Yeah, it's not good for the long term but I'm sure someone will come up with something that will make the protocol attractive for use outside of the Warez arena.
There's only one change that needs to be made to bittorrent to make viable as a long-term distribution method, similar to FTP, and it's something that can be done Right Now (tm) without having to wait for some major change in the code base.
The idea is simple: Make your tracker also seed all the files it tracks. In this way, when a file is popular, the bandwidth burden is unloaded off your server and onto all the peers, just like regular bittorrent, but if a file becomes unpopular (eg, when it gets old), it'll always have that one seed -- your own server -- so the file never dies and goes away. Worst case scenario is that your server is the only seed and only one person is downloading, and that's only marginally worse than doing a straight FTP transfer to that person. If even one more person joins the torrent, the first person will also upload to the second person, making it more efficient than FTP.
Of course it's understandable why most torrent sites don't do this, it's because then they'd actually be hosting all the illegal stuff and not just tracking it, which would open them up to a huge liability.
I agree with you. To say that a new file sharing protocol can only be used for evil is tantamount to saying that all files are evil. Not all files out there are protected by overbearing copyrights! There's plenty of stuff that is either not protected by copyright, or has a license that permits distribution! Any GPL'd bit of software is a good example, but there's also stuff like this:
Duke Nukem I think is a bad example, because he was a HUGE womanizer, and the developers admitted that it was a game made by men, for men. Remember, the game was all about aliens coming to earth to impregnate our women, the only women I remember seeing were either in alien incubation pods, or in the strip clubs.
Well, lets see... debian runs on all these different platforms. That's not "frothing groupthink", that's FACT. Windows runs on 2 of them, and 1 of those only recently (IA32 and IA64).
I'm just sick of this "Windows is less stable because they can't control the hardware they run on" crap. Linux supports more, and more varied forms of hardware, hands down.
If you want to get technical, the internet as we know it was invented sometime in the early 1970s, which disqualifies it as it has to be in the last 25 years. Though if (as I suspect) the journalists here are morons, they'll think the internet was invented in 1993 (roughly when it went mainstream) and thus it will qualify for #1.
First, it's because you read "1" as "4" (reread your own post, you even quoted it properly). Second, it's because Adaware and spybot count the infections differently (and find different ones), thus the ones found by MSAS afterwards vary.
Unlike Apple, Microsoft does not have tight control over the hundreds of thousands of parts that go into the development of a PC. At least Apple can maintain a high level of quality control over hardware along with their OS.
Ahhhh, that explains why Linux is so stable. Torvalds rules over the hardware manufacturers with an iron fist!
(if you hadn't noticed, linux runs on much more varied hardware than windows does, and is much more stable. MS has no excuse anymore)
I've been thinking of purchasing an Archos Gmini 220 not for playing music, but for it's small size and for the ability to unload photos off my CF card while in the field. Should I avoid everything archos, or is the 220 a quality product?
No idea if there's anything to permanently ignore a client that's pumping out nothing but junk, though
BitTornado has a feature for kicking/banning peers who constantly upload junk to you.
If you're using Bram's official BT client, and there's a peer that's uploading junk, your download won't get corrupted, it'll just waste your bandwidth.
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Dude, if it makes you feel better, think of Fedora Core 3 as "RedHat 12".
Verisign's sitefinder could be adapted for this purpose... ;)
That's because all the ugly ones were too busy being super villains.
Actually, it will engulf the first three planets
Pfffft, good riddance I say.
You idiots! Why did you have to pick the iceburg that was loaded to the brim with NITRO?!?!
there's people who oppose fucking everything. :)
I oppose fucking everything. Some things simply were not meant to be fucked.
Yeah, it's not good for the long term but I'm sure someone will come up with something that will make the protocol attractive for use outside of the Warez arena.
There's only one change that needs to be made to bittorrent to make viable as a long-term distribution method, similar to FTP, and it's something that can be done Right Now (tm) without having to wait for some major change in the code base.
The idea is simple: Make your tracker also seed all the files it tracks. In this way, when a file is popular, the bandwidth burden is unloaded off your server and onto all the peers, just like regular bittorrent, but if a file becomes unpopular (eg, when it gets old), it'll always have that one seed -- your own server -- so the file never dies and goes away. Worst case scenario is that your server is the only seed and only one person is downloading, and that's only marginally worse than doing a straight FTP transfer to that person. If even one more person joins the torrent, the first person will also upload to the second person, making it more efficient than FTP.
Of course it's understandable why most torrent sites don't do this, it's because then they'd actually be hosting all the illegal stuff and not just tracking it, which would open them up to a huge liability.
I agree with you. To say that a new file sharing protocol can only be used for evil is tantamount to saying that all files are evil. Not all files out there are protected by overbearing copyrights! There's plenty of stuff that is either not protected by copyright, or has a license that permits distribution! Any GPL'd bit of software is a good example, but there's also stuff like this:
http://www.legaltorrents.com/
There are many more Duke Nukems
Duke Nukem I think is a bad example, because he was a HUGE womanizer, and the developers admitted that it was a game made by men, for men. Remember, the game was all about aliens coming to earth to impregnate our women, the only women I remember seeing were either in alien incubation pods, or in the strip clubs.
The card was issued 8 years before I was born.
That's no excuse, take some responsibility for your actions! Is it our fault that you can't spend money responsibly? Jesus, some people's children...
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I don't know about you, but I would always prefer to know well in advance if my car was either easy to steal or about to explode.
Ahhhhh, but if it was both easy to steal and about to explode, well, that problem just sort of solves itself, no?
Hey! There's nothing funny about bad sex.
Well, lets see... debian runs on all these different platforms. That's not "frothing groupthink", that's FACT. Windows runs on 2 of them, and 1 of those only recently (IA32 and IA64).
I'm just sick of this "Windows is less stable because they can't control the hardware they run on" crap. Linux supports more, and more varied forms of hardware, hands down.
Duh, step 2 is "Publish". How do you think traditional encyclopaedias make money in the first place?
HAHA! You said "doodoo!" Ahhhahahahah! ah hah, heh, *sigh*
If you want to get technical, the internet as we know it was invented sometime in the early 1970s, which disqualifies it as it has to be in the last 25 years. Though if (as I suspect) the journalists here are morons, they'll think the internet was invented in 1993 (roughly when it went mainstream) and thus it will qualify for #1.
First, it's because you read "1" as "4" (reread your own post, you even quoted it properly). Second, it's because Adaware and spybot count the infections differently (and find different ones), thus the ones found by MSAS afterwards vary.
Basically, it's apples and oranges.
Better fix.
Unlike Apple, Microsoft does not have tight control over the hundreds of thousands of parts that go into the development of a PC. At least Apple can maintain a high level of quality control over hardware along with their OS.
Ahhhh, that explains why Linux is so stable. Torvalds rules over the hardware manufacturers with an iron fist!
(if you hadn't noticed, linux runs on much more varied hardware than windows does, and is much more stable. MS has no excuse anymore)
I knew it meant something like that, I was just using google language tools.
This is interesting...
I've been thinking of purchasing an Archos Gmini 220 not for playing music, but for it's small size and for the ability to unload photos off my CF card while in the field. Should I avoid everything archos, or is the 220 a quality product?
Thanks.
As an aside, "böse" is the german word for "badly".
No idea if there's anything to permanently ignore a client that's pumping out nothing but junk, though
BitTornado has a feature for kicking/banning peers who constantly upload junk to you.
If you're using Bram's official BT client, and there's a peer that's uploading junk, your download won't get corrupted, it'll just waste your bandwidth.
We'll let you live in the one house that doesn't have UPS/battery backup on the card reader.