soogan

Member since: Jul 24th, 2006

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Pirate Bay temporarily shuts down to review a new legal challenge (Download Squad)

May 18th 2010 10:23PM @DarthNinja

Or goggle maps

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.502222,3.90725&spn=0.001,0.001&t=m&q=51.502222,3.90725

Megazoomer: Full-screen mode within any Cocoa app (Download Squad)

Feb 18th 2010 1:08PM The universe implodes.

It's not a good week to be a BitTorrent tracker (Download Squad)

Aug 27th 2009 11:01PM Hey guys, If I copied all the articles from Download squad and posted it on a distrubuted server, so you could see the site ad-free would you use it? Would you say I wasn't stealing?

Some of the comments that I'm reading have such asinine botched up logic it makes my head spin. I'm not on a high horse to say that I havn't, but when you download something, use it, don't pay for it, you're bypassing a system that however indirectly is designed to support the creatives who produce the {insert media here}.

It's not a "eff the government, screw the system" because they always get me down, it's a "pull the product off the shelf, stuff it in your jacket, and walk out of the store" act. The fact that it's ones and zeros doesn't make it any less of a form of theft.

I'm all for privacy, freedom of information, and what not, but the fact that downloading copyrighted material is held in the same regard as taking a book of the shelf in borders and walking out, makes sense to me.

Play video files from incomplete RAR archives with Dziobas RAR Player (Download Squad)

Apr 8th 2008 11:09AM Maybe someone can second me on this, but doesn't VLC out of the box play only non-segmented rar files?

Play video files from incomplete RAR archives with Dziobas RAR Player (Download Squad)

Apr 7th 2008 8:13PM Ask and ye shall receive:

http://vlcrarloader.jjabba.com/

And since VLC is 100x better then any other media player out there, it's win/win.

5 ways to pimp out your WordPress weblog (Download Squad)

Jan 20th 2008 7:35PM Smashing Pumpkins? Good band, but I like reading Smashing Magazine better ; -)

Professor on a crusade to stop Google and Wikipedia in the classroom (Download Squad)

Jan 14th 2008 8:39PM I strikes me as the term "banned" that she uses, isn't used in the same way as say censorship (i.e. banned books). Anyway, as long as a student is referencing their original, credible sources in a citation then they have no reason to worry that they are being "banned". Wikipedia is not in it's self an academic research reference thats why every article is referenced and cited so you can see the original sources of information. As a college educator myself, (although not actively involved in teaching courses that involve as heavy a writing/research component as the ones she seems to be teaching) I understand wanting to uphold a higher standard to academic/scholarly writing.

I love wikipedia, and google is the first direction that I turn when searching, but I also understand that it is very easy to not find written work that has the appropriate backing to be credible. (although I'll be the first to admit that the content control of encyclopedias can be just as casual as wikipedia). College libraries are designed for research though, and have many resources (publications/journals) that either would cost the average student too much money for one paper/class (heck, text books left me armless and legless in my undergrad studies) or be inaccessible in an online format.

That nasty "P" word shows up too in college writing too much, plagiarism is a rampant problem in quite a few gen-ed/"casual" courses. When papers start to show a mix of amazon book reviews, wikipedia articles and babble fish translations, (don't laugh! I've seen them all!) then college educators begin to be more motivated to push students to more credible/academic sources.

Just some thoughts, all starting with the idea that ban may not mean censor.

-Carl

Enter to win a $5k Dell WoW Edition notebook (WoW)

Dec 16th 2007 12:12PM Horde! But of course!

A 1 second reminder why you should use better passwords (Download Squad)

Mar 27th 2007 7:59PM I remember a blog (if memory serves it was lifehacker) once suggesting that if you have a problem remembering or creating a password for every site you register on, try this: create a "base password" that you use and decide on a dynamic termination for it, ie for web site accounts (ok, ok, flickr, and no it's not my password ; -) i have a base of say my anniversary: "Mar0505" and then I include the first 4 letters of the site that I'm using to terminate the password, so my pass now looks like "Mar0505FLIC". If I'm feeling really tricky I can add a few extended characters in there, like "$Mar0505FLIC$" and make for an absurdly hard password to crack, and one thats different for each site I make an account for, and is cake to remember! And I don't forget my anniversary!