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"The masters of all things peer-to-peer, Torrent Freak, is reporting on a great example of BitTorrent being used for the forces of Good:"

Depending on who you ask illegal file sharing is already a force of good, or at least a force of neutral. :P

By "a" and "b" it really means z and x. >.>

Time to update the internet's stodgy image and give it the sleek, dazzling veneer of the 1980's!

Actually torrents do have legal use.

It's great for large files as the bandwidth costs are dispersed among the peers.

I already knew about these, so I guess that makes me a geek. ;-;

It's like steve forget that the iphone has a web browser.

Flash isn't a codec :/

Read that as

"It is I, your fearless fill-in communist!"

Obligatory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzpByR3MvI

"I think the author wanted you to look at it from a coders perspective. The XNA framework on which the demo was built uses C# which like Java is a virtual machine code and the compiler takes care of the machine code for the 3 different platforms so in that sense they are almost the same."

No he didn't:

"Did you know that the Xbox 360 is just a PC in a box? Sure, the inputs are different and you generally attach it to a TV -- but still, internally, it's PC hardware."