It will now be possible to have your snail mail crash on you. Imagine opening up your mailbox and getting a BSOD. And naturally Microsoft will sell your snail address to the spammers, so you'll get about 50 junk mails per day. And a robotic Spam Assassin is a lot more expensive than its free software counterpart. Who thought this was a good idea anyway - Bill Gates, or maybe some of the other spammers?
You're right, it can't be completely shut down, but it's so close to it that it doesn't much matter at this point. The official BitTorrent site, hosted on Bram Cohen's University, was taken down, as were all of the BitTorrent link sites. The project is effectively dead now, and anyone running a tracker to serve illegal files can expect a C&D like Torrentse.cx and suprnova.org got. I'm well aware of TorrentSpy, and it's telling me that all of the torrents I have are dead - hell, even the legitimate ones, like some of the "mirrors for Slashdot effect victims"! I suppose it is possible to find working.torrents for Linux ISOs, but you'd really have to look hard or already have the.torrent files, because all of the sites have been shut down.
Front page story! Well, sort of. My story submission got rejected, but at least I got a mention in the story, so I'm happy:-)
Anyway, here are some questions:
Do you consider the illegal trading of copyrighted works a great perversion of BitTorrent?
Was it worth it to shut down all of BitTorrent to stop said illegal file transfers?
Or would you rather keep BitTorrent up and alive, but the pressure from the MPAA was simply too much and you knew you couldn't win?
How do you feel now that your baby is dead, especially because it was originally made for legal purposes (Linux ISOs), but illegal purposes caused its death?
Will you be boycotting MPAA's products from now on?
Yeah yeah I know, one question per post, sorry... and sorry if some of the questions seem misleading.
We already know who some of the spammers are. Heck, some of them have admitted it! What we need is good old-fashioned mob justice. If we all have a hand in the lynching, how are the coppers supposed to know who exactly did the killing? I suggest that we rename Saturday Spamurday. Every Spamurday we all mob the home of a spammer and lynch them in a very public manner. Soon, the spam should start dropping off, because who would dare risk their lives to mob justice to make a few bucks selling penis enlargers?
Maybe SCO won't engage in ultra-frivolous lawsuits now since they can't get funding for them? This is good for Linux: Microsoft is rejecting a part that would lead them directly against Linux. Kind of makes you wonder what Microsoft is thinking, though. Did they drop the ball on this one? Or are they trying to survive longer by not appearing to be a monopoly (which they would if they used legal means against Linux)?
In the contest to win the X Prize, there can be only one winner. The runner up wins the Darwin Award. Is Burt Rutan's entry X Prize worthy, or will he join the thousands of other people who've killed themselves spectacularly to win Darwin Awards?
Okay, the balloons are only a mile up and are meters across. It'd be very easy to launch a DoS attack against them with conventional weaponry. And because it's America, you know how millions of us have firearms, right?
Imagine some redneck interrupted in the middle of a WWE download because the connection goes out. And imagine said redneck running outside in frustration and opening fire on the broadband balloon with his.45 caliber converted automatic rifles.
Mars is all well and good, but I really think we should be focusing on the Moon! Mars is so much farther away it takes half a year to get there. The Moon, on the other hand, only takes two days. And if anything goes wrong, the Moon is actually close enough we might be able to get there in time to do something about it.
I don't see a problem with sending "orobes" to Mars, because it's always good to know something just for the sake of knowing, but knowledge of the Moon is much more practical. We've had the technology for decades to establish a Lunar colony . Why didn't we? There's water, and therefore oxygen, and most of the metals you could possibly desire all on the Moon. We should establish a Lunar colony first, and then worry about manned missions to Mars.
1. Sign a non-compete agreement.
2. Work for pennies on the dollar outside of your field.
3. ???
4. Profit!
The articles themselves are info overload.
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Information overload? 70% of the Internet goes unread? Hell, I for one know I don't read any of the articles Slashdot links to! And judging from the/. crowd, most of like to make those linked articles part of the 70% and get directly to the Funny Comments (mmmm, Beowulf, Soviet Russia, hot grits, and 1.2.3. profit jokes!)
What if Rogue were wrapped in a full-body skintight latex suit?..Nah. It'd never happen. That's far too ridiculous for a comic book character.
Hey, shouldn't Rogue go into combat naked? That way she'd maximize the amount of surface area she could use to steal the bad guys' energy. Of course, the movie would then probably get an NC17 rating...
Am I the only one who thinks this is a good idea? As long as it's done correctly, it should really cut down on counterfeiting without too many privacy concerns. Also, it will take the concept of tracking money to the extreme. Instead of having to write on the notes and hoping people enter the serial number on the website, you can just query the bill itself and it'll tell you where it's been! That seems pretty cool. It would also help cut down on money laundering, money theft, etc.
I think this guy's right. If you really want to see a bunch of nerds going crazy with esoteric endeavors, look no further than the Society for Creative Anachronism. They're pretty much the only people left in the world who make battle-quality chain mail, scale mail, and plate mail in the medieval style.
Whoa, I was gonna try and mirror these images... but to no avail! The webserver stopped dead during the subscriber preview time. Oh well, here's a BitTorrent link for everything I was able to get before the site went down:
Just imagine the beautiful irony though, if a helicopter's armor was immune to a laser, but a rock hurled from a sling knock it out of the sky?
ROCK?! Screw that. How about a fucking BULLET?!
Nobody is stupid enough to make a helicopter out of mirrors that work perfectly well against beam weapons but fail against ballistic attacks, because 99.9% of what the enemy is using is gonna be ballistic. The Middle-Eastern countries we've fought against have had technology decades outdated. Assuming that the laser weapon was magically invented today, how many decades do you think it would take the less technologically advanced to get their hands on some? The point being, I can't imagine a situation where a slingthrower is more dangerous than the billions of firearms out there.
And Morena Baccharin is sexy in that exotic Asian kind of way. Maybe that, or it's because she played a whore. Mmmmm... Morena...
And yeah, Gina Torres is the sexy woman who played Jasime, the Devourer (a decidedly un-nasty, disgusting freak of a beast in Angel).
Let's not forget Jewel Staite... her character Kaylee was sexy in that innocent, home-girl kind of way, though it was revealed in one of the episodes how she got her position as mechanic wasn't exactly innocent! (Screwing the previous mechanic). That one was a real shocker. Man, I loved that show.
Ohh yeah, and there's Summer Glau, sexy in that psycho-freak kinda way. Especially the girl-in-the-box part, where she's naked... yeah that's really cool.
And I'm not homosexual, but if I were, I would definitely be all over that Nathan Fillion! Mmmmm! (That one was for the girls)
Oh my God that thing was HILARIOUS! To anyone who hasn't seen it, you must see it right now. The total download is only about 4 megs. Watch the original first and then the remix. You can download it with BitTorrent at http://www.fdntech.com/files/
That guy's like looking at a train wreck. You know you shouldn't be enjoying it so much but you simply can't stop looking.
Perhaps Buffy was getting tired, but Firefly was just starting to shine! I hope Joss Whedon doesn't mean that he was tired in general, just tired in regards to BTVS. I'm still hopeful that Firefly will make a comeback someday. In any event, two of its actors have played villains on Joss Whedon's other shows, Angel and BTVS. I thought that was nice of him, helping the actors of his cancelled show by giving them parts on his still-running shows.
Wow, I forsee better uses for this thing than playing games. You can probably store 10 porno movies on it at the resolution of the LCD screen! It's a party in your pocket!
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It will now be possible to have your snail mail crash on you. Imagine opening up your mailbox and getting a BSOD. And naturally Microsoft will sell your snail address to the spammers, so you'll get about 50 junk mails per day. And a robotic Spam Assassin is a lot more expensive than its free software counterpart. Who thought this was a good idea anyway - Bill Gates, or maybe some of the other spammers?
In the future nerds, geeks, and dweebs of all variety will swear not by the power of duct tape to fix all problems, but gecko tape.
You're right, it can't be completely shut down, but it's so close to it that it doesn't much matter at this point. The official BitTorrent site, hosted on Bram Cohen's University, was taken down, as were all of the BitTorrent link sites. The project is effectively dead now, and anyone running a tracker to serve illegal files can expect a C&D like Torrentse.cx and suprnova.org got. I'm well aware of TorrentSpy, and it's telling me that all of the torrents I have are dead - hell, even the legitimate ones, like some of the "mirrors for Slashdot effect victims"! I suppose it is possible to find working .torrents for Linux ISOs, but you'd really have to look hard or already have the .torrent files, because all of the sites have been shut down.
Anyway, here are some questions:
Yeah yeah I know, one question per post, sorry
We already know who some of the spammers are. Heck, some of them have admitted it! What we need is good old-fashioned mob justice. If we all have a hand in the lynching, how are the coppers supposed to know who exactly did the killing? I suggest that we rename Saturday Spamurday. Every Spamurday we all mob the home of a spammer and lynch them in a very public manner. Soon, the spam should start dropping off, because who would dare risk their lives to mob justice to make a few bucks selling penis enlargers?
Maybe SCO won't engage in ultra-frivolous lawsuits now since they can't get funding for them? This is good for Linux: Microsoft is rejecting a part that would lead them directly against Linux. Kind of makes you wonder what Microsoft is thinking, though. Did they drop the ball on this one? Or are they trying to survive longer by not appearing to be a monopoly (which they would if they used legal means against Linux)?
In the contest to win the X Prize, there can be only one winner. The runner up wins the Darwin Award. Is Burt Rutan's entry X Prize worthy, or will he join the thousands of other people who've killed themselves spectacularly to win Darwin Awards?
Okay, the balloons are only a mile up and are meters across. It'd be very easy to launch a DoS attack against them with conventional weaponry. And because it's America, you know how millions of us have firearms, right?
.45 caliber converted automatic rifles.
Imagine some redneck interrupted in the middle of a WWE download because the connection goes out. And imagine said redneck running outside in frustration and opening fire on the broadband balloon with his
Mars is all well and good, but I really think we should be focusing on the Moon! Mars is so much farther away it takes half a year to get there. The Moon, on the other hand, only takes two days. And if anything goes wrong, the Moon is actually close enough we might be able to get there in time to do something about it.
I don't see a problem with sending "orobes" to Mars, because it's always good to know something just for the sake of knowing, but knowledge of the Moon is much more practical. We've had the technology for decades to establish a Lunar colony . Why didn't we? There's water, and therefore oxygen, and most of the metals you could possibly desire all on the Moon. We should establish a Lunar colony first, and then worry about manned missions to Mars.
A space elevator wouldn't hurt either.
LOL! I got modded into the ground for that one. Okay, I'll try a different tactic.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of non-competes? *cha-ching*
1. Sign a non-compete agreement.
2. Work for pennies on the dollar outside of your field.
3. ???
4. Profit!
Information overload? 70% of the Internet goes unread? Hell, I for one know I don't read any of the articles Slashdot links to! And judging from the /. crowd, most of like to make those linked articles part of the 70% and get directly to the Funny Comments (mmmm, Beowulf, Soviet Russia, hot grits, and 1.2.3. profit jokes!)
The rats always flee from the ship about to sink.
VIVE LA REVOLUTION!
... better put freedom in there somewhere to make it okay ...
Ohhh crap, I'm gonna get flamed
VIVE FREEDOM REVOLUTION!
What if Rogue were wrapped in a full-body skintight latex suit? ..Nah. It'd never happen. That's far too ridiculous for a comic book character.
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Hey, shouldn't Rogue go into combat naked? That way she'd maximize the amount of surface area she could use to steal the bad guys' energy. Of course, the movie would then probably get an NC17 rating
Am I the only one who thinks this is a good idea? As long as it's done correctly, it should really cut down on counterfeiting without too many privacy concerns. Also, it will take the concept of tracking money to the extreme. Instead of having to write on the notes and hoping people enter the serial number on the website, you can just query the bill itself and it'll tell you where it's been! That seems pretty cool. It would also help cut down on money laundering, money theft, etc.
I think this guy's right. If you really want to see a bunch of nerds going crazy with esoteric endeavors, look no further than the Society for Creative Anachronism. They're pretty much the only people left in the world who make battle-quality chain mail, scale mail, and plate mail in the medieval style.
Whoa, I was gonna try and mirror these images ... but to no avail! The webserver stopped dead during the subscriber preview time. Oh well, here's a BitTorrent link for everything I was able to get before the site went down:
BitTorrent images mirror link
Just imagine the beautiful irony though, if a helicopter's armor was immune to a laser, but a rock hurled from a sling knock it out of the sky?
ROCK?! Screw that. How about a fucking BULLET?!
Nobody is stupid enough to make a helicopter out of mirrors that work perfectly well against beam weapons but fail against ballistic attacks, because 99.9% of what the enemy is using is gonna be ballistic. The Middle-Eastern countries we've fought against have had technology decades outdated. Assuming that the laser weapon was magically invented today, how many decades do you think it would take the less technologically advanced to get their hands on some? The point being, I can't imagine a situation where a slingthrower is more dangerous than the billions of firearms out there.
If the info is only going to be used against evildoers, then I have no problem with it.
Now my hands can be used for other things! Ohhh wait, 128MB ... hmmm, that's a decent sized porn clip...
Nevermind, there are no new uses for my hands here, sorry.
And Morena Baccharin is sexy in that exotic Asian kind of way. Maybe that, or it's because she played a whore. Mmmmm ... Morena ...
And yeah, Gina Torres is the sexy woman who played Jasime, the Devourer (a decidedly un-nasty, disgusting freak of a beast in Angel).
Let's not forget Jewel Staite ... her character Kaylee was sexy in that innocent, home-girl kind of way, though it was revealed in one of the episodes how she got her position as mechanic wasn't exactly innocent! (Screwing the previous mechanic). That one was a real shocker. Man, I loved that show.
Ohh yeah, and there's Summer Glau, sexy in that psycho-freak kinda way. Especially the girl-in-the-box part, where she's naked ... yeah that's really cool.
And I'm not homosexual, but if I were, I would definitely be all over that Nathan Fillion! Mmmmm! (That one was for the girls)
Oh my God that thing was HILARIOUS! To anyone who hasn't seen it, you must see it right now. The total download is only about 4 megs. Watch the original first and then the remix. You can download it with BitTorrent at http://www.fdntech.com/files/
That guy's like looking at a train wreck. You know you shouldn't be enjoying it so much but you simply can't stop looking.
Perhaps Buffy was getting tired, but Firefly was just starting to shine! I hope Joss Whedon doesn't mean that he was tired in general, just tired in regards to BTVS. I'm still hopeful that Firefly will make a comeback someday. In any event, two of its actors have played villains on Joss Whedon's other shows, Angel and BTVS. I thought that was nice of him, helping the actors of his cancelled show by giving them parts on his still-running shows.
Wow, I forsee better uses for this thing than playing games. You can probably store 10 porno movies on it at the resolution of the LCD screen! It's a party in your pocket!