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USB-Based NIC Torrents While Your PC Sleeps 246

Posted by kdawson from the talking-in-your-sleep dept.
jangel sends us to WindowsForDevices.com for news on a prototype device created by researchers from Microsoft and UC San Diego. It's a USB-based NIC that includes its own ARM processor and flash storage, and can download files or torrent while a host PC is sleeping. As a result, its inventors say, the "Somniloquy" device slashes power usage by up to 50x. The device requires a few tweaks on the host OS side save state before sleeping. The prototype works with a Vista host but the hardware comprising the NIC is based on a Linux stack. Here is the research paper (PDF).

Comment Piracy Aids sales (Score 1) 611

by xxScoobyxx (#8730711) Attached to: Mod Chips Up, Game Industry Revenues Down?
If it can be read it can be written They know this before they start up software companies, before they write the new software titles. If I only have $50 I can by one game. If I pirate 10 games have they lost out on $500, remember I only have $50. How many games are bought because the Pirate version is so good but broken (can't play online etc) 2000 titles to choose from. No way of testing. Only have $50. You do the math. Piracy is a pure marketing tool without the crap and hype. They don't like it because they can't control it. Pirates buy games .... they just buy the good ones with their $50.

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