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"Warning: You are using an outdated browser, which adversely affects your file transfer performance. Please upgrade to Google Chrome."
What is this bullshit? I'm using the latest Firefox. You are concerned about privacy, but you want to force me into using a propietary browser?
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same. I can't wait until this service is launched.
I thought they lost that domain and the forbes author was just made a mistake. All of the recent links have pointed to kim.com or kim.com/mega
"Mega rocks with Google Chrome" "Warning: You are using an outdated browser, which adversely affects your file transfer performance. Please upgrade to Google Chrome." What is this bullshit? I'm using the latest Firefox. You are concerned about privacy, but you want to force me into using a propietary browser?
"Mega rocks with Google Chrome" "Warning: You are using an outdated browser, which adversely affects your file transfer performance. Please upgrade to Google Chrome." What is this bullshit? I'm using the latest Firefox. You are concerned about privacy, but you want to force me into using a propietary browser?
> However, some legacy or technically inadequate browsers require the entire file to be stored in memory for downloading (Firefox, IE10, Opera), or for both downloading and uploading (IE9, Safari 5).
At the end, the choice is yours but they are fairly warning you that the UX would be better on Chrome / ium.
Isn't it true that ANY web storage and file-sharing company could be raided and shut-down tomorrow? What's different between Megaupload and Dropbox or any of the others? If the Feds (and the Motion Picture industry) decide that Dropbox is hosting pirated works they could suffer the same fate, no? I am not focusing on Dropbox here. They are just a place holder for any storage/sharing service you'd care to name. I use…
I think the most accurate thing you could say is that the odds vary considerably based on the intentions and actions of the operators with respect to criminal activity, and the extent to which they can be inferred by reputation.
Framed as practical advice, I'd say: Your data is probably much safer with services that don't have a reputation for being used mostly for piracy.
Isn't it true that ANY web storage and file-sharing company could be raided and shut-down tomorrow? What's different between Megaupload and Dropbox or any of the others? If the Feds (and the Motion Picture industry) decide that Dropbox is hosting pirated works they could suffer the same fate, no? I am not focusing on Dropbox here. They are just a place holder for any storage/sharing service you'd care to name. I use…
Isn't it true that ANY web storage and file-sharing company could be raided and shut-down tomorrow? What's different between Megaupload and Dropbox or any of the others? If the Feds (and the Motion Picture industry) decide that Dropbox is hosting pirated works they could suffer the same fate, no? I am not focusing on Dropbox here. They are just a place holder for any storage/sharing service you'd care to name. I use…
Isn't it true that ANY web storage and file-sharing company could be raided and shut-down tomorrow? What's different between Megaupload and Dropbox or any of the others? If the Feds (and the Motion Picture industry) decide that Dropbox is hosting pirated works they could suffer the same fate, no? I am not focusing on Dropbox here. They are just a place holder for any storage/sharing service you'd care to name. I use…
> Isn't it true that ANY web storage and file-sharing company could be raided and shut-down tomorrow? I'd say at its present state, MEGA servers are one of the least likely to be raided, considering the clusterfuck with the last raid. > if data loss is your concern, be sure to back it up locally That's a horrible advice. A company that does data storage professionally is much less likely to lose your data. If you hav…
In my case it means that I keep three full backups of everything at three different locations and with various incremental and full-backup schedules. Old data that doesn't see a lot of activity is archived and even burned to DVD and stored in a fire-proof safe. I know that some of it is a bit extreme, but I actually take my work product very seriously and most of it represents "cubic hours" of work. I take the position that my business data is my responsibility and I store it "locally" with enough redundancy that it would take a pretty major event for a significant chunk to be lost.
That does NOT mean that I don't use remote storage/backup services. It DOES mean that I operate as if they could be reduced to dust tomorrow. Which, in turn, means that I have all of the convenience some of these services offer while not having to worry too much about issues at the backup provider ruining my life.
Isn't it true that ANY web storage and file-sharing company could be raided and shut-down tomorrow? What's different between Megaupload and Dropbox or any of the others? If the Feds (and the Motion Picture industry) decide that Dropbox is hosting pirated works they could suffer the same fate, no? I am not focusing on Dropbox here. They are just a place holder for any storage/sharing service you'd care to name. I use…
It's not file storage that presents the political risk - it's letting idiot kids store things publicly, for free, because you are pursuing some "make it up on volume" business model that we all knew was broken 13 years ago.
/rant