none of those examples factually *DO* benefit from a bittorrent specific search engine
That's just because such an engine does not exist yet.
Are you arguing that the types of content in the examples I gave you are not being distributed via torrents and so would not benefit from an in-client search engine? 'Cause if you are, you are dead wrong.
Here is a Google query that you cannot perform from within China. There are many others, of course.
The only thing you've given an example where having a bittorrent specific search engine would be advantageous is with copyrighted content that isn't supposed to be legal for anybody to be freely distributing... comparing that to censorship is a bit unreasonable because copyrighted material *IS* readily available, you just have to pay for it.
I specifically point out "The Departed" is NOT legally available in China, at any cost, and you come up with this claptrap.
I then point out examples of public domain works which are being censored and which could benefit from a distribution network that can neatly bypass the Great Firewall of China and the dependence on Google's censored search results altogether. You choose to ignore me.
"Legal" is exactly what harvesting personal data and biometrics from UN diplomats isn't. The CIA should have done it, sub rosa, but they chose to pass the buck to State (in a deeply offensive manner, I might add - I mean, an actual shopping list?! for shame) thus throwing out the window the very notion of diplomacy in the process.
It is of course well known that some spies function under diplomatic immunity. It's also understood in the community of nations that there should be at least some actual diplomats in every embassy and mission that you can talk to without having to worry that they're going to lift your DNA off the conference table afterwards, GATTACA-style.
Ironic, you say? I find it more ironic that, although nobody can legally buy "The Departed" in China, you still whine about copyright infringement.
Want an example involving public domain stuff? How about any Falun Dafa video then? Stuff about Tibet or the Dalai Lama? Anything about Tiananmen square?
You sound like a hacker. Time to get with the program, really. I'm aware of freenet, but I'd rather not have to host CP just so I can safely explain what absolute tossers my country's leaders are.
Excuse me for being blunt, but I am beginning to suspect obtuseness on your part.
Your principal claim is "that there is [...] no legitimate content that [...]necessitates having a search engine specific for torrent files other than cases that have been artificially contrived"
Not so. Depending on your definition of legitimate, of course.
Case in point:
The movie "The Departed" is banned in China.
Please tell me, what would be easier, if you want to see it and are living in China?
Having a search facility within your torrent client, or trying to circumvent the various technical means that the Chinese have for censoring the web, using no more than a browser?
Having a torrent search engine would do away with Google and the Web altogether, when it comes to distributing content.
Your attitude towards Wikileaks notwithstanding, it's quite obvious that certain types of currently-legal content are being or can be suppressed.
Let's take your example: Slackware is not illegal today. If Microsoft decides it's time to kill linux, they can start a patent lawsuit, seeking an injunction against distribution first.
If an injunction is granted, Slackware would become illegal to distribute before the trial even starts and would continue to remain so for the duration (or even afterwards).
Rinse. Repeat. Microsoft has hundreds of patents it could claim to have been infringed upon. The claims do NOT have to be solid. Just solid enough to go to court.
Are you willing to do without Slackware, if Microsoft so wishes?
All these countries (well, more like "territories" in the case of the Germans) had militias at some point, all those militias turned out to be quite formidable on the defense, more so for the fact that unemployed militiamen tended to go work as mercenaries abroad.
Conscript standing armies with large reservist contingents are different from militias, in that they are, well, standing armies - a conscript does his tour, is clothed fed armed garrisoned for a year at the state's expense and then goes home to promptly forget everything about the military. In the meantime, the state stockpiles huge amounts of equipment for a possible future mobilization of those near-worthless reservists.
In contrast, for a militiaman life as usual implies some (slight and voluntary) involvement with defense matters at all times and regular, if short, periods of training and exercise, producing a much higher quality fighter who needs no remedial training like conscript reservists do when shit hits the fan and whose morale is way higher than that of a conscript's, simply for being a voluntary.
Having "professionals" - mercenaries, in essence - do the dirty work of aggression warfare abroad while you garrison your country with conscripts is something that I certainly do not approve of.
Yup. Something like that. Only it would be local police coming to arrest you and impound your computers, acting on an anonymous tip from concerned citizens in the RIAA.
Because you can't rely on google or the website being there when you need them. The Wikileaks conspiracy is a case in point. Their DNS provider, their money transfer companies and their hosting company tried to make them disappear. So far, Google is working as intended, but for how long? Also, organizations with fewer resources might wither and die under such attacks.
Conscript armies tend to be hugely understaffed and under-budgeted things, simply because they are so big. Israel can afford one because it has little population growth, a small population overall and a lot of cash. Russia or the US don't fit that bill.
Actually, I believe the militia idea is better. It works for the Swiss, it worked for the Germans while they weren't trying to overrun anyone, it worked great for Finland, it even worked for the United States until Washington got it into his head that he needed a regular army to be a proper respectable general.
Erm. It's quite the commonly-known fact that solely female mitochondria get inherited in humans. In fact, a single case of a human male having inherited paternal mDNA is known to science. He is sterile.
Both will happen at the same time, actually. It's just a matter of which attitude will prevail in which particular society. Frankly, I see the US sliding down towards the "goody-two-shoes-24/7-or-bust" mindset. The Netherlands, where people already live in street-level homes with no curtains on the windows, maybe not so much.
Not that it is ever a good idea to grease the chambers of your revolver unless it's a ball-and-cap jobbie, which Revolver Ocelot's Colt Single Action Army definitely isn't.
You'll find that if you do that, the spent cases may not fall neatly out when you break out the cilinder, but rather stick in there (the burnt powder is blown back "up" the chambers somewhat, increasing the viscosity of whatever you've used to lube it up) and require some fiddling to get out. Needless to say, fiddling under enemy fire is a BAD THING (tm).
Eh? That wasn't WWII, it was America's colonial war in the East. Those uppity Nips had it coming anyway. Asian co-prosperity sphere? What do you mean you don't need no stinkin' American cars?
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none of those examples factually *DO* benefit from a bittorrent specific search engine
That's just because such an engine does not exist yet.
Are you arguing that the types of content in the examples I gave you are not being distributed via torrents and so would not benefit from an in-client search engine? 'Cause if you are, you are dead wrong.
Here is a Google query that you cannot perform from within China. There are many others, of course.
The only thing you've given an example where having a bittorrent specific search engine would be advantageous is with copyrighted content that isn't supposed to be legal for anybody to be freely distributing... comparing that to censorship is a bit unreasonable because copyrighted material *IS* readily available, you just have to pay for it.
I specifically point out "The Departed" is NOT legally available in China, at any cost, and you come up with this claptrap.
I then point out examples of public domain works which are being censored and which could benefit from a distribution network that can neatly bypass the Great Firewall of China and the dependence on Google's censored search results altogether. You choose to ignore me.
You, sir, have been wasting my time.
"Legal" is exactly what harvesting personal data and biometrics from UN diplomats isn't. The CIA should have done it, sub rosa, but they chose to pass the buck to State (in a deeply offensive manner, I might add - I mean, an actual shopping list?! for shame) thus throwing out the window the very notion of diplomacy in the process.
It is of course well known that some spies function under diplomatic immunity. It's also understood in the community of nations that there should be at least some actual diplomats in every embassy and mission that you can talk to without having to worry that they're going to lift your DNA off the conference table afterwards, GATTACA-style.
Ironic, you say? I find it more ironic that, although nobody can legally buy "The Departed" in China, you still whine about copyright infringement.
Want an example involving public domain stuff? How about any Falun Dafa video then? Stuff about Tibet or the Dalai Lama? Anything about Tiananmen square?
You sound like a hacker. Time to get with the program, really. I'm aware of freenet, but I'd rather not have to host CP just so I can safely explain what absolute tossers my country's leaders are.
The pilots?
building an analog circuit that's programmable means you end up with a digital system
Oh, really?
Excuse me for being blunt, but I am beginning to suspect obtuseness on your part.
Your principal claim is
"that there is [...] no legitimate content that [...]necessitates having a search engine specific for torrent files other than cases that have been artificially contrived"
Not so. Depending on your definition of legitimate, of course.
Case in point:
The movie "The Departed" is banned in China.
Please tell me, what would be easier, if you want to see it and are living in China?
Having a search facility within your torrent client, or trying to circumvent the various technical means that the Chinese have for censoring the web, using no more than a browser?
Tell that to the Chinese.
Having a torrent search engine would do away with Google and the Web altogether, when it comes to distributing content.
Your attitude towards Wikileaks notwithstanding, it's quite obvious that certain types of currently-legal content are being or can be suppressed.
Let's take your example: Slackware is not illegal today. If Microsoft decides it's time to kill linux, they can start a patent lawsuit, seeking an injunction against distribution first.
If an injunction is granted, Slackware would become illegal to distribute before the trial even starts and would continue to remain so for the duration (or even afterwards).
Rinse. Repeat. Microsoft has hundreds of patents it could claim to have been infringed upon. The claims do NOT have to be solid. Just solid enough to go to court.
Are you willing to do without Slackware, if Microsoft so wishes?
I was talking history, basically.
All these countries (well, more like "territories" in the case of the Germans) had militias at some point, all those militias turned out to be quite formidable on the defense, more so for the fact that unemployed militiamen tended to go work as mercenaries abroad.
Conscript standing armies with large reservist contingents are different from militias, in that they are, well, standing armies - a conscript does his tour, is clothed fed armed garrisoned for a year at the state's expense and then goes home to promptly forget everything about the military. In the meantime, the state stockpiles huge amounts of equipment for a possible future mobilization of those near-worthless reservists.
In contrast, for a militiaman life as usual implies some (slight and voluntary) involvement with defense matters at all times and regular, if short, periods of training and exercise, producing a much higher quality fighter who needs no remedial training like conscript reservists do when shit hits the fan and whose morale is way higher than that of a conscript's, simply for being a voluntary.
Having "professionals" - mercenaries, in essence - do the dirty work of aggression warfare abroad while you garrison your country with conscripts is something that I certainly do not approve of.
Pretty much what Stallman was writing about all those years ago, when the technology to enforce such a draconian regime didn't exist yet.
Of course, most everybody labeled him a wingnut.
How about Wikileaks? It's hosting content that has NOT been declared illegal anywhere in the world. Yet it is under constant attack.
Yup. Something like that. Only it would be local police coming to arrest you and impound your computers, acting on an anonymous tip from concerned citizens in the RIAA.
The colonies were just as broke afterwards and the line regiments needed to be paid, just like the militias.
What's more, the militias were not disbanded until the end of the war.
Cowpens and Kings Mountain were won by militiamen.
Sure. It's a classical scenario for web-of-trust, i.e. you can be your own authority and rely on your friends to provide additional vetting.
Remember, WOT in this case is needed only to ensure that your peers group is somewhat trustworthy, on the whole, so that Byzantine protocols can work.
Because you can't rely on google or the website being there when you need them. The Wikileaks conspiracy is a case in point. Their DNS provider, their money transfer companies and their hosting company tried to make them disappear. So far, Google is working as intended, but for how long? Also, organizations with fewer resources might wither and die under such attacks.
Outlaw crypto and those TCP/IP tricks. Make possession of software that uses these technologies prima facie evidence of conspiracy.
Conscript armies tend to be hugely understaffed and under-budgeted things, simply because they are so big. Israel can afford one because it has little population growth, a small population overall and a lot of cash.
Russia or the US don't fit that bill.
Actually, I believe the militia idea is better. It works for the Swiss, it worked for the Germans while they weren't trying to overrun anyone, it worked great for Finland, it even worked for the United States until Washington got it into his head that he needed a regular army to be a proper respectable general.
Signing should work. One simply(?) has to keep track of trustworthy signers.
Hence my qualification "known to science", yes.
Surely you are referring to the rare Western combat fiddler, not to the common fiddler?
Erm. It's quite the commonly-known fact that solely female mitochondria get inherited in humans. In fact, a single case of a human male having inherited paternal mDNA is known to science. He is sterile.
Both will happen at the same time, actually. It's just a matter of which attitude will prevail in which particular society. Frankly, I see the US sliding down towards the "goody-two-shoes-24/7-or-bust" mindset. The Netherlands, where people already live in street-level homes with no curtains on the windows, maybe not so much.
Not that it is ever a good idea to grease the chambers of your revolver unless it's a ball-and-cap jobbie, which Revolver Ocelot's Colt Single Action Army definitely isn't.
You'll find that if you do that, the spent cases may not fall neatly out when you break out the cilinder, but rather stick in there (the burnt powder is blown back "up" the chambers somewhat, increasing the viscosity of whatever you've used to lube it up) and require some fiddling to get out. Needless to say, fiddling under enemy fire is a BAD THING (tm).
Eh? That wasn't WWII, it was America's colonial war in the East. Those uppity Nips had it coming anyway. Asian co-prosperity sphere? What do you mean you don't need no stinkin' American cars?