Can't just replace kat.cr with kickass.cd, the RSS feed facility is badly broken.
RSS feeds seems to work at the top-level categories, but you can't turn your search results into an RSS feed anymore... Still got the RSS icon at the top of the page and in the META so your browser bar shows it. But both just show the same old HTML page instead of an RSS page:
Replacing Usenet with 8 million different web forums that I have to register with individually and use a different interface to read is not an improvement.
You don't have to visit any web forums to read them. Nearly every site has an RSS feed, and those which don't can be scraped and converted into RSS with something like Feed43.com.
I would HATE using my smart phone to read the news if it wasn't for RSS./.'s mobile site is the single worst piece of crap I've ever seen. But with RSS I'm fortunately able to read any and every site out there, in a uniform "eBook"-like format.
The story here, is that cellular providers are leaving you to die alone...
The feds have been pushing for more advanced cellular locator technology for many years now. That would include things like altimeters/pressure sensors in all new cell phones, so that in a high rise building they can at least tell which floor you are on. Or U-TDOA high-accuracy triangulating receivers on cell towers. Or even an E-911 location for cell phones on file, so emergency services will at least know your exact home address.
The big-4 cellular service providers pushed back hard against any such requirements, refusing on the grounds of making cell service slightly more expensive. Their excuses being that things like this WiFi location service will be an adequate alternative, and so FCC rules continue to get watered down. "T-Mobile said, is that the FCC should not require wireless carriers to meet the proposed guidelines, and that the agency should instead seek other ways to locate indoor 911 callers."
There are innumerable stories of people who died because emergency services couldn't get an accurate enough location to reach the victim in time. Numerous wrenching horror stories where operators listed to someone die over the phone while they waited around several minutes for an accurate enough GPS location to even find the right building. Never-mind locating the correct floor, let alone the exact apartment/condo/office/car/etc.
"an http://msmagazine.com/blog/201...>estimated 10,000 Americans who will die this year because wireless companies donâ(TM)t transmit precise enough location data to 9-1-1 operators"
God help you if you are incapacitated by an emergency in such a location, and there doesn't happen to be any WiFi APs around to help Google and the first-responders locate you. Thanks to your service provider, the paramedics have much lower odds of finding you.
My stereo has neither USB nor bluetooth, and damned if I'm gonna buy a new stereo with my new phone.
A bluetooth receiver costs all of $5... I've got a couple to retrofit otherwise decent (and expensive) older car stereos/entertainment systems. The sound quality of bluetooth in general is no match for hard-wired, but it's an option.
My concerns are much more practical... FM radio is a nice option to have in phones, and the headphone cord doubles as the antenna. Bluetooth obviously can't do that.
I also like the no-brainer ability to just plug in a cord and everything works... No navigating menus to select the device you want to send sound to.
I also flatly refuse to hassle with a bunch of different devices with separate batteries that need routine recharging. That's the only reason I don't carry around a bluetooth earpiece and keyboard with my phone... If they could both securely clip-on to my phone and have contacts allowing them to recharge their own batteries from my (larger) phone while not in-use, I'd love to have them. Until that happens, no go. My corded ear-buds (sitting in my bag for years) will be ready to go whenever I want with no maintenance.
I'd like to see this with bluetooth instead of a dock so you can just leave the phone in your pocket. Not sure if the bandwidth would work though.
One of the big things the Lapdock provided was POWER to the phone... Can't get that if you leave your phone in your pocket.
And no, bluetooth doesn't provide remotely enough speed for screen updates... WiFi is faster, but still not realistically fast enough, and you'd have to lose your internet connectivity to use it that way. Not to mention your phone would be consuming a lot of power just to refresh the screen, instead of doing any useful work.
The headphone jack has worked for 50 years and it can work for another 50 more because it's universal.
50 years ago, most everyone's headphone jacks were 1/4" (6.35mm), and only monaural. They introduced 3.5mm (still mono) way back when, but almost nobody was using them until much more recently. When stereo was needed, two 3.5mm jacks/pins were used side-by-side. It was only more recently that 3-connector stereo jacks were introduced.
They also shrunk it again to 2.5mm, which was popular on dumb phones and 2-way radios, but that one didn't catch on too well. But you can just as easily say that sub-mini plug has been around for decades, so we should all be happy to use that...
And they added a 4th conductor, most often for video (but possibly for a microphone), but nobody agreed to a standard so the wiring is always incompatible between devices, and that didn't catch on very well, either.
People want cheaper service... They think ala carte will do that, but if it doesn't end up being cheaper, then they really DON'T want it.
Prepaid cellular service was a big factor in getting prices down. Fees couldn't be hidden remotely as easily, and people could switch from one service to another at any time without concern about 2-year contracts.
It's possible that prepaid TV service will start to reform the cable industry in the same ways. It certainly can't hurt, as they're under attack by Netflix and others.
Personally, I advise just about everyone to put up a good old TV antenna. The vast majority of the country has hundreds of channels (including sub-channels) of very high-quality TV broadcasts over the air, which you can receive for as little as $30 in equipment, one-time charge.
Or, how about we just sell milk in bag-in-boxes like they do in other countries. They can sit on the shelf for up to 6 months as long as they're not opened.
You're talking about UHT (ultra-high temperature pasteurization) milk. It's widely available, but not even slightly popular because it just tastes HORRID. I can buy a quart of UHT at my nearby dollar store. Would you like to guess why I NEVER do that? Because it simply tastes HORRIBLE.
Cans of evaporated or condensed milk have even longer shelf-lives. Ditto for powered milk. But all of them taste little to nothing like fresh milk.
The big news with this low-temperature treatment, is that they claim it can extend the shelf life WITHOUT changing the taste at all. Not at all true for UHT.
It's fact, not propaganda that "Raw milk causes more than half of all milk-related foodborne illnesses in the United States, even though only about 3.5 percent of Americans drink raw milk".
Your grand conspiracy doesn't involve just the FDA, but instead a multitude of research institutes, like Johns Hopkins, whose scientific findings, across the board, shows significant dangers from drinking raw milk: - http://www.webmd.com/food-reci...
Here's just a few pages of references you can read through:
The dairy council doesn't pay out any money to the CDC, and they're the ones who are warning the public about the dangers of raw milk: - http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/...
The Dairy Council is a piss-poor choice as a Bond-villain... It isn't remotely as big, rich, and powerful as the many other organizations and industries that public health authorities have put the kibosh on. Think "Big Tobacco" in comparison to "Big Milk". Except milk is trivial to render safe, while tobacco is not.
The Dairy Council could make just as much money from raw milk as it does from pasteurized, so there's little or no motivation for them to launch an expensive grand conspiracy.
In short, you're just like any other run-of-the-mill nut-job. Instead of UFOs, vaccinations, fluoridation, or HAARP, your preferred pseudo-scientific nonsense based around raw milk.
Feel free to do your own searches and give me a list of studies which have shown health benefits from raw milk, and NO additional danger from it's consumption, unlike EVERYTHING I just linked you to... I'll be waiting for your pages and pages of citations in response.
participants had equal or greater preference for the LTST pasteurized milk compared to normally pasteurized milk. [...] Scientists from Duke University believe there may be a large source of hydrogen gas under the ocean
I'd certainly like my milk to stay fresh longer, but hauling it down under the ocean, and mixing it with hydrogen sounds far too challenging a process to realistically commercialize.
The shelf was determined to be a minimum of two weeks longer than the standard shelf life from pasteurization alone.
Wow. It sounds like you need a ridiculously huge shelf somewhere in your dairy facilities, too... Who has room for a two-week long shelf?
As for whether or not this method will make its way to store shelves, it won't in the near future. "Currently an Ohio-based milk processor is using this technology and distributing the milk," Applegate says.
That's some interesting logic, there... It won't be on store shelves in the near future, because it's already on store shelves now.
It was EditorDavid who screwed-up big a few days ago:
There's absolutely no evidence for that. In fact incidents of food-borne illness are significantly higher for practitioners of the new-age "raw milk" psycho-babble.
It will eventually sour, turn into yoghurt, then curds&whey, and you can strain it to make cheese. But it never goes bad.
If I want a glass of milk, but instead get a cup of sour curds, the milk has gone bad. It's never going to be good milk again.
If you want a long shelf-life, just FREEZE it. It'll last for many months. You just need to give it a few days to thaw out, and a few vigorous shakes along the way.
And the angel of the Lord came unto me, snatching me up from my place of slumber, and took me on high, and higher still until we moved in the spaces betwixt the air itself. And he bore me unto a vast farmland of our own midwest, and as we descended cries of impending doom rose from the soil. One thousand, nay, a million voices full of fear, and terror possessed me then. And I begged, "Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?" And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots. You see, reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust."
And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat like the tears of one millions terrified brothers and roared, "Hear me now, I have seen the light, they have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul. Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses, save our brothers...can I get an amen? Can I get a Hallelujah? Thank you, Jesus.
you would rather hear irrelevant ads shilling restless leg syndrome aids VS cheap flights to cancun?
Yes. There's nothing more annoying than hearing the same few ads OVER and OVER. I'd like the pool of ads to be as large as possible.
It's even worse when (like most ads today) it's on a subject I at least care about, but the ad is information-free branding and puffery. When's the last time you saw a car ad that was all about lifetime costs, instead of a 30 second block of "Zoom, zoom"?
And you know something... I might just be able to pass along info about {insert old-man syndrome} to my old-man.
KAT's big advantage was its ability to turn any page into an RSS feed. Any combination of search terms and categories you want, you could get an RSS feed of it, including the number of seeders/leechers, the magnet link. torcache.net link (that site seems to be down as well), user votes up/down, comments, etc.
I can't emphasize enough just how substantially time-saving that can be. With a small script you can subscribe to ANYTHING and all the new stuff just magically shows up as soon as it is available. Even if you stop short of that kind of integration, it still helps greatly not to have to open a link to a website to grab the magnet link of each torrent...
Other torrent sites do RSS, but only some fraction of that.
As of this writing, KAT is down, both through conventional DNS and through their onion address.
The main sites are down, but that doesn't surprise me, as they often have capacity problems and can be hard to reach for several hours, nearly every day.
Yep, not terribly significant. Smartphones already don't last for entire days without top-up charges in-between, so making that a little bit worse will go almost unnoticed. People are already tethered to the wall (or a battery bank) if they use their phone that extensively.
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So perhaps the four, 11MW WÃrtsilà 38 diesel engines aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales are just paperweights?
Can't just replace kat.cr with kickass.cd, the RSS feed facility is badly broken.
RSS feeds seems to work at the top-level categories, but you can't turn your search results into an RSS feed anymore... Still got the RSS icon at the top of the page and in the META so your browser bar shows it. But both just show the same old HTML page instead of an RSS page:
e.g. http://kickass.cd/usearch/test...
You don't have to visit any web forums to read them. Nearly every site has an RSS feed, and those which don't can be scraped and converted into RSS with something like Feed43.com.
I would HATE using my smart phone to read the news if it wasn't for RSS. /.'s mobile site is the single worst piece of crap I've ever seen. But with RSS I'm fortunately able to read any and every site out there, in a uniform "eBook"-like format.
You can read my RSS tips here:
http://evilviper.pipedot.org/j...
Broken link is: http://msmagazine.com/blog/201...
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The story here, is that cellular providers are leaving you to die alone...
The feds have been pushing for more advanced cellular locator technology for many years now. That would include things like altimeters/pressure sensors in all new cell phones, so that in a high rise building they can at least tell which floor you are on. Or U-TDOA high-accuracy triangulating receivers on cell towers. Or even an E-911 location for cell phones on file, so emergency services will at least know your exact home address.
The big-4 cellular service providers pushed back hard against any such requirements, refusing on the grounds of making cell service slightly more expensive. Their excuses being that things like this WiFi location service will be an adequate alternative, and so FCC rules continue to get watered down. "T-Mobile said, is that the FCC should not require wireless carriers to meet the proposed guidelines, and that the agency should instead seek other ways to locate indoor 911 callers."
There are innumerable stories of people who died because emergency services couldn't get an accurate enough location to reach the victim in time. Numerous wrenching horror stories where operators listed to someone die over the phone while they waited around several minutes for an accurate enough GPS location to even find the right building. Never-mind locating the correct floor, let alone the exact apartment/condo/office/car/etc.
"an http://msmagazine.com/blog/201...>estimated 10,000 Americans who will die this year because wireless companies donâ(TM)t transmit precise enough location data to 9-1-1 operators"
God help you if you are incapacitated by an emergency in such a location, and there doesn't happen to be any WiFi APs around to help Google and the first-responders locate you. Thanks to your service provider, the paramedics have much lower odds of finding you.
Answer: Poorly.
Big momentary glitches, visible compression artifacts all the time, lots of processor overhead you don't get with a wired link.
HDMI has bandwidth of 340MHz, and throughput of 18 Gbit/s. Get back to me when your WiFi can support that.
A bluetooth receiver costs all of $5... I've got a couple to retrofit otherwise decent (and expensive) older car stereos/entertainment systems. The sound quality of bluetooth in general is no match for hard-wired, but it's an option.
My concerns are much more practical... FM radio is a nice option to have in phones, and the headphone cord doubles as the antenna. Bluetooth obviously can't do that.
I also like the no-brainer ability to just plug in a cord and everything works... No navigating menus to select the device you want to send sound to.
I also flatly refuse to hassle with a bunch of different devices with separate batteries that need routine recharging. That's the only reason I don't carry around a bluetooth earpiece and keyboard with my phone... If they could both securely clip-on to my phone and have contacts allowing them to recharge their own batteries from my (larger) phone while not in-use, I'd love to have them. Until that happens, no go. My corded ear-buds (sitting in my bag for years) will be ready to go whenever I want with no maintenance.
One of the big things the Lapdock provided was POWER to the phone... Can't get that if you leave your phone in your pocket.
And no, bluetooth doesn't provide remotely enough speed for screen updates... WiFi is faster, but still not realistically fast enough, and you'd have to lose your internet connectivity to use it that way. Not to mention your phone would be consuming a lot of power just to refresh the screen, instead of doing any useful work.
50 years ago, most everyone's headphone jacks were 1/4" (6.35mm), and only monaural. They introduced 3.5mm (still mono) way back when, but almost nobody was using them until much more recently. When stereo was needed, two 3.5mm jacks/pins were used side-by-side. It was only more recently that 3-connector stereo jacks were introduced.
They also shrunk it again to 2.5mm, which was popular on dumb phones and 2-way radios, but that one didn't catch on too well. But you can just as easily say that sub-mini plug has been around for decades, so we should all be happy to use that...
And they added a 4th conductor, most often for video (but possibly for a microphone), but nobody agreed to a standard so the wiring is always incompatible between devices, and that didn't catch on very well, either.
Site e-mail should work. I'm guessing it was just a typo. Try using this link. Just ignore that wrong-user error message after you send:
http://username.pipedot.org/ma...
You'll see your own e-mails in Sent, certainly NOT the "Outbox".
WebMD only re-posted a press release. They had nothing to do with the study. It was done by Johns Hopkins.
So because it will take a non-trivial amount of effort for you to find, it doesn't exist, and therefore can be dismissed out-of-hand?
That's complete nonsense. Some do refer to cheese, but many more do not.
You're clearly a sick, sick man, and should seek professional psychiatric help as soon as possible.
12 * 30 = 360
So the difference is 5.24 days per year...
In each month, the difference will be 0-2 days above or below.
People want cheaper service... They think ala carte will do that, but if it doesn't end up being cheaper, then they really DON'T want it.
Prepaid cellular service was a big factor in getting prices down. Fees couldn't be hidden remotely as easily, and people could switch from one service to another at any time without concern about 2-year contracts.
It's possible that prepaid TV service will start to reform the cable industry in the same ways. It certainly can't hurt, as they're under attack by Netflix and others.
Personally, I advise just about everyone to put up a good old TV antenna. The vast majority of the country has hundreds of channels (including sub-channels) of very high-quality TV broadcasts over the air, which you can receive for as little as $30 in equipment, one-time charge.
You're talking about UHT (ultra-high temperature pasteurization) milk. It's widely available, but not even slightly popular because it just tastes HORRID. I can buy a quart of UHT at my nearby dollar store. Would you like to guess why I NEVER do that? Because it simply tastes HORRIBLE.
Cans of evaporated or condensed milk have even longer shelf-lives. Ditto for powered milk. But all of them taste little to nothing like fresh milk.
The big news with this low-temperature treatment, is that they claim it can extend the shelf life WITHOUT changing the taste at all. Not at all true for UHT.
Your conspiracy theory fails on numerous counts:
It's fact, not propaganda that "Raw milk causes more than half of all milk-related foodborne illnesses in the United States, even though only about 3.5 percent of Americans drink raw milk".
Your grand conspiracy doesn't involve just the FDA, but instead a multitude of research institutes, like Johns Hopkins, whose scientific findings, across the board, shows significant dangers from drinking raw milk:
- http://www.webmd.com/food-reci...
Here's just a few pages of references you can read through:
- http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/v...
- http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/v...
- http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/v...
- http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/v...
- http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/v...
- http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/v...
- http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/v...
The dairy council doesn't pay out any money to the CDC, and they're the ones who are warning the public about the dangers of raw milk:
- http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/...
The Dairy Council is a piss-poor choice as a Bond-villain... It isn't remotely as big, rich, and powerful as the many other organizations and industries that public health authorities have put the kibosh on. Think "Big Tobacco" in comparison to "Big Milk". Except milk is trivial to render safe, while tobacco is not.
The Dairy Council could make just as much money from raw milk as it does from pasteurized, so there's little or no motivation for them to launch an expensive grand conspiracy.
In short, you're just like any other run-of-the-mill nut-job. Instead of UFOs, vaccinations, fluoridation, or HAARP, your preferred pseudo-scientific nonsense based around raw milk.
Feel free to do your own searches and give me a list of studies which have shown health benefits from raw milk, and NO additional danger from it's consumption, unlike EVERYTHING I just linked you to... I'll be waiting for your pages and pages of citations in response.
I'd certainly like my milk to stay fresh longer, but hauling it down under the ocean, and mixing it with hydrogen sounds far too challenging a process to realistically commercialize.
Wow. It sounds like you need a ridiculously huge shelf somewhere in your dairy facilities, too... Who has room for a two-week long shelf?
That's some interesting logic, there... It won't be on store shelves in the near future, because it's already on store shelves now.
It was EditorDavid who screwed-up big a few days ago:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
There's absolutely no evidence for that. In fact incidents of food-borne illness are significantly higher for practitioners of the new-age "raw milk" psycho-babble.
If I want a glass of milk, but instead get a cup of sour curds, the milk has gone bad. It's never going to be good milk again.
If you want a long shelf-life, just FREEZE it. It'll last for many months. You just need to give it a few days to thaw out, and a few vigorous shakes along the way.
And the same animal's flesh, intended for maggots, bacteria, plants, and various carrion animal species, is similarly fed to humans...
Vegetarian Diet Kills Animals Too:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...
Last but not least:
Yes. There's nothing more annoying than hearing the same few ads OVER and OVER. I'd like the pool of ads to be as large as possible.
It's even worse when (like most ads today) it's on a subject I at least care about, but the ad is information-free branding and puffery. When's the last time you saw a car ad that was all about lifetime costs, instead of a 30 second block of "Zoom, zoom"?
And you know something... I might just be able to pass along info about {insert old-man syndrome} to my old-man.
Proof: http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-...
And more: http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-...
KAT's big advantage was its ability to turn any page into an RSS feed. Any combination of search terms and categories you want, you could get an RSS feed of it, including the number of seeders/leechers, the magnet link. torcache.net link (that site seems to be down as well), user votes up/down, comments, etc.
I can't emphasize enough just how substantially time-saving that can be. With a small script you can subscribe to ANYTHING and all the new stuff just magically shows up as soon as it is available. Even if you stop short of that kind of integration, it still helps greatly not to have to open a link to a website to grab the magnet link of each torrent...
Other torrent sites do RSS, but only some fraction of that.
This should be fixed now, give it a try. Nobody reported the problem before you.
The main sites are down, but that doesn't surprise me, as they often have capacity problems and can be hard to reach for several hours, nearly every day.
Still reachable domains are;
- http://kickasstorrents.ee/
- http://kickasstorrentsan.com/
- http://kickasstorrents.cr/
- http://kickass-torrents.to/
And since I'm here, a few alternatives:
- https://eztv.ag/showlist/name/
- https://thepiratebay.org/
- https://isohunt.to/torrents/
Yep, not terribly significant. Smartphones already don't last for entire days without top-up charges in-between, so making that a little bit worse will go almost unnoticed. People are already tethered to the wall (or a battery bank) if they use their phone that extensively.
An incomplete list of those "FOSStards" includes:
Adobe, Amazon, AMD, ARM, Ateme, Cisco, Google, Intel, Ittiam, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, NVIDIA, Vidyo, and the IETF.
http://aomedia.org/about-us/
Also supporting/enabling WebM are:
Broadcom, Marvell, Mediatek, MStar, Realtek, Rockchip, Qualcomm, Samsung, SigmaDesigns, STMicroelectronics, Hisilicon, Sony, LG, Roku, HiSense, Philips, Westinghouse, Allwinner, Texas Instruments, and many more.
http://wiki.webmproject.org/ha...