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Comment Re:Very VERY stupid idea... (Score 1) 233

No, you flat out dismissed it simply because it hasn't happened yet. If people flat out dismissed interesting new developments--as you did, in your own words--just because they were in the very earliest stages, then the Apollo missions never would have happened because they were as insignificant as an extra speck of dust on your desk.

Getting things like this done requires people getting excited about it before it happens.

Comment Re:Back of envelope calculations (Score 2) 190

Unless the numbers aren't based on actual hours worth of video streamed, but something more crude, such as "use started to stream video that is 2 hours long, that counts as 2 hours." In which case, it's extremely easy to imagine the average user opening the stream for 34 hours worth of video a month. I probably do twice that, myself.

Comment Re:Hacking is now Terrorism? (Score 1) 388

Seems that if a crime happens on the internet, the punishment is automatically increased 10 fold from it's brick and mortar counter-parts.

Well, the last thing we want is for these newfangled e-criminals to compete unfairly and ruin the tried and true business model of all those struggling mom-and-pop criminals out there.

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