This is a difficult issue as others have pointed out. My hardware might be a client to access the hardware vendor's server (think TiVO) and they might have a EULA saying that I will use only thier software to access their services. How will they verify it ?
I think the main reason compaies want to do it is because, in the future when more devices will access the vendor's servers for services they dont want joe-next-door to setup a server and provide me the same service for free.
"Consider this as a radical compression scheme. Rather than storing every single digit, you store a simple formula for arriving at the number."
This is one of the principles of algorithmic information theory. But the poster above has also elaborated on a similar scheme as we just need to store the number of digits.
GATES Your resume was brought to my attention, but I can't figure out what, if anything, you do, so rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out.
ESR This is it! I've poured my heart and soul into this propaganda and now it's finally paying off. (covering his mouth) I am rich! Richer than astronauts. (to Gates) I reluctantly accept your proposal!
GATES Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
Bill Gates companions begin to trash the "office".
ESR Hey, what the hell's going on!
GATES Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks!
Big companies can levarage bittorrent technology to save bandwidth costs for them. There have been lot of Content Distribution Networks which offer that service.
Example is the game company that hired Bram to develop a distribution system based on BT.
I came across this sometime ago. This professor claims to build artificial brians using FPGA based hardware. Not sure what the status of the project is now.
p2pbridge is a project that is aimed at using overlay networks to access web pages. Ofcourse, it doesnt work yet.
Dijer was a similar project that was launced sometime ago (I cant seem to find the homepage of that project)
But I guess in this case (where server is required to do work, not for just generate content), we need to write a P2P client that acts like both server and client for searches. In that case, we can just use one of the existing network like Gnutella with a distributed spider ?
Not to be a troll, but if that one guy is competent in Linux, he could set up a similar solution on linux where one box pushes updates or set up a cron in the image for all the computers to connect to the server and download updates. Sure it might not have the fancy GUI, but there are number of tools in Linux (we run a custom up2date server).
I have also built a system in the past for pushing files (not updates but data files for custom application) in the form of a ring. Each node runs a daemon that gets the updated file from the previos node, updates it and passes on to the next node.
We should use the API's to generate automatic stories on slashdot.
Ofcourse, generated stories will be rejected if it does not contain certain keywords or dupes. So I propose combining this with
Slashdot random story generator
First speaking as a person from Chennai (One of the cities in India worst affected by the tsunami), thanks to all for helping out.
"What do they do? Shrug it off eventually and mark it off as karma, god's will, or god's punishment depending on their religion (no, most poor Indians cannot afford the luxuries of athesim or agnosticism). Then, they take it one day at a time and slowly start rebuilding their lives."
Although I know that you mean it in a good way, I have to say this. Religion has always been used to supress poor people. In the earlier days the upper caste created all these religious rules that kept the downtroden down, by making them belive thier misfortune is the result of the wrath of god and they will have better life in the rebirth. This stops their drive to make thier lives better. I feel it is a part of our society that we need to do something about.
But right now you are right and we sould all work in poviding relief.
"In other word the overlay topology should be such that it tries to find the host that is closest and tries to take advantage of existing connections on common links."
Amen to that! I worked on something similar as well. I tried using small groups of JXTA networks. Each host connects to the nearest ultra peer and form small clusters of nearby hosts.
Unfortunatly I could never spend enough time to get it working and it stagnated. Interesting acedamic execrcise though!
You can read more at p2pbridge
Its the population. And the diversity. The villages are quite diffrent from the cities and the quality of education (or rather the lack of it) drastically differs.
Nice troll. Atheists do not deny the mortality of humans.
I feel it is the theists, who calm their fears by beliveing in heaven/after-life etc in the hopes that even after we die, the soul/memories whatever still lives in another form even, if there is no proof/rational explanation for the same.
The wires just act as any other stimilus organ like your eyes hands etc (but only with very little effectiveness due to just 100 nuron connection)
So the spam will be equivalent to subjecting someone with lots of unpleasent visual stimuli etc. I dont think Virus applies here. Its not as if you can execute your code in the brain. But it might be possible to evoke certain emmotions (even actions perhaps, but we are very far from understanding brain at that level) based on certain stimuli.
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This is a difficult issue as others have pointed out. My hardware might be a client to access the hardware vendor's server (think TiVO) and they might have a EULA saying that I will use only thier software to access their services. How will they verify it ?
I think the main reason compaies want to do it is because, in the future when more devices will access the vendor's servers for services they dont want joe-next-door to setup a server and provide me the same service for free.
"Consider this as a radical compression scheme. Rather than storing every single digit, you store a simple formula for arriving at the number."
This is one of the principles of algorithmic information theory. But the poster above has also elaborated on a similar scheme as we just need to store the number of digits.
Obligatory SImpsons quote:
Bill Gates and two "associates" enter.
GATES
Your resume was brought to my attention, but I can't figure out what, if anything, you do, so rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out.
ESR
This is it! I've poured my heart and soul into this propaganda and now it's finally paying off. (covering his mouth) I am rich! Richer than astronauts.
(to Gates) I reluctantly accept your proposal!
GATES
Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
Bill Gates companions begin to trash the "office".
ESR
Hey, what the hell's going on!
GATES
Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks!
Dijjer already does that now.
:(
I started a project to do this 2 years ago. But due to changes in JXTA and other factors, it just fizzled out like so many projects on SF
this IS slasdot, you insessitive clod!
How about future girlfriend/potential mate maps
Big companies can levarage bittorrent technology to save bandwidth costs for them. There have been lot of Content Distribution Networks which offer that service.
Example is the game company that hired Bram to develop a distribution system based on BT.
I came across this sometime ago. This professor claims to build artificial brians using FPGA based hardware. Not sure what the status of the project is now.
p2pbridge is a project that is aimed at using overlay networks to access web pages. Ofcourse, it doesnt work yet.
Dijer was a similar project that was launced sometime ago (I cant seem to find the homepage of that project)
But I guess in this case (where server is required to do work, not for just generate content), we need to write a P2P client that acts like both server and client for searches. In that case, we can just use one of the existing network like Gnutella with a distributed spider ?
Mod Parent up.
Its a python program/tutorial for displaying dallas craigslist listings on Google Map.
I don't buy it. Do you have a cite to back that up?! This one is part of the 73% ;)
73% of the statistics are made up
Naw...more like
In Soviet Russia, Oxygen de-generates YOU!
Not to be a troll, but if that one guy is competent in Linux, he could set up a similar solution on linux where one box pushes updates or set up a cron in the image for all the computers to connect to the server and download updates. Sure it might not have the fancy GUI, but there are number of tools in Linux (we run a custom up2date server).
I have also built a system in the past for pushing files (not updates but data files for custom application) in the form of a ring. Each node runs a daemon that gets the updated file from the previos node, updates it and passes on to the next node.
We should use the API's to generate automatic stories on slashdot.
Ofcourse, generated stories will be rejected if it does not contain certain keywords or dupes. So I propose combining this with Slashdot random story generator
I for one welcome our extinct vegan loving dinosaur overlords .... nah
...vegitarians are dying ...hmm no
Dinosaurs confirmed it
In pre-historic soviet, you feed plants to dinosaurs
oops. I meant "how is this diffrent from a customer going into a shop to buy some, getting arrested for theft without proof"
I agree. If true, then this man should sue BT for the false alert!
How is this diffrent from arresting a customer going in to buy something getting arrested for theft.
Was it just me or did anyone think "Geez
First speaking as a person from Chennai (One of the cities in India worst affected by the tsunami), thanks to all for helping out.
"What do they do? Shrug it off eventually and mark it off as karma, god's will, or god's punishment depending on their religion (no, most poor Indians cannot afford the luxuries of athesim or agnosticism). Then, they take it one day at a time and slowly start rebuilding their lives."
Although I know that you mean it in a good way, I have to say this. Religion has always been used to supress poor people. In the earlier days the upper caste created all these religious rules that kept the downtroden down, by making them belive thier misfortune is the result of the wrath of god and they will have better life in the rebirth. This stops their drive to make thier lives better. I feel it is a part of our society that we need to do something about.
But right now you are right and we sould all work in poviding relief.
"In other word the overlay topology should be such that it tries to find the host that is closest and tries to take advantage of existing connections on common links."
Amen to that! I worked on something similar as well. I tried using small groups of JXTA networks. Each host connects to the nearest ultra peer and form small clusters of nearby hosts.
Unfortunatly I could never spend enough time to get it working and it stagnated. Interesting acedamic execrcise though! You can read more at p2pbridge
Now Diijer sounds promising.
Its the population. And the diversity. The villages are quite diffrent from the cities and the quality of education (or rather the lack of it) drastically differs.
This is cool !!
:)
Any idea how proxy servers find one another ? yes, I did RTFA
I would imagine some sort of overlay networks with ultrapeers.
I had wanted to do something like this using JXTA last year but alas, it has become yet another dead project on sf.
p2pbridge.sf.net
I am happy something similar has materialized.
I knew, my habit of not updating my systems would help me someday.
Nice troll. Atheists do not deny the mortality of humans.
I feel it is the theists, who calm their fears by beliveing in heaven/after-life etc in the hopes that even after we die, the soul/memories whatever still lives in another form even, if there is no proof/rational explanation for the same.
The wires just act as any other stimilus organ like your eyes hands etc (but only with very little effectiveness due to just 100 nuron connection)
So the spam will be equivalent to subjecting someone with lots of unpleasent visual stimuli etc. I dont think Virus applies here. Its not as if you can execute your code in the brain. But it might be possible to evoke certain emmotions (even actions perhaps, but we are very far from understanding brain at that level) based on certain stimuli.