Mark Cuban Wants an Expiration Date on Stimulus Checks: Critics Says Proposal Is Right out of a Banana Republic Playbook
U.S. billionaire Mark Cuban wants the next stimulus check to come with an expiration date in order to force Americans to spend the funds. The businessman believes this “use it or lose it” approach would benefit the U.S. economy as it promotes spending instead of saving. Cuban argues that when consumers are forced to spend, it helps businesses to stay open and help the economy to recover from the knock-on effects of the Covid-19...
Russia Joins WIPO Project to Block Pirate Revenue But There’s Still No Transparency
Websites of all kinds generally need a steady stream of revenue to keep them online. Advertisers, sponsors and affiliate schemes all play a part and the position is generally no different for pirate sites. That being said, by their very nature pirate sites have a more limited number of options when it comes to advertisers. Years ago, many would use platforms such as Google’s Adsense or similar mechanisms operated by various reputable...
This Python script mimics Babbage’s Difference Engine
In Use this Python script to simulate Babbage’s Difference Engine, Python offered an alternative solution to Babbage’s problem of determining the number of marbles in a two-dimensional pyramid. Babbage’s Difference Engine solved this using a table showing the number of marble rows and the total number of marbles. read more Powered by...
Customize an Intel NUC with Linux
After nearly six months of frequent video conferencing, I was tired of looking at my colleagues as tiny thumbnails on 13″ and 15″ laptop displays. However, I didn’t want the clutter of a desktop or tower case and all the associated cabling. read more Powered by...
5 qualities of outstanding open source community managers
A community manager is the quarterback of an open source community. This is the person who ensures that everything runs smoothly, the one who helps the community and all its members grow. Every thriving community needs one. While the specific skills and expertise a community manager needs depend on the community itself—after all, every community is unique—there are a handful of core qualities you’ll see in any outstanding...
