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Netsukuku the Anarchical Parallel Internet (Internet)
By AlpT Sat Oct 8th, 2005 at 10:20:32 PM EST
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Developed by the Freaknet, Netsukuku is a new p2p routing
system, which will be utilised to build a worldwide distributed, anonymous and
anarchical network, separated from the Internet, without the support of any
servers, ISPs or authority controls. In a p2p network every node
acts as a router, therefore in order to solve the problem of computing and
storing the routes for 2^128 nodes, Netsukuku makes use of a new
meta-algorithm, which exploits the chaos to avoid cpu consumption and fractals
to keep the map of the whole net constantly under the size of 2Kb.
Netsukuku includes also the Abnormal
Netsukuku Domain Name Anarchy, a non hierarchical and decentralised system of
hostnames management which replaces the DNS. It runs on GNU/Linux.
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Finding the location, identity, or affiliation of email senders (Internet)
By shinyobject Fri Sep 30th, 2005 at 12:11:03 PM EST
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Thanks to wireless networks, internet cafes, and web mail, it is now common to send email from just about anywhere. So, where was that friend, coworker, or stalker when she sent that message last night, and what else can we learn about her? Using simple techniques and a few well known, but often-overlooked email headers and internet tools, it's often easy to find out.
Likewise, the email you send may also include your location and
school or employer, even if sent from a personal account.
Do you or should you care?
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Creative Commons -NC Licenses Considered Harmful (Internet)
By Eloquence Mon Sep 12th, 2005 at 11:44:33 AM EST
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When the Creative Commons project published its first licenses in December 2002, it finally brought a sense of unity behind the free content movement. Instead of many scattered licenses, creators now have the option to pick the right license for their work using a simple tool. They only have to answer basic questions like: "Allow commercial uses? Allow modifications?"
The tool then recommends one of the licenses developed by the Creative Commons team. They are legally sane, simple documents, specially adapted for various jurisdictions. In short, the Creative Commons project has made life a lot easier for everyone wanting to share content.
One particular licensing option, however, is a growing problem for the free content community. It is the allow non-commercial use only (-NC) option. The "non-commercial use only" variants of the Creative Commons licenses are non-free, and in some ways worse than traditional copyright law -- because it can be harder to move away from them once people have made the choice.
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MySpace: A Place for Dolts (Internet)
By dbickett Sun Jul 17th, 2005 at 07:37:25 PM EST
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You are probably all aware of the ever popular website MySpace.com, where teenagers, adults, and everyone inbetween goes to engage in incredible ego trips and incessant forays of commenting and message sending. If you've ever visited this angst-ridden, teenie-bopper haven, you'd be surprised to find that it can actually be mildly entertaining, given the right crowd. For the same reason, you wouldn't be at all surprised to find that its concept of security is an incredibly perforated one, given its very rugged and rudimentary feel, and its questionable URL schematics.
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Earn High by Playing it Clean (Internet)
By MichaelCrawford Thu May 5th, 2005 at 03:44:23 AM EST
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Google AdSense tips and tricks that aren't what you expect.
Webmaster editordude
asked:
... is it possible to earn high ($1000+) by 'playing it clean'? By
that I mean doing everything I can to make it a great site for visitors,
all content is original, easy to navigate, ranks high, updated often
etc but not go out of my way to earn, so no popups, no large square
banner before content etc.
It's very common for website operators to make money - or
try to anyway - through
underhanded means, for example by gaming the search engines with such
"search engine optimization" schemes as
link farms, or
by emailing mass quantities of spam.
Is all that really necessary?
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I am an information glutton, and so are you. (Internet)
By rianjs Sat Apr 30th, 2005 at 02:16:38 AM EST
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They say we're living in the Information Age. I think they're right - whoever "they" are. Before the Information Age, we had the Computer Age, and a long time before that was the Ice Age. Anyway, the term has really come into its own in the last couple of years, especially, I would say, with the advent of Google and with it, the requisite improvement in the retrieval of information. I am a Google fanboy, but this piece isn't about Google or any other singular entity because they are just small players in the part of a much larger game, though I do refer to them quite a lot. Google didn't invent web search, but they re-invented it by extracting more relevant results for a given search query by re-examining the way relevance works. The result was that almost anyone could find information about almost anything so long as they had a computer and could access the Internet. The term "information age" was applied before it was entirely true. Since the term became common in the late 1970s, the world has slowly moved toward ubiquitous information permeation. Since then, the things that we have information on have multiplied. We now have information about information, often to several layers of abstraction so that a more useful picture can be seen.
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