If TPB was storing said 'infringing' files, then we could have a discussion about their legal status in the matter. But they were not, so we wont.
The torrents are essentially a means to "virtualize" the contained files, so in practice they do control access to the content. How could you download any of that material without the torrrents?
The site behaves the same way a "common carrier" does in tellecommunications, blaming TPB is like blaming ISP's for piracy.
Why are we even going through this discussion? Even the site's name and the legal threats page makes it very clear that they are full on about piracy and that they laugh on copyright holders.
No, no, no. Technically you are correct, but the.torrent file (or magnet link) is still the only way to tap to the data. Saying that it is ultimately hosted and transferred by the clients is just semantics. TPB provides here the whole infrastructure (search, torrent tracker) to make the pirating possible. Sure, you can wrap up TPB as a bag of magnet links and pass it to friends, but that would be ultimately very clunky, as no one couldn't administer the site. So the central site plays a big role here. TPB would lose a lot of its power if the main site didn't exist.
Personally I think he handled those tweets with grace and excellence, however - I do miss his "F*CK YOU NVIDIA" attitude sometimes, keeping it real, sticking it to the man and all that jazz.
Only if there's a reason for it. He will start to lose his reputation in the business world if he starts throwing around too much those "fuck you" things.
Here's also an unknown-to-many clip where he speaks Finnish. His Finnish has gotten a bit crusty, but still mostly fine. He speaks it in a Swedish accent. He says that talking about his job (involving various technical terms) in Finnish is a bit difficult.
No, the router does not need to pump 20mA through five blue ultrabrights. I do not need a blinking blue LED to tell me that the monitor is in standby mode. Dim those motherfuckers or, even better, give me an option to turn them off completely.
Many suffer of this issue. The home router manufacturers should include a simple front panel toggle switch to turn the LEDs on and off. It would certainly provide extra value for many people and increase their interest to buy the product.
Actually black electrical tape can be too transparent (of course YMMV as there are different kind of tapes around the world). Some tougher stuff like hockey stick tape or duct tape will do the trick, although they might look a bit ugly. I have my whole router enclosed in a cardboard box.
So is it a stable kernel or an RC kernel? There is a lot of ACPI stuff going on with the RC kernels right now.
I ran across the fan issue with the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS stock kernel (3.13). The bug itself seems to have happened somewhere between 3.11 and 3.12. Still working on it.
Also, you said you thought the media player was supposed to be displaying the mouse cursor (not the window manager?).
Yes, it could be a window manager bug too.
Why are you "personally bisecting a regression", when you don't have to? Someone else will fix it for you
Sure, the "open source community", the mythical creature which always does the work for me for free, so I can just drink beer. Look, if it's a clear regression, I can accelerate solving the bug greatly by doing the bisecting and testing on my personal machine, so I can pinpoint it into certain piece of code, instead of the ACPI developers scratching their heads and having to suggest random things to try.
The both bugs are regressions, which means that everything worked fine a couple of kernel versions ago.
ACPI fan control is quite generic stuff and does not require a manufacturer-specific driver. GM45 is a chipset used in business laptops 5 years ago, not a gaming chipset.
Yeah, whatever, man. I'm right now personally bisecting a regression where Linux kernel fails to enable render ring (3D acceleration) for GM45, and another regression where the ACPI fan control broke for a laptop. At the same time the default Ubuntu media player is unable to show the mouse cursor and control widgets in full screen when I move the mouse. These kind of things very rarely break under Windows and Mac. My point remains: no one will be able to use a full open source software stack in business world if there is this many unreliable components in the mix. We have real problems to solve, not random breakage like this.
My apologies if your post was sarcasm. Projects are at Launchpad for a reason, the packages are not ready to be included in the repositories.
My apologies if your post was sarcasm.
If not, you seem not to be aware that Launchpad is also the main bug tracker for Ubuntu.
I have converted many machines from Windows 8 to Mint over the last several months, leaving my contact information. Not only have I had zero calls for support, I am getting references to switch even more people over.
Well, good for you. What kind of tasks are your customers performing on those machines?
No, just no. The quality of OSS is too bad. Well, let's not say bad per se, but it varies a lot. What you win in software licensing costs, you lose in fighting all the bugs. Too many of your support calls will be wasting your time with silly glitches.
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If TPB was storing said 'infringing' files, then we could have a discussion about their legal status in the matter. But they were not, so we wont.
The torrents are essentially a means to "virtualize" the contained files, so in practice they do control access to the content. How could you download any of that material without the torrrents?
The site behaves the same way a "common carrier" does in tellecommunications, blaming TPB is like blaming ISP's for piracy.
Why are we even going through this discussion? Even the site's name and the legal threats page makes it very clear that they are full on about piracy and that they laugh on copyright holders.
No, no, no. Technically you are correct, but the .torrent file (or magnet link) is still the only way to tap to the data. Saying that it is ultimately hosted and transferred by the clients is just semantics. TPB provides here the whole infrastructure (search, torrent tracker) to make the pirating possible. Sure, you can wrap up TPB as a bag of magnet links and pass it to friends, but that would be ultimately very clunky, as no one couldn't administer the site. So the central site plays a big role here. TPB would lose a lot of its power if the main site didn't exist.
Most likely there's still enough room to play with modulation.
I thank goodness I downloaded what I did before it went down the first time. Curious to see how much of that stuff is reseeded.
Well, if you have some of the original content, hop in and help.
Personally I think he handled those tweets with grace and excellence, however - I do miss his "F*CK YOU NVIDIA" attitude sometimes, keeping it real, sticking it to the man and all that jazz.
Only if there's a reason for it. He will start to lose his reputation in the business world if he starts throwing around too much those "fuck you" things.
Here's also an unknown-to-many clip where he speaks Finnish. His Finnish has gotten a bit crusty, but still mostly fine. He speaks it in a Swedish accent. He says that talking about his job (involving various technical terms) in Finnish is a bit difficult.
That seems to be true. Thanks for the correction.
Why did you sleep with the lights on? Were you just like "aw shucks, can't bother to turn them off", or was it more comfortable that way?
No, the router does not need to pump 20mA through five blue ultrabrights. I do not need a blinking blue LED to tell me that the monitor is in standby mode. Dim those motherfuckers or, even better, give me an option to turn them off completely.
Many suffer of this issue. The home router manufacturers should include a simple front panel toggle switch to turn the LEDs on and off. It would certainly provide extra value for many people and increase their interest to buy the product.
Actually black electrical tape can be too transparent (of course YMMV as there are different kind of tapes around the world). Some tougher stuff like hockey stick tape or duct tape will do the trick, although they might look a bit ugly. I have my whole router enclosed in a cardboard box.
Change your curtains and venetian blinds to roller blinds.
What? Does the music play through your whole sleep?
Additional question: why am I seeing advertisements even though the "Ads Disabled" checkbox is ticked?
Probably just geolocates your IP, does a bandwidth test and, then shows how it compares to other users.
Oh, and VLC can also play YouTube URLs.
Then there is also MiniTube, a dedicated YouTube desktop app for Win/Mac/Lin.
The Internet Archive seems to have snapshots of the site dating back to January, so you most likely are right.
So is it a stable kernel or an RC kernel? There is a lot of ACPI stuff going on with the RC kernels right now.
I ran across the fan issue with the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS stock kernel (3.13). The bug itself seems to have happened somewhere between 3.11 and 3.12. Still working on it.
Also, you said you thought the media player was supposed to be displaying the mouse cursor (not the window manager?).
Yes, it could be a window manager bug too.
Why are you "personally bisecting a regression", when you don't have to? Someone else will fix it for you
Sure, the "open source community", the mythical creature which always does the work for me for free, so I can just drink beer. Look, if it's a clear regression, I can accelerate solving the bug greatly by doing the bisecting and testing on my personal machine, so I can pinpoint it into certain piece of code, instead of the ACPI developers scratching their heads and having to suggest random things to try.
The both bugs are regressions, which means that everything worked fine a couple of kernel versions ago.
ACPI fan control is quite generic stuff and does not require a manufacturer-specific driver. GM45 is a chipset used in business laptops 5 years ago, not a gaming chipset.
Yeah, whatever, man. I'm right now personally bisecting a regression where Linux kernel fails to enable render ring (3D acceleration) for GM45, and another regression where the ACPI fan control broke for a laptop. At the same time the default Ubuntu media player is unable to show the mouse cursor and control widgets in full screen when I move the mouse. These kind of things very rarely break under Windows and Mac. My point remains: no one will be able to use a full open source software stack in business world if there is this many unreliable components in the mix. We have real problems to solve, not random breakage like this.
Okay, this technology is described in depth in a 2013 paper called librando: Transparent Code Randomization for Just-in-Time Compilers. There might be even newer information available somewhere, if Mr. Franz or his colleagues have continued the research.
My apologies if your post was sarcasm. Projects are at Launchpad for a reason, the packages are not ready to be included in the repositories.
My apologies if your post was sarcasm.
If not, you seem not to be aware that Launchpad is also the main bug tracker for Ubuntu.
I have converted many machines from Windows 8 to Mint over the last several months, leaving my contact information. Not only have I had zero calls for support, I am getting references to switch even more people over.
Well, good for you. What kind of tasks are your customers performing on those machines?
But there are cases where it can make loads of sense -- server OS, desktop browsers, etc.
Yes, I agree. But my point was that the quality varies too much for open source to be the answer just because.
No, just no. The quality of OSS is too bad. Well, let's not say bad per se, but it varies a lot. What you win in software licensing costs, you lose in fighting all the bugs. Too many of your support calls will be wasting your time with silly glitches.