Doh, The Humanity!: Broken web pages, but in a funny way
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Censored! Nothing to see here, move on
to the funny pages please.
Censored! Nothing to see here, move on
to the funny pages please.
09/03/2004 06:19 PM
The 10 big
stories the national news media ignore "Every year
researchers at Project Censored pick through volumes of print and
broadcast news to see which of the past year's most important stories
aren't receiving the kind of attention they deserve. Phillips and his
team acknowledge that many of these stories weren't
"censored" in the traditional sense of the word: No
government agency blocked their publication. And some even appeared
– briefly and without follow-up – in mainstream journals."
Surprise, surprise, most of the stories have to do with the current
administration. Some of the stories are pretty shockingly awful, like
(links are to referenced resources for the list) 3.
Bush administration manipulates science and
censors
scientists, 4.
High uranium levels
found in
tro
ops and civilians, 5.
Wholesa
le giveaway of our natural resources, 8.
Secrets of
Cheney's energy task force
come to light and finally, 10.
New nuke plants: taxpayers support, industry profits.
And people say Kerry gets a free pass by the media?
via Captain Normal (again). The business model of the funny pages
The business model of the funny pages
12/04/2003 08:23 PM When I was in college in the early 90s (B.W. -- before web), I used
to subscribe to the daily newspaper just to get my comics fix every
morning (back when Bill Waterson, Gary Larson, and Berkeley Breathed
were king). Then the web came along and I had to suffer through
the only (unfunny)
cartoonist to embrace the web. But not anymore. With stuff like
Comics-via-RSS and
Comictastic I can fire up an app
and start laughing every morning. I doubt I ever buy a newspaper again
for the funny pages, and on top of that, these even let me avoid
the lame ones I don't care
about.
Time to fix those broken pages
Time to fix those broken pages
05/29/2004 06:11 PMI have a whole bunch of gripes about Internet Explorer, but my
personal favourite is the way it will render a document served with a
text/plain Content-Type header if it thinks the file
might contain HTML. The direct result of this is that people
with misconfigured web servers who are serving their HTML with the wrong
Content-Type frequently don't realise, so when users of better behaved
browsers such as FireFox visit they get hit in the face with a page of
raw source code.
The times they are a-changing. I just spotted this gem in MSDN's article How to
Make Your Web Site Work with Windows XP Service Pack 2:
Q: Does your Web site contain files with file types that do not
match their Content-Type and/or file extension?
A: You should correct all of these mismatches. Both the
Content-Type and the file extension must match the type of the file
for a download prompt to appear. Be sure this is true for your Web
pages as well. If the Content-Type is plain/text, then they will not
render as HTML.
Of course, the rate at which people upgrade to service pack 2 is
likely to be pretty poor but at least new machines will have it
installed by default. Hopefully sites serving the wrong Content-Type
for their HTML
documents will be forced to clean up pretty quickly.
The other issue mentioned in that quotation - forcing the file
extension to match the Content-Type - is a little odd from a
non-Windows OS point of
view but I'm sure there's a rational reason behind it. At the end of
the day, anything that improves Windows security is a good thing for
the health of both the Internet and society in general.
CollegeHumor.com : New Funny Pictures,
Funny Movies, and Funny Hotlinks Daily!
CollegeHumor.com : New Funny Pictures,
Funny Movies, and Funny Hotlinks Daily!
06/16/2004 06:37 AMa disembodied hand resting on the shoulder of one of the models ..
Disembodied hand in Victoria's Secret catalog .. lesson in photoshop
.. revealed
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virals • funny emails and email
attachments
08/22/2004 04:13 AMBritish Kung Fu !
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Funny depressing, not funny haha
Funny depressing, not funny haha
01/16/2004 11:33 AMJeff Jarvis has some excellent transcriptual commentary on the
unintentionally hilarious Tim Russert segment on blogging....
Doh, The Humanity!
Doh, The Humanity!
07/21/2004 04:40 PM
Doh, The
Humanity! Broken web pages, but in a funny way. [via
B.A.'s Weblog] Glasses for Humanity
Glasses for Humanity
09/25/2004 04:00 PMI had one of those what can I do today moments with the idea of
donating in-kind to Glasses for Humanity. 90% of eye glasses are
wasted -- and Robert Tolmach's foundation is one of the most
cost-effective forms of...
Humanity Stoops to a New Low
Humanity Stoops to a New Low
07/30/2004 07:34 PM
Lost Dog Held for $10K Ransom
An elderly man went out for a walk with his dog, on the way home, the
dog disappeared. A friend helped him make some Lost Dog posters and he
waited by the phone for some good samaritan to return his only
companion.
Instead, he got a call from someone demanding $10,000 or he'd never
see his dog again. He gathered up half of his savings and went to pay
the ransom. The dognapper brandished a knife, took the money and said
the dog was tied up to a post nearby. It wasn't.
He went home brokenhearted until he heard a car door slam outside and
his dog came running up to greet him. Now he wonders if the dognappers
were putting him on the whole time.
Journalising humanity
Journalising humanity
04/12/2004 10:02 AM
A photo
journal of a UNPA Nurse Practitioner's experiences in Operation
Iraqi Freedom.
A New Frontier for Humanity
A New Frontier for Humanity
06/21/2004 12:41 PMIt's impossible to overstate the importance of this morning's
privately funded
space flight by Mike Melvill, who piloted SpaceShipOne into a
suborbital flight 100 kilometers high. Neil Armstrong took a giant
step in 1969, but this was just as important.
I have huge respect for NASA, the U.S. space agency. But NASA needs the help of private
explorers and industry, and of people like Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founded
who funded this mission. We need NASA for the giant endeavors, but we
need privately funded space flight for everything else.
Congratulations to all.
Yellow pages? Pink pages
Yellow pages? Pink pages
06/04/2004 07:04 AMI'm up early working on my English Essay. It will be done in about 15
minutes. I just had to...
Technology enabling humanity
Technology enabling humanity
07/10/2004 01:16 AMSunday Times South Africa Jul 10 2004 5:20AM GMT
Is There Hope for Humanity?: A
Conversation
Is There Hope for Humanity?: A
Conversation
06/05/2005 11:12 PM
I'm beginning to appreciate that
conversati
ons are useful ways to explore ideas even if they're with yourself.
So here's some more thinking out loud between my two schizophrenic
halves, Dave the Idealist and Dave the Skeptic, on the subject of
whether humanity has what it takes to get its act together and save
the
world:
Dave the Idealist
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Dave
the Skeptic
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Yes, I know I liked John
Gray's book,
found it liberating in fact, but I still believe people are good at
heart, and their instincts are right if they can re-learn to listen to
them. And remember Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it
is the
only thing that ever has."
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So
your argument is that we're going to save the world either by some
massive act of collective altruism, even though such a thing is
unprecedented, or by some subversive act by some clever noble clique
of
do-gooders. You know, some people would say that Bush's neocon
born-again cabal fit Margaret Mead's 'small group of world-changers'
definition perfectly. If that's what she was referring to, small
groups
of nazis and megalomaniac idealists, we're in trouble. Or is your
'small group' going to put birth control in the water supply and
sabotage civilization until we have anarchy and chaos? -- which is
actually the neocons' dream situation, since if that were to happen
they'd just take over and feel self-justified in doing so, as they
would see you as terrorists.
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We
overcame slavery, we gave women the vote, we invented written language
and a lot of other amazing things, including birth control
technologies, we've made democracy, an improbable way of running the
world, work, and we've found ways to strike a balance in the economy
between complete totalitarianism and complete laissez-faire. We're
learning what doesn't work,
we have unprecedented peer-to-peer grassroots communication and
organization, and we have more knowledge available to a larger
percentage of the population than ever before. And instead of just
writing dystopias, many people are actually proposing practical ways
to
bring about massive change.
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The
last century featured more murders, more imprisonment, more torture,
more war deaths, and greater extremes in distribution of wealth and
power than any in our history. Every technology we've invented has a
dark side that has been more effectively exploited than its positive
applications. And as for communication, the digital divide is wider
than ever. You shouldn't judge the state of the world by the view from
your rosy little corner of it.
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Stories
are all we are. When we have learned new stories, we have become very
different creatures very quickly, in a generation or two. It's our
ingenuity, our ability to change and respond to new and intuitively
better, healthier, happier ways to live, and learn from each other
peer-to-peer that makes me optimistic and hopeful, not new
technologies, which I admit are a double-edged sword.
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Stories
also allow fanatics and maniacs to raise huge and bloodthirsty armies,
and allow cults, including most modern religions and political
parties,
to brainwash people to act against both their personal and collective
interest. Myths and other stories allow people to tolerate and live in
denial of atrocities going on all around them. Religious stories have
prompted most of history's most brutal and protracted wars. And we're
so adaptable that we learn to live a life of never-ending oppression,
subjugation and deprivation, and we delude ourselves that our pathetic
lives are good, healthy, deserved, getting better and the only way to
live.
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But we
are also capable of forgetting, forgiving and moving on quickly, when
a
better story, a better way of living, is told to us. And in the last
decade a significant minority of the population is on a roll -- better
informed, more inventive, more attuned to and knowledgeable about
that's needed, what's happening and what's possible than ever before.
They're able to use networking technology to make creative, synthetic,
analogical and metaphorical leaps, collaboratively,
in ways that would have been almost unimaginable even a generation
ago.
We have already witnessed, in the 1960s, a huge shift in mainstream
thinking and worldviews occurring in an astonishingly short period of
time, and if we could do something like that again now we have much
more powerful tools and much greater knowledge to do it with, so it
might actually endure this time.
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Pure
romanticism. The 1960s weren't nearly as rosy and liberated as you
remember them. Many guys jumped on the bandwagon in complete ignorance
and indifference to the peace and liberation movements -- they were
merely attracted by the promise of cheap dope and easy sex. Your faith
(and it's nothing more than faith, since there's no solid reasoning
behind it) that we could start a similar movement in this century and
this time it would endure and bring about ubiquitous change, is simply
the left-wing version of the right-wingers' Rapture. People don't
change, cultures don't change, and there's an unprecedented level of
investment in maintaining the status quo working against any little
movement that might threaten that. We are programmed by our DNA to
spend almost all of our time and energy living moment to moment and
distracted by the minutiae of constant and trivial decisions. And even
if this were not so, as Gray argues so articulately we have no 'free
will' or collective consciousness. Even as 'individual' creatures we
are merely collections of cells, molecules and organs, each doing what
they do, largely for mutual benefit, and almost entirely (99.9999%)
subconscious. So belief that we can somehow get our personal
act together, let alone one at the level of some higher social order,
and transform ourselves into what we are not, seems to me the height
of
folly, a form of leftist religious fanaticism.
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There
you
go, relying on science again, that collection of unreliable and creaky
models of reality, to make your argument. The whole, at every level of
aggregation, is always greater than the sum of the parts. Gaia is much
more than just all individual life on Earth. We as individual and
wondrous creatures are more than a mere collection of our cells,
molecules and organs. And I'm not being spiritual here. Forget about
'consciousness' and these other academic and utterly meaningless
concepts. We as individuals, and our planet as an organism of a
different order, are mostly what happens between our composite parts.
We are sensation, reaction, communication, learning, understanding,
and
the stories that recall them. Most of what we are at both the creature
level and at the Gaia level are what is happening in the
intersections,
margins and edges around the component parts. That is where our true
sense of self and meaning resides, that is where our instincts draw
their wisdom, that is what our DNA remembers and tells us to do. Your
myopic science, looking at individual organisms in isolation, is no
more able to understand the great truths of life, and the nature of
our
existence, than a collector dissecting dead monarch butterflies is
able
to comprehend the astonishing transformation of that creature's life,
or how it could have 'learned' where and how to migrate when three
generations have transpired since the last generation, or how sun and
flowers and smells make a butterfly happy and inform its understanding
of the purpose of its life.
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Let's
look at this argument. You're saying, I think, that almost all of what
we are is subconscious, and that an important part of what we are is
our relationships with 'others' outside ourselves. Yes? OK. So then
you're saying that what can/will save us is something in our collective unconsciousness or subconsciousness?
That deep down 'we' intuitively know what needs to be done, what is
happening, and what is possible, and will use that knowledge to
collectively do what is in our collective interest. Well, at least
that's better than relying on gods. But if we had this great
collective
unconsciouness or subconsciousness, wouldn't we have been able to
figure out, even before Einstein did, that almost all human
inventions,
notably in the media (since the invention of writing and the printing
press), in transportation (since the invention of the lever, the
inclined plane, the sledge and the wheel) and in the tapping of stored
energy (since the invention of controlled fire) would have more
negative consequences for our planet than positive ones, and hence
prevent them from emerging? No, don't give me that nonsense that the
global population is leveling off because we somehow 'know' it must,
since people have repeatedly told researchers the only reason they don't have one or
two more
kids each is that they can't financially afford it (for now). If we
('we' being either all humanity or all creatures on the planet) are
our
own collective guiding hand, that guiding hand has done a pretty lousy
job over the last 30,000 years. Just because we've lost touch with
nature and Gaia, you say? I think it's more likely that we're just an
exceptionally fierce and adaptable species which emerged by random
accident from the primeval soup and, like all fierce and adaptable
species in Earth's history, plagued (in the literal sense of the word,
not the moral one) the planet until a meteor came along, or a climate
change or new species evolved that preyed on excessive numbers of the
plague species, and restored equilibrium and the selected preference
of
known life for biodiversity. Disequilibrium is neither new or
unnatural
in the universe. And that, more than the crown of creation, more even
than the sum of our 'stories', is what we humans really are.
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SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken
SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken
08/16/2004 09:38 PMRe: SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken
Re: SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken
08/19/2004 10:25 PMAnthony Nemmer (Aug 18 2004)
Renewing my basic faith in humanity
Renewing my basic faith in humanity
06/01/2004 03:53 PMThough I'm not saying what I have faith in them to do. Still, Oingo
Boingo does say it best, don't they? Nasty Habits and Clowns of Death
(since, after all, boys will be boys...) Mmmm, clowns....
Humanity will survive information deluge
Humanity will survive information deluge
12/07/2003 08:20 AMGoogle contextual ads: working for
humanity
Google contextual ads: working for
humanity
07/23/2004 06:36 AMLetters special Delicious juxtapositions
Oh, the humanity: Power Mac G5 gutted,
turned into PC
Oh, the humanity: Power Mac G5 gutted,
turned into PC
01/28/2004 12:05 AMOne PC user has done the unthinkable: gutted a brand new dual
processor Power Mac G5 and installed PC components...
Humanity will survive information deluge
- Sir Arthur C Clarke
Humanity will survive information deluge
- Sir Arthur C Clarke
12/09/2003 07:21 AMinterview .. OneWorld
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Ubersite - Exploiting Peer-to-Peer
Networking: I have lost all faith in
humanity.
Ubersite - Exploiting Peer-to-Peer
Networking: I have lost all faith in
humanity.
04/11/2004 02:38 PMUbersite - Exploiting Peer-to-Peer Networking: I have lost all faith
in humanity
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Funny
Funny
09/09/2004 11:10 AMPolitical satire. (Thanks to Cory for the link.)...
It wasn't funny
It wasn't funny
09/09/2004 04:52 PMSaw
Shrek 2. Disappointed.
I think it wasn't as funny as the first one, because it laughed at
Hollywood. And you just can't laugh at Hollywood, because that place
is so crazy already. Poking the fairy tales and Disneyland in the
first part worked, because it was new, and they take themselves so
seriously. Populating Hollywood with magical creatures is so
unsuprising, you almost go "where are all the pixie versions of
the crack whores?" And everybody laughs at the movie industry
every day for being what they are - they're better parodies of
themselves than what anyone can do.
Shrek 2 felt just like a big US movie industry injoke, something you
could sort of see was meant to be funny, but couldn't quite work out
because of lacking background knowledge.
Okay, I laughed a few times. But I was hoping for better.
That's funny
That's funny
04/26/2004 08:16 PMWhen I saw this headline - I thought that it meant
"LinkedIn was supporting FOAF". Hah!
Li
nkedIn Unleashed. 
Scott Allen, of Online Business Networks (and one of the judges in
our recently completed ‘Perfect Pitch’ competition,) is
doing something newsworthy this Wednesday, April 28, 2004 — he is
conducting a 60
minute Teleclass on how to use LinkedIn to better achieve your
professional goals.
Many of us utilize a broad spectrum of
YASNS, or I should say many of us belong to a number of different
SNS’s — but, are we really making good use of them? Or are
we just joining as many as we can — hoping to increase the size
of our YASNS trading card decks?
When I heard that Scott was
giving this class, I was intrigued. It will be interesting to see if
any of the other Business Networkings Services — specifically
— follow suit and offer a similar series of educational spots to
help improve the understanding and utilization of their services
amongst their user bases.
Think I’ll go check it out…
(-:=
[
The Social
Software Weblog]
Be Funny Or You're Fired
Be Funny Or You're Fired
08/27/2004 01:28 PM I was traveling on Southwest Airlines a couple of days ago. It was
kind of weird. Seemingly, they have implemented a new corporate
policy.
The Truth is Funny Ha-Ha
The Truth is Funny Ha-Ha
03/21/2003 09:13 AM Russia Makes It Funny: Communist
Party organ
Pravda
["Truth"] updates its play for the
weird
news niche with a skewed take on the blogging aesthetic, with
links to Romanesko
New World
Disorder.
A lot of people like going to saunas. A sauna used to be
associated with cold beer and a company of friends. Now the situation
has changed a bit: going to a sauna implies some sort of sexual
activities and even perversion sometimes. Steam, beer and friends have
been pushed into the background. Since people love mixing business
with pleasure, let us try to find out, to which extent the sauna
entertainment is good, and to which extent it is bad.
Life.......sometimes it's just funny
Life.......sometimes it's just funny
10/29/2003 12:11 AM I stole this one from Ryan UComics...
Funny lines
Funny lines
12/05/2003 09:04 AM Cartoons act like cocaine. *snort*
(via PVP) Funny article
Funny article
11/12/2003 01:14 PMPaulo Ferreira (Nov 12 2003)
RE: Funny article
RE: Funny article
11/12/2003 05:37 PMLance James (Nov 12 2003)
Funny review
Funny review
11/13/2003 12:23 PMI don’t link to every review of NetNewsWire—but
Chris
Seibold’s review is funny.
Everyone knows what a RSS feed is, well maybe not
everyone. If you don't know what an RSS feed is send me your home
address and I'll personally come kick you to death for being so
out of touch. I'm joking, my knees feel like gravel in a Ziplock
bag, I couldn't kick an ant to death.
So You Think Physics is Funny?
So You Think Physics is Funny?
12/05/2003 04:12 PMmzs writes "I just found this article in PhysicsWorld by Robert P.
Crease detailing some of the 'better' physics jokes that readers sent
him in response to an ...
Be truthful - and funny will come
Be truthful - and funny will come
08/10/2004 03:39 PM
Jason Byrne: You talk about Muhammad Ali in your
latest DVD and how frightening it was to be in the ring with him. But
do you reckon you could beat him now that the two of you shake like
maracas?
Richard Pryor: That's your fuckin' question? "such a funny story"
"such a funny story"
07/20/2004 09:40 AMFunny and Serious - Simultaneously
Funny and Serious - Simultaneously
05/10/2004 01:28 PMChris Pirillo's "Geeks Gone Wild!" will make its national debut on the
Comedy Central Network, Saturday October 16th, 2004 (4 - 5 AM). Now
you've got one more GREAT reason to be there! Join us for your chance
to be seen on the scene, or simply set your PVR for remote
enjoyment....
Be Funny, Win An iPod
Be Funny, Win An iPod
04/01/2005 09:29 AMIt is Foo Friday - Here is your Funny
It is Foo Friday - Here is your Funny
07/16/2004 06:45 AMDog days of summer...
From the If It Weren't So Sad It Would
Be Funny Department
From the If It Weren't So Sad It Would
Be Funny Department
06/29/2004 09:13 AM
NY Times:
"They're copying our concepts," Mr. Jobs said. "I'd kind of like to
get credit sometime."
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Meet absolutePDF-Creator Easy, a new PDF
generation library for Windows
programmers
Meet absolutePDF-Creator Easy, a new PDF
generation library for Windows
programmers
07/22/2004 02:41 AMabsolutePDF just released a new optimized version of
absolutePDF-Creator Easy, a library that enables developers to create
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[PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]
Bit Torrent creator laughs at Microsoft
P2P
Bit Torrent creator laughs at Microsoft
P2P
06/24/2005 08:36 PMLoki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it, we've got it.
Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it, we've got it.
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Download, You name it..."
"Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it..."
12/31/2004 10:23 AMTorrent 0.61
Torrent 0.61
01/27/2004 02:58 PMAn arcade game with colored tiles.
Torrent Zip
Torrent Zip
03/31/2005 11:44 PMThe project is live!
My first torrent
My first torrent
07/30/2004 03:00 AM
Thanks to Jim and Ado for setting up the BitTorrent tracker. Here
is a
torrent for Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture talk in Helsinki that
I blogged about earlier.
UPDATE: Please standby. It doesn't seem to be working.
Comment -
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Sri Lankan hip-hop mix: torrent
Sri Lankan hip-hop mix: torrent
03/17/2005 03:55 AMXeni Jardin:
Boing Boing reader
Lucas
Emery says,
Your big article on M.I.A over the weekend reminded me that I had
downloaded a mix mp3 shortly after the Tsunami disaster comprised
exclusivly of Sri Lankan hip-hop. I can't remember where I originally
found the mix (boomselection, maybe?) so I just made a .torrent. 58.4
Meg mp3 mix by Dr. Auratheft.
Link
Previously:
M.I.A. is, well, MIA; and
MIA for intergalactic overlord
Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV
Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV
06/21/2004 07:41 AMBit Torrent : An Analysis
Bit Torrent : An Analysis
12/19/2004 03:10 PMHardy news site,
The Register, recently published a
detailed analysis of the file sharing protocol
Bit
Torrent. Bit Torrent has received attention in the main stream
news after reports that it was carrying as much as 50% of all peer 2
peer (p2p) traffic, which in tern amounted to a massive 30% of all the
traffic on the internet. The paper, by Dr. Johan Pouwelse, examines
the protocol and looks especially at one of the largest bit-torrent
hubs, Suprnova.org. He examines how just 20 moderators solve the
problem of fake files, something that plagues the traditional file
sharing networks like Kazaa.
Dr Powelse notes that the major problems facing hubs like suprnova are
fakes and maintaining hub availability. The availability of files on
bit torrent is based on a centralised system; without it, the network
fails as users cannot access the trackers. Decentralising bit torrent
has already begun - Suprnova have started a project called "
Exeem" which apparently has 5,000 beta
testers trialling it, and has an ultimate aim of taking the best of
Kazaa (a decentralised network) and merging it with Bit Torrent.
Decentralisation removes the issue of poor availability at the tracker
end, yet0 it also provides more scope for fake files and a reduction
in data integrity at the user end.
The paper concludes that bit-torrent needs to evolve to create
incentives to users to seed files. Bit-torrent as a protocol is a
system that’s here to stay; it enjoys more and more usage from more
main stream content providers. Yes, there is a lot of illegitimate use
of the protocol, but unlike Kazaa, these users should not be allowed
to over shadow the usefulness to legitimate users of the bit torrent
protocol.
[Update] Since this article was published, Suprnova has
shutdown as a hub for torrents. Although this cannot be confirmed, the
shutdown is very likely related to legal action from the
Hollywood against tracker
websites; earlier in the week many other sites were taken down.
The effectiveness of the takedowns could be massive; the paper below
notes that when on the Suprnova mirrors went offline during their
monitoring period, they saw a massive reduction in the number of users
downloading files through the site.
Download:
The Paper (pdf) |
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RegisterRead full story...Bit Torrent question
Bit Torrent question
04/09/2004 10:30 PMBit
Torrent and the ability to download everything in one click (is this
the end of Direct TV, Tivo and the music business?!).
Used BitTorrent a little bit when it first came out and was a bit
underwhelmed. It didn’t work, there weren’t a lot of
places to find files, etc.
I decided to take another look at it when a designer friend of mine
was telling me that he has the latest version of every single piece of
design software on his Mac compliments of bit torrent (yes, I know
it’s wrong… not the point I’m trying to make, the point
is coming :-).
Part I: I installed bit torrent and immediately
noticed an amazing new trend (prob. not new to all of you) of people
posting dozens of albums in one RAR file for download. Huge file sizes
in the 500 to 4,000 meg size range. The last season of seven seasons
of Southpark, every Nirvanna album and here is another file with every
Howard Stern radio show from March in one file.
In one click you grab one really well organized, clean and deep
sets of files—scary.
Part II: A couple of month ago I got the Gateway
Connected DVD player. For $195 it connects via WiFi to my desktop and
I can hit the My Music or My Videos button on the remote control and
pull up those directories on my hard drive (in the other room).
Part III: Today I moved into my new apartment in
Santa Monica and was faced with the standard $100 month cable/dish
bill and I’m thinking “dang, I only watch less then a half
dozen TV shows and they are all here on bit torrent… maybe I
should save the $1,200 a year and just download the shows and watch
them via my Gateway Connected DVD player?”
The Point/Question: How soon before you’ll be
able-with one click-download every prime-time TV show or last
year’s top 500 CDs in one click?!
(Note: This is not a trick question, I have yet to find a file
containing that much content—however, I did find a file with last
weeks top 100 singles that someone put together in one nice
package).
[
The Digital
Music Weblog]
It's the torrent, stupid
It's the torrent, stupid
12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Xeni Jardin:
Mark Pesce rants about
the recent shutdowns of BitTorrent supersites Suprnova.org and
TorrentBits.com.
Hey, Hollywood! Can you feel the future slipping through your fingers?
Do you understand how badly you've screwed up? You took a perfectly
serviceable situation - a nice, centralized system for the
distribution
of media, and, through your own greed and shortsightedness, are giving
birth to a system of digital distribution that you'll never, ever be
able to defeat. In your avarice and arrogance you ignored the obvious:
you should have cut a deal with SuprNova.org. In partnership you could
have found a way to manage the disruptive change that's already well
underway. Instead, you have repeated the mistakes made by the
recording
industry, chapter and verse. And thus you have spelled your own doom.
It's said that the best sequels are just like the original, only
bigger
and louder. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for one hell of a
crash. This baby is now fully out of control.
Link (
via waxy)
Following up on Torrent Shutdowns
Following up on Torrent Shutdowns
12/22/2004 01:40 AMSlashdot Dec 21 2004 6:33PM GMT
CC Torrent Hosting
CC Torrent Hosting
12/17/2004 06:33 PM
Torrentocracy has announced a free BitTorrent hosting service for Creative
Commons licensed content: Prodigem.
Download one of the beta torrents
currently available. Send an email to Torrentocracy creator Gary Lerhaupt to request an upload
account.
Update: Download all of the Duke Law School
Arts Project Moving Image Contest finalists via one torrent at prodigem.
ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2
ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2
05/05/2004 10:52 PMAn arcade game with colored tiles.
Xcode .torrent
Xcode .torrent
08/08/2004 02:13 AMApple just released an update to is Xcode development tools, but
Apple's content distribution network is slow and poky, and as Danny
notes, it "won't let you resume downloads using wget -c." So here's a
.torrent for Xcode.
Link
(
via Oblomovka)
Battle Torrent
Battle Torrent
08/11/2004 09:45 AMThanks to Dave over at Scripting News for the link. The
already easy process of downloading files via BitTorrent has just
gotten easier. [Downhill
Battle]
Torrent of video from DV Guide
Torrent of video from DV Guide
08/30/2004 02:55 AMdv.open4all.info/bblog/torrent_files/20040828_kinberg.mov.torrenttrack
this site | 3 links
Comrade - Bit Torrent Client
Comrade - Bit Torrent Client
06/24/2004 12:03 AMWorking.
"Torrent Link for 74 briefs in 20.7MB"
"Torrent Link for 74 briefs in 20.7MB"
03/27/2005 10:28 AMGrokster briefs torrent
Grokster briefs torrent
03/26/2005 05:13 AMCory Doctorow:
Thad sez, "This is a torrent of all of the briefs submitted re: MGM v.
Grokster, in the zip format provided on the U.S. Copyright Office
site."
Torrent Link for 74 briefs
in 20.7MBSP2 Bit Torrent Legal Challenge
SP2 Bit Torrent Legal Challenge
08/11/2004 05:20 PMDownload the Windows XP Service Pack
2: The guys who were doing Microsoft a favor by pushing Service
Pack 2 via Bit Torrent got slapped down by Redmond.
Microsoft sent DMCA takedown notices to our two webhosts,
one of which was just linking to a torrent file on another server.
We've stood up to these kinds of legal threats before (see the Grey
Tuesday protests), but we decided not to bother this time, because we
started this site primarily as a demonstration and to that end it's
already been a huge success.
Click here to comment on this entry
Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent
Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent
06/17/2005 03:18 PMResearchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have
developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes
the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution
protocols such as Bit Torrent.
The researchers claim download times are between 20-30 per cent
faster, using their network coding approach, than on systems that only
code at the server, and between 200 and 300 per cent faster than
distributing un-encoded information.
View:
Full Article @ The Register
View:
Avalanche WhitepaperRead full story...Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2
Users?
Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2
Users?
11/18/2003 07:54 PMTorrent Site Status
Torrent Site Status
01/07/2005 04:15 AMDon’t download too much pr0n .. Torrent Site
Status
orbdesign.net/bt
track this
site | 3 links
Outfoxed interviews available under CC
license via Bit Torrent
Outfoxed interviews available under CC
license via Bit Torrent
09/15/2004 03:51 AM
torrentocracy - blog
Outfoxed Torrent (torrentocracy exclusive)
In working with Lawrence Lessig, Robert Greenwald has agreed to
release the interviews within Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on
Journalism under a Creative
Commons non-commercial license (press release). This means that
among the rights now
granted, interviews balancing out the fair journalism of Fox News
can freely be used as anyone sees fit. To see the full movie, you can
purchase the Outfoxed
DVD or check it out in theaters.
Torrentocracy (along with archive.org) has
exclusive initial access to distribute these interviews in their
digital form due to the work undertaken to promote a TV-connected,
public domain, internet based media distribution network. The torrent
file to start your Outfoxed download can be found at http://www.torrentocracy.com/files/torrents/outfoxed_intervie
ws.torrent. For more information on how to use bit torrent
peer-to-peer filesharing to download this, go here. If you were a Torrentocracy
user, you could already be downloading Outfoxed to your
television.
Here's some serious substantial non-infringing
use of P2P. I bought the DVD and watched Outfoxed. Definitely worth
buying the DVD, but being able to download and use the interviews from
the documentary is a great contribution to the commons. It will be
interesting to see how people remix this stuff.
Comment -
TrackBack
Outfoxed interviews .torrent for
remixing
Outfoxed interviews .torrent for
remixing
09/15/2004 11:36 AM
Cory Doctorow:
The interviews from the awesome anti-Fox documentary
Outfoxed have been released under a
Creative Commons license, for you to remix. Here's the .torrent:
Torrent Link
(
via Lessig)
Defense fund for Bit Torrent indexer
Defense fund for Bit Torrent indexer
12/30/2004 02:45 AM
Cory Doctorow:
LokiTorrent is a BitTorrent indexing site -- like the lamented
Suprnova -- that has been threatened with legal action by the MPAA for
telling people where to download torrent files that allow them to
download video and other large data-objects. Unlike some of the other
Torrent indexers that shut down last week, LokiTorrent is mounting a
legal defense. They're trying to raise a legal defense fund of
$30,000, and they've made $11,500 in the first 12 hours.
Link
(
via /.)
Torrent for Windows XP Service Pack 2
Torrent for Windows XP Service Pack 2
08/09/2004 04:48 PMMicrosoft needs to distribute its new Win XP Service Pack 2 to 260
million Windows users at 75MB each. Moving a wodge that big to that
many machines is too much even for the biggest software company on the
planet. So the folks at Downhill Battle have seized upon this as an
opportunity to prove the substantial noninfringing uses of P2P by
releasing a .torrent of SP@ (complete with checksum info so that you
can verify that this isn't some malware-riddled trojan, except to the
extent that it is a typical piece of the Windows XP OS). Join the
mesh, shoulder the load, get your medicine -- the 21st Century way.
Link
(
via Waxy)
Eyes on the Screen torrent mirror
Eyes on the Screen torrent mirror
02/01/2005 08:38 PMCory Doctorow:
Eyes on the Screen is an amazing Downhill Battle project that we
blogged earlier. The idea is to get people to download the
seminal documentary Eyes on the Prize, which chronicles the American
civil rights movement. It's a Black History Month perrennial, but
because of the prohibitive cost of clearing the copyrights to the
archival footage used in the series. Once the series has been
downloaded, you'd be encouraged to host a screening party for your
friends and neighbors on February 8th, and ensure that the vital
messages of this documentary don't fade away due to outmoded laws.
The Downhill Battle torrents for Eyes on the Prize have gone away, but
there is still a mirror of them available. Please consider using the
mirror to get your own copies and host a party of your own.
At 8pm on February 8th we will celebrate the struggle and triumph of
the civil rights movement with screenings of Eyes on the Prize Part 1:
Awakenings. Eyes on the Prize is the most renowned civil rights
documentary of all time; for many people, it is how they first learned
about the Civil Rights Movement (more about the film). But this film
has not been available on video or television for the past 10 years
simply because of expired copyright licenses. We cannot allow
copyright red tape to keep this film from the public any longer. So
today we are making digital versions of the film available for
download. Join us in building a new mass audience for this film:
organize or attend a screening in your city, town, school or home on
February 8th.
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