Comments on: Goodbye ed2k and bittorrent

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:50:30 +0000

coolwebsearch sux

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:17:12 +0000

Very funny! Took me a while to clip!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:50:47 +0000

Except when you do everything to have the legislation voted just before christmas, when there’s no one but some lobby-paid representatives in the house, and that the state made this an “urgent law”, which means that the house of representatives & the senate will vote on it WITHOUT debates and in 2 nights in a row…

My opinion : Let them vote it, and see how unappliable it is afterwards. The “Syndicat de la magistrature” (The judge’s & prosecutors guild) already said they are not willing to enforce such laws…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:04:13 +0000

I’m sorry to say but if you download executables from services like Gnutella/fastrack/ed2k then you deserve all the spyware and viruses you receive.

Anyone with half a brain knows those services are flooded wth malware and should be avoided like the plauge as far as programs are concerned.

I only use irc/bittorrent for executables. I Ensure the comments are favourable before i download as well as making sure it has atleast 100 downloaders/seeds. Even then, aftering downloading i run virus/spyware scans on them (Well i used to atleast, i use linux now, so viruses ect are not a problem).

“Look, I like sex, having some money and learning about computers as much as anyone else. But really, there’s a big, fat hairy line between “like” and “obsessed”.”

If you hadn’t noticed the world is obsessed by sex. Downloading some porn is normal and heathly. These are biological drives don’t forget.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:01:36 +0000

I have to agree. P2p and much of the Internet is nothing but malware and spam or websites trying to sell something. I only have dialup at home and I have no desire for anything else. Does that mean that i am no longer able to find content that I like? No, I can find plenty of content. I just no longer rely on the Internet. This is where Muni-nets, and Freewans (as well as sneaker nets) fill the void. I have seen a couple of articles about student run local area networks online. The owners of the LAN are the ones that set the rules in order to keep the crap out. This is where the real action is. Yes, good information can be found on the Internet, but it is becoming less and less friendly. When I use the Internet, it is usually to connect to another one of these networks that I just described.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:35:24 +0000

Bud, you haven’t a clue what you’re saying.

Socialism is a system in which the means of production (e.g. businesses, factories) are publicly owned, usually through the government.

Communism is a system in which pretty much all private property is publicly owned.

I don’t know of anyone who thinks that’s a good idea, much less any liberals. And trust me: I am one.

By contrast, here we are with balooning deficits, urgent needs (e.g. Katrina aftermath, meeting our obligations with Social Security and Medicare, the war in Iraq), the lowest tax rates of all industrialized nations (much lower than U.S. historical rates under which we experienced tremendous economic growth), and rampant corporate corruption, yet you guys still just can’t stop slashing taxes and gutting regulations.

Tell me again how you think modern society “needs some government”.

Now, if you’re not talking economics, then I actually agree with you: modern conservatives pretty much think government should be mucking around in our bedrooms, our churches, etc. Just about everywhere the Constitution says it shouldn’t be, instead of where it says it should and where history says government has competence: managing the national economy and protecting civil rights.

Oh, and one more thing: I happen to be a federal employee who’s also worked in the private sector. And I have to tell you: the more government gets to look like a corporation (as it has been over the last several years), the worse things are getting in terms of efficiency, clean government and public service.

Sounds like you have a lot to learn.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:00:02 +0000

Well, I can tell you that I’ve been arguing politics online for roughly 10 years, and am a political activist. The Grover Norquist-type “modern day conservative” is a mix of libertarianism and other far-right ideologies. It’s a person who lives in an alternate reality, and yes, basically believes government should be small to non-existent (with functions pretty much restricted to national defense, and even then, outsourced as much as possible).

Speaking of alternate reality, the notion that “liberals simply believe government should control everything” is simply, demonstrably false.

You might try getting your information from a source besides the Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity crew. They’re not in the business of telling the truth, you know.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:30:09 +0000

>> Modern-day conservatives, by contrast, think government is basically unnecessary, and are fine with corporations running and owning everything.

I don’t know what “Modern-Day Conservatives” you talk to, but you’re full of crap. This Conservative realizes modern society needs some government, without which there’d be no infrastructure. I don’t, by the way, consider free housing and welfare givaways infrastructure. By the way, if the government were run a little more like a corporation there wouldn’t be a US national debt bigger that most other countries GNP.

>> Liberals simply believe that capitalism doens’t work without government intervention, regulation and management. Modern liberals are democratic capitalists through and through.

Wrong, Liberals simply believe goverment should control everything. That way, in their twisted view, they wouldn’t have to work for anything. The government will just give it to you. Idiots, that money has to come from somewhere. How many times does socialism, communism, marxism and the older centralized governments like monarchies have to fail before they’re given up on? I know that may hurt some feelings, but tough, there it is.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:51:49 +0000

I don’t know, might be. I tried it with my old dialup, thought maybe that was it. Tried the DSL at work, then here at home when we got it, but no luck. Supposedly it’ll work for downloads without openning a port in my firewall, but who knows. There was no firewall when I had dialup and I had the same problem, there. I did get DLs, they just took days for a few MBs. Maybe the client(?), it was eDonkey.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:44:27 +0000

It might be worth a look. I don’t blame the different file transfer clients for corrupted binaries. They only do what’s asked. But then you get these folks that accedently DL a corrupted file and don’t clean it out, then, it happens again and again. I only got lucky with the Unreal image from off GNUTella, all the others before were corrupted, too. By the way, I did turn around and put it back on after I confirmed it clean.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:44:16 +0000

Not really.

As George Will (hardly a liberal himself) said, “capitalism is a government program”.

Liberals simply believe that capitalism doens’t work without government intervention, regulation and management. Modern liberals are democratic capitalists through and through.

Modern-day conservatives, by contrast, think government is basically unnecessary, and are fine with corporations running and owning everything.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:23:09 +0000

I believe the terms capitailsm and liberal and mutually exclusive, atleast in todays climate.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:18:48 +0000

The must the comply with the open source licencing terms, which usually requires sharing of changes with the community. Failure to comply with this opens them up to legal proceedings.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:06:06 +0000

Also give µTorrent a whirl, Jack.

http://www.utorrent.com/

Cheers!

(PS - You like Pogo too, huh? heh)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:00:47 +0000

Thanks for the link. I remain highly skeptical that this would ever get through — foolish legislation is proposed all the time in many countries, most of which ends up dying deserved deaths.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:47:25 +0000

Palomar Jack sounds like you have your emule set up wrong, i bag gigs of stuff with no problem at all with no porn.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:27:31 +0000

Congratulations on this excellent piece of surrealist art.

I can hardly wait to see your next article entitled “Goodbye Microsoft and Google”.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:21:28 +0000

The RIAA will fail to close down GNUTella 1 and 2. They’re wasting their time going after users, because it’s collapsing all by itself. Why? Try downloading a binary. You’ll get little files that are trojans, porn dialers and other spam type files. Change the name to something else, and the servers change the name of the malware and offer it up on your next search. Try downloading a track, yeah right. At times I’v seen my 3Mb connection download at dialup speeds, while swarming from 8 servers. I wanted to know what was causing this, so, on a hunch I downloaded some porn and put it up for sharing. BANG! My upstream was brought to it’s knees and my downstream was cut in half from all the hits, alone. No, it’s not an evil plot by the IRAA, it’s the users, spammers and malignant hackers with their porn, trojans, spam and greed that will kill P2P.

ed2K is no different, it takes hours to download one puny 4MB mp3, but stick a porn .avi up and you’re instantly everybodies favorite server.

Bittorrent’s a total laugh, my old Unreal Gold CDROM developed a crack some time ago and I didn’t want to waste $10 US on another CD. No problem, right? Wrong. I go to ISO Hunter to download another image. BAH! After a couple of weeks of waiting for the downloads to complete, if they did, all I got was a bunch of corrupted binary BS. I finally got lucky with GNUTella, after a couple of days waiting for a puny 230 some odd MB .zip download.

Let’s face it, it’s uncomfortable for most to admit it, but obsessions with sex, greed and breaking into anothers computer at any cost will succeed where the IRAA will fail, count on it.

There is a ray of hope, check out http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/ , http://konspire.sourceforge.net/ and http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ . Of course, whats to stop these services to from taking it on the chin, bandwidth wise, from peoples obsessions with porn and greed? Freenet is secure from the IRAA by storing bit’s and pieces of files accross peers, but if it’s all porn and spam, well, what good is security? For now, Mute seems secure but can suffer the same fate and Konspire[2b] is channelized, so if you don’t want this crud, you won’t get it. But, spammers and malignant hackers are a stubbern bunch and they’ll find a way to screw these services up, too.

Look, I like sex, having some money and learning about computers as much as anyone else. But really, there’s a big, fat hairy line between “like” and “obsessed”.

“I have seen the enemy, and it is ourselves.”

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:41:52 +0000

http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.fr.html

In french only, but published by the Free software fundation

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:45:07 +0000

Considering that such a law would criminalize development on Linux, BSD, Apache et al, upon which the Internet entirely depends, I kind of doubt it And that’s especially true considering that France has demonstrated a historical openness and interest in open-source software.

I’d love to see a link, though. Sounds like an urban legend.