I tend to focus on ABC news and SBS news. Ten is barely acceptable, I mostly watch it because it's first at five. I tend to watch out for both technical and foreign issues to judge the different news services. SBS news is of course the best at the latter. Seven and especially Nine (nein!) are the worst in this catagory, at least from the little I've seen. Those stations both also have a lot of the cheap clip-style programs like America's/The worlds most dangerous/fastest/deadliest drivers/police-chases/snakes/sharks/animals. Nine especially seems to like the xenophobic angle with locally-made clip shows which seem to boil down to look at these whacky foreign television shows!.
Back to the news, ABC and SBS seem to do about the same on technical issues. For example, I remember a few years back one of the shuttles in orbit was having trouble with a fuel cell. Both ABC and SBS straight-out called it a fuel cell, adding a quick explaination like "...which generates onboard power and drinkable water". When I caught the bulletins on the other stations (7, 9, 10) they all dumbed it down into a generator or some equally incorrect term (from a technical perspective). SBS has also been pretty good recently with the reporting of the various windows worm/virus outbreaks. They will often explicitly say that only windows machines are affected. This is probably mainly due to the resurgence of popularity in Apple Macs, but it also helps the image of other non-windows OS's.
For me, my preference for news goes something like this:
SBS (best all-round, esp. world events)
ABC (a close second)
Ten (barely acceptable, I usually only watch the first 20 minutes)
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is government funded. It has specific rules about non-partisan bias, especially during election campaigns (like right now). Although its very position (non-commercial, etc...) tends to give it a slight bias towards the left, which the current right-wing coalition government has been whinging about on occasion. The youth-targeted Triple J radio regularly pays out commercial radio too.
I think you missed the point of the article I linked to. You're talking mostly about the use of a language and its users. Of course a good/bad coder can write good/bad code, that's what makes them good/bad! The point, as I see it, is that PHP is really a very simple language that has been extended and hyped beyond its capacity. Of course there are places where it is well suited. Mostly simple homepages. Even Yahoo! is switching to it, but only (as I understand) as a template language. The underlying logic will be written in something else and will then throw variables at a PHP template. PHP is unsuitable as a general-purpose language, especially in large projects, because it lacks namespaces (hello global variables!) and has many ugly idiosyncrasies. The most insightful part of the linked article is on Oversimplification Leading to Excessive Complexity:
PHP 2 was probably a reasonable solution: it was a minimal scripting language for adding dynamic behaviour to webpages. Unfortunately, PHP has since outgrown itself. PHP is nowadays a programming language simplified to the point where the available abstractions and concepts just aren't sufficient to express the programmer's intent.
I have looked at PHP code from time to time and it has never impressed me. To me it always looks like a poor impression of Perl done by a VB coder. It's a language designed by a large group of coders who seem to have none of the insight into language design of the Perl crowd. Part of that comes down to history and experience. Perl 5 alone is almost 10 years old while PHP started only about 5 years ago. Maybe PHP5 and beyond will finally pick up the loose ends, but only time will tell.
Those two pages are a great source of information. Notice how short the PostgreSQL page is?:)
What always struck me with the MySQL gotchas page was that the SQL parser and the underlying attitude of MySQL is the real problem. Everyone always brings up *features* like triggers and stored procedures when criticizing MySQL, but look at all the gotchas where it will accept invalid data and not throw an error. It will even change your table definition in subtle but important ways, still without throwing an error. This is a RDBMS that is not to be taken seriously. When you're dealing with important information you want to know about any problem. Instead, MySQL seems happy to fudge it to what you probably meant to do. So instead of knowing about a problem immediately, your database can hold invalid data and cause problems later on. Until MySQL AB fixes this mis-feature it will not be taken seriously.
1) Maybe 1%. I really haven't gotten into using P2P for music, mostly because of the idiots who share crappy 128Kbps CBR MP3's when I want good quality Ogg's. For other content though...:P
2) None.
3) More that #1. I have a complete set of Geeks In Space (which I accidentaly deleted once and had to download from P2P). I also have a bunch of German language lesson MP3's from Deutsche Welle that I really must get around to listening to some day. There's a lot of content like this around on the net. It's sad when people equate MP3 with piracy.
4) Somewhere around 95%. Easily the majority of my collection. There's no way I'd download this quantity of music over P2P, or offer it up for download either. I just don't have the upstream bandwidth to share that much. Also, not many people would want my Ogg Vorbis files.
5) Perhaps 5%. Family members tend to share music a lot anyway. And if we're actually living in the same house does it really make much of a difference?
Your post was marked as a troll and flamebait because you misrepresented the goal of the bnetd project. And that misrepresentation also happened to coincide with what the "bad guys" were portraying. And now you're trying to play the victim and turn the blame on Slashdot. Whatever. You said something stupid and was modded down. Get over it.
There's now (alledged) doubts about whether Saddam was the one that ordered the gassing of kurds. The article claims there's evidence that Iran was responsible, in an effort to start a civil war between the Kurds and Saddam's forces.
You are aware of the fact that older Linux kernels (remember it was three years ago) showed threads and processes the same, right?
Only kernel 2.6 (released december 2003) changed that behaviour. I think the internals are still mostly the same (i.e threads are just processes with special relationships) but the/proc interface changed. Whereas before each process/thread had its own directory under/proc (e.g/proc/18027/), now only the parent processes are listed like that. Each now has a 'task' sub-directory which contains the directories of the child threads e.g/proc/9796/task/9811/. This stops simple programs scanning/proc and making incorrect statistics about memory usage. OMG! how is netscrape using more memory than i have in my machine?
Forget putting fancy cameras in cars. Just put a damn divider down the middle of the highway so that vehicles can't cross over and hit on-coming traffic.
Perhaps for a lot of apps, but not for me. I had a close look at Objective-C about a year ago. I started reading up on it and found that it missed operator overloading. I tend to do a lot of graphics and physics programming (nothing professional of course) and the thought of doing vector, matrix, and quarternion maths without operator overloading was just unacceptable. But I notice that ARToolkit is written in Obj-C (whenever it's released). Could a seasoned Obj-C coder explain whether there's a way to get around the lack of operator overloading without using explicitly named methods?
For us Aussie geeks there's a similar place called Oatley Electronics. A mixture of surplus gear with new stuff and kits. I've never dealt with them but they always seem to have interesting gear.
There's also Jaycar, which has stuck to the hobbyist theme. It's a shame that Dick Smith sold Dick Smith Electronics all those years ago. Now it mostly focuses on consumer goods (stereos, TV's, CD/DVD players, etc) rather than on components and kits. My dad told me that back in the day, most stores had people that could assist you with kit building.
I thought this all started with servognome's apparent suggestion of dropping nukes on Iraq to subdue the population. My point was that you don't have to be muslim to hate the USA and many non-muslims around the world are already fed up the direction in which GWB has lead the US.
As for Australia we do have two citizens in Guantanemo (sp?) bay, one of which was caught fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan just like John Walker Lindh. And I seem to remember hearing about a warning that al-Qaeda was recruiting non-arabs to evade ethnic profiling and carry out missions.
Not to mention that 60% of the world's population is coming to hate our guts with religious passion
Not quite that many muslims in the world, but the war definately made the US a greater target for terrorism, and worse alienated us from the rest of the world.
It's not just muslims that hate the USA. Here in Australia there's always been a resentment of the stupid arrogant attitude that seems to pervade almost everything done by the USA and its citizens. Now GWB's war in Iraq seems to be the very height of stupidity and arrogance. Almost everything the man said about Saddam Hussein could equally have been said about the USA and GWB e.g massive stockpiles of weapons, threatening other countries, cooperating with terrorists, etc.
I'm white anglo-saxon. I was raised with mostly protestant religious teachings, although I've broadened my horizons somewhat since then. My native tongue is English. Culturally and ethnically I'm 99% compatible with the USA. But events in the last few years has caused my simmering anti-American feelings to come to the boil. And I'm not alone. Bush has seriously damaged the image of the USA with the rest of the world.
I had thought that maybe API Networks could make a come back some time. But a goole search turns up the unresolvable www.alpha-processor.com and a domain registrar parking page at www.apinetworks.com. Does Samsung still have rights to the design after the f**ktards at Compaq/HP sold out to Intel? I wonder if one day we'll see an Alpha-compatible CPU on OpenCores.
IIRC, one of the features of FX!32 (from reading the docs) was that it cached the recompiled version on disk so it wouldn't have to recompile each time you loaded the app. That seems to be an idea that the Java crowd still haven't thought of (for their JIT JVM's).
BTW, DEC did port FX!32 to Linux for running x86 Linux binaries. Can't remember what it was called though.
You assume that Freenet always caches the data it downloads
That hadn't occured to me, but it makes sense. Freenet already employs other methods to keep the information anonymous and untraceable. e.g it waits a random amount of time before passing along a request. This makes it much more difficult to trace requests from one node to another. It only makes sense then that a node may also randomly decide *not* to store a key in its own datastore.
I remember seeing a documentary on TV once where they calculated/estimated the size of the flight muscles (mainly the pectorals) necessary for humans to fly. Needless to say, they would have to be pretty huge. They reckoned that the anchoring ridge on the sternum for these muscles would project out about a foot!
Freenet inserts splitfiles with 50% redundant error-correcting (FEC) data. So if IllegalFile.avi is split into 1000 data blocks then an additional 500 "check blocks" will be inserted as well. All 1500 blocks have CHK keys listed in the splitfile. So to "prove" that someone probably downloaded a file, you just need to find 1000 of those 1500 blocks in the users' datastore.
Complicating the legal question is that recent Freenet builds (in the last month or two) now effectively make all nodes non-transient. Connections between nodes are now also "bi-directional". So whereas before your transient node only stored content you downloaded, it is now being sent content (and requests for content) from the non-transient nodes that it connects to. The only difference from a permanent node is that they don't announce themselves. I think the idea is to offload some of the storage from the non-transient nodes as well as distribute the data more. I've often found when I leave my node on for several days that a splifile will start downloading and a few (or a lot!) of the blocks are already in my datastore.
In the end I think it depends on the laws in your part of the world. Even if the authorites can find all/most of a file (warez/movie/music/CP/etc) in your freenet datastore, is that enough to convict? i.e does that qualify as "posession"? Or do they have to show (within reasonable doubt) that you purposefully requested that content? Has the EFF or someone compiled information about this sort of thing?
Note to moderators: This post always shows up every f**king time IPV6 is even mentioned. As you can tell from the replies it's generated, most of the objections are BS and/or out of date.
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I reckon what would be really interesting is to factor in the power requirements (including cooling) of these systems, especially in a cluster configuration. Sure, a bunch of Xeons or Opterons (or G5's) will give you great peformance. But how much are you paying to power AND cool those hogs? A rack-full will pump out enough heat to require a good air-conditioning unit. How does a cluster of mini-itx's compare then? Inquiring minds want to know, and I'm available to do the testing for anyone who wants to donate the hardware!:)
I don't know exactly what Futurepower meant by that comment, but I will point out that merely having a command prompt is not the same as having a proper CLI environment. While cmd.exe may be slowly gaining some of the serious features of Bash or KSH, that still doesn't make a CLI. Under Unix/Linux, bash (or whatever shell you want to use) is really just a "glue" language. The real power comes from the dozens of filter-type tools in/bin and/usr/bin and being able to combine them in useful ways. Add in hundreds of other tools (e.g the NetPBM graphics programs) and you have a seriously powerful environment.
The power of a Unix-like environment isn't in just having a command-prompt. You have to look at the system as a whole to realise that it's constructed of many simple principles. These principles may seem inconsequential at first, but they all tie together.
According to the timestamp on the file, I downloaded this back in early June. June! This is three months old! I thought a new trailer had been released, but no. It's just another f**king dupe! Guh!
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I tend to focus on ABC news and SBS news. Ten is barely acceptable, I mostly watch it because it's first at five. I tend to watch out for both technical and foreign issues to judge the different news services. SBS news is of course the best at the latter. Seven and especially Nine (nein!) are the worst in this catagory, at least from the little I've seen. Those stations both also have a lot of the cheap clip-style programs like America's/The worlds most dangerous/fastest/deadliest drivers/police-chases/snakes/sharks/animals. Nine especially seems to like the xenophobic angle with locally-made clip shows which seem to boil down to look at these whacky foreign television shows!.
Back to the news, ABC and SBS seem to do about the same on technical issues. For example, I remember a few years back one of the shuttles in orbit was having trouble with a fuel cell. Both ABC and SBS straight-out called it a fuel cell, adding a quick explaination like "...which generates onboard power and drinkable water". When I caught the bulletins on the other stations (7, 9, 10) they all dumbed it down into a generator or some equally incorrect term (from a technical perspective). SBS has also been pretty good recently with the reporting of the various windows worm/virus outbreaks. They will often explicitly say that only windows machines are affected. This is probably mainly due to the resurgence of popularity in Apple Macs, but it also helps the image of other non-windows OS's.
For me, my preference for news goes something like this:
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is government funded. It has specific rules about non-partisan bias, especially during election campaigns (like right now). Although its very position (non-commercial, etc...) tends to give it a slight bias towards the left, which the current right-wing coalition government has been whinging about on occasion. The youth-targeted Triple J radio regularly pays out commercial radio too.
I think you missed the point of the article I linked to. You're talking mostly about the use of a language and its users. Of course a good/bad coder can write good/bad code, that's what makes them good/bad! The point, as I see it, is that PHP is really a very simple language that has been extended and hyped beyond its capacity. Of course there are places where it is well suited. Mostly simple homepages. Even Yahoo! is switching to it, but only (as I understand) as a template language. The underlying logic will be written in something else and will then throw variables at a PHP template. PHP is unsuitable as a general-purpose language, especially in large projects, because it lacks namespaces (hello global variables!) and has many ugly idiosyncrasies. The most insightful part of the linked article is on Oversimplification Leading to Excessive Complexity:
I have looked at PHP code from time to time and it has never impressed me. To me it always looks like a poor impression of Perl done by a VB coder. It's a language designed by a large group of coders who seem to have none of the insight into language design of the Perl crowd. Part of that comes down to history and experience. Perl 5 alone is almost 10 years old while PHP started only about 5 years ago. Maybe PHP5 and beyond will finally pick up the loose ends, but only time will tell.
Powerful it is not. In fact, it's a fricking mess. The only thing it has going for it is that it's popular and available on almost every web host.
Those two pages are a great source of information. Notice how short the PostgreSQL page is? :)
What always struck me with the MySQL gotchas page was that the SQL parser and the underlying attitude of MySQL is the real problem. Everyone always brings up *features* like triggers and stored procedures when criticizing MySQL, but look at all the gotchas where it will accept invalid data and not throw an error. It will even change your table definition in subtle but important ways, still without throwing an error. This is a RDBMS that is not to be taken seriously. When you're dealing with important information you want to know about any problem. Instead, MySQL seems happy to fudge it to what you probably meant to do. So instead of knowing about a problem immediately, your database can hold invalid data and cause problems later on. Until MySQL AB fixes this mis-feature it will not be taken seriously.
1) Maybe 1%. I really haven't gotten into using P2P for music, mostly because of the idiots who share crappy 128Kbps CBR MP3's when I want good quality Ogg's. For other content though... :P
2) None.
3) More that #1. I have a complete set of Geeks In Space (which I accidentaly deleted once and had to download from P2P). I also have a bunch of German language lesson MP3's from Deutsche Welle that I really must get around to listening to some day. There's a lot of content like this around on the net. It's sad when people equate MP3 with piracy.
4) Somewhere around 95%. Easily the majority of my collection. There's no way I'd download this quantity of music over P2P, or offer it up for download either. I just don't have the upstream bandwidth to share that much. Also, not many people would want my Ogg Vorbis files.
5) Perhaps 5%. Family members tend to share music a lot anyway. And if we're actually living in the same house does it really make much of a difference?
Your post was marked as a troll and flamebait because you misrepresented the goal of the bnetd project. And that misrepresentation also happened to coincide with what the "bad guys" were portraying. And now you're trying to play the victim and turn the blame on Slashdot. Whatever. You said something stupid and was modded down. Get over it.
You might find this interesting:
Saddam Could Call CIA in His Defense
There's now (alledged) doubts about whether Saddam was the one that ordered the gassing of kurds. The article claims there's evidence that Iran was responsible, in an effort to start a civil war between the Kurds and Saddam's forces.
Only kernel 2.6 (released december 2003) changed that behaviour. I think the internals are still mostly the same (i.e threads are just processes with special relationships) but the /proc interface changed. Whereas before each process/thread had its own directory under /proc (e.g /proc/18027/), now only the parent processes are listed like that. Each now has a 'task' sub-directory which contains the directories of the child threads e.g /proc/9796/task/9811/. This stops simple programs scanning /proc and making incorrect statistics about memory usage. OMG! how is netscrape using more memory than i have in my machine?
Forget putting fancy cameras in cars. Just put a damn divider down the middle of the highway so that vehicles can't cross over and hit on-coming traffic.
Perhaps for a lot of apps, but not for me. I had a close look at Objective-C about a year ago. I started reading up on it and found that it missed operator overloading. I tend to do a lot of graphics and physics programming (nothing professional of course) and the thought of doing vector, matrix, and quarternion maths without operator overloading was just unacceptable. But I notice that ARToolkit is written in Obj-C (whenever it's released). Could a seasoned Obj-C coder explain whether there's a way to get around the lack of operator overloading without using explicitly named methods?
That link's not very helpful. Could you provide a link directly to a document or at least tell us what we're supposed to be looking for?
For us Aussie geeks there's a similar place called Oatley Electronics. A mixture of surplus gear with new stuff and kits. I've never dealt with them but they always seem to have interesting gear.
There's also Jaycar, which has stuck to the hobbyist theme. It's a shame that Dick Smith sold Dick Smith Electronics all those years ago. Now it mostly focuses on consumer goods (stereos, TV's, CD/DVD players, etc) rather than on components and kits. My dad told me that back in the day, most stores had people that could assist you with kit building.
I thought this all started with servognome's apparent suggestion of dropping nukes on Iraq to subdue the population. My point was that you don't have to be muslim to hate the USA and many non-muslims around the world are already fed up the direction in which GWB has lead the US.
As for Australia we do have two citizens in Guantanemo (sp?) bay, one of which was caught fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan just like John Walker Lindh. And I seem to remember hearing about a warning that al-Qaeda was recruiting non-arabs to evade ethnic profiling and carry out missions.
It's not just muslims that hate the USA. Here in Australia there's always been a resentment of the stupid arrogant attitude that seems to pervade almost everything done by the USA and its citizens. Now GWB's war in Iraq seems to be the very height of stupidity and arrogance. Almost everything the man said about Saddam Hussein could equally have been said about the USA and GWB e.g massive stockpiles of weapons, threatening other countries, cooperating with terrorists, etc.
I'm white anglo-saxon. I was raised with mostly protestant religious teachings, although I've broadened my horizons somewhat since then. My native tongue is English. Culturally and ethnically I'm 99% compatible with the USA. But events in the last few years has caused my simmering anti-American feelings to come to the boil. And I'm not alone. Bush has seriously damaged the image of the USA with the rest of the world.
I had thought that maybe API Networks could make a come back some time. But a goole search turns up the unresolvable www.alpha-processor.com and a domain registrar parking page at www.apinetworks.com. Does Samsung still have rights to the design after the f**ktards at Compaq/HP sold out to Intel? I wonder if one day we'll see an Alpha-compatible CPU on OpenCores.
IIRC, one of the features of FX!32 (from reading the docs) was that it cached the recompiled version on disk so it wouldn't have to recompile each time you loaded the app. That seems to be an idea that the Java crowd still haven't thought of (for their JIT JVM's).
BTW, DEC did port FX!32 to Linux for running x86 Linux binaries. Can't remember what it was called though.
That's not very hard to do at all. And it's nothing like what this camera is doing.
That hadn't occured to me, but it makes sense. Freenet already employs other methods to keep the information anonymous and untraceable. e.g it waits a random amount of time before passing along a request. This makes it much more difficult to trace requests from one node to another. It only makes sense then that a node may also randomly decide *not* to store a key in its own datastore.
I remember seeing a documentary on TV once where they calculated/estimated the size of the flight muscles (mainly the pectorals) necessary for humans to fly. Needless to say, they would have to be pretty huge. They reckoned that the anchoring ridge on the sternum for these muscles would project out about a foot!
Freenet inserts splitfiles with 50% redundant error-correcting (FEC) data. So if IllegalFile.avi is split into 1000 data blocks then an additional 500 "check blocks" will be inserted as well. All 1500 blocks have CHK keys listed in the splitfile. So to "prove" that someone probably downloaded a file, you just need to find 1000 of those 1500 blocks in the users' datastore.
Complicating the legal question is that recent Freenet builds (in the last month or two) now effectively make all nodes non-transient. Connections between nodes are now also "bi-directional". So whereas before your transient node only stored content you downloaded, it is now being sent content (and requests for content) from the non-transient nodes that it connects to. The only difference from a permanent node is that they don't announce themselves. I think the idea is to offload some of the storage from the non-transient nodes as well as distribute the data more. I've often found when I leave my node on for several days that a splifile will start downloading and a few (or a lot!) of the blocks are already in my datastore.
In the end I think it depends on the laws in your part of the world. Even if the authorites can find all/most of a file (warez/movie/music/CP/etc) in your freenet datastore, is that enough to convict? i.e does that qualify as "posession"? Or do they have to show (within reasonable doubt) that you purposefully requested that content? Has the EFF or someone compiled information about this sort of thing?
Note to moderators: This post always shows up every f**king time IPV6 is even mentioned. As you can tell from the replies it's generated, most of the objections are BS and/or out of date.
I reckon what would be really interesting is to factor in the power requirements (including cooling) of these systems, especially in a cluster configuration. Sure, a bunch of Xeons or Opterons (or G5's) will give you great peformance. But how much are you paying to power AND cool those hogs? A rack-full will pump out enough heat to require a good air-conditioning unit. How does a cluster of mini-itx's compare then? Inquiring minds want to know, and I'm available to do the testing for anyone who wants to donate the hardware! :)
I don't know exactly what Futurepower meant by that comment, but I will point out that merely having a command prompt is not the same as having a proper CLI environment. While cmd.exe may be slowly gaining some of the serious features of Bash or KSH, that still doesn't make a CLI. Under Unix/Linux, bash (or whatever shell you want to use) is really just a "glue" language. The real power comes from the dozens of filter-type tools in /bin and /usr/bin and being able to combine them in useful ways. Add in hundreds of other tools (e.g the NetPBM graphics programs) and you have a seriously powerful environment.
The power of a Unix-like environment isn't in just having a command-prompt. You have to look at the system as a whole to realise that it's constructed of many simple principles. These principles may seem inconsequential at first, but they all tie together.
According to the timestamp on the file, I downloaded this back in early June. June! This is three months old! I thought a new trailer had been released, but no. It's just another f**king dupe! Guh!