Download Torrents With Your PC Turned Off

Mr.Tweak writes to tell us that they have a review posted of a new wireless router from ASUS. What sets this router apart from others is that in addition to being a wireless router/gateway is that it also functions as a thin client system with a pre-installed 160 GB IDE drive (no SATA support sorry) and three USB 2.0 ports for peripherals. If you happen to use one of those USB ports for another drive the router will also support RAID 0 and 1, quite a bit more than the average router.

Comments

news?

[macadamia_harold]

This isn't anything new. According to the RIAA, you can download music without even owning a computer.

Re:news?

[Mister Whirly]

Yeah, I'm relatively sure that 99% of torrent download ARE legitimate things like linux distros... Because terrabytes of distros are released EVERY DAY and that's what the majority of users are downloading...

I'm not denying that there aren't legitimate uses for torrents, but don't try to blow smoke up anyone's ass about what the majority are currently using it for.. I'm sure a few people will chime in and list their legitimate uses, but how many are going to chime in and admit they are violating (bullshit) copyright laws??

Re:news?

[StoatBringer]

Only because Microsoft haven't released a torrent client yet.

Re:news?

[Drooling Iguana]

The proper term is "Inuit."

And it's not polar bear porn. It's polar bear erotica.

In case your wondering...

[LiquidCoooled]

Yes, it does run linux.

Natural extension

[Bromskloss]

Wow, now let's put into it _all_ functionality we expect from a computer! ;-)

That's nothing!

[Anonymous Coward]

According to the RIAA my grandpa downloaded music long after he died! (and yes, without a computer to boot) :D

Re:That's nothing!

[redalien]

Anon: Have you not considered buying your dead relatives computers? It is the information age you know!

Re:That's nothing!

[Loconut1389]

This just in, the RIAA has proof: There is life after death- refuses to share details. Film at 11.

Re:That's nothing!

[AoT]

Yeah, but it is just because they hate sharing so much.

Is it vocab or grammar nazi?

[ArcherB]

from TFA:

There's a rapidly-expanding section of the home electronics market which revolves around "devices". The reason for the parentheses is that it's difficult to know how to label these gadgets, because they don't fit easily into any pre-defined categories.

Isn't a parentheses one of these ( )?
And aren't these " " called quotation marks?

Sorry, but it's hard to take an article seriously when the author doesn't know the difference.

Re:Is it vocab or grammar nazi?

[g0at]

Isn't a parentheses one of these ( )?

And aren't these " " called quotation marks?

Pretty close... one of those curved things is a parenthesis. Two of them are parentheses. Your thinking is in the right place though.

-b

Re:Why not just use a computer?

[xQx]

All your script are belong to us.

It does take a painfully long time to hack your computer tho, I'm like:

CD \windows
dir
[wait for you to disconnect from the web, plug the modem into the PC, run 0wned script, plug back into the net]
cd system32
dir
[again...]

Well, that's where I'm up to anyway...

This morning I saw that HIV was cured

[pHatidic]

And I thought wow, this is by far the best news of the day. Then I saw that there is a new drug just like morphine, only non-addictive. And then I thought, wow, I thought AIDs being cured was a big deal, but that's nothing compared to this. And now I see that I can download porno movies without even turning on my computer. God I love /.

Re:This morning I saw that HIV was cured

[miro f]

And now I see that I can download porno movies without even turning on my computer.

unfortunately, not. You have to turn on your computer in order to tell the router to download your porno. Then you can turn it off while you wait for the porn. Then your sister uses it to download the second season of Buffy and notices all the stuff you've downloaded.

Meanwhile I've always just used TorrentFlux installed on my linux server, works fine for me. (still doesn't hide my downloads from other users, however)

ASUS Builds Full-Blown PC Without Video Card...

[ivan256]

...Video at 11:00.

Re:Hey there

[Anonymous Coward]

As a grey hat who has on more than one occaision slipped to the dark side, I happen to agree with you. However, in the name of being pedantic (about everything but my possible spelling mistakes):

Information wants to be free. That doesn't give you the right to access it. I want to have carnal drunken sex with Angelina Jolie... doesn't mean it is my right to do so. Like anything, I would have to work for it. And in this case I would have to work bloody hard to do so.

Don't think that you can't access my credit card numbers, if you do, well done, but if you used one exploit you found in your script kiddie tool box, or you didn't spend 3 month's analysing every weakness in the firewall, then you do not deserve what you have obtained, and thus you have no right to be accessing said data. Only the truly elite have this power (no that is not me) and you do not hear them screaming "hack the planet" at every opportunity.

Re:Thin Client

[Ruie]

Why does a thin client need 160GB?

To cache data from 160TB server. What kind of question is that ?

Re:Why not just use a computer?

[ForestGrump]

bandwidth? not really. I mean, you're buying a 3 meg connection, but reality is that it sits idle most of the time. If you script your send/fetch web stuff, even dialup is no problem (unless you're doing something stupid like downloading videos.) As for latency, it's a matter of how fast I can get the script to send/receive what I need. Once that's done, it's almost instantenous between the router and the dot matrix printer (monitors cause cancer and LCDs don't have enough contrast).

And scripting language? I don't know. I'm just someone parinoid of the outside world. go ask the guys who wrote Interweb interface.

Grump

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Re:Why not just use a computer?

[abb3w]

Use "CD %SYSTEMDRIVE%" and "CD %SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32" instead. Otherwise you may run into problems on systems using (say) D:\WINXP as the system drive & folder. On my system, C:\WINNT and C:\WINDOWS are decoys.