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Originally posted by Pauline:
Deer ticks have been found around the city.

All of them tested positive for Borrelia.

Don't blame me for this.

Quote:" We've just had the year's first death from Bubonic plague...." -John Maddox Roberts. Yeah, a little kid too. 4 cases, 1 death.

Sorry, Splitcoil, but I'm afraid I have to do this, and I don't like it any more than you do:

GEEEEEEEEEEEZEEEEEEEEEEEEER!

'Four held' in Paris bank robbery

At least four people are being held hostage in a bank robbery taking place in the south of Paris, according to officials from the bank.

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Originally posted by Splitcoil:
Be careful around me, M. I'm told I'm willful and strident.

In case you hadn't noticed that was a direct quote from you about me, which you then failed to substantiate.

Kradlum, lets wait till he's back on the board for this. and I'll be happy to get into a thousand fights with him then.

in other news:
US launches major Iraq offensive

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Originally posted by striv:
in other news:
US launches major Iraq offensive

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The US military has said 10,000 US and Iraqi troops are taking part in a major operation against militants linked to al-Qaeda north of the capital, Baghdad.

... Sunni groups, are actually growing very tired of the al-Qaeda influence in the province ...

*bangs head on table*

UK bans Manhunt 2. I hope this isn't what Crash has been working on

The last game to be banned in the UK was Carmegeddon in 1997.

Dear God...

I am so crying, gromit. This is so foul!

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Originally posted by Kradlum:
UK bans Manhunt 2. I hope this isn't what Crash has been working on

The last game to be banned in the UK was Carmegeddon in 1997.

Yes, that is exactly the game our bald Francais-Canuqistanian is working on.

All those loving mocapped animations of strangling someone with a G-string! Gone to waste!

He could send his artwork direct to the BBC - they'd love to see it:

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Originally posted by Newromancer:

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Originally posted by striv:
in other news:
US launches major Iraq offensive

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The US military has said 10,000 US and Iraqi troops are taking part in a major operation against militants linked to al-Qaeda north of the capital, Baghdad.

... Sunni groups, are actually growing very tired of the al-Qaeda influence in the province ...

*bangs head on table*

"Come on, guys... best five out of seven?.... Guys?...."

Gawdammit!!!

I can only see two practical approaches for AT&T: capping bandwidth, or blocking ports. Both things are already a fact of life on many ISPs, and neither of them will stop piracy. In particular, port blocking will just move all the P2P traffic to start tunneling over HTTP ports or something similar.

I'm more worried about bandwidth caps being set at levels of "you can't possibly be watching more than a single movie a month over the internet legitimately" or something equally stupid, but then again, I'm a very conservative user.

I suppose there is the outside possibility that they have some equipment set up to scan packets for popular P2P protocols (beyond just port numbers). That could turn into an interesting arms race as the P2P guys take measures to disguise their traffic.

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Originally posted by colin:
That could turn into an interesting arms race as the P2P guys take measures to disguise their traffic.

Yeah, making it all that much harder for an aspiring musician or filmaker to study. I am still not convinced that it's entirely illegal to DL P2P. There ahs always been provisions made for fair use, up until now. If they really wanted it to stop, they'd sue the hardware manufacturers for providing the equipment. I also refust to call "File Sharing" Piracy, as nothing is being taken by force which is the preferred MO of most of the pirates in the history books. As they've yet to actually win any of the thousands of lawsuits filed, apparently there are some judges on the bench that share my opinion.

Last point, all this really does is provide the industry with a catalyst to change and grow, so either way they will profit.

Well, yeah, the really annoying thing about this is that they will almost certainly be blocking legit traffic. There's some legitimate bittorrent traffic out there, and probably a bit on any P2P network. The technology itself isn't illegal (but of course, AT&T isn't planning on blocking because it's illegal, but because they aren't making enough money from all these heavy downloaders).

Having read another article on it, it sounds like what they might do is block certain links or certain sites. They claim they won't block web sites, but I expect what it will come down to will be pretty much the same thing.

Make no mistake, I don't think this is good. In fact, I think it's awful. I just don't think it's going to make much of a dent in "piracy".

This can't be good. I understand the animosity...Wow. There are certain transgressions that may never be healed or forgotten. This is the definition of such occurances.

courtroom censorship

Usually, I don't swear in my posts. But this time, all I can say is "What the *fuck* made someone think this was the right thing to do?"

Missing: Lake