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USB-Based NIC Torrents While Your PC Sleeps
jangel sends us to WindowsForDevices.com for news on a prototype device created by researchers from Microsoft and UC San Diego. It's a USB-based NIC that includes its own ARM processor and flash storage, and can download files or torrent while a host PC is sleeping. As a result, its inventors say, the "Somniloquy" device slashes power usage by up to 50x. The device requires a few tweaks on the host OS side save state before sleeping. The prototype works with a Vista host but the hardware comprising the NIC is based on a Linux stack. Here is the research paper (PDF).
Calm down.
we already know you're a bunch of dick smoking faggots.
I've been "in" computers for a good deal of my professional life and I've never downloaded a file, legal or otherwise, using bit torrent. I just don't care to. But here on Slashdot it's such a BIG DEAL, as if so many people do it. So many slashdotters perhaps, but out in the Real World, meh.
This RIAA torrent business is just like pornography; the volume is huge but mostly because the file format is huge. Don't equate that to popularity across the population. Nobody gives a shit about microscopic torrent clients other than the RIAA (because it keeps their criminally executed quest in the public eye) and the Slashdot crowd (because they're locked in a macabre dance with the RIAA, like praying mantises, where one of you keeps fucking after your head has been chewed off by the other.)
You had, you started to post, realized you were doing something wrong, yet posted anyway. Are you George Bush? The name and the behaviour certainly suggest it.