From the sounds of it, you're connecting as a passive node, which can present some difficulty with our tracker. The easiest way to fix this is to ensure that your port forwarding settings are correct. The port number that your torrent client uses needs to be forwarded in both TCP and UDP from your router to your computer. Otherwise, things will not work as they should.
@asipenner: I have done a reset of a sort on your account. You should now be able to download no problem. I was not seeing any reason why the system was restricting you, so I did the reset to see if I can override that function in the system to put your account back where it belongs.
There is still some discussion on the subject. I'm not sure what direction it will go in though…
From what I've seen in the legal systems, I too believe in Bill Cosby. In Canada, one must be "guilty beyond reasonable doubt"… Funny thing about that is that a "reasonable doubt" is defined as "an alternative explanation of the events that the evidence supports that is not outside the realm of possibility". To be more specific, no matter how likely, as long as there is a POSSIBILITY that there is another explanation (i.e. they lied for their own gain), then you MUST acquit.
The most poplar case that comes to mind is OJ Simpson. Ever heard the saying "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit!" ?
The case dates back to a reexamination of the evidence, where there was a glove that was found that was covered in OJ's wife's blood. It boiled down to whether or not the glove fit OJ's hand. Now... Understand that when you get leather wet like that, once it dries, it will shrink. More than likely, the glove did not fit his hand at the trial for this very fact, however the jury acquitted him because of the theoretical POSSIBILITY that the glove did not fit his hand because the glove was too small to begin with.
Having been on the defence side of the bench in court under damn near identical circumstances and seeing the jury wrongfully convict ME, I wholeheartedly would have forced a hung jury vote due to the glaring contradictions in testimony, despite the way they were delivered, and there would be a very OBVIOUS motive for such a lie.... MONEY!!!
So if there is no physical material evidence that can validate, you simply CANNOT prove beyond reasonable doubt that something happened when there is no material evidence that can prove or disprove the allegation, other than verbal testimony IMHO.
Yes…. US....
Straight, Bisexual, and Scat categories are disabled by default for a few reasons, but they can be turned on for your account. Simply click the "Profile" tab at the top of the page, then check or uncheck the category check box, then click "submit changes" at the bottom of the page. Note: These settings are DIFFERENT from the section with all the categories, which I suggest you leave blank anyway. They are a SEPARATE option near the top of the page.
Thanks to having an MLPPP setup, I am gifted with the graces of unlimited data. The problem with measuring usage data with MLPPP is the fact that you have to be able to measure session usage across multiple interfaces simultaneously. The result is that because this is not realistically doable, they have to make it unlimited. 
I asked a mod about this and this is what he PMed me,
"You get 5 points for a forum "topic" aka thread, but only if someone responds.
You get 1 point for each forum post, automatically.
Of course, you lose these points if they are removed."
This is good to know… Now I'm starting to understand where the confusion on a few other similar questions came in. I did not know of this change.
I believe what you're referring to is bonded pair DSL, which is similar to MLPPP in that it uses the same basic concept, however it requires that all the lines are fed from the same SLAM off of the same CO. In my case however, it is a little different, because although all my lines are fed from the same CO, they are NOT fed off of the same SLAM because that simply wasn't possible. Instead, my ISP took advantage of the fact that Bell (the oligopoly) opened their network's last mile wiring to the wholesale market. the last-mile wiring to the home is 100% resold Bell, however the PPPoE login that you use determines what actual provider that will handle the PPPoE session. On my ISP's end, they have TWO domains that they can use for their PPPoE logins that will feed the connection to the same central routing point on their end, thus enabling MLPPP.
It's a sneaky little workaround, but it allows MLPPP to be possible by ensuring that all MLPPP logins go to the same place, instead of being randomly sent to one of several dynamic routing points across the aggregated network, even if you're not using traditional bonded pair off the same SLAM on all the lines. 
It really makes you wonder if it was just a conspiracy of something bigger, doesn't it?
If they were putting things that were outright illegal in their TOS, they'd of been shut down by the US government, or otherwise fined HEAVILY a long ass time ago… That being said though, I don't doubt for so much as one second that they'll do as shady of things as they can legally get away with.
For example, did you know that if you allow Facebook or Messenger to access your camera and/or microphone, that Facebook can spy on you without your knowledge at any time? Don't believe me? Read their TOS. I turned off the permissions to access my location the day that Facebook tried to make it MANDATORY to post your location with all of your posts. It seems that with every update that they roll out, they're doing shadier and shadier shit. I've contemplated getting rid of my Facebook account because of it for some time now.
I don't think you get points when someone else replies, unless they've changed things recently…
As for the spam posts, the points are awarded right away, however if our forum admin deems that the post was a spam post or was solely for the purpose of acquiring SBP, they can deduct the SBP for the post.
Sorry… I got a little side tracked with a couple of legal issues... I'll bring it up now.
Haha… I forgot to mention... I live in the trailer in the bush in the back 40 of my friend's property. He lives in the house. The output feed from the MLPPP router feeds to the opposite corner of the basement, where all the extremities of the network in the house wire together, as well as a line that runs across the basement ceiling, out the wall to the outside, into the ground, then across the back yard UNDERGROUND for the 200 foot stretch to my trailer, where it then reappears under the one back corner of the trailer to connect into the WAN port of the wireless router inside the trailer. This way I can have good WiFi coverage both in the trailer AND in the house hehe
To give you an idea of what I've done, we have the following:
"Grand Central Station" (where all the DSL lines come in and bond together, and where the dial tone on the two VoIP lines that even run to the trailer begin)
"LAN Central" (where the DSL lines come in as a single line, and split to the rest of the house… Also where I've mounted a keystone box to drop the 1000mbit LAN link down to 100mbit instead to also run the two VoIP lines through the same line for now until I bury a second cable)
In the event of a power outage, all of that can be powered as follows (and yes, these pics were taken during a power outage because my ISP couldn't understand how I was the ONLY customer in sync in the area… I have since added the ground adapter, mounted things to the wall, and changed out the inverter so I could use the bigger one for my trailer, but you'll get the idea):
Lastly, we have the trailer itself… The only difference between the two keystone boxes (in the house and in the trailer) is the one in the house does NOT have the two blue ports....
Simply put, the orange network jack on each end has all FOUR pairs of jumpers connected to it, so as to be dedicated as the "underground" jack. The white network jack only has the green and orange pairs connected. On the house side, this drops the network down to 100mbit (instead of the 1000 that comes off the switch), then connects the blue and brown pairs each to their own phone jack to connect the VoIP lines into the cable... In the trailer, those ports are wired EXACTLY the same, which splits up the underground cable from a single cable down into its respective three ports. The two blue ports in the trailer are merely an extension of the two unused ports on the back of the wireless router, as to make the 1000mbit LAN links into the router inside the trailer easier to access. This keeps everything tucked against the wall nicely, thus keeping the wiring out of the way. If I want to hop back to full 1000mbit service, I can simply move the underground line on each end, but I lose the two VoIP lines in the trailer.
Now here's the real kicker… Despite all the different off shoots and such throughout the house, and the link out the trailer, the ONLY NAT that is used AT ALL lies within the MLPPP router. So... Need help with port forwarding? I can support MUCH more advanced port forwarding setups hehe
I cannot comment on the reason why PayPal was removed. At this time, we are only able to accept BitCoin for donations.
Just so you know, BitCoin is actually a more anonymous method of payment. I think it may be worth your while to look into it.
At this day and age, the only way to really be able to remain secure and anonymous online is to use a VPN service. This is about the only thing these days that will guarantee you that added layer of protection.
Yes… It can be if you so desire... To me though it's a little redundant as Linux itself can manage just the same...
The ONLY thing that I've found that Ubuntu simply CANNOT do is MLPPP using more than 2 DSL lines. I used to use my Ubuntu server as the central be all and end all for the network, including running the MLPPP to make the internet work. Once I installed a THIRD line however, I began having a great deal of difficulty with getting it going on all 3 lines at the same time. So... I made the switch over to a Mikrotik router. The Mikrotik router now bonds what is currently THREE lines, but as of next week will be FOUR lines together, then shares them out as a single line across the basement to the central switch that everything connects through.
If you're not using MLPPP on more than two DSL lines though, I've found that Linux by itself seems to have everything it needs. It's just a matter of knowing how to set it all up.
It can be compromised if not properly configured, however if you configure your firewall and any server services you may be using properly, I actually recommend using it as a main firewall. If doing MLPPP though, it won't handle more than two DSL lines at the same time without choking horribly I've discovered.
Hehe… Similar in design, but slightly different in terms of the topology used to create the network.
I'm about the only person that I know that still supports such an ancient technology from last century (1990's to be exact) such as MLPPP. Originally, it was used in the VERY late 80's, but more-so into the 90's as a means of bonding multiple DIAL-UP modems together to get a faster speed. In my case, I made a few configuration tweaks to turn MLPPP into MLPPPoE :funny2:
The key difference is that instead of bonding multiple dial-up modems together, I'm bonding multiple ADSL2 lines together. Sadly, I'm just over 5 KM from the SLAM, and sadly, the ENTIRE circuit is oldschool coagulated COPPER... We're not even lucky enough to have FTTN out here (although TFFC, FTTB, or FTTH/FTTP would be preferred), so in theory, I should only be able to qualify for a 1.5 meg profile... A little pimping out of my services and swapping out the shitty ass CAT3 from the NID at the side of the house to the POTS splitters inside the house with CAT5e, as well as upgrading the lines from the shitty ass telephone cables to a custom made CAT5e jumper all the way to the modem (among a few other changes that I made), and by some miracle of physics, I managed to get all 3 lines stable at a 4032/800 (4 meg) profile. What sucks though is that on the most part, lines 1 & 3 can handle a 5056/800 profile... Sadly though, line 2 for some reason will only handle 4032/800 if I want it to stay stable, which sucks because when you're talking 3 - 4 lines, a 1 meg drop on even ONE line will mean an overall reduction of speed by 3 - 4 meg (1 per line more or less).
Sadly, on 3 DSL lines, I'm still only cranking out 9.75 - 10.5 meg down, and a mere 1.8 - 2.25 meg up. Admittedly, the installation of line #4 this month is more for the upload speed than the download speed. From there, I had to get creative with the wiring to make sure that I would have decent, solid, and reliable WiFi both in the house and the trailer.... So yeah... Advanced networking has kinda become my forté.
I also took the wiring for power and such to a whole new level, using a brand new car battery from a 2003 Nissan Pathfinder that my roomie's brother had kicking around, a car battery charger that I had kicking around in the basement, and a 150W inverter to convert the 12VDC to 120VAC, along with a custom ground adapter that first plugs into the inverter. It's a simple adapter really. It's just a short little about 6" long piece of 14 gauge wire with a male plug on one end, and a female plug on the other. On the female end of the adapter, I have an additional ground wire that connects to the ground pin, which runs over to the same clamp that clamps the ground wiring for the hydro (electrical) panel to connect to the water pipes (because we're on a well, so no copper piping actually runs underground, thus the water lines need to be grounded somehow). This way, I have the same 120VAC connection with a proper ground terminal, all running off of a 12V car battery.
The concept is simple... When the hydro (electricity) is on and running, the car battery charger kicks in and both charges the battery AND runs the electrical load off of the inverter at the same time. When the hydro goes out, just like shutting your car off, physics kick in and the inverter begins to draw off of the battery seamlessly, instead of the charger. This way, the hydro has to go out for at LEAST 51 hours before I lose my precious internet. Inside the house, all the main network guts connect into the inverter, which consists of the FOUR DSL modems, the main Mikrotik router, the VoIP adapter, the main switch that links all the guts together, as well as the WiFi router inside the house. So literally in a power outage, the ONLY thing that keeps working inside the house as it is now is my precious WiFi and VoIP lines (which actually also run out to the trailer). Out at the trailer, I have a secret weapon... A 2003 Nissan Sentra, a pair of jumper cables to run the battery terminals into the inside of the car and keep the hood closed (for rain/show protection), a 750W inverter (which is powerful enough to run my ENTIRE trailer, except the electric heat, thanks to the magic of LED lighting), and a bigass extension cord to run from inside the car to the back of the trailer. Before powering the inverter on to be able to power the trailer, simply start the engine, and instantly, the alternator on the engine quite literally acts as a generator to maintain the charge in the battery, and run the electrical system inside the trailer for up to 48 hours on a single tank of gas.
The next planned upgrade is going to be to run a second CAT5e cable to the trailer to run the VoIP lines only. That way, I can use the two spare pairs of wire in the existing CAT5e cable to run PoE instead of VoIP lines, which will allow me to upgrade the wireless router inside the trailer to one that can be powered by PoE. This way, my precious porn downloading will not be interrupted in the trailer in the event of a power outage, because although it may take me a few minutes to hook up the trailer, the wireless router that the laptop plugs into inside the trailer will be powered by PoE, and because of the nature of a laptop having a built in battery backup, not even my precious porn downloads will not get interrupted by a power outage.
I like to call my network style here "HARDCORE" :funny2: :funny2: :funny2:
You would almost seem to think that I run a home based IT business and got fed up with the frequent power outages (the inevitable result of living in the middle of nowhere squared) that were causing me a great deal of difficulty doing things like updating websites for a customer, or otherwise conducting my business online. As for the heat in the trailer, in the event of an extended power outage, that's what I have a propane stove and a fan for in the event that I need heat when there's no power. I have a little over 51 hours of emergency reserve power, and if I need more, I can just connect a second car battery in a parallel to the existing one and more than double the allotted time that I have. That being said though, the longest the power has EVER gone out here (with ONE exception) has been 33.5 hours. The only time it EVER went out longer than that was back in 2003. I was out for almost 3 DAYS as the result of the largest blackout in history...
Do I get the award for the most hardcore home networks setup? It's designed to more or less NEVER go down, even when the power goes out for an extended period of time.
If the fix that I applied worked, without the need to change anything on your end, then I suspect that there was a system glitch that I cleared when I did the account reset.
I have promoted the torrent, put a freeleech on it, and requested a reseed. This should help with reviving the torrent to make it available.