Police Piracy Blacklist: UK Govt. Wants to Know Who’s Still Funding Pirate Sites
In the belief that pirate sites only stay online when they’re returning a profit, City of London Police decided that deprivation of revenue should be a key strategy in its fight against piracy. Launched in 2014 and controlled by the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), the ‘Infringing Website List’ (IWL) carries details of pirate sites nominated by rightsholders and provides the basis for future enforcement via escalating...
Doing 64-bit math on a 16-bit system
Doing 64-bit math on a 16-bit system Jerome Shidel Wed, 10/26/2022 – 03:00 A few years ago, I wrote a command-line math program for FreeDOS called VMATH. It was capable of performing only extremely simple mathematical operations on very small unsigned integers. With some recent interest in basic math in the FreeDOS community, I improved VMATH to provide basic math support on signed 64-bit integers. The process of manipulating...
Tips for using the Linux test command
Tips for using the Linux test command Seth Kenlon Wed, 10/26/2022 – 03:00 The [ command, often called a “test,” is a command from the GNU Core Utils package, and initiates a conditional statement in Bash. Its function is exactly the same as the test command. When you want to execute a command only when something is either true or false, use the [ or the test command. However, there’s a significant difference...
Hot on the Trail of a Mass-School-Shooting Hoaxer
For months, an anonymous caller has terrorized communities around the US by reporting false shooting threats. We know how they did it. The question is, why? Powered by WPeMatico
Report: Billionaire Says Britain May Be Forced to Seek Bailout From IMF if It Does Not Renegotiate Brexit Deal
British billionaire investor Guy Hands has reckoned that Britain will become “the sick man of Europe” and may be forced to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if it does not renegotiate its Brexit deal. The billionaire insisted the United Kingdom’s current economic woes are the result of a poorly negotiated Brexit deal and not the Liz Truss government’s controversial tax cut proposals. Billionaire Says Poor...
