I'm not trying to be a troll here, but how is this surprising? The rich and powerful run this country by owning the media and Congress. Nothing new to see here, move along.
Maybe you didn't read the article properly? The linked article states that "the recording material is 1.5 mm thick and is sandwiched between two 130 mm diameter transmissive plastic substrates". So from my take on this, it seems that they have a plate-like object (possibly see-thru... I can imagine GREAT case-modding...) that is VERY THIN. I could even imagine that perhaps several of these could eventually be sandwiched together into a sort of cube to create massive amounts of storage. You would have several thin read/write "heads" that would read the "plates" on each side of them. They say the timeframe for R/W media is 2-3 years. Exciting!
Hardly. The characters you see when opening that "text" file are your browser's effort to interpret the binary data as ASCII (or whatever encoding you like to use). It fails miserably as a result, probably because it isn't Korean after all:)
Oh yeah... one more thing. A hex dump of the file would not necessarily be huge. Consider that in hexadecimal, each byte is represented by two alphanumeric characters. Knowing that a char is 1 byte and assuming that there are no spaces or other separators in the "encoded" output, the resulting file would be "human-readable" and exactly twice as large.
There is a reason why hex dumps are not used to transmit binary data as ASCII. For starters, there is no integrity check -- how can you be sure that the file you copied is the same file posted? Second, this method does not provide compression or a way of making the encoded file smaller. Third... this method will also succomb to the Slashcode effect -- corruption is almost a certainty. There are many more reason... I'll leave the rest up to your imagination.
Torrents are binary data. They are small, around 30k, but they nonetheless cannot be posted as-is. If someone were to try uuencoding it, chances are 99.9999% that Slashcode (the automated parsing system used for comments here) would mess it up.
for x in `lynx -source http://www.slackware.org/torrents/index.html|grep href|cut -f2 -d\"`; do screen -d -m wget http://www.slackware.org/torrents/$x; done for x in *; do screen -d -m btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 2 $x; done
I'm just imagining the l33t scr1pt k1dd13s on their parents' new DSL connection and shuddering.... or perhaps it is the slowdown that the surge in content demand will cause. Oh well... maybe it does have a good side... after all, the people will be seeding movie torrents too:)
I have to go out right now, but when I return (soon) I will have the videos mirrored on my website here:
http://www.css-auth.com/ss1/
Perhaps within the hour.
I'm glad that a major OSS project has seen through the FUD and is speaking out on behalf of the community. I seem to have lost my faith in humanity, but events like this start to restore it.
You can't use it to browse internet shares, i.e. you can only use it on an internal network with existing iTunes shares. Good for college campus, but not much else. It will be useless for the vast majority of people.
Because that is exactly what they want. They want to walk out of this with golden parachutes, completely in the right. Darl: "Look, Novell bought us because it knew that our IP claims were legitimate!". No, I don't think that Novell either should or will buy out SCO.
I think they'll crush them into the ground. Then spit on them.
Hmm. I get raped every month by my cell phone bill, and I think that millions of other people do as well. Its good to know that it isn't just the consumer that the cellular providers are squeezing! Maybe the providers will eventually stand up for themselves... but that makes me worry that the providers will pass the cost on to me.........
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I'm not trying to be a troll here, but how is this surprising? The rich and powerful run this country by owning the media and Congress. Nothing new to see here, move along.
Maybe you didn't read the article properly? The linked article states that "the recording material is 1.5 mm thick and is sandwiched between two 130 mm diameter transmissive plastic substrates". So from my take on this, it seems that they have a plate-like object (possibly see-thru... I can imagine GREAT case-modding...) that is VERY THIN. I could even imagine that perhaps several of these could eventually be sandwiched together into a sort of cube to create massive amounts of storage. You would have several thin read/write "heads" that would read the "plates" on each side of them. They say the timeframe for R/W media is 2-3 years. Exciting!
Hardly. The characters you see when opening that "text" file are your browser's effort to interpret the binary data as ASCII (or whatever encoding you like to use). It fails miserably as a result, probably because it isn't Korean after all :)
Oh yeah... one more thing. A hex dump of the file would not necessarily be huge. Consider that in hexadecimal, each byte is represented by two alphanumeric characters. Knowing that a char is 1 byte and assuming that there are no spaces or other separators in the "encoded" output, the resulting file would be "human-readable" and exactly twice as large.
There is a reason why hex dumps are not used to transmit binary data as ASCII. For starters, there is no integrity check -- how can you be sure that the file you copied is the same file posted? Second, this method does not provide compression or a way of making the encoded file smaller. Third ... this method will also succomb to the Slashcode effect -- corruption is almost a certainty. There are many more reason... I'll leave the rest up to your imagination.
Torrents are binary data. They are small, around 30k, but they nonetheless cannot be posted as-is. If someone were to try uuencoding it, chances are 99.9999% that Slashcode (the automated parsing system used for comments here) would mess it up.
Here you all go:
g e. mov.torrent
http://www.css-auth.com/revelations_film_QT_lar
..."The Surgeon General says that .sigs give cancer."
Sure do! They can do a lot more, too:
kill -9 1
I'm just imagining the l33t scr1pt k1dd13s on their parents' new DSL connection and shuddering.... or perhaps it is the slowdown that the surge in content demand will cause. Oh well... maybe it does have a good side... after all, the people will be seeding movie torrents too :)
Hmm. At the risk of committing thoughtcrime, here is the links:
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200161.zip
The files have been uploaded
I have to go out right now, but when I return (soon) I will have the videos mirrored on my website here: http://www.css-auth.com/ss1/ Perhaps within the hour.
Only 4 comments and the server is already buckling under the load. Its been loading for 30 seconds and is only half done....
I'm glad that a major OSS project has seen through the FUD and is speaking out on behalf of the community. I seem to have lost my faith in humanity, but events like this start to restore it.
You can't use it to browse internet shares, i.e. you can only use it on an internal network with existing iTunes shares. Good for college campus, but not much else. It will be useless for the vast majority of people.
Maybe now my dentist can learn how to inject novocaine without stabbing me painfully 6 times :) (I just had $6k of dental work done... :( )
Because that is exactly what they want. They want to walk out of this with golden parachutes, completely in the right. Darl: "Look, Novell bought us because it knew that our IP claims were legitimate!". No, I don't think that Novell either should or will buy out SCO.
I think they'll crush them into the ground. Then spit on them.
Hmm. I get raped every month by my cell phone bill, and I think that millions of other people do as well. Its good to know that it isn't just the consumer that the cellular providers are squeezing! Maybe the providers will eventually stand up for themselves... but that makes me worry that the providers will pass the cost on to me.........
Someone mentioned that there is no torrent or download link. A very cursory examination of their website reveals an HTTP download location:
8 6/ 20040710/
http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/linux/iso-i3
Come one people, RTFA.
That may be the case... but they still provide a free email certification service. Whether or not they are a sock puppet is anyone's guess :)
Well, I should think you could write hooks into the free Thawte web of trust system to achieve this goal. Why reinvent the wheel?
http://www.thawte.com/email/index.html
I converted them to unpassworded postscript. Download those and read them in ggv or kghostview.
They can be found in a subdirectory of the parent's link.
I managed to get the challenge file. its there now.
I can't seem to get the challenge file. Server too far gone... d'oh