Damn man, it's like the NSA has a whole room full of GS-7 retards whose sole job it is to spam refresh/. looking for the word freenet in a race to get the first post in that libels the protocol and all who use it as child molesters.
In case you haven't noticed, there are all kinds of prohibited bits and bytes out there today. Moreover, just because the data is legal doesn't mean I want GS-7 scumbags to be looking at what I read and write.
...I gotta say, 50Mbps broadband would be enough to entice me to return. I'd like to run a Freenet node, but only if I had big bandwidth upstream. 50Mbps is _big_ bandwidth, and it's symmetrical.
With all the fear and loathing over p2p, I'm surprised to see that they're allowing high-speed symmetrical connections like this. I was fully expecting 50Mbps down/16Kbps up, or something similarly retarded.
And what does this do to hosting providers like serverbeach? That 50Mbps is going to be unmetered, right? So the game server, your new pay-per-view pr0n site, and the blog all get hosted at home on the Mac Mini. Wow.
And no, it's not flamebait about Long Island. People who live there know what I'm talking about. It's the traffic. You have to drive to get anywhere and even a simple trip to the grocery store and back can make you go insane. To say nothing of commuting. And if you're actually commuting to Manhattan and back, I only have two words for you: hard drugs.
Or rather, zombie dog points the way to the future.
Seriously, the world is so fucked up today that I'm actually considering having myself exsanguinated and pumped full of near-freezing saline solution just for the chance of really seeing the future -- the really cool and distant future -- and not Wired magazine's take on it.
I'm hoping for a Star Trek spin-off, only with virtual immortality and holodecks with locks on the doors so you can't be interrupted (self-cleaning would be nice too.)
There may be something like only a one-in-a-million chance of success, but hey, if it works, it would be unbelievably excellent.
Besides, I figure civilization's chances aren't much better.
(and If I chicken out, I can alway use the cooling system for my homebuilt PC.)
Don't mean to sound like a pot-smoking hippie here but it is simply the truth.
What do the BitTorrent file-sharing hubs do in response? Buy a little time shuffling across different portnums until the fix is in to support tunneling protocols, that's what. There may be a limited number of port numbers, but there are literally an infinite number of ways of translating one sequence of bytes into another sequence of bytes.
BitTorrent over a gaming port. Why not? You gonna block gaming ports? Have fun at the support desk.
Swiftel, et al, responds by investing massive amounts of resources in detecting the protocol in real-time, so as to differentiate gaming use from BitTorrent goodness, and wins.
For a day.
The response that encrypts the stream, stegonographically, arrives a day later.
By putting up obstacles you only feed innovation. The tunneling protocol is going to consume more bandwidth of course, so now everybody is going to be thinking about how to compress the stream even further than it already has been.
By putting up barriers, the censors only provide the incentive to create new technologies to overcome them. Create distributed systems that allow trusted peers to authenticate with one another. Verify the quality of content being requested. Allow for protocols that defeat sniffing and snooping, possibly by making it so that existing protocols must be scrapped.
Swiftel, China and the MPAA are doomed to fight this war forever, losing all the way, because essentially they are playing the role of adversity while the peers are playing the role of biological organisms.
Adversity fuels life.
Swiftel, China and the MPAA are fueling piracy.
It's a beautiful day. Why? Because this shit is FUN.
They painted over these section so you don't see the anti-aircraft batteries (or whatever) on the roofs of these buildings.
Terrorists and all that.
You'll see the same thing over at the Capitol.
What's striking about this is that neither of these buildings were attacked by terrorists. But the Pentagon, which was, doesn't feature any buildings as being painted over.
So is that like a beautiful example of government thinking or what?
Map view implies a perspective from directly above the area in question.
Satellite view on the other hand uses whatever perspective afforded by the position of the satellite. It isn't always directly overhead, you know.
So they have to translate one perspective onto another.
The real question is, do they get to know where the satellite was when it took each photo in question, or do they arrive at the matrix in some other way?
Ours was invented first! We own the patent! You think inventing a solar system is easy? Trivial and non-obvious? Then why haven't you created one yourself?
Prior art? I can't seeeeeeee you! Can you show that your solar system was invented before our solar system was?
Yeah, I thought so.
All your solar system are belong to us. Uh huh. Don't waste your time crying cause I can't hear the tears. All those heavenly bodies? Time for me to get jiggy with each and every one! I got my pulsar right here!
My IP is bigger than your IP!
(and to think Bozo patents the "click" and Jobs patents the "wheel". I mean, c'mon guys, keep up. I'm talking planets here! What do you got? A forest and a fruit? -1, I'm-Not-Interested-Anymore.)
I subscribed to this theory myself, but am willing to see how V turns out.
If it ends up being good, I'm going to go with another theory... that the W's had totally different stories planned for Reloaded and Revolutions, but the studio shitcanned them.
Obviously, these movies should have focused on the fight within the Matrix, that is, Neo's efforts to rally the citizenry to rise up in revolt and overthrow the machine regime controlling it all.
But of course Hollywood isn't interested in giving anybody any ideas. We're already one spark away from mass revolt as it is.
So the studio said no, and the brothers, utterly dejected, just went after the paycheck with the hope of one day being able to have final cut... maybe even remaking the sequels.
I don't know how else to explain how the first movie could be so fantastic, and the 2nd & 3rd so shitty.
Witness how Scalia and Kennedy voted in Raich. Then consider why.
The court needs to be abolished and replaced with Supreme Juries. Each case/review/whatever sees nine of us selected at random and flying out to Washington to deal with whatever the problem is.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. And the supreme Court has been corrupted, absolutely.
You know, I don't doubt for a moment the intent of "the boys" in creating Google. It's just we see it time and time again, power corrupts.
The shit hits the fan the moment Google sees its growth abate. Then the company goes into "maximize shareholder value" mode and once that happens, then look at all of the infrastructure they've built that they'll get to exploit.
Everyone was cool with Google because of how their ads are clearly ads, and are simple texty affairs.
If you're talking about AdWords, that is true, but not for AdSense. They stick that href in there that pulls in a.js file, essentially acts as a web beacon.
Given how many sites now use AdSense (even sites with their own well developed advertising capabilities like The New York Times) it essentially means they get to see close to your whole browsing history.
Personally, I think that really sucks, but your mileage may vary.
They're talking about three years before the next pic... what is he doing in the meantime? Just sitting behind a desk?
Why doesn't he take the hint... the reason nobody watched Enterprise is because IT SUCKED (at least for the first three seasons).
Why did it suck? BECAUSE OF YOU!
As a life-long trekkie, I think this is very bad news. If he's doing the next film, I say, let's get it over with now. Let's not wait three whole fucking years.
Get it over with now, that way, we'll see him replaced that much sooner.
Check out the link in the story to the Semantic Web... it's a redirect from Google to w3c.org.
I'm sure this isn't what the submitter meant to do.
For those who haven't been paying attention, Google has recently begun giving redirects from their own site as search results, so, in effect, they get to record every site you end up visiting.
I was on the fence as to whether this was a good or bad thing, but now I see that clearly it's the latter, simply because when the link is copied-and-pasted, as it is here, the person who visits the link won't have any idea that Google is recording that visit.
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Damn man, it's like the NSA has a whole room full of GS-7 retards whose sole job it is to spam refresh /. looking for the word freenet in a race to get the first post in that libels the protocol and all who use it as child molesters.
In case you haven't noticed, there are all kinds of prohibited bits and bytes out there today. Moreover, just because the data is legal doesn't mean I want GS-7 scumbags to be looking at what I read and write.
So...
Fuck you.
...I gotta say, 50Mbps broadband would be enough to entice me to return. I'd like to run a Freenet node, but only if I had big bandwidth upstream. 50Mbps is _big_ bandwidth, and it's symmetrical.
With all the fear and loathing over p2p, I'm surprised to see that they're allowing high-speed symmetrical connections like this. I was fully expecting 50Mbps down/16Kbps up, or something similarly retarded.
And what does this do to hosting providers like serverbeach? That 50Mbps is going to be unmetered, right? So the game server, your new pay-per-view pr0n site, and the blog all get hosted at home on the Mac Mini. Wow.
And no, it's not flamebait about Long Island. People who live there know what I'm talking about. It's the traffic. You have to drive to get anywhere and even a simple trip to the grocery store and back can make you go insane. To say nothing of commuting. And if you're actually commuting to Manhattan and back, I only have two words for you: hard drugs.
lightbulb?
Only one. He holds the lightbulb while the world revolves around him.?
I guess that wasn't funny enough by itself, so now we have this.
(how many frenchmen *is* it going to take to build a fusion reactor?)
Or rather, zombie dog points the way to the future.
Seriously, the world is so fucked up today that I'm actually considering having myself exsanguinated and pumped full of near-freezing saline solution just for the chance of really seeing the future -- the really cool and distant future -- and not Wired magazine's take on it.
I'm hoping for a Star Trek spin-off, only with virtual immortality and holodecks with locks on the doors so you can't be interrupted (self-cleaning would be nice too.)
There may be something like only a one-in-a-million chance of success, but hey, if it works, it would be unbelievably excellent.
Besides, I figure civilization's chances aren't much better.
(and If I chicken out, I can alway use the cooling system for my homebuilt PC.)
Don't mean to sound like a pot-smoking hippie here but it is simply the truth.
What do the BitTorrent file-sharing hubs do in response? Buy a little time shuffling across different portnums until the fix is in to support tunneling protocols, that's what. There may be a limited number of port numbers, but there are literally an infinite number of ways of translating one sequence of bytes into another sequence of bytes.
BitTorrent over a gaming port. Why not? You gonna block gaming ports? Have fun at the support desk.
Swiftel, et al, responds by investing massive amounts of resources in detecting the protocol in real-time, so as to differentiate gaming use from BitTorrent goodness, and wins.
For a day.
The response that encrypts the stream, stegonographically, arrives a day later.
By putting up obstacles you only feed innovation. The tunneling protocol is going to consume more bandwidth of course, so now everybody is going to be thinking about how to compress the stream even further than it already has been.
By putting up barriers, the censors only provide the incentive to create new technologies to overcome them. Create distributed systems that allow trusted peers to authenticate with one another. Verify the quality of content being requested. Allow for protocols that defeat sniffing and snooping, possibly by making it so that existing protocols must be scrapped.
Swiftel, China and the MPAA are doomed to fight this war forever, losing all the way, because essentially they are playing the role of adversity while the peers are playing the role of biological organisms.
Adversity fuels life.
Swiftel, China and the MPAA are fueling piracy.
It's a beautiful day. Why? Because this shit is FUN.
Bring it on, and thank you.
Timothy could post a dupe, and that would divide the heat by half, right?
They painted over these section so you don't see the anti-aircraft batteries (or whatever) on the roofs of these buildings.
Terrorists and all that.
You'll see the same thing over at the Capitol.
What's striking about this is that neither of these buildings were attacked by terrorists. But the Pentagon, which was, doesn't feature any buildings as being painted over.
So is that like a beautiful example of government thinking or what?
Map view implies a perspective from directly above the area in question.
Satellite view on the other hand uses whatever perspective afforded by the position of the satellite. It isn't always directly overhead, you know.
So they have to translate one perspective onto another.
The real question is, do they get to know where the satellite was when it took each photo in question, or do they arrive at the matrix in some other way?
The earlier story covered satellite imagery too. This is just more butt-buddiness between Google and the /. editors.
Dupe
Ours was invented first! We own the patent! You think inventing a solar system is easy? Trivial and non-obvious? Then why haven't you created one yourself?
Prior art? I can't seeeeeeee you! Can you show that your solar system was invented before our solar system was?
Yeah, I thought so.
All your solar system are belong to us. Uh huh. Don't waste your time crying cause I can't hear the tears. All those heavenly bodies? Time for me to get jiggy with each and every one! I got my pulsar right here!
My IP is bigger than your IP!
(and to think Bozo patents the "click" and Jobs patents the "wheel". I mean, c'mon guys, keep up. I'm talking planets here! What do you got? A forest and a fruit? -1, I'm-Not-Interested-Anymore.)
I subscribed to this theory myself, but am willing to see how V turns out.
If it ends up being good, I'm going to go with another theory... that the W's had totally different stories planned for Reloaded and Revolutions, but the studio shitcanned them.
Obviously, these movies should have focused on the fight within the Matrix, that is, Neo's efforts to rally the citizenry to rise up in revolt and overthrow the machine regime controlling it all.
But of course Hollywood isn't interested in giving anybody any ideas. We're already one spark away from mass revolt as it is.
So the studio said no, and the brothers, utterly dejected, just went after the paycheck with the hope of one day being able to have final cut... maybe even remaking the sequels.
I don't know how else to explain how the first movie could be so fantastic, and the 2nd & 3rd so shitty.
Yes, but you can't count on Conservatives either.
Witness how Scalia and Kennedy voted in Raich. Then consider why.
The court needs to be abolished and replaced with Supreme Juries. Each case/review/whatever sees nine of us selected at random and flying out to Washington to deal with whatever the problem is.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. And the supreme Court has been corrupted, absolutely.
As was covered quite competently in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure , perhaps still the best treatment of time travel ever given by Hollywood.
Whenever my poker bot goes "all in", my mudd bot somehow gets the idea that it's time to start slaying all of the other players.
I think what is required here is clear and concise rules on what kind of weaponry the bots get to wield.
Also, I don't think bots should get to wear sunglasses.
You know, I don't doubt for a moment the intent of "the boys" in creating Google. It's just we see it time and time again, power corrupts.
The shit hits the fan the moment Google sees its growth abate. Then the company goes into "maximize shareholder value" mode and once that happens, then look at all of the infrastructure they've built that they'll get to exploit.
I agree. This is the only scenario that makes sense.
I'll add two other reasons this makes sense: IIRC, it would be easier to emulate PPC on Itanium than on x86, and do so with acceptible performance.
And... Itanium would at least give Apple a shot at outperforming Windows PC's.
If you're talking about AdWords, that is true, but not for AdSense. They stick that href in there that pulls in a .js file, essentially acts as a web beacon.
Given how many sites now use AdSense (even sites with their own well developed advertising capabilities like The New York Times) it essentially means they get to see close to your whole browsing history.
Personally, I think that really sucks, but your mileage may vary.
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You don't see anyone submitting stories about it.
I think the concern is that if you're C then you're using up all your upstream bandwidth and getting nothing in return.
Why is Berman still involved?
They're talking about three years before the next pic... what is he doing in the meantime? Just sitting behind a desk?
Why doesn't he take the hint... the reason nobody watched Enterprise is because IT SUCKED (at least for the first three seasons).
Why did it suck? BECAUSE OF YOU!
As a life-long trekkie, I think this is very bad news. If he's doing the next film, I say, let's get it over with now. Let's not wait three whole fucking years.
Get it over with now, that way, we'll see him replaced that much sooner.
Let's get some new blood in there already.
Check out the link in the story to the Semantic Web... it's a redirect from Google to w3c.org.
I'm sure this isn't what the submitter meant to do.
For those who haven't been paying attention, Google has recently begun giving redirects from their own site as search results, so, in effect, they get to record every site you end up visiting.
I was on the fence as to whether this was a good or bad thing, but now I see that clearly it's the latter, simply because when the link is copied-and-pasted, as it is here, the person who visits the link won't have any idea that Google is recording that visit.
George Lucas calls it a prequel.