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We thought Comcast was simply throttling BitTorrent traffic but it turns out they are simply disallowing it, in certain cases. The EFF has done some interesting work with computers and probably calculators to determine that Comcast is fooling with our packets. For those who don’t know: Packets are what carries your porn through the series of tubes.
In response to this feature that Comcast offers, the developers of BitTorrent are prosposing some encryption. With the encryption, Comcast can no longer see that you are using devil-software like BitTorrent, and you can continue to download all the copies of the 2007 Burning Man Time Lapse you want.
From the article, quoting president and co-founder of BitTorrent Inc., Ashwin Navin:
“In recent months, consumers enjoyed unprecedented participation in the political process thanks to the ability to upload opinions and feedback in the YouTube presidential debates. Musicians, filmmakers and artists are finding ways to connect with their audiences across the world thanks to MySpace and BitTorrent. Students are engaging with interactive learning tools in their schools. Which bandwidth intensive application will banned or shaped or metered next by these ISPs? The creative spirit of millions has been ignited, and our need to participate, to communicate will not be silenced.”
“The US government should encourage ISPs to innovate and invest in their networks,” Ashwin said. “Permitting them to interfere or interrupt in the communications of consumers, to protect ISP profit margins, would be a tremendous set back for our country and economy, when we are already slipping behind the first world (UK, EU, Japan, Korea, Singapore, etc) in its broadband capacity.”
Comcast… buddy. We know you really hate your customers. We hate them too. They’re all stupid and never pay their bills on time and steal cable. We just see you losing this battle.
These commies over at BitTorrent can change the protocol on a whim to thwart you’re operation. This will force you to spend thousands of dollars to update your infrastructure to continue playing the cat and socialist-software-developer game.
There are better ways to spend this money. We’re sure your executives are underpaid, try giving them a just-because bonus to show you care. Or, you could always spend the money on updating your internet service… and then there wouldn’t be a need to screw with traffic. Annoyed grunt!
… from Torrent Freak
Use the above pictured device to mess with anyone who still has a land line. The device attaches to a phone line 75% of the time your target dials it will deliver them to a wrong number.
Watch out Grandma. You think you’re senile now? Just wait until I install this on your phone.
… from Nerd Approved
Apparently the Italian government doesn’t know much about the technology behind the laws they pass. A practice that seems strangely familiar to us in the US although I don’t know why. Passing a law that allows for free sharing of “degraded” music for educational and scientific research.
From the article:
Italian copyright attorney Andrea Monti told Italian paper la Repubblica (Google translation dug up on Slashdot) that whoever authored the law failed to take into account that the word “degraded” has a “very precise meaning.” All music sold on the major music download sites is degraded, whether it’s a 192kbps MP3 or 128kbps AAC file. Under the new law, music fans would be able to freely share their (not lossless) music libraries over P2P networks.
In a related story thousands of Italians have begun research to find quality MP3s and catalog their research in the form of an MP3 folder on their desktop. We applaud this law as it will bring much interest into science and education in general. Bravo.
… from Ars Technia
Images have been restored. You can now look at the picture of the masturbating monkey toy. Rejoice one and all.
… from The Bottom of a Bottle
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We are currently experiencing some problems with our static image server. During this downtime all images in our postings will show up as empty boxes.
Take this time to use your imagination. Instead of looking at the images we provide… try drawing your interpretation of what you think the stories image would be and taping it to your screen with masking tape.
DNS is a hideous bitch goddess.
Bill Clinton’s surgeon general, Joycelyn Elders, had it all wrong. Teaching masturbation in schools would be just wrong.
I am all for teaching masturbation — just not in schools. Teach it at home with novelty toys is what I’ve always said. And now you can with the aforementioned Masturbating Monkey wind-up toy. Genius.
… from Nerd Approved
Mini shopping carts or gigantic office supplies?
After a long agonizing weekend, Obnoxious Mods has a new host. Our old one just wanted too much money and weren’t really giving us all that much for it so we gave them the boot. We’ve decided to host the web site ourselves off our AOL dialup account. So… you may notice some slowness occasionally. Please forgive us. That’s assuming anyone is even visiting this site.
We’re pretty sure they’re not.