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Comment Re:Copyright or Tech? (Score 0) 249

Could we do a better job if we could cache intelligently and do p2p

That would help, but ultimately the question that's being asked is, "who will pay for this bandwidth?"

The answer of course is the ISP users are already paying for it. The ISPs just don't have the bandwidth they've claimed to have sold their clients. And I would call this bordering on fraud.

Say an ISP has 1,000 clients, and sells them all 1.5Mbps DSL connections. But if 500 people go and try to stream video at the same time, and the infrastructure can't handle it, the ISP has sold you a product it actually didn't have. If a store tried to oversell the latest Harry Potter book, and asked customers to "share" the books because they didn't actually have enough to go around, there'd be lawsuits flying.

Now I know in reality having 1,000 x 1.5Mbps infrastructure probably would never happen, and there would be some bandwidth sharing, that's the point of packet switched networks. But scaling up to meet the needs of customers for what the ISP claimed the customer was buy, is ultimately the ISPs responsibility. Net neutrality should not be used as an excuse to not provide the minimum infrastructure needed for the service ISPs are collecting money for.
Networking

Australian Researcher Boosts ADSL Speeds 114

sea_stuart writes "Like your ADSL connection to go 100 times faster? Despite the grim state of Australian mathematics and science, there is still exciting original work being done Down Under. John Papandriopoulos, a Research Fellow with the ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks (CUBIN) has developed a method to reduce crosstalk interference in ADSL technologies to bring speeds up the theoretical maxima possible. With an Australian Federal election due in a few weeks, and both parties promising improved broadband speeds and access, this is a welcome development, hopefully enabling higher speeds without huge expenses."
The Internet

Bulletproof Tool For Golden Age Browsing? 366

An anonymous reader writes "I work in a retirement/assisted living home. Many of the residents had never used the Internet but really find it fascinating once they are given a little training. However, I've stopped introducing it to them because of the drain it puts on me. There are a million and one things that a computer novice can screw up, and I don't have time to solve all of them. These folks don't need any sophistication. and they need only the most basic options. Adjustable text size would be nice, but otherwise — no email, no word processing or editing, no printing — just Internet browsing. This may not seem like a big market, but it's getting bigger every day! Is there an absolutely fool-proof device that can provide this without requiring virus scanners and constant attention?"
Media

Three MythTV Linux Distros Compared 176

An anonymous reader writes "Linux.com has a comparison article up looking at three MythTV-focused Linux distributions. The piece looks at Mythdora, Mythbuntu, and KnoppMyth, with an eye towards ease of installation and the actual utility of the install. From the article: 'For regular system maintenance, KnoppMyth simply isn't in the same ballpark as MythBuntu and MythDora. The live CD heritage of Knoppix means you cannot update individual packages, which is fine if you like that, but for an always-on system like a MythTV back end, I'd prefer flexibility and configurability of a mainline distro. When all is said and done, if I were building my TiVo replacement today, I would do it with MythDora. MythBuntu shows a lot of promise, and I will give the final 7.10 release another look (in part because I run Ubuntu on my desktop machines), but it isn't ready yet.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by SourceForge.
Announcements

Journal Journal: 116 pics of assorted ladies 8

Just to show that I can use curl as well as wget: of course, now you can have fun writing it in perl for a change :-)

#!/bin/bash

User Journal

Journal Journal: Okay friends, here's some more 5

And this time NO TYPOS (I hope).

#!/usr/bin/perl

# sample url http://www.hardloveart.com/34/inf8.0015.jpg
for ($i = 1; $i <=8; $i++) {
for ($j = 1; $j <= 15; $j++) {
if ($j < 10) {
$cmd = "wget www.hardloveart.com/34/inf$i/000$j.jpg -w4";
} else {
$cmd = "wget www.hardloveart.com/34/inf$i/00$j.jpg -w4";
}
`$cmd`;
}
}

About 7 megs of pix, 120 images.

Announcements

Journal Journal: I'm B-A-A-A-C-K !!! 4

Corrected Script - transposed an el and a one" (thanks to Nucleardog for pointing out I made a fuckup). Corrected script below :-)

Sorry for the hiatus (holidays, stupid dog that eats EVERYTHING, work, etc., but I'm back, and here we go with another simple script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$site="www.met-art.com";
$dir= "g1";
$file="met-art_fl_00";
$ext=".jpg -w 4";

Anime

Journal Journal: Anime Pr0n?! and a (bigotted racist) new foe ... 22

Well, I guess it had to happen - Anime porn.

And thanks and welcome to the 25 people who friended Porn Whitelist today :-) (guess I'll have to come up with something special for the 100th sooner than I would have thought ... darn)

So, here's a script to download more pix.

Upgrades

Journal Journal: Close enough - heres 11,000 pix 4

Posted under "Upgrades", so you can (ahem) upgrade your collection.

Yesterday I wrote that if we got this journal up to 50 people friending it, I'd post a script that get a decent chunk of pr0n.

Well, 47 friends/fans is close enough among friends so:

#!/usr/bin/perl

for ($i=105;$i<=859;$i++) {
`wget -r www.pornodonkey.com/$i/1176.html`
}

User Journal

Journal Journal: Some curl 3

As promised, I've found something fairly large (several hundred meg - thousands of pix, both thumbnails and full-sized) for when we've got 50 people who have friended this blog. In the meantime, here's some quickie curl commands to get 5 meg of porn (or you can convert it to wget as an exercise for the reader).

curl http://www.nikkygalore.com/w200412/d10-2/pics/pp[01-20].jpg -o "nikkygalore.com.#1.jpg"

X

Journal Journal: 47 meg of ... um ... something. 1

I'm not going to comment on what this is - it's not up to me to judge. That's why it's filed under "X".

Here's the perl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

for ($i=1; $i <=48; $i++) {
for ($j=1; $j <=16; $j++) {
$url = "www.fetishhub.net/mip/gal";
if($i<10) {$url = $url . '0'; }
$url = $url . $i . '/big_';
if ($j<10) {$url = $url . '0'; }
$url = $url . $j . '.jpg';
`wget -r $url`;
}
}

Perl

Journal Journal: Some PERL for pr0n 5

Here's something different - a perl script ...

#!/usr/bin/perl

for ($i=1; $i<27;$i++) {
for ($j=1; $j<17; $j++) {
`wget -r www.sweetamateurbabes.com/teen/$i/$j.jpg`
}
}

For those of you new to perl, those are backquotes around the wget command - they tell the shell to interpet the command string, after doing variable substitution :-)

Displays

Journal Journal: MILFs, etc.

Remember American Pie? How the guys were going nuts over Stiffler's mother? I had never heard of the phrase "MILF" before - "Mother I'd Like (to) Fuck".

So, here's a (very) small leech: 1.3 meg - just type it in a terminal

wget -r http://www.milfmagazine.com/wives/153evelyn/

To make up for that small one, here's 87 meg of girls with a little extra ...

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