While I'm certainly all for alternative forms of energy (which I consider anything not driven by fossil fuels.) this seems like a really piss poor idea and I'll tell you why: ITS SEAWATER, one of the most corrosive environments on this earth, and you wanna build things down there and expect it to keep going for a while? No. The maintenance alone is probably going to offset any perceived energy generation. There is no way this set up will generate enough power to pay for its maintenance over 50 years, if it even still works in 50 years. Bad idea.

Spend the money and time on LFTR nuclear reactors and quite pussy-footing around with stupid ideas.

Only trouble here is you need a credit card to purchase hosting with most places in the US.

Don't need to sell anything to make it legit. I run AWS for backend for my Second Life scripts. Perfectly legit.

But that all said, why should anyone in this world have to look over their shoulder doing these things all under the cloud of 'is this legit, or at least looks legit?' That is the truly disturbing aspect of this all. Presumption of guilt.

Seems like a good idea to me. I think a majority of errors when ordering food at a place like McDonalds or Taco Bell comes at the interaction between the cashier taking your order and you. Think it'd be nice to just walk up to a lil screen, punch in what i want, pay, and go have a seat while waiting for them to call my number.

Someone posted about Chili's up there using some automation, now there is where I find it inappropriate. When I go to say, a "sit down and be served" restaurant, I want that wait person there doing what they're supposed to do: serve me. It is the reason i came to that kind of restaurant.

People just need to make a distinction between the kind of restaurant that is more of a self-serve, and which kind is a be-served. One can benefit from automation, the other is hurt by it.

Works both ways. Not caring means they probably won't do anything to the site unless it's actually breaking some law that could get AWS in hot water. A parody site sounds like it would be legal if a bit controversial. The poster before you mentioned Wi\kileaks getting the boot from AWS, well, Wikileaks is definitely engaged in illegal activity, so can't really say there's much surprise there.

I like AWS, I think they provide a good service and again, unless it's outright illegal, I doubt they'll do anything to your site regardless of what you put there.

OP wanted suggestions. This is mine. ^.^

If you're technically inclined, just setup your own server on AWS.

I'm not sure about their policies, but given the nature of AWS, you'd probably have to host something outright illegal for them to care.

Simple. The user of this script is a criminal, violating computer hacking laws. The BitTorrent user, while LIKELY a criminal too, is not a criminal merely by using BitTorrent, where the script user is CERTAINLY a criminal. I hope the guy uses this on the wrong network and finds himself losing a lot more than his SSH connection when he gets busted for hacking people's networks.

If he has a problem with someone elses wifi, he should not take matters into his own hands, its just wrong and who knows what other traffic this 'BitHammer' is going to inadvertently reroute with this ARP poisoning.

The bottom line is: BitTorrent is not inherently wrong. This script is.

Gosh, you know this prediction just brings to mind a world like that of Paranoia, where we've happily given over our lives to the computers to manage and run for us. Hmm. Can't decide if this is a good or bad thing.

Simple. People who stay at economy hotels don't have a lot of money to burn. They're also noisy. So if the hotel provides crappy internet, these vocal (but economically challenged) people get online and post bad reviews.

I can speak from experience on the quality of Wifi in economy hotels. It just frickin' works, never had a problem.

I imagine the upscale hotels can get away with charging high fees for nearly useless internet because people staying there have moolah, and people whom have a lot of moolah don't waste their time posting bad reviews on the internet. I imagine a large number of these same kinds of guests probably have a wireless broadband plan on their smartphone as well, and probably don't give a rats ass about the hotel's junk wifi in the first place.

March all ya want, business will go on, fuels burned, industry will churn. Only thing you can vote with here is your wallet. Marching does nothing, protesting does nothing, STOP BUYING THINGS YOU DON'T NEED IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE CLIMATE.

Start by not buying the bus ticket next time to a complete waste of time, effort and energy.

kthxbye

You say that like it's a bad thing... I am content to have linux remain the not so user friendly power user OS it is. I'm not exactly jumping up and down for dumbing things down. Having had my first exposures to Windows 8 recently, I gotta say, it's getting frustrating how Windows is really dumbing things down and burying the fine tuning I'm used to having within easy reach.

So I really don't care if Linux makes it 'mainstream desktop' or not, especially if doing that will involve dumbing it down to Windows level.

I dunno. I've never been pleased with the performance of optical media. I'd think being in a data center, heating up and cooling down from usage and storage is going to have very bad effects on recordable optical discs (CDs, DVDs, Blurays). Not to mention, it's always a pretty well known fact, consumer recorded media (the ones with dyes and stuff) aren't terribly reliable in the long term. My personal experience with recordable optical media is poor at best, I have very very few discs that've remained readable and error free after just five years of relatively decent care and storage. And this is not even using them every day, heating them up and cooling them down, just stored in a dark cool place.

Seems... overhyped. I simply can't come to believe this is an actual viable storage medium for any kind of large scale operation. But enh, if it works for them, good deal. Seems like you'd get more bang for your buck using high capacity tapes which hold up much better to heating up and cooling down.

The power saving claim also seems silly. This could be easy done with standard hard drives in a cartridge type system they're saying they're using, powering down unused drives and putting them into a storage position (though for me, I think it'd be much smarter to make the connector the moving part and just plug into the right bank of HDs, instead of moving HDs around in a cartridge.)

The more I think about this operation, the less intelligent and efficient it seems to be.

...feeding the trolls! Geeze people, this kind of headline is just what all those internet trolls have been waiting for. Now they'll be even more relentless!

Seriously folks, on the internet, you gots the trolls. Just look the other way.

Considering the absurd amounts of incompetence and waste we see with visible government entities, should we really be overly concerned about the NSA? Not saying I like them, or anything, but I'm not sure they're quite the beast we've made them out to be. Maybe.

Wait a minute. Where is this summary even remotely pro-anything but technology? It's simply outlining the high tech that's being employed in this conflict, it by no means draws any conclusions of that conflict.

I personally feel the post is in just the right context for a /. article, its about technology, not about who's using it (though there's talk of who's supplied whom, but still fails to cast a good or bad tilt on it.)

What caught my eye most about this invention is how much closer it brings us to operating HEAVY machinery by just moving our hands and the machine responds to our movements.

For me this brings exo-skeletal machines to mind as being much closer to reality, things like the loader from Aliens, the exo-combat skeletons in Matrix, etc. The applications of the tracking system exampled in the video are simply endless, from operating sci-fi constructs already mentioned, right down to more real machinery such as excavators, cranes and other construction machinery.

Looking forward to seeing who merges this stuff with heavy machinery first. ^.^