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  • Aug 06, 2014 @ 01:38pm

    Re:

    The problem isn't that it's used for bad things. The problem is that the 'good parts' are completely absent, and it only causes bad things.

    So yeah, your hammer analogy doesn't really fly here.

  • Jun 28, 2014 @ 09:46am

    Ah, do we never learn...

    The reason the nazi's were so effective in their persecution in the Netherlands, was that the Dutch government(s) meticulously recorded and kept track of everything. I'm sure Westmacott will be conveniently omitting that, even *if* Snowden would've been helpful to Hitler, so would the databases that the NSA and GCHQ keep.

  • Jun 11, 2014 @ 12:07am

    Streaming over Bittorrent - more specifically, sequential download - has been around forever. Tribler implemented streaming back in 2007. Several widely used stable clients such as uTorrent and Tixati have had this feature for years now. It's even integrated in XBMC through the XBMCTorrent extension.

    It works, it works well, and it has been doing so for several years now. This should not be news to anybody around here.

  • Jun 02, 2014 @ 05:41pm

    Re: about PDFy ...

    Hi, PDFy admin here. There should be a "download original PDF" button in the bottom right corner of the embedded viewer: http://owely.com/61mWIAp

    This button should always work, even if the PDF doesn't load (for example, if you're using an older browser that doesn't support pdf.js). If you don't see such a button - you can check at http://pdf.yt/d/BR6ektz0ghe0hii9/embed?sparse=0 - please e-mail me at admin@cryto.net with more information about the operating system, browser, etc. that you are using.

    PDFy (which uses pdf.js) doesn't require Flash or Java, by the way - just a browser with an up-to-date Javascript implementation :) There's a list of supported browsers at https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#faq-support

    I'm still working on a 'fallback' mechanism using images, for older browsers that don't support pdf.js. Shouldn't be too long until that's working.