May 31, 2006
Posted at: 4:37 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Rants and Randomness, Tech and Web
The website piratebay.org which was the worlds largest BitTorrent tracker was shutdown this morning by the Sweedish Government. I was talking to Zach about this today and after discussing it, I decided to blog it. The following was taken of the PirateBay Website
In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate Bay. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law.
Unlike the US, Sweeden does not have copyright laws that prevent them from running a service to others. Since the site was shutdown, there has been such an uproar about not being able to pirate software, music, games and movies in Sweeden, members of Piratebay formed their own Political Party. The Pirate Bay Party is now running for government office so that they will be able to pirate files. Also since they shutdown the site, the commotion that it caused made the government prepare for the election really soon. Their platform will be to pirate files and the other party’s platform will be non pirated files.
It would be really cool to have Pirates running the sweedish government. We will see what the future holds for Sweeden.
bittorrent, copyright, government, illegal software, piracy, pirate bay, political party, sweeden
May 30, 2006
Posted at: 5:34 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Entertainment and News, Sports and Leisure, Tech and Web
The first rule of Techy Fight Club is – you do not talk about Techy Fight Club.
The second rule of Techy Fight Club is – you DO NOT talk about Techy Fight Club.
Third rule of Techy Fight Club, someone yells F1, the programming is over.
Fourth rule, only (binary) 10 techies to a program.
Fifth rule, one program at a time, coders.
Sixth rule, no shirt, no shoes.
Seventh rule, coding will go on as long as they have to.
And the eighth and final rule, if this is your first night at Techy Fight Club, you have to code.
Now these are not the actual rules of fight club for techies, but it is still funny.
MENLO PARK, California – They may sport love handles and Ivy League degrees, but every two weeks, some Silicon Valley techies turn into vicious street brawlers in a real-life, underground fight club.
The closest I ever got to this type of fighting was when I played hockey in High School and we would Locker Box with Gloves and Helmets and just punch each other in the head. It wasnt very smart, but it was fun at the time. However, we wouldn’t suffer broken ribs or arms like these guys are.
computer geeks, Fight Club, fighting, silicon valley, techies
May 26, 2006
Posted at: 9:02 am by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Professional, Tech and Web
Remember when all we had were 28.8 modems for dialup to some ISP. Remember when we moved to 56K Modems and everything seemed to load so much faster, but only the people who could afford the modem actually had them. That time may be back, but not for the average user at home, but for the business running the website.
Welcome to the brave new Web, brought to you by Verizon, Bell South, AT&T and the other telecommunications giants (including PopSci and CNN.com’s parent company, Time Warner) that are now lobbying Congress to block laws that would prevent a two-tiered Internet, with a fast lane for Web sites able to afford it and a slow lane for everyone else.
Not only will this be a hindrance to most people who try to go to their favorite but poor website, and all of a sudden people stop going to the site because it takes to long to load. After that the company who is predominantly web-based will no longer exist because their primary medium is preventing them from getting traffic and business.
I understand the following comment that Christopher Yoo, a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School said, but I disagree with it.
consumers should be willing to pay for faster delivery of content on the Internet, just as many FedEx customers willingly shell out extra for overnight delivery. “A regulatory approach that allows companies to pursue a strategy like FedEx’s makes sense,” he says.
The only problem is there is a major difference between FedEx and the Internet. I feel that people who use FedEx to speed up the delivery process but they are not depending on the Internet to function in their jobs and lives. However, the internet has grown a lot bigger in the past 10 years making it a value that average people have grown to require in their daily lives.
AT&T, Bell South, Fast Lane, Fed Ex, High Speed Websites, Internet, Vanderbilt University, Verizon, Web Toll, Yoo
May 24, 2006
Posted at: 11:23 am by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Professional, Tech and Web
I was searching for some Firefox extensions for Web Developers and I stumbled across one called “IE Tab”. This allows web developers to quickly render the current page from Firefox into Internet Explorer. Once you are done looking at the page in IE, you can then render it back into Firefox.
If you would like to download it, go to “IE Tab” link from Firefox Extensions and click “Install Now”. Once it is installed, restart Firefox and it will be ready to use.
To use: Right click on a tab in Firefox and click “switch rendering engine” or if you are not in a tab, right click anywhere in the page and click “view page in IE Tab”.
CSS, development, Firefox Extensions, IE in Firefox, IE Tab, Render in IE, web browser, web development tools
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