Randy Saaf, president of P2P-tracking firm MediaDefender, said his investigations of child pornography on P2P networks found over 321,000 files "that appeared to be child pornography by their names and file types," and said that "over 800 universities had files on their networks that appeared to be child pornography."
Where the fuck is all this "illegal porn?" I don't even use p2p apps (unless you count usenet) because I don't care to have my already dogshit slow 56 surfing experience clogged by someone too stupid to use Free Agent - but I have tried p2p apps at various times and, every time I've let curiosity get me to the point I've installed one of these flaky pieces of crapware one of the first things I've tried (after giving up on finding the music I like in any decent quality) were search terms like "baby sex child fuck cum" - and yet I have never seen this allegedly "illegal" porn. Where the fuck is it?
I really don't believe the people who actually collect and trade that stuff are so stupid as to do so by opening up public shares on their computers - especially when it's well known how easily traced they are. "Illegal porn" is just another rhetorical tool of the IP lobby: if you use p2p you must be (not only) a pirate and a subversive... you're also most surely a child predator.
It's funny how you try to delineate "socialism" and "our free market economy." The contemporary US "free market economy" is, with every day, becoming ever more "socialist" - not in the classic, do-good idealism sense, but in the real-world-the-government-is-gonna-own-you sense.
Only it's not the government. The government is only the shaved ape that goes around collecting for the people who really "own" everything - the corporations.
I've given up caring. I don't even consider myself part of it anymore - so far as I'm concerned this is all a silly journey "you people" seem intent on carrying yourselves toward. I'm off to one of those "free" countries like Mexico or Belize - I thought about Russia but I don't like the cold, so it's south of the border I go.
It's really sad what the US is doing to itself. How ironic that in another half century you'll just be another has-been "superpower" begging the world bank to forgive it's massive debt and throw it a few "investment dollars" to help clean up the environmental mess left behind by rampant corporatism and a corrupt government that insisted 'til the end on looking the other way.
But "life" mutates, which means you cannot expect the relevant genes to be predictable over several generations. Monsanto is saying, however, that the slightest presence of a gene they stuck there - by any means - is grounds for a suit.
This is fundamentally different than the old battles where a farmer fought to keep seeds from last season's hybrid cotton crop and then wondered why the new crop wasn't as good as last year's that was grown from first generation seed.
There is also evidence this gene has been passed onto weeds and (wild) rape, which means farmers now not only have herbicide resistant canola, they also get to do battle with wonderful new herbicide resistant weeds.
All we need now is for this gene to get into the kudzu (imported from china by our own government to fight soil erosion) and we can write off the southeast US entirely.
child porn is a pernicious offense and offenders should be pubished. you think he jsut say, gee thanks, i won't do that any more. look at the research on child molestors. they are habitual. they cannot be "cured".
Collecting photographs of kids (naked or clothed) != child molestor.
I realize this difference is hard to remember when you have been brainwashed by the bible thumping, name calling, press peddlers - but it is, nonetheless, a critically important distinction. Quite a lot of material that is now illegal in this country can be bought on the street in many others - and could here, as well, before Meese and Reagan began their campaign of puritanism. Thanks to those wonderful 80's, The Oscar-nominated Pretty Baby couldn't even be made (in the US) today; you could now be arrested for having copies of Penthouse you bought in the 70's and 80's... just a couple more shining examples of modern life in the "Land of the Free."
hell, if i'd found the stuff on his computer, i'd probably just take the guy out back and beat him fucking senseless.
Two 16 or 17 year olds boffing eachother in some European country where said boffing and the publication thereof is legal....
What if it's two 14 year olds? Or a 14 year old and a 50 year old? The FSU has become the new "san fernando valley" of porn, and in Russia (among others) the age of consent is 14.
And what if it's not porn at all? most businesses have rules about use of company assets for personal use. What if you discover a 20GB cache of fully clothed children? I once stumbled upon an an article on ZDNet by some geek who pointed out one of the coolest features of his new 120GB hard drive was he could now keep all the pictures and videos from "youth photographer Paul Jones" right at his (ahem) fingertips.
Means a car made around 1990. I have an 87 5.0 Mustang (LX) that was bought new, "broken in" by driving the MassPike from NYC to Boston in
Got a '92 Lincoln TC here with over 100,000 miles on it and, despite not being well taken care of by the previous owner, it should last another 200,000 miles easy. Got a '91 pickup in pretty much the same shape.
Anyone who knows cars will tell you the cars made in the last decade keep running like no others. Those "classic" cars you see on the road (like the old Falcons and Mustangs) are kept where they are today through lots of TLC. Old Mustangs and Falcons had glove boxes and air ducts in the dash made out of goddamn cardboard because it was cheap and light and plastic wasn't a mature "technology" in 1965; you'll be hard pressed to find a (US) Falcon that hasn't lost at least part of it's floors to rust, and I can't recall my parents ever keeping a car past 60,000 miles back in the 60's and 70's - by the time they had 80,000 miles on'em they were money pits.
I realize aussie cars are a bit of a different breed than US cars (they seem to have kept the drivetrains from the 60's much longer, which likely explains the lower durability) but today (in the US) you can buy an american car with 100,000 miles on the clock and expect, if it was well cared for, to take it at least that many miles again. It may not look pretty; the door panels may rot away from the sun and the dash may split - but today's american cars, if well maintained, have a useful lifetime just as long as the "classic" Mercedes of the 70's enjoyed - but for a lot less money.
If only they would learn to put the damn EGR valve in a sane place...
DVDs can't cost more than about 50 cents to make. When you buy a DVD you are paying for the "package" - not the materials. A "package" that last only 48 hours is obviously worth less than one that (allegedly) last "a lifetime."
The killer is that it's also (arguably) worth more than a rental fee, since it's more convenient. Therefore I expect they'll still cost more than a rental - although they may be comeptetive with rentals, which may help reduce (first run) rental fees in the long run. I suspect rental places (like Blockbuster) may be the "prefered customers" for distributing this "technology." I think it would also allow mom-and-pop stores to carry a more diverse selection since they wouldn't need to buy multiple copies of new releases.
When I was a kid they used to put records in cereal boxes. You might buy "special offer" boxes of Froot Loops with a "free" Archies record in the box. Now think about the similar merchandising opportunities presented by these DVDs; "Look for Neo on the box!"
It's not free, it's not open - but it was the easiest and most reliable when I paid $20 for it, it's still maintained and supported, and I still use it. OOTB it rips to (among others) wma, mp3, ogg and ape.
More legislation is a non-starter. I'm amazed to see so many people deride regulation of the internet and then turn around and complain about needing mroe regulation because "spam is killing the net."
I have a couple of boxes I've abaondoned. I also have one I'll never need abandon, because it's setup to allow easy filtering of spam. We don't need more laws - not only because the laws will just cripple each of us a little more - but mostly just because laws will never solve the problem. Erect enough barriers and the internet will just become another tool of war; nations will unleash farms of open relays upon others, thus allowing "spam" (and god knows what other forms of propoganda) to clog the electronic arteries of "unfriendlies."
OTOH more laws in "the free world" might be just the equalizer:
Connect random third world dictatorial nation to the net with big, fat pipes.
Get over it. iTunes is just another apple corporate selling tactic. It's not fucking "genius," it's an obvious marketplace that the RIAA has been fighting to ignore for longer than it (now realizes) possible. The reason it's Apple is because everyone knows the Apple whor(d)es are yuppies and chumps with too much money and/or time on their hands who will buy anything with Uncle Steve's name on it - even when that means sticking even more money into the pockets of those soulless twats who are lobbying to strip away our rights.
I'll take google, thanks - and MSNBC and BBC and FOX and the NYTOnline and/. and WIRED and Sourceforge and...
The internet will only become as watered down as (allegedly) intelligent and skilled people like "us" allow it. It's really sad so many in this industry seem to think the borders of the internet begin and end at the.COM domain.
Since when is "redneck" exclusively used as a label for "observed voluntary behavior?"
Your notion of telecom is absurd. Without those "evil nasty corporations" building out the internet it would still be little more than a toy of the "elite" in government and universities. They don't do that shit for free, you know.
Have you wired everyone in your neighborhood yet? Why not?
But before that I'd say it's uncanny how so many people think it's just fine to throw around terms like "redneck" when they'd never think of saying other things - things like "OH, only niggers watch BET."
I realize it's expecting a lot, but I really thought the people who frequent/. were more evolved than that. For those of you who have apparently slept through the last decade, Mississippi ("redneckville") begat one of the largest telecom companies (and wall street scandals) in history.
Yeah, there's still problems here - but none I've not seen in just as grand a fashion in NY or Michigan or California (What do you call a redneck from california? "Officer.") Meanwhile, Worldcom owned (at least as far as wall street was concerned) "the internet" - and Wal-Mart owns retailing on a global scale. Both these companies came from the deep south. Pretty damn good for "a buncha rednecks."
These toys are the reason for our modern dysfunctional, pussywhipped PC sex addicts in training. GI Joe aside (which I, for one, never really "got" either, which may be some insight into the reason they had to resort to cartoons to market those things as well), when I was a kid toys were REAL. I can't count the number of times I sliced my preteen finger open while building a car or skyscraper with my erector set - a giant box full of razor sharp steel beams and plates and more tiny nuts and bolts than you could digest in a lifetime. Now, even the (former) coolest toy in the world is nothing but castrated plastic junk.
My buddy and I used to spend hours outside digging in the dirt, landscaping entire little villages for our hot wheels. Sure we'd eventually get around to pushing the cars around, but that was the end of the game. The fun part was making all the little roads, houses and fences - building our own imaginary world where it's normal for volkswagens to have a blown hemi at each end and people drive funny cars to the drive-inn movies.
Now even the littlest cars have motors and radio control - where's the imagination in that? No time to build anything, we gotta drive to the mall to buy more shit. And when we're playing, let's pretend we're driving to the mall to buy more shit.
I remember, as a child of the late 80s, every saturday morning watching Ghost Busters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, reruns of Transformers, Thundercats, even the old tapes of He-Man.
Wow. Talk about a generation gap.
Every one of those shows was complete shit - absolutely nothing but marketing bullshit. 22 minute infomercials to sell unimaginative toys to zombified children. If I had a kid who watched that crap, I'd stick it in counceling. If that didn't help, I'd kill it before it had a chance to reproduce.
Kids don't watch saterday morning cartoons because they're watching Mandy Moore and Jessica Simpson bounce along on MTV and the Olsen Twins on Fox Family.
Not entirely true. Musicians will be able to make money the same way the record companies make their money now - through licensing deals with corporations, through distribution of recordings, through liver performances as well.
The only difference is "the middleman," rather than some cabal of coked out middle agers in Hollywood, will be virtual - "the hive mind."
A gross oversimplification. There is much more to it than simple clock speed - for example, how much work can it do in one cycle? How much power does it dissipate?
This is a static and nonvolatile technology. Think of a CPU that can be dynamically switched to zero hz while keeping its state - a complete machine that can be frozen and reawakened in an instant.
If you have the memory structure, why not have 256 bit parallel data paths? Or, why not have megabytes of fast memory right on the CPU die? Or arrays of fast CPUs, each with (say) half a gig of fast nonvolatile (ahem) "cache?"
Anyone remember "Transputer?"
From the description it should be as easy to make an AND or OR gate as it is to make a flipflop, since each nanotube is just a switch. Seems logical there are far deeper applications for this than just memory arrays. Or, since the speed and density are both there, perhaps a doorway to fast associative arrays?
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Where the fuck is all this "illegal porn?" I don't even use p2p apps (unless you count usenet) because I don't care to have my already dogshit slow 56 surfing experience clogged by someone too stupid to use Free Agent - but I have tried p2p apps at various times and, every time I've let curiosity get me to the point I've installed one of these flaky pieces of crapware one of the first things I've tried (after giving up on finding the music I like in any decent quality) were search terms like "baby sex child fuck cum" - and yet I have never seen this allegedly "illegal" porn. Where the fuck is it?
I really don't believe the people who actually collect and trade that stuff are so stupid as to do so by opening up public shares on their computers - especially when it's well known how easily traced they are. "Illegal porn" is just another rhetorical tool of the IP lobby: if you use p2p you must be (not only) a pirate and a subversive... you're also most surely a child predator.
Death to all p2p users!
Only it's not the government. The government is only the shaved ape that goes around collecting for the people who really "own" everything - the corporations.
I've given up caring. I don't even consider myself part of it anymore - so far as I'm concerned this is all a silly journey "you people" seem intent on carrying yourselves toward. I'm off to one of those "free" countries like Mexico or Belize - I thought about Russia but I don't like the cold, so it's south of the border I go.
It's really sad what the US is doing to itself. How ironic that in another half century you'll just be another has-been "superpower" begging the world bank to forgive it's massive debt and throw it a few "investment dollars" to help clean up the environmental mess left behind by rampant corporatism and a corrupt government that insisted 'til the end on looking the other way.
This is fundamentally different than the old battles where a farmer fought to keep seeds from last season's hybrid cotton crop and then wondered why the new crop wasn't as good as last year's that was grown from first generation seed.
There is also evidence this gene has been passed onto weeds and (wild) rape, which means farmers now not only have herbicide resistant canola, they also get to do battle with wonderful new herbicide resistant weeds.
All we need now is for this gene to get into the kudzu (imported from china by our own government to fight soil erosion) and we can write off the southeast US entirely.
Collecting photographs of kids (naked or clothed) != child molestor.
I realize this difference is hard to remember when you have been brainwashed by the bible thumping, name calling, press peddlers - but it is, nonetheless, a critically important distinction. Quite a lot of material that is now illegal in this country can be bought on the street in many others - and could here, as well, before Meese and Reagan began their campaign of puritanism. Thanks to those wonderful 80's, The Oscar-nominated Pretty Baby couldn't even be made (in the US) today; you could now be arrested for having copies of Penthouse you bought in the 70's and 80's... just a couple more shining examples of modern life in the "Land of the Free."
hell, if i'd found the stuff on his computer, i'd probably just take the guy out back and beat him fucking senseless.
Et Tu, Quoque?
What if it's two 14 year olds? Or a 14 year old and a 50 year old? The FSU has become the new "san fernando valley" of porn, and in Russia (among others) the age of consent is 14.
And what if it's not porn at all? most businesses have rules about use of company assets for personal use. What if you discover a 20GB cache of fully clothed children? I once stumbled upon an an article on ZDNet by some geek who pointed out one of the coolest features of his new 120GB hard drive was he could now keep all the pictures and videos from "youth photographer Paul Jones" right at his (ahem) fingertips.
Completely legal - right?
Anyone who knows cars will tell you the cars made in the last decade keep running like no others. Those "classic" cars you see on the road (like the old Falcons and Mustangs) are kept where they are today through lots of TLC. Old Mustangs and Falcons had glove boxes and air ducts in the dash made out of goddamn cardboard because it was cheap and light and plastic wasn't a mature "technology" in 1965; you'll be hard pressed to find a (US) Falcon that hasn't lost at least part of it's floors to rust, and I can't recall my parents ever keeping a car past 60,000 miles back in the 60's and 70's - by the time they had 80,000 miles on'em they were money pits.
I realize aussie cars are a bit of a different breed than US cars (they seem to have kept the drivetrains from the 60's much longer, which likely explains the lower durability) but today (in the US) you can buy an american car with 100,000 miles on the clock and expect, if it was well cared for, to take it at least that many miles again. It may not look pretty; the door panels may rot away from the sun and the dash may split - but today's american cars, if well maintained, have a useful lifetime just as long as the "classic" Mercedes of the 70's enjoyed - but for a lot less money.
If only they would learn to put the damn EGR valve in a sane place...
OK.. I lied. So there is a line of text here...
The killer is that it's also (arguably) worth more than a rental fee, since it's more convenient. Therefore I expect they'll still cost more than a rental - although they may be comeptetive with rentals, which may help reduce (first run) rental fees in the long run. I suspect rental places (like Blockbuster) may be the "prefered customers" for distributing this "technology." I think it would also allow mom-and-pop stores to carry a more diverse selection since they wouldn't need to buy multiple copies of new releases.
When I was a kid they used to put records in cereal boxes. You might buy "special offer" boxes of Froot Loops with a "free" Archies record in the box. Now think about the similar merchandising opportunities presented by these DVDs; "Look for Neo on the box!"
Speaking as someone more than 30 miles from the nearest "good" rental shop, I really hope this catches on.
http://www.poikosoft.com
It's not free, it's not open - but it was the easiest and most reliable when I paid $20 for it, it's still maintained and supported, and I still use it. OOTB it rips to (among others) wma, mp3, ogg and ape.
I have a couple of boxes I've abaondoned. I also have one I'll never need abandon, because it's setup to allow easy filtering of spam. We don't need more laws - not only because the laws will just cripple each of us a little more - but mostly just because laws will never solve the problem. Erect enough barriers and the internet will just become another tool of war; nations will unleash farms of open relays upon others, thus allowing "spam" (and god knows what other forms of propoganda) to clog the electronic arteries of "unfriendlies."
OTOH more laws in "the free world" might be just the equalizer:
Connect random third world dictatorial nation to the net with big, fat pipes.
Open up relay farms to the highest bidder
Profit!
Way to "think different."
I'll take google, thanks - and MSNBC and BBC and FOX and the NYTOnline and /. and WIRED and Sourceforge and...
The internet will only become as watered down as (allegedly) intelligent and skilled people like "us" allow it. It's really sad so many in this industry seem to think the borders of the internet begin and end at the .COM domain.
Your notion of telecom is absurd. Without those "evil nasty corporations" building out the internet it would still be little more than a toy of the "elite" in government and universities. They don't do that shit for free, you know.
Have you wired everyone in your neighborhood yet? Why not?
But before that I'd say it's uncanny how so many people think it's just fine to throw around terms like "redneck" when they'd never think of saying other things - things like "OH, only niggers watch BET."
I realize it's expecting a lot, but I really thought the people who frequent /. were more evolved than that. For those of you who have apparently slept through the last decade, Mississippi ("redneckville") begat one of the largest telecom companies (and wall street scandals) in history.
Yeah, there's still problems here - but none I've not seen in just as grand a fashion in NY or Michigan or California (What do you call a redneck from california? "Officer.") Meanwhile, Worldcom owned (at least as far as wall street was concerned) "the internet" - and Wal-Mart owns retailing on a global scale. Both these companies came from the deep south. Pretty damn good for "a buncha rednecks."
They come up with some great and crazy stuff in Parma Ohio...
That's a joke only Xena fans will get...
You're kidding... right?
It's funny you should mention PBS programs while making this statement. If MTV ain't about promulgating rampant consumerism, nothing is.
Yawn.
These toys are the reason for our modern dysfunctional, pussywhipped PC sex addicts in training. GI Joe aside (which I, for one, never really "got" either, which may be some insight into the reason they had to resort to cartoons to market those things as well), when I was a kid toys were REAL. I can't count the number of times I sliced my preteen finger open while building a car or skyscraper with my erector set - a giant box full of razor sharp steel beams and plates and more tiny nuts and bolts than you could digest in a lifetime. Now, even the (former) coolest toy in the world is nothing but castrated plastic junk.
My buddy and I used to spend hours outside digging in the dirt, landscaping entire little villages for our hot wheels. Sure we'd eventually get around to pushing the cars around, but that was the end of the game. The fun part was making all the little roads, houses and fences - building our own imaginary world where it's normal for volkswagens to have a blown hemi at each end and people drive funny cars to the drive-inn movies.
Now even the littlest cars have motors and radio control - where's the imagination in that? No time to build anything, we gotta drive to the mall to buy more shit. And when we're playing, let's pretend we're driving to the mall to buy more shit.
Wow. Talk about a generation gap.
Every one of those shows was complete shit - absolutely nothing but marketing bullshit. 22 minute infomercials to sell unimaginative toys to zombified children. If I had a kid who watched that crap, I'd stick it in counceling. If that didn't help, I'd kill it before it had a chance to reproduce.
Kids don't watch saterday morning cartoons because they're watching Mandy Moore and Jessica Simpson bounce along on MTV and the Olsen Twins on Fox Family.
No... wait... that's me.
The only difference is "the middleman," rather than some cabal of coked out middle agers in Hollywood, will be virtual - "the hive mind."
I see you're not an EE major...
This is a static and nonvolatile technology. Think of a CPU that can be dynamically switched to zero hz while keeping its state - a complete machine that can be frozen and reawakened in an instant.
If you have the memory structure, why not have 256 bit parallel data paths? Or, why not have megabytes of fast memory right on the CPU die? Or arrays of fast CPUs, each with (say) half a gig of fast nonvolatile (ahem) "cache?"
Anyone remember "Transputer?"
From the description it should be as easy to make an AND or OR gate as it is to make a flipflop, since each nanotube is just a switch. Seems logical there are far deeper applications for this than just memory arrays. Or, since the speed and density are both there, perhaps a doorway to fast associative arrays?