Doing what's right is rarely the same thing as doing what's easy.
Getting censored would have been both right and easy. It's doing the censoring for China that's hard. I think you might have meant "Doing what's right will mean sometimes not doing what's in your own best interest".
Should they be a Republic, like the USA, or a Democracy, like the USA tries to force on everyone else?
That's not an either/or proposition. Democracy refers to the source of power (the people), republic refers to the structure of it (divided into states within a federal union).
The riots have NOTHING, I tell you, NOTHING to do with Islam.
Then why do the "youths" shout "Allah hu akbar!" and "Sarkozy, sale juif!" ("[French interior minister Nicolas] Sarkozy, dirty jew!")? Why are imams issuing statements to the rioting "youths"? Why are Islamic web sites issuing directives for the rioters - rioting which French officials describe as "organized"?
Do you deny that the culture of the banlieues is overwhelmingly Islamic? Or merely that the participants who express outrage over treatment of their mosques are somehow Islamicly motivated?.
Yes, CNN is populated by idiots. Carol Lin even referred to the two barbecued "youths" in Clichy-sous-Bois as "African-Americans". Please do not extrapolate that bag of mongoloids to represent the American public; if they did, they would have ratings.
Thank you, but I'm not sure how that's more accountable than other clients. As I pointed out in another post, I have the IP, host mask, and often even the country of origin for every file source right displayed in my client - can't this be used in the same way? Wouldn't OCILLA likewise apply to any ISP, not just web hosting providers? In fact, isn't this an even better position for IP holders, since the entire "swarm" is identifiable this way?
Thus BitTorrent makes it easier to trace an act of infringement than Gnutella or KaZaA or eMule does, making it more likely to prevail under the MGM v. Grokster test.
I'm not sure I understand how; could you give an example?
The one giant exception here is Bittorrent, which is the most exciting P2P idea that's ever come out, in my opinion. BT by its very nature encourages the distribution of *legitamate* content because it a) allows the author to create and maintain a torrent that isn't connected to some vast network of crap, b) torrents can be "distributed" via websites, which is where you want your consumer to be, c) the consumer gets faster downloads, d) the author pays for less bandwidth. Bittorrent also, in my mind, kind of discourages the distribution of illegal content because torrent files themselves have to be hosted somewhere/somehow, thereby perhaps removing a layer of anonimity (at least the host could be held accountable).
I'm not sure this any of this really marks Bittorrent as unique. Or even ideal. Certainly, the legality of the content shared does not mark it as a 'giant exception' - I've yet to see a tracker that wasn't at least 95% pilfered IP (though admittedly I haven't looked very hard for one), and a quick skim of the first 5 Google results for "torrent tracker" doesn not admit an impression to the contrary.
a) The "vast network of crap" is irrelevant, since you're only exposed to it when searching. If it's a problem, I'd suggest that it could be alleviated by better searching habits (more accurate terms, and use filters). Aside from that, and a modest amount of bandwidth responding to search requests, it doesn't affect availability, usability, or performance in any way.
b) Magnet links allow you to "distribute" content for gnutella, ed2k, Kazaa etc. from your web site. Mapraider.com is a great example of a site distributing lots of perfectly legal content via p2p. Magnet links allow you to link to one specific source for the file if you like, or link to the file's SHA1 hash (the equivalent of saying "just search for it").
c) Neither partial file sharing (uploading the bits of a file you've partially downloaded) nor swarming transfers (downloading from many sources) are unique to BT. I routinely get combined single file transfer speeds using Bearshare (my preferred Gnutella client) in excess of anything I've ever gotten from any torrent.
d) The author also pays for less bandwidth. In fact, once the file is in the wild, the author needn't pay for any bandwidth at all.
e) In my gnutella client of choice, file sources are less anonymous than in any torrent client I've used. I have an IP and a host mask for every source - and could even chat with many of them, if I were so inclined.
Other clients go beyond BT in plenty of ways, also. I've only used a couple of torrent clients, but none of them offered anything like this -
a) That "vast network of crap" is actually handy. If the same file is being served from 6 different trackers, those are 6 independant pools of sources. If you're downloading from one, the the other five pools of sources are excluded. When downloading a file in my gnutella client, it aquires new sources across the network as part of the process, potentially letting every instance of the file be included.
b) None of those 6 file sources would have had to go through the bother of setting up a torrent and tracker and distributing the torrent with another client. They could have stuck it in their library and been done with it. Unless they wanted a magnet link I suppose, then they might have to throw in two extra mouse clicks.
c) Have you ever wanted to control your sharing? You can manage an entire library of shared content. I can easily see when there are 50 sources for a file that I'm sharing, and unshare it to increase the availability of files with fewer sources. I can also throttle my incoming and outgoing bandwidth, set the number of up/download slots, etc.
d) Have you ever gotten a torrent partially downloaded and had it stop, never to resume? Just because somethin
You could at least toss a nod of acknowledgement at reality while racing past it.
Clinton was impeached for perjury, obstruction of justice, and suborning the perjury of a witness in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. The fact that the witness had polished the presidential knob was a detail of the offense (being one thing lied about), but not the basis of any of the charges (there were four articles of impeachment, two of which passed).
I would prefer that he had been impeached for serial rape, but justice is such a gauzy notion. No one on the committee voted on the substance of the charges anyway (1st article3rd article). Direct and unequivocal admissions of guilt are apparently not enough to convince some people
On the other hand, teeming hordes of frothing moonbats have yet to produce any substance behind the charge that Bush lied to get us into Iraq. They just like it because it makes people get mad without thinking. So no, there's really no comparison.
plus he's nominating his own personal lawyer with NO experience as a judge
It was mainly Dems who appealed to Bush to nominate someone to the court from outside of the system in the first place. Meirs was recommended by Harry Reid himself, and he's endorsed her nomination. After the Roberts process somehow resulted in 22 votes against, I don't think Bush had any choice but to select someone with no judicial record.
The major news sites would, however, include trivial details ilke why the equipment was seized. There is no reason but malicious oppression in Indyland.
I still don't understand why dupes make some people so angry. So you already know this particular peice of news. Big deal.
Because it's somewhere between aggravating and disheartening when/. apparently doesn't have room for stories about 12 foot walking robots with guns that people can pilot (and can buy!), but it DOES have room for 8 inch rolling robots that cockroaches can pilot - twice.
But that's just me I guess.
Only a fool would simply notice familiarity in the written language of Shakespeare and ignore the fact he has no clue of it's original meaning and connotation or the probability that half of it is NOT original but transliteration from a completely bizarre and archaic form of English.
I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the
Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
Maybe so, but I'm betting that meant EXACTLY the same thing 400 years ago.
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I can't believe people get paid to do this! I'd work without sleep...
Doing what's right is rarely the same thing as doing what's easy.
Getting censored would have been both right and easy. It's doing the censoring for China that's hard. I think you might have meant "Doing what's right will mean sometimes not doing what's in your own best interest".
Should they be a Republic, like the USA, or a Democracy, like the USA tries to force on everyone else?
That's not an either/or proposition. Democracy refers to the source of power (the people), republic refers to the structure of it (divided into states within a federal union).
The riots have NOTHING, I tell you, NOTHING to do with Islam.
Then why do the "youths" shout "Allah hu akbar!" and "Sarkozy, sale juif!" ("[French interior minister Nicolas] Sarkozy, dirty jew!")? Why are imams issuing statements to the rioting "youths"? Why are Islamic web sites issuing directives for the rioters - rioting which French officials describe as "organized"?
Do you deny that the culture of the banlieues is overwhelmingly Islamic? Or merely that the participants who express outrage over treatment of their mosques are somehow Islamicly motivated?.
Yes, CNN is populated by idiots. Carol Lin even referred to the two barbecued "youths" in Clichy-sous-Bois as "African-Americans". Please do not extrapolate that bag of mongoloids to represent the American public; if they did, they would have ratings.
Thank you, but I'm not sure how that's more accountable than other clients. As I pointed out in another post, I have the IP, host mask, and often even the country of origin for every file source right displayed in my client - can't this be used in the same way? Wouldn't OCILLA likewise apply to any ISP, not just web hosting providers? In fact, isn't this an even better position for IP holders, since the entire "swarm" is identifiable this way?
Thus BitTorrent makes it easier to trace an act of infringement than Gnutella or KaZaA or eMule does, making it more likely to prevail under the MGM v. Grokster test.
I'm not sure I understand how; could you give an example?
The one giant exception here is Bittorrent, which is the most exciting P2P idea that's ever come out, in my opinion. BT by its very nature encourages the distribution of *legitamate* content because it a) allows the author to create and maintain a torrent that isn't connected to some vast network of crap, b) torrents can be "distributed" via websites, which is where you want your consumer to be, c) the consumer gets faster downloads, d) the author pays for less bandwidth. Bittorrent also, in my mind, kind of discourages the distribution of illegal content because torrent files themselves have to be hosted somewhere/somehow, thereby perhaps removing a layer of anonimity (at least the host could be held accountable).
I'm not sure this any of this really marks Bittorrent as unique. Or even ideal. Certainly, the legality of the content shared does not mark it as a 'giant exception' - I've yet to see a tracker that wasn't at least 95% pilfered IP (though admittedly I haven't looked very hard for one), and a quick skim of the first 5 Google results for "torrent tracker" doesn not admit an impression to the contrary.
a) The "vast network of crap" is irrelevant, since you're only exposed to it when searching. If it's a problem, I'd suggest that it could be alleviated by better searching habits (more accurate terms, and use filters). Aside from that, and a modest amount of bandwidth responding to search requests, it doesn't affect availability, usability, or performance in any way.
b) Magnet links allow you to "distribute" content for gnutella, ed2k, Kazaa etc. from your web site. Mapraider.com is a great example of a site distributing lots of perfectly legal content via p2p. Magnet links allow you to link to one specific source for the file if you like, or link to the file's SHA1 hash (the equivalent of saying "just search for it").
c) Neither partial file sharing (uploading the bits of a file you've partially downloaded) nor swarming transfers (downloading from many sources) are unique to BT. I routinely get combined single file transfer speeds using Bearshare (my preferred Gnutella client) in excess of anything I've ever gotten from any torrent.
d) The author also pays for less bandwidth. In fact, once the file is in the wild, the author needn't pay for any bandwidth at all.
e) In my gnutella client of choice, file sources are less anonymous than in any torrent client I've used. I have an IP and a host mask for every source - and could even chat with many of them, if I were so inclined.
Other clients go beyond BT in plenty of ways, also. I've only used a couple of torrent clients, but none of them offered anything like this -
a) That "vast network of crap" is actually handy. If the same file is being served from 6 different trackers, those are 6 independant pools of sources. If you're downloading from one, the the other five pools of sources are excluded. When downloading a file in my gnutella client, it aquires new sources across the network as part of the process, potentially letting every instance of the file be included.
b) None of those 6 file sources would have had to go through the bother of setting up a torrent and tracker and distributing the torrent with another client. They could have stuck it in their library and been done with it. Unless they wanted a magnet link I suppose, then they might have to throw in two extra mouse clicks.
c) Have you ever wanted to control your sharing? You can manage an entire library of shared content. I can easily see when there are 50 sources for a file that I'm sharing, and unshare it to increase the availability of files with fewer sources. I can also throttle my incoming and outgoing bandwidth, set the number of up/download slots, etc.
d) Have you ever gotten a torrent partially downloaded and had it stop, never to resume? Just because somethin
I, for one, welcome our vacuum cleaner overlords.
Clinton was impeached for a blowjob.
You could at least toss a nod of acknowledgement at reality while racing past it.
Clinton was impeached for perjury, obstruction of justice, and suborning the perjury of a witness in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. The fact that the witness had polished the presidential knob was a detail of the offense (being one thing lied about), but not the basis of any of the charges (there were four articles of impeachment, two of which passed).
I would prefer that he had been impeached for serial rape, but justice is such a gauzy notion. No one on the committee voted on the substance of the charges anyway (1st article 3rd article). Direct and unequivocal admissions of guilt are apparently not enough to convince some people
On the other hand, teeming hordes of frothing moonbats have yet to produce any substance behind the charge that Bush lied to get us into Iraq. They just like it because it makes people get mad without thinking. So no, there's really no comparison.
plus he's nominating his own personal lawyer with NO experience as a judge
It was mainly Dems who appealed to Bush to nominate someone to the court from outside of the system in the first place. Meirs was recommended by Harry Reid himself, and he's endorsed her nomination. After the Roberts process somehow resulted in 22 votes against, I don't think Bush had any choice but to select someone with no judicial record.
Precedence is futile. You will be adjudicated.
Modding the parent 5 insightful? C'mon, kids - there's nothing insightful about giving legal answers to ethical questions. Please don't drink and mod.
The "Free market" has led Cable companies to charge over $50/month for 384k upstream.
Cable isn't "free market". At least not in the U.S.
I believe the expression is "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
Is that two birds, or two hands?
Right now, your argument is essentially "It looks dumb, so I bet it sucks."
Hey! That's MY argument!
Mike McCurry works for Blizzard?
Yes, the honeymoon is over, and now the more enjoyable adventure of building a life together begins.
That, or you come home to a restraining order and all your stuff on the lawn.
Does anyone think this will stop Microsoft from pulling similar stunts?
Stop them? It'll reinforce the value of pulling the stunt first.
Ever since Space Invaders, I can't stop running from house to house firing straight up into the air.
You could have just said "It's a blog"
The major news sites would, however, include trivial details ilke why the equipment was seized. There is no reason but malicious oppression in Indyland.
I still don't understand why dupes make some people so angry. So you already know this particular peice of news. Big deal.
/. apparently doesn't have room for stories about 12 foot walking robots with guns that people can pilot (and can buy!), but it DOES have room for 8 inch rolling robots that cockroaches can pilot - twice.
But that's just me I guess.
Because it's somewhere between aggravating and disheartening when
Ok, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the way they choose to inscribe "God".
Your respect for diversity is chilling.
That 10% always gets you...
Not always, but often enough. When in doubt, qualify!