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Look at Slashdot cheering at the piracy. It's really sickening how much Slashdot LOVES piracy now and encourages it at every opportunity.

Slashot loves technology. It's the users that love and encourage piracy, and enjoy something for nothing. While I am at it, I would like to take the time to encourage you to go to PublicDomainTorrents and download some movies for free. Or maybe you can grab a torrent to "pirate" Linux and other GPL s0ftwarez. To the ISPs that throttle, all torrent traffic looks the same, so hopefully you don't have one of those ISPs.

Remember kids:
Drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and downloading music and movies makes you look cool, and girls really dig it!

As a big B-movie fan there ought to be a mention of publicdomaintorrents.com.

But what do you think the same studios would say if you took a film made in 1954 and just started distributing it?

Yeah, screw those people who use bittorrent to download game demos and patches, or Linux ISO's, or public domain movies, or even *GASP* use Lotus Notes!!! I mean, it's not like they're paying customers or anything...

And yes, they ARE blocking it, by forging fake packets from their customers. I don't mind them putting the QoS in the basement for bittorrent, but actively falsifying packets is NOT the way to do it, and it's got a good chance of being illegal.

There are a lot of legal bittorrent downloads. Most linux distros are available this way as well as a large number of public domain movies.

http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/
http://www.starwreck.com/download.php
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/

For those who have not seen the movie, it's apparently in the public domain now, and as such can be legally downloaded for free from here:

http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/nshowmovie.htm l?rstitle=Plan+9+From+Outer+Space

This hurts, especially for people like me who like keeping a few older machines running, but I can see why they would do it. As much as I love running old hardware with the best software possible, these days anyone keeping a W95 or 98 box running for nerd purposes could just as easily throw a lite Linux install together for it.

It is a bit sad for our grandparents who've been running the same old machine for AOL purposes since the stone age, but it's high time we built them some new Athlon boxes anyhow. Plus, once updated we could get them into some new technological wonders.

Public Domain Torrents has torrents of movies in the public domain in various formats. Some hidden gems in there, though I don't know how much of a "community" you could say they have.

Great movie.
Find it on:
http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/

Try here: Public Domain Torrents.

But its still fragile, and its not as useful as a direct USB connection to the camera (charges the battery too).

2. Oh no, yet another "as easy as VCR" thing. Yes many office phones have this, but no cell phone I have encountered has this, which is what this is about. I would love this on my phone, and it is a good feature giving the Treo an edge on the competition.

Someone finally being able to kick and scream hard enough to get a simple design past product testers and marketing is indeed news.

3. Front side TV connector? ALL the connectors are on the front, with a nice tunnel and door so NO cables are visible, this makes hooking things up much easier, and the door/tunnel combo makes things much nicer looking.

Still has the drawback of needing longer cables, and you still need to route the cables from the back into the tunnel. If you have a problem with your TV cabinet, then fix the cabinet, not 'everything else.

5. Finally, something thats sort of new. Except for Tivo and personal video recording and...gasp...VCRs? If you look at the article you see this is talking about LEGAL downloads of TV sponsored by the networks, which is something completely new. Especially since Tivo and VCR's don't apply to mobile players or computer screens

You mean youve been downloading your pr0n.rm files from illegal sites and not direct from the producers? How about these folks?

Actually I think this is how things will eventually go, you have an account with the channel and pay to download episodes as they become available via an rss like scheme. Unfortunatly the entertainment industry will attempt all the wrong solutions first (DRM, PPV, price gouging, 'extra content', proprietry protocols) before ending up with podcasting for video.

7. Free domain name - 1999 called, it wants its news back. This mentions the new MS Office Live Beta, which is to give everyone free domains and e-mails (though laced with adds). This is something quite a bit different then the 99 version.

Its a free domain name (that you dont want anyway, what you really want is free hosting) supported by ads. Domains are as cheap as chips (seriously, my domain is about the cost of a bag of chips (chips are a UK thing, a bit like french fries, only the taste nice)).

8. Ok, so its a portable DVD player with LCD screen and a plastic mount. You missed entirely, it is a portable LCD. The way TFA mentions it the DVD player is not portable, but the screen is able to be moved between several devices.

Ive been wondering when this would happen, take the TV screen to the device instead of the device to the TV. It might even work well.

9. A multi-shot mode on cameras. Multishot with a timer. The timer being the important part. My Canon has this too (up to 10 shots) but my Canon is also fairly new (SD400, or IXUS 50 for Europeans).

New, but not exactly innivotive, and you still have to balance the camera on a rock. Built in tripods with a remote shutter release would be a better option.

10. high definition camcorders. The fact that the camcorder uses normal DV tapes is what is remarked about, instead of using the opportunity of switching to HD to bring in a higher priced format. These camcorders use the exact same tapes as HD camcorders, and can even hold both formats without a problem.

What, like putting data onto a CD instead of music? What you describe is the whole point of digital media, the information is no longer tied to

Suppose that I am expending bandwidth broadening my movie taste by dowloading legal out-of-copyright movies and you're browsing /b/ on 4chan. Why is your internet activity "serious" while mine gets throttled?

Could it be that you are in fact expressing a purely personal bias as if it were some sort of universal judgement?