I just used a credit card as an example that the majority of Slashdot readers can understand.
Normally I would use this which charges no fees to either me or the merchant. I would use that to buy something for 25cents and the merchant would not complain at all.
A PC beats a Console in almost every way. It can play games just like a console, there are online stores like Steam, plus it has other features like word processing, etc.
But why do people buy Consoles?
Because they turn on fast and they work in your lounge easily! So someone needs to make a Desktop OS that also works well for lounge gaming and has instant on.
Huge opportunity right there.
It's all about how your present the product you are advertising or reviewing.
For example it is legal to sell smoking equipment in the US which is largely used to smoke illegal substances. However if a customer even hints that they are going to use it for an illegal purpose then it is illegal to sell the equipment to them.
Same goes here, this article did not list ways of distributing Linux distros. It listed alternatives to Limewire. And let's be honest, Limewire is obviously designed with Piracy in mind. Just look at the layout of how the searching and the integrated media player all works.
Do you seriously believe that people who would have been using Limewire for legal purposes (such as downloading Linux distros of Creative Commons music) don't have much better alternatives for their legal distributions that were not listed there?
The target audience of that post was obviously towards those wishing to commit copyright infringement.
Countersuit? With that? Really? I'd bet if someone actually did this it would be front page Slashdot material and people would be shouting 1984 everywhere.
They have every right to their freedom of speech. Copyright infringement and Freedom of Speech are two completely different things.
You know that LimeWire uses flooding to search, right? That is ridiculously inefficient and will often miss obscure files.
Anything that uses a Distributed Hash Table would be way better.
How is this modded Insightful???
Did you even read the article?
Diaspora, as terrible at security as it may be, does not store your data on all the various "nodes". It works like email. You get a provider and your data is stored on your provider. If you want to communicate with people on a different provider then the different providers communicate with each other.
What I would like to know is on what basis are they measuring the "size" of this leak.
Is it in bytes? I don't care if you leak 7 times as many bytes. These could be made up of useless formatting or some moron could have scanned in everything as TIFF files.
Now 7 times as much (useful) information would be interesting, but how are they going to measure that?
Learn it because having another view will give you interesting choices even when writing imperative languages.
Amen!
Especially if you are going to use parallelism libraries in imperative languages, the ability to think differently is crucial and gives a lot of insight.
This just goes to show that if you care about having a future career (or even just continuing with your existing one) in programming, Learn a functional language NOW!
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how is this any different from swiping an EFTPOS card?
PayPal gets it's 1% or whatever the current rate is.
I just used a credit card as an example that the majority of Slashdot readers can understand. Normally I would use this which charges no fees to either me or the merchant. I would use that to buy something for 25cents and the merchant would not complain at all.
PayPal is a registered bank.
My smart phone does. This will never be able to replace other forms of money until they get that one sorted.
A PC beats a Console in almost every way. It can play games just like a console, there are online stores like Steam, plus it has other features like word processing, etc. But why do people buy Consoles? Because they turn on fast and they work in your lounge easily! So someone needs to make a Desktop OS that also works well for lounge gaming and has instant on. Huge opportunity right there.
The "Yes I am over 18" button. What's this? Children can lie? Children can also get fake IDs.
It's all about how your present the product you are advertising or reviewing. For example it is legal to sell smoking equipment in the US which is largely used to smoke illegal substances. However if a customer even hints that they are going to use it for an illegal purpose then it is illegal to sell the equipment to them. Same goes here, this article did not list ways of distributing Linux distros. It listed alternatives to Limewire. And let's be honest, Limewire is obviously designed with Piracy in mind. Just look at the layout of how the searching and the integrated media player all works. Do you seriously believe that people who would have been using Limewire for legal purposes (such as downloading Linux distros of Creative Commons music) don't have much better alternatives for their legal distributions that were not listed there? The target audience of that post was obviously towards those wishing to commit copyright infringement.
Countersuit? With that? Really? I'd bet if someone actually did this it would be front page Slashdot material and people would be shouting 1984 everywhere. They have every right to their freedom of speech. Copyright infringement and Freedom of Speech are two completely different things.
You know that LimeWire uses flooding to search, right? That is ridiculously inefficient and will often miss obscure files. Anything that uses a Distributed Hash Table would be way better.
How is this modded Insightful??? Did you even read the article? Diaspora, as terrible at security as it may be, does not store your data on all the various "nodes". It works like email. You get a provider and your data is stored on your provider. If you want to communicate with people on a different provider then the different providers communicate with each other.
Browse the internet in a virtual machine and reset the changes to the virtual hard disk afterwards. I'd like to see them get around that!
What I would like to know is on what basis are they measuring the "size" of this leak. Is it in bytes? I don't care if you leak 7 times as many bytes. These could be made up of useless formatting or some moron could have scanned in everything as TIFF files. Now 7 times as much (useful) information would be interesting, but how are they going to measure that?
More expensive things are always better
Learn it because having another view will give you interesting choices even when writing imperative languages.
Amen! Especially if you are going to use parallelism libraries in imperative languages, the ability to think differently is crucial and gives a lot of insight.
This just goes to show that if you care about having a future career (or even just continuing with your existing one) in programming, Learn a functional language NOW!
the host has a finite set of images stored on the server.
Captcha is big business. Why not have a few live cats and web cams?