAAAAANN!'
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Dude, it's all bit strings. When it's easy to copy them, they get copied. Period.
Remember Smith's Law of P2P - Physics beats ethics.
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The whole point of a p2p network is not to share files but to not get caught sharing files.
Last February I got a bigfoot letter from my ISP, Rogers, who had been contacted by the Canadian equivalent to the MIAA, whatever it's called.
I was sharing tons of stuff, 8,000 mp3s, on DalNet and they wanted me to stop. What bothers me is they never contacted ME, they went straight to my ISP and tried to get me kicked off the Internet.
The letter from Rogers said you're in violation etc, stop now etc, or else etc.
So, I stopped.
This close call ruined my career on Dalnet where I had built quite a rep, and trashed my source of free music.
And not popular music either - ancient stuff you cant get anymore, like Robert Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders. Buy THAT at your local CD shop...
Since then the point has been made moot by the fact that my cable modem has been capped at about a FIFTH of it's previous speed. (I am investigating DSL)
However - the crux of the whole matter is this - the record companies hired people to go on the internet and score music for them. Then these people, who, and this is crucial, have the IP of the music source, use that IP to run down the source down and then use legal means to try and get that person kicked off the internet.
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FANCY YOUR PROTOCOL IS OR HOW GOOD YOUR CRYPTOGRAPHY IS, IF THEY CAN GET YOUR IP YOUR SCREWED.
I have NEVER seen a p2p system address this issue.
Seriously - it seems that the revolution has passed him by. I'm sure he's quietly done some great stuff since his book, I'd just like to know what it is.
Maybe I'm pathetically striving for geek chiche, but I have always felt that the *nix school is the next level up.
They seem so free of the weird little troubles that plague windows people, they are in charge of their own systems and not spoon fed like windows users, they run the entire Internet (at least the bedrock of it), and they have a system that has remained fundamentally almost unchanged for 30 years in this turbulent industry.
I interpret that as a sign of evolution into perfection, or something like it.
The Superman/Batman thing has been done at least three times in the comics I read as a kid, it's old now.
It's the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Drunken Wedding Reception Brawl Super Special #1 that *I'm* looking forward to...
Slashdot Mirror
a Beowulf cluster of these!
Bruce Schneier has handled this in his book
4 71 253111/qid=1036775441/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-248505 7-0576118?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Secrets and Lies.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0
Biometrics is not ready for prime time. When they hack it, are you going to be isssued a new thumb?
If the mouse works, leave it alone.
Just be glad your not running one of the ball ones, that vacuum up all the crap on your mouse pad and jam and skip.
Lets /. the government now, I'm sure that's a felony...
And how geeky is a sig advertising 'Tradewars for the net' ?
-Remember: Mohammed Atta and his crew of butchers, who murdered 3000 Americans on 9/11/01, plotted the entire scheme in Germany-
News to me - where did you get this piece of information, please?
The Gestapo'd be embarrassed by these lightweights....
... 'HoooGAAAAAANN!'
I bet Hogan is behind it all!
I can hear it now
Dude, it's all bit strings. When it's easy to copy them, they get copied. Period.
Remember Smith's Law of P2P - Physics beats ethics.
The whole point of a p2p network is not to share files but to not get caught sharing files.
Last February I got a bigfoot letter from my ISP, Rogers, who had been contacted by the Canadian equivalent to the MIAA, whatever it's called.
I was sharing tons of stuff, 8,000 mp3s, on DalNet and they wanted me to stop. What bothers me is they never contacted ME, they went straight to my ISP and tried to get me kicked off the Internet.
The letter from Rogers said you're in violation etc, stop now etc, or else etc.
So, I stopped.
This close call ruined my career on Dalnet where I had built quite a rep, and trashed my source of free music.
And not popular music either - ancient stuff you cant get anymore, like Robert Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders. Buy THAT at your local CD shop...
Since then the point has been made moot by the fact that my cable modem has been capped at about a FIFTH of it's previous speed. (I am investigating DSL)
However - the crux of the whole matter is this - the record companies hired people to go on the internet and score music for them. Then these people, who, and this is crucial, have the IP of the music source, use that IP to run down the source down and then use legal means to try and get that person kicked off the internet.
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FANCY YOUR PROTOCOL IS OR HOW GOOD YOUR CRYPTOGRAPHY IS, IF THEY CAN GET YOUR IP YOUR SCREWED.
I have NEVER seen a p2p system address this issue.
Ok - WHY is this going on? WHY isn't everyone who has a security situation not running OpenBSD?
Give me ONE REASON....
One - I guess Bill wants it ALL, doesn't he?
.pdf - PLEASE let it have BOOKMARKS.....
Two - I hope this new format supports one thing thats driven me NUTS about
Well, they've been /.'d haven't they?
Seriously, remember that 'Slashdot is moving' thing from a few days ago?
I bet they're right in the middle of the move, is what the problem is.
Royal family denies relationship.
Actually Harry Potter HAD to be derivitive or the purists would have gone nuts....
Good post though, otherwise....
When this was new I ran into it at a comptuer show in Toronto.
When I asked the sales girl if her new wireless keyboard used any kind of cryptography she looked at me like I had two heads.
People are so stupid they deserve the shit they get.
It says the CF is updatable over the air - how long before THAT is hacked?
This is a part of the long term plan of the business community to appropriate the Internet after it flew in totally under their radar.
They want to turn the whole digital thing into push technology in the hands of a few - like TV.
FORTH is an incredible language!
I ran Miller Microcomputer Forth on a TRS-80 back in the day and it was amazing.
Forth is totally stack oriented. It is difficult to determine where the OS ends and the language begins.
It is naturally recursive.
DONE RIGHT you can do a LOT in a few lines.
You can shoot yourself in the BULLET with Forth.
And Spiderman would code in Forth because...
This guy wrote the book on C (literally)
BUT - what has he done lately?
Seriously - it seems that the revolution has passed him by. I'm sure he's quietly done some great stuff since his book, I'd just like to know what it is.
burst out shortly afterward....
Now I can impress chicks... or not as the case may be....
This is why older programmers are having trouble getting work.
The bosses know that all-nighters are part of the job, and only younger geeks can do it.
Maybe I'm pathetically striving for geek chiche, but I have always felt that the *nix school is the next level up.
They seem so free of the weird little troubles that plague windows people, they are in charge of their own systems and not spoon fed like windows users, they run the entire Internet (at least the bedrock of it), and they have a system that has remained fundamentally almost unchanged for 30 years in this turbulent industry.
I interpret that as a sign of evolution into perfection, or something like it.
I've been looking forward to a book like this - I hope it'll wean me off my years of windows programming and step up into the majors...
The Superman/Batman thing has been done at least three times in the comics I read as a kid, it's old now.
It's the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Drunken Wedding Reception Brawl Super Special #1 that *I'm* looking forward to...