Practically everyone here should be able to answer that - NO - there is no foolproof way to ensure the data being sent over any p2p network is legal. A bitwise hash of the digital file may at first glance seem to supply the answer, but with so many encoding methods, and start/end positions, even a seemingly identical (to a human) file would be different if held under the computer spotlight.
I personally hope one day we do crack this, but I hope it is first used not for the pirated hollywood material, but for the rest of the sick content out there.
Nothing to do with "Selling out", difference between + and - formats is where the data is stored.
For - discs, the data is stored in the valleys, and for + discs, its stored on the hilltops.
From memory, I think also the -RAM discs store data on both available portions, but since we dont hear anything about them, i think they have been dropped by the roadside.
The lawsuit was seen as indirect supporting our position on the value of IP. Since other software vendors who depend on software licenses haven't been exactly falling all over themselves to support our position, seeing something that supported it was welcome.
Microsoft have pushed themselves onto this very high moral ground, and when they looked round to see if everyone had followed them, they were strangely alone....
Digital rights management, and self destructing emails are all to cover Microsofts own backside rather than getting on with the important task of giving the users what they actually want.
Linux offers this, and they are scared - rightly so.
Windows comes with Netmeeting as standard (though its now being phased out via MSN Messenger) whereby voice and video conferences have been accessible by IP for years.
not sure if linux has anything similar, or if the protocol has been opened up but it would be of interest to me, since I use MSN Messenger daily.
but your uses will need to download a 30mbish runtime to work with it, I know a lot of people are on broadband now, but theres a huuuuuge quantity who would run at the first sign of a long delay.
At least with a pascal executable (IIRC) you can just drop the executable in and under most normal circumstances thats the installation, no runtime, no dependencies.
I agree though in one respect, because once the.Net CLR hits critical mass, it will be a dream.
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is it really? I thought Linux was meant to be about freedom to choose.
In some cases, that choice may be a closed source proprietary product. I dont complain that I have to pay for games and the like, heck I dont ever WANT to see the source for them.
Open source is good, but business is also good - without it, I couldnt feed my family or get the other nice things I desire.
Surely people shouldnt have to specify a domain to use to locate info?
this is like having to go into each site and do a local search.
Yes I know you CAN do a specific branch search, but the main story is correct that there is SOME kind of problem with the org registry. If people are using default parameters and not getting the results they could obtain a week ago?
THis comment isnt directed solely at the parent, and i appologise if it seems that way - this is just the 3rd or 4th person I've seen suggest the same solution.
there is no way a single central server could initiate the "flash" that the exponential slammer worm had - each node infected on the network randomly attempted to infect other random nodes - once this took hold it would MUCH faster than any single source central attack could be.
Yes Slammer started on a single machine, but did not do real damage until it hit critical mass.
i was awestruck (as I'm sure others will have been) when I heard about this "warhol" type attack actually coming - before it happened it was only a worst case scenario, now it HAS happened, symantec have had to readjust their figures.
I would be worried about putting potentially sharp alu cans anywhere close enough to actually manage to get it INTO the can - unless of course you meant fairground type entertainment - shooting the cans from a tabletop ???:P
i dont think you would have much time to be thinking about the pretty weightless "sweetspot" since you would most likely have fried in the dense molten iron long before you reached there.
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if the computer is disabled, whats the point in trying to shove other hard drives into it as well?
Practically everyone here should be able to answer that - NO - there is no foolproof way to ensure the data being sent over any p2p network is legal.
A bitwise hash of the digital file may at first glance seem to supply the answer, but with so many encoding methods, and start/end positions, even a seemingly identical (to a human) file would be different if held under the computer spotlight.
I personally hope one day we do crack this, but I hope it is first used not for the pirated hollywood material, but for the rest of the sick content out there.
this isnt a false impression - once the computer is nicked, it SHOULD keep on vaping every drive placed into it.
Nothing to do with "Selling out", difference between + and - formats is where the data is stored.
For - discs, the data is stored in the valleys, and for + discs, its stored on the hilltops.
From memory, I think also the -RAM discs store data on both available portions, but since we dont hear anything about them, i think they have been dropped by the roadside.
thanks :) helps make things a little less murky
The lawsuit was seen as indirect supporting our position on the value of IP. Since other software vendors who depend on software licenses haven't been exactly falling all over themselves to support our position, seeing something that supported it was welcome.
Microsoft have pushed themselves onto this very high moral ground, and when they looked round to see if everyone had followed them, they were strangely alone....
Digital rights management, and self destructing emails are all to cover Microsofts own backside rather than getting on with the important task of giving the users what they actually want.
Linux offers this, and they are scared - rightly so.
Windows comes with Netmeeting as standard (though its now being phased out via MSN Messenger) whereby voice and video conferences have been accessible by IP for years.
not sure if linux has anything similar, or if the protocol has been opened up but it would be of interest to me, since I use MSN Messenger daily.
Your damn right,
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This is freaking me out about as much as the "Falling to Earth's Core in a Big Blob of Iron" story.
Scientists continue to play god and come up with wilder and wilder schemes where we are the test subjects
With NTL or many other international ISP's unfortunately, Double Speed != Double bandwidth.......
I sat here and told her how cool this was, and in her completely womanly way she said:
"I get to see lots of them when I'm at work - infact, we do king sized ones as well!"
I'm just lost for words.....
forget sending copies of Windows, lets Send Bill G, and the rest of his cronies over.
Heck - lets tell the DCMA and RIAA people that we are detecting illicit filesharing occuring through the ether.
One way ticket?
Not manned missions, but then again, we arent ready for one yet.
lmao - this is most eye opening piece of balldropping I've seen in a while :)
well spotted!
but your uses will need to download a 30mbish runtime to work with it, I know a lot of people are on broadband now, but theres a huuuuuge quantity who would run at the first sign of a long delay.
.Net CLR hits critical mass, it will be a dream.
At least with a pascal executable (IIRC) you can just drop the executable in and under most normal circumstances thats the installation, no runtime, no dependencies.
I agree though in one respect, because once the
if only it was so simple to remove software bugs
DON'T CROSS THE BEAMS!!!!
Funny paper that makes it hard to flip pages?
you obviously never look @ porn.....
How many L.O.C's per hour is that?
is it really? I thought Linux was meant to be about freedom to choose.
In some cases, that choice may be a closed source proprietary product. I dont complain that I have to pay for games and the like, heck I dont ever WANT to see the source for them.
Open source is good, but business is also good - without it, I couldnt feed my family or get the other nice things I desire.
Surely people shouldnt have to specify a domain to use to locate info?
this is like having to go into each site and do a local search.
Yes I know you CAN do a specific branch search, but the main story is correct that there is SOME kind of problem with the org registry. If people are using default parameters and not getting the results they could obtain a week ago? THis comment isnt directed solely at the parent, and i appologise if it seems that way - this is just the 3rd or 4th person I've seen suggest the same solution.
there is no way a single central server could initiate the "flash" that the exponential slammer worm had - each node infected on the network randomly attempted to infect other random nodes - once this took hold it would MUCH faster than any single source central attack could be.
Yes Slammer started on a single machine, but did not do real damage until it hit critical mass.
i was awestruck (as I'm sure others will have been) when I heard about this "warhol" type attack actually coming - before it happened it was only a worst case scenario, now it HAS happened, symantec have had to readjust their figures.
then yes :)
an empty can
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I would be worried about putting potentially sharp alu cans anywhere close enough to actually manage to get it INTO the can - unless of course you meant fairground type entertainment - shooting the cans from a tabletop ???
I just cant get the picture of using an axe to chop wood out of my head - and imagining the split growing and breaking the earth cleanly in half.
The look on the scientists eyes would be a classic as he realised just what he had done...
i dont think you would have much time to be thinking about the pretty weightless "sweetspot" since you would most likely have fried in the dense molten iron long before you reached there.