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by shades66a (#36971756) Attached to: .NET Gadgeteer — Microsoft's Arduino Killer?
The advantage of the Arduino (And all the other small microprocessors like the attiny,atmega, pic etc) is that you can play with simple circuits using a breadboard and then even at hobby level create a standalone pcb to make various projects (Just search instructables, hack a day, google for atmega,attiny,pic etc) . Looking at the back of this "Arduino Killer" shows that this is not going compete unless you have some fairly serious hardware to create double sided PCB's and be able to mount BGA chips and be able to source the chips for $2-3 a time. (looking through the linked site I can't even see if you can buy the main processor standalone, the cheapest board the FEZ Mini is $39 a pop, and seems to get a button / LDR component confused?!) This is just a toy, for creating one project at a time, that does have some nice,but hellish expensive, modules to plug into it and nothing more.
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Inside the RIAA and MediaSentry 218

Posted by kdawson from the belly-of-the-beast dept.
bsdewhurst sends along an interesting article about how MediaSentry and the RIAA identify file sharers. Since 2003, while the RIAA has been filing 28,000 lawsuits, the percentage of US Internet users using P2P for downloading music has dropped from 20% to 19% (there is no knowing how much of a factor the lawsuits have been). The list the RIAA uses for ISP takedown notices is about 700 currently popular songs that are updated based on the charts, so not liking the top 40 could save you. The list of songs tracked for the user-litigation program is said to be larger.

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