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tghw on July 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Aaronsw indicted for hacking MIT network to downlo...

Does anyone think it's odd that an Acer laptop could write these files to disk faster than JSTOR could serve them?

Not at all. Writing to the hard drive is going to take much less time than downloading the articles from a remote server.

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