Do they not open the damn files as they come down? If only for a cursory glance to confirm.

I had a room mate who was obsessed with downloading everything and burning it to DVD. He literally had hundreds of burned DVDs in his closet on spindles. There's absolutely no way he had time to consume that much media, but he seeded it back while he slept and worked before burning it to dvd. Even if he opened the archive to look at the filenames, who's to say he actually watched and or listened to each file to verify?

Also, with ratio sites a lot of people download high demand files (which are obviously the highest priority targets for fakes) even if they have no intention of consuming that media. They just want the ratio. They may not even open the files, or even keep track of them at all. They just dump some high demand torrents onto a seedbox and forget about it.

On a side note, I think that when the internet goes to metered pricing we will see much better curation of torrent sites, because people don't want to pay by the megabyte for fakes.

And if only we could trust the people who protect us like the Chinese people do... Oh wait, they don't, and sometimes people just disappear.

If you ban guns in America then the people doing the daily killings in Juarez Mexico will spill over into New Mexico and nearby Arizona and start killing and robbing people like fish in a barrel, helpless to defend themselves.

Sure, guns can create violence if used in violent ways, and bad people do just that, but don't be so naive as to think that if we throw down our guns the rest of the world will follow suit.

What an apostrophical disaster. It's the apostrocalypse!

I agree completely. There's nothing wrong with Netflix running Linux servers while not supporting Linux desktops. For all we know they're not even using X.org or any GUI whatsoever. The list of projects they contribute to does not have any GUI apps in it. (Hudson, Hadoop, Hive, Honu, Apache, Tomcat, Ant, Ivy, Cassandra, HBase)

Between e-fax and hacked SIP accounts, I think fax spamming would be trivial. Do you think the attackers care if the efax service gets shut down?

It's not like those spammers are actually using their own computer to send out e-mails, why would fax attackers behave any differently?

So is spam. ("Spam is actually illegal but many people are still receiving messages because people don't care about the laws" -- spamlaws.com)

So is phishing. (It's considered fraud.)

So is war dialing (In some places under "placing a call with no intent to communicate" and other laws).

So is robocalling.

These people don't fucking care.

After they outlawed faxing advertisements and junk, only outlaws faxed advertisements and junk.

I live in California and have moved more than five times in the last nine years between three cities and have never been able to get fiber. Do you know something that some of us do not?

Just wait until apple comes up with an upside down mouse and people will see it as the most high tech thing ever made since the Apollo missions

IT'S CALLED THE APPLE TRACKPAD LOL YOU CAN EVEN USE THIS FUCKER SIDEWAYS ROFLMFAO

I've had so many DNS problems in Asia (not China) and 8.8.8.8 solved them all. It was such a problem while I was there that I'd log into any default password routers in the hotels I stayed at and change their configs to that.

On top of that, since China is responsible for hacking Google earlier this year, Google will be taking special care to make sure their services will be protected from future attacks, and thus will likely fortify their DNS against root hijacking.

I'm sure you couldn't do this on Xbox Live, but in some HL2 mods like DoD:S some snipers would use high quality porn as their tag. I saw so many head-shots on people who paused to look.

As an American, I was pretty alarmed the first time I vacationed in Vietnam and found so many swastika symbols everywhere. They were on the ceilings of temples, in the courtyards, and on people's grave stones. I took some photos, wondering what the symbolism was, having no idea that it was an ancient symbol.

I posted the photos to flickr and they were invited to a flickr pool that is working towards showing the non-nazi uses of the symbol and how it has a bigger place in the timeline of history than just the German empire of the 40's.

If anybody wants to see how it is used in other places, here is the flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1207899@N24/

Note: Like any brand, the Nazi's had their own logo. Not all swastikas are black white and red and rotated 45. The OP question was probably related specifically to the Nazi swastika.

What's so special about a phone that they get extra special wipe privileges? Can an Exchange admin remote-wipe my laptop if I have it hooked up to my corporate account?

No.

Why my phone then?

It would be so much easier for the kids if it weren't so frightening... They should just put Office Bubbles on duty!

What the GP means is multitasking for the iPad, which has so far been absent, thus this is a huge release for iPad owners while only a minor release for iPhone owners.