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What are you referring to? Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
- free
- watch on any device you want, keep the file(s)
- no advertisements
- content producer does not get your money
- excellent content selection
- no regional restrictions
- not instant (must download first, then watch) - but: easy to automate auto downloads, can watch offline
Streaming:
- not free, but cheap
- extremely limited selection
- requires proprietary software (OK if you are Windows/Mac/Android/iOS user; not acceptable for Linux/BSD user)
- instant, no need to wait for download
- content creator gets paid
- regional restrictions
- other arbitrary restrictions (i.e. can't watch on Hulu Xbox app, can watch on Hulu in browser, wat do?)
- advertisements on some services
- network connection necessary for viewing
Piracy is a better deal for the consumer. If you do not care about the entertainment industry's profits, it is hard to justify paying for something inferior to the free option.
edit, formatting.
You have identified this as a problem without explaining why it is a problem. Can you elaborate?
one call to crypto_scrypt takes about a second on my machine. The pbkdf2 is the fast part. I'm using the crypto_scrypt from here: https://github.com/keybase/triplesec/tree/master/contrib/scr...
The design people in Firefox lost me as a user when they decided to re-arrange an interface that had looked the same for the better part of a decade. Re-arrange, not improve. Apparently years of users' visual + muscle memory means nothing to these UX guys.
I persevered with it for a while but eventually I just gave up and switched browsers. Shame, since I'd been using Firefox since its first release (called Phoenix back then, later Firebird, finally Firefox).
FWIW, here's the "original" user interface: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Mozilla_F...
What. No. If you need to work on a number, why don't you try improving the number of minutes you spend doing cardiovascular exercise per week?
I'd been a Comcast user for ~10 years before getting fed up with them. At my last place, they started hiking the price every two months after six months. When I canceled I was paying ~$100 for internet and cable tv (which I never used or wanted, although apparently it made my service cheaper). It seems that they REALLY want to keep their TV subscriber numbers up.
Interestingly, CondoInternet uses microwave links to connect the buildings they service. They do install in older buildings without CAT5e/CAT6 wiring, but they have to use vDSL over the phone lines. They still call it 100mbit although it's more like 70 or 80.
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Shipping is a feature.
Someone in that thread quotes this paper: https://www.privacy-cd.org/downloads/truecrypt_7.0a-analysis...
At the end of each official .exe and .sys file, there are embedded digital signatures and all related certificates (i.e. all certificates in the relevant certification chain, such as the certification authority certificates, CA-MS cross-certificate, and the TrueCrypt Foundation certificate). Keep this in mind if you compile TrueCrypt and compare your binaries with the official binaries. If your binaries are unsigned, the sizes of the official binaries will usually be approximately 10 KB greater than sizes of your binaries (there may be further differences if you use a different version of the compiler, or if you install a different or no service pack for Visual Studio, or different hotfixes for it, or if you use different versions of the required SDKs).
Save more time with these: http://www.bigsmoke.us/readline/shortcuts
I agree with you though. Basic vi usage for quick edits is part of UNIX/Linux literacy.
Also: many text editing actions can go from conscious (using a mouse) to subconscious (using the keyboard + muscle memory).
$ sl
The program 'sl' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install sl
These drugs make people stupid.
For Firefox, I know about PR_Write (There's some information for how to form grab Firefox under Windows which I found applicable). Since PR_Write function is in a shared library, you can use LD_PRELOAD to get Firefox to call your custom form-grabbing PR_Write, which can then call the original one.
Not trying to do anything malicious - just genuinely curious.
I'm taking this course right now (just finished the first "percolator" assignment this afternoon!). I've never used Java before this, but getting Eclipse up and running with "Hello World" was easy. Eclipse took a little exploring to get used to, but the C-like syntax of Java makes the language very easy to pick up.
If interested in this material, but turned off because you can't use your favorite language: take this as an opportunity to step outside of your comfort zone. That's what I'm doing. It's character building.
It has bioinformatics problems. They start really easy ("count the bases in a DNA sequence") and get progressively harder.
For each problem you get some sample data to work with. When you think you've figured it out, you can download a dataset to run your algorithm against, then upload the output to see if you are correct. There's a time limit for submission, and although you can keep re-trying, the data sets are different each time.
Check it out! Don't let the bioinformatics part throw you off.