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by caractacus 12y ago
A main question for me is how dotcom got hold of his email. There is no mention that it came from Snowden's leaks or similar, though it appears that this is what Dotcom is wanted everyone to believe: host an event highlighting mass sur
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by caractacus 12y ago
I am surprised that Greenwald and Snowden are choosing to reveal all this at an event that seems to have been orchestrated by Dotcom and prefaced by his typical self-publicising exaggerated rhetoric.
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by caractacus 12y ago
Me too. It gives the first two letters of a pw that I have used in the past but as far as I'm aware, not on that account. This raises all kinds of questions... Edit: it does the same on a much older account that I rarely use, too. Not
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by caractacus 12y ago
The benefits of a registered taxi in London are obviously a lot more significant than getting to Parliament from the station four minutes quicker than Uber. I'm sure you understand this and you're just commenting on the speed of p
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by caractacus 12y ago
Safe is the word but BitTorrent Inc have a habit of throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. They've released so many little products over the years. Sync is one of the few examples that has gained some traction. I'd have e
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by caractacus 12y ago
China is so far ahead of the west in real-time (and live) peer to peer streaming. Look at video systems like QVOD (now dying after state intervention), Xigua, JJVod: they all have a central tracker and use swarms of users to supply realtime
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by caractacus 12y ago
The first thing I looked for was the shoulder strap and it's a relatively thin piece of leather with a slightly wider piece of leather that adjusts. No padding, so far as I could see. Much of the weight of the bag will be placed where
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by caractacus 12y ago
I think the point is 'works like clockwork'. And as the other user said, I'm not prepared to test out your service if you require a registration and sign in before I can see anything about it.
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by caractacus 12y ago
One of the great things about the Kindle is that I can sample a chapter or two of any book in the catalogue. This is a massive benefit to me and I'm quite happy to shell out five bucks to buy something if the first couple of chapters
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by caractacus 12y ago
.... until South Park completes its switch to Hulu in a couple of months.
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The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything(wired.com)
18 points by caractacus 12y ago|4 comments
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by caractacus 12y ago
Same as with the NSA revelations: the NSA is spying on Americans? Horrifying! Now obviously we have to be able to spy on Johnny Foreigner, who knows what he will be up to, but our citizens?
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by caractacus 12y ago
But only in the US, it seems. So far, while the UK might have (a poorer selection of) Prime Instant Video, it doesn't have the FireTV and won't be getting the HBO shows. Maybe they'll launch at the same time?
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by caractacus 13y ago
And it has an immense selection of music and video. I mean, positively incredible. Before Spotify swept up just about every single artist ever known to man, VK was the place to find recordings of even that obscure 80s band you saw down th
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by caractacus 13y ago
Why would anyone invest in a web site launched by a man currently fighting extradition which operates in much the similar fashion to his previous web site that was seized by a massive international law enforcement operation? Granted, the FB
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by caractacus 13y ago
How will this finesse the (hardware-based) DRM on PS3 games?
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by caractacus 13y ago
5. Saying "Done" in the title instead of "Made".
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by caractacus 13y ago
A few years ago, the piracy user experience was far and away better than the legitimate user experience. Things then started to change: Netflix, Spotify, BBC iPlayer, etc etc. The legit services are - with three exceptions - now in most cas
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by caractacus 13y ago
Soulseek is characterised by having a lot of music devotees. These are people sharing because they love music, not just because they happen to be downloading whatever the hell it is that's television series of the month. So you've
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by caractacus 13y ago
A lot of people prefer dubs. I can't deal with them at all but you go with what people want...
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by caractacus 13y ago
They're getting there in some places. Netflix is a tad popular in the US, here and there. Hollywood has two major issues that's aren't faced by the music industry. The first is the theatrical release window: they're tied
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by caractacus 13y ago
eMule is suffering greatly and has been for the last few years from the lack of decent central servers. Kad keeps ticking along but this is a network in significant decline. Kazaa? Not been around for years. Visit their homepage: "We t