TPB magnet links often include other tracker references. It is also possible to include an IP address of a peer in the magnet link.
DHT as the other replying AC said.
Peer exchange is where most of the peers are found. Your client only needs to find one peer in the swarm.
I still use uTorrent. It's mature. It's not fashionable though and I understand the reasons people are dropping it. I'd assume all other clients, and the libraries they all seem to all share, offer the same functionality.
You're American, so you've already gained the loudness communication skill and, for that reason alone, you should learn German.
German is the alarm clock of all languages.
I jest. I've spent pretty much all my working life working for ze Germans and I've picked up a little bit of their language. I can name all car parts in German for one. This can also be a hindrance, as they've assimilated a fair few English words over the years; is it now impossible to blank out their conversations in the office.
In all truth, don't learn German. All ze Germans I know does speak the good English and they do better than me a writing the words of the text most properly.;p
There are add-ons, option changes, defaults, search toolbars, customer searches, plug-ins and my aunty Fanny available for all the browsers if you want vanilla search results.
"&tbs=li:1" in the query string does it (I think).
There must be a custom search for Firefox's search bar - if there isn't, it's a 5 minute job creaing one.
I don't understand all this Google hate. They gave us so much in the search arena. They still cater for the nerds. They continue to offer me more than I offer them. Why all the hate?
And this is the reason why we shouldn't be ticking the box that says "Jedi" or "Church of the FSM", as would have been my choice. I know it's fun, and some people may truely feel it is their faith, but "No religion" should have been ticked. And we were actively told not to write Pastafarian in the box by the FSM himself (honest!).
The Christian church in England gets tax breaks, six unelected members in the House of Lords, and all manner of other allowances. It's about time these allowances were reduced in line with population percentages, with a goal of reducing them to zero as the decline of Christianity increases.
If we're on Android, and the Google tin foil hat is a nice fit, Google Googles does a good job at reading QR Codes. It too displays all the information before you get a chance to click. It's even picked out QR Codes from teh background of portrait photos, and when I first saw that, it was one of those 'neat' moments.
People are talking about encoded URLs on this thread, but I've had a bit of fun encoding large amounts of text in a QR Code, which was then printed inside a birthday card. If the readers were more widely used, I'd have a QR code on one of my seven screens, and it would hold vCard data.
We should'll use words like, you know, axed, irregardless, regift, and toileting.
Those limies and convicts should speak like they know the good words like, you know, compartmentalize, operationalize, overexaggerate, professionalization, rationalize, utilize
"You'll have to view that with Safari" I said to my iPhone owning friend.
"I don't use it. It sucks" came his reply.
He had no idea it was the browser. He had no idea he'd been using it daily. He is the typical iPhone user and they do not care.
I could tell him that Firefox 2012 was the best browser for his phone and it would be meaningless to him. He doesn't use a browser on his iPhone, you see?
I thought the same until a week ago. I have huge passwords for my email and bank. Medium length for important accounts. Short and crappy for throw away accounts. I even mix up my username.
A week ago Ladbrokes gave my username and password away to Google and some other international analytics company. They gave it away by a URL, e.g. http://www.example.com/stats.htm?username=Inda's_username&password=Inda's_password.
Unbelievable in this day and age.
Throw away account. I haven't used Ladbrokes in the past six month. The CC details they have are from an expired card. No problem, ay?
But my Twitter account is also throw away. And it shared my mixed-up username and my short password. Hacked by spammers. Who cares? I didn't post there anyway.
How many more accounts have I signed up for with my throw away details? Who knows? How many years down the line will I have to wait to find out?
I'm not so sure about the long, medium and short password methods any longer. This whole password business is fucked.
I started using Keypass earlier this year, saved on the cloud(!), with a required password and secret file to open it, but that's a pain in the arse for every day use.
Forget cracked and hashing and salting when companies do shit like this.
There are too many alternative sports to play. I'm not sure you're asking the right question. Picturing meme of Fry...
I've read recently that football (soccorrrrr for the Americans out there) is gaining a lot of interest in the USA because serious injuries are few and far between. The older stars from the English league, who go there to retire, are doing a fine job promoting the sport. The understanding of the game is increasing. The USA national team is no longer looked at as a joke - two USA international stars play in my own English team and they are seen as huge winners.
What are the chances of the USA swapping football for, um, football (soccorrrrr)?
1. read the website, find it interesting 2. Search Google Play for app, couldn't find it 3. Read website again, found link to G-docs, which wont work with IE6/corporate nanny software 4. Email link to myself 5. Click link on phone, click link on webpage. 6. Read page 1 of 17 on G-Doc, it has QR code, wonderful, how to fucking scan that from my phone when reading it on my phone??? Hyperlinks are so last century. 7. Come back to Slashdot hoping to find download link.
8. Give up. Ain't nobody got time for this shit.
I notice there is an app for Irish Roadkill. It might be quicker and easy to move to Ireland.
Smartphones are cool. Every nerd should own one or three.
In the UK, if you've done nothing wrong, roll the window down 20mm, turn up your radio, smile with the biggest show of teeth possible. The copper will ask you to get out your car if it's raining, snowing, or the wind chill feels under -20c. Procede to walk around the copper's car kicking the tyres like an expert mechanic.
Always ask why you've been pulled over. Expect the answer to be "Just a routine check, sir". Follow that up with "Why can't you find a proper job?", "Haven't you got any real criminals to find?", or "Were you bullied as a child?". Expect 20 questions about coins in your wallet, silver foil in the footwell, and the reason you're talking so much. Spell your name when asked, even if it's a common name such as "Smith". Smoke'em if you've got 'em - Coppers love the smell. If the copper asks if it's OK for them to smoke, tell them no, as you've just given up, and you hate the smell. If they fake recognition by means of the question "Don't I know you?", reply with "I think I know your sister".
If you've done something wrong, get out the car. Keep the copper talking for as long a possible but don't talk about your crime. Try and confuse him (or her) by using long words such as "elaborate" and "concoction". "I don't know" is a perfectly valid answer.
It's been 13 years since I ripped an audio CD, but my knowledge is still valid.
HP x2 CDR, P3 450, 384mb RAM. That HP x2 cost me a week's wages. The PC still runs today.
35 minutes to rip the CD to disk. No need for error correction, jitter correction, hash checks or database lookups - they don't exist.
80 minutes to convert to MP3. If I stop using the internet or anything else, maybe 75 minutes. If the GUI says "Encoding at 1.0x", it's like finding a penny on the floor, meaning good luck for the rest for the day.
When burning the MP3s back to disk, because that 10gb HDD will never be enough storage, disable the screen saver. If the screen saver runs, the disk burning will fail, because buffer underrun doesn't exist yet.
I never really used.nzb files unless they were posted to the group.
I never found it a hassle to subscribe to a dozen groups, set the client to update once an hour, and leave it at that.
Pick a site like, I dunno, VCDQ to find folder names and search in my client..nzb files were always for the lazy and against the spirit of things.
It used to take me longer to unpack the RARs and that was always a favourite boast of mine.
So many good groups died over the years, and that was sad. No one gave props for floods, only flames about NOT ENOUGH PARS!!!111, which I always filled. a.b.m.jungle ftw
Only they've deliberately thrown the phone on the floor in order to claim off the insurance and purchase a brand new higher-spec phone.
These people are dumb and only end up doing it once.
Dumb because they didn't read the small print about the £100 excess and the fact about "a phone of equivalent value", and the value has dropped below £100 since they bought it.
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TPB magnet links often include other tracker references. It is also possible to include an IP address of a peer in the magnet link.
DHT as the other replying AC said.
Peer exchange is where most of the peers are found. Your client only needs to find one peer in the swarm.
I still use uTorrent. It's mature. It's not fashionable though and I understand the reasons people are dropping it. I'd assume all other clients, and the libraries they all seem to all share, offer the same functionality.
You're American, so you've already gained the loudness communication skill and, for that reason alone, you should learn German.
;p
German is the alarm clock of all languages.
I jest. I've spent pretty much all my working life working for ze Germans and I've picked up a little bit of their language. I can name all car parts in German for one. This can also be a hindrance, as they've assimilated a fair few English words over the years; is it now impossible to blank out their conversations in the office.
In all truth, don't learn German. All ze Germans I know does speak the good English and they do better than me a writing the words of the text most properly.
Shock and alarm needed.
<p>If it was said "Over a hundred people die from firearms <b>a year</b> in the UK" I would be truely shocked.
The USA might have five times the amount of people, but the blasé statement of "only 100" angers me to the core.
Just an coinsidental Joe Job?
Make a list of all the things that could have been done. Sort them in order of preference, taking into account ease, compassion, effectiveness
e.g.
Handcuff her
Sit on her
Lock her up in a tiny room
Taser her
Shoot her in the face
On my overly short list of methods, tasering is listed near the bottom. I consider my list, while incomplete, to be a better list than the cops made.
Tasering is excessive.
Then again, I'm not from the good old USA.
I feel the same about shoplifting.
You shouldn't blame the thief, you should blame the shop for having gapping holes in its security.
The shoplifter is merely avoiding paying. It is pure capitalism.
No, I'm not sorry for replying to my own post.
There are add-ons, option changes, defaults, search toolbars, customer searches, plug-ins and my aunty Fanny available for all the browsers if you want vanilla search results.
Google just told me so.
I'm done with the internet for today.
You know there's a "verbatim" option?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=verbatim&tbs=li:1
"&tbs=li:1" in the query string does it (I think).
There must be a custom search for Firefox's search bar - if there isn't, it's a 5 minute job creaing one.
I don't understand all this Google hate. They gave us so much in the search arena. They still cater for the nerds. They continue to offer me more than I offer them. Why all the hate?
The coast guard.
Um, you use other people's images. Mainly their profile picture to help with, um, research.
And this is the reason why we shouldn't be ticking the box that says "Jedi" or "Church of the FSM", as would have been my choice. I know it's fun, and some people may truely feel it is their faith, but "No religion" should have been ticked. And we were actively told not to write Pastafarian in the box by the FSM himself (honest!).
The Christian church in England gets tax breaks, six unelected members in the House of Lords, and all manner of other allowances. It's about time these allowances were reduced in line with population percentages, with a goal of reducing them to zero as the decline of Christianity increases.
R'amen.
Which phone app man?!?! We need to know! :)
If we're on Android, and the Google tin foil hat is a nice fit, Google Googles does a good job at reading QR Codes. It too displays all the information before you get a chance to click. It's even picked out QR Codes from teh background of portrait photos, and when I first saw that, it was one of those 'neat' moments.
People are talking about encoded URLs on this thread, but I've had a bit of fun encoding large amounts of text in a QR Code, which was then printed inside a birthday card. If the readers were more widely used, I'd have a QR code on one of my seven screens, and it would hold vCard data.
>>Do you deliberately pay more for milk than you need to?
Do you pay more than the menu price for your cup of tea?
Do you give the taxi driver more money than is displayed on the metre?
Do you pay the neighbours' child an extra few quid for washing your car?
No so black and white anymore, is it?
Fuck yeah bro!
We should'll use words like, you know, axed, irregardless, regift, and toileting.
Those limies and convicts should speak like they know the good words like, you know, compartmentalize, operationalize, overexaggerate, professionalization, rationalize, utilize
Make them special people talk good, ya'll.
A man of 90 years having old-fashioned views.
Well I never.
iOS has a browser? Honestly? :)
"You'll have to view that with Safari" I said to my iPhone owning friend.
"I don't use it. It sucks" came his reply.
He had no idea it was the browser. He had no idea he'd been using it daily. He is the typical iPhone user and they do not care.
I could tell him that Firefox 2012 was the best browser for his phone and it would be meaningless to him. He doesn't use a browser on his iPhone, you see?
I thought the same until a week ago. I have huge passwords for my email and bank. Medium length for important accounts. Short and crappy for throw away accounts. I even mix up my username.
A week ago Ladbrokes gave my username and password away to Google and some other international analytics company. They gave it away by a URL, e.g. http://www.example.com/stats.htm?username=Inda's_username&password=Inda's_password.
Unbelievable in this day and age.
Throw away account. I haven't used Ladbrokes in the past six month. The CC details they have are from an expired card. No problem, ay?
But my Twitter account is also throw away. And it shared my mixed-up username and my short password. Hacked by spammers. Who cares? I didn't post there anyway.
How many more accounts have I signed up for with my throw away details? Who knows? How many years down the line will I have to wait to find out?
I'm not so sure about the long, medium and short password methods any longer. This whole password business is fucked.
I started using Keypass earlier this year, saved on the cloud(!), with a required password and secret file to open it, but that's a pain in the arse for every day use.
Forget cracked and hashing and salting when companies do shit like this.
There are too many alternative sports to play. I'm not sure you're asking the right question. Picturing meme of Fry...
I've read recently that football (soccorrrrr for the Americans out there) is gaining a lot of interest in the USA because serious injuries are few and far between. The older stars from the English league, who go there to retire, are doing a fine job promoting the sport. The understanding of the game is increasing. The USA national team is no longer looked at as a joke - two USA international stars play in my own English team and they are seen as huge winners.
What are the chances of the USA swapping football for, um, football (soccorrrrr)?
Have you guys never had a Madras, on a Friday night, just before midnight?
Your method wont work. The ones on the drive weigh more than the zeros.
And for that reason alone, I'm out.
Or do what I did:
1. read the website, find it interesting
2. Search Google Play for app, couldn't find it
3. Read website again, found link to G-docs, which wont work with IE6/corporate nanny software
4. Email link to myself
5. Click link on phone, click link on webpage.
6. Read page 1 of 17 on G-Doc, it has QR code, wonderful, how to fucking scan that from my phone when reading it on my phone??? Hyperlinks are so last century.
7. Come back to Slashdot hoping to find download link.
8. Give up. Ain't nobody got time for this shit.
I notice there is an app for Irish Roadkill. It might be quicker and easy to move to Ireland.
Smartphones are cool. Every nerd should own one or three.
In the UK, if you've done nothing wrong, roll the window down 20mm, turn up your radio, smile with the biggest show of teeth possible. The copper will ask you to get out your car if it's raining, snowing, or the wind chill feels under -20c. Procede to walk around the copper's car kicking the tyres like an expert mechanic.
Always ask why you've been pulled over. Expect the answer to be "Just a routine check, sir". Follow that up with "Why can't you find a proper job?", "Haven't you got any real criminals to find?", or "Were you bullied as a child?". Expect 20 questions about coins in your wallet, silver foil in the footwell, and the reason you're talking so much. Spell your name when asked, even if it's a common name such as "Smith". Smoke'em if you've got 'em - Coppers love the smell. If the copper asks if it's OK for them to smoke, tell them no, as you've just given up, and you hate the smell. If they fake recognition by means of the question "Don't I know you?", reply with "I think I know your sister".
If you've done something wrong, get out the car. Keep the copper talking for as long a possible but don't talk about your crime. Try and confuse him (or her) by using long words such as "elaborate" and "concoction". "I don't know" is a perfectly valid answer.
It's been 13 years since I ripped an audio CD, but my knowledge is still valid.
HP x2 CDR, P3 450, 384mb RAM. That HP x2 cost me a week's wages. The PC still runs today.
35 minutes to rip the CD to disk. No need for error correction, jitter correction, hash checks or database lookups - they don't exist.
80 minutes to convert to MP3. If I stop using the internet or anything else, maybe 75 minutes. If the GUI says "Encoding at 1.0x", it's like finding a penny on the floor, meaning good luck for the rest for the day.
When burning the MP3s back to disk, because that 10gb HDD will never be enough storage, disable the screen saver. If the screen saver runs, the disk burning will fail, because buffer underrun doesn't exist yet.
Take a week or five off work.
What's a SATA btw?
I never really used .nzb files unless they were posted to the group.
.nzb files were always for the lazy and against the spirit of things.
I never found it a hassle to subscribe to a dozen groups, set the client to update once an hour, and leave it at that.
Pick a site like, I dunno, VCDQ to find folder names and search in my client.
It used to take me longer to unpack the RARs and that was always a favourite boast of mine.
So many good groups died over the years, and that was sad. No one gave props for floods, only flames about NOT ENOUGH PARS!!!111, which I always filled. a.b.m.jungle ftw
I know people like this too.
Only they've deliberately thrown the phone on the floor in order to claim off the insurance and purchase a brand new higher-spec phone.
These people are dumb and only end up doing it once.
Dumb because they didn't read the small print about the £100 excess and the fact about "a phone of equivalent value", and the value has dropped below £100 since they bought it.
They now have no phone and it makes me smile.