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Download Torrents With Your PC Turned Off

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the building-your-hardware-with-steroids dept.

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.

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  1. news? by macadamia_harold · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:news? by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 4, Funny

      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??

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    2. Re:news? by StoatBringer · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  2. In case your wondering... by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, it does run linux.

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  3. Natural extension by Bromskloss · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  4. Is it vocab or grammar nazi? by ArcherB · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

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  5. Re:Why not just use a computer? by xQx · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  6. This morning I saw that HIV was cured by pHatidic · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 /.

  7. ASUS Builds Full-Blown PC Without Video Card... by ivan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Video at 11:00.

  8. Re:That's nothing! by AoT · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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