Re:Tent v0.1
by stcredzero on Friday September 21, 2012 @04:50PM
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> We could easily have a distributed web search engine to replace google.
"Easily?" Distributing things is hard. The claims of those who don't know this are to be treated with skepticism.
> It could run on everyones machine, and it'd be awesome.
Until we get something like "Trusted Computing," there will be a few people who will run servers that "cheat" somehow. This has been true for distributed systems over the Internet for over 3 decades now. (SMTP, Gnutella, Bittorrent, just to name a few.)
"Easily?" Distributing things is hard. The claims of those who don't know this are to be treated with skepticism.
> It could run on everyones machine, and it'd be awesome.
Until we get something like "Trusted Computing," there will be a few people who will run servers that "cheat" somehow. This has been true for distributed systems over the Internet for over 3 decades now. (SMTP, Gnutella, Bittorrent, just to name a few.)