I've helped administer sites based on the torrentbits code. What you describe is almost always caught my mods or admins very quickly as it leaves a very obviously suspicious pattern of activity ("Oh look, a 3 day old user that no one's heard of that uploaded 75GB while downloading 500MB. See ya later cheater.")
So please grow up and contribute to torrent communities, it's not difficult and it makes everything work better in the end.
You don't know what you're talking about. Cocaine causes ulceration and corneal sloughing when admistered topically in the eye as an anesthetic. It was used in the 19th and early 20th centuries when there was nothing else but now there are far safer, non-abusable alternatives such as tetracaine, proparacaine and many others.
Yes, cocaine is technically a Schedule II drug in the US but it is not available commercially and anyone trying to obtain it for supposed "medical use" would find themselves in rather unpleasant conversations with law enforcement.
Ignoring the patent absurdities in your logic, you are arguing that a trivial tax on a rich person's internet usage is equivalent to a poor person sending their children overseas to fight and die?
With the recent conversion by Apple, unfortunately the world seems to be standardizing on the x86 architecture (or its 64-bit counterpart, AMD64) for general purpose computing, at least in the medium term.
There are many arguments why, but the main is that hardware development is expensive and essentially serial. Software development can be parallelized (as Open Source has done) but this does not apply to processors. Chip fabbing doesn't scale. It makes economic sense to have a single dominant computer architecture, manufactured globally and powering everything from a PC to a gaming console to a cellphone.
The Cell processor is a dead end, just like the overpriced PPC OpenWorkstation products and the overrated Alpha line.
Bottom line: At modern clockspeeds architecture is irrelevant.
The remote logging is done through embedded Javascript in the PDF file. Most free viewers such as gpdf, xpdf and kpdf don't support Javascript so you're safe with them.
Adobe Acrobat Reader starting supporting embedded Javascript with version 7.0, although you can disable it in the preferences dialog. Apparently it bugs you every time you start the program to re-enable it, though.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Windows model of acquiring and running software from a large number of random third parties is broken. It is fundamentally unsafe and, frankly, archaic in 2005. We do not trade 5.25" floppy disks with BASIC games on them, and we certainly shouldn't be downloading self-extracting installers from sketchy websites anymore, regardless of OS.
The current Linux model of distros integrating and authenticating software from upstream authors helps ensure the security of the userbase as well as providing installation ease of use. This is something we should be proud of rather than trying to imitate the technically inferior competition.
I agree. I just started Spanish I and so far I'm impressed. I was expecting it to be dumb and cheesy but it actually is quite good. The pronunciation/speaking part of it is great and is something that "Learn [language] in 21 Days"-type books don't have.
Rosetta Stone is a little pricey, though: about $150 per course. It's worth it as far as I'm concerned if you're serious about learning the language.
Anybody who's had any significant amount of contact with government workers isn't impressed. You could probably get 35% of them to stick their tongues in an electrical socket if a "technician" told them it'd make their "Internet work better".
BTW, Many similarly disabled people have rich sex lives. I hope you never have to experience catastrophic injury firsthand. Be thankful for what you have.
The author is essentially blackmailing the F/OSS community by refusing to release the source unless a benefactor comes forward to fund him. If he is successful it will only encourage others to try the same tactic.
He claims it's to cover "lost revenue" if he opens the source but the reality is that he is getting no revenue currently and is unlikely ever to. VMware is the undisputed king of the vitualization market (with MS Virtual PC catching up).
VMware Workstation works extremely well. QEmu would have an extraordinarily difficult time competing in the proprietary software space, and the author knows this. If he had asked for donations to help support development I would happily contribute and encourage others to, but this just stinks.
Unfortunately Freenet is an incredibly inefficient method of data transfer. Remember it was designed with security and anonymity as top priorities, performance comes as a distant third.
I was hoping for a more innovative p2p app, perhaps combining the advantages of VPN-type systems like WASTE or DirectConnect with the swarming efficiency of BitTorrent. Such a system would truly take the world by storm.
At the same time it seemed obvious that Exeem wouldn't be such a system. From rumors circulating after the start of the closed beta (not a good sign to begin with) it became apparent that Exeem was just another closed-source proprietary network. It's really unfortunate but not at all surprising.
What you're betting on is that you will be among the small percentage of people on the top who get the reward before the scheme exhausts the pool of potential targets.
Basically you're hoping to screw five suckers who will probably never get a free iPod (or whatever) before the whole idiotic mess collapses. Not very nice.
Pyramid schemes (going all the way back to Ponzi) were based around the fact that the first participants seemed to recieve whatever was promised (a quick profit, "free" goods, etc). This was the bait used to lure in the next generation of suckers.
The Azureus BT client has had the ability for users to be their own tracker for a long time now.
Let's say I see a/. post that is going to be censored but contains material that I think is important to get out there (like copyrighted Scientology texts, or maybe Windows source code).
Assuming I have a halfway stable connection, in roughly 5 minutes I can create a torrent and host it myself using Azureus' built-in tracker. I can either post a link to the ad hoc tracker ("http://123.456.989:6969/" or "http://mymachine.dyndns.org:6969") or post the.torrent file itself here on on IRC or whatever. When I'm done I shut down Azureus and the tracker goes away.
Peers as trackers is as distributed as you can get.
The proof, as they say, is in the pudding. Browse through the featured articles and you will be hard-pressed to find anything worse than that which appears in commercial encyclopedias. In fact, most of it will be vastly better and more up to date.
Experts are part of the public too. I suggest you edit an article that deals with a subject you are expert in, that's what Wikipedians do.
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So please grow up and contribute to torrent communities, it's not difficult and it makes everything work better in the end.
Yes, cocaine is technically a Schedule II drug in the US but it is not available commercially and anyone trying to obtain it for supposed "medical use" would find themselves in rather unpleasant conversations with law enforcement.
Wow.
Have you ever used KDE?
How about the source? I guess we're getting so lax about the GPL that we don't even expect it anymore.
There are many arguments why, but the main is that hardware development is expensive and essentially serial. Software development can be parallelized (as Open Source has done) but this does not apply to processors. Chip fabbing doesn't scale. It makes economic sense to have a single dominant computer architecture, manufactured globally and powering everything from a PC to a gaming console to a cellphone.
The Cell processor is a dead end, just like the overpriced PPC OpenWorkstation products and the overrated Alpha line.
Bottom line: At modern clockspeeds architecture is irrelevant.
The remote logging is done through embedded Javascript in the PDF file. Most free viewers such as gpdf, xpdf and kpdf don't support Javascript so you're safe with them.
Adobe Acrobat Reader starting supporting embedded Javascript with version 7.0, although you can disable it in the preferences dialog. Apparently it bugs you every time you start the program to re-enable it, though.
Bottom line: Stick with free software.
The current Linux model of distros integrating and authenticating software from upstream authors helps ensure the security of the userbase as well as providing installation ease of use. This is something we should be proud of rather than trying to imitate the technically inferior competition.
I agree. I just started Spanish I and so far I'm impressed. I was expecting it to be dumb and cheesy but it actually is quite good. The pronunciation/speaking part of it is great and is something that "Learn [language] in 21 Days"-type books don't have.
Rosetta Stone is a little pricey, though: about $150 per course. It's worth it as far as I'm concerned if you're serious about learning the language.
Anybody who's had any significant amount of contact with government workers isn't impressed. You could probably get 35% of them to stick their tongues in an electrical socket if a "technician" told them it'd make their "Internet work better".
BTW, Many similarly disabled people have rich sex lives. I hope you never have to experience catastrophic injury firsthand. Be thankful for what you have.
He claims it's to cover "lost revenue" if he opens the source but the reality is that he is getting no revenue currently and is unlikely ever to. VMware is the undisputed king of the vitualization market (with MS Virtual PC catching up).
VMware Workstation works extremely well. QEmu would have an extraordinarily difficult time competing in the proprietary software space, and the author knows this. If he had asked for donations to help support development I would happily contribute and encourage others to, but this just stinks.
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The privacy of your porn browsing
or
The lives of thousands or even millions of Americans that could be slaughtered in a terrorist attack.
You decide.
Preemptive anti-slashdotting. There's a bunch of large movie files linked to from the article. Use the mirrors or the coral-ed links.
http://rfidanalysis.org.nyud.net:8090/
http://ipodlinux.org.nyud.net:8090/stories/piezo/
Regardless of the RFC, I can verify that Vonage at least does not use TCP currently in its hardware applications.
SIP-based VOIP services like Vonage use UDP ports 5060, 5061 and the UDP range 10000-20000 (inclusive). TCP is not used.
Unfortunately Freenet is an incredibly inefficient method of data transfer. Remember it was designed with security and anonymity as top priorities, performance comes as a distant third.
I was hoping for a more innovative p2p app, perhaps combining the advantages of VPN-type systems like WASTE or DirectConnect with the swarming efficiency of BitTorrent. Such a system would truly take the world by storm.
At the same time it seemed obvious that Exeem wouldn't be such a system. From rumors circulating after the start of the closed beta (not a good sign to begin with) it became apparent that Exeem was just another closed-source proprietary network. It's really unfortunate but not at all surprising.
Basically you're hoping to screw five suckers who will probably never get a free iPod (or whatever) before the whole idiotic mess collapses. Not very nice.
Know what "exponential growth" means? ;)
Does this contain the native widget work that Ximian (and others) have been working on?
This is key, IMO, to desktop integration and widespread adoption in at least the corporate desktop sector.
Let's say I see a /. post that is going to be censored but contains material that I think is important to get out there (like copyrighted Scientology texts, or maybe Windows source code).
Assuming I have a halfway stable connection, in roughly 5 minutes I can create a torrent and host it myself using Azureus' built-in tracker. I can either post a link to the ad hoc tracker ("http://123.456.989:6969/" or "http://mymachine.dyndns.org:6969") or post the .torrent file itself here on on IRC or whatever. When I'm done I shut down Azureus and the tracker goes away.
Peers as trackers is as distributed as you can get.
The proof, as they say, is in the pudding. Browse through the featured articles and you will be hard-pressed to find anything worse than that which appears in commercial encyclopedias. In fact, most of it will be vastly better and more up to date.
Experts are part of the public too. I suggest you edit an article that deals with a subject you are expert in, that's what Wikipedians do.
Hmmmm...someone should give them a call.