Pirate IPTV Provider Must Pay DISH $15.8m in Damages
When the stars align, there is good money to be made running a pirate IPTV service. Given that suppliers, software, hardware, customers and payment processors all behave as expected, things can run relatively trouble-free. However, there’s always a risk that rightsholders will step in to disrupt or even shut down the party. DISH Files Lawsuit Targeting Pirate IPTV Service As it has done on numerous occasions in the past couple of...
Write in XML with the NetBeans text editor
I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in NetBeans, a Java IDE (integrated development environment) maintained by the Apache Foundation. I find it’s got a good mix of automated abstraction and manual configuration that helps me keep my Java projects organized and optimized. Not all IDEs give much thought to text files, but XML is frequently used in Java projects, so XML support in NetBeans is an important feature. read more Powered...
Practice coding in Java by writing a game
My article about learning different programming languages lists five things you need to understand when starting a new language. An important part of learning a language, of course, is knowing what you intend to do with it. I’ve found that simple games are both fun to write and useful in exploring a language’s abilities. In this article, I demonstrate how to create a simple guessing game in Java. read more Powered by...
Set up an Ansible lab in 20 minutes
Being able to build and tear down a public cloud environment is very useful, but most of us don’t have easy access to a public cloud. The next best thing would be to have a lab on your local machine, but even running on a local machine brings performance, flexibility, and other challenges. Most of the time, the additional workloads on our local machines interfere with doing our daily job, and they certainly prevent having a readily...
Popular Browsers Like Google Fail to Catch Copycat Crypto Sites, Scams Make the Top Results
As the digital asset economy grows popular and a number of crypto companies become well known, copycat scammers appear in greater numbers. There are a number of websites that are clones of the official web page from companies that provide mining device sales, wallets, full nodes, paper wallet tools, and popular trading platforms. Just recently, news.Bitcoin.com wrote a report on mining devices, and one of the links we found looked...