US Government ‘Blacklists’ The Wrong Domain as a Pirate Site, Again
Last week, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued its latest “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets.” The overview of piracy-connected sites and services is put together with help from copyright holders and is used to motivate the targets and foreign authorities to take action. This year’s list has drawn widespread coverage in the news as it targeted Amazon’s foreign domain names, which were...
Massive Private Torrent Site Filelist.ro Has Domain Seized Due to Criminal Investigation
The vast majority of BitTorrent users on the Internet today download their torrents from ‘public’ sites. These are platforms such as The Pirate Bay, RARBG and YTS, that anyone can access without pre-conditions. Sitting under the surface, however, are ‘private’ trackers which can only be accessed by users who have signed up for a membership. Private trackers offer more tightly curated collections of every type...
11 DevOps lessons from My Little Pony
In 2010, the My Little Pony franchise was rebooted with the animated show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. The combination of accessibility to children with the sophisticated themes the show tackled garnered a following that cut across ages. I was swept up in the wave and discovered there is a lot to learn about DevOps from the show. read...
8 open source video games to play
Video games are a big business. That’s great for the industry’s longevity—not to mention for all the people working in programming and graphics. But it can take a lot of work, time, and money to keep up with all the latest gaming crazes. If you feel like playing a few quick rounds of a video game without investing in a new console or game franchise, then you’ll be happy to know that there are plenty of open...
Analyzing data science code with R and Emacs
Way back in 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article that proclaimed “data scientist” to be the sexiest job of the 21st century. Interest in data science has exploded since then. Many great open source projects, such as Python and the R language for statistical computing, have facilitated the rapid developments in how we analyze data. read...
