Posts by gman

Comcast rolls out brand new bandwidth throttles

Actually..

...You apparently don't understand how bittorrent actually works. It doesn't go out and "grab all the bandwidth it can". Two things affect how much bandwidth bittorrent will grab while you use it on your computer. 1) The download rate is proportionate to the upload rate you set. Even when downloading a file with over 200 seeds and several hundred peers I have never actually hit the 10 MB/s cap on my cable internet connection. 2) Most cable connections are asymetrical with far lower upload rate than download rate. This in itself guarentees bittorrent cannot just "grab all the bandwidth it can".

Bittorrent has been mad the scapegoat by the music and movie industry but in all honesty more people eat up bandwidth streamming ripped tv episodes and new release movies from sites like tudou and megavideo. Let us also not forget the movie and warez pirates using Usenet. Their downloads truly do eat up every bit of available bandwidth and considering most people using something like Usenext pay a monthly fee they definitely try to get their moneys worth by downloading everything they can.

First public Firefox 3 candidate shoots out the door

Ruuning the RC as we speak

and the tracking is not enabled. After browsing the about:config page last night all the settings pertaining to any sort of annon info collection are set to "false". And we all know that with the way Firefox developers are that it will be about a decade from now before they can agree on how to impliment the tracking and what colors to use for the buttons that go with it.

Tiscali and BPI go to war over 'three strikes' payments

also..

Also dont forget, There was no mention of proof the customers were sharing copyrighted material. It only said they were part of a Bittorrent swarm. Even if their ip shows up in the swarm it doesnt mean they are part of the torrent. Often data about seeders is bounced around from torrent to torrent to make sure the nfo gets out to people needing to connect to them. Also I'd be curious about the legality of the record industry breaking the encryption on a torrent stream to see whats inside of it.

Automated crack for Windows Live captcha goes wild

about flash captchas..

flash captchas are even easier to crack than standard image captchas bc flash stores the info from them on the hard drive making it even easier to write a psuedo ocr for using the stored info to determine the correct response. several online games have tried this already and went back to image captchas.

not even new

good spam outfits have ocr software to read the captcha and send back a valid response approaching 99.5% of the time. The system described in the article is just a newbie typer system when the captcha is fetched using curl and appears on another web site for a "typer" to read and send back. Same technique is used for autoranking bots for several online games that use captchas.

Vista SP1 RC Refresh 2 tweak out now

And vista sux because...

Somewhere along the way Microsoft forgot what an operating system was supposed to be. Its not supposed to be the application, its supposed to be what the applications runs on. A simple go between uniting hardware with the software people wish to run on it. Think of the OS as a work truck that the apps use to get where theyre going. Well microsofts truck has curb feelers, hydraulics, leather seats, a sunroof, and pinwheels on the corners. What they dont tell you is the engine only runs on half its cylinders, the curb feelers are bent, the hydraulics leak, the leather seats are made of dog skin, and the pinwheels were stolen from two little kids running a lemonade stand. But gee doesnt it look good on paper.

Vista Business sales soar like leaping dachshund

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I honestly don't see why people keep calling Vista windows MEII. It's way more like the launch of windows 95. Broken drivers, half done features, microsoft trying to twist peoples arms to drive adoption. Someone actually bought me a copy of vista ultimate for my birthday, so i figured id try it out. To make a long story short I gave it a fair weeks try and will never ever ever ever ever put that overpriced virus in a box back on another system of mine. It reminded me of when windows 95 first came out and the nightmares it caused with hardware compatibility and crappy drivers. I ended up staying with os/2 until after windows 98 came out and never regretted it. And dont even get me started about the drm in vista. Sorry microsoft, but i refuse to go out and repurchase new equipment at much higher prices than i paid for the stuff i have that still works perfectly outside of vista. I wont be supporting your drm compatibility cartel. As for now, Im back running windows server 2003/fedora and intend on staying as such. _|_ u microsoft

User seeks $1.4m from IBM for shoddy server packing

Simple

It doesn't matter if IBM shipped this server wrapped in rubber bands attached to popscicle sticks. The simple fact that the plaintiff stated the forklift "began to rock and then the server began to rock" sinks their entire case. They pretty much admitted either 1) the load was too high for the weight to be carried or 2) they were using too small of a forklift to lift it in the first place. A forklift is not supposed to rock as they describe if it is within its load limits for the height the forks are at.