Articles. uTorrent Increases Privacy and Counters Mass-Monitoring of Downloads. Downloading files via BitTorrent is about as public as file-sharing gets, and it's safe to say that most popular BitTorrent swarms are being monitored one way or the other.
To protect the privacy of its users BitTorrent Inc. therefore decided to randomize the peer-id uTorrent users display to other peers and the tracker. While the new feature makes it more difficult to track the download habits of individual users, IP-addresses still remain public and trackable. Privacy is in short supply on the Internet, especially on BitTorrent networks. Those who fail to take measures to hide their IP-addresses leave a prominent trail of information behind them. Besides IP-addresses there’s a second variable that can be used to gather intelligence on downloaders, namely the peer-id.
This means that tracking companies can use the information to build a rather accurate database of downloads that come from the same client, regardless of the IP-address. Netflix exec: Canada’s broadband caps “almost a human rights violation” — Online Video News. Don’t Tell Anyone, but the Stimulus Worked. World. Optimum currency area. In economics, an optimum currency area (OCA), also known as an optimal currency region (OCR), is a geographical region in which it would maximize economic efficiency to have the entire region share a single currency.
It describes the optimal characteristics for the merger of currencies or the creation of a new currency. The theory is used often to argue whether or not a certain region is ready to become a currency union, one of the final stages in economic integration. An optimal currency area is often larger than a country. For instance, part of the rationale behind the creation of the euro is that the individual countries of Europe do not each form an optimal currency area, but that Europe as a whole does form an optimal currency area.[1] The creation of the euro is often cited because it provides the most modern and largest-scale case study of the engineering of an optimum currency area, and provides a comparative before-and-after model by which to test the principles of the theory.
The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America's Middle Class. I saw this on Facebook and I knew I had to post it here. Investigative Reporter. By Greg Palast | The Guardian USA The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive.
The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor – and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it – predicted and planned for it to do. That progenitor is former University of Chicago economist Robert Mundell. The architect of "supply-side economics" is now a professor at Columbia University, but I knew him through his connection to my Chicago professor, Milton Friedman, back before Mundell's research on currencies and exchange rates had produced the blueprint for European monetary union and a common European currency.
Mundell, then, was more concerned with his bathroom arrangements. "They won't even let me have a toilet. But Mundell, a can-do Canadian-American, intended to do something about it: come up with a weapon that would blow away government rules and labor regulations. The euro would really do its work when crises hit, Mundell explained. That doesn't bother Mundell.
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