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It should be noted that very shortly after that story broke there were some retractions by the authors.

This is a note by the author where they have reduced the number of affected papers - initially around 40,000 - down to around 3,000.

The publication in which the paper first appears has agreed to publish a correction.

So while there is definitely room for improvement, it appears the impact was grossly exaggerated in the original coverage.

It should be noted that very shortly after that story broke there were some retractions by the authors.

This is a note by the author where they have reduced the number of affected papers - initially around 40,000 - down to around 3,000.

The publication in which the paper first appears has agreed to publish a correction.

So while there is definitely room for improvement, it appears the impact was grossly exaggerated in the original coverage.

[An] economy built on pipe dreams such as this is in deep, deep trouble.

Once people stop dreaming our economy will stall to a level not seen in hundreds of years. Most of human history has shown a 1-2% rate of economic advancement until the industrial age.

Not hardly. Before the Industrial Revolution the economic growth rate was 0.1-0.2%, one tenth of what you suggest (actually over the very long term it was just 0.01%). After the IR growth rates shot up to almost 1% initially, eventually reaching 2-3% annually in some decades of the 19th Century (see The Handbook of Economic Growthby Steven Durlauf, Philippe Aghion, 2013, chapter 5).

How to eliminate NULL in a database using 6th normal form.

Have fun.

Russia had some interesting crypto insights to offer.
The UK gov broke Soviet embassy codes early on but leaked coded Soviet efforts to their politicians and thus the press...
They ran so many agents that one time pads failed due to re use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
Russia knew the West had subs, aircraft, tunnels and many other efforts all around their boarders/ under a few embassies. By the 1950's Soviet spies noted code use was not good and the Soviets stopped all chatter and went to one time pads.
At some point the Soviet Union got really, really sloppy again and the NSA/CIA got near total access again.
The Soviet Union only worked out their error due to a spy in the UK who worked at the London Processing Group (MI6)/GCHQ and later moved up into strange new Sigint efforts -American sigint satellites - Ryolite/Canyon - great for VHF and UHF.
Soviet diplomatic traffic was not safe, its strategic submarines where tracked (~Project Sambo http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/aldrich/vigilant/lectures/gchq/brawdy/)
-ie Russia can tell the EU: try one time pads not some fancy encrypted fax machine.
As for 'Why not blame the companies", the US has one neat legal option. If you write an Australia, Brazil or Germany or Japan OS, file system and crypto - sell it or gift it - trade deals start to come into force. No computer/OS/chip/crypto protectionism or subsidised national efforts.

ARIN has been pretty clear they don't want carrier grade NAT.

Well if the RIRs didn't want it they should have put some incentives in place to deploy IPv6. If they had made new v4 allocations to ISPs conditional on making IPv6 available to all customers and supported by all new customer premisis equipment supplied by the ISP then we wouldn't be in this mess now.

Growing ISPs are going to have no choice but to deploy some kind of mechanism for users to access v4 resources without giving those users a public V4 IP. There are basically 3 choices.

1: Run an IPv6 access network and use some mechanism (NAT64 or ds-lite, some kind of tunneled port based address sharing) to make access to the IPv4 internet available over that v6 access network.
2: Run a dual stack access network with public v6 and private v4 and an ISP level NAT
3: Run a IPv4 access network with private addresses and an ISP level NAT.

Round here (UK) most mobile providers are already giving out private v4 IPs and running NAT. Landline providers are still generally giving out public v4 IPs for the moment. Few providers seem to be showing much interest in making IPv6 available to customers. Our main telco is apparently even running a broken 6to4 relay in their network on the anycast address ( http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/csc/people/computingstaff/jaroslaw_zachwieja/bt_fttc_ipv6/ ). Given this situation I just don't have any confidence that ISPs will go the IPv6 route.

what obscenely high murder rates? your popular perception has little to do with reality. rates are down, and have been going down for years. crime, including homicide, in the US is at quite possibly the lowest point in the country's entire history.

Nearly but not quite - according to FBI uniform crime reporting data, the preliminary figures for 2012 homicides are around 4.2 per 100,000, which almost matches the lowest figures recorded - 4.0 in the late 1950's. While definitely trending in the right direction, it is still "obscenely" high compared to other comparable western democracies - which vary around 1 per 100,000.
Just as an example, the last time the UK homicide rate was as high as it is currently in the USA was at the end of the 17th century.

I need an example, because as I said, pedants talk all the time about how SQL doesn't truely follow the relational model of Date and Codd, but never provide a working alternative that does. I said nothing about syntax at all. I make no claim that SQL syntax is great or better than any other. I said I want to see a workable database that follows the *model* correctly/completely. I've only looked at their site for a few minutes, but I seen nothing that indicates they follow the model any better. Only that they like their syntax better, and is object oriented. Neither have any bearing on following Date /Codd's model.

Date himself gave the description of a language that follows the model, so if you want to see an example, that's it. Here is a simple implementation of it.

I had already explained the reasons why there are no production-quality, mature implementations - this has everything to do with ROI; SQL is simply not bad enough to bother.

As for Suneido, judging by your mention of "object oriented", you've only looked at their application language, which doesn't have anything to do with relational model. What I was rather referring to is the query language for their integrated database; it's not object oriented in any way - it's pure relational algebra.

To answer the original quote, the reason we're "still querying our databases by constructing strings of code in a language most closely related to freaking COBOL, which after being constructed have to be parsed for every single query?" is because SQL is a language based on mathematically sound principles, and which is supported widely, and known widely, and is processed by database engines across the globe that have literally decades of stability behind them, data in them and so forth.

If I get the idea correctly, TFA was not arguing against "mathematically sound principles", but rather against the notion that you have to use text for queries. There's no reason why one can't come up with an API to describe sound relational queries in a typesafe way, and avoid the whole overhead of constructing a text string which would then immediately be decomposed into an AST (and then eventually some internal query representation) by the database - one wonders why not just pass the AST to begin with?

And, let's admit it, SQL syntax is horrible. It's extremely verbose and woefully inconsistent. It also doesn't represent relational algebra particularly well.

There's absolutely no reason to change SQL, because if you build a new query language that is based on the same mathematically sound principles of relational algebra then it will er... look just like SQL.

Actually, I think it would rather look like Date's "Tutorial D".

Every time I see that measured, it consistently shows the US having the least social mobility of all developed nations. For example, here: http://ftp.iza.org/dp1993.pdf and http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/81/

I do often see the claim that the US has an advantage here, but I have never, ever seen it backed up, while I have seen the counterclaim backed up.

EDSAC, too... (including the likely first computer game! With its unsettling relation to WOPR...)

Here's the Warwick press release complete with a (non HDR) video

I love the fact that there is a common desire to preserve our historic technological achievements.

Working reproductions of dying / dead machines are a great learning tool -- We are all truly standing on the shoulders of giants today.

I feel that efforts such as rebuilding the EDSAC are in the same vein as those that would create emulators for our out of production computers and video game systems as a cheap way to preserve the past.

What good is the EDSAC or an Emulator without a sampling of the programs the systems used to run? Surely different people would attribute different degrees of importance to different programs -- Thankfully digital storage is abundant and cheap enough that we are capable of preserving entire catalogs of programs.

Notice however, that the more relevant, beneficial and useful a replica or emulator is, the more illegal it is to produce due to patents and copyrights.
I fear that if the current copyright laws could be enforced absolutely, we stand to loose important parts of our history and culture for no other reason but greed. Given the long terms of copyright, it's a safe assumption that much of our digital heritage could decay and be lost before it's legal to reproduce it -- Even under good conditions CDs, Magnetic and Solid State Drives will all fail before 70 years after the author's life has elapsed.

I'm very wary of DRM and the DMCA -- Today we can recreate past works to better understand the significance of the shoulders on which we stand; Tomorrow we may find ourselves searching for footing that has long since crumbled away.

I can tell it's truly News for Nerds because I can barely understand what it's saying and it drops causal references to advanced mathematics

I recommend you start visiting arXiv then.

Are you suggesting the OP, a self-described interested lay person, learns or even mere follow mathematic research by reading arXiv? If so, WTF!?

arXiv is a pre-print archive of original research articles, not exactly a welcoming place for a non-mathematician (or non-subject specialist, e.g. physics, and computer science also use it). Even with an undergrad degree in mathematics, I find it a difficult (and/or useless) place to try to follow progress in the field, without the editorial assistants to filter the wheat from the chaff. And I've been reading original (first source) research papers since the mid-1990s in multiple research disciplines.

You might as well ask him to read Euclid's Elements in its original Greek. Heck, after the translation, it would be more accessible, as it is intended to be a textbook for learning.

I would rather suggest, try reading some of the mathematics journals that are intended to be more accessible, such as from MAA and AMS societies. Some are aimed at students of two-year and four-year "colleges" (aka polytechs / technical colleges and universities), while others are just interesting yet often accessible, such as Journal of Recreational Mathematics and Mathematics Magazine and online columns such as Kevin Devlin's Devlin's Angle.

In the more general sense, I would recommend popular math writers such as Ian Stewart, Simon Singh, Paul J. Nahin, the recently deceased Martin Gardner (slashdot), and many more authors that I cannot recall.

Unfortunately I can't think of any pop-math books or articles on linear algebra, in the vein of "e: The Story of a Number" (Maor), "An Imaginary Tale" (Nahin), "Flatland" (Abbott), "Flatterland" (Stwart), "A Mathematician's Apology" (Hardy), "Fermat's Last Theorm" / "Fermat's Engima" (US) (Singh), "Does God Play Dice?" (Stewart), "Chaos" (Gleick), and many others.

To wit, mathematics is I believe the only discipline where fourth year undergrad students take third or fourth year courses with "introduction" or "elementary" in their course titles. But I digress. My point is that one "problem" is that given mathematics long history, and that is has fascinated people across cultures throughout history, the subject has accumulated such a vast body of knowledge, so it is difficult to get a firm understanding on every field within mathematics. So feeling overwhelmed with all the facts and fields to learn is normal.

E.F. Codd would have disagreed with you.

That depends when you asked him, I suppose.

but by the early 80s he was asserting that having a concept for "null" was a requirement of a system that was "really relational".

And by the 1990, he was arguing that a relational system needed to have at least two different kinds of Nulls to operate correctly.

(Apparently, the beginning of the start of something in the db world which culminated with the proposal of requiring support for up to 128 types of distinguished NULLs in the early part of the standardization process of SQL-99.)

So, outside of the 1980s, Codd would seem to view SQL's use of NULL as a problem. Not that I'm find of arguments to authority.

The reason was that while you can have a nice, self-consistent mathematical model of relations without NULL, a practical system absolutely needs some kind of NULL.

Practical systems need to be able to admit of records that a short of ideal because some data is either missing, unknown, or otherwise different from the basic assumptions.

Each of those possibilities -- missing, unknown, and each other possibility of difference from the basic assumptions -- can be identified with an actual value without resort to special non-values that are dealt with in a manner fundamentally different from values.

So NULLs aren't fundamentally necessary, and they tend to obscure information.

They're often initially easier than doing the analysis of the specific need, but then so is not using the relational model in the first place and just storing data in a haphazard manner.

Granted, SQL's concept of NULL is problematic, but you are ... let's say *seriously misguided* ... if you think a programmer can work with a SQL based relational database (which is the only kind of RDBMS there is) without understanding SQL's concept of NULL and how it affects things like existential predicates or aggregate functions.

First, SQL isn't the only "relational" query language in use, though it is by far the most common.

Second, I never said that understanding NULLs wasn't important to using SQL. I said that understanding the meaning of NULL in the relational model isn't important because NULL isn't part of the relational model.

In any case, I'd like to see a serious argument that NULL violates the fundamental underpinnings of the relational model.

I think C.J. Date & Hugh Darwen have handled this admirably; the first 13 slides of this presentation are as good of an overview of the issues as I've seen (slides 4 & 13 are the most directly relevant to the problem of NULL with regard to the underpinnings of the model.)

0.0014% of Londoners [..] greater than a 1 in 1000 chance

and

there is a 0.0000034% chance [..] That’s a 1 in 285,000 chance.

The pdf:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/phd_students/backus/why_i_dont_have_a_girlfriend.pdf

After getting Fox news coverage and front page Slashdotting N* is
now significantly higher than the paper estimate. Think 10-100x.

f(L) is fraction of people in London from N*. Why limit
yourself to London? You or your partner might move, travel,
visit friends, soon even if you're looking for love!
Even within London, the author doesn't count people movement -
those who come to London over time.

Further, the author forgets that most all people *like* to find
productive partnerships. Unlike SETI, where we have no evidence
that the other party is looking for us, we know that women like
to find great men just as much you want to find an "attractive,
age-appropriate woman with a University education".

Worst, the author spent time write why he "can't find" a partner
when he would be better served getting out there doing activities
he loves with other people and having a great time life. Then
other people will find him, and help find others.

Truly be yourself and it is uniquely attractive.

Interesting, I was hoping for a comment like that.

I'm considering doing something like Systems Biology (MSc + PhD). I don't think I want to spend my life doing programming jobs, but I do enjoy it. ...and looking at the deadlines for applications, I need to hurry up and decide unless I want to do another year-and-a-half of work.

Progress in any field depends on the number of "i" units needed to obtain the next level of innovation. An exponential growth in the energy needed for the next level means that we soon reach a level where progress stops or slows until a means is created to reduce the requirements by a large factor. At this point rapid growth can continue.
If we find that means our current level of technology could be at the 1880 point in the innovation curve.

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Of course, everyone fails to mention that Japan has the lowest rape rate per capita in the world. Perhaps it has something to do with the availability of such materials to quench the urge of would be rapists?

I thought the same thing, too. At first. Then I looked a little deeper: Far more likely is endemic bias in the system, both in reporting and in prosecuting cases:

In any case, if is just about equal than the rest of the world then we can say they have more freedom without any evident cost; shound't that be considered good?

On the other hand, why is it ok to depict a crime (murder in most FPS) in some cases and not in this one? I'm against any type of abuse, even more so when it is against young children, but I believe this is something worth thinking about. I'm not saying we should ban all games that allow the players to commit fake crimes; I'd like to know why as a society we accept murder without a problem but we just can't accept anything sex related.

Of course, everyone fails to mention that Japan has the lowest rape rate per capita in the world. Perhaps it has something to do with the availability of such materials to quench the urge of would be rapists?

I thought the same thing, too. At first. Then I looked a little deeper: Far more likely is endemic bias in the system, both in reporting and in prosecuting cases:

For obvious reasons, it is very difficult to say what proportion of actual rapes is reported. Such evidence as there is, however, indicates that it is a small proportion: a 1997 study found that only 13.9% of sexual assault victims and 9.5% of rape victims report their attacks to the police (Burns, 2005: 48). Because sexual assault is a crime which can only be prosecuted if there is a formal complaint from the victim (Appendix 2), low levels of reporting have devastating effects on prosecution rates.

and

In 1990-1992 the rates of prosecution for reported rapes were lower than those for robbery, bodily injury, and violent acts (Dussich et al., 1994: 38).

the Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre of the University of Warwicks in the UK

That's the International Manufacturing Centre (not "Innovative", and doesn't have "Research" in its name), which is at the University of Warwick (not -s, which would be an abbreviation of Warwickshire).

the Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre of the University of Warwicks in the UK

That's the International Manufacturing Centre (not "Innovative", and doesn't have "Research" in its name), which is at the University of Warwick (not -s, which would be an abbreviation of Warwickshire).

I know you're trying to be funny but... If you're talking plain Java vs Python, Java looks to be quite a bit faster. You don't have to look hard to find benchmarks that show java is faster.

Jython seems to be about 2-3 times faster than CPython according to those test.

This could give CPython the performance edge over Jython, but it still has a way to go to catch up to Java.

Ian Stewart has written numerous popular mathematics books that are lucid, educational, and entertaining. _Letters to a Young Mathematics_ (review) is likely a good bet.

  _Chaos: Making a New Science_ by James Gleick was a book I read in high school that was a classic about chaos (dynamic non-linear systems) and one of books I can point to as and fractals that inspired me to maintain a heavy mathematical bend in additional to the trendy (profitable, and for me at least, easy) Computer Science courses in university.

  The classic autobiographical _A Mathematician's Apology_ by G. H. Hardy might be worth considering.

  Others have already mentioned _Flatland_ by Edwin A. Abbott, but the writing style might be off-putting for some readers who find its dated style strange. _Flatterland_ (review) by Ian Stewart might by an alternative.

  Others have already mentioned Simon Singh's books, which I can endorse as well. In general anything about deciphering the Enigma crypto-machines during World War II, and Alan Turing are potential books to consider as well. Anything about Paul Erdos (_The Man Who Loved Only Numbers_), and the classic book turned into a movie about John Nash, _A Beautiful Mind_, by Sylvia Nasar.

As long as the book shows that mathematics is about critical thinking and problem solving, not about pushing around numbers in equations, any popular mathematics is likely worth considering.

For hands-on math education / experience, that's a different question, that's a problem to be left to the interested student...

LAPACK may be the successor to LINPACK, but they were both written for vector processors (PDF).

LINPACK was just optimize for the shared-memory architectures that were once popular, whereas LAPACK is optimized to exploit (using Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) the cache-based architectures used in modern supercomputers.

Yeah, sorry -- that was a bit unfair of me. If you're still trying to figure out a way to use FF3 on SLED 10, check this out. It's a little bit of a pain, but if you're comfortable enough with the command line to attempt to upgrade your system gtk, I think you'll be ok with this, too.

Firefox 3 requires gtk 2.10.0, which was released in July of 2006. If you're running an OS that is incapable of keeping you up-to-date enough to run software that's 2.5 years old, then you picked your OS poorly. Plain and simple.

Mozilla could have bundled gtk 2.10 with Firefox 3, like they do for many other libraries they depend on, but they chose not to, probably for good reasons.

Besides, after 25 seconds with Google, I found this, which, while not particularly fun, is entirely doable for someone who has the balls to try to update their system bypassing their OS's package management.

So maybe the original poster isn't troll, but (s)he's certainly foolish.

Does this help?

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikewillis/entry/of_firefox_3/

First hit on "Firefox GTK", btw.

Does this help?

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikewillis/entry/of_firefox_3/

GTK 7.x? Are you from the future? Firefox 3 needs GTK 2.10 or newer. If you tried to update the GTK that comes with SLES 10 they you're doing it wrong. You need to build the newer GTK and install it completely separate from the GTK included with SLES 10. Try reading http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikewillis/entry/of_firefox_3/ It's the first hit on Google for "Firefox 3 SLES 10" Incidentally SLES 10 SP 1 is out of support. You should be on SP 2 by now.

...And isn't it odd that these blasphemous crimes against nature are spearheaded by a man with the saintly name of Justin St. John?

If a game forces you to spend hours doing tasks a bot CAN do, then it's crap.

This is the worst comment about games I have seen in a while. It's bad because on the surface it looks perfectly agreeable. In actuality it is quite insidious.

No game forces you to spend hours doing anything. You're always free to go do something else. Also a bot can be written to play Tetris or solve Sudoku puzzles or even play chess. I don't think that these games are crap and there are plenty of other people who would likely agree with me.

I have played WoW and found it to be enjoyable, but I liked the progression grind from 1-60 and not the general sameness tedium that ensued once max level was reached. Blizzard now wants everyone to focus on endgame and damn the rest. For me, 60 (and later 70) was a journey and not a destination. Now it seems that the less time your character spends on Azeroth actually learning how to play while enjoying the sights, the better.

Ah well. I don't play anymore and I figure that I'm better off for it. I enjoyed getting together with a few friends and questing or even doing an instance, but now that we've all been fervently pushed forward, I am not going to resign myself to the second job of raiding just so I can have equipment that is marginally better than what I have now.

A tip I learned for Cat5: Some cords have rubber pin protectors (little hoods over them, on the ends of the cable), so that if you yank the cable while untangling or pulling it out of a pipe or whatever, the little plastic pin won't get caught on something and snap off. However, the extra cost isn't justfied, because you can just take 4-6 inches of black electrical tape and wrap it around the connector to fully cover the pin (not extremely tight, though, because plastic is unforgiving of repetitive strains if they are intense), giving you a cable with a smooth end that won't get caught on anything. Obviously, you only put tape on the cable when you're doing wiring/untangling; take the tape off to plug it in to something!

A couple notes (I'm getting on a soapbox here; I hate to pointlessly tell people what they probably already know, but I've seen too many so-called "experts" do things wrong):

• In general, you shouldn't be yanking on cables anyway. That's a good way to break the soldering on some of the wires inside of the connector (or separate wires from crimped connectors), leading to a bad cable or one that has to be wiggled sometimes. Also, another thing that I see people do often is not winding/unwinding long cables properly; they can go straight on-to or off-of a spool, but if you're looping them by hand, you have to give a bit of a twist after every loop, or you're going to put strain on the wire. (Be careful when doing the twists to coax them all the way out throuugh the other end of the cable periodically (how often depends on the thickness and stiffness); you don't want a bunch of twists to pile up at the other end and make forceful kinks that could break the wires!)
  
• If you have an RJ45 plug and the plastic pin has broken off, you might be able to get it to sit a little snugly inn a socket by wrapping a layer or two of electrical tape around the connector, just behind the pins. Don't use too much; you don't want to be forcing it into the female jack.
  

[hours and hours later] - whoops, didn't hit submit before turning monitor off, hope someone else hasn't already posted all this info by now somewhere below... :)

What the poster was trying to get at is that current electronic noses are designed to detect only a narrow range of chemicals, and are unable to detect anything else. For example, an electronic nose which is able to detect the smell of carrots could be brought into a kitchen where someone is frying up some bacon, baking some bread, and wiping up a spill with lemon scented cleanser, and it would not detect a thing. Of course, that's the way they are made. The most common example would be roadside breathalysers, which detect alcohol.

The Caltech nose is designed to be a broad "spectrum" device. It would be able to smell the bacon, bread, and lemon cleanser. Of course, they are not the first. NASA has one, as does the University of Warwick.

The only question I have is this: If a person who can't see is blind, and a person who can't hear is deaf, what is a person who can't smell called?

I haven't read the article but I would bet good money that they are allowing clueless managers and CEOs who gave very bad requirements in the first place, to determine if something was a success or failure. In other words, software is only as good as the initial requirements and design. If your client / customer is clueless then they will give you some hand-waving description of what they want ... something like "Listen, we need a new computer system that kind of does what the old one does, but just works better and makes more profits for us! Now hurry up and make it work, Code Monkey! Now excuse me while I retire to my executive suite / relaxation salon and get my manicure."
( Not that I'm bitter or anything. )
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Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among hardcore peer to peer fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying

Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among hardcore peer to peer fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying

Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarry, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among p2p hardcore fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying

Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarry, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among p2p hardcore fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying

Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among hardcore peer to peer fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying

Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among hardcore peer to peer fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying

Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarry, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among p2p hardcore fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying

Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among hardcore peer to peer fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying

Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among hardcore peer to peer fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying

Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarry, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among p2p hardcore fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying

Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among hardcore peer to peer fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying

Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among hardcore peer to peer fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying

Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarry, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among p2p hardcore fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying

Twofo Is Dying

DC++ hub.twofo.co.uk:4144

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.

You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.

N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.

Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among p2p hardcore fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.

Fact: Twofo is dying