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Netflix Pondering Peer-to-Peer Technology For Streaming Video 114

Posted by Soulskill from the instantly-generating-the-world's-biggest-population-of-leechers dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The folks at Ars Technica have discovered evidence that Netflix is actively researching the possibility of using peer-to-peer technology to stream its videos to its customers. The evidence: a one-month old job listing seeking a software engineer with extensive experience developing and testing large-scale peer-to-peer systems. In addition: Netflix's admission of wanting to 'look at all kinds of routes.' A recent blog post by BitTorrent's CEO explains how, in a peer-to-peer architecture, 'Netflix traffic would no longer be coming from one or two places that are easy to block. Instead, it would be coming from everywhere, all at once; from addresses that were not easily identified as Netflix addresses — from addresses all across the Internet.'" In other Netflix news, the company has "reached an agreement with three smaller cable companies that, for the first time, will let U.S. subscribers watch the streaming video service’s content as though it were an ordinary cable channel."

Submission + - 1st Fully Bionic Man Walks, Talks and Breathes

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KraxxxZ01 writes: "Our job was to take the delivery of a large collection of body parts — organs, limbs, eyes, heads — and over a frantic six weeks, turn those parts into a bionic man," Walker told LiveScience during an interview. But it's not as simple as connecting everything like Tinkertoys. "You put a prosthetic part on a human who is missing that part," Walker said. "We had no human; we built a human for the prosthetic parts to occupy."

Submission + - New mammal species discovered (nbcnews.com)

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KraxxxZ01 writes: First new carnivorous mammal identified in the Western Hemisphere in 35 years, and it's considered one of the cutest scientific finds in recent memory.

Comment Re: Apple? (Score 1) 315

Serious gaming I would call all competitive games with high skill cap. With competitions held and awards won. Scoreboard is not competition, and in game stuff is not award. I mean venues and money/hardware. Quake, Starcraft to name most popular. FIFA afaik enters that category. Thou I myself dislike all spot simulations, I respect that some people find 'em fun.
As a PC gamer master race I would consider serious gaming an epic RPG or strategy. Consoles got Skyrim, so there you go dirty peasants.

Mobile games come close to none of this categories mostly due to hardware limitation. And Apple with it's gaming history doesn't really sound promising.

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