There are a number of well known AV software providers out there that have been around since the dawn of time (relatively speaking). F-Prot, Command, etc are all very good products and cost a few sandwiches a year.

At least put up a Spoiler Alert before you do that. I was finally going to get around to watching Star Wars this weekend.
Bastard.

You can get it here:
http://os2ports.smedley.info/

...along with a few dozen other Linux ports. Is it multithreaded? Not a clue. I usually spawn between 2-4 transcoding sessions at once and never bothered checking on thread usage (episodes are in 5 parts... I transcode more than one part at a time). I rarely concern myself with thread usage under OS/2. As it is, Lotus Domino GoWebserver on my Netfinity spawns 1000 threads (configurable to 4095 - limited to 1000 by me in the config file) on launch (and then "un-sleeps" the ones it needs and "re-sleeps" them when done) - and I've had situations where it's "un-slept" and used as many as 700 threads at a time... so a measly 1-4 (or even to 8) threads that FFMPEG may be using per transcode never seemed like a big enough issue to check into thread usage over.

Other Linux to OS/2 ports are on Netlabs, Hobbes (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/), locatable via OS/2 World (www.os2world.com) (such as VLC Player) and elsewhere.

Best,
Robert

Wait, they want to turn the International Space Station into a national lab? What about all the other countries with a stake in this real estate?

No, it would be handing over to the police.

The FTC can and does regulate that. In fact, they regulate all advertising in the US... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising#United_States

Particularly:

While the terms "false" and "deceptive" are essentially the same for most, being deceptive is not the same as producing deception. What is illegal is the potential to deceive, which is interpreted to occur when consumers see the advertising to be stating to them, explicitly or implicitly, a claim that they may not realize is false and material. The latter means that the claim, if relied on for making a purchasing decision, is likely to be harmful by adversely affecting that decision. If an ad is implicitly false, evidence must be obtained for what consumers saw the ad saying, and for the materiality of that, and for the true facts about the advertised item, but no evidence is required that actual deception occurred, or that reliance occurred, or that the advertiser intended to deceive or knew that the claim was false.

The US has a large advantage in that it is an affluent, monolingual and fairly culturally homogeneous single market. Capital costs of innovation can be amortized faster in the US than anywhere else.

"Data are" is grammatically acceptable. You fail at Grammatical National Socialism.

If you don't mind me asking:

- What kind of upload rates do you get?
- What side of the country are you on?
- Are you getting just the internet or are you getting their other services like TV?

so everyone will depend on those 2-3 strategic employees. what if those strategic employees decide they want to have a career change ?

because they decide to force people to upgrade despite they dont need it. ala vista, ala dx10.

im leaving all other examples (disastrous bcentral closedown, innumerable frameworks that they ditched to bankruptcy of their collaborators and so on) aside, the mere fact that they decided to lock down perfecctly workable features of dx10 under xp to vista in order to force gamers to upgrade vista despite there was NO need to do it, tells enough.

you are working for a software company therefore are seeing the software co. side. these are all problems that are prominent on client side.

And yet, that is exactly what the re-start of the hypersonic crafts are all about. That was research that was killed, but was restarted back in the 90's. With some more work, we will be able to get mach 12 or more from a jet. That is perfect for putting us into leo (with some finally boosters).

It was also and age when people implicitly trusted the media--almost as if 90% of the population back then was like the 10% today that believes every claim they see on TV or receive via email.

Selfishness is the most important natural characteristics of all lives -- from virus and bacteria to human beings -- that's why they compete and evolve. Even though they may act cooperatively sometimes but ultimately they are striking for their own interest. You can blame God or natural selection, depending whichever you believe.

There is no known system that can effective suppress selfishness. Communism tried that but resulting in power concentrated in a handful of dictators while rest of the people refused to work. Socialism tries that, through high tax, but resulting in stagnant economy. Capitalism does not try to suppress but to take use of that; it works the best still, though often resulting in concentration of economy resources. If you can come up one with a perfect system, we will award you with a Nobel Prizes in Peace and Economy.

If you think the top level executives make too much, try to start you own company and see how hard it is to even make the minimal wage for yourself and how much you have to bet your life on it up front. Then if you do succeed, you will promptly become one of the selfish executives. If you ever try managing people, you can also see how selfish or lazy your employees can be, especially in the time of company crisis.

That's being the case for the last millions of years and may probably be true for the next 1000 years. Maybe until eventually human beings become pets of robots (who will then fight for their own intergalactic interests.)

Ah, so you feel the terrorists will when then?

Fuck 4chan and the horse they road in on, pissing off Verizon is a little different than going after CoS.

Verizon has FAR money, FarFar more knowledge about finding people on the Internet, and won't have a problem bringing in government backing to find the attackers globally.

They would be attacking the very people that make it so they can perform the attacks. When you piss of one major arms dealer cause you are a retard, the others aren't going to sit around at wait to be next.

Let them attack Verizon, the sooner they do the sooner they'll disapper, and nothing of value will be lost.

The way /b/ behaves on 4chan, eventually it will affect the rest of us.

The difference between 4chan and Slashdot is that Slashdot knows the meaning of responsibility to the Internet community, to the people who depend on the Internet for unfiltered news and communication, who depend on software that isn't hacked or compromised. Not all slashdotters know or appreciate that fact. Its only a matter of time before someone (Stephen Conroy?) uses /b/ as an excuse to promote massive and intrusive filtering of the Internet **to protect the children**

Spamming the shit out of Verizon might feel good to the pimple-squeezers of 4chan, but picking a fight with a large ISP like Verizon by DDOSing would be a disaster for the Internet.