Visa Moving to Integrate With Digital Currency Platforms
Visa says it is working to integrate digital currencies with its existing global network of 61 million merchants. The global payments technology giant is working with two licensed and regulated digital currency platforms, Coinbase and Fold. In a blog post, Visa says the emergence of fiat-backed digital currencies or stablecoins promises a new payment innovation that combines the benefits of digital currencies with the...
‘No, Pirate Bay Uploaders Should Not Get Paid!’
When the first torrent sites appeared online in the early years of the century, they needed content to distribute. This task was naturally taken up by people who liked to share. Because they could and because they liked it. These uploaders were not financially motivated. They spent time and effort that was rewarded with recognition from downloaders. An occasional ‘thx uploader’ was enough to keep them going. Pay to Share...
‘Pirate’ Anime Domains Seized By Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment
The Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment is a massive global anti-piracy coalition featuring dozens of global content companies including the MPA, Netflix and Amazon. The aim of ACE is to tackle infringement of its members’ rights in a centralized fashion by pooling resources and sharing the costs of enforcement actions. While the group publicizes some of its lawsuits and settlements, a significant number fly under the...
Analyze your web server log files with this Python tool
Ever wanted to know how many visitors you’ve had to your website? Or which pages, articles, or downloads are the most popular? If you’re self-hosting your blog or website, whether you use Apache, Nginx, or even Microsoft IIS (yes, really), lars is here to help. read more Powered by...
5 open source IDE tools for Java
Java frameworks make life easier for programmers by streamlining their work. These frameworks were designed and developed to run any application on any server environment; that includes dynamic behaviors in terms of parsing annotations, scanning descriptors, loading configurations, and launching the actual services on a Java virtual machine (JVM). Controlling this much scope requires more code, making it difficult to minimize memory...
