if this is regarding a TorrentSpy tracker service, then it sounds to me like they want the IP addresses as they are connecting to TCP/IP or UDP stacks, between the tracker and torrent-client. while logging those temporary links is not a techincal issue, the sheer volume of the logs created would be huge. i imagine several gigabytes per day would be possible with a very active tracker. and reasonably useless against those clients that use proxies or ADSL (in which companies like Deutsche-Telecom reset the home user's IP address every 24 hours or so).
interestingly, most of the Nigerian scam email i receive use Yahoo accounts, and Yahoo certainly hasn't done much to police them, so I think your point is kinda silly.
also, having looked at enough email headers from spammers, while they may originate from some of those countries you mentioned, i notice many use accounts like Yahoo and gmail from U.S. servers, which shoots your whole theory down.
i'm surprised no-one mentions http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ (Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical interaction surface) - the demo video shows an on-screen keyboard that you type directly on with your fingers. and as a replacement for the mouse, i find it far more practical. with such an input method, you could expand the pepperpad#s screen real-estate a bit more. slap USB 2.0 on it, improve the battery life, and i think they might have a winner.
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if this is regarding a TorrentSpy tracker service, then it sounds to me like they want the IP addresses as they are connecting to TCP/IP or UDP stacks, between the tracker and torrent-client. while logging those temporary links is not a techincal issue, the sheer volume of the logs created would be huge. i imagine several gigabytes per day would be possible with a very active tracker. and reasonably useless against those clients that use proxies or ADSL (in which companies like Deutsche-Telecom reset the home user's IP address every 24 hours or so).
interestingly, most of the Nigerian scam email i receive use Yahoo accounts, and Yahoo certainly hasn't done much to police them, so I think your point is kinda silly.
also, having looked at enough email headers from spammers, while they may originate from some of those countries you mentioned, i notice many use accounts like Yahoo and gmail from U.S. servers, which shoots your whole theory down.
i'm surprised no-one mentions http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ (Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical interaction surface) - the demo video shows an on-screen keyboard that you type directly on with your fingers. and as a replacement for the mouse, i find it far more practical. with such an input method, you could expand the pepperpad#s screen real-estate a bit more. slap USB 2.0 on it, improve the battery life, and i think they might have a winner.