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Comment Re:Modding the article (Score 2, Insightful) 429

Also, why replace a $20 item (or even less) with a $200 item (or even more) if all you're going to do is watch TV and DVDs with it?

I guess they recon that in the not-so-distant future every phone will have the equivalent features of todays smartphones. And seeing as just about everybody's got a cellphone these days, people will stop buying remotes because 'hey, I'll just switch channels using my phone, saving me 20 bucks!'

This also adresses the problem of finding the Goddamn remote. It's always on you.

Though I can foresee quite a few arguments with the mrs. when we both have a remote...

Comment Re:Breaking the law (Score 1) 457

I don't know where you are from, but is your entire government, and all it's government run programs, puppeteered directly by one man/woman/small group of people? Usually governments in western countries have a set of regulators for every sub-organisiation and run these organisations(like BBC,) as if they were companies, untouched by the head of state. Thereby ensuring that they, the government themself, can not step outside the given set of rules in the country or state.
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Researchers Warn of Possible BitTorrent Meltdown 294

secmartin writes "Researchers at Delft University warn that large parts of the BitTorrent network might collapse if The Pirate Bay is forced to shut down. A large part of the available torrents use The Pirate Bay as tracker, and other available trackers will probably be overloaded if all traffic is shifted there. TPB is currently using eight servers for their trackers. According to the researchers, even trackerless torrents using the DHT protocol will face problems: 'One bug in a DHT sorting routine ensures that it can only "stumble upon success", meaning torrent downloads will not start in seconds or minutes if Pirate Bay goes down in flames.'"

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