Why has bittorrent still not been decentralized from trackers?

It has... The Pirate Bay shows magnet links along with the regular .torrent file and they've shut down their tracker. Torrent Freak as usual have a nice writeup on the action.

All the other Tilera products run Linux with standard GCC toolchain for MIPS, as far as I can see this new one is the same but comes with 36 more cores than the previous largest processor they sell... so from that perspective there shouldn't be significantly more problems compared to working with any ARM or MIPS development board.

And BLAS? This is targeted for an entirely different industry, the same one that Sun's TI series competes in with 'up to 256' hardware threads per box... highly concurrent but fairly trivial stuff; BLAS on the other hand offloads an extremely specific workload, so while it may have the best floating-point performance it's also hard to utilize (talk to any PS3 game developers and they'll explain just how much work it is to take advantage of the CELL cores).

The Register goes into more detail than this article, as usal.

The Tile-Gx chips will run the Linux 2.6.26 kernel and add-on components that make it an operating system. Apache, PHP, and MySQL are being ported to the chips, and the programming tools will include the latest GCC compiler set. (Three years ago, Tilera had licensed SGI's MIPS-based C/C++ compilers for the Tile chips, which is why I think Tilera has also licensed some MIPS intellectual property to create its chip design, but the company has not discussed this.)

So it seems pretty standard and they're using existing open & closed source MIPS toolchains, however there's still "will" and "are being" in that sentence which brings a little unease...

The free option, available only to USA residents.

Yes, I'd love to watch some of the stuff available on Hulu, but no... due to "Copyright" it's not available in my country.

Wait... what? There is no technical limitation, there's no financial limitation, there's no business limitation... unless the company behind Hulu is extremely dense or has absolutely no clue about marketing.

Or do you want to get into the fact that shows on Sky and Virgin media or other satellite/cable providers in the UK & Europe are shown as little as 3 months after, is this all about a gentlemans agreement to keep a monopoly profitable when it should've died years ago?

When marketing & politics get involved, especially in issues like this, expect the fucking worst.

By the time Hulu gets around to allowing Europeans to view stuff we'll have to not only pay a fee, but also sit through 5-10% in duration of advertising for local Cable/Satellite companies which offer a worse service.

Anyway, I have to go change the proxy settings in Firefox so I can watch some stuff on Hulu, brb.

It's also an environment in which you can simply ignore stuff. Somebody is sending hurtful stuff that I don't like? Blocked.

> Lawyering is best served cold.

I whole heatedly agree, the best lawyers are dead ones.

I find very little of the porn produced by Playboy to be either erotic or arousing. I do find it tedious & sometimes hilariously bad when they try too hard (which is often).

It seems like so much mainstream porn today isn't porn, it's a parody of porn full of big breasted woman who moan non-stop as soon as the camera starts rolling. There are some great pornographers like Bang Bros and Abby Winters, but they're as far away from Playboy as you could imagine, in fact most shops in the UK sell magazines on-par with Playboy, like FHM or Nuts, in the middle shelf.

The Thunder n6550EX has 8 DDR2 sockets per processor (4 of them), yes... 32 memory slots. Filling this thing up with 64GiB of 2GiB chips... just over $1000 at retail prices.

However each quad core processors will set you back nearly $3k a piece.

However many other hosting companies can quite easily handle large amounts of bandwidth.

One of my hosts is HostGator, they're not really the best out there, but they seem to be able to handle large traffic sites very well. One site of mine has been averaging about 7 or 8mbit, peaking at 20-30mbit. Last month we transferred just 5tb of data across all the sites hosted on the same account, with one site taking 11 million hits.

Sure, we use more resources than most customers, but at the same time we're on a $14 a month "Business" plan which is advertised as Unlimited across the board. I don't see us getting kicked off until we're using perhaps twice as much as now, even then... they'd probably put us on a Reseller plan at twice the price so it's no big deal.

Actually it's infinitely more reliable than XFS, no chance of data corruption or hard disk failure, not to mention the code is so simple it's pretty easy to provide a formal proof that it contains no bugs.

I'm on 50mbit cable in the UK, it costs £38 per month. Apart from electricity, water and gas, this is the only other "house" service we pay for; no phone line, no cable TV. Are the speeds as good as advertised? http://imgur.com/0IyyR.png (screenshot of an average download, a ~1.4gb movie split into 200mb segments).
Yes, I'm very happy with their service so far, although I only get 180 kilobytes/s upload which is significantly slower than the download speeds it's... enough for my purposes. It handles large Skype conferences easily, although transferring large files (backing up my work laptop to LiveDrive) isn't really an issue if left overnight.

Enjoyed reading post, A++++ slashdotter, would read again.

One scary thing is that although your concerns are entirely valid, your suggestions are informed and well thought out... the technical details of the card scheme haven't been released to the public, given that the public consists of many thousands of extremely highly skilled security professionals, some of which will be the ones attempting to break the system after (for academic & nefarious reasons), an extra thousand pairs of highly trained eyes would have stopped any stupid shit like this happening in the first place.

Rule #1: don't trust security evaluations from security professionals hired by the company bidding to be paid a huge amount of money, these formal reviews usually aren't worth a damn and are likely skewed in the favor of the company about to get the multi-billion £££ contract.

Why isn't the data on the card encrypted with a government private key? So to even read it you'd need a public key, and modifying it would be impossible.

Simply signing the (publicly readable) data isn't enough IMO.

Back when I was managing SuSE systems we had our own local mirror of the main updates repository, and another repository of custom packages rolled in-house. The documentation ( http://en.opensuse.org/Creating_YaST_Installation_Sources ) covers this pretty well.

Either way there's no excuse to be compiling packages on each server and managing the usual /usr/local & /opt mess, not to mention with autoyast iirc you can configure it to update packages at specific times of the day unless there's a reboot necessary (and even to reboot automagically for new kernels)