Hitler made the trains run on time. He also created huge increases in the country's economy by greatly expanding industry in two important areas: the construction of War Machines and mainstreaming of slave labor. Nazi scientists also gave us numerous technologies, such as modern Public relations and mass neutered media.
I am *so* glad I use random passwords that are coordinated in a deeply-encrypted PGP file on an encrypted smartcard:_) for my spreadthefox.net password.
Just demonstrates the editorial discretion of Slashdot. My news -- the first negative report of sitemaps -- was published by all the major search engine-related websites (over 20) yet here remains only a mod +1.
I had a very bad experience with python sitemap generator from SourceForge using the 'accesslog' option. I plugged in a 10MB sitelog from our corporate site Great Seats to Sold-out Events, which has ~22,000 pages.
Within five minutes it crashed my development server, a 3200 MHz Pentium 4 with 2GB of RAM running Debian Linux. Just imagine if this had been the production server...the costs for over-utilizng the webserver
However, transfering ed2k links *alone* (not asking to be subsidized for their transfer, like sharedaemon) does not violate American's 1st Amendment Right to Free Speech. It also shows teh imperviousness of the ED2K network to withstand such attacks.
When ShareDaemon went down, ed2k barely blimped and has largely regruoped. As far as I know, the bittorrent TV nets are all but demolished.
This link is being reported to be a backup of all of btefnet's torrents as of the day it went down. It appears to have several tens of thousands of torrents and is 24 MB.
This link is being reported to be a backup of all of btefnet's torrents as of the day it went down. It appears to have several tens of thousands of torrents and is 24 MB.
A Mersenne Prime is where the prime number also fulfills the equation 2^P - 1
2^2 - 1 = 3... 3 is a mersenne prime.
2^3 - 1 = 5... 5 is a mersenne prime.
2^4 - 1 = 7... 7 is a mersenne prime.
The next one is 31 and after that 127. From there they get quite rare (only 42 known).
They are VERY useful in cryptography and quantum physics...both deal with huge numbers. They are also used in some SETI applications because if you wanted to send primes, you'd probably send mersennes as these would be *very* non-random.
Pratically, they're mostly used in military-grade real-time encryption in the hash keys of secured phones.
Why I *HATE* the GPL...and how to defeat it.
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I spent roughly 80 hours a week for 2 years of the prime of my life developing an application. I rewrote virtually 80% of the 150,000 line C++ codebase. In short, it was forked by very hostile and childish people who continually kry [sic] "Leave us alone" at my program's site, lol.
The hostile fork started when I was personally targeted by the MPAA for my development efforts on 23 August, 2003
The GPL provides *zero* possibilities for overcoming hostile forks. If they want to copy your CVS (and keep their's private) they can effectively publish your own code before you release your program...which technically makes it "their" code. You cannot obfuscate code in order to get an advantage because the GPL forbids this.
How they won the battle was a systemmatic assault of every website comment section (just search for "xmule and comment") on the internet, attacking both myself (Un-Thesis | HopeSeekr) and the program. When this fails my program's site (www.xmule.ws) is routinely DDoS'd, the worst occuring when our original domain (www.xmule.org) was DDoS'd for approximately THREE months and had its DNS hijacked because of it.
Use the OSSAL dual licensed with the Creative Commons License to defeat the GPL! CCL is JUST AS FREE as the GPL (including no commercialization of *straight copies*) yet doesn't have the viral clause. OSSAL License expressly prevents the use of OSSAL code in GPLd products.
I was shut down on 19 Aug by the DMCA as well. See this article.
I am really dismayed at the lack of debate my story has generated: No one replied to my call to action in the thread, and every one basically just said how America sucks and started flaming about the MIddle East:-)
Really, good for her for getting so widely covered! I have posted to many independent media sites including Rense.com, EFF, and the ACLU and still nothing. Maybe it is teh difference that my program empowered people? Hopefully people will respond to this thread:-)
Below is a copy of my letter to my senator, McCain, of Arizona. Feel free, indeed encouraged, to email your own senator (or even others!) and representatives. You can find their addresses at [Senate] and [House].
===============
Dear Senators:
Some of you have reservations about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the many ways in which it violates the guaranteed Constitutional rights of the populace. It affected me personally on 17-Aug 03. I am the main developer of one of the few person-to-person filetrading programs for UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD, etc) machines and MacOS X.
Apparently I was struck without warning by some DMCA clause for downloading 'copyrighted material.' In other parts of the law, you need habeus corpus, search warrants, judicial review, warning, etc. With the DMCA they merely terminate you, with no warning, with no appeal, with no representation, with no pretense of jurisdiction, based upon evidence that was 100% obtained outside the framework of any noticeable governmental or 3rd-party oversight.
In short, it is an apparently open fascist policy prone to rampant abuse, supporting the rights of the Establishment over the People.
My life revolves around the marvelous information transport technologies collectively referred to as the Internet. I attend a part-time university online (www.accis.edu), near 95% of my contact with my friends and family is online, 100% of my employment is online (via rentacoder.com), and my personal hobbies and political activitism are online.
In short, terminating my internet without warning has seriously halted my life. It is time we make the right to chat online a fundamental human right. The government should be allowed to restrict a person's movements (prohibit uploads, downloads, etc) by placing restrictions on the amount of data a 'criminal' should be able to send online in a given day or so (500KB should be sufficient for email, chat, etc). Such bandwidth caps are already implemented by teh vast majority of broadband suppliers throughout the nation adn would be just about as easy to implement and enforce as the current DMCA suspension of accounts.
I just wish there would be *some* judicial process involved in the DMCA. I should have my constitutional right to a fair trial. This is above and beyond the reasons why most people download movies. People overseas download movies and music because of artificial monopoly regulations that delay the international exportation of American media by weeks and even months.
People in America download media because they are either too poor to purchase the overpriced media (partly because the MPAA and RIAA use a lot of the profit in legal battles against P2P and political lobbying), and also primarily to see if a given media is of good enough intellecutal quality to warrant purchasing, due to the unequal consumer rights 'laws' which prohibit the returning of open media.
Generally, people download not out of nefarious intent, but because they lack real alternatives to verify the intellectual quality of any given electronic Media before purchasing.
Thus, more consumer rights laws, less 'illicit' copyright infringement.
wow, props to you for posting that:-) at least it seems freedom of speech is alive. one can only hoep for the day when one won't be slashdotted w/o contact being attempted and that the Net's topology will be flipped upside down so that the more visitors the faster it gets.
You earned back some respect by posting my emotional critique verbatim. Un-Thesis
first off, i do not like being referred to in the same paragraph as a "holy war" p2p group which i know nothing about. it totally gets off topic of the current issue, namely civil liberties that no longer exist in the United States (no one has replied to any of my urgings in this page, for instance!)
secondly, i had plenty of contact info and should have been contacted before this was published.
thirdly, as very much stated by teh page the author of this story published, xmule.org was at 90% bandwidth consumption BEFORE Being slashdotted!!! NOW MY SITE IS DEAD! Apparently the glorious admins panicked and rm -r'd the thing. it is gone.
fourthly, because of the slashdotting, i overexceeded the monthly bandwidth allotment by 5 GB (in 12 hours!), which costs me money personally. Thirdly i have very few options left in hosting xmule, thanks to some asshole who linked me w/ a terrorist organization and slashdotted my site while the link that he posted said i was at 90% bandwidth consumption already.
Thanks guys. Very little civil liberty discussion has come off this (nothing constructive save my 0-replies posts!!) you just add to my financial burdens, remove the right to access from our userbase, etc.
Haven't you guys ever heard of editors aka guys who verify stories are fit print?! With my phone number plastered over the page you linked to directly, do you not think it is wise to call first and ask for permission??
You did more harm to xmule than the gov'ment! Un-Thesis
Below is a copy of my letter to my senator, McCain, of Arizona. Feel free, indeed encouraged, to email your own senator (or even others!) and representatives. You can find their addresses at http://www.senate.gov/ and http://www.house.gov/
With respect, Un-Thesis ===================== Dear Senators,
Some of you have . It affected me personally on 17-Aug 03. I am the main developer of one of the few person-to-person filetrading programs for UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD, etc) machines and MacOS X.
Apparently I was struck without warning by some DMCA clause for downloading 'copyrighted material.' In other parts of the law, you need habeus corpus, search warrants, judicial review, warning, etc. With the DMCA they merely terminate you, with no warning, with no appeal, with no representation, with no pretense of jurisdiction, based upon evidence that was 100% obtained outside the framework of any noticeable governmental or 3rd-party oversight.
In short, it is an apparently open fascist policy prone to rampant abuse, supporting the rights of the Establishment over the People.
My life revolves around the marvelous information transport technologies collectively referred to as the Internet. I attend a part-time university online (www.accis.edu), near 95% of my contact with my friends and family is online, 100% of my employment is online (via rentacoder.com), and my personal hobbies (www.xmule.org) and political activities (www.fearlesszippy.com, wakeup-people.com, etc) are online.
In short, terminating my internet without warning has seriously halted my life. It is time we make the right to chat online a fundamental human right. The government should be allowed to restrict a person's movements (prohibit uploads, downloads, etc) by placing restrictions on the amount of data a 'criminal' should be able to send online in a given day or so (500KB should be sufficient for email, chat, etc). Such bandwidth caps are already implemented by teh vast majority of broadband suppliers throughout the nation adn would be just about as easy to implement and enforce as the current DMCA suspension of accounts.
I just wish there would be *some* judicial process involved in the DMCA. I should have my constitutional right to a fair trial. This is above and beyond the reasons why most people download movies. People overseas download movies and music because of artificial monopoly regulations that delay the international exportation of American media by weeks and even months.
People in America download media because they are either too poor to purchase the overpriced media, and also primarily to see if a given media is of good enough intellecutal quality to warrant purchasing, due to the unequal consumer rights 'laws' which prohibit the returning of open media.
Generally, people download not out of nefarious intent, but because they lack real alternatives to verify the intellectual quality of any given electronic Media before purchasing.
Thus, more consumer rights laws, less 'illicit' copyright infringement.
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Judicial Tyranny Killed America in 1803 [Must read!]
HopeSeekr of xMule
I am *so* glad I use random passwords that are coordinated in a deeply-encrypted PGP file on an encrypted smartcard :_) for my spreadthefox.net password.
Just demonstrates the editorial discretion of Slashdot. My news -- the first negative report of sitemaps -- was published by all the major search engine-related websites (over 20) yet here remains only a mod +1.
I had a very bad experience with python sitemap generator from SourceForge using the 'accesslog' option. I plugged in a 10MB sitelog from our corporate site Great Seats to Sold-out Events, which has ~22,000 pages.
Within five minutes it crashed my development server, a 3200 MHz Pentium 4 with 2GB of RAM running Debian Linux. Just imagine if this had been the production server...the costs for over-utilizng the webserver
For the details, see http://www.incendiary.ws/node/94 Please syndicate my content if you want :-)
So...I was the first visible person to point out the typo and it's labeled redundant? I don't understand :-/
It is "simultaneous", not "simeltaneous".
:o
No editor caught this?
However, transfering ed2k links *alone* (not asking to be subsidized for their transfer, like sharedaemon) does not violate American's 1st Amendment Right to Free Speech. It also shows teh imperviousness of the ED2K network to withstand such attacks.
When ShareDaemon went down, ed2k barely blimped and has largely regruoped. As far as I know, the bittorrent TV nets are all but demolished.
This link is being reported to be a backup of all of btefnet's torrents as of the day it went down. It appears to have several tens of thousands of torrents and is 24 MB.
B 7F 9B97482AF94535EA8930A|/
ed2k://|file|torrents.tar.bz2|24171559|75405CBD
Bittorrent is shut down, ED2K Forever.
This link is being reported to be a backup of all of btefnet's torrents as of the day it went down. It appears to have several tens of thousands of torrents and is 24 MB.
B 7F 9B97482AF94535EA8930A|/
ed2k://|file|torrents.tar.bz2|24171559|75405CBD
Bittorrent is shut down, ED2K Forever.
A Mersenne Prime is where the prime number also fulfills the equation 2^P - 1 2^2 - 1 = 3 ... 3 is a mersenne prime.
2^3 - 1 = 5 ... 5 is a mersenne prime.
2^4 - 1 = 7 ... 7 is a mersenne prime.
The next one is 31 and after that 127. From there they get quite rare (only 42 known).
They are VERY useful in cryptography and quantum physics...both deal with huge numbers. They are also used in some SETI applications because if you wanted to send primes, you'd probably send mersennes as these would be *very* non-random.
Pratically, they're mostly used in military-grade real-time encryption in the hash keys of secured phones.
I spent roughly 80 hours a week for 2 years of the prime of my life developing an application. I rewrote virtually 80% of the 150,000 line C++ codebase. In short, it was forked by very hostile and childish people who continually kry [sic] "Leave us alone" at my program's site, lol.
The hostile fork started when I was personally targeted by the MPAA for my development efforts on 23 August, 2003
The GPL provides *zero* possibilities for overcoming hostile forks. If they want to copy your CVS (and keep their's private) they can effectively publish your own code before you release your program...which technically makes it "their" code. You cannot obfuscate code in order to get an advantage because the GPL forbids this.
How they won the battle was a systemmatic assault of every website comment section (just search for "xmule and comment") on the internet, attacking both myself (Un-Thesis | HopeSeekr) and the program. When this fails my program's site (www.xmule.ws) is routinely DDoS'd, the worst occuring when our original domain (www.xmule.org) was DDoS'd for approximately THREE months and had its DNS hijacked because of it.
Use the OSSAL dual licensed with the Creative Commons License to defeat the GPL! CCL is JUST AS FREE as the GPL (including no commercialization of *straight copies*) yet doesn't have the viral clause. OSSAL License expressly prevents the use of OSSAL code in GPLd products.
For detailed description of the difference between xMule and its hostile fork, see The Coding Philosophies of aMule and xMule . For a summary of some of the most blatant attacks against xMule by this fork, see Part III: On Hostile Forks.
Sincerely,
Ted R. Smith | HopeSeekr
I'm the maintainer of xMule.
:-)
If you can code in C++, look me up
I was shut down on 19 Aug by the DMCA as well. See this article .
I am really dismayed at the lack of debate my story has generated: No one replied to my call to action in the thread, and every one basically just said how America sucks and started flaming about the MIddle East :-)
Really, good for her for getting so widely covered! I have posted to many independent media sites including Rense.com, EFF, and the ACLU and still nothing. Maybe it is teh difference that my program empowered people? Hopefully people will respond to this thread :-)
Below is a copy of my letter to my senator, McCain, of Arizona. Feel free, indeed encouraged, to email your own senator (or even others!) and representatives. You can find their addresses at [Senate] and [House] .
===============
Dear Senators:
Some of you have reservations about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the many ways in which it violates the guaranteed Constitutional rights of the populace. It affected me personally on 17-Aug 03. I am the main developer of one of the few person-to-person filetrading programs for UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD, etc) machines and MacOS X.
Apparently I was struck without warning by some DMCA clause for downloading 'copyrighted material.' In other parts of the law, you need habeus corpus, search warrants, judicial review, warning, etc. With the DMCA they merely terminate you, with no warning, with no appeal, with no representation, with no pretense of jurisdiction, based upon evidence that was 100% obtained outside the framework of any noticeable governmental or 3rd-party oversight.
In short, it is an apparently open fascist policy prone to rampant abuse, supporting the rights of the Establishment over the People.
My life revolves around the marvelous information transport technologies collectively referred to as the Internet. I attend a part-time university online (www.accis.edu), near 95% of my contact with my friends and family is online, 100% of my employment is online (via rentacoder.com), and my personal hobbies and political activitism are online.
In short, terminating my internet without warning has seriously halted my life. It is time we make the right to chat online a fundamental human right. The government should be allowed to restrict a person's movements (prohibit uploads, downloads, etc) by placing restrictions on the amount of data a 'criminal' should be able to send online in a given day or so (500KB should be sufficient for email, chat, etc). Such bandwidth caps are already implemented by teh vast majority of broadband suppliers throughout the nation adn would be just about as easy to implement and enforce as the current DMCA suspension of accounts.
I just wish there would be *some* judicial process involved in the DMCA. I should have my constitutional right to a fair trial. This is above and beyond the reasons why most people download movies. People overseas download movies and music because of artificial monopoly regulations that delay the international exportation of American media by weeks and even months.
People in America download media because they are either too poor to purchase the overpriced media (partly because the MPAA and RIAA use a lot of the profit in legal battles against P2P and political lobbying), and also primarily to see if a given media is of good enough intellecutal quality to warrant purchasing, due to the unequal consumer rights 'laws' which prohibit the returning of open media.
Generally, people download not out of nefarious intent, but because they lack real alternatives to verify the intellectual quality of any given electronic Media before purchasing.
Thus, more consumer rights laws, less 'illicit' copyright infringement.
Sincerely,
Theodore R. Smith
wow, props to you for posting that :-) at least it seems freedom of speech is alive. one can only hoep for the day when one won't be slashdotted w/o contact being attempted and that the Net's topology will be flipped upside down so that the more visitors the faster it gets.
You earned back some respect by posting my emotional critique verbatim.
Un-Thesis
first off, i do not like being referred to in the same paragraph as a "holy war" p2p group which i know nothing about. it totally gets off topic of the current issue, namely civil liberties that no longer exist in the United States (no one has replied to any of my urgings in this page, for instance!)
secondly, i had plenty of contact info and should have been contacted before this was published.
thirdly, as very much stated by teh page the author of this story published, xmule.org was at 90% bandwidth consumption BEFORE Being slashdotted!!! NOW MY SITE IS DEAD! Apparently the glorious admins panicked and rm -r'd the thing. it is gone.
fourthly, because of the slashdotting, i overexceeded the monthly bandwidth allotment by 5 GB (in 12 hours!), which costs me money personally. Thirdly i have very few options left in hosting xmule, thanks to some asshole who linked me w/ a terrorist organization and slashdotted my site while the link that he posted said i was at 90% bandwidth consumption already.
Thanks guys. Very little civil liberty discussion has come off this (nothing constructive save my 0-replies posts!!) you just add to my financial burdens, remove the right to access from our userbase, etc.
Haven't you guys ever heard of editors aka guys who verify stories are fit print?! With my phone number plastered over the page you linked to directly, do you not think it is wise to call first and ask for permission??
You did more harm to xmule than the gov'ment!
Un-Thesis
Below is a copy of my letter to my senator, McCain, of Arizona. Feel free, indeed encouraged, to email your own senator (or even others!) and representatives. You can find their addresses at http://www.senate.gov/ and http://www.house.gov/
With respect,
Un-Thesis
=====================
Dear Senators,
Some of you have . It affected me personally on 17-Aug 03. I am the main developer of one of the few person-to-person filetrading programs for UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD, etc) machines and MacOS X.
Apparently I was struck without warning by some DMCA clause for downloading 'copyrighted material.' In other parts of the law, you need habeus corpus, search warrants, judicial review, warning, etc. With the DMCA they merely terminate you, with no warning, with no appeal, with no representation, with no pretense of jurisdiction, based upon evidence that was 100% obtained outside the framework of any noticeable governmental or 3rd-party oversight.
In short, it is an apparently open fascist policy prone to rampant abuse, supporting the rights of the Establishment over the People.
My life revolves around the marvelous information transport technologies collectively referred to as the Internet. I attend a part-time university online (www.accis.edu), near 95% of my contact with my friends and family is online, 100% of my employment is online (via rentacoder.com), and my personal hobbies (www.xmule.org) and political activities (www.fearlesszippy.com, wakeup-people.com, etc) are online.
In short, terminating my internet without warning has seriously halted my life. It is time we make the right to chat online a fundamental human right. The government should be allowed to restrict a person's movements (prohibit uploads, downloads, etc) by placing restrictions on the amount of data a 'criminal' should be able to send online in a given day or so (500KB should be sufficient for email, chat, etc). Such bandwidth caps are already implemented by teh vast majority of broadband suppliers throughout the nation adn would be just about as easy to implement and enforce as the current DMCA suspension of accounts.
I just wish there would be *some* judicial process involved in the DMCA. I should have my constitutional right to a fair trial. This is above and beyond the reasons why most people download movies. People overseas download movies and music because of artificial monopoly regulations that delay the international exportation of American media by weeks and even months.
People in America download media because they are either too poor to purchase the overpriced media, and also primarily to see if a given media is of good enough intellecutal quality to warrant purchasing, due to the unequal consumer rights 'laws' which prohibit the returning of open media.
Generally, people download not out of nefarious intent, but because they lack real alternatives to verify the intellectual quality of any given electronic Media before purchasing.
Thus, more consumer rights laws, less 'illicit' copyright infringement.
Sincerely,
Theodore R. Smith