andrewducker, posts by tag: bittorrent - LiveJournal

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• October 25th, 2016, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 25-10-2016

EU set for ‘dirty Brexit’

(tags: europe uk )

EZTV Shuts Down After Hostile Takeover

(tags: bittorrent piracy hacking )

Why 538 still give Trump a 14% chance of victory

(tags: politics models statistics usa )

How German nuclear scientists reacted to the news of Hiroshima

(tags: nuclearweapons wwii history )

Unlocking the secrets of bacterial biofilms – to use against them

(tags: bacteria disease biology )

A Book by Its Cover: The strange history of books bound in human skin.

(tags: humans bodies books history )

There are many different kinds of depression

(tags: depression psychology research )

Energy storage via pumped hydro systems is not useful on a very small scale?

(tags: hydroelectric power electricity )

No differences noted over time for children of gay, lesbian, adoptive parents

(tags: lgbt parenting )

Revisiting the “Moral” Panic Around D&D

(tags: dungeonsanddragons religion history usa )

If you want to influence people don't try to persuade them. Use ‘pre-suasion’ instead.

(tags: psychology communication )

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  bacteria, biology, bittorrent, bodies, books, communication, depression, disease, dungeonsanddragons, electricity, europe, hacking, history, humans, hydroelectric, lgbt, links, models, nuclearweapons, parenting, piracy, politics, power, psychology, religion, research, statistics, uk, usa, wwii

• January 26th, 2016, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 26-01-2016

• UK Rail Travel, Station Usage 1997-2015 (in a pretty map)
  • maps transport UK railways trains
• Get your “Kylo Stabbed First” T-shirts!
  • starwars t-shirts
• What Labour must do to win in 2020: an electoral reform pact
  • reform politics voting UK
• Middle class English people acting a bit Scottish
  • Scotland England class satire funny
• World's Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
  • TheMatrix bittorrent
• 5 minutes of unnarrated, shot-by-shot breakdowns of the CGI in the Force Awakens.
  • cgi starwars video
• Steven Moffat has produced some great Doctor Who. So how did he become so hated?
  • Sadly, doesn't touch on "The actual writing hasn't been that great for a few seasons, with a few exceptions".
  • StevenMoffat writing drwho
• MSPs to debate bid to legalise incest between consenting adults
  • Scotland incest
• FactCheck: has Google got a good deal from the taxman?
  • Google tax UK
• Netflix overtakes broadcast TV for UK kids. YouTube dominates.
  • tv Netflix internet children UK YouTube
• Why do people put on differing amounts of weight?
  • weight microbiome food

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  bittorrent, cgi, children, class, drwho, england, food, funny, google, incest, internet, links, maps, microbiome, netflix, politics, railways, reform, satire, scotland, starwars, stevenmoffat, t-shirts, tax, thematrix, trains, transport, tv, uk, video, voting, weight, writing, youtube

• March 15th, 2015, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 15-03-2015

• How to be egoless at work
  (tags: work psychology advice life )
• Has Neil Gaiman outsold Heinlein and Herbert?
  (tags: NeilGaiman robertheinlein scifi )
• The majority of sex workers enjoy their job - why should we find that surprising?
  (tags: sexwork )
• Computer Simulation Suggests That The Best Investment Strategy Is A Random One
  (tags: investment random )
• Robert Downey Jr. Delivers a Real Bionic Arm To The World's Most Dapper Ten-Year-Old
  (tags: cyborg IronMan video )
• Tubes vs. Torrents: the Ethics of Piracy
  (tags: porn copyright piracy bittorrent business )

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  advice, bittorrent, business, copyright, cyborg, investment, ironman, life, links, neilgaiman, piracy, porn, psychology, random, robertheinlein, scifi, sexwork, video, work

• March 16th, 2014, 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 16-03-2014

• We Got 20 British Strangers Who Aren't Models to Kiss Each Other
  (tags: kissing video uk )
• Doctors’ New ADHD Frontier: Diagnosing Adults
  (tags: adhd adult psychology )
• The Infinite Lives Of BitTorrent
  (tags: bittorrent )
• School Bans Bullied Boy from Wearing his ‘My Little Pony’ Bag
  (tags: mylittlepony bullying epicfail )
• In 2002 an asteroid tried to hit us. Seven times. (Impressive visualisation)
  (tags: asteroids space visualisation )
• Babies moving, as seen through their mother's skin.
  (tags: babies pregnancy )
• What are, and aren't Men's Issues?
  (tags: men problems )
• Why I am a male feminist (one reason,anyway)
  (tags: feminism assault society )
• Warning: This article contains spoilers for True Detective, Frog Fractions and The Secret of NIMH
  (tags: writing games viajohnbobshaun )
• Why we love repetition in music
  Now, someone should tell Brian Eno why Generative Music never took off...
  (tags: music psychology )
• Gender-specific books demean all our children. So the Independent on Sunday will no longer review anything marketed to exclude either sex
  (tags: books publishing gender vializziecassmaran )

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  adhd, adult, assault, asteroids, babies, bittorrent, books, bullying, epicfail, feminism, games, gender, kissing, links, men, music, mylittlepony, pregnancy, problems, psychology, publishing, society, space, uk, viajohnbobshaun, vializziecassmaran, video, visualisation, writing

• January 14th, 2014, 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 14-01-2014

• Katniss Is the First Woman in 40 Years to Win the Annual Box Office
  (tags: money movies gender )
• Ack - I wouldn't do a six-hour commute for anything!
  (tags: transport work )
• The Pope wants You to breastfeed in the Sistine Chapel
  (tags: breastfeeding pope rome )
• A conversation with the NSA about Snowden, encryption, and privacy in the USA
  (tags: spying encryption usa )
• A Decentralised, NSA-Proof Twitter, Built With Code From Bitcoin and BitTorrent
  (tags: twitter communication security privacy bittorrent bitcoin )
• What UK debts are Scotland's?
  (tags: uk scotland debt independence )
• Retired cop guns down man for texting at movie (So torn right now!)
  (tags: cinema text police guns )
• The 1% rule of internet culture (Seems reasonable - I get 300 LJ visitors/day, and 200-odd clicks on Twitter)
  (tags: socialmedia internet )
• Why we can't have a SCUBA system that extracts oxygen from seawater.
  (tags: diving water air science ocean )
• Afghan atheist wins asylum on religious grounds
  (tags: atheism afghanistan islam uk asylum )
• Freedom of Information Request Reveals Westminster’s Global Lobbying Against Independence
  (tags: independence scotland uk )
• Star Wars Episode VII to centre on Luke, Leia and Han
  (tags: starwars )

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  afghanistan, air, asylum, atheism, bitcoin, bittorrent, breastfeeding, cinema, communication, debt, diving, encryption, gender, guns, independence, internet, islam, links, money, movies, ocean, police, pope, privacy, rome, science, scotland, security, socialmedia, spying, starwars, text, transport, twitter, uk, usa, water, work

• December 28th, 2013, 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 28-12-2013

• Huge Dogecoin heist sees people lose real money in joke currency based on made-up dog dialect (via @flashboy)
  Yes, you are now living in a very strange future.
  (tags: funny meme finance )
• Fury with MPs is main reason for not voting
  (tags: politics uk )
• The first 3D printed organ -- a liver -- is expected in 2014.
  Drink up!
  (tags: 3dprinting medicine )
• Consider the English language
  (tags: language english )
• The Coolest Science of 2013, in GIFs
  (tags: science animated_gif )
• 5 Amazing Pieces of Good News Nobody Is Reporting
  (tags: news GoodNews )
• Systems Coders: The roughest-toughest people ever to wrassle with a pointer.
  (tags: programming funny )
• Guess which shows were downloaded more times than they were watched legally?
  (tags: tv bittorrent piracy )
• Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge Rules
  (tags: copyright publicdomain SherlockHolmes )
• We can extract recognisable images of people from reflections in your eyes
  (tags: eyes photography technology identity thefuture )
• People sum up their PhD thesis in one sentence. Sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious.
  (tags: academia funny )
• 46 Most Iconic LGBT Moments of 2013
  (tags: lgbt )

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  3dprinting, academia, animated_gif, bittorrent, copyright, english, eyes, finance, funny, goodnews, identity, language, lgbt, links, medicine, meme, news, photography, piracy, politics, programming, publicdomain, science, sherlockholmes, technology, thefuture, tv, uk

• February 14th, 2012, 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 14-02-2012

• What I've Learned About Smart People.
  (tags: questions intelligence )
• A female apostle was erased from the bible during the middle ages.
  (tags: censorship christianity religion women )
• Metal substitutes are being tested to deter thieves
  (tags: materials uk crime metal )
• The Geek Social Fallacies of Sex.
  (tags: sex social geeks feminism )
• Undercover police officer follows himself for 20 minutes after a CCTV operator mistakes him for suspect
  (tags: EpicFail funny police )
• The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde talks about the trial, and the music industry's failure to accept change
  (tags: law ThePirateBay piracy copyright )
• Expert challenges myth of falling NHS productivity
  (tags: healthcare uk efficiency productivity NHS )
• The MoD constantly breaks its budgets, and is never held to account. Possibly these things are linked.
  (tags: EpicFail money military )
• Guardian “Holiday Offers” page strangely omits name of one tiny little country
  (tags: palestine guardian israel )
• Frank Lloyd Wright’s once designed a doghouse. The dog didn't like it.
  (tags: dogs FrankLloydWright architecture )
• BitTorrent Live: Cheap, Real-Time P2P Video Streaming That Will Kill TV
  (tags: BramCohen internet broadcasting tv bittorrent )
• Can we rescind America's membership of the first world?
  (tags: usa poverty )

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  architecture, bittorrent, bramcohen, broadcasting, censorship, christianity, copyright, crime, dogs, efficiency, epicfail, feminism, franklloydwright, funny, geeks, guardian, healthcare, intelligence, internet, israel, law, links, materials, metal, military, money, nhs, palestine, piracy, police, poverty, productivity, questions, religion, sex, social, thepiratebay, tv, uk, usa, women

• February 13th, 2012, 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 13-02-2012

• BitTorrent doesn't effect movie sales - except for delayed releases in other countries
  I could have told them that - make it available and people will buy it. Make us wait for months and it'll get sucked down the intertubes.
  (tags: bittorrent movies )
• The End of the Mainframe Era at NASA
  (tags: ibm mainframe nasa computers )
• What it's like to be Brian Cox's wife
  (tags: BrianCox relationships tv feminism gender )
• How the internet is killing magic
  (tags: internet magic )
• NHS among developed world's most efficient health systems
  (tags: efficiency uk healthcare nhs )
• Crowdtilt - a less limited version of Kickstarter
  (tags: money funding social )
• Glasgow Labour rebels forming splinter group. Interesting if it takes off up here.
  (tags: politics labour glasgow scotland )
• Why Arabic is Terrific
  (tags: grammar writing linguistics arabic language )
• Interview: Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party
  (tags: conservatives politics scotland )
• On Alan Moore's Doctor Who Work
  (tags: alanmoore drwho )
• Portraits created using police composite sketch software - from descriptions of literary characters
  (tags: fiction portrait sketches literature )
• The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive - check the "Updates" for all the awesome stuff you can get!
  (tags: kickstarter comics oots )
• Some numbers on Scotland's whether Scotland's incomings and outgoings balance
  (tags: money economics scotland )
• The British government is, unsurprisingly, not interested in harm reduction for drug-taking
  (tags: politics uk drugs )
• It's only a matter of time before Valentine-induced-anxiety is an official disorder.
  (tags: stress valentines_day funny xkcd )
• Education Gap In The USA Grows Between Rich and Poor
  (tags: usa wealth education )

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  alanmoore, arabic, bittorrent, briancox, comics, computers, conservatives, drugs, drwho, economics, education, efficiency, feminism, fiction, funding, funny, gender, glasgow, grammar, healthcare, ibm, internet, kickstarter, labour, language, linguistics, links, literature, magic, mainframe, money, movies, nasa, nhs, oots, politics, portrait, relationships, scotland, sketches, social, stress, tv, uk, usa, valentines_day, wealth, writing, xkcd