http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/03/04/directconnect-incremental-download-verification/ My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication. Sat, 12 May 2012 23:12:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/03/04/directconnect-incremental-download-verification/#comment-112066 Bad Ideas of 2004 March – Mike Linksvayer Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:15:59 +0000 //?p=#comment-112066 [...] DirectConnect increment[al download verification]: My lack of interest in Direct Connect (which seems still active) was indicative of a fetish for fully decentralized schemes (DC has distinct hubs and clients). Client-server (the web) has won, without even P2P downloading, which DC had, and THEX constituted an improvement to. Hash trees have found use in ever more applications, it just turns out that improved downloading of crap isn’t one of the significant ones. [...] [...] DirectConnect increment[al download verification]: My lack of interest in Direct Connect (which seems still active) was indicative of a fetish for fully decentralized schemes (DC has distinct hubs and clients). Client-server (the web) has won, without even P2P downloading, which DC had, and THEX constituted an improvement to. Hash trees have found use in ever more applications, it just turns out that improved downloading of crap isn’t one of the significant ones. [...]

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