[MPlayer-users] How to pause mencoder

[Adam Nielsen]

> Yes, for all you know, you're really helping them process profiling
> databases for tracking suspected 'terrorists', or processing every
> known riaa song so that their computers will eventually be able to
> identify a song just by hearing a short segment, in order to persecute
> file sharers. The point is: all their software is closed-source and
> secretive, and you have no way of knowing that it's actually trying to
> find extraterrestrial life and not just acting as malware...

Well, that may be the case for SETI, but distributed.net make most of their 
source code available so you can be pretty sure it's doing what it says it 
does (not to mention that the bandwidth it uses is so small it'd be almost 
impossible to be doing anything else...)  Just go to www.distributed.net and 
click on "Source Code" ;-)

Cheers,
Adam.