Lenders May Deny Your Mortgage Application if You Sold Bitcoin in the Past
Over the past year, cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have gained in value and some people have ‘cashed out’ their digital assets in order to purchase cars or a new home. However, some people who have sold cryptocurrencies in the past may have a hard time getting a home loan even though they have the funds to purchase the property. This week on the bitcoin Reddit forum r/btc, a person who attempted to get a mortgage from the...
In World First, Danish Court Rules Stream-Ripping Site Illegal
While millions of users still obtain pirate music from peer-to-peer platforms such as BitTorrent, in recent years a new challenge has appeared on the horizon. Sites like YouTube, which offer millions of copies of almost every song imaginable, are now an unwitting player in the piracy ecosystem. Every day, countless people use special tools to extract music from video tracks before storing them on their local machines. This so-called...
Court Orders PayPal to Restrain Pirate Site Funds
ABS-CBN, the largest media and entertainment company in the Philippines, is continuing its legal campaign against pirate sites in the US. The company has singled out dozens of streaming sites that offer access to ‘Pinoy’ content without permission, both in the US and abroad. The company has already won several cases with damages ranging from a few hundred thousand to millions of dollars. However, the associated injunctions...
15 open source applications for MacOS
I use open source tools whenever and wherever I can. I returned to college a while ago to earn a master’s degree in educational leadership. Even though I switched from my favorite Linux laptop to a MacBook Pro (since I wasn’t sure Linux would be accepted on campus), I decided I would keep using my favorite tools, even on MacOS, as much as I could. Fortunately, it was easy, and no professor ever questioned what software I...
Getting started with Perlbrew
What’s better than having Perl installed on your system? Having multiple Perls installed on your system! With Perlbrew you can do just that. But why—apart from surrounding yourself in Perl—would you want to do that? read...