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  1. Video on Demand - Australia? on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    Are there any video on demand services available in Australia then? If not, then they can't be to blame, at least not here.

  2. Video stores... on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    Not exactly what asked for, but, video stores in my local area that have been there for years have all of a sudden all gone out of business. Pretty sure bittorrent had something to do with it!

  3. hosts file on OLPC Mesh Networking Tester Explains How It Works · · Score: 1

    I just now put an entry in my hosts file:
    127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net

    Hopefully that will do the trick.

  4. Re:The ugly truth about mesh networks on OLPC Mesh Networking Tester Explains How It Works · · Score: 1

    2 points:

    -- the OLPC's were idle for God's sake! They were open and on. Why in that circumstance should they be DoSing the network with neighbour detection code. Sure, when they first open you want to find your neighbours, but once you know about them - shut up! They should only transmit after initialisation when they have something to communicate!

    -- there were 4 of them. I will lose my membership for not knowing this, but aren't there 11 channels (not sure how many non-overlapping channels though). How can 4 machines DoS every wifi channel when they aren't even doing anything!

    I stand by my point: the network code is pre-alpha and all the smart geeks at the meeting agree. (air-stream.org is a geek-only community wifi project).

    ps. the last few days slashdot.org has developed an almost infinite loop every couple of refreshes. The status bar seems to blame it on continually downloading from ad.doubleclick.net. I usually hit refresh to try again, but that doesn't work when you want to post comments :(

  5. Botnet mailing list... on Spam-Bot Intrusion Caught — Now What? · · Score: 1
    This is included at the bottom of the botnet mailing list:

    --
    To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: c2report@isotf.org

    All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request.
    http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo /botnets

  6. Interesting, but not for me... on Singing Science · · Score: 1
    Remembering little memnomics rarely worked for me. I just flat out just crammed it in there securely enough, and in general it stayed. Though when I read numbers I see patterns all over the place, and so I am quite good at remembering phone numbers. I also happen to be pretty good at remembering equations, again because of all the little patterns I see.

    But using music to learn... I would fail that class! I can listen to a song, and I usually can only remember about 3 words at once. When I hear the next three I forget the former three. So for most songs I only know the chorus. And the meaning of pretty much all lyrics is absolutely and completely opaque to me :(

    Not sure if it was because my parents never played music while I grew up(they have NEVER even owned a cd player), or that I have bad music genes. I only started to actually like music once I could download mp3s for "free". That has slightly increased my brains music ability, but only a little. On an IQ test based on music ability I would be way, way, way down on the left end of the bell curve.... :(