Even in a "pure" p2p setting a rogue or buggy peer can affect negatively the whole network (or at least it's peers and their peers). Gnutella G1 isn't pure p2p, though. It elects "ultrapeer" nodes, leaf nodes etc. it's said that Shareaza is a buggy G1 ultrapeer, wasting other nodes' bandwidth and CPU cycles. Also, in general Shareaza's G1 support is based on a very old Gnutella version, containing obsolete features and bugs that have been long ago fixed in other G1 clients. As a result, some G1 users and clients outright ban Shareaza, refusing to communicate with it.

Anecdotally, I have personally tested Shareaza's G1 support and have found that it finds way fewer files and downloads slower than true G1 clients like Phex and Limewire (when limited to G1, of course, because Shareaza supports other networks too).

Of course, if such whistleblower videos are found only on G1, the community should take measures to make them available on G2/Shareaza, the eDonkey2000/Kad/eMule network etc. so as many people as possible could use their favorite p2p software to download it.

I have no idea why are you conflating people who care about open source principles and ethics with people who download pirated movies. Prove that these groups are the same or at least that they have a significant overlap before trolling the forum.

Shareaza has always been a substandard Gnutella (G1) client. I have used both it and dedicated G1 clients like Limewire and yes, if you need to access some rare content on the G1 network, the latter are preferable.

Where Shareaza shines is in their Gnutella 2 (G2) network, once forked from G1 but incompatible, and in their wide non-Gnutella protocol support.

So, if depends if the file is on the G1 or the G2 network. In the first case, use Limewire or something equivalent. In the second case, nothing beats Shareaza. Most G1 clients deliberately don't support G2 at all, due to the drama surrounding the fork, the massive flame war that followed and the accumulated bad blood. As Limewire was mentioned, it seems that the file is on G1, because Limewire doesn't support G2 at all, the last time I checked.

This is not yet a recession. But when the AI balloon pops, it will be the mother of all recessions.

It's great that they managed to restore this. Aside from the purely historic interest, early Unix had some fascinating tools - translators for B and SNOBOL and other languages, a text to speech converter, the m6 macro processor, the tmg compiler generator, and the early versions of roff/nroff/troff are very interesting too.

Or even better, get Unix v0 and boot in on your old trusty PDP-7 (or again, use SIMH).

Techno-feudalism might be the future.

Border guard: You seem like an anti-social type. We don't want the likes of you in our country. Go away.

It's called Algol 68, not some hypothetical 18 years younger Pascal offshoot :)

The venerable Algol 68... I'm not yet sure that a compiler for the full language specification ever existed.

I have both Asperger's and OCD (yes, I'm aware that Asperger's no longer exists as a diagnosis) and I never got any special accommodations either at school, or at the university, or at work. And this is how it should be, IMHO. If you have some disability that, say, makes you unable to do some assignment in the same time frame as others, then why should you get the same grades as them? After all, an employee that does his/her work slower than his/her colleagues is less valuable to his/her employer.

Claiming that Ruby parasitizes on Ruby on Rails clearly shows that the author has no idea what parasitism is. Hence no, he can't be serious.

Narendra, my friend, just implant chips in everyone and leave the phones alone.

How exactly can data processing facilitate killings of civilians? I would think that if Israel just wants to kill civilians, it can send tanks and aircraft and drop bombs and whatnot... without some sophisticated data processing, no?

nVidia can make CPUs if the need arises, though.

By complying with the license terms and paying royalty for every device sold.

The thing is that the grand total number of devices sold by FFMPEG is a big fat Zero.