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Tuesday links
YouTube users now upload 100 hours of video every minuteToday [Sunday] is YouTube’s eighth birthday, and to mark the occasion Google is revealing new statistics that underline what a cultural sensation its video site has become. Most staggeringly, over 100 hours of video are now uploaded to YouTube each and every minute.—The Verge Helper Robots [...]
Monday Links
Windows “slower than other operating systems”“Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening.” That’s one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows’ performance isn’t up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later [...]
Tuesday links
Why Does Windows Have So Many Viruses? A Perspective On Microsoft’s Biggest FoeMany people who use Windows probably wonder why viruses and Trojans plague this operating system so much compared to other operating systems…The answer to this question is a very complex one, but we’ll explore it in detail in this piece. Hopefully, by the [...]
US Senate passes Internet sales tax consideration by big margin
It’s been clear for a long time that the freedom of web transactions from sales tax would end some day. We just got closer. Joe Mullin at Ars Technica reports: Your tax-free days of online shopping are numbered. If S743, also known as the Marketplace Fairness Act, becomes law, the millions of Americans who have [...]
End of the free ride on Internet sales tax is coming
A lot of us in the US have been enjoying buying things on the Internet without having to pay state sales tax but that free ride is probably drawing to a close before too long. Signs are accumulating that state sales tax on web purchases is coming. The US Senate has endorsed the idea in [...]
Quote of the week
At a very basic level there are really three major components to the World Wide Web and the information we get from it. Google, Facebook, and…well…porn.—Guy McDowell at MakeUseOf
The present and future of the Internet
The Internet itself is always changing and here are some recent posts and articles about what’s going on in this essential service: This Story StinksIn the beginning, the technology gods created the Internet and saw that it was good. Here, at last, was a public sphere with unlimited potential for reasoned debate and the thoughtful [...]
