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Australian P2P Sites Disappear Overnight
An anonymous reader writes "In the wake of a raid on an Australian ISP, local P2P site operators are shutting down operations in droves, according to community site Whirlpool. The raid was the result of an investigation by Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI), who claim they have a number of targets lined up for future raids. Overnight, a number of sites have shut down or been shut down, and ISPs are reporting major drops in bandwidth usage."
maybe the crocs ate them ?!
set your threshold at -1 if you want to see me
when downloading pr0n!
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Hilarious Office Prank!
Won't the french just surrender?
(it's sarcasm, folks...)
eastern europe
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
gee I didn't realize I had to run my idiotic quotes through the slashdot "quote suck" check... I guess I should have though, what with all the quality posts that come through here... ;-/
I read slashdot for the sigs...
Whilst the French might not have fought much in France, "we" the Allies certainly did....
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old. -- Winston Churchill, British House of Commons, 4 June 1940.
Sure I have a license to drug this squirrel.
That's why the local dealers call it "shit"
Maybe its a french thing.
Mod parent up! Informative post!
Apparently in addition to being pathetic, you are easily trolled.
Maybe a dingo ate you karma.
Dumbass
English please?
Your fucking welcome!
Go ahead, keep telling yourself that the french were "right", despite selling their security council veto for a few billion dollars worth of Saddam's skimmed Oil-for-Food money and a promise to get oil contracts after they worked to lift sanctions.
Keep telling yourself that after successful elections in Iraq, and after huge pro-democracy and pro-American and even pro-Bush demonstrations in the Middle East after the Iraqi election.
Keep telling yourself that now that Syria is being pushed out of Lebanon.
Keep telling yourself that now that Saudi Arabia is actually going to hold some elections and is even discussing allowing women to vote.
Keep telling yourself that after Libya voluntarily gave up WMD programs after Saddam was toppled - no coincidence there, eh? (FWIW, I think that makes Libya only the third country ever to voluntarily give up a WMD program - behind Ukraine and South Africa)
Reflexive anti-Americanism is so stupid.
You insensitive Eurocentric clod! The appropriate technical phrase for that type of server farm operating in Mongolia is "A Ghengis Horde", not "A Beowulf Cluster"!
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
You are a glutton for punishment and just can't move on with your life, can you? Stuck in your meaningless existence, looking for any shred for attention even when it's degrading and humiliating. Just so that people notice you.
Guess what, we're here to serve. But if you really want to make a splash, jump in front of a car.
Ay matey, piracy is what you do and a pirate is what you ARRRRRRRRR.
Dammit! Where are my mod points! You deserve to be +5 rather than that anemic +2.
You hit the nail on the head but because you dare to speak the truth you'll have numerous mods marking you as Troll and Flamebait (as no doubt these comments will be).
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
But I'd never say that, because the /. HiveMind has decided that it's Flamebait (-1)
No, its your smug, pseudo-sarcastic tone that gets you modded Flamebait.
Translation : Me need sex.
Whilst the French might not have fought much in France, "we" the Allies certainly did....
Why is it that France is often singled out for their collapse when faced with unsermountable odds against a fantastically greater force, when there were 5 or 6 other countries in BOTH World Wars that were taken much more easily than France was? Even the British Expiditionary Force couldnt keep the Germans back, it wasnt until more fronts were opened up with the USSR and in Africa etc that Fortress Europe was weakened from the inside enough to successfully attack.
I've talked to Europeans who thought WW2 was fought against Soviet Russia.
They were Americans, you ignorant American!
Smokers pay higher life insuirance premiums. Plus cancer is a pretty stiff penalty.
Sometimes fear of getting bombed doesn't and sometimes it does, and sometimes actually get bombed does lead to real, long-term reform. The poster children for this kind of rehabilitation are Japan and Germany, which rose from the rubble they wrought around themselves during WWII to become first-world nations and excellent global citizens. It took millions of lives and an almost unfathomable amount of ordinance, however, to bring them around; and in the post war years, numerous American magazines printed articles asking if we were losing the peace. Look at Life or Time magainze circa 1946 - 1949, and you'll see dozens of examples of articles arguing that we were losing out against the past and failing to win the minds of the people. Those countries were occupied, and although it took a long time, a lot of money and an enormous amount of difficult work, eventually they arrived where they are today.
Since you're referring primarily to Iraq in your post, I assume, I'll say that I'm not convinced that Iraq is going to turn out the same way, but now there is a chance, and that chance didn't exist and couldn't have existed under Saddam's regime. Time is unlikely to render an exact verdict to either side you create, but is likely to see whether Iraq adopts democratic principles and sticks to them. If so, that will mean the occupation is won, as it has been in other places; but it has also been lost in other places, and I suspect those directing American forces are well aware of the historical precedents. The man you dub "the most dangerous" alive knows it and so do his advisers: but they also know that sometimes inaction is far worse than action.
It's popular these days to slam "the most dangerous man alive," but the same people doing that were the same one denigrating Reagan during the Cold War, even though the Cold War ended shortly after his watch. Reagan was right about some things: the Soviet Union was an evil empire, and it deserved to fall, just as in more recent times the Hussein regime was evil and deserved to fall. Time, which you mention, will eventually show whether the United States went about destroying its power the right or wrong way, but whatever arguments come from time are too early to use now to render a verdict.
"The most dangerous man alive," though, does not come from the hand-wringing school of diplomacy, and we have seen where European hand-wringing over the existance of evil has led the world before. Let us hope it does not lead us down an even darker path in the future.
Anyone remember his cameo in some movie of his where he explained that the Top Gun movie was about dick waving? Classic.
Why are there only 19 people folding@home for slashdot?