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RSS And BitTorrent, Together At Last
eoyount writes "Wired has an interesting story about a really simple idea I wish I had thought of. Transferring large files across the Internet isn't easy for your average joe, but a combination of RSS and BitTorrent technology might just make it easier - Slashdot ran a previous story on the theoretical blending last year." (LegalTorrents is run by the strangely familiar simoniker, who wrote a short piece on the O'Reilly Network about how it was set up, and offers observations on how well the combination fares.) Update: 03/17 21:45 GMT by T : Ernest Miller submits two related postings he's written on RSS+BitTorrent, a combination he calls "broadcatching."
Trust me... the two are made for each other. The clients could use channels on public IRC networks to communicate.
Using Mozilla 1.4 under Mandrake Linux 9.2. How on fucking earth do you create internet shortcuts on your desktop that Mozilla will open?!?! Dragging it from the address bar to the desktop only puts a plaintext file with a single character 'h' in it (KDE 3.1). Mozilla just reads the text of Konquerer and IE shortcut files. So, how the fuck do you put an internet shortcut on the desktop that will open with Mozilla? Don't give me that bullshit about writing a script to do it, either.
Check out this page made of RSS feeds...
Say... that wouldn't happen to be a site that you run, Mr. DealSites, would it?
I'm not against self promotion, but at least label it as such.
Wanted: witty unique signature. Must be willing to relocate.
I know... I'm using "dealsites" as my Slashdot name and have my site URL listed under my name. Of course it's my site..
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"P.S. You take a greater risk of death every time you step in a car than you run a risk of being sued when you upload a file in Kazaa."
Yes, but you're talking about 2 entirely different things.... Stepping in a car is a requirement for many people to get things done on a day to day basis. People take this risk because the benefits outweigh the costs. On the other hand, most people can get by without sharing files on Kazaa (therefore allowing upload,) hence they can reduce their chances of being sued to ZERO.
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The risk is damn near zero anyway. Worrying disproportionately about incredibly unlikely events is a stupid human trait. Plus, whenever you upload, you have the knowledge that (1) you are spreading whatever film, music, or game (which increases the total audience for something that you like, which is valuable to you if you're invested in its subculture), and (2) you're "sticking it to the man." Today, you can be a rebel from the comfort of your own home.
this is an obvious troll, please do not feed.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
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We have forced ourselves into a "car centric" model by building suburbs and stripmalls. In most other places on earth - you do not *NEED* a car for any reason.
But here in 'Merica it's our "RIGHT" to have and use a car, so over the last 50 years we have built ourselves into a model which REQUIRES a car. (Poor transit systems, sprawl, neighborhoods divided my huge highways, big-block retail)
It's all what I like to call the "car tax".
A lot of people believe it to be the "GM Conspiracy" where GM, Mobil Oil, and Goodyear forced the government to switch from a transit oriented society to a car oriented society. A good example is to compare the cities that grew up after the car - to other cities. In New York you can live without a car. In Los Angeles you can't.
(I'm the original AC)
When you've got a family, job and a future, even the unlikeliest of events worry you - legitimately so.
Ha! You stupid f***. Next time you want to reply to an obvious troll... do it AC -- like me!