Not as fast as adblock apparently...

Can any BT subscriber comment on weather your average deck-hand will have any trouble getting around the block? I know it's quite easy for the black-beards and peg-legs, but what will it mean for the average user? Do TPB crew have enough experience bypassing blocks that most wont even know it's been blocked?

And four or five teams.

I'm wondering if we are witnessing the beginning of the end of Slashdot?

I respectfully disagree, for a number of reasons. 1) The cold war taught us that the one-upmanship of weapons proliferation as a defence is a bad idea. (The more missile defense are built, the better the weapons become to counter that defense.) 2) The insane budget required for these systems could be used for {'homeless', 'healthcare', 'foreign aid', 'research',...} 3) Some long drawn-out & pointless argument about weather the US could sustain a war against China...

How does Australians making double their American counterparts justify an equivalent price increase on an identical product? It sounds like what you're implying is a secondary exchange rate available for game publishers. The problem is quite simple. If I buy Skyrim on Steam, I get exactly the same product as my Canadian friend, but at double the cost. Tell me where the justification for the increase comes from...

Yep. We're getting ripped blind and as long as people don't force the publishing companies to explain themselves they will keep getting away with it.

As long as our nationwide fiber network stays on track, I'm optimistic we'll be able to game at much lower latency's than now. I friend of mine lives in one of the test suburbs for the fiber network and he averages 40-70 ping to American servers (from Melbourne, AU) so if that's anything to go by, things are looking great. Although typically I wouldn't thought pings were as bad as 300-400, I know it depends on a lot of things, but I'd say around 200-250 is my average ping to the US on my ADSL connection.

Strongly agree. Greenpeace and Monsanto may appear at the opposite ends of a spectrum, but they're equally as biased when it comes to their own agenda.

If apple is a leader in worker exploitation (and I'm not saying they are), they should also lead in cleaning it up. At any rate, which ever way the fanboys or haters spin this, I'm just stoked & hopeful that it will raise the quality of working conditions for the employees at Foxconn.

Hahahaha so true.

I wonder if this would set a precedent for those who wanted to sell games they owned on digital distribution services like Steam?

While we're at fantasising about Applies demise, imagine if the Chinese Govt. took control over the manufacturing of Apples products in China, effectively destroying Apple but allowing their products to continue to be sold in China and parts beyond. That would be hella funny.

Sheldon would be very happy with this ruling.