Zirro

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by Zirro 15y ago
"Books don't turn off. Digital information should not turn on and off either for any reason." Would SOPA care for those arguments?
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by Zirro 15y ago
I think it's only meant to be wireless. Also, it requires both computers to have the "Airdrop"-section in Finder open at the same time. And finally, it only works with Macs manufactured from some point in 2009, due to the specific hardware
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by Zirro 15y ago
Could you describe where things went wrong with Airdrop? I haven't found much use of it either, but it did work between mine and two of my classmates computers without any issues.
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by Zirro 15y ago
Is Juvia compatible with Gray? (Judging by the comments so far, few people will get it, but with that logo, this comment is required)
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by Zirro 15y ago
I believe that record companies essentially scam their artists (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcwgdB0NltY for example). I wouldn't think the same way about your company, since you've made a larger part of the decision yourself. The
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by Zirro 15y ago
I used to have a Spotify Premium account and just like you, I never pirated a song. This lasted until I started listening exclusively to music which artists choose to distribute for free. Spotify is exactly what I mean by good legal alterna
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by Zirro 15y ago
Well, personally I choose not to consume such content at all in most cases, but I sympathize with those who do pirate. If the artist get 5% of what I paid, and the rest of the money goes to those who promote SOPA, I'd rather torrent it. Thi
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by Zirro 15y ago
As long as it is illegal, it is technically correct for them to be punished. Some laws, however, are too absurd to remain. Piracy, for me is certainly not about not wanting to pay. It's about the feeling that the money I pay mostly doesn't
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by Zirro 15y ago
They are not patent trolls. See: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Patent_troll
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by Zirro 15y ago
Be happy that not everyone thinks like you, because if that was the case, you wouldn't be living in a democracy. Well, what's left of the US democracy, anyway.
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by Zirro 15y ago
"Its tinting is very subtle and thus it blends into the site too well. Feels dishonest to me. Gonna CSS block it." The tinting looks pretty strong to me. I think you may want to check the settings of your display.
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by Zirro 15y ago
I see. I'm not sure if that edit was there when I first read the article. Thanks for the clarification, anyway.
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by Zirro 15y ago
Except for Kenya, I can only see India mentioned in the original article. Am I missing something, or is Boing Boing publishing incorrect information?
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by Zirro 15y ago
Sadly, that hasn't prevented censorship of "neutral" keywords before. See: https://torrentfreak.com/googles-anti-piracy-filter-110712
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by Zirro 15y ago
"I'm slightly concerned that DHTs might be easier to attack..." The key is in the D. Since it is distributed, there's not a single server that can be attacked.
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by Zirro 15y ago
"Only slightly as I understand it, since from a legal perspective the intent of someone providing providing links instead of files doesn't change, and that's what counts." Indeed, but a link can be posted anywhere a user can post text. Here
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by Zirro 15y ago
I've been using mostly magnet links for the past year and haven't experienced any issues. If people understand that they work just like a normal link/torrent file, this won't make the process any more complicated. Hopefully this is another
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by Zirro 15y ago
True, I see a lot of these as well, and I don't care much either. This time however, they do have a "call to action", which is to call your representative. Now, I'm not a US-citizen either but from my understanding that's the best you can d
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by Zirro 15y ago
I see what you're saying, but in this case slacktivism may be the best thing to do. The issue, from what I've understood, is that not enough people know about SOPA. And where do you best spread information? Yes, on the Internet. People have
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by Zirro 15y ago
"While we will not have access to this special feed from Twitter, information on Twitter that’s publicly available to our crawlers will still be searchable and discoverable on Google" "A special feed", that's the information I was looking f
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by Zirro 15y ago
"Sounds like the reporter expects Google to be able to scrape and index all tweets in real time." Do we know how this worked on the technical side "back in the days" when tweets appeared on Google? Did they share a database, or did Google a
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by Zirro 15y ago
I was replying to myself, hoping to get the attention of whoever did downvote me. I did not believe it was you, since you sound like a reasonable person. I apologize if I didn't make that clear. I also agree with this claim. I still underst
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by Zirro 15y ago
Write a post instead of downvoting me without explaining yourself. I went through my last 20 search queries and found that none of them were related to what I have in my inbox.
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by Zirro 15y ago
I still would want to see neutral search results though. If I just find articles where people agree with the opinion I have, I'd live in my bubble thinking that's the way "everyone" thinks.
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by Zirro 15y ago
Now, I don't use Gmail nor Google Search but even if I did use one of them, 90% of what I search for on the Internet does not have anything to do with what ends up in my e-mail.
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by Zirro 15y ago
"We now have stronger incentives to use Google+." Well, I sure don't. This just makes me happy I never started using it.
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by Zirro 15y ago
Presumably someone who doesn't like the HTML5-based-apps direction.
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by Zirro 15y ago
Is that a message from the browser, or the site?
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by Zirro 15y ago
Did you check that it actually looked as it's supposed to? I almost thought it was correct until I realized that NoScript was blocking the fonts for me. Looked even better when I changed that.
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by Zirro 15y ago
Piracy has never been about the money. At least not for me. It's about not being able to pay for what I want in easy way. Some things I would love to pay for, because they're good and I want to see more like them, are not even for sale.

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