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14y ago
> In the direction of giving - either money, or if time allows, something like what Stallman is doing/advocating. The main thing that shifted my views was the notion that even if the money is "wasted" (or might be more effective dollar
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14y ago
> In theory "homelessness" is a solved problem in the UK. In practice, there are people who sleep on the streets and there are people who are effectively homeless but who have short term accommodation and there are plenty of beggars.
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14y ago
> Moving somewhere when you're old doesn't change your life expectancy. It may increase the average life expectancy of the area you are moving to, though. In other words, while the people who were born and raised in the area may have
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14y ago
Hetzner specifically prohibit the use of file sharing services (see the service agreement for root servers: ( http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/legal/system-policies-rs ). Not sure if it's still the case, but they also used to have a policy
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14y ago
Except OVH is a haven for nefarious use (seedboxes, etc.) and Hetzner most certainly is not!
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aes256
15y ago
The domain was most likely registered with 1&1 Internet; both companies are subsidiares of United Internet AG, and from what I recall, domains purchased from 1&1 are registered with Schlund + Partner
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15y ago
Speaking of DDoS attacks, this article is showing: > Error establishing a database connection
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15y ago
Looking through the guy's recent contributions, as far as I could see for the past 24 hours or so was just hundreds of AWB edits on article talk pages; things like adding a widget saying an article is part of a particular wikiproject to a f
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15y ago
Title should read: Aspiring author with evidence of a relatively minor issue — finding small quantities of harmless e-waste at an e-waste recycling site — is peeved that tech companies were more interested in resolving the issue than provid
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15y ago
” … your main priority seems to be your book, while ours is to investigate and resolve this matter.” The representative from Samsung nailed it.
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15y ago
'Carrier subsidies' are just an illusion. You are paying $850 for your top of the line iPhone, you just don't realise it because it's in the form of $40+ monthly instalments...
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15y ago
Uh, the cookie directive isn't being ignored. In the UK, for example, the directive was implemented on 26 May 2011, but website owners were granted a 12 month grace period to 'get their house in order'. From 26 May 2012 site owners will f
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15y ago
> Firearms kill people by accident. Often. People using firearms often results in unintentional harm, just as people using 'hacking tools' does. You forget to turn your packet sniffer off when on a public network, you accidentally por
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15y ago
Do you honestly think 'hacking tools' are used primarily with good intentions (i.e. as part of authorised penetration testing, interception of network traffic, etc.) and that nefarious use is the exception? Obviously it's nigh-on impossible
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15y ago
> And there are very few countries that explicitly ban all fire arms even the Uk which has very stringent laws still allows shotgun licenses. I'm from the UK myself, so I'm aware my perspective on firearms might be skewed somewhat. Ne
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15y ago
> It is like making dynamite illegal for civil engineers or morphine forbidden to medical practitioners or hammers and chisels denied to cabinet makers because they might hurt themselves. Ridiculous! Described in those terms, what wou
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15y ago
This is 'hacking' a la the popular meaning of the term (gaining unauthorised entry to a computer system), not the definition adopted by self-described 'hackers'. Think port scanners, password crackers, vulnerability identification and exp
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15y ago
> Even if you had the worst of the worst hacking tools sitting around on your system, it should be the actual use of those tools against someone else's machine for which you have no permission to access that creates the offence. It's
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15y ago
> Ask anyone who has ever worked on infrastructure at a large UK ISP or exchange (e.g. LINX). Copious secret services systems are already used. Go on...
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15y ago
Here's my problem (going with one of the examples quoted, flying from Buenes Aires to Toronto): one of the suggestions is to fly to Montreal and take a bus. But what if I _don't_ want the hassle of going from airport to greyhound to bus, o
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15y ago
# This is script with usefull tips taken from: # https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
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15y ago
I think what bothers me most is that the person he made fun of is a pro-athlete, part of the job is to take abuse from haters and rival fans. European soccer is notoriously rowdy, fans shout any and everything they can from the stands. It'
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15y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something really basic here, but if all the 'troops' have to do is text a given codeword to a number, how do you get both their phone number and their email address? Where are you getting the email addresses from?
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15y ago
It figures; it's an awful lot easier to lay cable under the sea than it is to do so in towns and cities.
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15y ago
The UK has a "common carrier" statute (there termed "mere conduit", which, more poetic, innit?) which the defendant lost claim to by (a) exercising control over who could post what videos to his site and (b) idiotically posting copy on his
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15y ago
What we are effectively doing here is balancing the costs and benefits of extradition. My argument is that both the severity of the alleged offence and the situation of the defendant (including but not limited to their age) are relevant fac
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15y ago
1.) 18 is legally an adult, I don't see why this is any different than when an 18 year old murders someone or deals drugs. Obviously the crimes are very different, but if/while what he did is illegal, why should the legal system treat it d
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15y ago
A 'kid' is defined as "a child or young person" 23 is young. He's a young person, ergo he is a kid.
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15y ago
That's a practice called segmenting. Some groups do it, some don't. There used to be a group named NOsegmenT who were staunchly opposed to the practice and included a little diatribe against it in all of their NFOs. Also bear in mind that s
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15y ago
Because it was a conference call, not a 1-to-1 call!
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