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Comment Priorities (Score 1) 406

For the players of the internet infrastructure market ipv6 is uninteresting. They've divided the v4 address space between them and have crafted strategies to dominate the market. This is nothing exceptional or strange, but rather applied business strategy. I'd bet that they're willing and even motivated to fight v6 adoption for the purpose of maintaining their position at current terms of technological environment. As they see it, v4 is delimited to something ownable, controllable. V6 is for them something that would reset the playing field and make a significant portion of their investments obsolete.

Comment Suspicious (Score 1) 347

"Working in a "looped" mode - when it runs out of space, it starts overwriting from the beginning." This would require some sort of modified/custom filesystem. Seems quite ambitious. "And the "looped-overwriting" does not touch the other files present on the drive." This would be magic. How could it possibly do that? The firmware would need to keep track of all the contents and intervene with every io write.
Piracy

Torrent Users Fight Back 238

eonlabs writes "Torrent users being blamed for illegally downloading Far Cry are fighting back. In a 96-page lawsuit, the lawyers at Dunlap, Grubb, and Weaver are being accused of: 'extortion, fraudulent omissions, mail fraud, wire fraud, computer fraud and abuse, racketeering, fraud upon the court, abuse of process, fraud on the Copyright Office, copyright misuse, unjust enrichment, and consumer protection violations.'"
Idle

Linux Radio 141

An anonymous reader writes "This might very well be the nerdiest site we'll ever encounter... Linux Radio is an online radio station broadcasting the Linux kernel! Each time someone visit the site, a random source file is selected and read loudly by a virtual speaker materialized through the open source speech synthesizer eSpeak. Will it prove useful to anyone is probably a difficult question to answer, but the excitement provided is worth experiencing at least once. However, this concept proves once more the advantages of open source over proprietary software making such achievements impossible : whoever in his right mind would want to listen to binary files loudly?"

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