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Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by MostAwesomeDude »

sltkr wrote: post #34
thirsteh wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, just like saying you like µTorrent doesn't implicate you for piracy.

BitTorrent does have many legal uses (it is used to distribute World of Warcract, Linux distros, independent music/movies, et cetera) but there are also many private trackers designed specifically for the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials. If you admit you are a heavy user of one of those, you practically admit to participating in this. Similarly, USENET is completely legal, and there isn't anything intri…

It's sad that people have to hide their actions. Downloading copyrighted material is legally in the clear in .us and his particular setup sounds highly oriented towards downloads, not uploads.

Additionally, as somebody that highly seeds Linux distros through torrents, I'd like you to go back to your Jump to Conclusions mat.

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by runjake »

usesthis.com is such a guilty pleasure.

I pour over every detail of their articles while at the same time reminding myself "it's not about the tools, it's about the person".

Re: John Resig uses this

#43

Post by sbochins »

bronson wrote: post #9

"I wish my car accepted audio input." I just used a Grom adapter to add bluetooth to my 1999 daily driver. It doesn't have whizzy features like voice dialing and A2DP audio quality is not excellent but, for podcasts, pop music, and phone calls, it's great. http://www.gromaudio.com/

Would probably cost him less than $100 to buy a cheap head unit and have someone install it.

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by thirsteh »

sltkr wrote: post #34
thirsteh wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, just like saying you like µTorrent doesn't implicate you for piracy.

BitTorrent does have many legal uses (it is used to distribute World of Warcract, Linux distros, independent music/movies, et cetera) but there are also many private trackers designed specifically for the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials. If you admit you are a heavy user of one of those, you practically admit to participating in this. Similarly, USENET is completely legal, and there isn't anything intri…

Even if these tools are commonly used for suspicious activity, in a legal context simply stating that you use them does not constitute evidence of any wrongdoing. The former does not simply mean the latter; rather, it is speculation on your part. Whether or not it has a probabilistic basis is irrelevant.

There are many examples where this is true: BitTorrent/P2P (this is actually far more prominent than you'd think; a trendy example is Spotify), BitCoin, Usenet, Tor, Metasploit, any anonymous network, et al.

Re: John Resig uses this

#45

Post by robin_reala »

MostAwesomeDude wrote: post #41
sltkr wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BitTorrent does have many legal uses (it is used to distribute World of Warcract, Linux distros, independent music/movies, et cetera) but there are also many private trackers designed specifically for the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials. If you admit you are a heavy user of one of those, you practically admit to participating in this. Similarly, USENET is completely legal, and there isn't anything intri…

It's sad that people have to hide their actions. Downloading copyrighted material is legally in the clear in .us and his particular setup sounds highly oriented towards downloads, not uploads. Additionally, as somebody that highly seeds Linux distros through torrents, I'd like you to go back to your Jump to Conclusions mat.

Downloading copyrighted material is legally in the clear in .us

[citation needed]? I’ve never heard that before. Mind you, I’m not in the US.

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by ConstantineXVI »

shimon wrote: post #22
purephase wrote: post #14

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The "tiny micro-sized pills" in Chrome are a headache. I've never tried the App Tabs extension though, thanks for mentioning it.

I strongly recommend the "Tree Style Tab" extension for Firefox. It give you a vertical tab bar and makes 20-50 tabs per window pretty manageable.

Chrome has a "Use side tabs" option in Labs, though only on Windows and Linux for some reason.

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by etherealG »

romey wrote: post #26
jeresig wrote: post #12

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Off the top of my head, three things that've bugged me: I use a ton of tabs in my browser, in Firefox the tabs go off to the side and allow me to scroll through them (while still allowing me to read the title) whereas Chrome squishes the tabs into tiny micro-sized pills that are completely unreadable. Additionally I use App Tabs in both browsers - but only in Firefox does it highlight when I've received an update (su…

Have you tried using tree tabs in Chrome? It isn't quite as slick as the Firefox tree tabs, but still nicer than the little nubs that are the default. That's interesting though, I always do dev stuff in Firefox because of how anemic firebug is in Chrome, and casual surfing in Chrome because it feels faster.

which extension do you use for tree tabs in chrome?

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by jeresig »

DannoHung wrote: post #30
jeresig wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off the top of my head, three things that've bugged me: I use a ton of tabs in my browser, in Firefox the tabs go off to the side and allow me to scroll through them (while still allowing me to read the title) whereas Chrome squishes the tabs into tiny micro-sized pills that are completely unreadable. Additionally I use App Tabs in both browsers - but only in Firefox does it highlight when I've received an update (su…

Chrome does have a notification that a tab has updated, it's a gentle little pulsing light across the tab (granted, maybe there should be an option to make this a colored pulsing light or something)

I have yet to see it work - at least my Hip Chat tab doesn't update when a new chat comes in, whereas it does in Firefox.

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by thirsteh »

robin_reala wrote: post #45
MostAwesomeDude wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's sad that people have to hide their actions. Downloading copyrighted material is legally in the clear in .us and his particular setup sounds highly oriented towards downloads, not uploads. Additionally, as somebody that highly seeds Linux distros through torrents, I'd like you to go back to your Jump to Conclusions mat.

Downloading copyrighted material is legally in the clear in .us [citation needed]? I’ve never heard that before. Mind you, I’m not in the US.

I don't know about the U.S., but at least in The Netherlands you are allowed to freely download copyrighted movies and music for personal use. For now, anyway...
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