This paper argues the decentralized nature of Bit Torrent promotes altruism among Bit Torrent users, and that this altruism, not Bit Torrent's tit-for-tat design, is what has caused its success. It concludes that the rise of Bit Torrent meta-search sites will increase free-riders.

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Well, tonight it finally really hit me. High school life is ending. I was writing some things that I wanna sign in people's yearbooks tomorrow and I got this weird feeling in my gut that told me it's really over. In many ways, this event is extremely exciting. In many other ways though, it's a bit sad. Our high school lives shaped us into the ( Read more... )

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Here are the links I have been saying I would post.

Full Album Downloads --> Repost from a previous link post, but worth it.
How to Find MP3's Using Google --> Guide that explains how to use Google to find mp3's.
Bill Fillmaff's Secret System --> You're Playing Poker. He's playing Poker Right. These videos are hilarious.
How Far will Army ( Read more... )

Just came back from bowling with Donnie, Adam, Kim, and 2 of Adam/Kim's friends whose names I don't remember. It was fun. Today was a rather boring day. I lounged around and did homework. I need to start my Biology Project. Anyhow, I got some CD's in the mail today. First, the Yankee Nine Niner Demo album came. I've been talking to the lead singer ( Read more... )

Revenge of the Sith was pretty damn good. Go see it. Now ( Read more... )

AP tests are now finished for me. Hopefully I'll do my English Term Paper this weekend and be done for the year. (More or less) Tomorrow I'm planning to go out for lunch. Maybe just to my grandma's house or maybe my own...but Donnie said he wants to cut Biology so we are going to find something to do for 3 periods ( Read more... )

AP Biology is finally done. Just need to do that powerpoint project and I'm finished. English is just about done too. I'm going to try to do my term paper this weekend. After that I'm done with that class. AP Government test is wed. That's going to suck. I don't feel like studying so will probably wind up doing none or a very small amount. Maybe I' ( Read more... )

Fat Albert as Napoleon Dynamite
Get rid of pesky backgrounds with the GIMP --> Cool little trick.
PHLACK --> New version of Phlak out. I suggest you download a copy for an emergency in case your pc gets messed up.
XBox 360 --> Live picture of the XBox 360
Close up shot of Xbox 360's controller
How to detect lies --> Explains how to see if someone ( Read more... )

I decided to say "screw it" to studying and homework for a bit, and to bless my readers with a crap load of minty fresh links.
Torrent Typhoon --> BitTorrent Search Engine
Torrent Searcher --> Another BT Search Engine
PDF Download Firefox Extension --> I know I personally dont like opening up PDF files directly in Firefox, as firefox tends to ( Read more... )