BitTorrent Users Logged Within Hours

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Do you share files with BitTorrent? If so, then say hello to Big Brother!

A study by researchers at Birmingham University reveals that most illegal file-sharers downloading the latest film or music releases are logged by a monitoring firm within three hours:

The three-year research was carried out by a team of computer scientists who developed software that acted like a BitTorrent file-sharing client and logged all the connections made to it. [...]

The logs revealed that monitoring did not distinguish between hardcore illegal downloaders and those new to it.

"You don't have to be a mass downloader. Someone who downloads a single movie will be logged as well," said Dr Tom Chothia, who led the research.

"If the content was in the top 100 it was monitored within hours," he said. "Someone will notice and it will be recorded."

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A „Measuring Wheel“
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That there is a wagon wheel measurer, for measuring the diameter of wagon wheel biscuits. Getting the right diameter means you have just enough jam to marshmallow.

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It's called a "Wheel Traveler" it is used to measure the circumference of a wheel in order to determine the length of Iron band needed to create a tire, which will then be shrunk onto the wooden frame creating a wheel.

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A Ground Downer Wheel for locating the direction of the ground. BTW, it' s usually down, therefore the Ground Downer Wheel production was discontinued rather quickly. You can usually find one of these in the back of any given garage, hanging on a nail with the arrow still pointing towards the ground. Oh, Ground Downer...ceaselessly working even through neglect. It's almost beautiful.

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It looks like a surveying wheel. It probably measures in yards but the ones at my school measures metres. You start with the zero at the arrow and walk, the ones at our school click every metre and you count the clicks to measure the distance you've walked.

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