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Social DRM: It’s About Equal Access for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our commitment is to provide access to books for those who are unable to read a traditional print format and to do so without harming the economic interests of authors and publishers. However, strong DRM turns out to be an impediment to the commercial distribution of accessible ebooks.

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File not found

The Verge

They were all getting the same error message: The program couldn’t find their files. Not only did they not know where their files were saved — they didn’t understand the question. Not only did they not know where their files were saved — they didn’t understand the question. Garland thought it would be an easy fix.

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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We're up to more than 125,000 users, with over 95,000 books available, and our users are now accessing content at a rate of more than million downloads per year! That's why it's painful to hear about disputes over denying students with very real print disabilities access to these resources.

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Would you pay $4,000 to solve your streaming movie problems?

Fast Company Tech

After setting up the Strato V, you are presented with a sparse menu system for downloading movieseither for purchase or rentaland watching them. And “downloading” is the correct term, as Kaleidescape does not believe in the vagaries of streaming. But the main differentiator is the quality of the content itself.

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Streaming Big Data Files from Cloud Storage

Towards Data Science

Methods for efficient consumption of large files Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash Working with very large files can pose challenges to application developers related to efficient resource management and runtime performance. These challenges are exacerbated when the large files reside in a remote storage location.

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Bitwarden adds secure text and file transfer to its arsenal

The Verge

Managers such as Bitwarden and 1Password have specific methods by which you can share passwords or groups of passwords, making it easier for a family to, say, access a shared streaming service. Here’s how it works: If you wish to send a file (it can be up to 100 MB), you go to Bitwarden’s website and click on the Send button.

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Open Letter to Salesforce Nonprofit Admins

Judi Sohn

I will set up the Weekly Backup and actually download the backup file within 48 hours of when I’m notified it’s ready. Better yet, I’ll save that.zip file to a computer/drive that is regularly backed up. Tagged: access , administrator , Nonprofit , Salesforce , security. Keep up the great work!

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