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CodeCon: A Conference for P2P Hackers 44

Posted by timothy from the ya-just-missed-it dept.
Rolig liten hattgubbe writes: "infoAnarchy has the scoop about Codecon, which is an interesting P2P-themed hacker conference in San Francisco (Feb 15-17) at JWZ's DNA Lounge. Some of the next-generation projects discussed are already functional, and a demo of Peek-A-Booty is going to be presented. I wonder if anyone will be arrested?"
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  • metallica (Score:5, Funny)

    by jamesidm ( 244299 ) on Friday January 18, 2002 @07:46AM (#2861241)
    as a mark of respect for those who made p2p the big thing that it is today, all files transferred at the conference should be metallica music and/or videos.

  • streaming (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    why do they have to meet in real life?
    they could just trade divx of the key speeches! :D

    bnorted!

    slashdot conspiracy? : [slashdot.org]

  • It's about time (Score:2, Interesting)

    by RC514 ( 546181 )
    It's really time to get rid of central authority technically, because it has been proven to be impossible to achieve freedom of expression by economic and political means. He who owns the press has freedom of the press. After September 11th everyone who even thinks about not swimming in the political mainstream is marked as potential terrorist.

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  • What about walk-p2p? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by redcliffe ( 466773 ) on Friday January 18, 2002 @08:02AM (#2861281) Homepage Journal
    I've discovered that the cheapest form of Peer to peer file sharing in Australia is loading the files your friends want on a CD-RW, take the CD to them, and then blank it and put the files you want from your friend's computer before taking it home. Depending on how far you live from your friend's place, and how you get there, it costs between $0.10 and $1.00 AUD per gigabyte. Much cheaper than Pacific internet ADSL at $139 a gig, or Telstra ADSL at $198 a gig.
  • Naw... they won't be arrested, they are citizens. They will be asked to sit in front of congress while congress acts like they care.

    [think napster]

    • Re:Arrested? (Score:2, Interesting)

      by RC514 ( 546181 )
      Even better. The good ones (you know, the ones who could actually make p2p work) will be hired by big business and subsequently forget why they got into the game in the first place.
      • You're right, and then they'll make millions off of breaking copyrights.

        P2P is great, but no one should make money off of it.
        • I don't know much at all about this, but from what I've seen making money isn't the point. Most P2P proponents are against the record companies making ludicrous amounts of money off of the artists' work, (those that don't just want FREE MP3!!11!) but you think they'd try to make money off it? We got a taste of free music sharing with Napster, we're not going to go back to paying. We won't pay the record companies, but we aren't going to pay for P2P either. If people try to charge, someone will come out with a free version, and the fee-driven people will get screwed over. [Using we to mean the community in general, not /.ers or just me.]
      • I doubt that'll happen to Brandon; [blanu.net] if it does, I'll invite him over for a long weekend and brainwash him.

  • DNA Lounge is a COOL venue... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Tsar ( 536185 ) on Friday January 18, 2002 @08:17AM (#2861313) Homepage Journal
    What with all the Internet kiosks [dnalounge.com] and all. Jamie's input alone will make this a hypercool event. Plus, everything that goes over the Lounge's sound system is streamed live to the Internet [dnalounge.com]. Does that include CodeCon, I wonder?

    Still, it's too bad it couldn't have been held in JWZ's old Tent of Doom [azstarnet.com] (essentially a cubicle wrapped in 500' of camo netting to ward off the ST:TNG theme of the Netscape office decor). I know it's ancient history now, but his TOD page [netscape.com] was an inspiration to cubicle-dwellers everywhere, when it was up. Like the once-bright promise of Netscape, it will be missed.

  • Sounds a bit like HAL (Score:2, Informative)

    by imrdkl ( 302224 )
    The HAL [hal2001.org] conference in the Netherlands recently seemed to have a similar agenda, although the focus seemed broader there. I am surprized and pleased to see such a forum in the US, even if I cant go.

    The BOFs and after-hour discussions are perhaps deeper and more insightful in Holland, or at least, it seems that way...

  • PureFiction is coordinating this convention. There seems to be a mentions of Alpine [cubicmetercrystal.com]. There was a story about it before [slashdot.org] with threads containing a little history of PureFiction.

    Some would call it "shameless self promotion".

    I'd just call it being stoked about what you're doing

  • I've read the Chord [mit.edu] technical note. After ten or so pages of generic blurb, it struck me as perfectly obvious: binary search on doubly-linked circular lists! But unfortunately, it seems that simple and workable solutions can only be found when everything else has been discarded, an excercise that CS people seem better suited at.

    The Chord protocol is not perfect; its more obvious omission is the lack of a large-scale implementation to prove its viability. But I think it's a step in the right direction, involving people with massively-parallell computing background that I think its very relevant to the P2P infrastructure.

    In the end, P2P seems to be no more than the implementation of a distributed keyed store on a high-latence, low-bandwidth, high-failure-rate massively parallell supercomputer.

  • "a demo of Peek-A-Booty is going to be presented." Yeah, I'll believe that when Duke Nukem Forever ships.

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