Comment Spam (Score 4, Funny) 102
In other news, spam out of Egypt almost completely ceased during the internet blackout!
Comment Linux on a toaster? (Score 1) 154
I wonder if anyone has patented running Linux on a toaster...
Comment Re:Only if there's good seeds (Score 4, Informative) 591
Most modern bittorrent client support web seeds, that is using an http-hosted file as a seed for the torrent. Ad the speed from that server to the other people who are downloading and you have much better speeds than if you were to simply download straight from the server. Add to this all the other bittorrent features, like resuming a broken download, and improved error checking and you have a very powerful downloading strategy.
Just take a look at burnbit: http://burnbit.com/ which takes a normal hosted file on the internet and turns it into a torrent. Everyone wins!
Comment Re:I'm already skeptical (Score 1) 278
Seems to be a lot of that lately: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10547079&ref=rss
UK Government Says More Spying Needed 297
An anonymous reader writes "Our wonderful government here in the UK has decided we're not being surveilled enough, and agreed to spend £12 billion on a programme to monitor every Briton's phone calls, e-mails, and internet usage. According to various sources, upwards of £1 billion has already been spent on the uber-database. Rationale? Terrorism, of course (no prizes for guessing).
Needless to say, not everyone is as happy as Larry over this: Michael Parker pointed out how us Brits are being 'stalked.' I'm just looking forward to when the data gets lost."
