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Comment False Positives (Score 1) 30

by bitchell on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:28AM (#61758877) Attached to: UK ISP Sky Broadband Feeds Realtime Customer Bandwidth Data To Litigious Anti-Piracy Firm

This is such a dodgy way to capture this information, I wonder if there are whitelists for services such as XBOX Live? Surely quite a number of people are downloading games at way more than 100Mbps. Will this be falsely flagged?

Comment Apollo (Score 1) 41

by bitchell on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:21AM (#61018274) Attached to: Reddit Users Revolt Against the iOS App's New Video Player

Why are people even using the official iOS client? Apollo is a million times better.

Snails On Methamphetamine 93

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @02:09PM from the escargot-on-ice dept.

sciencehabit writes "Science answers the question: What happens when you put a snail on speed? From the article: 'The results suggest that meth improves memory, something that has been previously observed in creatures with large, complex brains like rats and humans. But since the snails store their memories in a simple, three-neuron network, the team hopes that studying the meth effect in these gastropods will help pinpoint how the drug's memory magnification powers work.'"

iPhone SDK and Free Software Don't Match 304

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @11:26AM from the hey-now-wait-a-minute dept.

kookjr writes "Are you planning to develop software for the iPhone? If you want to develop Free Software, Linux.com (Shares corp overlord w/ Slashdot) has a good review of the conflicts between Apple's Registered iPhone Developer Agreement and licenses like the GPL. This is important for people who may not read all the agreements they click Agree to."

Millions in Middle East Lose Internet 304

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 31, 2008 @03:54AM from the no-web-for-you dept.

Shipwack writes "Tens of millions of internet users across the Middle East and Asia have been left without access to the web after a technical fault cut millions of connections. The outage, which is being blamed on a fault in a single undersea cable, has severely restricted internet access in countries including India, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and left huge numbers of people struggling to get online. Observers say that the digital blackout first struck yesterday morning, with Egypt's communications ministry suggesting it was caused by a cut in a major internet pipeline linking it to Europe."

RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied 408

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @06:04PM from the even-the-beatles-aren't-that-great dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Not content with current statutory damages, the RIAA is pushing for higher damages for infringement, damages that would total $1.5 million for copying a CD with ten songs. It's all part of debate over the proposed PRO-IP Act. William Patry, a lawyer who wrote the seminal seven-volume reference on US copyright law, called it the most 'outrageously gluttonous IP bill ever introduced in the US.'"

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