Total Surveillance Coin Will Be a Dystopia if Controlled by Facebook or Government
Sep11

Total Surveillance Coin Will Be a Dystopia if Controlled by Facebook or Government

Digital currency provides unprecedented abilities to spy on and control what people do, and having that power in the hands of a few people is very dangerous. The Big Tech monopolies of Silicon Valley are building a future where your every action is monitored, and giving Facebook control over what you can and can’t do with your money will be the same level of dystopia as having a politician do the same. Also Read: Capital...

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Cox Attacks ‘Proof’ in Piracy Liability Case, Requests Summary Judgment
Sep11

Cox Attacks ‘Proof’ in Piracy Liability Case, Requests Summary Judgment

Last year Cox settled its piracy liability lawsuit with music rights company BMG. The ink on this agreement was barely dry when the ISP faced a similar and additional complaint. This time, it was up against 53 music companies, including Capitol Records, Warner Bros, and Sony Music. The rightsholders complained that Cox categorically failed to terminate repeat copyright infringers and that it substantially profited from this ongoing...

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Influencing Younger Pirates is a Key Aim of ‘Get it Right’ Campaign
Sep11

Influencing Younger Pirates is a Key Aim of ‘Get it Right’ Campaign

Last month Creative Content UK (CCUK) switched up a gear with its Get it Right (From a Genuine Site) anti-piracy campaign. After declaring that copyright-infringement notices sent to mainly BitTorrent users via ISPs had “served their purpose“, the BPI and MPA-led initiative turned to ‘social influencers‘ to send the message that content should be consumed via official channels, in order to support creators....

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10 Ansible modules you need to know
Sep11

10 Ansible modules you need to know

Ansible is an open source IT configuration management and automation platform. It uses human-readable YAML templates so users can program repetitive tasks to happen automatically without having to learn an advanced programming language. Ansible is agentless, which means the nodes it manages do not require any software to be installed on them. This eliminates potential security vulnerabilities and makes overall management smoother....

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How Linux came to the mainframe
Sep11

How Linux came to the mainframe

Despite my 15 years of experience in the Linux infrastructure space, if you had asked me a year ago what a mainframe was, I’d be hard-pressed to give a satisfying technical answer. I was surprised to learn that the entire time I’d been toiling away on x86 machines in various systems administration roles, Linux was running on the s390x architecture for mainframes. In fact, 2019 marks 20 years of IBM’s involvement in...

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