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Microsoft Wants P2P Avalanche to Crush BitTorrent
pacopico writes "Microsoft seems to think it can be the better Bittorrent. You know faster and more well-behaved. The Register has a story on the P2P work being done by Microsoft's researchers in the UK. Redmond reckons its "Avalanche" technology will be 20 to 30 percent faster than BitTorrent. It's meant for legal downloads only, of course."
It's meant for legal downloads only, of course.
Then what's the point?
Palladium anyone?
It's illegal "wink wink nudge nudge" to copy Windows 3.1/98 but it helps spread windows users so that's a good thing.
It's illegal "wink wink nudge nudge" to use our faster service, but it helps support Microsoft so that's a good thing.
(It's not a bad idea, if it gets popular enough they can just roll it into Office and charge huge $$$ for it like their MSN Messenger 8...er... Microsoft Virtual Meeting...)
Sounds familiar. My car is meant for legal speeds only. Which is why the "55" is highlighted in a special color. On my 140mph speedometer.
So you will find your way to debian_iso.avalanche, download it, and find that it has transformed into a handy little PDF explaining why linux bites...
Spyware is found in Bit Torrent.
Microsoft Releases competitor to Bit Torrent.
Wow, I'm so glad they were so responsive to that problem. It only took them a couple of hours! That's amazing!
Fantasy remains a human right; we make in our measure and in our derivative mode... -- JRR Tolkien
Mh.. Microsoft..
Will linux-images be declared illegal then, too?
You made it man, you fucking lucky sunnofabitch. Microsoft wants to compete with your work, that's a badge of honor man, you're made now.
I'm trying to think if there is anything "Legal" I want to download.
"Simplify, simplify, simplify!" Thoreau
.mp3 is dead? No one told me. Or any of the other thousands of people who still use it. We need a much better notification system about these things.
Italics, no. Velvet rope, hell yeah! Nobody ever crosses the frickin' velvet rope. MS Firewall? Forget about it, just give each user a standard issue velvet rope to wrap around their computers and NOBODY will dare break in.
Adware and spyware? Who needs to buy GIANT when you can buy a velvet rope factory and rid these Internets of vermin forever?
P2P apps sharing copyrighted material? Velvet rope will keep them from doing that. It's red, it's fuzzy, and it's in their way -- NOBODY crosses the velvet rope.
Those misguided folks in Redmond think italics will stop it all. It won't. Hopefully with this post, though, I can get the attention of OSS coders so they can implement this Velvet Rope thing for Linux before MS "innovates" on it.
Plus, how cool is it going to be to download Windows Server 2006 (or whatever it is) off a P2P network they created.
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No, .mp3 is dying, not dead, its right there with apple, BSD, and our civil rights.. (only 1 seems to be true..)
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
Yep. Apple's a goner. :-P
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MMMMmmmmm....Microsoft Pastry.... /Homer
DAMN YOU OCTODOG! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
My first thought on this? The bug-fixes/service packs for Longhorn will be *huge* and MS are looking for ways to cut their bandwidth costs. :)
"Now with 20-30% more vapor!!!!"
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Walk around your house naked: another $1,136.
My first thought is: How do they enforce this? Do they just not want you to do it with the curtains open, or do they have cameras?
My second thought was: The difference between Singaporean(?) authoritarianism and my personal brand of authoritarianism is that if I had cameras in everyone's house to determine if they were walking around naked or not, it would be illegal not to walk around naked if you were an attractive woman. Yet another reason why nobody ever votes me dictator for life. *sigh*
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> Using a public toilet without flushing still carries a $284 fine.
If it was up to me, it would be punishable by submersion in said device.
and deal with violet criminals promptly
What would you do with them? Maroon them?