It may not DL an entire movie, but it could grab a significant chunk of it and let you watch it without jitter or pixelation, and then DL the next chunk when you have a few minutes of video from the previous chunk.

The copyright holders are going to whine and moan no matter how it's done, so the best thing is to ignore them and do it the right way. It's just as easy to capture a streamed movie as it is one that arrive as a single piece. The thing they need to get over is that once people can rely on having a resource available to them on the net, there's less motivation for them to hoard it on a local drive. If movies only cost a couple dollars, were stored on some upstream server farm that would shoot it down to me on demand, I'd buy a hell of a lot more movies. I'd bet that many other people would, too.

Listen to the man, he knows of that which he speaks.

More bandwidth may not solve all the problems, but it'll sure as hell solve some of them.

I don't know how many of you still remember the dialup days, or even used dial-up. When the schoolkids got home, they'd start hitting AOL and you'd notice the lag.

It's not as bad now, what with me having a 25/25Mbps line. But there's still a very wide range of criminal acts that I'd perform to have my own 1 Gbps line.

Sharks that taste good or sharks with good taste?

I vote: THUNDERSTRUCK!

Thanks. It's just part of getting older, I guess.

Probably. But that's how I see things. I had a reasonably pleasant childhood. I've tried to make sure my kids were at least as happy. I'd like my grandkids to grow up like I did.

Yeah, I plan to skip that "conventional" old age part, anyway.

Sure, I'd go. There are many who would. Probably all of them older veterans, like me. I'd rather live peacefully, but to help my country recover from something so serious as a major nuclear accident? I'm up for it. I have children and grandchildren. I'd do anything to make certain that they can live normal lives.

That's correct. Getting rid of those crapware apps is the major reason I looked into rooting my phone.

The procedure is pretty straightforward and if you are reading this you're probably geeky enough to be able to handle it. Go to XDA's wiki for the procedure.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_Vision_.28G2.2FDZ.29_and_DHD

I've rooted three phones using the procedure. It would probably be a good idea to read up on the xda-developers forum for G2/Desire, too, just to have get some useful background. Note, there are alternate instructions that include using the Visionary app. I have never used it. XDA has a lot of horror stories about visionary, so I've always steered clear of it.

Good points. And you're right, they sure as hell are trying to get there. You forgot the Sony rootkit on music CDs.

  It always amazes me when people who have good product go out of their way to dick with people who like their products.

I'm damned glad I waited for a TMO G2. I've heard a lot of horror stories about AT&T. I wouldn't even consider them. I know They're trying to buy TMO, but I don't care so much about that. I have a rooted G2 with a custom ROM that does everything rather nicely. This phone will probably outlast me.

And some people still wonder why many phone owners want to root their phone or flash a custom ROM?

I can uninstall or install anything on my G2. Sprint is acting like Sony.

Bad, Sprint! Bad!

I'm in. Dump the crap shows and start showing some classics and new content.

See ei ole internet vabadust. See on Internet Vabadus!

Don't you mean the IP and port of the TOR proxy I'm visiting through?

Thanks.

In fact, Everyone who pointed out that the privacy issue was fixed, thank you.

After the initial hoopla about IPv6 and the discovery of the MAC address junk, I just ignored it.

P.S., I don't think that pinging will work unless you have a machine that answers the pings. Of course, since it's obviousl that I've let my network knowledge rust, I could be wrong.