I recently heard about this music streaming service. The idea behind the project a plun-in (Open source) for your favourite music player collects song names of what you are actually playing. These get uploaded onto your own musical profile page. This page shows stats and gives you general idea of your musical tastes.
You can create tags (ala flickr, gmail etc.) for your songs, artists, and albums. These tags are cool because you can see what everyone else has tagged and then stream music from the globally tagged data.
From your data, the system generates musical "neighbours". Last.fm provides neighbour radio that plays songs that your neighbours have listened to but you haven't.
For the control freaks not content to let someone eles dictate their songs selection, the artist pages are browsable and linked by similar artists (also generated from user data).
There's more features, but I think this is the kind of stuff (music listening) slashdotters would be interested in. Obviously I'm a fan on this service.. I just found out about them a couple months ago. If anyone has reccommendations for alternative services, I have an open mind.
The SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm) family is a set of related cryptographic hash functions. The most commonly used function in the family, SHA-1, is employed in a large variety of popular security applications and protocols, including TLS, SSL, PGP, SSH, S/MIME, and IPSec. SHA-1 is considered to be the successor to MD5, an earlier, widely-used hash function. The SHA algorithms were designed by the National Security Agency (NSA) and published as a US government standard.
Unlike the hashing algorithms that Kazaa used, SHA is a strong hashing algorithm. SHA is used a number of important cryptographic algorithms, so if the media industry is going to break it, the United States government will be shaking in their boots.
You won't have to be worried about that anytime soon. The NSA is on our side here.
Well if you're going to connect the robot to the Internet so you can get human verification, you could include the text "CLICK THE SNIPER! WIN AN IPOD!"
Each user's moderations is stored in a DHT, so the system is decentralised.
Apparentlly it contains an algorithm that checks your moderations against the moderations of others. Nodes with similar moderations would become more trustworthy. That mechanism prevents people from poisoning the moderation pool and also groups you with other people who had similar experience with other files.
That being said, I am a lazy slashdotter and never tried it./Hangs head in shame
It's becasue of this part: Damn, those people who don't hit Preview and re-read their messages before posting!
Apparently the Slashdot community appreciates people who can admit their mistakes and make fun of themselves. Damn, those people explaining jokes with dry logic.
the next 20 people didn't notice that you were convinced enough. Just goes to show the sheer enthusiasm Firefly is attracting.
I too, took the BitTorrent route after the Serenity trailer hit Slashdot. After watching the series, I went out and bought the DVD set anyways. I've showed it to relative and friends, and so far everyone who has seen it is happy that I've shown it to them (some haven't watched it yet).
I don't watch much TV, but Firefly seems to have a little bit of everything. What I liked most is that it could make me laugh and I enjoyed the characters.. Not some of them, but *all* of them. Each one has their own personality and backstory. It's done so well that I can't tell you which is my favorite character.
Aaanyways. I'm just babbling here...
Ooh, and some of the antagonists are really well done too! You'll know who I'm talking about when you see it.
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Oh dear, I said plun-in when I meant plug-in. The preview button and I don't get along very well.
I recently heard about this music streaming service. The idea behind the project a plun-in (Open source) for your favourite music player collects song names of what you are actually playing. These get uploaded onto your own musical profile page. This page shows stats and gives you general idea of your musical tastes.
You can create tags (ala flickr, gmail etc.) for your songs, artists, and albums. These tags are cool because you can see what everyone else has tagged and then stream music from the globally tagged data.
From your data, the system generates musical "neighbours". Last.fm provides neighbour radio that plays songs that your neighbours have listened to but you haven't.
Speaking of data, the stats collected is published with a creative commons licence. This is accessed via a bunch of web services.
For the control freaks not content to let someone eles dictate their songs selection, the artist pages are browsable and linked by similar artists (also generated from user data).
There's more features, but I think this is the kind of stuff (music listening) slashdotters would be interested in. Obviously I'm a fan on this service.. I just found out about them a couple months ago. If anyone has reccommendations for alternative services, I have an open mind.
/Preview
/Submit
/Logout
ctrl+w
BT uses SHAfor their hash algorithms.
From the Wikipedia article:
Unlike the hashing algorithms that Kazaa used, SHA is a strong hashing algorithm. SHA is used a number of important cryptographic algorithms, so if the media industry is going to break it, the United States government will be shaking in their boots.
You won't have to be worried about that anytime soon. The NSA is on our side here.
Well if you're going to connect the robot to the Internet so you can get human verification, you could include the text "CLICK THE SNIPER! WIN AN IPOD!"
Utopia.
I look forward to using the classic-classic view.
Microsoft has no scruples using their unreleasesd software as an argument to stay.
Haha, you lose. :P
Based on this tale. http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 &q=poor%20little%20match%20girl
If you really like "keep right, pass left" now, what were you doing before you found out about it?
Can't say I've ever been interestinged to death. On the other hand....
Says (Score: 1) to (Score:5, Funny). :P
There was a previous slashdot story on something like this before.
/Hangs head in shame
There was an implementation of a trust ring called Credence. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/credence/
Each user's moderations is stored in a DHT, so the system is decentralised.
Apparentlly it contains an algorithm that checks your moderations against the moderations of others. Nodes with similar moderations would become more trustworthy. That mechanism prevents people from poisoning the moderation pool and also groups you with other people who had similar experience with other files.
That being said, I am a lazy slashdotter and never tried it.
Damn, those people who don't hit Preview and re-read their messages before posting!
Apparently the Slashdot community appreciates people who can admit their mistakes and make fun of themselves. Damn, those people explaining jokes with dry logic.
Now I'm totally confuzed. The previous post links to a previous post where the data is actually shown. GP's original post.
Parent's link to the previous post is broken. Parent's previous post.
..who care about the music?
Screw them, they're already obsolete.
Bow to your Google Overlord. ;)
Obviously it's a contraction for "it has". ;)
Terrorists?
Don't worry, he doesn't have the balls to confront him.
What do outlook and entourage folders do that labels can't? I'm curious not attacking.
6 people, 200+ emails in a conversation, at work with no MSN policy.
(Communicating with friends)
For some of us, Gmail has made email compelling again.
Do not download it *yet*. Finish your work first. This is your final warning. ;)
the next 20 people didn't notice that you were convinced enough. Just goes to show the sheer enthusiasm Firefly is attracting.
I too, took the BitTorrent route after the Serenity trailer hit Slashdot. After watching the series, I went out and bought the DVD set anyways. I've showed it to relative and friends, and so far everyone who has seen it is happy that I've shown it to them (some haven't watched it yet).
I don't watch much TV, but Firefly seems to have a little bit of everything. What I liked most is that it could make me laugh and I enjoyed the characters.. Not some of them, but *all* of them. Each one has their own personality and backstory. It's done so well that I can't tell you which is my favorite character.
Aaanyways. I'm just babbling here...
Ooh, and some of the antagonists are really well done too! You'll know who I'm talking about when you see it.