attaches via an USB interface to any computer, takes over the Internet connection and creates a VPN connection via Terminal services to a proprietary backend system, the SOBA router. In this process, the MPS hibernates the host PC's operating system and takes over hardware components such as screen, graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Sounds like demonic possession. Cue the creepy ring-tones!
Perhaps if the Cylons catch up so quickly and frequently it is because they have a better understanding of Newtonian physics.
Remember that in the old show, the Cylon fighters had to flip over to "dive". I don't think they understood seatbelts. (And why not just bolt three Cylon processors into a cockpit-less ship?)
It sounds like a crumple-zone in case they get into a legal head-on.
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Life sucks, buy a helmet.:) Those asymetrical rates not only unbalance things (it takes 4 cable uploads to max one cable download) but it also rewards selfish dine'n'dash behaviour. If your BT client doesn't allow capping its rates, you can always pause it does Internet use.
There's still a few reefs to steer past. Is the verification process expensive in CPU and/or bandwidth? Who certifies the verfication, someone central like Network Solutions (we trust them with.com and.net after all), ICANN, Verisign, Diebold or Microsoft? Can anyone certify keys, and if so, can you trust them? For spammer pink money, ISPs have hopped spammers from IP block to IP block and other games. (That's part of the reason for aggressive blockslists like SPEWS.) Will certifiers take spammer money, and then what? Will they yank verification for spammers? Will verification be by ISP or by email address? Will I have to buy a certification from someone? Can the spammer buy a whole stack of throwaway certifications for cheep? If you want to track down the spammer who's been sending verified spam, do you need a court order to get ISPs to divulge name and address? (And is it a real name and address?)
There's a lot of practical details that have to be checked off before this could fly.
You only remove the 80% of the spam when the spammers give up sending it. Previously they've just cranked the engines of spam up a few more notches. I'm not saying it won't eventually stop them, just that you'd better be prepared for a fight.
I'll seed your recommendation.:) I switched to it after trying the stock BT client a bit. I've only been trying it for a week (Slackware distro and Iron Chef Strawberry), but no complaints.
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That's probably more of a social problem. With BT, the total download bandwidth is only as good as the upload bandwidth that everyone supplies. If people bail after they've got their download but before they put back the bandwidth they used, the system's going to drag. Likewise, if people immediately bail on completion, the numbers of nodes still online that have the final pieces are going to be quite small, and they are going to be swamped.
To cure people of being selfish-bastards, please reboot the universe.
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Pity. If the trackers were doing that much work, it would be easier to detect nodes that had dropped out. i.e. disconnected from their dynamic IP address and let the next person be DHCP-assigned that address and all those requests on port 688x for days afterwards. It would also be easier to patch a relatively small number of trackers rather than all the downloader installations.
I didn't think the trackers did a lot of work. The whole point of systems like BT isn't really to improve download speed (it's sometimes a spinoff), it's to shift the bandwidth load from the source end and make it possible to provide large popular downloads without requiring a huge pipe and a server farm.
Well, damnedcompany.com would be a list of companies irredeemably damned to eternal HELL for evil actions. (For stupid actions, they can go to DUH.) And once they're on the list, there would be the chore of rating and placing them. Most evil companies might only get a one circle rating. I guess SCO would get at least five circles.
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No problem! Just connect it to my Leapfrog talking pen, pull out this piece of special expensive paper, and .. I'll write it down ..
It's probably a paradigm rot rather than a shift. Maybe a PRRC instruction?
then don't stand too close to it, okay? (messy photo warning) And certainly, don't try to blow it up with explosives! There's even a wiki these days.
Remember when teenagers were happy when people couldn't read all the personal details in their diary?
Bah! I ignore a far higher grade of journals than that!
Hey .. remember that missle silo that someone was selling as a home on eBay a few years ago? Just the place to brew up some Atlas-F Lager!
Yeah, but after a while, people will start forking their beer.
Remember that in the old show, the Cylon fighters had to flip over to "dive". I don't think they understood seatbelts. (And why not just bolt three Cylon processors into a cockpit-less ship?)
I thought centons were a unit of distance in the old show and microns were a unit of time. (Mmmm, Tektronics vector terminals...)
It sounds like a crumple-zone in case they get into a legal head-on.
Life sucks, buy a helmet. :) Those asymetrical rates not only unbalance things (it takes 4 cable uploads to max one cable download) but it also rewards selfish dine'n'dash behaviour. If your BT client doesn't allow capping its rates, you can always pause it does Internet use.
There's a lot of practical details that have to be checked off before this could fly.
No no--only if Bit is still restricted to yes/no type answers.
You only remove the 80% of the spam when the spammers give up sending it. Previously they've just cranked the engines of spam up a few more notches. I'm not saying it won't eventually stop them, just that you'd better be prepared for a fight.
That's the one that by default, sends spam bounces to forged email addresses?
And which servers are you going to swamp by verifying the authentication?
Whippersnappers! In my day we only had Godwin's Rule, and we liked it!
Yeah, have Eddie Murhpy do the voice for Bit.
s/get attention to/suicide/
I'll seed your recommendation. :) I switched to it after trying the stock BT client a bit. I've only been trying it for a week (Slackware distro and Iron Chef Strawberry), but no complaints.
To cure people of being selfish-bastards, please reboot the universe.
I didn't think the trackers did a lot of work. The whole point of systems like BT isn't really to improve download speed (it's sometimes a spinoff), it's to shift the bandwidth load from the source end and make it possible to provide large popular downloads without requiring a huge pipe and a server farm.
Well, damnedcompany.com would be a list of companies irredeemably damned to eternal HELL for evil actions. (For stupid actions, they can go to DUH.) And once they're on the list, there would be the chore of rating and placing them. Most evil companies might only get a one circle rating. I guess SCO would get at least five circles.
Start a site damnedcompany.com (available) to list the companies that are completely damned by their evil actions to eternity in hell.