There's no need to pretend like we actually need to make full use of the daylight hours anymore. We have electricity and most most jobs involve working indoors anyway.
We should just start blasting nukes at all the tracked asteroid in our solar system. Eventually we'd have them all destroyed. Well, either that or set them on a crash course with earth...
Hmmmm, well either way we should do it! YEEEEHAAAAWW!
So would something like this make it possible for me to play my MAME rom of 'San Francisco Rush' (jeah)? I cannot use my video card to play it and it runs like crap off software currently.
At least Google is sticking their foot in the door. Space exploration is better off without a retardedly huge budget from the government anyway. Look how little has been accomplished in the last 30 years.
Maybe with Google's help, we can start putting efforts toward perfecting cheaper ways to get people into space.
Not that I think space elevators are a feasible idea with current technology. But we are getting closer and it's a much more intelligent idea for getting people up there than using 987239487294872394 gallons of fuel on each launch. Money would be better spent in researching elevators.
Of course, it's probably not being researched more because most people are still like little kids playing with firecrackers; they like the huge explosions of rockets!
If it didn't take 6 years for my comment to reach the forum, maybe this wouldn't have been redundant.
Needless to say, there were 0 comments when I submitted this.
By the way, did anyone ever consider that this species may have been a child or a dwarf?
yes, sarcastic...
Why not? They should and get the rest of the world using it so they aren't at the mercy of US control (I'm sure few would object).
As it grows larger and more dominent than the US internet, people from the US will switch over as well (at least the ones pissed about privacy issues and all the other Orweillian type BS that seems to be taking place in the states these days). Of course this would take decades to accomplish. But aparently (as usual), the US needs to be subborn about just one more important worldwide issue.
There should be no single country controlling something that's so important to us all. Different viewpoints and compromising is important for the net.
I thought of this idea myself a while back, but unfortunately I cannot program well enough, and no one who can will listen to the idea.
This is an excellent idea and it should be done on a site by site basis, but only as backup.
Everyone who connects to a particular site's front page would receive the data from the original server. This is because it would be annoying to wait for the tracker to connect and get a site's front page each time you open your browser and go somewhere new.
But as you are browsing the site, you are also connecting to the torrent tracker and immediately downloading/upload ALL content of that website from peers while you have your browser open to that site. When you switch websites, you switch what you are uploading/downloading. Of course, all transfers would stop when you close the browser.
So as you switch between pages of the particular website, the first place the browser looks to retrieve the data is from the completed downloaded torrent files of the website. And if you have not yet received from peers whatever you are requesting from the site, the SECONDARY place to get the info is from the original server again.
Eventually you will have downloaded all the contents of the websites you browse regularly and upload them to others each time you are at that site. And you obviously will only need to receive the changes that have been made since the last time you visited.
Of course, all kinds of optimation could be done using this idea from the webmaster's end.
Unfortunately, this would eventually start using a lot of users' disc space, but I'd bet by the time something like this is implemented on a large scale on the internet, you will be able to get a 1TB HDD for $69.99.
So once again thanks to (the future of) bittorrent, the more popular your site is, the less bandwidth you end up using. Slashdot would be CURED!
Why don't they simply NOT publish books on google that are less than 10 or 15 years old? If it's over 10 years old, the book is free knowledge for all. In fact, why isn't it like this for ALL media/art.
I find it ridiculous that artists, musicians, writers, etc can earn a steady income off of something they accomplished 30 years ago.
Not only would this idea eventually create much much more content for everyone, but the creators would be forced to continue working in order to make money and live. And if they only get lucky with one book, song, picture, etc, well then I guess it's time for a 9-5 job like the rest of us!
Knowledge and Art should be as accessible to the entire world as Oxygen is.
If I were to use Tor [eff.org] and Privoxy [privoxy.org] together like I normally do for browsing (works great), will I be ANONYMOUS as I download torrents with Opera (or with a mozilla extension for bittorrent) if I have my proxy configuration set up correctly? Being a privacy advocate, this is rather exciting for me. I have heard using Tor with Azureus overloads the servers making them less useful. I wonder if the Opera/Mozilla imbedded bittorrent will be better...
What do you all think?
If I were to use Tor and Privoxy together like I normally do for browsing (works great), will I be anonymous as I download torrents with Opera if I have my proxy configuration set up correctly? Being a privacy advocate, this is rather exciting for me. I have heard using Tor with Azureus overloads the servers making them less useful. I wonder if the Opera imbedded bittorrent will be better...
Slashdot Mirror
::keanu voice:: "WHOA"
I'm wallpapering my house with these.
We should just adopt the 28-hour day.
There's no need to pretend like we actually need to make full use of the daylight hours anymore. We have electricity and most most jobs involve working indoors anyway.
6 days a week with no Monday. Sounds brilliant.
I'll be just fine with my Internet Explorer 5.0, THANKS!
We should just start blasting nukes at all the tracked asteroid in our solar system. Eventually we'd have them all destroyed. Well, either that or set them on a crash course with earth...
Hmmmm, well either way we should do it! YEEEEHAAAAWW!
Yeah, this link would have probably been better. http://apps.ati.com/ir/PressReleaseText.asp?compid =105421&releaseID=772964
They pretty much say the same thing though.
http://www.muropaketti.com/3dmark/r520/ghz/
mmmmmm cookies...
So would something like this make it possible for me to play my MAME rom of 'San Francisco Rush' (jeah)? I cannot use my video card to play it and it runs like crap off software currently.
Even ancient Chinese people needed their vitamin ramen.
wow good job, you were like #38. yeah guess what, there's no such thing as posting "first" on slashdot dumbass.
At least Google is sticking their foot in the door. Space exploration is better off without a retardedly huge budget from the government anyway. Look how little has been accomplished in the last 30 years.
Maybe with Google's help, we can start putting efforts toward perfecting cheaper ways to get people into space.
Not that I think space elevators are a feasible idea with current technology. But we are getting closer and it's a much more intelligent idea for getting people up there than using 987239487294872394 gallons of fuel on each launch. Money would be better spent in researching elevators.
Of course, it's probably not being researched more because most people are still like little kids playing with firecrackers; they like the huge explosions of rockets!
Ridiculous.
DAMN IT! Everyone always sneeks the same comment in RIGHT before me!
Yeah. It's at like 40-something percent approval rating still.
The % of people who are forbush needs to drop to 0% already!
If it didn't take 6 years for my comment to reach the forum, maybe this wouldn't have been redundant. Needless to say, there were 0 comments when I submitted this. By the way, did anyone ever consider that this species may have been a child or a dwarf? yes, sarcastic...
How do we know it wasn't just a 12,000 year old circus midget?
You mean this isn't a service where Google reads to me?
"On Tuesday, Microsoft refuted earlier reports that it plans to introduce single-play DVDs aimed at curbing music piracy."
I assume they meant curbing MOVIE piracy? Since that was the topic of discussion...
Why not? They should and get the rest of the world using it so they aren't at the mercy of US control (I'm sure few would object).
As it grows larger and more dominent than the US internet, people from the US will switch over as well (at least the ones pissed about privacy issues and all the other Orweillian type BS that seems to be taking place in the states these days). Of course this would take decades to accomplish. But aparently (as usual), the US needs to be subborn about just one more important worldwide issue.
There should be no single country controlling something that's so important to us all. Different viewpoints and compromising is important for the net.
I thought of this idea myself a while back, but unfortunately I cannot program well enough, and no one who can will listen to the idea.
This is an excellent idea and it should be done on a site by site basis, but only as backup.
Everyone who connects to a particular site's front page would receive the data from the original server. This is because it would be annoying to wait for the tracker to connect and get a site's front page each time you open your browser and go somewhere new.
But as you are browsing the site, you are also connecting to the torrent tracker and immediately downloading/upload ALL content of that website from peers while you have your browser open to that site. When you switch websites, you switch what you are uploading/downloading. Of course, all transfers would stop when you close the browser.
So as you switch between pages of the particular website, the first place the browser looks to retrieve the data is from the completed downloaded torrent files of the website. And if you have not yet received from peers whatever you are requesting from the site, the SECONDARY place to get the info is from the original server again.
Eventually you will have downloaded all the contents of the websites you browse regularly and upload them to others each time you are at that site. And you obviously will only need to receive the changes that have been made since the last time you visited.
Of course, all kinds of optimation could be done using this idea from the webmaster's end.
Unfortunately, this would eventually start using a lot of users' disc space, but I'd bet by the time something like this is implemented on a large scale on the internet, you will be able to get a 1TB HDD for $69.99.
So once again thanks to (the future of) bittorrent, the more popular your site is, the less bandwidth you end up using. Slashdot would be CURED!
OF COURSE it is just a piece of paper. Just like all degrees.
How many complete morons do you know with a degree because mommy and daddy paid for it and they got in trouble if they didn't get good grades?
It's always just a piece of paper. It never means or proves anything as far as intelligence, experience, or common sense goes.
Why don't they simply NOT publish books on google that are less than 10 or 15 years old? If it's over 10 years old, the book is free knowledge for all. In fact, why isn't it like this for ALL media/art.
I find it ridiculous that artists, musicians, writers, etc can earn a steady income off of something they accomplished 30 years ago.
Not only would this idea eventually create much much more content for everyone, but the creators would be forced to continue working in order to make money and live. And if they only get lucky with one book, song, picture, etc, well then I guess it's time for a 9-5 job like the rest of us!
Knowledge and Art should be as accessible to the entire world as Oxygen is.
just retarded...
If I were to use Tor [eff.org] and Privoxy [privoxy.org] together like I normally do for browsing (works great), will I be ANONYMOUS as I download torrents with Opera (or with a mozilla extension for bittorrent) if I have my proxy configuration set up correctly? Being a privacy advocate, this is rather exciting for me. I have heard using Tor with Azureus overloads the servers making them less useful. I wonder if the Opera/Mozilla imbedded bittorrent will be better... What do you all think?
If I were to use Tor and Privoxy together like I normally do for browsing (works great), will I be anonymous as I download torrents with Opera if I have my proxy configuration set up correctly? Being a privacy advocate, this is rather exciting for me. I have heard using Tor with Azureus overloads the servers making them less useful. I wonder if the Opera imbedded bittorrent will be better...