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by ajays 15y ago
How is this guy NOT in jail over the phone-hacking scandal? Why do people like him get away with crimes? A kid in UK links to torrents and is being extradited to the US[1]; and this jerk commits felonies over years and gets to roam free?
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by ajays 15y ago
I disagree; actually, they _do_ get it. The ruling class gets it very well indeed. They saw the use of the Internet in the Jasmine Revolutions, and are shit scared about it spreading to other countries. This is why they want to jump in and
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by ajays 15y ago
"Paul F. has noted a strong correlation between high payment rates and an office where people seem to like their boss and their work." I wonder if this could be a way for companies to figure out (surreptitiously) how managers are doing: pro
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by ajays 15y ago
I'm in California. Here are the numbers of our two senators: Boxer: tel:1-202-224-3553p3 Feinstein: tel:1-202-224-3841 ("p" is pause) Please call, and call often.
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by ajays 15y ago
My first impression was that the memo is fake. The author refers to people (such as Shantanu Ghosh) without titles; and from what I recall of Indian bureaucracy, titles are important and you just don't drop them. They would always say "Hon.
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by ajays 15y ago
You simply cannot, in any modern society, discriminate against someone because it happens to be a woman, or throw stone at someone until they die because you didn't like his opinion. And yet the US is the strongest ally of the worst offen
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by ajays 15y ago
The neighboring farmer bs is just a smokescreen. Says who? Why don't you do some research before calling something BS? Read this account: http://www.percyschmeiser.com/ Monsanto is trying to control nature. Bees don't care if they're pi
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by ajays 15y ago
IFTTT reminds me of Yahoo Pipes http://pipes.yahoo.com/
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by ajays 15y ago
I wonder what would happen if John Battelle made this picture his profile pic: http://regmedia.co.uk/2005/10/06/battelle.jpg I hope he does it.
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by ajays 15y ago
Exactly. In the month of December, exactly 2 out of my G+ contacts made an update; and of them, only 1 updated more than once. Compare this to FB, where people add updates at least once a day or two. I like how Google PR is working hard to
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by ajays 15y ago
Not monetary per se, but how about time wasted due to the spam? What if I control my own domain, and have to spend time fighting this spam?
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by ajays 15y ago
Can we use Small Claims to fight other injustices? How about going after companies that sell your email address? Edit: for the downvoters: it is a genuine question.
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by ajays 15y ago
Divorces are already generally settled out of court. Not if they're contested.... and not if the state is not a "no fault" state. I went through divorce in NYS; let me tell you, it is hell. No house, no kids, and still the process went on
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by ajays 15y ago
I was surprised to the Fraternal Order of Police, and other such police organizations on the list. What are they afraid of, that someone will clone a cop? Or are the supporting this bill because, hey, more laws means more cops for law enfo
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by ajays 15y ago
I didn't participate, but there's also the concept of "sour grapes". If one wins, then one describes how hard fought and thought out the victory was; if one loses, then one says one didn't spend much time on it at all ("if only I had more t
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by ajays 15y ago
I'd flip the "fund" idea around, and make it a "Internet Freedom Supporter Fund"; i.e., anyone who absolutely supports no government controls over the Internet, basing it on the First Amendment. If each Internet user donated just 1 dollar t
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by ajays 15y ago
Don't be fooled, people. I will believe GoDaddy when they provide proof that they have indeed stopped supporting SOPA. They claim that they've been working with lawmakers for months; what is to stop them from publicly "withdrawing" support
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by ajays 15y ago
You have a valid point. Remember: the main supporters of SOPA are the Hollywood bigwigs who want to preserve a flawed business model at any cost. GoDaddy is just side show.
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by ajays 15y ago
Since I'm being downvoted, I figured I'd provide some links to back up my claim that GoDaddy's position has been clear from the beginning: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111029/07003216560/go-dad... http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/
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by ajays 15y ago
Here's a link to an article mentioning that they announced support in October: http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2011/10/in-case-you-missed...
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by ajays 15y ago
Wow... SO is still with GoDaddy? GoDaddy's position on SOPA has been clear since October; what took them so long?
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by ajays 15y ago
As someone said, "if you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the problem". Renouncing citizenship is like surrender. If the principles are that important, once must fight for them.
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by ajays 15y ago
Tell me about it. I have nearly 20 years of experience in CS, and hold an advanced degree. I have 5 years of experience in a very niche field which is relatively hot. I was approached by Facebook for this specific purpose. They invited me i
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by ajays 15y ago
I have known about these yellow dots for years, but it never occurred to me that DARPA would have used color printers for this competition. I need to fire up those 'orthogonal thinking' neurons!
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by ajays 15y ago
The following caught my eye: Then he happened on an article about a little-known government project: The Secret Service has been working with manufacturers of color laser printers to place tiny, imperceptible yellow dots on printed pages s
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by ajays 15y ago
Come on, man. Enough with this parroting of Ron Paul's talking points. (I do support most of RP's ideas, BTW). I'm not attacking you personally, but the post you made. It is the Federal Government's responsibility to regulate interstate co
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by ajays 15y ago
I'm sorry, but: if I stood up in the middle of the day and loudly proclaimed it was midnight, would I also be a bad-ass contrarian? The way I see the clip is: Hitchens (who I admire for a lot of things) was trying to soothe his bruised ego
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by ajays 15y ago
You know, all I remember is that 60 Minutes (the CBS show) did a segment on that around 1999 or 2000... I Googled a little, but couldn't find a reference to it.
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by ajays 15y ago
This was tried during the last bubble too. I remember there was also a company based out of the Caribbean which was offering outsourcing services. They had imported as bunch of coders from India/Russia. The added kicker? If you gave them a
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by ajays 15y ago
Here's a non-Facebook picture, if you don't want to send them the traffic and the data: http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/18.jpg

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