User: mcryptic

Google helps pirates too

On: Official BitTorrent Search Opens

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=star+wars+sit h+torrent&btnG=Google+Search

Certainly the FBI should shutdown google.

Good luck sueing suprnova

On: MPAA to Sue BitTorrent Tracker Servers

Its hosted in slovenia.

Oh no

On: World's Largest Working Computing Grid

Is anyone else thinking here comes the Forbin Project!?

Re:Won't the internet just go *down* more?

On: Earthlink Invests In Broadband Over Power Lines

Well if the power lines go down you won't have power to run your computer.

I'll be busy looting while the geeks sit in their basements waiting for the internet to come on.

Similar product with english site and pictures

On: NTT Develops Stamp-Size 1GB Hologram Memory

Tech Live on TechTV showed a similar technology last week:

http://www.inphase-technologies.com/products/tapes trymedia/

this company is claiming 2GB in a postage stamp, and 100-200GB for a 120mm Disk.

some subjects are just funny

On: Filter-foiling Gibberish Becoming A Spam Staple

Get a lonstormboundger one, shcentimetere will love it

Create a new incconcomitantome with eBay

Want a bibellagger penhookis?

Get a lonstormboundger one, shcentimetere will love it

Want to make more mobenefitney?

for me their is no limit

On: How Much Broadband Usage is Too Much?

i have insight cable and i've been downloading between 100-120GB per month for the last two years, never had any complaints.

how to save all the updates?

On: Windows 98 Phased Out

I the unfortunate person in the family that has to fix friends/familys computers, and 90% of them still use 98. How would one go about saving all the win98 updates? Can it bee done if i don't have a machine running 98?

rocko's modern life

On: Elephant Repellent Tested In India

This remind me of that episode were rocko was testing the wild giraffe repellent.

alternative encrypted p2p software

On: MUTE: Simple, Private File Sharing

filetopia has been around for quite some time, they also have a larger user base. They don't use "hops" by default but it is an option.

let it be said

On: IBM's Blue Gene powered by Linux

65,000 processors ought to be enough for anyone.

let it be said

On: NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption

15,360 bits ought to be enough for everyone.

Re:Ars Technica Distributed Computing Arcana

On: The Cost of Distributed Client Computing?

Well if they are nuts then these people must be legally insane!.

300GB isn't that much

On: Maxtor's 300 GB Monster Reviewed

Today maxtor announced that they have perfected perpendicular recording to allow for 175GB per platter.

Whos up for 700GB drives?

oldest plant?

On: World's Oldest Tree To Be Cloned

a quick google came up with a 43,000 year old plant (Tasmanian native holly), which has already been cloned in order to save it.

http://forests.org/archive/spacific/ausoldpl.htm

Why Flac?

On: Phish Moves To FLAC

monkey audio files are slightly smaller then FLAC files see this comparison on how it compares to other lossless compressions.

what exactly did they send?

On: 2.56 Tb/s Transmission Record

what did they send that is several TB in size?

(besides pr0n)

Re:An adaptor?

On: New, Flexible CDs Arrive

they've been secretly shipping these adapters for years in CD-R media, what do you think those clear top discs are for? :p

Re:Don't they make enough?

On: Excite@Home To Change Routing Priorities For $$

For those of you who don't have @home, you should know that they already make you go through their routors (mine is in chicago; 160 miles away)so they can collect information on what sites their users visit and sell the information to sites. Big Deal, right? Maybe if my ping doesn't go from 50 to 500+ in quake during peak hours (the price of cable, or poor business practices?)