If you search for sites about how to commit suicide, you'll find them. How is that surprising? The researchers search terms are so heavily biased that their conclusions are worthless. Where are the searches for "should I commit suicide?", "is suicide a good idea?" and "stop me from committing suicide"?
Also importantly, where's the study that determines the outlook of the world's population in general toward suicide? The internet isn't unfairly biased toward one stance or the other if the percentages accurately reflect views held worldwide.
I actually went through just such a system, and graduated in 2004. It was a neat system, actually, and I feel that in the early years, it was a great benefit. Third grade teachers from all over the city were allowed to recommend one or two students for this program. We were then given a cognitive aptitude test to determine who actually belonged in the advanced program, and who did not. 20-25 students were admitted from the city, and we were all bussed to an elementary school in the middle of town. This necessitated catching a bus to the junior high or high school and then taking a shuttle to elementary school, and the same process in reverse on the way back. It led to a shorter school day, but we still went through material much faster than the 'normal' classes. In math and science, we were about two years ahead of the main stream.
The separate classes for the "academically talented" kids continued through 9th grade, and we all got dumped into the high school where the program faded away. There were still a few 'advanced' classes in 10th grade, but it felt like they were trying to bring us down to closer to the average level before we surpassed the scope of a high school curriculum with a few years left to go. That was a real shame. In 11th and 12th grade, we were allowed to take AP and honors classes, but so were the regular students, so the classes didn't move at a particularly fast pace. They split AP Calculus BC (the equivalent of Calc. I and II) into two years, which was completely unnecessary, especially after a year of pre-calc where we covered many of the calc i concepts the year before. They succeeded in slowing us down to the point that we were only one college semester ahead of the motivated kids who had not been fast tracked by the time we graduated.
So while I feel that the program wasn't as useful near the end of high school, it was a very valuable experience in the younger years, and I can say that such programs definitely work well if the teachers are willing to keep up. I'm sure it's much harder to teach a class of students who devour the material than one who needs the same lecture for three days in a row; perhaps that is the real reason it isn't more widespread.
None of them affected Firefox version 1.0.7 on Windows XP with SP2 here at work - they didn't even do so much as slow it down.
Do those pages actually crash anybody's browser?
Looks like the Coral Cache link is no good, and MirrorDot doesn't have it. So here's a Google cached version of the page.
Anyway, after it comes out, where can I find the torrent?
New File-Sharing Techniques Are Likely to Test Court Decision
By JOHN MARKOFF Published: August 1, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, July 31 - Briefly buoyed by their Supreme Court victory on file sharing, Hollywood and the recording industry are on the verge of confronting more technically sophisticated opponents.
At a computer security conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, an Irish software designer described a new version of a peer-to-peer file-sharing system that he says will make it easier to share digital information anonymously and make detection by corporations and governments far more difficult.
Others have described similar efforts to build a so-called darknet that aims to shield the identities of those sharing information. The issue is complicated by the fact that the small group of technologists designing the new systems say their goal is to create tools to circumvent censorship and political repression - not to abet copyright violation.
Such a stand is certain to test the impact of the Supreme Court ruling in June against Grokster and StreamCast Networks, publishers of peer-to-peer file-sharing software, a number of legal specialists and industry executives said. The court ruled unanimously that the publishers could be held liable for the copyright infringement that their software enabled in the sharing of pirated movies and music.
The Irish programmer, Ian Clarke, is a 28-year-old free-speech advocate who five years ago introduced a software system called Freenet that was intended to make it impossible for governments and corporations to restrict the flow of any kind of digital information. The system initially used a secure approach to routing between users and employed encryption to protect the information from eavesdroppers who were not part of the network.
Unlike today's open peer-to-peer networks, the new systems like Mr. Clarke's use software code to connect individuals who trust one another. He said he would begin distributing the new version of his program within a few months, making it possible for groups of users to establish secured networks - available only to them and those they choose to include - through which any kind of digital information can be exchanged.
Though he says his aim is political - helping dissidents in countries where computer traffic is monitored by the government, for example - Mr. Clarke is open about his disdain for copyright laws, asserting that his technology would produce a world in which all information is freely shared.
Mr. Clarke lives in Edinburgh and is employed by a music recommendation site, www.indy.tv. While Freenet attracted wide attention as a potentially disruptive force when he introduced it in 2000, it proved more difficult to use than file-sharing programs like Grokster and Napster, and did not achieve the impact that he envisioned.
Now, however, Mr. Clarke is taking a fresh approach, stating that his goal is to protect political opponents of repressive regimes.
"The classic use for Freenet would be for a group of political dissidents in China, or even in the United States," he said in a telephone interview on Thursday. But he acknowledged that the software would also surely be used to circumvent copyright restrictions, adding, "It's an inevitable consequence of our design."
Industry executives acknowledge that even with their Supreme Court victory, peer-to-peer technology will continue to be a factor in illicit online trading.
"Everyone understands that P-to-P technology is, and will remain, an important part of the online landscape," said Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America. "But the Supreme Court's unanimous decision in the Grokster case will help ensure that business models won't be based on the active encouragement of infringement on P-to-P or other networks."
Initiatives like Freenet are certain to complicate industry and government efforts to restrict the digital sharing of
The inital release of WinXP SP2 caused problems on some computers, making them run incredibly slow. I know for a fact that it affected some Dell laptops (after hours on the phone with tech support); I don't know if it affected others.
"Freenet is slow" is the single largest understatement of the year. I've waited over an hour for a single, all text website, only to find that it was not what I wanted. It also seemed to make my whole computer run very slow. I gave up on Freenet.
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If you search for sites about how to commit suicide, you'll find them. How is that surprising? The researchers search terms are so heavily biased that their conclusions are worthless. Where are the searches for "should I commit suicide?", "is suicide a good idea?" and "stop me from committing suicide"?
Also importantly, where's the study that determines the outlook of the world's population in general toward suicide? The internet isn't unfairly biased toward one stance or the other if the percentages accurately reflect views held worldwide.
I actually went through just such a system, and graduated in 2004. It was a neat system, actually, and I feel that in the early years, it was a great benefit. Third grade teachers from all over the city were allowed to recommend one or two students for this program. We were then given a cognitive aptitude test to determine who actually belonged in the advanced program, and who did not. 20-25 students were admitted from the city, and we were all bussed to an elementary school in the middle of town. This necessitated catching a bus to the junior high or high school and then taking a shuttle to elementary school, and the same process in reverse on the way back. It led to a shorter school day, but we still went through material much faster than the 'normal' classes. In math and science, we were about two years ahead of the main stream. The separate classes for the "academically talented" kids continued through 9th grade, and we all got dumped into the high school where the program faded away. There were still a few 'advanced' classes in 10th grade, but it felt like they were trying to bring us down to closer to the average level before we surpassed the scope of a high school curriculum with a few years left to go. That was a real shame. In 11th and 12th grade, we were allowed to take AP and honors classes, but so were the regular students, so the classes didn't move at a particularly fast pace. They split AP Calculus BC (the equivalent of Calc. I and II) into two years, which was completely unnecessary, especially after a year of pre-calc where we covered many of the calc i concepts the year before. They succeeded in slowing us down to the point that we were only one college semester ahead of the motivated kids who had not been fast tracked by the time we graduated. So while I feel that the program wasn't as useful near the end of high school, it was a very valuable experience in the younger years, and I can say that such programs definitely work well if the teachers are willing to keep up. I'm sure it's much harder to teach a class of students who devour the material than one who needs the same lecture for three days in a row; perhaps that is the real reason it isn't more widespread.
None of them affected Firefox version 1.0.7 on Windows XP with SP2 here at work - they didn't even do so much as slow it down. Do those pages actually crash anybody's browser?
Looks like the Coral Cache link is no good, and MirrorDot doesn't have it. So here's a Google cached version of the page. Anyway, after it comes out, where can I find the torrent?
Here's a Mirrordot Link
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New File-Sharing Techniques Are Likely to Test Court Decision
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: August 1, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, July 31 - Briefly buoyed by their Supreme Court victory on file sharing, Hollywood and the recording industry are on the verge of confronting more technically sophisticated opponents.
At a computer security conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, an Irish software designer described a new version of a peer-to-peer file-sharing system that he says will make it easier to share digital information anonymously and make detection by corporations and governments far more difficult.
Others have described similar efforts to build a so-called darknet that aims to shield the identities of those sharing information. The issue is complicated by the fact that the small group of technologists designing the new systems say their goal is to create tools to circumvent censorship and political repression - not to abet copyright violation.
Such a stand is certain to test the impact of the Supreme Court ruling in June against Grokster and StreamCast Networks, publishers of peer-to-peer file-sharing software, a number of legal specialists and industry executives said. The court ruled unanimously that the publishers could be held liable for the copyright infringement that their software enabled in the sharing of pirated movies and music.
The Irish programmer, Ian Clarke, is a 28-year-old free-speech advocate who five years ago introduced a software system called Freenet that was intended to make it impossible for governments and corporations to restrict the flow of any kind of digital information. The system initially used a secure approach to routing between users and employed encryption to protect the information from eavesdroppers who were not part of the network.
Unlike today's open peer-to-peer networks, the new systems like Mr. Clarke's use software code to connect individuals who trust one another. He said he would begin distributing the new version of his program within a few months, making it possible for groups of users to establish secured networks - available only to them and those they choose to include - through which any kind of digital information can be exchanged.
Though he says his aim is political - helping dissidents in countries where computer traffic is monitored by the government, for example - Mr. Clarke is open about his disdain for copyright laws, asserting that his technology would produce a world in which all information is freely shared.
Mr. Clarke lives in Edinburgh and is employed by a music recommendation site, www.indy.tv. While Freenet attracted wide attention as a potentially disruptive force when he introduced it in 2000, it proved more difficult to use than file-sharing programs like Grokster and Napster, and did not achieve the impact that he envisioned.
Now, however, Mr. Clarke is taking a fresh approach, stating that his goal is to protect political opponents of repressive regimes.
"The classic use for Freenet would be for a group of political dissidents in China, or even in the United States," he said in a telephone interview on Thursday. But he acknowledged that the software would also surely be used to circumvent copyright restrictions, adding, "It's an inevitable consequence of our design."
Industry executives acknowledge that even with their Supreme Court victory, peer-to-peer technology will continue to be a factor in illicit online trading.
"Everyone understands that P-to-P technology is, and will remain, an important part of the online landscape," said Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America. "But the Supreme Court's unanimous decision in the Grokster case will help ensure that business models won't be based on the active encouragement of infringement on P-to-P or other networks."
Initiatives like Freenet are certain to complicate industry and government efforts to restrict the digital sharing of
It's not at all unreasonable to expect a 50x increase in profits in the next year for Google, now that Google Scholar is in beta.
The inital release of WinXP SP2 caused problems on some computers, making them run incredibly slow. I know for a fact that it affected some Dell laptops (after hours on the phone with tech support); I don't know if it affected others.
"Freenet is slow" is the single largest understatement of the year. I've waited over an hour for a single, all text website, only to find that it was not what I wanted. It also seemed to make my whole computer run very slow. I gave up on Freenet.
To make it DEAD quiet, turn it off.
...and Windows.