If you don't want to share your bandwidth (and that's acceptable) then P2P is not for you, simple as that.
I am working on design's of similar concepts but they are "smarter" in that they use your computer when you are not. P2P has to work in the shadows and the background, unobtrusive to users. I think most people feel like you do, but I'm sure you wouldn't care how much bandwidth you are using when you are not around to feel the effects of it. For this reason, I use Bit Torrent before I go to bed and have a nice, new file waiting for me in the morning...sometimes.:P
No, Shit-For-Brains. It should be obvious; it should be taught because there is lots of evidence to the existence of it and Biology can't be taught with a straight face without talking about it. The facts have nothing at all to do with my beliefs. Damn, you're really dumb.
That's one of the things I like about Bit Torrent, is finding torrent files around the Net. It's like a scavenger hunt. Although Bit Torrent has its problems, it works sometimes and I'm sure it will improve as algorithms are refined and new ideas are implemented. Exciting technology right now.
If we expose these flaws then no one can find these flaws "secretly" and exploit them. Finding and pointing out flaws is a good....oh, I see, you were joking.:)
great ideas but you cannot ask voters who they voted for after the matter. One, it is a private vote, 2 all hell would break loose. I agree a receipt is needed in such a system of some form, but simply a receipt that says you voted. Another receipt is generated and put into a box as the paper proof of who you voted for so if it comes to that (the machines all die) they can open these locked vote boxes, similar to modern ballot boxes, and count the votes that way. Of course you would have to have someone standby to make sure each voter puts one and only one vote slip into the box. Votes would have serial numbers of course (to guarntee that vote is unique and from the proper location) and a host of other minor issues you would work out.
Who is designing these systems? It shouldn't be that hard, seriously. It should be obvious what the design requirements are. In no particular order; Ease and clarity of use, secure and anonymous (as far as who voted for whom), the ability to record who was voted for in a non electronic medium and proof that a vote was registered and receipt to the voter in some form. Not to mention a backup system in case anything goes nutty. An obvious design would be to have all systems offline, when the voting times are over each station has a particular upload time assigned, they upload their data, it is checked for error and checked against their local data, if none of it differs, then all is well. The vote data should be encrypted on sight (inside the voting computer, before it is sent to the locol database) so there is no tampering locally and the keys should be known by the voting commission. They systems should be as fully automated as possible with well trained (and paid fairly) personal there to operate these machines. This is just off the top of my head, is it *that* hard to design these systems, really?
Yeah I think you're right about that. When I posted, I thought about that but didn't care..figured someone would bring it up and so it was...suprised it wasn't a flame here on Slashdot.:) Anyways, evolution should be taught in every certified school as part of the biology curriculum, hard science or not.
Some really dumb school board (read, mom's and dad's run this) in Kansas thought it was wrong to teach evolution as a fact, so they made it where it couldn't be taught as "hard" science. It was shortly overturned by courts as many teachers and parents were embarrassed about this. Yup, many idiots run our school system, especially out in the rural areas. Shit like this would never happen in a decent sized city here. We just have too much land and area that we allow these inbreeds to keep inbreeding with each other, giving the rest of us a bad name...that and our inbreed president.
Most of my books I end up wanting to sell back anyways. And when I do try and sell them they offer nothing. Some of my classes the teachers are published so we use their books and some give a bit of a refund if we buy it new but for the most part the books we use are common college textbooks. Being in CS I find some use for some of them after the class but usually there is a better reference than what is put in a text book for learning. I will gladly pay 1/5 the price for shitty binding and/or bad print. In fact, I would prefer to have books that are ring bound and essentially photocopied into the binder. It's all about the Benjamin's (sic).
Man, with the USA charging more for everything and exporting all the jobs overseas, just how do they expect us to pay for this stuff? This ship is slowly sinking.
Just because hardware will be able to compute as fast or faster than the human brain does not mean we will have the software to effectively use these resources. And if we do somehow design a software system to work like this who knows how much overhead it will have so that we will need hardware multiple times more powerful than the human brain. Not to mention so little is known about brain "computations" I don't think AI as we know it is even feasible anytime soon, if ever.
In summery, just because the hardware exists doesn't mean the software is there to effectively use it. Should be interesting to see how we use all these extra computation cycles one day. I'm looking forward to it.
True enough but it is early software for the PC anyways. Apple has a habit of seeing what features need to be included and including those as well unique ideas. It may not be the best MP3 player right now for Windows but in a year it may be time to reevaluate. It stresses ease of use more than anything and if you own an iPod you cannot get integration as good as iTunes. Essentailly that is what it is for, an outlet to their store and software for the iPod.
You're missing the point, but this is slashdot so you can't expect most people to good comprehension. But I digress. My point was that for certain social things, like a right to healthcare using someone's genes to deny them access is immoral. No shit people are rewarded more for their natural gifts than others who don't have them, but for certain things using someone's genes to make a decision is wrong. Good grades are not a moral issue, either is someone's competency at work even though ones genes may determine the limit of their ability. Life on the other hand *is* a basic human right recognized in the USA and the point of my post, if I have to make it obvious to you.
Heh, yeah it is retarded. It's true though man. When it comes to science it's about what you are doing now. If you're doing something that was done by others years ago (and in modern science, 40 years is ancient) you don't have shit. With the technologies the Russians had, putting a man in space is crazy. Now days a high school student can make the calculations with the help of a calculator or computer and someone like John Carmack can build the rocket. The fact China is now doing this is a testament to how far behind they are with these things. It's propaganda at best and merits nothing worth mentioning. Oh well, go China...I'm guessing most of your citizens would rather be blast into space than live under the oppression of a draconian dictatorship that has no place in our modern world.
That's clever but people make up our society. People happen to be animals but in this context I think using the more descriptive "people" rather than "animals" is correct when dealing with a social implication of our physiology.
Time to strap some explosives onto your body, run into the Israeli public and blow yourself up until you get the contracts you want. I bet you could strap a lot onto Steve Balmer!
It's amazing how unfair genetics really are. Some people have better genes in certain things than others and really some people are inferior to others in just about every way. (genetically, not socially). It's good to see that the government understands this, that jobs, insurance, etc are social issues and a society just cannot exist if people are denied things based on something they have no control over. Nice to see we are not going to turn into the haves VS the have-nots in terms of genes. (there is enough of that in high schools...get it, genes : jeans...some people have better...ook, lame joke)
Maybe this somehow is the first steps to getting rid of their Communism. Russia dropped it less than 40 years after going to space. I have no idea why this relates, I'm drunk.:)
They feel they have to. Lets happen to say they don't enforce this. Later someone else starts making emulators for equipment they currently make money from. They would lose a bit of an edge in court because the defendant could cite their previous ignoring of emulation of their products. If you don't enforce your copyrights you lose them.
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If you don't want to share your bandwidth (and that's acceptable) then P2P is not for you, simple as that.
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I am working on design's of similar concepts but they are "smarter" in that they use your computer when you are not. P2P has to work in the shadows and the background, unobtrusive to users. I think most people feel like you do, but I'm sure you wouldn't care how much bandwidth you are using when you are not around to feel the effects of it. For this reason, I use Bit Torrent before I go to bed and have a nice, new file waiting for me in the morning...sometimes.
No, Shit-For-Brains. It should be obvious; it should be taught because there is lots of evidence to the existence of it and Biology can't be taught with a straight face without talking about it. The facts have nothing at all to do with my beliefs. Damn, you're really dumb.
That's one of the things I like about Bit Torrent, is finding torrent files around the Net. It's like a scavenger hunt. Although Bit Torrent has its problems, it works sometimes and I'm sure it will improve as algorithms are refined and new ideas are implemented. Exciting technology right now.
I think exploding robots in Japan would be cooler....or is this redundant already? I'm late!
Doesn't this belong on kuro5hin? In case you didn't know, we hate all politicians here.
If we expose these flaws then no one can find these flaws "secretly" and exploit them. Finding and pointing out flaws is a good....oh, I see, you were joking. :)
You could but then *no one* would be able to download them. :P
great ideas but you cannot ask voters who they voted for after the matter. One, it is a private vote, 2 all hell would break loose. I agree a receipt is needed in such a system of some form, but simply a receipt that says you voted. Another receipt is generated and put into a box as the paper proof of who you voted for so if it comes to that (the machines all die) they can open these locked vote boxes, similar to modern ballot boxes, and count the votes that way. Of course you would have to have someone standby to make sure each voter puts one and only one vote slip into the box. Votes would have serial numbers of course (to guarntee that vote is unique and from the proper location) and a host of other minor issues you would work out.
Who is designing these systems? It shouldn't be that hard, seriously. It should be obvious what the design requirements are. In no particular order; Ease and clarity of use, secure and anonymous (as far as who voted for whom), the ability to record who was voted for in a non electronic medium and proof that a vote was registered and receipt to the voter in some form. Not to mention a backup system in case anything goes nutty. An obvious design would be to have all systems offline, when the voting times are over each station has a particular upload time assigned, they upload their data, it is checked for error and checked against their local data, if none of it differs, then all is well. The vote data should be encrypted on sight (inside the voting computer, before it is sent to the locol database) so there is no tampering locally and the keys should be known by the voting commission. They systems should be as fully automated as possible with well trained (and paid fairly) personal there to operate these machines. This is just off the top of my head, is it *that* hard to design these systems, really?
Yeah I think you're right about that. When I posted, I thought about that but didn't care..figured someone would bring it up and so it was...suprised it wasn't a flame here on Slashdot. :) Anyways, evolution should be taught in every certified school as part of the biology curriculum, hard science or not.
Some really dumb school board (read, mom's and dad's run this) in Kansas thought it was wrong to teach evolution as a fact, so they made it where it couldn't be taught as "hard" science. It was shortly overturned by courts as many teachers and parents were embarrassed about this. Yup, many idiots run our school system, especially out in the rural areas. Shit like this would never happen in a decent sized city here. We just have too much land and area that we allow these inbreeds to keep inbreeding with each other, giving the rest of us a bad name...that and our inbreed president.
Most of my books I end up wanting to sell back anyways. And when I do try and sell them they offer nothing. Some of my classes the teachers are published so we use their books and some give a bit of a refund if we buy it new but for the most part the books we use are common college textbooks. Being in CS I find some use for some of them after the class but usually there is a better reference than what is put in a text book for learning. I will gladly pay 1/5 the price for shitty binding and/or bad print. In fact, I would prefer to have books that are ring bound and essentially photocopied into the binder. It's all about the Benjamin's (sic).
Man, with the USA charging more for everything and exporting all the jobs overseas, just how do they expect us to pay for this stuff? This ship is slowly sinking.
Just because hardware will be able to compute as fast or faster than the human brain does not mean we will have the software to effectively use these resources. And if we do somehow design a software system to work like this who knows how much overhead it will have so that we will need hardware multiple times more powerful than the human brain. Not to mention so little is known about brain "computations" I don't think AI as we know it is even feasible anytime soon, if ever.
In summery, just because the hardware exists doesn't mean the software is there to effectively use it. Should be interesting to see how we use all these extra computation cycles one day. I'm looking forward to it.
True enough but it is early software for the PC anyways. Apple has a habit of seeing what features need to be included and including those as well unique ideas. It may not be the best MP3 player right now for Windows but in a year it may be time to reevaluate. It stresses ease of use more than anything and if you own an iPod you cannot get integration as good as iTunes. Essentailly that is what it is for, an outlet to their store and software for the iPod.
You're missing the point, but this is slashdot so you can't expect most people to good comprehension. But I digress. My point was that for certain social things, like a right to healthcare using someone's genes to deny them access is immoral. No shit people are rewarded more for their natural gifts than others who don't have them, but for certain things using someone's genes to make a decision is wrong. Good grades are not a moral issue, either is someone's competency at work even though ones genes may determine the limit of their ability. Life on the other hand *is* a basic human right recognized in the USA and the point of my post, if I have to make it obvious to you.
Heh, yeah it is retarded. It's true though man. When it comes to science it's about what you are doing now. If you're doing something that was done by others years ago (and in modern science, 40 years is ancient) you don't have shit. With the technologies the Russians had, putting a man in space is crazy. Now days a high school student can make the calculations with the help of a calculator or computer and someone like John Carmack can build the rocket. The fact China is now doing this is a testament to how far behind they are with these things. It's propaganda at best and merits nothing worth mentioning. Oh well, go China...I'm guessing most of your citizens would rather be blast into space than live under the oppression of a draconian dictatorship that has no place in our modern world.
But it's like watching the Special Olympics. :P
Steve Ballmer is a Jew.
That's clever but people make up our society. People happen to be animals but in this context I think using the more descriptive "people" rather than "animals" is correct when dealing with a social implication of our physiology.
Time to strap some explosives onto your body, run into the Israeli public and blow yourself up until you get the contracts you want. I bet you could strap a lot onto Steve Balmer!
It's amazing how unfair genetics really are. Some people have better genes in certain things than others and really some people are inferior to others in just about every way. (genetically, not socially). It's good to see that the government understands this, that jobs, insurance, etc are social issues and a society just cannot exist if people are denied things based on something they have no control over. Nice to see we are not going to turn into the haves VS the have-nots in terms of genes. (there is enough of that in high schools...get it, genes : jeans...some people have better...ook, lame joke)
Maybe this somehow is the first steps to getting rid of their Communism. Russia dropped it less than 40 years after going to space. I have no idea why this relates, I'm drunk. :)
They feel they have to. Lets happen to say they don't enforce this. Later someone else starts making emulators for equipment they currently make money from. They would lose a bit of an edge in court because the defendant could cite their previous ignoring of emulation of their products. If you don't enforce your copyrights you lose them.
seriously, that's all I can really say about their CEO.
Those frequencies are there weather or not you are putting data on them. Stupid parents.