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The Pirate Bay Plans Servers In the Sky
1sockchuck writes "The Pirate Bay says it plans to deploy servers on airborne drones several kilometers above international waters. The site said it was experimenting with servers using Raspberry Pi, a credit-card sized Linux computer. April Fools come early? Torrent Freak says the plan is real. It's apparently a literal approach to cloud computing."
and it sucked. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091964/
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
they really *crash*.
Supplies!
Ironically, such an action by the RIAA/MPAA in international waters would technically be an act of piracy.
Hast du etwas Zeit fuer mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer dich
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Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst du vielleicht g'rad an mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer dich
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Und dass sowas von sowas kommt
99 Luftboxens ...
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Hielt man fuer Ufos aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
'ne Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben, wenn's so war
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intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I wish there was a -1 retarded mod because you, sir, are a fucking retard.
We could set up our network of orbiting drones as node relays and create our own internet. Take that AT&T!
It would work great until AOL launched their own drone, which would be the size of the Hindenburg, immediately swamping the other nodes with traffic and requiring users to type all in caps.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Most likely either a RIM-156 or a RIM-162, depending on the range. The RIM-156 range is about 100 nautical miles, and the RIM-162 is about 50 nautical miles.
That, or they'd just shoot it down with a fighter jet.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Tom Clancy!
But if there aren't any clouds in the sky, can you still access TPB?
We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, pirates were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.
":Or haven't you noticed that the Raspberry PI doesn't, erm, fly?"
You are not throwing it hard enough.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I'd suggest just under 100 of them. Be sure they're reflective of light in the 630-740nm range.
From the Associated Press, July 15, 2013:
Faced with an ongoing budget crisis for the next school year and pressure from federal mandates to increase education about copyright law and the life-imprisonment mandatory minimum sentence violations carry, the local high school is offering a $10 bounty for each piracy-supporting balloon brought in with a functioning computer. School officials have announced that through a partnership with an unnamed sponsor, each mylar balloon (the so-callen "floating sanity") will bring in approximately $20 for the school, and the school will keep the computers as well.
In an Interview last Tuesday, school district superintendent Ben Dover extolled the benefits of the program. "We see this as a win/win situation, very likely to ease the pain of the budget deficiencies. We get an influx of new computers, and additional monetary assets as well." he said to a room of reporters and concerned parents. "If, as rumors have suggested, the computers are unable to run Windows 9 Bloat Edition, we can still sell them off to help cover the cost of licensing both installations of our grading software.
Sources close to the issue say that there are some concerns, however, as the partnership contract has some unusual conditions. According to one anonymous source, the contract specifies that all term papers and homework assignments completed by students will become the sole property of the partner, who will then charge licensing fees to the school and teachers before they will be able to grade the students' work, costing the school up to $500 per assignment, or more if the work will be used as a class example.
A spokesperson for the partner, who has asked to be addressed only as Dick, has denied such allegations. "That's preposterous," he told reporters, "our license fees aren't nearly that low."
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
Ballmer, is that you?
Begun, the Drone Wars have.
Good-bye
You're talking about Talos? Talos wasn't a cruise missile - it was an anti-aircraft missile.
ENOUGH of your Thalmor propaganda. Talos was a man, and now he's a god. Period. The end.
This is all academic,
Why?
because this silly scheme isn't going to happen anyway.
Ah. I see.
It's a desperate bolt from the galaxy
Wow, cool!
move on
Sure, sure. Moving on. Ehm... on what?
the part of the Pirate Bay.
Oh, step on their parts? :-/ By the way, what time is it?
Their time is about up,
OK, that probably goes for my time as well, then.
and they know it.
That's great, because we're supposed to meet here at quarter past up and I don't want them to be late.
The mods saw that it wasn't in English, couldn't be bothered to translate it, and are philistines who wouldn't know good music if it filled their vagina with bacon and then sent an Alsatian to go eat it.
Is 1563649 a prime number?