In the picture at the Epson site, it looks like there are power lines running off of the unit. The description makes no mention of having a battery attached to it. So yeah, maybe you have wireless control, but what's the point when you're tethered anyways?
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tivo site, to get a copy of the source code by mail, it gives a mailing address (no phone) and says: "You will be charged a nominal fee for reproduction, shipping and handling costs, as allowed by the GPL." Anybody wonder what that nominal fee is? How would that work, you mail them asking for it, they mail you back, say what it costs, then you mail them? And who decides what a nominal fee is, even? Why not just say code available for $5 or whatever? I realize that the GPL may not say you have to tell people what the "nominal fee" is, but wouldn't that just make everyone's life easier?
And how would you enforce that part of the GPL in court? This haziness isn't the fault of Tivo, but rather of the FSF. Maybe as far as the company is concerned it takes several hours of labor at $50 an hour to get you that c.d. of code, so would have to pay $300?
Anyhoo, I think that everyone will just download the code off the website as it's there for free.
You may not need encryption now, but what if somebody (The RIAAA, the government) wants to start tracking what you are doing. In that case, you'll start feeling a lot better about a network where no on can tell who published what, and who downloaded what. All nodes might be requesting something for themselves, or just forwarding someone else's request.
If you think K++ is going to cut it, you're in for a bit of a surprise. That isn't going to hide you're ip address because of the very way that network is designed. When it comes time to download/upload something it will go straight from your computer to their computer and they'll know who you are.
As for SOCKS proxies, etc, those aren't decentralized. If you're in a situation where a few machines are serving many people, then it's easy to take them out. Not too mention who will pay for the bandwidth of enough proxies for everyone in the world. You need a self-supporting system.
IRC over SSL would only protect you from people in the middle. However if you connect to bad guy, they'll know who you are.
There's a lot to making a network anonymous, and I only know a part of it. I do know though, that freenet works fairly well and was actually designed with the goal of anonymity in the first place.
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In the picture at the Epson site, it looks like there are power lines running off of the unit. The description makes no mention of having a battery attached to it. So yeah, maybe you have wireless control, but what's the point when you're tethered anyways?
Has anyone checked the linux CVS repository to see who added the code? If so, could you post your findings?
And how would you enforce that part of the GPL in court? This haziness isn't the fault of Tivo, but rather of the FSF. Maybe as far as the company is concerned it takes several hours of labor at $50 an hour to get you that c.d. of code, so would have to pay $300?
Anyhoo, I think that everyone will just download the code off the website as it's there for free.
If you think K++ is going to cut it, you're in for a bit of a surprise. That isn't going to hide you're ip address because of the very way that network is designed. When it comes time to download/upload something it will go straight from your computer to their computer and they'll know who you are.
As for SOCKS proxies, etc, those aren't decentralized. If you're in a situation where a few machines are serving many people, then it's easy to take them out. Not too mention who will pay for the bandwidth of enough proxies for everyone in the world. You need a self-supporting system.
IRC over SSL would only protect you from people in the middle. However if you connect to bad guy, they'll know who you are.
There's a lot to making a network anonymous, and I only know a part of it. I do know though, that freenet works fairly well and was actually designed with the goal of anonymity in the first place.