more like "iD releases tech demo in guise of a game, marketed and sold to consumers for 60 bucks"

In that context harsh critics are righly deserved

"Evangelical scientist"

Yes. Slashdot - a place with noone but maths geeks with no other purpose in life than achieving the highest possible Erdos number. (who's this Kevin Bacon anyway...?)

Looking at the table presented in the article, their conclusion seems a bit odd...

Fallout: New Vegas - Downloads: 962,793 Avg. rating: 83.7
TRON Evolution - Downloads: 496,349 Avg. rating: 59.5
Starcraft 2 - Downloads: 420,138 Avg. rating: 89.5

"Metacritic Scores explain 10% of the variance in the unique peers per game on BitTorrent,”. I guess the remaining 90% is just noise then...?

the thing is that the company this guy used to work for is most likely the copyright holder in this case

Not if your external disk is USB 3.0. Firewire 800 = nearly 800 mbit/s, USB 3.0 peaks at 3.2 gbit/s (5gbit/s before removing protocol overhead). An external USB 3.0 SSD drive smokes any previous external disk.

And that's when I understood it was the Loch Ness monster! I ain't givin' no god damn Loch Ness monster tree fiddy!

1. Obtain full body x-ray scan of Fall Guy
2. Create a custom skeleton suit based on x-rays
3. Pass through security wearing skeleton suit
4. ???
5. Profit!

slightly painful if you have to revoke it...

RTFA - this is decentralized, there is no centralized hub which registers/keeps track of millions of users, hence no siren call to heed

I could probably come up with 50 book recommendations for you, but to keep things simple:

• Get a better feeling for OO design. I'd suggest "Head First Design Patterns"
• As many others have suggested, grab a copy of "Effective Java, 2nd ed". Read a few items now and then, it'll improve your understanding of the language tremendously.

As you read these books, come up with a hobby project where you actually implement something.

you must be new here... it should be more like:

DUP3!
1. Post dupe on Slashdot
2. ????
3. Profit!

In soviet russia you dupe slasdot!

From the release notes of the crack:

Protection: SecuROM+XLive+PA

Actually that sounds more like a .torrent file to me (no specific location for the data). In any case, I fully agree with your sentiments - this is a vision of the future based on a lack of understanding of the present technology. Good luck to the "scientists" with getting "rid" of DNS/IP/what have you in 11 years - it's been 11 years since IPv6 was standardized and we're still a long way off from having that in place.