Author: Karu
Why You Should Care About Tape Backup
Tape carries a number of benefits unmatched by any other storage medium.
On Sources
Fortunately in this year 2015 we have a thing called hyperlinks via which evidence for assertions can be easily provided. If you treat op-eds from ‘unreliable’ sources as unreliable, fine. If you refuse to even check well-cited articles from ‘unreliable’ sources, you’re probably more interested in ideological correctness than truth.
The Certificate Authority Racket
That’s an awful nice website you have there, would be a shame if something were to happen to it.
On Mozilla & CEOs
While Eich is free to contribute to any political cause he sees as valid, the rest of the wold is also free to critically evaluate his actions and act accordingly.
Honor Among Thieves: The Tonymacx86 hypocrisy becomes a story
Well, this was unexpected. The very last post here has garnered me a “DMCA” takedown notice from an unspecified “Tonymacx86 legal”. Why all the scare quotes, you ask? Because the message I received isn’t worth the...
Hypocrisy, thy name is tonymacx86
Now, as an example of how utterly ineffective this kind of “DRM” is (like most kinds of DRM actually), here’s how you fix the bug and get Unibeast to work regardless of the source of your Mountain Lion installer.
The math of piracy
Piracy loses a potential sale, and theft loses a potential sale and access to a physical product. Therefore, given the following equation:
China’s Epic Anti-Antiware War
Thanks to guest author Vrantheo of Lost Signal network for this insightful article! This month we shall witness a whole bunch of ongoing epic Chinese Internet drama, during which almost all the “major” software companies...