I should add the universal daemon's NNTP would be for private newsgroups, not part of global Usenet. There should probably also be something to make files available (ftp or web or ssh?) because email and NNTP are inefficient for it. Though the program should also make it clear what they are sharing isn't supersecret, so no copyright infringment or illegal things.;-)
I'm sure there have been many P2P social networks. Usenet is one of them--spam, trolls and FAQ Nazis destroyed it. I was on another called "The Circle"--but it never took off.
The problem seems to be massing enough people together to make the system useful. Designing something which would mitigate the problems of bad acting users is the next problem. Coding is the easy part.
Though really in a way, the internet is a massive p2p social network, only everything being pushed onto the web and floating IP addresses/dialup (and ISP policies) so users can't run their own daemons has made it so you can't use it that way.
These were before my time (got on internet@1995), but... Unix talk was used for IM. You'd type 'talk user@computer' and talk to them. No server, they were just there. Email was the same way: user@computer, no servers. When the message was delivered, the recipient got it instantly. Polling wasn't done over the network, the biff program polled the filesystem, so it could ask once a second, no problem.
Look at the NNTP protocol for Usenet. It was designed so everyone was a peer. From what I've read, most computers would have an nntp daemon connected to other Usenet peers and the newsreaders would read from spool files on the hard drive. It you look at the old Unix cli/curses (terminal based) newsreaders, most of them work that way. Dialup appears to have changed that. The ISPs started running the daemons and most MSWin newsreaders would get news via NNTP from the isp's servers.
Maybe all which needs to be done is make it so anyone can easily find their friend's IP address. I suppose the dynamic DNS services (like dyndns) will do it. Then people need an easy way to be accessible. Probably a universal daemon which accepts email, nntp, and unix talk, does not require additional configuration (uses reasonable defaults and config info already on the machine), and is reasonably secure and has ways to block out spammers and the like.
I think the poster was saying if Apple marketed an empty box and called it "the iBox", it would sell just as well as the iPad.
You see, there is a large segment of the population which uses this magic box called a "teevee" to tell them what to buy, and anything which isn't shown on this magic box is "crapola." Unfortunately, all their money goes to psychopaths who spend it on bribing governments to lock others out of the market.
Yes, it is the dream of every power hungry bastard to have a harem of women he has no use for! Along with a fast sports car for trips to the grocery store and a huge SUV to drive to grandma's on the weekend, which it does not have a grandma because it is a bastard, so it buys one with huge piles of money and gold! Mwahahaha!
Actually, it is called copy protection. Digital restrictions management is a code censorship system which can be used as a form of copy protection--as long as every program signed with the "one true" key does not allow copying and does not have a exploitable bug which would allow copying.
All the current consoles have DRM. This is why they had to crack an xbox or ds to run linux (or dsorganize) on it. Supposedly Vista (and I assume Win7) will use TPM functionality for a DRM system if your computer has the chip. This is why they want signed drivers: to protect the DRM system from being hacked.
I haven't seen anything written by anyone who knows what real DRM is which indicates AC2 uses actual DRM. This just sounds like a standard crappy copy protection system. Maybe it interfaces with the DRM in MSWindows, but this doesn't appear to be the cause of the problem.
The reason real DRM is bad: At first they will require all programs to be signed to allow access to DRM content. Then the plan is to make it more and more pervasive, for example, giving it as an option in email (or documents, or etc). "Only your friend can read it." "Will stop those annoying press leaks." etc.
Any "unapproved" email clients will be unable to read DRMed email. Then they make using DRM the default. If you don't run MS's "latest and greatest" OS, you can't read most people's emails. Then MS has their servers start to require it by default. Eventually they take away the option to not have it, and if you use a non-MS OS (or an older version of Windows), you won't be able to use the internet at all.
There were some senators trying to pass a law which would require all digital devices have DRM. Go back to the discussions about the SSSCA in 2000 for more info. It is a lot to read about, but that has been MS's plan for at least the past ten years. The xbox is just their prototype.
Then join one. A quick facebook search turns up a couple groups (apparently there is a namespace collision with ACTA). Two "Fuck ACTA" (created by same guy?) and one "ACTA Awareness"
I don't understand how a society that is so obsessed with protecting the children that it tries children as adults for crimes that wouldn't have been crimes if the children were adults can turn around and let adults off scott-free when they directly break the law to the detriment of children.
You have it wrong. The government sees it as protecting children from themselves in the case of them distributing CP. When the school officials spy on children, the government sees it as the officials "just doing their job." This is why an uncontrolled government is the enemy to free people.
So cellphones are like computers were in the 1980s. You had the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bits, Apple 8-bit (IIe and friends), then the Mac, Amiga, Atari ST, IBM compatibles, and many more.
Cross-platform development can be a pain, but if you are disciplined, it is possible. If they did it with the tools we had 30 years ago, you can do it today. Not everything will convert over, but if you modularize your program enough--especially separating components which need the OS and your internal processing--you will minimize the extra work you need.
The key is learning how to create a universal design which plays well to any OS.
As for different processors, do you really have to use assembly for everything? C was made to cross compile on just about any processor design. Yeah, when the processor is tens of MHz, you will probably have to optimize some functions (or many or none depending upon the program), but even so, how often will you beat out a modern compiler by doing it in assembly?
I don't see what the big stink is about the different systems. The problem seems to be they lock down their systems and make them deliberately incompatible, so you can't just write a program and cross compile it. How many cross platform toolkits are going to be written in such an environment? Especially freely available ones?
Pirate Bay is the best source for books? I don't think so. Project Gutenberg is the best source for books, unless you want technical manuals--then it depends upon what you need. There seems to be plenty of public domain and creative commons sources for those. (linux documentation prj., freebsd, lightandmatter.com, etc...)
Or were you looking for modern teeny bopper crap? Just look for "fan fiction" sites (Halo is "wonderful"), or just about any site which allows teenage girls to publish a "book." But then, those aren't any better than the penny rags of yesteryear which are already in the public domain.
Plenty of free places to legally get books. Makes me wonder why you would mention The Pirate Bay. Did some publisher pay you to do that so they could create "proof" they need DRM?
Are you brainwashed or a shill? There are plenty of places to get legal ebooks for free. You don't have to pay anything. Start with Project Gutenberg. They have countless public domain books available.
So you are saying if the majority of people in your area converted to islam (or a large group of muslims moved in), and they elected hardcore muslims into the school board. Then they changed the curriculum so that it said muslims founded the US and taught all about allah and based the "science" upon muslim teachings, you wouldn't have a problem with it?
How about if the majority became pagans and started teaching nature worship and the country was founded by wiccans?
How about if they became actual devil worshipers (not people who christians say are "devil worshippers" [which is just about any non-christian], but actual ones) and started teaching devil worship and to lie, cheat, steal, beat up puppies, and once a week they sacrificed a child to "the almighty one." Would that be okay?
After all, according to you, majority rules, so I guess you are required to follow whatever religion the majority does, correct? And if someone moves into your area and they weren't born believing the majority religion or at least won't join and become your slave, it's okay to harass, screw with, and murder them. Because, well...they're evil infidels and must DIE!
Sounds more like you don't belong in this country. Personally, I hope all of you religious nutjobs kill each other and your rotting corpses get put in jail so you leave normal people alone.
More like they choose one guy as a scapegoat and execute him, even when the incident (or group of incidents) was obviously caused by many people.
It is the same as if the RIAA hunted down one person who they thought was infringing their copyrights, and shot him/her. Then they declare the problem of "piracy" solved.
The real world doesn't work that way. Even if many of the offenders were scared into submission, plenty of others would say: "they just went after one guy when so many of us were doing it? Whoo! There is little chance of me being punished."
Not very effective, and not necessarily fair to the one guy they do punish. Then again, poisoning food is murder, so in those incidents it may be appropriate. However, I think they just chose a public official who was taking bribes, not anyone who put the poison in, so I don't see how that is fair.
Yeah, sure because MSWindows users never have problems with graphics drivers. That is usually the fault of the graphic chip manufacturer, not the people who wrote the OS--especially when those chip manufacturers refuse to release enough information to write drivers for their products.
That just shows you have to watch which companies you buy from. If they insist upon outsourcing to the absolute lowest bidder which does no quality control, then you will get problems like this.
So you are saying humans have a soul, while machines cannot?
How do you even know humans have a soul? Has anyone ever proven it either way? How do you know machines cannot have a soul? If such a thing as a soul exists, who is to say it isn't that all matter has "life" and contains an "intelligence" of its own? What is a soul?
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I should add the universal daemon's NNTP would be for private newsgroups, not part of global Usenet. There should probably also be something to make files available (ftp or web or ssh?) because email and NNTP are inefficient for it. Though the program should also make it clear what they are sharing isn't supersecret, so no copyright infringment or illegal things. ;-)
I'm sure there have been many P2P social networks. Usenet is one of them--spam, trolls and FAQ Nazis destroyed it. I was on another called "The Circle"--but it never took off.
The problem seems to be massing enough people together to make the system useful. Designing something which would mitigate the problems of bad acting users is the next problem. Coding is the easy part.
Though really in a way, the internet is a massive p2p social network, only everything being pushed onto the web and floating IP addresses/dialup (and ISP policies) so users can't run their own daemons has made it so you can't use it that way.
These were before my time (got on internet@1995), but... Unix talk was used for IM. You'd type 'talk user@computer' and talk to them. No server, they were just there. Email was the same way: user@computer, no servers. When the message was delivered, the recipient got it instantly. Polling wasn't done over the network, the biff program polled the filesystem, so it could ask once a second, no problem.
Look at the NNTP protocol for Usenet. It was designed so everyone was a peer. From what I've read, most computers would have an nntp daemon connected to other Usenet peers and the newsreaders would read from spool files on the hard drive. It you look at the old Unix cli/curses (terminal based) newsreaders, most of them work that way. Dialup appears to have changed that. The ISPs started running the daemons and most MSWin newsreaders would get news via NNTP from the isp's servers.
Maybe all which needs to be done is make it so anyone can easily find their friend's IP address. I suppose the dynamic DNS services (like dyndns) will do it. Then people need an easy way to be accessible. Probably a universal daemon which accepts email, nntp, and unix talk, does not require additional configuration (uses reasonable defaults and config info already on the machine), and is reasonably secure and has ways to block out spammers and the like.
So you are going to hire millions of engineers to sit in everyone's car so they will be watching when it happens?
I think the poster was saying if Apple marketed an empty box and called it "the iBox", it would sell just as well as the iPad.
You see, there is a large segment of the population which uses this magic box called a "teevee" to tell them what to buy, and anything which isn't shown on this magic box is "crapola." Unfortunately, all their money goes to psychopaths who spend it on bribing governments to lock others out of the market.
If AT&T couldn't do it to BSD, then what makes you think Microsoft will have a better chance with Linux? USL v. BSDi
Yes, it is the dream of every power hungry bastard to have a harem of women he has no use for! Along with a fast sports car for trips to the grocery store and a huge SUV to drive to grandma's on the weekend, which it does not have a grandma because it is a bastard, so it buys one with huge piles of money and gold! Mwahahaha!
Actually, it is called copy protection. Digital restrictions management is a code censorship system which can be used as a form of copy protection--as long as every program signed with the "one true" key does not allow copying and does not have a exploitable bug which would allow copying.
All the current consoles have DRM. This is why they had to crack an xbox or ds to run linux (or dsorganize) on it. Supposedly Vista (and I assume Win7) will use TPM functionality for a DRM system if your computer has the chip. This is why they want signed drivers: to protect the DRM system from being hacked.
I haven't seen anything written by anyone who knows what real DRM is which indicates AC2 uses actual DRM. This just sounds like a standard crappy copy protection system. Maybe it interfaces with the DRM in MSWindows, but this doesn't appear to be the cause of the problem.
The reason real DRM is bad: At first they will require all programs to be signed to allow access to DRM content. Then the plan is to make it more and more pervasive, for example, giving it as an option in email (or documents, or etc). "Only your friend can read it." "Will stop those annoying press leaks." etc.
Any "unapproved" email clients will be unable to read DRMed email. Then they make using DRM the default. If you don't run MS's "latest and greatest" OS, you can't read most people's emails. Then MS has their servers start to require it by default. Eventually they take away the option to not have it, and if you use a non-MS OS (or an older version of Windows), you won't be able to use the internet at all.
There were some senators trying to pass a law which would require all digital devices have DRM. Go back to the discussions about the SSSCA in 2000 for more info. It is a lot to read about, but that has been MS's plan for at least the past ten years. The xbox is just their prototype.
Then join one. A quick facebook search turns up a couple groups (apparently there is a namespace collision with ACTA). Two "Fuck ACTA" (created by same guy?) and one "ACTA Awareness"
Look on the bright side, if you become Das Fuhrer, you can have your own harem of women!
You have it wrong. The government sees it as protecting children from themselves in the case of them distributing CP. When the school officials spy on children, the government sees it as the officials "just doing their job." This is why an uncontrolled government is the enemy to free people.
Or maybe he was having sex with a teacher?
Yes, as a programmer, why should I be required to optimize my programs to use less than 100 GB?
Good analogy. Let's just hope no children have to die this time. Then again, Bill Gates is hungry, so no guarantees.
So...your thanks go to Debian?
One thing I don't understand: why were you downloading lots of People's Republic of Chinas? Isn't one enough?
One more thing: why did the vendors have to fight pirates? Were they sailing a boat past Somalia?
So cellphones are like computers were in the 1980s. You had the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bits, Apple 8-bit (IIe and friends), then the Mac, Amiga, Atari ST, IBM compatibles, and many more.
Cross-platform development can be a pain, but if you are disciplined, it is possible. If they did it with the tools we had 30 years ago, you can do it today. Not everything will convert over, but if you modularize your program enough--especially separating components which need the OS and your internal processing--you will minimize the extra work you need.
The key is learning how to create a universal design which plays well to any OS.
As for different processors, do you really have to use assembly for everything? C was made to cross compile on just about any processor design. Yeah, when the processor is tens of MHz, you will probably have to optimize some functions (or many or none depending upon the program), but even so, how often will you beat out a modern compiler by doing it in assembly?
I don't see what the big stink is about the different systems. The problem seems to be they lock down their systems and make them deliberately incompatible, so you can't just write a program and cross compile it. How many cross platform toolkits are going to be written in such an environment? Especially freely available ones?
Pirate Bay is the best source for books? I don't think so. Project Gutenberg is the best source for books, unless you want technical manuals--then it depends upon what you need. There seems to be plenty of public domain and creative commons sources for those. (linux documentation prj., freebsd, lightandmatter.com, etc...)
Or were you looking for modern teeny bopper crap? Just look for "fan fiction" sites (Halo is "wonderful"), or just about any site which allows teenage girls to publish a "book." But then, those aren't any better than the penny rags of yesteryear which are already in the public domain.
Plenty of free places to legally get books. Makes me wonder why you would mention The Pirate Bay. Did some publisher pay you to do that so they could create "proof" they need DRM?
Are you brainwashed or a shill? There are plenty of places to get legal ebooks for free. You don't have to pay anything. Start with Project Gutenberg. They have countless public domain books available.
It appears they already have an online store. (www.weirdstuff.com - from the article.) Why would they need to use Ebay?
So you are saying if the majority of people in your area converted to islam (or a large group of muslims moved in), and they elected hardcore muslims into the school board. Then they changed the curriculum so that it said muslims founded the US and taught all about allah and based the "science" upon muslim teachings, you wouldn't have a problem with it?
How about if the majority became pagans and started teaching nature worship and the country was founded by wiccans?
How about if they became actual devil worshipers (not people who christians say are "devil worshippers" [which is just about any non-christian], but actual ones) and started teaching devil worship and to lie, cheat, steal, beat up puppies, and once a week they sacrificed a child to "the almighty one." Would that be okay?
After all, according to you, majority rules, so I guess you are required to follow whatever religion the majority does, correct? And if someone moves into your area and they weren't born believing the majority religion or at least won't join and become your slave, it's okay to harass, screw with, and murder them. Because, well...they're evil infidels and must DIE!
Sounds more like you don't belong in this country. Personally, I hope all of you religious nutjobs kill each other and your rotting corpses get put in jail so you leave normal people alone.
More like they choose one guy as a scapegoat and execute him, even when the incident (or group of incidents) was obviously caused by many people.
It is the same as if the RIAA hunted down one person who they thought was infringing their copyrights, and shot him/her. Then they declare the problem of "piracy" solved.
The real world doesn't work that way. Even if many of the offenders were scared into submission, plenty of others would say: "they just went after one guy when so many of us were doing it? Whoo! There is little chance of me being punished."
Not very effective, and not necessarily fair to the one guy they do punish. Then again, poisoning food is murder, so in those incidents it may be appropriate. However, I think they just chose a public official who was taking bribes, not anyone who put the poison in, so I don't see how that is fair.
Yeah, sure because MSWindows users never have problems with graphics drivers. That is usually the fault of the graphic chip manufacturer, not the people who wrote the OS--especially when those chip manufacturers refuse to release enough information to write drivers for their products.
"You shouldn't have to know what you're doing to install brakes or an engine in your car."
Good luck with that, just don't drive near me!
"But it was so sexy with its power saving abilities! I couldn't help myself! I'll never cheat on you again!!!1 I swear!"
That just shows you have to watch which companies you buy from. If they insist upon outsourcing to the absolute lowest bidder which does no quality control, then you will get problems like this.
So you are saying humans have a soul, while machines cannot?
How do you even know humans have a soul? Has anyone ever proven it either way? How do you know machines cannot have a soul? If such a thing as a soul exists, who is to say it isn't that all matter has "life" and contains an "intelligence" of its own? What is a soul?