I don't think im alone in saying (having spent plenty of time on freenode #sed) that of the many regex's i have had to formulate only about 5% of them are really reuseable. Most of the time its "get the some info in file X to to File Y" or make odd file X pretty.
So i could bye this book, but then i would have 95 more examples of regex's to toss out.
I don't think its that complicated an application in a techinal sense i would guess most of the R&D resources went into researching useablity and modeling.
What I would like to see, besides of course mapping the rest of the world, is a feature to click on metro areas and get a map.
What would be really nice is if google let some wifigeeks do a few custom maps. )(
It seems to be a common asumption that RIAA and MPAA control all movies and all music, but they don't control everything. There are sites out there (which i will refrain from slashdoting) that have an incredible amount of enjoyable content that is *AA free. The game shouldn't be played by pissing on the toast, if you don't like how *AA backed companies operate don't support them by purchasing there content or if you must, be sure to check out the alternatives first. Yet the fact that you do not like the way a company does buisness shouldn't be a moral high groud on which to proclaim that your leeching of there content is justified.
TeX was made to facilitate in literate programming. i.e. documentation and src in the same document. I wish more people would use this method. It really catches alot of bugs. Its a must for generic programing. Personally i enjoy using nuweb http://nuweb.sourceforge.net/ . For the interested check out comp.programming.literate some time.
Solving a problem between communicating cells being terrorist or otherwise is a much simpler task then gereral p2p. There is a level of "speak easy" that just doesn't exist in the general p2p world when talking about these small communities. Don't let this kind of consideration turn you off to privacy if for not anything else but that it is what the terrorists want.
We Have Freenet, MUTE, iip, WASTE, Ants etc, etc. What they are lacking is a base. This lack of base is do to certain unavoidable (or leaste very difficult to avoid) constraints of the problem
In order to have a useful p2p network it must be realitivly fast and easy to navigate. In order for the network to be anymous and safe from centralized attacks, it must be decentralized.
Unfortunetly Anonymous and fast download seem to be indirectly proportional. Decentralization requires that packets bounce all over the network which results in lower download speeds. Centralization however fast, will result in it being easy for some one or some group to target the center and easily bring the whole community down. People are not going to use a system which is too slow to be useful.
Solving the anymouse p2p problem is very difficult to do when you wish to have realitively reasonable download rates and not too much house keeping in the way of covering your tracks. To think of an analogy; consider haveing a town with three types of people, Reds, Blacks and Whites. The objective is for the Blacks to figure a way to send mail to each other in some way that the Blacks will not know what they are sending or where it came from
Reds own what Blacks are mailing. So Blacks want to hide from Reds and Reds want to find out who the Blacks are. Every Black can easily know who is another Black. Yet every Red must assume that every other person that they talk to or mail through is a Black. Whites are a noise factor and distract both Black's and Red's. Blacks, ultimately, are trying to behave as much like Whites as possible while still being able to send information that the Blacks would not have them send. Tors meathod of solving this problem (i.e. being a protocol for the Blacks to send mail) is to have everyone who is Black act exactly like a Black and nothing like a White while allowing any Red to hide easily in the community of the Blacks. Tracfic anaylisis may be more difficult but it will be easyer for the Reds to determine which trafic to monitor.
The whole problem is interesting to think about and any solution that I can think of would require that the complexity of determing who is Black would grow NP in the number of Blacks while the the levels of indirection of any packet would grow linerially or else the network would be too slow to be of much more use then a chat protocol and for that I guess we have iip.
At any rate I look forward to seeing what the Hacker community can do to bring the idea of an anonymous internet to life.
Thats the way intelligence works too. You get a bunch of FBI agents carring a copy of each bit intelligence that they have ever recorded walking back and forth to each site that they investigate with large boxes, hard discs, and iPods as storage medium. Or wait whats a parking ticket again? Then again LA may have people (machines) that summarize the data and look for "suspicous (sp) activities" like maybe the follow will set the trigger off right now
"BANG WILL GO THE BIG BUILDING"
Distributed computing its out there.
As it has always been with criminals and law enforcement/security victory goes to those who have the most resources, mostly in the form of brains, braun and attrition.
To every lock there is only one key, but an indefinate number of ways to pick it.
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I don't think im alone in saying (having spent plenty of time on freenode #sed) that of the many regex's i have had to formulate only about 5% of them are really reuseable. Most of the time its "get the some info in file X to to File Y" or make odd file X pretty. So i could bye this book, but then i would have 95 more examples of regex's to toss out.
I don't think its that complicated an application in a techinal sense i would guess most of the R&D resources went into researching useablity and modeling.
What I would like to see, besides of course mapping the rest of the world, is a feature to click on metro areas and get a map.
What would be really nice is if google let some wifigeeks do a few custom maps. )(
It seems to be a common asumption that RIAA and MPAA control all movies and all music, but they don't control everything. There are sites out there (which i will refrain from slashdoting) that have an incredible amount of enjoyable content that is *AA free. The game shouldn't be played by pissing on the toast, if you don't like how *AA backed companies operate don't support them by purchasing there content or if you must, be sure to check out the alternatives first. Yet the fact that you do not like the way a company does buisness shouldn't be a moral high groud on which to proclaim that your leeching of there content is justified.
TeX was made to facilitate in literate programming. i.e. documentation and src in the same document. I wish more people would use this method. It really catches alot of bugs. Its a must for generic programing. Personally i enjoy using nuweb http://nuweb.sourceforge.net/ . For the interested check out comp.programming.literate some time.
More visible then the cook ring. The wifi ring gives your average joe six pack the ability to pick out teh ghey with little or no effort.
Not to mention the money could be better spent advancing the development of unmaned tools.
But, I have a feeling the first step is going to put this flat on it's face.
:(
And who's going to go down with it
I have wondered alot about the effectiveness of end-to-end encryption and I was wondering what you would say to the MUTE developers views on this. http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/personInTheMiddle. shtml
Solving a problem between communicating cells being terrorist or otherwise is a much simpler task then gereral p2p. There is a level of "speak easy" that just doesn't exist in the general p2p world when talking about these small communities. Don't let this kind of consideration turn you off to privacy if for not anything else but that it is what the terrorists want.
We Have Freenet, MUTE, iip, WASTE, Ants etc, etc. What they are lacking is a base. This lack of base is do to certain unavoidable (or leaste very difficult to avoid) constraints of the problem
In order to have a useful p2p network it must be realitivly fast and easy to navigate. In order for the network to be anymous and safe from centralized attacks, it must be decentralized. Unfortunetly Anonymous and fast download seem to be indirectly proportional. Decentralization requires that packets bounce all over the network which results in lower download speeds. Centralization however fast, will result in it being easy for some one or some group to target the center and easily bring the whole community down. People are not going to use a system which is too slow to be useful.
Solving the anymouse p2p problem is very difficult to do when you wish to have realitively reasonable download rates and not too much house keeping in the way of covering your tracks. To think of an analogy; consider haveing a town with three types of people, Reds, Blacks and Whites. The objective is for the Blacks to figure a way to send mail to each other in some way that the Blacks will not know what they are sending or where it came from
Reds own what Blacks are mailing. So Blacks want to hide from Reds and Reds want to find out who the Blacks are. Every Black can easily know who is another Black. Yet every Red must assume that every other person that they talk to or mail through is a Black. Whites are a noise factor and distract both Black's and Red's. Blacks, ultimately, are trying to behave as much like Whites as possible while still being able to send information that the Blacks would not have them send.
Tors meathod of solving this problem (i.e. being a protocol for the Blacks to send mail) is to have everyone who is Black act exactly like a Black and nothing like a White while allowing any Red to hide easily in the community of the Blacks. Tracfic anaylisis may be more difficult but it will be easyer for the Reds to determine which trafic to monitor.
The whole problem is interesting to think about and any solution that I can think of would require that the complexity of determing who is Black would grow NP in the number of Blacks while the the levels of indirection of any packet would grow linerially or else the network would be too slow to be of much more use then a chat protocol and for that I guess we have iip.
At any rate I look forward to seeing what the Hacker community can do to bring the idea of an anonymous internet to life.
Thats the way intelligence works too. You get a bunch of FBI agents carring a copy of each bit intelligence that they have ever recorded walking back and forth to each site that they investigate with large boxes, hard discs, and iPods as storage medium. Or wait whats a parking ticket again? Then again LA may have people (machines) that summarize the data and look for "suspicous (sp) activities" like maybe the follow will set the trigger off right now "BANG WILL GO THE BIG BUILDING" Distributed computing its out there.
As it has always been with criminals and law enforcement/security victory goes to those who have the most resources, mostly in the form of brains, braun and attrition. To every lock there is only one key, but an indefinate number of ways to pick it.
As if a streetmap in london would help anyone get anywhere in london.