19 October 2010

if you understand the bit torrent thing

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Consider, please, downloading Wikileaks' insurance package.

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38 comments:

  1. Bluebear210/19/10, 3:14 PM

    O.T.

    Your next mission should you choose...

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  2. wimpy10/19/10, 5:46 PM

    ARE YOU TRYING TO GET RID OF ME????

    !!!!!!!!

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  3. wimpy10/19/10, 5:50 PM

    "Mars has natural and quite large lava caves, and some of them are located at a low elevation in close proximity to the former northern ocean, which means that they could harbor ice deposits inside similar to many ice-containing caves on Earth,” said Schulze-Makuch. “Ice caves would go a long way to solving the needs of a settlement for water and oxygen. Mars has no ozone shield and no magnetospheric shielding, and ice caves would also provide shelter from ionizing and ultraviolet radiation."

    Although, it sounds ideal for me, I must admit....

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  4. Old Uncle Dave10/19/10, 5:54 PM

    I don't think you need to know anything about bit torrent to download the file to save for a rainy day. I'm sure thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people all over the world have copies by now, but the more the merrier.

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  5. wimpy10/19/10, 6:03 PM

    I think you have to have special software to do it because it has never worked for me, and I don't want to download something I don't know ANYTHING about the provider of the software. Made me paranoid and confused the last time I tried to grok how to accomplish it. EVERY time I click to download a torrent, it tells me I gotta have X, Y or Z app to do it.

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  6. wimpy10/19/10, 6:07 PM

    And there's some lingo about being part of a group that powers the torrent or being a poacher on the torrent and I don't grok the mechanics or the safety of those things either. YOUNG people understand this shit.

    I'm chuffed because I want to express solidarity with Wikileaks, but I also don't want my head to explode in the process.

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  7. Anonymous10/19/10, 7:42 PM

    Bit torrent technology is based on a group of users all downloading the same file in bits or pieces using everyone's individual internet connection as a whole. This way people with slower connections can download a bit faster with the help of the people with faster connections. They form what is called a "swarm". You get a "piece" from on person and another from the next person, etc... until you have all the pieces of the file. At the same time you are uploading pieces of the complete file to others that need them to complete their file.

    You will always download the complete file well before you have uploaded as many pieces to others, so it is expected that, once you have the complete file you keep your bit torrent client open and stay in the swarm uploading to others to maintain an equal sharing rate or you will be seen as a leecher. The more people in the swarm that have the complete file and are just uploading it, the faster the download speeds are for people that don't have the complete file yet.

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  8. wimpy10/19/10, 7:54 PM

    So, then, while yer keeping yerseff open to aid others you are leaving, theoretically, yer whole machine open to them?

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  9. Anonymous10/19/10, 7:57 PM

    No, only the pieces of the file are uploaded to the swarm. No one has access to your computer.

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  10. Old Uncle Dave10/19/10, 8:05 PM

    Never mind...

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  11. Anonymous10/19/10, 8:21 PM

    Yes, well, OUD may be right. I myself wouldn't download the file. If some of the documents are classified, it may become a sticky issue.

    Just wanted to give you a little info on the technology itself. The open source community uses quite a bit. It's great for downloading huge files.

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  12. wimpy10/19/10, 8:28 PM

    Well, there's still the problem of having to have a different torrent app for different torrents and some of them aren't on the up and up, so thanks for the help, but I think this is another thing I have to figure out when my head opens for it.

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  13. Anonymous10/19/10, 8:39 PM

    The very best torrent client I have ever used is...
    Azureus and I have used many of them. There are only really maybe three clients that are universally accepted, and this is one of them.

    That being said, it takes a bit of knowledge to configure it, but because it's from the open source community there's very good help and support pages with it.

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  14. Anonymous10/19/10, 8:41 PM

    I'll leave you with that. Time for my pillow. Now, don't do anything I would do :p

    Nite

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  15. wimpy10/19/10, 8:55 PM

    Dream well.

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  16. Bluebear210/19/10, 9:16 PM

    Azureus is what I am using also.

    The "Download 5X Faster" and "Direct Download" links given at the web page set off all kinds of alarms on my computer.

    The Torrent link opened my Azureus application.

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  17. wimpy10/19/10, 9:19 PM

    Oh, good, so at least BB2 has it.

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  18. Bluebear210/19/10, 9:26 PM

    Well, 50% so far - 29 minutes to go...

    1.38GB

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  19. Bluebear210/19/10, 9:29 PM

    Although, it sounds ideal for me, I must admit....

    It would be a bitch if you changed your mind!
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  20. wimpy10/19/10, 9:42 PM

    Decisiveness is one of my best features....

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  21. Bluebear210/19/10, 9:56 PM

    Insurance downloaded and virus scannned.

    Need to find out how to open it...

    .aes256 extension?

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  22. wimpy10/19/10, 10:10 PM

    Googled it: Got the insurance file open by changing the extension to .TXT, then loading in Firefox. No header. The first and only word is "Salted." The file might be junk, or the family jewels.

    Sounds right. Or maybe it will even open into a browser without changing the file extension....

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  23. Old Uncle Dave10/19/10, 10:11 PM

    bear, i think the files are encrypted, so there won't be anything to see.

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  24. wimpy10/19/10, 10:12 PM

    Also, you could follow their Twitter feed to see if they give any instruction.

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  25. wimpy10/19/10, 10:16 PM

    winzip.com

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  26. wimpy10/19/10, 10:19 PM

    I think the idea is to have their insurance package living in machines all over the earth and the decryption key will be given when there's trouble.

    I think that's what's going on here.

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  27. wimpy10/19/10, 10:33 PM

    I just installed Bittorrent and am downloading the insurance file. I hear a helicopter.... :o)

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  28. Bluebear210/20/10, 7:17 AM

    I changed the extension to .txt and got a message that the file was too big so I tried .pdf and got a message that the file wasn't pdf format or it was corrupted, tried .doc and it said since it was more than 32MB it couldn't be opened.

    Then I went to bed.

    I see they have a utility for the first set of files they released, perhaps they will have one for these, or the encryption scenario may be correct.

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  29. OTG10/20/10, 7:22 AM

    Azureus rocks.

    99, I'm shocked. I'll learn html if you rock the torrents. Did you get that Muse album yet? Go, go, go...rock out. If I've got to listen to all this "out there" for my thought experiments, you have got to listen to the WHOLE Distant Relatives album. This is how the youth here the Beatles, and get movies, and Photoshop, and Autocad 14, and Wikileak's insurance file. Upload.

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  30. wimpy10/20/10, 11:48 AM

    BB2, it wouldn't be insurance if it weren't encrypted.

    Sam, I can't buy albums. I can barely buy food. And I'm not going to take them off torrents if the artists haven't expressly put them on torrents for people. When it's up for the public from people who put it there for us or who don't mind it being there for us, then I think it's a swell idea, but not for taking what's not given. The exception to the not taking what's not given thing, of course, would be public information that is not given, especially if it will help save heroes.

    I did download Unbound from YouTube a little while back because it had been up for over a year, pretty apt to stay there after being up that long, and I want to be able to hear it if they close or suspend the account, but don't think I should make a habit of that action.

    In the past, I have used programs that were given to me by friends, which they say is "theft" but I say is a gift, just like a friend giving me a tape of music they recorded off an album they own, but I don't think that extends to people giving them out to the masses. I'd love to dismantle capitalism, but I think we should start with, say, the oil companies or the banks. Or, better, first get peace, food, healthcare, and housing for everyone on earth, and then see about getting all our bells and whistles for free too.

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  31. wimpy10/20/10, 12:05 PM

    I also use the downloader feature on my Mac to download videos and audios I don't want to do online for one reason or another... like wanting to take at my leisure, study carefully over a matter of days, or show to someone coming, whatever, but I always delete them afterward.

    Even if I get to the point where I can make my own videos and use snippets from other videos, I wouldn't use more than fair use would dictate, except as noted with public information.

    All the images I swipe for this blog are not credited because most of them are details, not the whole image, and I've messed with the levels and such, reshaped them, you'd see them walking by a newsstand, et cetera. Not even the art, because most of it doesn't look anything like the artist made it and I don't think they'd WANT credit for them then, all misshapen and colors completely kittywompus....

    Plus, blogs are like scrap books/diaries... those of us who don't try to make money off them. And all kinds of people rip off my creations here too. So that's all pretty much agreed to be okay.

    Hell, I don't even take produce back into California from the grocery store in Brookings. I suck as an outlaw.

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  32. Bluebear210/20/10, 1:06 PM

    I love the Archives. Tons of music, movies etc to download or watch at the site. Lots of other stuff too. All legal to download. I've thousands of mp3's I've downloaded from the Live Music section. All concerts and live performances from bands which allow fans to tape and trade their shows. Some are even direct from the band's sound board.

    (It does take a bit of work to find the best stuff, but I've found lots of artists I had never heard of.)

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  33. wimpy10/20/10, 1:17 PM

    I love music, and even some of the new stuff, but mostly I'm in a state where I think listening to music is pure waste, conditions being what they are, and it HURTS me to listen to it. I'd rather work overtime informing myself and exhorting my fellows to stand up.

    That is the dirt honest truth.

    We don't DESERVE any luxuries like music just now. If we need it to keep ourselves happening, that's one thing, but only insofar as it bolsters us to spend our time on the other.

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  34. OTG10/20/10, 2:31 PM

    If you had been listening to music, you may have heard the line...

    "If I can't earn it to make it, then I'll rob it to take it."

    I'm sick of wishy washy half-ass-ism. Any one paying for Microsoft anything DESERVES facsism...you paid for it. Buy Apple, buy Coke, buy yourself a pistol and save me the melodrama. Fuck.

    ARTIST WANT THEIR MUSIC IN THE PUBLIC, THAT'S WHERE IT HAS EFFECT, I DON'T THINK THE MUSE GIVE A FLYING FUCK IF YOU DOWNLOAD IT(HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THE CONCERT SCHEDULE? GLOBAL) FOR FREE.

    If John Lennon where alive do you think he would care if you swiped Imagine and played it to a restrained Karl Rove for the next 10 years?

    NO, he would help hold him down.

    Do you think he would care if 100,000 people it downloaded illegally to their pods, surrounded the Capital Building with their cars, cranked up the continuous loop of Imagine, and walked away...leaving the cars, but really just the music. He would lead it. Would you? Can you still hear?

    Save yourselves.

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  35. wimpy10/20/10, 2:52 PM

    I don't know why Blogger stuck you in the spam folder there, Sam, sorry. I didn't mean to imply that I think you're a criminal if you do it, but I don't think it's revolutionary in the least either. I meant to convey that I don't take what isn't given unless it would be to stop harm. I don't do violence if it is not necessary to stop harm either. It so happens I'm pretty sure violence IS necessary to stop the harm being done to us and the world right now, and if it is not, I want to see the fuckers yammering about it out on the streets instead of safely pontificating to nobody in particular on the tubes.

    NOW!

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  36. Bluebear210/20/10, 5:10 PM

    The music I download gets put on disks that play in my truck on my daily trips to and from work as well as the trips to Napa etc. while at work.

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  37. wimpy10/20/10, 5:20 PM

    You should be putting mp3s of the guys speaking of real world events on those disks. Corbett Report, Keiser Report, Antiwar Radio, Black Agenda Report... buncha intense stuff that needs thinking about... so we can act....

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  38. wimpy10/20/10, 5:25 PM

    I'm hassling David DeGraw to start putting out audios of his stuff. I just did a post with a bunch of links to guys talking about how the economic shit can very easily lead to WWIII, on top of the rock solid case DeGraw is laying down for how they have covertly plotted out the entire trip to WWIII. Not enough that they're sucking out every penny we have saved and will earn. Nope. They're going to tie up more trillions in a world war.

    THEY HAVE TO BE STOPPED.

    We are MANY. They are FEW.

    This is worse than absurd. It's obscene. WE have to stop it.

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