NewTeeVee alumn Jackson West pointed out back in March that long-planned projects like The Video Bay, the music site PlayBle and a new and secure P2P protocol have yet to be launched
Admittedly "secure internet" would be more useful to file sharers than "secure P2P" (better plausible deniability); but if they've failed to even do the latter so far, I wouldn't hold out too much hope...
(I don't think anybody has pointed this out yet...)
Never fear, Google-lovers! This might help you survive the terrible crisis;-)
Google's already introduced a 'quick fix' patch -- the proof of concept doesn't work, and there's a bit of HTML* in the Google News page http://news.google.co.uk/ that seems to be aimed at stopping this hack.
I'd say that's pdq in the business for fixing a problem that's not even your fault.
* For those of you who can't be bothered to find it: '<!--"/*"/*-->' before the desktop link, causing it to be read as a CSS comment and preventing it being picked up in the 'css-text' property.
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NewTeeVee alumn Jackson West pointed out back in March that long-planned projects like The Video Bay, the music site PlayBle and a new and secure P2P protocol have yet to be launched
Admittedly "secure internet" would be more useful to file sharers than "secure P2P" (better plausible deniability); but if they've failed to even do the latter so far, I wouldn't hold out too much hope...
... a fire/water hose.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
... hardware support is a thing of the past.
Yup, that would be the biggest headache for the support model ;-)
Tomorrow's News: "Amazon sues Google for breaching their patent on 'buying things quickly on the web'."
In what way is this new? There's the ACM ICPC for students, TopCoder, and the Google Code Jam, which have been around for years!
Am I missing something about this competition?
Why do people keep dismissing C++? http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/Invention_of_Cplusp lus.shtml
Never fear, Google-lovers! This might help you survive the terrible crisis ;-)
Google's already introduced a 'quick fix' patch -- the proof of concept doesn't work, and there's a bit of HTML* in the Google News page http://news.google.co.uk/ that seems to be aimed at stopping this hack.
I'd say that's pdq in the business for fixing a problem that's not even your fault.
* For those of you who can't be bothered to find it: '<!--"/*"/*-->' before the desktop link, causing it to be read as a CSS comment and preventing it being picked up in the 'css-text' property.