Well, asuming said Android box is rootable, one could presumably go with something like LineageOS without Google Apps and keep Google out of the picture.
But straight out of the box, sure, it's doing a bit of snooping.
That's exactly why I ignore all of his bullshit altogether./. should let us have mailbox-esque filters where any new stories containing certain words (i.e. Dvorak) get blacklisted.
Uhh, cuz Trillian is hideous. Personally I use gaim ported for WinXP, but GTK+ is pretty buggy with a lot of XP stuff (transparency, et al). I'm more than open to any new multi-network IM clients.
yeah seriously, maybe i'm like obsessive compulsive but that shit makes me want to throw someone out a window. ruins the editors' credibility for me (like they hadn't already lost it, ha). in fact my sig used to be "mods should get a '-1 incorrect use of apostrophe' option. theres not much else that irks me like that does.
With i2hub going down, college kids don't have a lot of options left for file-sharing. BitTorrent is great, but a lot of college campuses block it (or at least put a cap on your open connections, effectively stifling the efficient nature of the protocol).
Well, i2hub was technically just a hub based on the Direct Connect protocol, that by only allowing IPs on college networks, ensured that any connection utilized internet2 pipes. You could access it with their (shitty) frontend available on their website, but you could also get to it with any Direct Connect client such as DC++.
So to answer your question -- the Direct Connect protocol still exists, and despite its inherent reliance on hubs as traffic directors, it's still very decentralized. i2hub was just the best hub out there for college kids.
"[I]f you're someone who actually wants to infringe copyright by downloading video from the Internet, this will have zero effect on you," said Cory Doctorow, EFF's European representative, writing in his blog, BoingBoing.net, on the subject.
So, of course, most/.ers have nothing to worry about.:-)
Well, the UK government has some big stock in the BBC; all that "public interest" gardening-show crap is why it used to suck so bad. I'd like to see them break up their own monopoly...
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Uhh, not so much. It'll be opened by your media player, not cmd, and the media player will just scratch its head.
This seems odd to me. After receiving an Honorable Mention from Playboy in their "America's Best Party Schools" list in 2002, one would think they'd try to turn that reputation around. I mean sure, Internet research is all well and good, but nothing will ever replace a long boring Saturday holed up in the library with a stack of books.
Actually, I ran win 95 on a 386 with 4 MB ram... without all the bells and whistles of course. It wasn't what you would call pretty, but it was still more stable than 3.1.
Not that the PDF complaints are unfounded, but I can only imagine how much worse it would be if the guy left it in the original.ppt slide show...?
(yes i know it could have been something else but it most likely was an "export to pdf" from powerpoint)
First, they took an individualistic form of expression and commercialized it (all the cool kids these days have Xangas... and have the nerve to call them blogs!). Now they turn it around and corporatize it. It's interesting to see how new forms of media evolve in positive ways, as well as get exploited.
I somewhat resent that analogy... Of course, that's the common stereotype, but I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, and it's not like I never socialized with girls outside of the school setting. Having classes with girls in college isn't different at all. In fact, most of my buddies from high school are better around girls than guys from public schools; they surely treat them with more respect.
Maybe Firefox is a more stable, more secure browser than IE, but everything is gonna have its flaws. And the more people use it, the more it's gonna get targeted. This sounds kinda selfish, but I almost wish the geek crowd would have "hoarded" Firefox and kept it as their own. It's nice to give Microsoft the shaft, sure, but the more Firefox creeps into the mainstream, the more it's gonna inherently open itself up to exploits.
Seems like the Unix base for OS X worked out pretty damn well for them... I don't think the boom Apple is going through right now could have been any more significant with a BeOS-based OS.
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Well, asuming said Android box is rootable, one could presumably go with something like LineageOS without Google Apps and keep Google out of the picture. But straight out of the box, sure, it's doing a bit of snooping.
Don't worry. Dick Cheney's not competing in biathalon, so things should be fine.
That's exactly why I ignore all of his bullshit altogether. /. should let us have mailbox-esque filters where any new stories containing certain words (i.e. Dvorak) get blacklisted.
I'm in college, and I'm so sick of my retarded frat boy friends talking about how Halo is the greatest game ever.
Uhh, cuz Trillian is hideous. Personally I use gaim ported for WinXP, but GTK+ is pretty buggy with a lot of XP stuff (transparency, et al). I'm more than open to any new multi-network IM clients.
*Einstein voice* Coold foozhin izh a hoakzsh!
oh i don't give a shit about anything else - it's just the its and it's thing, strangely enough, that i care about
yeah seriously, maybe i'm like obsessive compulsive but that shit makes me want to throw someone out a window. ruins the editors' credibility for me (like they hadn't already lost it, ha). in fact my sig used to be "mods should get a '-1 incorrect use of apostrophe' option. theres not much else that irks me like that does.
With i2hub going down, college kids don't have a lot of options left for file-sharing. BitTorrent is great, but a lot of college campuses block it (or at least put a cap on your open connections, effectively stifling the efficient nature of the protocol).
Well, i2hub was technically just a hub based on the Direct Connect protocol, that by only allowing IPs on college networks, ensured that any connection utilized internet2 pipes. You could access it with their (shitty) frontend available on their website, but you could also get to it with any Direct Connect client such as DC++. So to answer your question -- the Direct Connect protocol still exists, and despite its inherent reliance on hubs as traffic directors, it's still very decentralized. i2hub was just the best hub out there for college kids.
You must be new here.
"[I]f you're someone who actually wants to infringe copyright by downloading video from the Internet, this will have zero effect on you," said Cory Doctorow, EFF's European representative, writing in his blog, BoingBoing.net, on the subject.
/.ers have nothing to worry about. :-)
So, of course, most
Well, the UK government has some big stock in the BBC; all that "public interest" gardening-show crap is why it used to suck so bad. I'd like to see them break up their own monopoly...
Uhh, not so much. It'll be opened by your media player, not cmd, and the media player will just scratch its head.
This seems odd to me. After receiving an Honorable Mention from Playboy in their "America's Best Party Schools" list in 2002, one would think they'd try to turn that reputation around. I mean sure, Internet research is all well and good, but nothing will ever replace a long boring Saturday holed up in the library with a stack of books.
Actually, I ran win 95 on a 386 with 4 MB ram... without all the bells and whistles of course. It wasn't what you would call pretty, but it was still more stable than 3.1.
Not that the PDF complaints are unfounded, but I can only imagine how much worse it would be if the guy left it in the original .ppt slide show...?
(yes i know it could have been something else but it most likely was an "export to pdf" from powerpoint)
First, they took an individualistic form of expression and commercialized it (all the cool kids these days have Xangas... and have the nerve to call them blogs!). Now they turn it around and corporatize it. It's interesting to see how new forms of media evolve in positive ways, as well as get exploited.
They've already got a cross-platform closed-source browser - IE for the Mac.
I somewhat resent that analogy... Of course, that's the common stereotype, but I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, and it's not like I never socialized with girls outside of the school setting. Having classes with girls in college isn't different at all. In fact, most of my buddies from high school are better around girls than guys from public schools; they surely treat them with more respect.
Maybe Firefox is a more stable, more secure browser than IE, but everything is gonna have its flaws. And the more people use it, the more it's gonna get targeted. This sounds kinda selfish, but I almost wish the geek crowd would have "hoarded" Firefox and kept it as their own. It's nice to give Microsoft the shaft, sure, but the more Firefox creeps into the mainstream, the more it's gonna inherently open itself up to exploits.
Hopefully never. I hate dealing with 18-wheelers on the interstate as it is... The last thing we need is for them to be distracted by porn.
Seems like the Unix base for OS X worked out pretty damn well for them... I don't think the boom Apple is going through right now could have been any more significant with a BeOS-based OS.
Big Brother is here.
Hmm. Seems like first posts actually are more informative, on a regular basis...