I find "I2P" quite recognisable as a "trademark", and more importantly, quite googleable, since it doesn't share namespace with myriad corporate TLAs. Works for me.
Get a rabbi, a mufti, and a priest into a single room - how many years do you think it would take for them to come to a consensus? My own estimate is +INF.
Happens all the time, in worldwide interfaith conferences, peace conferences, charity projects, etc. There are entire books by religious people, devoted to exploring only the common ground. See Jack Kornfield's "After the Ecstacy, the Laundry", for instance, which is all about how leaders in each faith have similar problems to each other (and indeed, to every other human being).
most of what is downloaded is what people already know.
This should be no surprise, since Bittorrent is designed to optimise downloads of popular stuff. More traditional P2P systems like gnutella are much more suited to rare content.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. -- Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP keynote address
Actually, this happens often in religion, once you reach a certain level, just like it happens in science once you reach a certain level. Like science, which has those to claim to follow it yet know little, and defend that knowledge incorrectly, you also get people raised with a religion who claim to follow it, defend it illogically because it's all they know, yet fail to understand what real religion is all about.
Will Al Gore and others who pronounced elevated ocean levels and other disasters due to melting ice now go on national television and admit that they were wrong? Somehow I doubt it
What makes you think they're wrong? The Earth is not a constant temperature throughout. I can easily imagine an ice cap melting somewhere in the antarctic, raising the humidity, and a good portion of that water vapor attaching and freezing again somewhere else where it's cooler. That doesn't mean that the warm currents aren't having a devastating effect overall.
You're not too far off the mark here. Most MMO game servers are very restricted, and deliberately so, in order to force players to pay over and over again for a subscription. Third parties have attempted to write their own servers. This would allow more freedom, creativity in world design/rules/etc., and would reduce or even eliminate the need for game companies to run their own servers. But the game companies don't like that, and CHOOSE to force people to use their (often relatively limited) servers instead, eventually phasing them out, and the game's existence along with it.
It's the same old problem: greedy companies trying to control something, and making a mess out of it.
It wouldn't be theft as defined in law, but it most certainly is stealing in the colloquial meaning of the word. Stealing can mean an awful lot of things, just consider "stealing time" or "stealing a girlfriend". Thinking piracy isn't stealing is just self-delusion, trying to justify ones immoral actions.
You might have had a point there, if any of what you said followed in logical sequence.
Next time, stick to "copying". Anything else is your interpretation.
And what, pray tell, is so evil about supplying a product you have when customers want it? This game release date thing is no better than DVD regional release dates, which everyone rightly hates.
In more words: it's funny how more people on slashdot seem to be suddenly anti-piracy after the pirate bay verdict. I can't help wondering if these people would be against eating, if the media told them it was bad.
people pirating your game can increase the cost of running the servers for it considerably. That is a strong argument in favour of anti-piracy techniques such as DRM (assuming the DRM costs less than the cost of additional servers).
Or yet another strong argument for encouraging third-party servers instead of legally PREVENTING others from doing so.
Are you serious? This article is complete B.S., which doesn't invalidate anything.
If a game fails to sell, the most reasonable explanation is that the game really sucked and no one was interested. A second possible explanation is that the economy is affecting sales. Even games of average crappiness usually have lots of willing buyers, and games have always been subject to piracy (even back in 8-bit days), so it's a safe bet that piracy has virtually NOTHING to do with it.
I think not. The whole point of mass transit is that a lot of people going to the same place that's far away can be more efficient if they go together. When they reach the vicinity of the area they wish to go to, then they can break off into individualized transport solutions to take them to the street they're after. But for the long hauls, rail is very sensible.
Agreed. These guys are heroes in the front line of a battle for human rights which won't be fully recognized for a long time to come, if ever. If it does happen, it'll be because others took up the torch when their forerunners fell.
wanted to search it remotely and securely, but without Google being able to look at the data. Even if that were possible, why are you trusting Google with that in the first place? Why not store it somewhere else?
Probably because, if it's encrypted and searchable remotely, then you can potentially store it anywhere. And if you can store it anywhere, then backups are going to be cheap.
Personally, I'd be looking at ways to keep the search index local.
If the business tells IT it wants PC's powered off when not in use, then it will happen
Yes, but possibly at the average rate of about 4 minutes per PC, if they're running windows and a few do the usual thing of refusing to shutdown for ages.
Then there'll be the whole thing in the morning, when staff come in and complain they lost all their work (that they never understood how to save, so just left their wordprocessor running the whole time), or that they've forgotten their password and can't log in, and why won't you IT stop being awkward, and just tell me my password...?
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I find "I2P" quite recognisable as a "trademark", and more importantly, quite googleable, since it doesn't share namespace with myriad corporate TLAs. Works for me.
Only that possibilities like these have to be considered too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_thermohaline_circulation
Get a rabbi, a mufti, and a priest into a single room - how many years do you think it would take for them to come to a consensus? My own estimate is +INF.
Happens all the time, in worldwide interfaith conferences, peace conferences, charity projects, etc. There are entire books by religious people, devoted to exploring only the common ground. See Jack Kornfield's "After the Ecstacy, the Laundry", for instance, which is all about how leaders in each faith have similar problems to each other (and indeed, to every other human being).
This should be no surprise, since Bittorrent is designed to optimise downloads of popular stuff. More traditional P2P systems like gnutella are much more suited to rare content.
Actually, this happens often in religion, once you reach a certain level, just like it happens in science once you reach a certain level. Like science, which has those to claim to follow it yet know little, and defend that knowledge incorrectly, you also get people raised with a religion who claim to follow it, defend it illogically because it's all they know, yet fail to understand what real religion is all about.
What makes you think they're wrong? The Earth is not a constant temperature throughout. I can easily imagine an ice cap melting somewhere in the antarctic, raising the humidity, and a good portion of that water vapor attaching and freezing again somewhere else where it's cooler. That doesn't mean that the warm currents aren't having a devastating effect overall.
Pretty much the whole thing. But you don't seem to get it, so never mind.
Well, if anyone ever needed proof that your concern here isn't for people and society, you just gave it to them.
That's probably the most twisted logic I've ever seen.
No, that is a bunch of servers not being ready.
A pitiful attempt to win the argument by equating copying of software with growing of slaves. Grow up.
You're not too far off the mark here. Most MMO game servers are very restricted, and deliberately so, in order to force players to pay over and over again for a subscription. Third parties have attempted to write their own servers. This would allow more freedom, creativity in world design/rules/etc., and would reduce or even eliminate the need for game companies to run their own servers. But the game companies don't like that, and CHOOSE to force people to use their (often relatively limited) servers instead, eventually phasing them out, and the game's existence along with it.
It's the same old problem: greedy companies trying to control something, and making a mess out of it.
You might have had a point there, if any of what you said followed in logical sequence.
Next time, stick to "copying". Anything else is your interpretation.
Thanks for that insight, "Merlin".
And what, pray tell, is so evil about supplying a product you have when customers want it? This game release date thing is no better than DVD regional release dates, which everyone rightly hates.
Yes.
In more words: it's funny how more people on slashdot seem to be suddenly anti-piracy after the pirate bay verdict. I can't help wondering if these people would be against eating, if the media told them it was bad.
Or yet another strong argument for encouraging third-party servers instead of legally PREVENTING others from doing so.
Are you serious? This article is complete B.S., which doesn't invalidate anything.
If a game fails to sell, the most reasonable explanation is that the game really sucked and no one was interested. A second possible explanation is that the economy is affecting sales. Even games of average crappiness usually have lots of willing buyers, and games have always been subject to piracy (even back in 8-bit days), so it's a safe bet that piracy has virtually NOTHING to do with it.
Big Media = Big Money. TPB = The Piggy Bank.
What's not to get?
I think not. The whole point of mass transit is that a lot of people going to the same place that's far away can be more efficient if they go together. When they reach the vicinity of the area they wish to go to, then they can break off into individualized transport solutions to take them to the street they're after. But for the long hauls, rail is very sensible.
Agreed. These guys are heroes in the front line of a battle for human rights which won't be fully recognized for a long time to come, if ever. If it does happen, it'll be because others took up the torch when their forerunners fell.
Probably because, if it's encrypted and searchable remotely, then you can potentially store it anywhere. And if you can store it anywhere, then backups are going to be cheap.
Personally, I'd be looking at ways to keep the search index local.
Of course not. I'm sure Mandela and Gandhi and many others didn't want to face the regime either, but it has to start somewhere.
Yes, but possibly at the average rate of about 4 minutes per PC, if they're running windows and a few do the usual thing of refusing to shutdown for ages.
Then there'll be the whole thing in the morning, when staff come in and complain they lost all their work (that they never understood how to save, so just left their wordprocessor running the whole time), or that they've forgotten their password and can't log in, and why won't you IT stop being awkward, and just tell me my password...?
I read it as "...Spear..." ;)