Close. They're called Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, or VANETs for short. And they're becoming an interesting research area with feasibility advances in WiFi and Bluetooth. The ACM is already holding its second workshop on them.
I did reread his comment, before posting, and I read it to mean receiving multiple messages from one list. I thought he might have meant what you said too, but I was sure he meant what I addressed. Hence the clarification.
But for what it's worth, the alternative that you tried to explain doesn't work either. What exactly makes you think that you're only on the receiving end of this system? If I ran a mailing list, I would make damn sure that you can only sign up for it using email, and not through a web interface. That way, if you decided to flag a message from the list to make me owe you a few cents, I'd flag your subscription email, and you'd owe me those few cents back. Hence, you get nothing.
As for getting a clue, you might want to shut up until you get one.
RTFA. The premise is that once you mark an address as spam, the sender will no longer send you messages because it's against his economic interest to pay you again. Therefore, you only receive payment once per mailing list, which will be too small to make it a feasible source of income.
Unfortunately, this system will only work if you only allow incoming mail from a server that supports it. This reduces the whole setup to a glorified whitelist, and dooms it to failure. Spam can't be stopped because the current infrastructure allows spammers to send mail without reprimand, and no alternative will work until the current infrastructure is still in place.
It's called a CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission), and uses a belt and cone instead of discrete gears. This allows the engine to get the optimal power (or efficiency) for whatever travelling speed you want.
With peer-to-peer, the more popular a download is, the faster it can be downloaded. The limit is the speed of the internet connections of those trading file pieces. There is no central bottleneck. With a few high speed connections uploading, everyone's downloads will be faster.
That's not really true.
Given your reference to "file pieces", I'm assuming you're talking about BitTtorrent. In which case, saying that "the more popular a download is, the faster it can be downloaded" is misleading at best. The download speed of your torrent is independent of the number of people involved in it. Your download speed is simply a function of how much upload capacity is available. In fact, for a given upload capacity, the more popular the download the slower your speed, because that upload capacity has to be shared by more people. Of course, the more people you have, the more upload capacity you have, but given the disparity between upload and download speeds, each member of a torrent will likely increase demand more than increase supply and slow you down.
The dynamic of BitTorrent will change for the better in the HK setting, however. The article claims their data rates will be symmetric. Given sufficient dissemination of random chunks, having equal upload capacity as download capacity means the bandwidth disparity doesn't exist, and those torrents will fly.
For BitTorrent, the tracker can easily become a central bottleneck.
I didn't say the GUI was the operating system. And I'm definitely not saying that a kernel and filesystem constitute an operating system, which is completely wrong. For all intents and purposes, an operating system is either an extended machine or a resource manager. That doesn't limit it to a kernel and filesystem, but pretty much anything that provides an API. Including Core*, Cocao, Carbon, and yes, even a GUI. Just because you're more than one layer of abstraction away from the hardware doesn't mean you're not at the system level.
Just because the kernel is based on BSD, doesn't mean you can say the *entire* operating system is.
Lest we forget, the *base* of the *entire* OS X operating system is a BSD core, something Apple didn't invent or innovate in to existance.
The base of the *entire* operating system? Are you trying to say Cocoa, Carbon, Core*, Aqua, etc, are based on BSD? Funny, I've been running OpenBSD for years, and still can't find the Dock...
Apple innovated and implemented a lot of technology on top of that BSD core. Saying otherwise would be like saying there's no change between Windows 98 and DOS. The only difference is that Apple actually layer stable and novel code on top of a stable kernel, instead of the patchwork Windows tries to pass of as innovation.
... silent communication while around others can lead to a whole new set of problems all it's own... especially when it's apparent that you're communicating, but not what you're saying.
Are the problems particular to silent communication, or are they caused by not being understood by those around you? When I speak to my family here in the States, it's apparent we're talking, but nobody has a clue what we're saying. It's the advantage of being from a country of 400,000 people. It hasn't caused any problems yet.
I disagree, though I wouldn't call your post a troll. But since I can't post and untroll you, I'll post and hope someone else might...
You shouldn't change your tune when security holes are discovered. Security holes exist in any application. Some are discovered, and some aren't. Your defense against security holes is two fold. The first part is that you want security holes to be discovered. The second part is that you want them fixed. The FOSS ideology helps with discovering them. And Mozilla's diligence helps with fixing them... in fact, these holes have already been fixed.
Compare this with not being able to discover security holes and not being able to fix them, and you start to see why FOSS is good and why Firefox is brilliant.
Err, T-Mobile doesn't make phones. Since you can get any phone T-Mobile offers from online retailers, their phones shouldn't really influence your choice of provider. Unless you're willing to get roped into a contract for the sake of saving a hundred bucks on a phone. It's often not worth it. There are very good sites online to buy unbranded GSM phones, such as ustronics.com, mobilecityonline.com, and expansys.com to name a few. And good review sites, such as gsmarena.com.
Personally, I'm getting as far away from T-Mobile as possible when my contract expires next month. Don't get me wrong, they have some very good plans and most times their customer service is wonderful. But their signal is horrific (I'm in the DC metropolitan area), and they've recently started charging for international messages. When I complained about the latter, I was told that it was not a contract violation on their part (which it is), and that I was duly informed, which I was not. So customer service is wonderful if they agree with you, and call you a liar if you're not.
For the same money, I'd rather have reception. Given the AT&T and Cingular merger, especially with free mobile-to-mobile minutes and the latter's rollover plans, T-Mobile just got some very stiff competition that I doubt they can face. Add this bad publicity for security, and I think they're in over their heads.
What bothers me the most is that the judge claims it's wiretapping because it logged data contemporaneously. Since you have to log something contemporaneously by definition, doesn't this render logs illegal, or better yet, inadmissabile?
He means 1.7 Euro cents a minute. Although it's closer to 35 Euro cents to Iraq.
However, do give Skype a try. I conference call with friends in Europe and Africa from North America and some of these people are on dialup. It works very well, and it's free if you're not calling an actual phone.
We pay something like $1500 for 150 simultaneous listeners at 20 kps
You're paying $1500 for a 3Mbps upstream line? I'm sure Live365 offers great services, but isn't that pricey? Any alternatives, especially something based on multicast?
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Close. They're called Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, or VANETs for short. And they're becoming an interesting research area with feasibility advances in WiFi and Bluetooth. The ACM is already holding its second workshop on them.
I did reread his comment, before posting, and I read it to mean receiving multiple messages from one list. I thought he might have meant what you said too, but I was sure he meant what I addressed. Hence the clarification.
But for what it's worth, the alternative that you tried to explain doesn't work either. What exactly makes you think that you're only on the receiving end of this system? If I ran a mailing list, I would make damn sure that you can only sign up for it using email, and not through a web interface. That way, if you decided to flag a message from the list to make me owe you a few cents, I'd flag your subscription email, and you'd owe me those few cents back. Hence, you get nothing.
As for getting a clue, you might want to shut up until you get one.
RTFA. The premise is that once you mark an address as spam, the sender will no longer send you messages because it's against his economic interest to pay you again. Therefore, you only receive payment once per mailing list, which will be too small to make it a feasible source of income.
Unfortunately, this system will only work if you only allow incoming mail from a server that supports it. This reduces the whole setup to a glorified whitelist, and dooms it to failure. Spam can't be stopped because the current infrastructure allows spammers to send mail without reprimand, and no alternative will work until the current infrastructure is still in place.
I just removed my karma bonus from all my posts to reduce the grandparent to +2. So the correction is appreciated.
For the record, what I said may have been misinformative, but it wasn't disinformative.
It's called a CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission), and uses a belt and cone instead of discrete gears. This allows the engine to get the optimal power (or efficiency) for whatever travelling speed you want.
More info here: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/cvt.htm
Your post made Firefox crash. Please close your tags.
I officially retract that last comment. The grammatical mistake was more retarded than the quote it was making fun of.
Isn't life is full of little surprises!
That's not really true.
Given your reference to "file pieces", I'm assuming you're talking about BitTtorrent. In which case, saying that "the more popular a download is, the faster it can be downloaded" is misleading at best. The download speed of your torrent is independent of the number of people involved in it. Your download speed is simply a function of how much upload capacity is available. In fact, for a given upload capacity, the more popular the download the slower your speed, because that upload capacity has to be shared by more people. Of course, the more people you have, the more upload capacity you have, but given the disparity between upload and download speeds, each member of a torrent will likely increase demand more than increase supply and slow you down.
The dynamic of BitTorrent will change for the better in the HK setting, however. The article claims their data rates will be symmetric. Given sufficient dissemination of random chunks, having equal upload capacity as download capacity means the bandwidth disparity doesn't exist, and those torrents will fly. For BitTorrent, the tracker can easily become a central bottleneck.
I didn't say the GUI was the operating system. And I'm definitely not saying that a kernel and filesystem constitute an operating system, which is completely wrong. For all intents and purposes, an operating system is either an extended machine or a resource manager. That doesn't limit it to a kernel and filesystem, but pretty much anything that provides an API. Including Core*, Cocao, Carbon, and yes, even a GUI. Just because you're more than one layer of abstraction away from the hardware doesn't mean you're not at the system level.
Just because the kernel is based on BSD, doesn't mean you can say the *entire* operating system is.
Apple innovated and implemented a lot of technology on top of that BSD core. Saying otherwise would be like saying there's no change between Windows 98 and DOS. The only difference is that Apple actually layer stable and novel code on top of a stable kernel, instead of the patchwork Windows tries to pass of as innovation.
Are the problems particular to silent communication, or are they caused by not being understood by those around you? When I speak to my family here in the States, it's apparent we're talking, but nobody has a clue what we're saying. It's the advantage of being from a country of 400,000 people. It hasn't caused any problems yet.
Relax dude. It wasn't either of them. It was Hillary Clinton.
How many buttons are there?! Damnit, now I have to RTFM.
I have the same problem with my girlfriend. If I make any attempt to touch her in the morning, she runs off and I can't find her the rest of the day.
I disagree, though I wouldn't call your post a troll. But since I can't post and untroll you, I'll post and hope someone else might ...
You shouldn't change your tune when security holes are discovered. Security holes exist in any application. Some are discovered, and some aren't. Your defense against security holes is two fold. The first part is that you want security holes to be discovered. The second part is that you want them fixed. The FOSS ideology helps with discovering them. And Mozilla's diligence helps with fixing them ... in fact, these holes have already been fixed.
Compare this with not being able to discover security holes and not being able to fix them, and you start to see why FOSS is good and why Firefox is brilliant.
Who are you planning to date, the waitress at Chuck E. Cheese?
I rent from a nice mom and mom video store.
They have stores that only sell mom and mom videos?! Sweet!
[Disclaimer: Slightly off topic].
I *like* T-mobile's phones...
Err, T-Mobile doesn't make phones. Since you can get any phone T-Mobile offers from online retailers, their phones shouldn't really influence your choice of provider. Unless you're willing to get roped into a contract for the sake of saving a hundred bucks on a phone. It's often not worth it. There are very good sites online to buy unbranded GSM phones, such as ustronics.com, mobilecityonline.com, and expansys.com to name a few. And good review sites, such as gsmarena.com.
Personally, I'm getting as far away from T-Mobile as possible when my contract expires next month. Don't get me wrong, they have some very good plans and most times their customer service is wonderful. But their signal is horrific (I'm in the DC metropolitan area), and they've recently started charging for international messages. When I complained about the latter, I was told that it was not a contract violation on their part (which it is), and that I was duly informed, which I was not. So customer service is wonderful if they agree with you, and call you a liar if you're not.
For the same money, I'd rather have reception. Given the AT&T and Cingular merger, especially with free mobile-to-mobile minutes and the latter's rollover plans, T-Mobile just got some very stiff competition that I doubt they can face. Add this bad publicity for security, and I think they're in over their heads.
Hell, it might even render them inadmissable!
What bothers me the most is that the judge claims it's wiretapping because it logged data contemporaneously. Since you have to log something contemporaneously by definition, doesn't this render logs illegal, or better yet, inadmissabile?
He means 1.7 Euro cents a minute. Although it's closer to 35 Euro cents to Iraq.
However, do give Skype a try. I conference call with friends in Europe and Africa from North America and some of these people are on dialup. It works very well, and it's free if you're not calling an actual phone.
God I hope so.
You're paying $1500 for a 3Mbps upstream line? I'm sure Live365 offers great services, but isn't that pricey? Any alternatives, especially something based on multicast?