"All the other things most college students do in the US" certainly includes talking about politics. And very frequently students have been on the leading edge of political revolutions. Because they want to change the world and they haven't got any dependants yet. It matters. Okay, I agree invading Iran would be crazy. But it does matter enough to do something about it. Such as the Anonymizer service (I'm surprised the iranians are so inept as to take a month to block it each time though.. I suppose they're not putting the money in, not like China). And if that doesn't work, we can give them something else that does.
What do you propose to do with the waste? If somebody manages to blow up the high level tanks at Sellafield, you would have an incident 44 times bigger than Chernobyl. This isn't just my speculation either; there have been studies. Yes, you can secure it by putting it underground. That costs a lot of money, of course.. just like nuclear advocates never take into account decomissioning costs, they never take into account waste management costs either.
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Any good RTS will let you play the bad guys... For example, the ones from Blizzard.
When there was the big mess about Sangatte (refugee camp; many asylum seekers were coming from there to Britain via the chunnel), Blunkett promised to make Britain less attractive to asylum seekers, in exchange for the French closing Sangatte. One key plank of this was the introduction of mandatory ID cards. These would of course be required for access to public services, and used to check whether a suspicious (i.e. not native english) person was in fact a legal resident. Recently we heard that AIDS infected refugees were legally not allowed to be given "routine" drug treatment, just left to deteriorate until they became emergency cases (and then cost a lot more) - to prevent "health tourism". Fortunately many of the hospitals disobeyed the policy. It's not about terrorism. It's not about having one ID you can use for everything - if it were, they'd let it be combined with the passport or driving license. It's about persecuting asylum seekers, and regulating access to services. Arguably one solution would be for these services not to be free in the first place; I'm not trying to start a flame-war on whether we should have e.g. free healthcare. I'm simply pointing out what seems to have been the primary motive from the beginning.
Good networks - networks that work - will generally not send you very much unless you contribute. 1.5GB/mo is absurd - my oz friends get 3GB/mo. Where do you live?
A land such as...? The EU has the DMCA. Very soon we will have software patents. It's not the US Empire. It's the Empire of the Dollar. Specifically the Empire of the Transnational Corporation. Unfortunately most of them are asleep right now. Many of them, with the exception of Disney et al, stand to lose almost as much as we do...
You did? Really Ian, that's grossly irresponsible. My experience suggests writing in telling politicians not to do something that looks attractive from their worldview but that they apparently haven't thought of yet can be diastrous!
Statistical evidence is brought in court on a regular basis. A sufficiently high probability - for example, that a typical busy 20GB node contains at least one infringing file - could be used to prosecute somebody _just for running freenet_. They might have to prove you did in fact have some infringing content, but they'd certainly have to show that it's highly unlikely that you wouldn't and that therefore you had a reasonable expectation of having illegal content in your store. But this all depends on how the law is interpreted...
You mean like software patents, and the DMCA, don't exist outside the US? Both the EU and Japan generally do exactly what the US says in terms of intellectual property.
In any case, Reiser6 is where the real database stuff will come in... Reiser4 "only" allows for arbitrary, fast, metadata under each file. As well as having great performance if you don't mind the CPU usage and don't need to delete lots of small files. Reiser6 - more or less the same thing as winfs; beats Storage in lots of ways, the main one being not using an SQL backend, although you might layer one over it.
Whereas if people ARE taking money for it, then firstly they'll have to take very small amounts if you want nonzero usage, secondly there won't be any cover traffic, and thirdly, the jury will automatically assume the node ops are in the wrong - you're MAKING MONEY from CHILD PORN!!:)
At present, no it does not. In future it will be necessary to implement a first stage of onion routing to protect against some correlation attacks, but this is not implemented yet.
That is incorrect. A well-established node can download movie-sized files pretty fast. Latency doesn't matter for such files, and isn't any worse than many other systems featuring "queueing". Bandwidth can reach 90kB/sec. Or at least it could last time Ian tried it. Latency is a problem for freesites, not for big files. Admittedly you need to use the freesites to find the files most of the time, if you don't use Frost.
Well, actually... I've talked to at least two, one of them over Freenet and one IRL. I'm not an especially sociable person either. But yes, good point.
As is Google, at least if you turn the filters off... or so I am told. I *do* know there are some sites on Freenet that by their titles appear to be such filth. But there's a difference between "a few assholes insert child porn" and "Freenet is one of the main, if not THE main mechanism for distributing pedophile pornography".
It is? Please justify the above statement. I really would be interested to know if most of the world's child porn flows through Freenet. It certainly doesn't go through the main indexes. And the main indexes DONT censor what they link to. 12 of 440 is 12 too many, but it's far too low for the post to be credible - unless there are only 12 sources of child porn in the world.
Really? Last time I looked, 12 out of 440 sites on TFE were by the title obviously child porn or probably child porn. That's less than 5%. And I'm skeptical that Freenet has the capacity to support the terabytes you are casually implying here.
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Maybe I should move there. Here, it's illegal to rip your own non-protected CDs. :(
Does anyone *use* JPEG2000? When do the patents expire? :)
"All the other things most college students do in the US" certainly includes talking about politics. And very frequently students have been on the leading edge of political revolutions. Because they want to change the world and they haven't got any dependants yet. It matters. Okay, I agree invading Iran would be crazy. But it does matter enough to do something about it. Such as the Anonymizer service (I'm surprised the iranians are so inept as to take a month to block it each time though.. I suppose they're not putting the money in, not like China). And if that doesn't work, we can give them something else that does.
What's the range of a typical SUV? The above is supposed to have at least 200 miles...
What do you propose to do with the waste? If somebody manages to blow up the high level tanks at Sellafield, you would have an incident 44 times bigger than Chernobyl. This isn't just my speculation either; there have been studies. Yes, you can secure it by putting it underground. That costs a lot of money, of course.. just like nuclear advocates never take into account decomissioning costs, they never take into account waste management costs either.
Any good RTS will let you play the bad guys... For example, the ones from Blizzard.
How do you get a passport if you don't have a driving license then? Surely there are other valid IDs for it.
When there was the big mess about Sangatte (refugee camp; many asylum seekers were coming from there to Britain via the chunnel), Blunkett promised to make Britain less attractive to asylum seekers, in exchange for the French closing Sangatte. One key plank of this was the introduction of mandatory ID cards. These would of course be required for access to public services, and used to check whether a suspicious (i.e. not native english) person was in fact a legal resident. Recently we heard that AIDS infected refugees were legally not allowed to be given "routine" drug treatment, just left to deteriorate until they became emergency cases (and then cost a lot more) - to prevent "health tourism". Fortunately many of the hospitals disobeyed the policy. It's not about terrorism. It's not about having one ID you can use for everything - if it were, they'd let it be combined with the passport or driving license. It's about persecuting asylum seekers, and regulating access to services. Arguably one solution would be for these services not to be free in the first place; I'm not trying to start a flame-war on whether we should have e.g. free healthcare. I'm simply pointing out what seems to have been the primary motive from the beginning.
Not any more. :(
Presumably they got the backup servers?
Good networks - networks that work - will generally not send you very much unless you contribute. 1.5GB/mo is absurd - my oz friends get 3GB/mo. Where do you live?
Do you have software patents? Legal protections on DRM? Anti-filesharing legislation? Will you have these things soon?
A land such as...? The EU has the DMCA. Very soon we will have software patents. It's not the US Empire. It's the Empire of the Dollar. Specifically the Empire of the Transnational Corporation. Unfortunately most of them are asleep right now. Many of them, with the exception of Disney et al, stand to lose almost as much as we do...
You did? Really Ian, that's grossly irresponsible. My experience suggests writing in telling politicians not to do something that looks attractive from their worldview but that they apparently haven't thought of yet can be diastrous!
Statistical evidence is brought in court on a regular basis. A sufficiently high probability - for example, that a typical busy 20GB node contains at least one infringing file - could be used to prosecute somebody _just for running freenet_. They might have to prove you did in fact have some infringing content, but they'd certainly have to show that it's highly unlikely that you wouldn't and that therefore you had a reasonable expectation of having illegal content in your store. But this all depends on how the law is interpreted...
You mean like software patents, and the DMCA, don't exist outside the US? Both the EU and Japan generally do exactly what the US says in terms of intellectual property.
In any case, Reiser6 is where the real database stuff will come in... Reiser4 "only" allows for arbitrary, fast, metadata under each file. As well as having great performance if you don't mind the CPU usage and don't need to delete lots of small files. Reiser6 - more or less the same thing as winfs; beats Storage in lots of ways, the main one being not using an SQL backend, although you might layer one over it.
Isn't the reason that even Reiser admits reiser4 isn't stable yet?
Whereas if people ARE taking money for it, then firstly they'll have to take very small amounts if you want nonzero usage, secondly there won't be any cover traffic, and thirdly, the jury will automatically assume the node ops are in the wrong - you're MAKING MONEY from CHILD PORN!! :)
At present, no it does not. In future it will be necessary to implement a first stage of onion routing to protect against some correlation attacks, but this is not implemented yet.
That is incorrect. A well-established node can download movie-sized files pretty fast. Latency doesn't matter for such files, and isn't any worse than many other systems featuring "queueing". Bandwidth can reach 90kB/sec. Or at least it could last time Ian tried it. Latency is a problem for freesites, not for big files. Admittedly you need to use the freesites to find the files most of the time, if you don't use Frost.
Good one! Doesn't prove the point either way but good counterexample.
Well, actually... I've talked to at least two, one of them over Freenet and one IRL. I'm not an especially sociable person either. But yes, good point.
As is Google, at least if you turn the filters off... or so I am told. I *do* know there are some sites on Freenet that by their titles appear to be such filth. But there's a difference between "a few assholes insert child porn" and "Freenet is one of the main, if not THE main mechanism for distributing pedophile pornography".
It is? Please justify the above statement. I really would be interested to know if most of the world's child porn flows through Freenet. It certainly doesn't go through the main indexes. And the main indexes DONT censor what they link to. 12 of 440 is 12 too many, but it's far too low for the post to be credible - unless there are only 12 sources of child porn in the world.
Really? Last time I looked, 12 out of 440 sites on TFE were by the title obviously child porn or probably child porn. That's less than 5%. And I'm skeptical that Freenet has the capacity to support the terabytes you are casually implying here.