What's the Story? :: Overheard on the TTC

(Northbound Yonge Line, Friday night)

Tech employee at a Bank: You know I still haven't seen the movie Sense and Sensibility.

Fellow (non-tech) Bank Employee: I have the DVD, you can borrow it if you want.

Tech employee: No its okay, thanks. I can probably find a bit torrent of it somewhere..... I mean I just don't want to waste time ripping a DVD for a movie I don't end up liking.

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Dear Hollywood Movie-Mogul:

Hope you are well. Your business model is broken.

Take care!
siobhan

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Re: Overheard on the TTC

by Anonymous on Tue 18 Oct 2005 04:35 AM EDT | Permanent Link

Siobhan I have two qestions for you; 1. What does 'a bit torrent of it' mean - I am probably showing my complete ignorance here! 2. Why do we have to do these funny comment verification games??? - Neyir

Re: Overheard on the TTC

by Siobhan McLaughlin on Tue 18 Oct 2005 09:12 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Neyir
1. Bittorrent is a protocol that was developed specifically for downloading large files. You probably recall Napster and its ability to download songs. Bit Torrent was a successor to Napster and Bit Torrent used a different downloading method that made it efficient to download a large file like a Movie. It made it change to say 8 hours to download to 1 hour to download.
2. comment verificiation 'games' are called captchas and blogging sites use them now to prevent spammers from using automated scripts to load a bunch of spam comments onto your blog.
The verification is very difficult for a computer to decipher but easy for a human to decipher. Yes, in some ways we are still superior :)

Re: Overheard on the TTC

by Calum Tsang on Tue 18 Oct 2005 11:29 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Well, it's good to know our DSL business will still have customers.

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