The ping took about 4 hours and the image rendering took another 12 hours. A good suggestion I've received so far has been to do the pings at least once a day and then merge all the positive responses for a weekly snapshot instead of the one-time ping sweep. Note that I've done it in the past on an hourly basis and while there are changes in the number of responses based on time of day it wasn't huge.
>Torrents and copyright infringement is related, we can all agree on that.
I don't and neither does Bram Cohen. Regardless, I agree with your overall notion. The times have changed and customers want a better solution to quality entertainment. Restricting access and content will lead to piracy. Vice-versa will lead to less overall piracy.
Send a message to who? The newly elected President from the 15% win? Some message. Get out and look for a candidate you believe in and spread the word.
“It’s the job of every foreign intelligence service to collect intelligence against their adversaries,...”
Hah. Translation: We've a firm foothold in their systems as well.
Putin is an autocrat, what equivalent is there to the DNC for him?
I think democracies are more at risk at this kind of thing because they have real elections and the data mined during elections is important. Its managed by a non-profit political party and as such usually has lax security.
Yeah, but the problem with their systems is, it's all written in chinese. Our systems store information in english, which is a much easier language to read. So they have a natural advantage there...
I've had the pleasure of speaking to people who have actually said that - or something along the lines. "Why are you studying Japanese? Don't they teach English in Japanese schools? You can just speak English with Japanese people."
I enjoy introducing English-only speakers to "The Chaos" by Gerard Nolst Trenité. It gives them a good idea of how terrible English can be - as even people who consider themselves "fluent" in English will struggle through the poem and mispronounce many of the words. ( http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html )
As a person that is not a native english speaker I find english extremely powerful language, with hundreds of nuanced words that convey different aspects and facets of seemingly same ideas - like emotions! Thesaurus raids can be fun! As well as reading well written, witty prose (#Fuck poetry)
I also love how it can compress complex ideas into one word - it actually makes speaking in my native tongue hard, because a lot of such words siply do not have translations (or just are translated into way more general ones)
I like the idea of them but from my experience widgets have been lacking. Whether that be from not updating correctly/timely to just not working at all.
