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Yahoo are making a right mess of things already, there's a real disprespect for original users who refuse to use a yahoo account, see this flickr group for some examples
Suppose a popular site has a daily hosted file which is uploaded with a standard filename - "FilmOfTheDay.mpg" for instance
Can a proxy server check attributes of a file on a remote server to check it hasn't changed, in order to prevent it interfering with the site-owner's intention by hosting an older version of the file?
1). IMAP. Need simplicity of sorting messages in a local client or groupware application. POP is a one-way protocol and less than ideal for this.
2). Filtering or restrictions on some user or ability to review mailboxes
3). guarantee that ability to reset POP download count will be maintained, as business users have an absolute need to make remote backups of their mailboxes
It would be a relatively simple job to add software code to the system which records the colour of the car as well as the plate, and does a lookup in real-time to check its correct.
This way some fake plates could be identified remotely and police could be dispatched.
I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my Mac - a G4 733 bought cheaply on eBay - but in the background behind my desk, you'll still find a small Windows PC (SFF Compaq desktop, probably) which will be dedicated to ripping DVDs to.mpg files which will then play cleanly on any system, no matter how DRM'd up it is.
Not that I seriously believe anyone will be able to stop me doing what I wish with my own PC, no matter how clever they think they are. I'm doing this because the ripper software I have runs on Windows.
I'm not going to comment on the religious nature of many early immigrants to the Americas - many outstanding centres of science have been based in places which to a European (me) appear to be very religiously orientated
My point is that the spreading of population across America's vast spaces took place at a time when European nations had been fully farmed and occupied for over a thousand years.
as a result you've always had small rural populations, which are classic sources of mythology and folklore, and this has led to a cultural appreciation of unscientific beliefs which has survived the astonishing prowess of American science due to its deeply-ingrained nature
I suppose in some ways it makes your people more open to innovative (read, outlandish) scientific theories, which has led both to some of the silly beliefs present in present-day US, and some of the more amazing genuine discoveries.
We Europeans see Americans as slightly naive, but it would be kinder to describe your culture as more willing to investigate what many of us would just ignore.
I can buy a complete 733mhz P3 with 128Mb RAM, 10Gb HDD for less than £30. All that needs to be added is a new HDD and extra RAM (bought for £2 per 64mb). Can't beat that price building new
Will be be sold with an ATA-133 interface as well as the usual SATA?
Some may argue that a drive like this is overkill, or even wasted, on an old machine but people like me - who spruce up old P3s bought on eBay by adding faster drives and RAM to make economical web PCs for friends and family - would love to get our grubby little mitts on a drive like this !
However: Complete encryption with caching can be used to transmit and hide anything, but if encrypted data connections were implemented in a P2P system where the endpoints are publicly visible, such as eMule or bittorrent, this wouldnt prevent the anti-piracy organisations finding you the usual way (through searches on the p2p network) but would prevent the ISP recording your downloads and the RIAA getting you later by buying the information
I thought freenet was a device to anonymise surfing by re-routing connections over encrypted tunnels and caching content on all users hard drives - hence its adoption by so many followers of child abuse.
I'm talking about a way to prevent snooping upon conventional P2P traffic implemented within eMule or similar.
I would rather go to jail for copyright infringement than install freenet and risk my PC being used to serve images of child abuse. You have to hgave some standards
An ISP is a relay in the internet - this should mean it can only effectively monitor unencrypted channels
If a P2P client can be set up to contact its peers using an HTTP port (TCP 80) and negotiate an encrypted direct data connection - either by an exchange of keys, a key based on say, a hash of the current date and time, or a web-accessible public/private key arrangement - then the ability of the ISP to monitor what passes between peers evaporates.
Comment from people with greater understanding of encryption would be welcome
Gmail-or-similar + POP-client as backup is the future. That way you have the ability to keep a local message-store for offline periods (very useful on a laptop)
I don't like trusting anyone to back up my data for me - I prefer to do that myself. Gmail is the backup for my POP3 inbox and my POP3 inbox is the backup for gmail.
Its likely - from my guess, not the article - that they'll stream a file to an in-browser player. But then, remember this is all the words of a third-party "analyst" - which often means rumour-monger.
Since most of the inter-processor "interconnects" would be consumer-grade DSL/Cable links, it'd have phenomental capacity to process chunks of data but serious latency issues in distributing work units. Commercial cluster data-processing units probably use gigabit ethernet or faster connections to get around this.
eDonkey's on the way out or dead I believe, but the eMule reimplementation of the eDonkey 2000 client is still going strong, using the eMule and KADemlia networks.
You can't rely on software to close ports. It's inherently unsafe especially when there are programmatic interfaces to the firewall, as in Windows FW and Zonealarm.
ISPs in other countries often distribute routers (Speedtouch 510/530 is reliable and a common choice outside the UK) - and remember more UK broadband is provided by DSL than Cable anyway. (Linksys do make a cable modem-router integrated unit, but I accept the point in that they aren't common.)
the major UK broadband providers, NTL/Telewest (Cable) and Wanadoo, BT, Tiscali, etc (Asynchronous DSL) provide ethernet or USB modems rather than proper routers, meaning unpatched PCs tend to be taken over by RPC infections relatively quickly.
Also, because of the purchasing price disparity between the UK and the USA (a US$399 PC might cost UK£399 here), system builders tend to skimp on the additional software provision, as on a spec sheet, throwing in a copy of MS Works often looks better than a decent software firewall. 30-day trial AV subscriptions are also disappointingly frequent
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Yahoo are making a right mess of things already, there's a real disprespect for original users who refuse to use a yahoo account, see this flickr group for some examples
All the "French -" products that were re-dubbed "Freedom -" suddenly take on a positive light..
For those of us who still own Clamshell iBooks, 5 hours battery life doesn't sound all that impressive...
Suppose a popular site has a daily hosted file which is uploaded with a standard filename - "FilmOfTheDay.mpg" for instance
Can a proxy server check attributes of a file on a remote server to check it hasn't changed, in order to prevent it interfering with the site-owner's intention by hosting an older version of the file?
"You don't have to be a US company to take US money"
Yet
1). IMAP. Need simplicity of sorting messages in a local client or groupware application. POP is a one-way protocol and less than ideal for this.
2). Filtering or restrictions on some user or ability to review mailboxes
3). guarantee that ability to reset POP download count will be maintained, as business users have an absolute need to make remote backups of their mailboxes
not in a mac though. the Airport Extreme contains an AMD CPU to run its embedded firmware
It would be a relatively simple job to add software code to the system which records the colour of the car as well as the plate, and does a lookup in real-time to check its correct.
This way some fake plates could be identified remotely and police could be dispatched.
I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my Mac - a G4 733 bought cheaply on eBay - but in the background behind my desk, you'll still find a small Windows PC (SFF Compaq desktop, probably) which will be dedicated to ripping DVDs to .mpg files which will then play cleanly on any system, no matter how DRM'd up it is.
Not that I seriously believe anyone will be able to stop me doing what I wish with my own PC, no matter how clever they think they are. I'm doing this because the ripper software I have runs on Windows.
I'm not going to comment on the religious nature of many early immigrants to the Americas - many outstanding centres of science have been based in places which to a European (me) appear to be very religiously orientated
My point is that the spreading of population across America's vast spaces took place at a time when European nations had been fully farmed and occupied for over a thousand years.
as a result you've always had small rural populations, which are classic sources of mythology and folklore, and this has led to a cultural appreciation of unscientific beliefs which has survived the astonishing prowess of American science due to its deeply-ingrained nature
I suppose in some ways it makes your people more open to innovative (read, outlandish) scientific theories, which has led both to some of the silly beliefs present in present-day US, and some of the more amazing genuine discoveries.
We Europeans see Americans as slightly naive, but it would be kinder to describe your culture as more willing to investigate what many of us would just ignore.
I can buy a complete 733mhz P3 with 128Mb RAM, 10Gb HDD for less than £30. All that needs to be added is a new HDD and extra RAM (bought for £2 per 64mb). Can't beat that price building new
.. and for many others, I suspect:
Will be be sold with an ATA-133 interface as well as the usual SATA?
Some may argue that a drive like this is overkill, or even wasted, on an old machine but people like me - who spruce up old P3s bought on eBay by adding faster drives and RAM to make economical web PCs for friends and family - would love to get our grubby little mitts on a drive like this !
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Thats the belance I'm considering.
However: Complete encryption with caching can be used to transmit and hide anything, but if encrypted data connections were implemented in a P2P system where the endpoints are publicly visible, such as eMule or bittorrent, this wouldnt prevent the anti-piracy organisations finding you the usual way (through searches on the p2p network) but would prevent the ISP recording your downloads and the RIAA getting you later by buying the information
I thought freenet was a device to anonymise surfing by re-routing connections over encrypted tunnels and caching content on all users hard drives - hence its adoption by so many followers of child abuse.
I'm talking about a way to prevent snooping upon conventional P2P traffic implemented within eMule or similar.
I would rather go to jail for copyright infringement than install freenet and risk my PC being used to serve images of child abuse. You have to hgave some standards
An ISP is a relay in the internet - this should mean it can only effectively monitor unencrypted channels
If a P2P client can be set up to contact its peers using an HTTP port (TCP 80) and negotiate an encrypted direct data connection - either by an exchange of keys, a key based on say, a hash of the current date and time, or a web-accessible public/private key arrangement - then the ability of the ISP to monitor what passes between peers evaporates.
Comment from people with greater understanding of encryption would be welcome
Gmail-or-similar + POP-client as backup is the future. That way you have the ability to keep a local message-store for offline periods (very useful on a laptop)
I don't like trusting anyone to back up my data for me - I prefer to do that myself. Gmail is the backup for my POP3 inbox and my POP3 inbox is the backup for gmail.
Rhapsody launched using AAC with DRM. As far as I'm aware they still do.
Their "Harmony" player transcodes the AAC music into either Fairplay AAC for use on an iPod or DRM WMA to play on Microsoft-compatible devices.
Real use their own DRM scheme on AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)
Its likely - from my guess, not the article - that they'll stream a file to an in-browser player. But then, remember this is all the words of a third-party "analyst" - which often means rumour-monger.
If GOOG or MSFT buy it, forget Linux and OSX versions...
Since most of the inter-processor "interconnects" would be consumer-grade DSL/Cable links, it'd have phenomental capacity to process chunks of data but serious latency issues in distributing work units. Commercial cluster data-processing units probably use gigabit ethernet or faster connections to get around this.
eDonkey's on the way out or dead I believe, but the eMule reimplementation of the eDonkey 2000 client is still going strong, using the eMule and KADemlia networks.
You can't rely on software to close ports. It's inherently unsafe especially when there are programmatic interfaces to the firewall, as in Windows FW and Zonealarm.
ISPs in other countries often distribute routers (Speedtouch 510/530 is reliable and a common choice outside the UK) - and remember more UK broadband is provided by DSL than Cable anyway. (Linksys do make a cable modem-router integrated unit, but I accept the point in that they aren't common.)
the major UK broadband providers, NTL/Telewest (Cable) and Wanadoo, BT, Tiscali, etc (Asynchronous DSL) provide ethernet or USB modems rather than proper routers, meaning unpatched PCs tend to be taken over by RPC infections relatively quickly.
Also, because of the purchasing price disparity between the UK and the USA (a US$399 PC might cost UK£399 here), system builders tend to skimp on the additional software provision, as on a spec sheet, throwing in a copy of MS Works often looks better than a decent software firewall. 30-day trial AV subscriptions are also disappointingly frequent
Just wait, Lubricious Llama will reclaim the throne..