LUSER: Recently a researcher released a paper detailing the weaknesses
for a certain watermarking scheme. This violated certain
misguided laws, and the paper was pulled. Someone told me it
was on freenet. Do you know they key?
FRED: Sure. Let me look it up. (a few seconds pass while meta data
is scanned for the relevant terms. 'Watermarking' 'weakness', etc.
FRED: The key is: mQGiBDpBoSARBADNbiv4DCFUylpLuDN53kPGpKFLm2ZLVy28AJI7.
LUSER departs enlightened.
I can picture many circumstances like this. Especially in more repressive
countries like China, the Middle East, etc.
While the implementation may leave certain things to be desired, I would
have to say that robust searching would be benificial no matter what.
"Mark J. Roberts" wrote:
>
> > Tell that to the 20 emails a day, and 3 articles a month which say that
> > Freenet would be great if *only* it had searching. Rather than
> > arrogantly tell them that they actually don't want Freenet to have
> > searching, I am inclined to agree that if it is possible, it is
> > definitely a feature Freenet needs.
>
> Sure.
>
> LUSER: Freenet really needs searching.
>
> MARK: Hrm.... describe this alien concept you call "searching."
>
> LUSER: Well, first I pick a phrase that's not too vague and not too
> precise--for example, "soundgarden badmotorfinger". If it's
> vague or narrow, I won't get a good list of search results.
>
> Then I wait while the search proceeds....
>
> When the search is complete, if I think I have a sufficiently
> pertinent and complete list of the content I'm interested in, I
> begin the sorting and selection process--otherwise I go back to
> step one!
>
> Now I have a list of MP3s. There are many search results, and I
> have to guess which of these are the best quality. So I look for
> consistently-named sets of MP3s, since these are at least
> usually consistent.
>
> Finally, I download the set I've selected. Then I run them
> through a MP3 verification program to make sure they aren't
> corrupted. If any are, I go back to step one, and fill in the
> gaps.
>
> MARK: Wouldn't you rather have someone else do all that boring shit?
>
> LUSER: Yeah!
>
> MARK: Then you'll really like Freenet. But unfortunately we are still
> testing Freenet, and a community has only emerged very recently.
> Give us a few months to work things out.
>
> LUSER: Yay! My life now has meaning! Thank you!
>
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