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This looks interesting. I've been using Hazel on OS X for a long time.

Will have to give it a try...

Of course being in a relationship and having other friends are not incompatible, but the time commitment, reordering of priorities, strain on your mental/physical/pecuniary resources will almost inevitably harm your relationships with other friends.

Not to mention being in a relationship with someone can lead to profound changes in a person's character, and those changes may not gel with existing friends...

> 5. Some users don't mind ads, some even click on them, which is evident by the revenue ads generate.

Don't underestimate people clicking ads for the wrong reasons (e.g. they don't realize it's an ad, the ad makes misleading or incorrect claims, the user is just using the ad as a convenient shortcut to a website when searching for it on Google, etc.)

I'd guesstimate this to be the majority of ad clicks and revenue.

Looks like the author is wearing rose-tinted glasses to me.

While much of the observations may be true, the web is still a far richer and more valuable resource than it was five or ten years ago.

I know a lot of people who also used flickr primarily as a backup solution. Sharing their photos with strangers on the Internet was always a secondary motivation.

This may, at least in part, explain flickr's gradual decline. In the age of cheap 3TB hard drives, 64GB SD cards, and cloud backup solutions, flickr seems a little old-hat.

Back up for me

1) Anonymous are very unlikely to have anything to do with this;

2) There's nothing untoward about that whois report; you need to put the domain in speech marks to query the exact domain

If the ability to sell the content on the second hand market makes the original purchaser more likely to buy the content first hand, then it may be said to help the rights holder.

On the other hand, by selling on the second hand market the original purchaser may make others less likely to buy the content first hand, harming the rights holder.

The latter effect is almost certainly more significant than the former, so the net result is negative as far as the rights holders are concerned.

The usenet servers live on, and all the files (minus a small percentage that are the subject of takedown requests) are still there.

NZBMatrix was just one of dozens of indexing sites.

What are HN comment threads if not a place to express opinions?

Their safe harbor protection is not in question at the moment.

They have allegedly shut the site down because they lack the resources to handle the growing tide of takedown requests.

If you're looking for scene releases, just use a pre database like preDB.com. Find a release on preDB, copypasta the release name to binsearch, create the NZB, done.

Generally speaking it's very easy to find material just using binsearch. If you want a 1080p copy of a particular film, just search for the film name along with '1080p' and you're almost guaranteed to get relevant results on the first try.

Never understood the appeal of NZBMatrix. Just use a search engine like Binsearch, NZBIndex.nl, etc.

In any case, with more and more takedown requests being directed at usenet providers, I think usenet's days as a safe haven for piracy are numbered.

It's worth noting with the Facebook profile picture the 180x180 original is cropped, rather than resized, to 160x160.

This is important if you're looking for seamless integration between the profile picture and cover photo.

I'm inclined to agree the demand for 1Gbps residential connections isn't there at the moment.

I have a 120Mbps residential connection. I's more than sufficient for me, and I'm probably in the 99th percentile in terms of residential bandwidth use.

If you use your Internet connection for business purposes, you should not be on a residential plan in the first instance.

I'm surprised Amazon allow IRC on EC2. A sizeable number of VPS providers prohibit IRC usage; it makes them dDoS magnets and just isn't worth the hassle

> What I have come to feel is that my use of the internet is mostly driven by rage - and it seems to be similar for a lot of people. On HN I waste time trying to correct people who will never in a million years be swayed by a random internet comment.

This, a million times. I've blocked a few websites (e.g. Reddit) because I kept being drawn into pointless comments and debates.

TL;DR: Snake oil productivity tips and security/privacy hysteria get page views

> Only a severely paranoid person would take the time to write a year's worth of blog entries on the off chance he became a fugitive. Even then, what advantage does it give him? Some misdirection, certainly, but simply disappearing would be just as effective.

McAffee stated this in one of his earlier blog posts [1]. The blog is administered by a third party, and although a lot of the content is written by McAffee, most of it appears to be pre-prepared.

[1] http://www.whoismcafee.com/if-i-am-captured/

I think McAffee means to claim the photo was taken and the EXIF data was manipulated on his iPhone, then he created a 'fake emergency' and told the Vice reporters they would have to move urgently so that they would post the photo online immediately.

Obvious question: Who is more likely to be waving an iPhone around; the extremely paranoid McAffee who has been on the run for weeks, presumably without a stable source of electricity, or the Vice reporters who have just been flown in, presumably from London?

Calling shenanigans on this one. McAffee is almost certainly bluffing.

Just when I thought things couldn't get more bizarre, Vice magazine get involved...

We haven't had official word from any of the ISPs involved.

Sounds to me like a mistake, or an excessively cautious response to the prior court order requiring ISPs to block access to TPB. This may be a different domain, and it may be hosted on a different server, but this is inextricably linked to TPB.

This isn't anything new. Most of the major ISPs in the UK work with the Internet Watch Foundation [1] who maintain a blacklist of sites with certain types of content (child pornography, criminally obscene images, etc.) and have been blocking these for years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation

Then after 2 years, sell the $1,800 MacBook Air for ~$1,000, the iPad (now presumably 2-3 generations out of date) for ~$300, and the Mac becomes better value.

You've taken a $800 depreciation hit on the Mac, and although the depreciation on the iPad was only ~$400, you've also spent $480 on your VPS...

Once you factor hardware depreciation in (who would toss a laptop after 2 years when you could sell it for 60% residual and put the money towards a new one?) there's inevitably going to come a point where the Mac has a lower TCO.

Lower upfront costs do not necessarily translate into savings further down the line, especially when your choice of hardware ties you into a $20/month ongoing expense.

In addition to gaining experience through the use of pirated software, I think there is also a lot to be said for knowledge and experience gained through the process of committing piracy and attempting to do so undetected.

As a matter of course, pirates often find themselves becoming quite knowledgeable about topics (audio and video encoding, protocols (FTP, NNTP, BitTorrent, etc.), tools such as BNCs and VPNs, encryption, storage methods, etc.), all of which have valid uses aside from committing piracy, that they would otherwise have little motivation to explore.

The desire to commit piracy undetected acts as a motivation for people to gain a deeper understanding of the systems they are interfacing with, and this is often a good thing.

Perhaps it would be better to say: "a salesperson is unlikely to maximize their potential selling something that they don't believe actually helps the customer"

There are great salespeople the world over selling products they don't believe in — after all, great products tend to sell themselves — but you can bet your bottom dollar they'd be doing an even better job if they did believe in the product.

He referred readers to the Wikipedia comparison page, so I went there and duly compared bash to zsh in all the comparison tables.

A couple of minor differences, otherwise exactly the same...