As a so-called IPAP, I have so far received a Grand Total of Zero infringement notices for my netblocks.

So you mean that you demo'ed wireless gear by turning it into wired gear?

So the entire eBay VM operation could fit into 6 racks? 200 physical servers @ 1RU each = 5 racks 10x 10TB 2U SSDs = half a rack 5x 2U switches = quarter rack

All that law enforcement needs to do is to purchase payload delivery on the botnet and include commands to delete Windows from each offending PC. Alternatively, they just need to place copyrighted material on each host and send in the MPAA and RIAA with infringement notices. That should get the job done.

...and then Vatican City will be consumed by light.

If you are asking on here at that level of naivete, you are probably already compromised.

The movie grossed $103 million at the US box office

Assuming a movie ticket price of $20, this means that 5.3 million people saw the movie in theatres. These guys are suing 23222 people, or about 230 times fewer

At $150K per defendant, the potential works out to $3.48billion or roughly 33 times the US gross (and $700million more than the highest grossing movie ever - Avatar

My business pitch to the movie studios would be: "Straight to torrent then litigate - that's where the money is..."

Sorry, I was lazy and posted before looking up or citing the source

The point is that when the social media revolution is over, the knowledge that we gained ill be limited to how to optimize large-scale Web servers and database clusters, which we kinda knew to do before the social media revolution took off

The best minds of our generation are occupied finding the best ways to leverage advertising revenue.

An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

The Atlas 5 has never been man-rated. But it could be done.

You can be dickish in the rest of the world too. Just there it is 20cm rather than 8 inches.

They already banned squirters and small breasted women, it was only a matter of time before they were going to cover up sensitive holes.

Averaging the results of two experimental measurements is not Science, whereas averaging the results of many hundreds of measurements to determine global temperature anomaly is.

...that a proposed Microsoft project bases its success on the coordinated operation of a collection of bugs.

Rapidshare says they don't open or inspect the files uploaded by its users

They list a number of 'legitimate' uses

They say copyrighted files do get uploaded

But they say these files are in a minority compared with the legitimate uses

How do they know, without having inspected the files?