Re: [freenet-chat] Scientology strikes again

2006-06-26 Thread Ian Clarke
On 24 Jun 2006, at 10:29, Josh Steiner wrote: what was this? it just redirects to http://www.scientology.org/ Taking a website critical of you, and redirecting it to your own website these guys have no sense of shame at their blatant censorship effort, but I guess believing in

Re: [freenet-chat] Arguments against the Darknet

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:22:31AM -0400, Colin Davis wrote: I'd like to use this opportunity to disagree with the current .7 strategy of the darknet- I've done it before, but this is the Chat list, so It's not Off-topic to have a discussion about it. I'd like to start of by admitting

Re: [freenet-chat] Arguments against the Darknet

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:50:34PM +0100, Roger Hayter wrote: FWIW, I agree with all your points. And I would add that no-one is more than 2 steps away from a police spy - I find random connection *adds* plausible deniability: although not (and this is a valid point that has been made by

Re: [freenet-chat] Arguments against the Darknet

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 06:15:04PM -0400, Colin Davis wrote: If/when we do opennet people will use that instead till it gets blocked(it will happen eventually), then we're back to trying to get the darknet working for everyone again. If most people will use the opennet till it's impossible

Re: [freenet-chat] Arguments against the Darknet

2006-06-26 Thread colin
in its current state Sure- I can only look at the present. I'm usre that hte project has plans for fixing things, but I'm just trying to express the way I see it. What exactly were his reasons? I talked to two physical friends of mine- I tried to outline their answers below- One said that he

Re: [freenet-chat] Arguments against not utilizing Ubernodes

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:34:41AM -0400, Colin Davis wrote: 1) Users tend to prefer Speed to Anonymity- Then they can use bittorrent. For the most popular files, bittorrent will always be faster than Freenet. For medium popularit files it is possible that they will be findable, and

Re: [freenet-chat] Arguments against not utilizing Ubernodes

2006-06-26 Thread colin
I accept your point that routing load is more importaint that performance. I'm arguing that the argument that intentionally under utilizing certain certain nodes (for instance, not assigning a larger area of keyspace to more powerful nodes), isn't necessarily the best choice. I conceed about

Re: [freenet-chat] Arguments against the Darknet

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:06:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in its current state Sure- I can only look at the present. I'm usre that hte project has plans for fixing things, but I'm just trying to express the way I see it. What exactly were his reasons? I talked to two

Re: [freenet-chat] Arguments against the Darknet

2006-06-26 Thread Roger Hayter
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:50:34PM +0100, Roger Hayter wrote: FWIW, I agree with all your points. And I would add that no-one is more than 2 steps away from a police spy - I find random connection *adds* plausible

Re: [freenet-chat] Arguments against the Darknet

2006-06-26 Thread Colin Davis
That's the idea. Like I said, we'll probably have opennet eventually.Then we agree ;)I don't think that freenet can do an opennet until the darkenet works properly. My concern is that the darknet will never work properly, however.They can, although they are already blown. Anyway the point is that

[freenet-chat] [ANN] rqueue

2006-06-26 Thread Phillip Hutchings
Another Ruby freenet utility. At the moment it's a simple queued downloader, but it's quite simple. I'm planning to extend it to provide upload support and global queue management things. System requirements: Ruby 1.8. I haven't tested it on Windows, but it should work. It's part of the