mikemoka

I agree about watching out against abuses by corporations or by the government, but megaupload was never the answer simoly because it didn't fill his purpose, which ideally should be to replace music and video brick and mortar stores. Netflix was better at that,and he was fighted for that too, unfortunately.

Ever since I heard about SOPA I hoped that Wikipedia would have done it sometime soon.

It worked for Italy as far as I know.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/italia...

Smart bullets, that is the best oxymoron I heard in my whole life.

ok but you can't present it as a true dropbox alternative then

does it work this way?

user shares file > the system stores the file on S3 > the system distributes the shared file through torrent > "enough" torrent peers are reached > the system REMOVES the file from S3 > a week goes by and the file loses momentum > available peers drop > the file is lost.

Yes right, companies owning millions of dollars (they have 50 million users a day..) shouldn't pay their share of taxes in times like these. But what if "legal tax avoidance" by such companies was one of the very reasons why you and me are now living in "days like these"? I don't want to convince you, I know I can't, but just consider it if you can.

Want to know why they are shady? Are you able to find their company information or do they still own that PO Box based in Hong Kong? How can you be sure where the money from Mega Companies will go? Do you think they give (or would never give) anything back to the community by paying taxes or by financing any honest no profit initiative? I doubt it. I am not standing with the corporations but a company like Mega, in my opinion, is not their best answer.

Web companies should know how to write a readable text, it's pity they could just come up with something like that.

This text is not coincise, it doesn't draw the attention of the reader to any specific point and it shows several other shortcomings, if the message ever comes across I am pretty sure this page won't help.

It's way more complex than that. The debt includes private and public institutions, and countries from outside Europe.

The diagram, as others have said, is old, here is probably the most updated version:

http://www.thepeakeffect.com/2011/09/europes-web-of-debt-upd...

no mention of sources though.

The streaming never managed to start and every time I clicked on watch the application was downloaded again (and again).

The saddest thing anyway in my opinion is that the man featured must raise funds for his healthcare, otherwise, his words, "he wouldn't be alive today".

So only rich people have the right to live in US?

And no that's not socialist or communist, it's just common sense because many rich men were just born rich, their families may have been rich from generations, so the "survival of the fittest" doesn't make any sense at all here.

In an alternate timeline he would have done it on Diaspora.

He managed to do what apps like Songbird haven't been able to accomplish in years, finally I see a quick non bloated but feature rich music player on OSX.

The only missing thing if you ask, a quick way to set the song I am currently listening on auto-repeat, usually you just click the repeat button once more and it shows a "1" on it, it's better to avoid to have the user create a one song playlist for that.

Great work,

Mike

"saying “no” to projects doesn’t make you Steve Jobs if you say no to inspiring things. It’s the discernment that’s meaningful, not the refusal. Anyone can point their thumb to the ground."

I am sorry I just had to quote this.

The whole thing is actually 5 years old, look at the date above...

So let me straight, being the first one a setting it wasn't a vulnerability, instead this one is. I can't see the logic behind their reasoning, in my opinion they are both superficial security policies (ie. badly set defaults)

in my opinion he cannot delegate and should actually learn to do that

Advantages:

-cheap devices (the fire?) get to see complex websites

-server side webgl?

-server side java applets?

Disadvantages:

-you partially browse the web on Amazon's cloud so Amazon can track your behaviour (and your data)

-your site is part of an internal network that can only be accessed using a vpn from the outside world? bad luck.

-you have to buy a cheap device to see a real pageload speed,considered that you should get your data from amazon anyway

-if the world uses ec2 for browsing its performance will probably suffer

if you have the ipad you can test a lot of similar apps anyway,like puffin or skyfire,and see if you would like it,I prefer the native browser myself,yet I know that the infrastructure would be better in theory.

This is like the ABC of SEO, BUT there is a robots.txt that may keep those crawlers away..

popular links for tags are broken for the moment : http://delicious.com/popular/test

I hope at least that, if this is actually beta as claimed, they monitor how this version fares, and if things go for the worst (ie. less users and content produced in the next month or trimester) they should have the humbleness to switch back to the old design and improve gradually on it..users made an investment in delicious during these years and Avos did the same, I don't think that anyone wants to lose anything, money or knowledge..

they may have just killed delicious.. why didn't they do a private beta before?...

Yes this kind of thing is hardly sustainable, I think it may just be a smart PR move and they'll hugely downsize it or cancel it in the next months, after the storm has passed.

I wonder too.. They are proposing a worldwide guarantee, how could they verify each claim?..By partnerships with insurance companies all over the world?

That depends on who you are and what you think about when you think about future. For some 70 years old men the present world might already feel like the Matrix in some ways.

I can't judge the whole thing (but it doesn't seem for the lulz), this action anyway has been certainly uncool, I guess they were lucky that their children weren't on file, otherwise they would have been probably involved too.

this is awesome, it would be a dream if advanced queries could be comparable though

sinzone, is that you? =)

It's fun that Symbolics would probably still be here today,if they just registered one more domain at the time.

do you mean that if the market would be bigger such things won't be done? they could do more of the same unfortunately..