Not to sound like a shill, but this is exactly that: http://www.arbornetworks.com/products/arbor-cloud . Again, most ISPs worth their salt already implement PeakFlow in their backbone IP networks to catch and control large scale DDoS events, but at multi-gigabit levels - setting the threshold just low enough to ensure that DDoS attacks don't wipe-out their backbones, a level that is much higher than any single customer link bandwidth. Today, they (we) are beginning to offer these services (based on BGP, threat intelligence shared between ISPs and Security Consultancies, and "live" feedback from CPE-Probes like Pravail at customer sites) and they do work for the most part. The only downside (other than pricing - which is kinda steep) is the fact that it is a defensive mitigation approach - you BGP-blackhole the bad traffic in the customer-side ISP backbone, not the source. It's not going to eliminate the ever-growing and extremely long list of asshats (including sovereign state actor-asshats) that initiate these kinds of attacks, but it can and does, currently, mitigate the vast majority of them. So, yay-ish.

I work for a carrier. Together with companies like Arbor Networks, we already have systems in place that can mitigate most volumetric attacks, and many more intelligent attacks. Unfortunately, it's not cheap. Customers have to be willing to implement (and pay for) the protection services that most serious ISPs already offer as options on their IP traffic products. Keywords for your search are Pravail and PeakFlow.

shhh! didn't you hear? Everybody calls him Psycho!

why not ATTILLA?

been there, done that. Now we have a really cool indoor waterpark... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter

gah. I've been in Europe too long. I read that as "Two Thousand Seven Hundred Twenty Five"K.... that's kinda toasty.

well, the entire population of visual artists excluding at least the dumbshit photographer who filed the case. I'm pretty sure he's quite happy with the ruling. Somebody needs to find a photo by this guy, and then find a previous photo from another photographer with "appropriate" stylistic and compositional similarities, and then convince the other photographer to sue. If we can manage to do this often enough, we will eliminate all culture and arts, and could at least in theory insure that the direct descendents of the cave painters of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (or the Corporation that bought the rights) finally get the royalties they so desperately "deserve".

This is obviously the goal of big copyright.

heh. or we just wait for M31 to come to us...

but:

video and music: redundant server storage with cifs/smb access and a front end like Media Portal (i use a windows home server box with about 12 TB on it and Media Portal on a nearly silent media pc connected to my tv via hdmi and my A/V Reciever and to the server via HomePlug networking- and yeah, i know xbmc will run on linux, but i find MP easier to use and keep working and aesthetically pleasing - XBMC is running as a toy on my classic xbox). Just for fun, I have StreamtoMe set up on my server to allow me to watch stuff on the go with my iPad or iPod, but this doesn't really help with the organization part too much.

comics: redundant server storage and ComicRack

Photos: redundant server storage and either Picasa, Adobe Photoshop Elements or Media Portal

and books i keep on my iTunes (ipod and ipad) or Kindle.

Use the stuff that a lot of people have already put a lot of thought into before you try to innovate, at least until you determine that their solutions are inadequate for your needs.

essentially what you need is some kind of fault tolerant network storage and a robust purpose built, database based front-end to handle the organization, access and presentation.

Easy-peasy. The hard part is finding all this stuff, and buying the necessary hardware... Google is your friend here.

it's not like this is rocket science or anything...

oh, wait a minute... what?

to hell with playing games. I want to know why my sneakers can't microwave my dinner. Who's working on that?

even easier if you spell it right. That's Boxee.

http://www.boxee.tv/

I can second this. MP is really great if you have an extensive collection of video, tv-rips, photos and/or music. Only thing I haven't been able to do with it well is web-streaming (NetFlix, etc.) I use Boxee for that.

Setup and media indexing is pretty simple, if a bit time consuming. There are several good walk-throughs on the MP forums.

I have it running on my HTPC, and even my wife is happy with it in the living room. As far as XBMC goes, MP is a fork from a couple of years ago, so they have a lot in common. I've found that the movie/tv-show handling is better with MP, especially with the Streamed MP skin.