Back in the good 'ol days, there used to be a very active warez scene on AOL... it worked by taking advantage of the fact that AOL would keep one copy of an uploaded email attachment on their server, regardless of how many times it was forwarded.
What people did was break up files into 1mb zips, email them to themselves, and then be able to forward those emails to who ever wanted them. All being within the same email system, they arrived instantly. Bots were created to automate it and chat rooms were set up to facilitate requests from anyone. Those were the days...
Find a new job before your network explodes and management blames it on you rather than face the fact that they should have had 3 more admins to handle the load to prevent the explosion in the first place.
Ah, ok. I'm curious because I'm from La Crosse and working for him, as well as for our local state senate candidate. (not to mention normal party stuff, college republicans stuff and going to the occasional class.:)
Thanks for your support of Tim, it's good to see a fellow republican nerd. If you ever have any free time, do try to help out. You can sign up as a volunteer on the website.
I set up my client to download this to my webserver which is sitting on a 10mbit connection.. so after I get a couple chunks, upload speeds should improve quite a bit.
Sometimes that's true, it depends on if people are leaving their bittorrents open after they're done downloading and how much upload bandwidth have. The biggest benefit of bt is that the distribution point doesn't get flooded, like NASA did today.
Just some of you go a little bit overboard with the pacifism-at-all-costs thing. Granted, the opposite doesn't work either; one just has to be open to the idea that sometimes conflicts ultimately yield better results in the end.
Well, yeah. That works too. In either event, if we didn't think we needed a military, the budget for such projects wouldn't exist- at lesat not at such levels.
Love the military or hate it, it has developed some amazing stuff for us.
You might be able to get something on them for breaking the TOS
And this is exactly what they want- or at least what they should want. They want a precedent that shows that the RIAA illegally used a modified version of KaZaa to find users to sue. By doing that, any evidence entered into court that was gathered by use of that software has a good chance of being thrown out.
The NSA has the responsiblity to do whatever it deems necessary to secure classified info while at the same time be able to comprimise everyone else's. There is very little else that we know about the NSA, however, so any speculation about it's actions and motives are purely that.
My opinion is this: I'd say that they decided that this particular algorithm would work well for them and since they have the funds to buy and use pretty much watever then want, they bought it. I also think that it's generally safe to assume that the NSA is 5-10 years ahead of the private sector when it comes to technology related to breaking encryption, based on historical record. I don't doubt the possibility that the NSA has the technology to produce quantum computers for the purpose of breaking encryption, but of course nobody can say for certain that it does. There are no other governments in the world with either the access to the latest private sector technology and research, or the funds that the US government has. Though seemingly narrow-minded and arrogant, I think that it's resonable to assume that no other government could develop such technology before the US government, or if it did, without the US government's knowing about it.
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How would this not help games? My "Republic : The Revolution" supports only systems with 512 MB of ram or more.
Because at the moment, games don't need much more than 512mb. Right now you can put up to 2 gigs in a 32 bit system. (More with SMP Xeon systems, but it's a hack that the OS and application have to support.) When games start needing more than 2 gigs then there will be an improvement with a 64 bit system and more ram.
Sorry about that, I didn't remember the quote correctly. $8-$12 is an estimate, not current figures.
from Discover Magazine, May 2003, p.52, paragraph 7: "We will be able to make oil for $8 to $12 a barrel," says Paul Baskis, the inventor of the process.
I think he confused computer engineer with software engineer. Computer Engineers are pretty much just EE's with an emphasis on VLSI design and system level software.
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Back in the good 'ol days, there used to be a very active warez scene on AOL... it worked by taking advantage of the fact that AOL would keep one copy of an uploaded email attachment on their server, regardless of how many times it was forwarded.
What people did was break up files into 1mb zips, email them to themselves, and then be able to forward those emails to who ever wanted them. All being within the same email system, they arrived instantly. Bots were created to automate it and chat rooms were set up to facilitate requests from anyone. Those were the days...
Because your cable company still has to pay off the bonds it issued in the 80s to put the cable in the ground in the first place.
The economy is not a zero-sum game.
Find a new job before your network explodes and management blames it on you rather than face the fact that they should have had 3 more admins to handle the load to prevent the explosion in the first place.
Ah, ok. I'm curious because I'm from La Crosse and working for him, as well as for our local state senate candidate. (not to mention normal party stuff, college republicans stuff and going to the occasional class. :)
Thanks for your support of Tim, it's good to see a fellow republican nerd. If you ever have any free time, do try to help out. You can sign up as a volunteer on the website.
I set up my client to download this to my webserver which is sitting on a 10mbit connection.. so after I get a couple chunks, upload speeds should improve quite a bit.
Sometimes that's true, it depends on if people are leaving their bittorrents open after they're done downloading and how much upload bandwidth have. The biggest benefit of bt is that the distribution point doesn't get flooded, like NASA did today.
Ohh, from Milwaukee, eh? Any chance that you're working for the Michels campaign?
I have a server I could seed it on but I don't have the file and NASA just took it off their server. :-/
Where I went to school, engineers needed both. Or at least the EE students did. My university didn't have minors. I got bored and switched to Econ.
I though that I'd repeat the experiment.
Enjoy.
Use thermal compound.
Just some of you go a little bit overboard with the pacifism-at-all-costs thing. Granted, the opposite doesn't work either; one just has to be open to the idea that sometimes conflicts ultimately yield better results in the end.
Alas, so is the human condition.
>ping spirit.mars.ipn.nasa.gov
Pinging spirit.mars.ipn.nasa.gov [63.210.104.88] with 32 bytes of data:
1 0 0 0 66.46.176.3 -
2 0 0 0 216.191.97.41 pos5-3.core1-mtl.bb.allstream.net
3 16 16 0 216.191.65.173 pos2-1.core2-tor.bb.allstream.net
4 16 0 15 216.191.65.243 srp2-0.gwy1-tor.bb.allstream.net
5 16 15 32 12.125.142.5 -
6 16 15 32 12.123.5.218 gbr5-p80.cgcil.ip.att.net
7 157 234 219 12.123.6.33 ggr2-p300.cgcil.ip.att.net
8 32 15 16 209.0.227.77 so-1-1-0.edge1.chicago1.level3.net
9 32 15 16 209.244.8.13 so-2-1-0.bbr2.chicago1.level3.net
10 16 31 16 4.68.112.210 so-5-0.ipcolo2.chicago1.level3.net
11 16 31 16 166.90.208.122 unknown.level3.net
* * * * 63.210.101.28 -
Damn firewall.
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Well, yeah. That works too. In either event, if we didn't think we needed a military, the budget for such projects wouldn't exist- at lesat not at such levels.
Love the military or hate it, it has developed some amazing stuff for us.
Without the need for national protection, the military's budget wouldn't exist.
And what would that greater need be?
You might be able to get something on them for breaking the TOS
And this is exactly what they want- or at least what they should want. They want a precedent that shows that the RIAA illegally used a modified version of KaZaa to find users to sue. By doing that, any evidence entered into court that was gathered by use of that software has a good chance of being thrown out.
The NSA has the responsiblity to do whatever it deems necessary to secure classified info while at the same time be able to comprimise everyone else's. There is very little else that we know about the NSA, however, so any speculation about it's actions and motives are purely that.
My opinion is this: I'd say that they decided that this particular algorithm would work well for them and since they have the funds to buy and use pretty much watever then want, they bought it. I also think that it's generally safe to assume that the NSA is 5-10 years ahead of the private sector when it comes to technology related to breaking encryption, based on historical record. I don't doubt the possibility that the NSA has the technology to produce quantum computers for the purpose of breaking encryption, but of course nobody can say for certain that it does. There are no other governments in the world with either the access to the latest private sector technology and research, or the funds that the US government has. Though seemingly narrow-minded and arrogant, I think that it's resonable to assume that no other government could develop such technology before the US government, or if it did, without the US government's knowing about it.
How would this not help games? My "Republic : The Revolution" supports only systems with 512 MB of ram or more.
Because at the moment, games don't need much more than 512mb. Right now you can put up to 2 gigs in a 32 bit system. (More with SMP Xeon systems, but it's a hack that the OS and application have to support.) When games start needing more than 2 gigs then there will be an improvement with a 64 bit system and more ram.
Sorry about that, I didn't remember the quote correctly. $8-$12 is an estimate, not current figures.
from Discover Magazine, May 2003, p.52, paragraph 7:
"We will be able to make oil for $8 to $12 a barrel," says Paul Baskis, the inventor of the process.
It CURRENTLY costs $8-10/bbl using their method. And that will only get cheaper.
> Turns out that the little one was at the same time buying up cattle, and shipping them north on their big friend's railway system.
If that's true, I'd like to read more about it. Can you provide more details or perhaps linkage?
I think he confused computer engineer with software engineer. Computer Engineers are pretty much just EE's with an emphasis on VLSI design and system level software.