See, the problem is, very few of us know that many people in real life who we trust to that extreme extent to form darknet connections. So, we have no choice but to connect through opennet. Since we're not using darknet at all, why should we move to a network with a rather crippled opennet from one that's been working great?
Plus, there's the concern of darknets making the job of anyone trying to track down a node easier. First of all, darknets will probably have fewer connections and will thus, as I've already explained, be easier to guess who's sending what. Secondly, the entire plan behind darknets was that each network would have people sharing the same kind of content. So, if one person on the network gets busted, it's very easy to see who else is on the network, it's much easier than on 0.5's opennet to see what they're sharing, and you can even potentially prove, simply based on what content is available, that every person in the net is sharing whatever you're looking for. Or, in a less free country, the police may simply raid everyone else on the net just for having that connection. Of course, that scenario is just as possible as that country simply finding all users of freenet within their borders, but being part of a network specializing in 'bad' content is quite a bid more damning. Of course, then again, this does require busting _someone_ on the network, and the _theory_ at least is that, since they're all using freenet, that won't happen. Personally, I kinda doubt that.
Whatever kind of network they go with, there will be people saying the other one is safer. It's good that they're finally offering the option of either, but they shouldn't have to cripple opennet to do so. The program even explicitly says the opennet isn't safe when you try to enable it.
The problem is, 0.7's opennet isn't safe. It limits the number of connections far too much, making statistical attacks (one of the few kinds really possible against Freenet) _much_ easier. On Freenet 0.5 I can have a hundred open connections at any time. On Freenet 0.7, you get maybe 10. And as I said, the less connections you have, the easier it is for someone to predict if requests are originating at your node. Premix routing might fix that, but that's not coming until 0.8
Not really. You can still get 0.5 off the official freenet website, it's in rather small type at the bottom of the page. I believe they also have a page on googlecode somewhere with the newer code. Most of the talk though goes on within Freenet. Hasn't been much lately though, sadly. The TODO list last time I checked was rather long though, and there was only one or two people capable of working on it, so they may be working and just not have any success yet.
You'd think after putting three years into something they'd come out with a _better_ product, not a worse one. Freenet 0.7 isn't safe anymore. And they probably lost a good number of potential users by claiming it was the stable and current release for the past year or so, long before it actually was usable...not that it is now.
Meanwhile, Freenet 0.5 is still being developed a bit, some security flaws have been fixed, and we've still got a pretty large community.
The problem is, there aren't any buttons. While you may think it's great to be able to run a game with only the accelerometer, it usually doesn't work too well. Yes, it's cool and fun at first, but you very quickly realize the game's nearly impossible. Because, while it works great for the wii, on the wii the screen is stationary. It's rather hard to be moving something around while you have to be watching the screen on it. I have this racing game for my iTouch...you have to practically turn the screen upside-down to get it up to full speed, and yet just the smallest twitch to the side sends you flying into the wall. You gotta use both hands on any of those accelerometer games to try to stabilize it. It sounds good, but it never works well. And forget about putting buttons on the screen - it's a _screen_. You can't game with buttons you can't feel. And you can't leave your finger on.
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That's why you vote for Obama. Clinton supported the PATRIOT act. Clinton supported the war. Obama was against both of those. I was honestly planning on voting Libertarian, because I can't bring myself to vote for anyone who supports the PATRIOT act and all this other crap...but Obama fits that quite well.
I don't really know of any off the top of my head...but I've seen some websites with a hell of a lot of embed codes. Hell, a lot of the videos on youtube probably count. Oh, and there's a lot of band websites that are flash layered on flash with some more flash on the side...and a song embed or two for good measure. Those take a while to load even on cable!
Dude, unless you're on dial-up, 10MB is nothing. I can download that in 10 seconds on my crappy Comcast. I've seen _websites_ that are bigger than 10 megs. Yea, they're extremely annoying websites, but they're there. Professionally done ones too.
And now is when I regret getting a fairly decent Canon camera. The Powershot SX100IS. Doesn't have half the stuff this supports. Of course, to be fair, it was only $200 and it has an optical image stabilizer, 10x optical zoom, 8.0 megapixels, great manual controls, and is just generally the best camera you'll find without going for SLR. But man would it be nice to add some of this stuff.
My first thought when I saw this article was 'Good! Maybe they'll make it look like Gaim did. Pidgin is fugly as shit' followed by 'Or...ohhh! maybe they're gonna work on webcam support, which the Pidgin team seems to have been avoiding for a long time.'
But this? This is just stupid. Oh well, maybe one of my other hopes will come true.
they developed a wearable computer system...gave them to all the soldiers...and never bothered to come up with an input method? They were just strapping keyboards to these guys? Who the hell came up with that great idea?
I could easily build something to throw a penny through a field goal from 30 yards away. And I'm sure in the future we'll be able to put gram-size satellites into orbit.
Sure, it may be just as easy to launch something bigger, but why bother if something smaller will do? Hell, there may come a point in the future where we aren't even capable of building them that big...unless we just build a big hull and have a bunch of empty space around the computer. Technology is shrinking. It will most likely continue to do so. Besides, a gram size satellite would be much harder to hit with a missile (or another space ship...) than one that's several kilograms.
I just don't get it. What's all the love for Ubuntu? I've never had it work right. I've never had an install that didn't take several days of playing with ndiswrapper, a couple more messing with various other drivers. Mandriva is ready for the masses though. Especially with the recent release of 2008.1 - it took under 5 minutes for me to go from a fresh install to working wifi. Took another 10 to get my dual monitors working, because I downloaded the completely free software version, and it didn't have the nvidia driver preinstalled. Anyways, point is, most people I know who try Linux try Ubuntu. Then they give up on Linux. After much effort, I manage to get them to try Mandriva. As far as I know, nobody I've recommended it to has ever removed it.
Bah! Soulseek is excellent for all content, and for the really, _really_ obscure stuff (more obscure than Officium Triste, who, at the time at least, you had to mail a check to them and they'd mail you back an album - on vinyl) just use Freenet.
Well, depending on what they're looking at. If they're using some of the tech on the satellite to look into your home, then yea, that's illegal under the 4th amendment. 2001 case Kyllo v. US determined that. If, however, they're watching public land...there's probably nothing that says they can't.
The Dell Vostro 1000 is about the same price as the EeePC, yet there's no comparison in terms of features - the Vostro is actually a usable modern laptop, the EeePC are specs from a couple years ago. I don't see why you would buy a crappy small laptop when you can get a fairly decent one for the same price.
Wow. That sucks. I'm in the US, and I use cash for everything except orders online. But even many online stores I've found will accept cash or checks mailed in. They don't like it, but they'll take it. Hell, I know people who still don't have credit or debit cards.
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See, the problem is, very few of us know that many people in real life who we trust to that extreme extent to form darknet connections. So, we have no choice but to connect through opennet. Since we're not using darknet at all, why should we move to a network with a rather crippled opennet from one that's been working great?
Plus, there's the concern of darknets making the job of anyone trying to track down a node easier. First of all, darknets will probably have fewer connections and will thus, as I've already explained, be easier to guess who's sending what. Secondly, the entire plan behind darknets was that each network would have people sharing the same kind of content. So, if one person on the network gets busted, it's very easy to see who else is on the network, it's much easier than on 0.5's opennet to see what they're sharing, and you can even potentially prove, simply based on what content is available, that every person in the net is sharing whatever you're looking for. Or, in a less free country, the police may simply raid everyone else on the net just for having that connection. Of course, that scenario is just as possible as that country simply finding all users of freenet within their borders, but being part of a network specializing in 'bad' content is quite a bid more damning. Of course, then again, this does require busting _someone_ on the network, and the _theory_ at least is that, since they're all using freenet, that won't happen. Personally, I kinda doubt that.
Whatever kind of network they go with, there will be people saying the other one is safer. It's good that they're finally offering the option of either, but they shouldn't have to cripple opennet to do so. The program even explicitly says the opennet isn't safe when you try to enable it.
The problem is, 0.7's opennet isn't safe. It limits the number of connections far too much, making statistical attacks (one of the few kinds really possible against Freenet) _much_ easier. On Freenet 0.5 I can have a hundred open connections at any time. On Freenet 0.7, you get maybe 10. And as I said, the less connections you have, the easier it is for someone to predict if requests are originating at your node. Premix routing might fix that, but that's not coming until 0.8
Not really. You can still get 0.5 off the official freenet website, it's in rather small type at the bottom of the page. I believe they also have a page on googlecode somewhere with the newer code. Most of the talk though goes on within Freenet. Hasn't been much lately though, sadly. The TODO list last time I checked was rather long though, and there was only one or two people capable of working on it, so they may be working and just not have any success yet.
You'd think after putting three years into something they'd come out with a _better_ product, not a worse one. Freenet 0.7 isn't safe anymore. And they probably lost a good number of potential users by claiming it was the stable and current release for the past year or so, long before it actually was usable...not that it is now.
Meanwhile, Freenet 0.5 is still being developed a bit, some security flaws have been fixed, and we've still got a pretty large community.
The problem is, there aren't any buttons. While you may think it's great to be able to run a game with only the accelerometer, it usually doesn't work too well. Yes, it's cool and fun at first, but you very quickly realize the game's nearly impossible. Because, while it works great for the wii, on the wii the screen is stationary. It's rather hard to be moving something around while you have to be watching the screen on it. I have this racing game for my iTouch...you have to practically turn the screen upside-down to get it up to full speed, and yet just the smallest twitch to the side sends you flying into the wall. You gotta use both hands on any of those accelerometer games to try to stabilize it. It sounds good, but it never works well. And forget about putting buttons on the screen - it's a _screen_. You can't game with buttons you can't feel. And you can't leave your finger on.
Well then they should be used to waiting :)
That's why you vote for Obama. Clinton supported the PATRIOT act. Clinton supported the war. Obama was against both of those. I was honestly planning on voting Libertarian, because I can't bring myself to vote for anyone who supports the PATRIOT act and all this other crap...but Obama fits that quite well.
I don't really know of any off the top of my head...but I've seen some websites with a hell of a lot of embed codes. Hell, a lot of the videos on youtube probably count. Oh, and there's a lot of band websites that are flash layered on flash with some more flash on the side...and a song embed or two for good measure. Those take a while to load even on cable!
Dude, unless you're on dial-up, 10MB is nothing. I can download that in 10 seconds on my crappy Comcast. I've seen _websites_ that are bigger than 10 megs. Yea, they're extremely annoying websites, but they're there. Professionally done ones too.
And now is when I regret getting a fairly decent Canon camera. The Powershot SX100IS. Doesn't have half the stuff this supports. Of course, to be fair, it was only $200 and it has an optical image stabilizer, 10x optical zoom, 8.0 megapixels, great manual controls, and is just generally the best camera you'll find without going for SLR. But man would it be nice to add some of this stuff.
Oh, and completely offtopic, but why does my firewall detect an HTTP request followed by a portscan attack whenever I submit a post to /.?
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Does this mean OLPC is capable of time travel? 'cause if so, I want one.
My first thought when I saw this article was 'Good! Maybe they'll make it look like Gaim did. Pidgin is fugly as shit' followed by 'Or...ohhh! maybe they're gonna work on webcam support, which the Pidgin team seems to have been avoiding for a long time.'
But this? This is just stupid. Oh well, maybe one of my other hopes will come true.
they developed a wearable computer system...gave them to all the soldiers...and never bothered to come up with an input method? They were just strapping keyboards to these guys? Who the hell came up with that great idea?
They did the same thing with Mandriva several years ago. And it passed quite well IIRC.
I could easily build something to throw a penny through a field goal from 30 yards away. And I'm sure in the future we'll be able to put gram-size satellites into orbit.
Sure, it may be just as easy to launch something bigger, but why bother if something smaller will do? Hell, there may come a point in the future where we aren't even capable of building them that big...unless we just build a big hull and have a bunch of empty space around the computer. Technology is shrinking. It will most likely continue to do so. Besides, a gram size satellite would be much harder to hit with a missile (or another space ship...) than one that's several kilograms.
They're extremely easy to unlock. Look for a program called 'ziphone unlocker'. Just plug it in, push a button, and it's unlocked.
I just don't get it. What's all the love for Ubuntu? I've never had it work right. I've never had an install that didn't take several days of playing with ndiswrapper, a couple more messing with various other drivers. Mandriva is ready for the masses though. Especially with the recent release of 2008.1 - it took under 5 minutes for me to go from a fresh install to working wifi. Took another 10 to get my dual monitors working, because I downloaded the completely free software version, and it didn't have the nvidia driver preinstalled. Anyways, point is, most people I know who try Linux try Ubuntu. Then they give up on Linux. After much effort, I manage to get them to try Mandriva. As far as I know, nobody I've recommended it to has ever removed it.
Bah! Soulseek is excellent for all content, and for the really, _really_ obscure stuff (more obscure than Officium Triste, who, at the time at least, you had to mail a check to them and they'd mail you back an album - on vinyl) just use Freenet.
c'mon man! If you're gonna make a link, make it to a real website! As a Linux user, I enjoy visiting malware sites :)
Well, depending on what they're looking at. If they're using some of the tech on the satellite to look into your home, then yea, that's illegal under the 4th amendment. 2001 case Kyllo v. US determined that. If, however, they're watching public land...there's probably nothing that says they can't.
The Dell Vostro 1000 is about the same price as the EeePC, yet there's no comparison in terms of features - the Vostro is actually a usable modern laptop, the EeePC are specs from a couple years ago. I don't see why you would buy a crappy small laptop when you can get a fairly decent one for the same price.
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Wow. That sucks. I'm in the US, and I use cash for everything except orders online. But even many online stores I've found will accept cash or checks mailed in. They don't like it, but they'll take it. Hell, I know people who still don't have credit or debit cards.
I've only ever seen two hard drive fail. Both were 80GB Western Digitals, and neither lasted more than a year. I now avoid WD at all costs.