I've noticed slashdot does that every once in a while. There doesn't seem to be any noticeable pattern. It just decides to do some very wide formatting on random stories/days/computers.
However, if their DoS attacks intefere with any transfers of material to which they do not have a copyright, then they should face the same criminal and civil penalties that someone doing a DoS attack on the FBI would face.
Yeah, and it's populated by by people who are exact duplicates of people who currently live on Earth. The big difference is that they are the exact opposite of their Earth counterparts and have goatees and mustaches... wait, no! that's a Star Trek TOS episode.
There are (at least) a couple of problems with this approach.
They actually have to download all these files to analyze their content. That's going to take some major bandwidth and processing power. Or do they just take the first few KBytes from each file to look at? Maybe their real goal is to keep every gnutella node so busy that it can't service any other requests.
What's to stop people from putting content in zip, rar, zoo, arc or whatever format happens to be popular at the time? If they are going to look inside these files then they definitely need to download the entire files. You would think that they would learn from the copy protection fiascos that technological solutions are quickly met with technological counter-measures.
I think something a bit less ambitious would be extremely useful.
If the "borg box" simply had
- a cable and/or satellite receiver
- a DVD player/recorder
- a fast processor & video card
- a big hard disk (around 100GB)
- an ethernet connection
Then it could be a tivo box, play and
record DVDs and be a gaming console.
The ethernet hookup would let it download schedules & software upgrades. I wouldn't care
which OS ran on it either, as long as it boots
up quickly and has a hardware reset button
on the remote!
This would meet all my home entertainment needs.
I can hit the mute button myself when the phone rings.
Slashdot Mirror
I've noticed slashdot does that every once in a while. There doesn't seem to be any noticeable pattern. It just decides to do some very wide formatting on random stories/days/computers.
However, if their DoS attacks intefere with any transfers of material to which they do not have a copyright, then they should face the same criminal and civil penalties that someone doing a DoS attack on the FBI would face.
So what's wrong with the name Martin? ;)
Yeah, and it's populated by by people who are exact duplicates of people who currently live on Earth. The big difference is that they are the exact opposite of their Earth counterparts and have goatees and mustaches... wait, no! that's a Star Trek TOS episode.
There are (at least) a couple of problems with this approach.
They actually have to download all these files to analyze their content. That's going to take some major bandwidth and processing power. Or do they just take the first few KBytes from each file to look at? Maybe their real goal is to keep every gnutella node so busy that it can't service any other requests.
What's to stop people from putting content in zip, rar, zoo, arc or whatever format happens to be popular at the time? If they are going to look inside these files then they definitely need to download the entire files. You would think that they would learn from the copy protection fiascos that technological solutions are quickly met with technological counter-measures.
I think something a bit less ambitious would be extremely useful.
If the "borg box" simply had
- a cable and/or satellite receiver
- a DVD player/recorder
- a fast processor & video card
- a big hard disk (around 100GB)
- an ethernet connection
Then it could be a tivo box, play and
record DVDs and be a gaming console.
The ethernet hookup would let it download schedules & software upgrades. I wouldn't care
which OS ran on it either, as long as it boots
up quickly and has a hardware reset button
on the remote!
This would meet all my home entertainment needs.
I can hit the mute button myself when the phone rings.