Except it's not profitable, because there's no profit. It's a donation, they're not making a profit in transferring them to people who need it. This is probably why they put "profit" instead of profit in the summary.
Or are you suggesting that judges will find perfectly innocent and healthy people guilty of crimes that warranty execution, in order to transfer their organs to people are similarly innocent but are not in top physical condition, in an extremely risky operation with a decent chance of rejection (and even without rejection, the post transplant patient usually has a reduced quality of life since they have to keep taking medication to keep their immune system from destroying the foreign body...).
Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? Who exactly benefits from this? Not the government.
They would have been added by whoever first created the torrents as alternate trackers, which wouldn't have been added to most of the torrents on TPB. I suppose someone could go through all the torrents and add alternate trackers, but then some tracker would have to handle the load.
Decentralized tracking still seems like the best bet.
Their tracker uses the free Opentracker. It's maintain the server infrastructure that is the problem, and requires a localized concentration of resources. As it is the people passing around the archive are scattered geeks, and they can't put together the resources to establish a centralized tracker.
It doesn't have to necessarily be TPB's tracker software (Opentracker, which is not open but is free as in beer), any tracker server could work - and most of those are free and/or open. The problem is the load from managing all the connections is enormous and requires/real/ server hardware, which I don't think the community that is passing around the archive could put together, not to mention the networking requirements.
Even if some rich geek could provide the hardware and network backbone required to run the tracker, they'd still have to 1) take over the domain name so that the archived torrents would point to their server and 2) overcome local legal restrictions, which was what brought TPB down in the first place.
Now that Sweden has set legal precedence, what other country could an operation of TPB's size operate in without challenge, and maintain a decent connection to users in North America and Europe?
What's the use of a mirror of the torrent files if nobody else has the infrastructure to maintain the tracker? Even before this legal storm TPB has been having trouble dealing with the load on their servers.
Plus most of the torrents point to the PB tracker, which is unreachable at this point.
The results are as I stated previously. So, yeah, I've got anecdotal evidence and you have nothing at all.
Let me dumb it down for you: I'm calling bullshit on your anecdotal evidence. Since you've yet to provide anything to prove otherwise... well, this is the Internet.
And while we're at it, I said "ignorant, deluded OR lying (astroturfing)."
So, if you're not astroturfing...
Right, I dissented therefore I must be stupid or lying. If I'm not lying I must be the other thing!
Ad hominem and excluded middle in one move? Perhaps you should save the "well played" for yourself.
While we're on the topic of fallacies, might I note that since you made the claim, the burden of proof is on you.
ONLY the OS has changed? What about the playback software, decoder, rendered, and video drivers?
Until you show screenshots of the video playing at full HD resolution on XP without AnyDVD HD, and refusing to play on Vista, all while connected over a digital interface, all you've got is anecdotal evidence.
Then again, what do I know, I'm just your average astroturfer. And MLK was a secret red agent, right?
Are people still passing around the Vista DRM FUD?
Here, I'll break it down for you.
If your media isn't DRM'd, then it doesn't go through the DRM pathways and said pathways are not activated.
If it is DRM'd, then it does go through the DRM pathways. Without said support you simply can't play the media, unless you crack the DRM, which is illegal.
DRM was supposed to be a major strike against Vista but nobody could explain exactly why it was TEH EVILZ0RZZZZ.
The C# compiler comes with the.Net SDK, which is free. Both Visual Studio C# Express and Visual Studio Professional use the SDK compiler. Can I get a hit of whatever you're smoking?
It's hardly obscure since they could look and find it, evidenced by the fact they found it.
Yeah, it only took eight years.
Go try that with the Windows kernels!
So if Windows kernels are more obscure, does that make them more secure?
In addition, there is already a patch out for this, which by end of the week will be pushed down from the distro managers. We don't have to wait years after finding it for the fix to be released, as Microsoft historically does.
The blog post never mentioned when it was discovered, just "recently". For all anyone knows they could have been doing Linus a favour and kept their mouths shut until Linus came out with a patch, seeing as the very post that announced the exploit already linked to the patch. In a situation like this with Microsoft, do you think they'd exercise the same grace?
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Except it's not profitable, because there's no profit. It's a donation, they're not making a profit in transferring them to people who need it. This is probably why they put "profit" instead of profit in the summary.
Or are you suggesting that judges will find perfectly innocent and healthy people guilty of crimes that warranty execution, in order to transfer their organs to people are similarly innocent but are not in top physical condition, in an extremely risky operation with a decent chance of rejection (and even without rejection, the post transplant patient usually has a reduced quality of life since they have to keep taking medication to keep their immune system from destroying the foreign body...).
Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? Who exactly benefits from this? Not the government.
Why does it have to be religious? It's simply a cultural taboo.
If you did something that got the death penalty sicced on you though, you don't deserve the niceties of social taboos.
They would have been added by whoever first created the torrents as alternate trackers, which wouldn't have been added to most of the torrents on TPB. I suppose someone could go through all the torrents and add alternate trackers, but then some tracker would have to handle the load.
Decentralized tracking still seems like the best bet.
I started reading this post and I lost the ability to concentrate about halfway into the second paragraph.
Not even joking.
the phrase has come into common usage to mean what I intended
Yeah, by ignorant twats.
Source code? What source code?
Their tracker uses the free Opentracker. It's maintain the server infrastructure that is the problem, and requires a localized concentration of resources. As it is the people passing around the archive are scattered geeks, and they can't put together the resources to establish a centralized tracker.
It doesn't have to necessarily be TPB's tracker software (Opentracker, which is not open but is free as in beer), any tracker server could work - and most of those are free and/or open. The problem is the load from managing all the connections is enormous and requires /real/ server hardware, which I don't think the community that is passing around the archive could put together, not to mention the networking requirements.
Even if some rich geek could provide the hardware and network backbone required to run the tracker, they'd still have to 1) take over the domain name so that the archived torrents would point to their server and 2) overcome local legal restrictions, which was what brought TPB down in the first place.
Now that Sweden has set legal precedence, what other country could an operation of TPB's size operate in without challenge, and maintain a decent connection to users in North America and Europe?
What's the use of a mirror of the torrent files if nobody else has the infrastructure to maintain the tracker? Even before this legal storm TPB has been having trouble dealing with the load on their servers.
Plus most of the torrents point to the PB tracker, which is unreachable at this point.
Yeah, alcohol kills people, so everything else that kills people must be okay too, right?
Back to Thinking 101 for you.
I don't even know what you mean by "rendered" and I doubt you do either, so I'll ignore that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_renderer#Video_rendering_filters
Was Wikipedia too hard to use?
The results are as I stated previously. So, yeah, I've got anecdotal evidence and you have nothing at all.
Let me dumb it down for you: I'm calling bullshit on your anecdotal evidence. Since you've yet to provide anything to prove otherwise... well, this is the Internet.
And while we're at it, I said "ignorant, deluded OR lying (astroturfing)."
So, if you're not astroturfing...
Right, I dissented therefore I must be stupid or lying. If I'm not lying I must be the other thing!
Ad hominem and excluded middle in one move? Perhaps you should save the "well played" for yourself.
While we're on the topic of fallacies, might I note that since you made the claim, the burden of proof is on you.
Don't like it? Don't buy it. What's the problem?
ONLY the OS has changed? What about the playback software, decoder, rendered, and video drivers?
Until you show screenshots of the video playing at full HD resolution on XP without AnyDVD HD, and refusing to play on Vista, all while connected over a digital interface, all you've got is anecdotal evidence.
Then again, what do I know, I'm just your average astroturfer. And MLK was a secret red agent, right?
Are people still passing around the Vista DRM FUD?
Here, I'll break it down for you.
If your media isn't DRM'd, then it doesn't go through the DRM pathways and said pathways are not activated.
If it is DRM'd, then it does go through the DRM pathways. Without said support you simply can't play the media, unless you crack the DRM, which is illegal.
DRM was supposed to be a major strike against Vista but nobody could explain exactly why it was TEH EVILZ0RZZZZ.
The 6.1 refers to 7 being NT 6.1. Just like how 2k was NT 5.0 and XP was NT 5.1.
Are the Chinese the new Soviets?
The C# compiler comes with the .Net SDK, which is free. Both Visual Studio C# Express and Visual Studio Professional use the SDK compiler. Can I get a hit of whatever you're smoking?
Was this post meant to illustrate the problem with C#, or just how big of a cunt you are?
It's hardly obscure since they could look and find it, evidenced by the fact they found it.
Yeah, it only took eight years.
Go try that with the Windows kernels!
So if Windows kernels are more obscure, does that make them more secure?
In addition, there is already a patch out for this, which by end of the week will be pushed down from the distro managers. We don't have to wait years after finding it for the fix to be released, as Microsoft historically does.
The blog post never mentioned when it was discovered, just "recently". For all anyone knows they could have been doing Linus a favour and kept their mouths shut until Linus came out with a patch, seeing as the very post that announced the exploit already linked to the patch. In a situation like this with Microsoft, do you think they'd exercise the same grace?
It's meta-funny
Does that mean the meta mod for the mod should be modded funny?
I think we have a winner for the next April Fool's.
http://slashdot.org/~plastbox
Geez, you really need to get over yourself.
rainbows
if talking to a teenager then let them take the next step and find the different types of bending
Is it just me, or...?
Wait, so you don't believe God exists, but also refuse to believe that he might be a dick?
Is it entirely unobvious that it is a portmanteau of cervical and vaginal?!
Oh, we have the keys now, they're just inconvenient and sometimes causes annoying allergies for some people.
Unfortunately, ID cards by their nature cannot be produced in a central, well guarded, press.
Wait, why not? All government IDs issued to me have been received through the mail weeks if not months after applying for it.