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Re:Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @09:47PM (#2488054)
OTOH, wouldn't it be neat if a distributed Tahoe-LAFS supported dropship-like functionality as a feature?
Re:Dropship — successor to torrents? on Sunday April 24, 2011 @01:15PM (#2479209)
I've been sending TV shows to friends privately since I started using dropbox. Never seen a takedown. As long as they don't get a dmca, I doubt they care.

If they did how hard would it be to pad media files with some salt to break hashing anyways? Not hard at all...

Re:Just When I Was Ready to Give AirBnB a Try on Friday April 01, 2011 @05:39PM (#2398201)
Of course. If I can see an online photo with good comments, it must be legit. My bad.
Re:Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut on Friday April 01, 2011 @05:02PM (#2398061)
No problem, Wikileaks and Anonymous will pick up the slack.
Re:Just When I Was Ready to Give AirBnB a Try on Thursday March 31, 2011 @07:01PM (#2394128)
The worst enemy an online community has are trolls. The worst enemy an online community like AirBnB has are psychos and serial killers.

I really don't get this startup. Might as well post "I need somewhere to crash" on Craigslist.

Whew! I thought this was for the US for a second. These really outta have country codes in the titles like [EU] [UK] [US].

I'm sure the rest of the world feels like everythings all fucked up when they see US headlines too... :D

Re:Poll: Are you on Facebook? on Friday March 25, 2011 @08:42PM (#2370973)
No, but my data harvesting sock puppets are.
Re:CAPTCHAs decrease conversion rates on Friday March 25, 2011 @11:34AM (#2368899)
Pro tip: You can usually get away with entering invalid similar characters on recaptcha when the word is really blurry. Substitute 'ri' for 'n', for example.

I like to do this as a game, to see what I can get away with, adds some fun to the drudgery of typing in a captcha.

Re:Effect of One-Legged Standing on Sleep on Thursday March 24, 2011 @06:11PM (#2366245)
Do squats, acquire sleep.
Re:Receivd - beautiful, fast filesharing for everyone on Monday March 21, 2011 @11:56PM (#2353031)
Hmmm mac only for now. I'd be able to try this out with Linux and Windows versions. I have a mac, but it usually sends files to non-macs.

What's the advantage over Dropbox? Does your service go through a central server, or is it more p2p? Or both? Are my files encrypted on your server? Storage or bandwidth caps?