Well when firefox's bloated memory consumption is taking 75% of your RAM, taking half is nearly impossible;)
Touche!
I guess I should've mentioned that it depends on how much RAM you have to begin with and how many plugins your FF has.
But come on, strong principled opinions should never stumble with these little pesky details:)
TOR doesn't ensure true anonymity.
The only thing the Iran regime would need to do in order to sabotage it, would be to setup a lot of TOR nodes and analyze the traffic going through them as there is no encryption for the data.
Right now this technology benefits from privacy due to obscurity. If the service becomes popular enough, they'll probably resort to the tactics detailed above.
Urgh...
Why do people insist on using some overhyped, bloated services that only work in US?
My favorite applications of this type are those that can be open neatly in an FF tab, without taking up half of my RAM and which reside in countries where **AA is just a funky notion those crazy Americans keep babbling about.
On second thought, I just realized that an increase in an already high piracy rate is much more harmful than an increase in a lower one.
Let me give you an example. Product A has a piracy rate of 50% which goes up to 55%. From the developer's perspective he just lost 10% of his customer base. Now let's take product B which has a piracy rate of 90% but which goes up to let's say 92%. The loss related to the customer base is double now (20%).
Everybody has the right to shoot himself in the leg, just don't moan when it hurts like a bitch.
I wouldn't be surprised if I'll see a sudden rise in Windows' piracy rate or, even better, see more people switch to Ubuntu.
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Well when firefox's bloated memory consumption is taking 75% of your RAM, taking half is nearly impossible ;)
Touche! I guess I should've mentioned that it depends on how much RAM you have to begin with and how many plugins your FF has. But come on, strong principled opinions should never stumble with these little pesky details :)
TOR doesn't ensure true anonymity. The only thing the Iran regime would need to do in order to sabotage it, would be to setup a lot of TOR nodes and analyze the traffic going through them as there is no encryption for the data. Right now this technology benefits from privacy due to obscurity. If the service becomes popular enough, they'll probably resort to the tactics detailed above.
Urgh... Why do people insist on using some overhyped, bloated services that only work in US? My favorite applications of this type are those that can be open neatly in an FF tab, without taking up half of my RAM and which reside in countries where **AA is just a funky notion those crazy Americans keep babbling about.
On second thought, I just realized that an increase in an already high piracy rate is much more harmful than an increase in a lower one. Let me give you an example. Product A has a piracy rate of 50% which goes up to 55%. From the developer's perspective he just lost 10% of his customer base. Now let's take product B which has a piracy rate of 90% but which goes up to let's say 92%. The loss related to the customer base is double now (20%).
Consistent yes. There's always room for more though
Everybody has the right to shoot himself in the leg, just don't moan when it hurts like a bitch. I wouldn't be surprised if I'll see a sudden rise in Windows' piracy rate or, even better, see more people switch to Ubuntu.