ISP Ordered to Hand Over Pirates’ Details After Cracked Software ‘Phoned Home’
Reports of movie companies tracking down alleged pirates in order to extract cash settlements are commonplace today. After IP addresses are monitored in BitTorrent swarms, companies regularly obtain court orders requiring ISPs to hand over the personal details of alleged infringers, to whom they send correspondence threatening a lawsuit, unless they pay up of course. On first view, a case in Australia seems to follow a similar pattern...
Read and write data from anywhere with redirection in the Linux terminal
Redirection of input and output is a natural function of any programming or scripting language. Technically, it happens inherently whenever you interact with a computer. Input gets read from stdin (standard input, usually your keyboard or mouse), output goes to stdout (standard output, a text or data stream), and errors get sent to stderr. read...
10 ReactJS tools to boost your web development skills
Did you know most résumés submitted for jobs get rejected with just a single glance? That’s a daunting fact if you are trying to get started in web development, but there are ways to improve what you have to offer prospective employers and clients. For application developers, now is a great time to increase your skills, and open source is the best avenue for professional development. You don’t need to attend...
The open organization everyone deserves
Let me share an email I recently received. It meant the world to me: read...
