Some changes at Muppetfandom...

Yes, folks, I have decided to make some changes to Muppetfandom. I have decided to jettison the automatic moderation of comments that I put into place after some dummy made an unrelated comment on one of my other blogs. It's too much of a pain in the neck to try to sift through all kinds of comments, some related, some not. I have decided this, and there's no turning back now. All I ask is that you either have something positive to say, that the comment is more than one line, or that your comments are related in some way, shape, form, or fashion to my posts.

Now, on to something else: I am making photoblogs for the Cranky Disney Shareholder show and the Retro Fungi Radio show. I need your feedback in order to see whether or not I should keep them up. I want to make these photo blogs separate from the actual podshow blogs. I am going to take photos anyways and publish them to a separate Blogger photoblog. If I get too much feedback to the contrary, I'll pull them. I will sample as many as possible to gauge how good or bad the reaction is. I am going to post on the podshow blogs to let people know what's going on.

BJ

Bram Cohen must be celebrating...

Wow, strange Mac OS 10.5 rumor making the Internet rounds. If true, this may have solved Apple's iTunes bandwidth issues for good. I'm going to go ahead and quote the MacOSRumors.com article:

"According to some of our oldest and most reliable sources within Apple's software development sector, Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" will include a system-level "BitTorrent" filesharing client that can be user-customized to 'donate' upstream Internet bandwidth for things like pushing Software Update packages to Leopard users, delivering iTunes Store content, and just about any purpose to which Apple puts its bandwidth.

The code in question was only recently developed, as part of a proposal that would probably not be part of the "Leopard Preview" delivered to third-party developers....but rather would be added to the operating system just prior to the "beta" stage that will follow later in the year.

Although implementing the code to secure the data traffic and break it up into pieces so small that individual users who enabled Sharing-Reward accounts would be unable to make any use of the data themselves is actually the easy part, getting Apple Legal and the executive suites to sign off on the concept will be a much larger challenge.

A somewhat similar p2p-based banwidth-sharing option was brought up during the 10.4 Tiger development cycle and dismissed out-of-hand because there were no good incentives for users to enter the shadowy world of peer-to-peer networking just to save Apple a few dollars. Now a group of developers at Apple think they have solved the most fundamental issues and want to bring the rest of the company on board.

Rewards would include credit at the iTunes Store and the Apple Store as well as other affililated offers like free airtime minutes for Apple's forthcoming "iPhone" and the like.

Uploads would use a unique port from other types of BitTorrent traffic so that network administrators can see it as separate and handle it accordingly."

Whoa. The movie industry will NEVER sign off on this, the bastards. Why must we be continually subjected to unintelligent retards basically saying the Internet is still a fad? I'm sorry, I don't get it. Comment if you have any kind of answers here.

BJ