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Turkey's Erdogan: One of the World's Most Determined Internet Censors(online.wsj.com)
4 points by aspidistra 12y ago|0 comments
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Privacy Badger(eff.org)
4 points by aspidistra 12y ago|0 comments
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Kim Dotcom: On the road with Hollywood's biggest enemy(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by aspidistra 12y ago|0 comments
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Nasa shows off prototype spacesuit for journey to Mars(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by aspidistra 12y ago|0 comments
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Government backs UK launch site plan for space tourism(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by aspidistra 12y ago|0 comments
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by aspidistra 12y ago
See also: Andy Baio's archive of computer interfaces in movies: http://screen.waxy.org/screenshots/ More info in this post on his blog: http://waxy.org/2013/07/screens_on_screen/
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Movies of the future will be paid for 'by the inch,' says DreamWorks boss(theverge.com)
1 points by aspidistra 12y ago|0 comments
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by aspidistra 12y ago
Two other people on this thread have previously linked this. Lengthy previous discussion of it yesterday on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976 Including Matt Cutts' response to the text in the pastebin: h
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by aspidistra 12y ago
Lengthy previous discussion on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976 Including Matt Cutts' response to the text in the pastebin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7669071
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by aspidistra 12y ago
> Often, by the time I get back, I've found a better solution. Yet, the article says: While the study showed that walking benefited creative brainstorming, it did not have a positive effect on the kind of focused thinking required
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by aspidistra 12y ago
> I don't see how this is even news, based on a lifetime of experiences. Like the article says: "Many people anecdotally claim they do their best thinking when walking. We finally may be taking a step, or two, toward discoverin
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by aspidistra 12y ago
Maybe: * Find education forums and target teachers or lecturers. * Broaden the tech from "whiteboard photos" and target students looking to digitize lecture or field notes.
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by aspidistra 12y ago
There was, at one point, a Twitter clone running at http://tent.is . But that now redirects to cupcake.io, which runs a tent hosting service. There are some projects on the tent Github page but nothing with activity less than mon
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by aspidistra 12y ago
Something like Tent? https://tent.io
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by aspidistra 12y ago
Here's one from the UK: http://www.software.coop/
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Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations(theguardian.com)
7 points by aspidistra 13y ago|0 comments
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by aspidistra 13y ago
Wikipedia says different: "Cat's eyes are particularly valuable in fog and are largely resistant to damage from snow ploughs." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_eye_(road) As does the Reflecting Roa
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by aspidistra 13y ago
Councils maintain streetlights: https://www.gov.uk/report-problem-street-light
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by aspidistra 13y ago
In the HN guidelines: > Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter. The first line of this article refers to its original publication in Wired: http://w
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by aspidistra 13y ago
Something like http://archive.is ?
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by aspidistra 13y ago
The anti-ligature cord I have seen works on the basis that as soon as too much force is applied, it breaks into pieces: http://www.hoyles.com/acatalog/anti-ligature-sanipull-pull-c... (scroll down for the examples) Per
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by aspidistra 13y ago
Google Chrome and the Google Toolbar already have spellcheckers ... ? Or do you mean something more like MS Word, which will correct misplaced letters and so on?
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by aspidistra 13y ago
OK. Message received and understood :)
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Dropbox tortured by Condoleezza Rice angst(blogs.computerworld.com)
13 points by aspidistra 13y ago|4 comments
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by aspidistra 13y ago
Here's some previous, from de Raadt, Dec 2013: "Basically, it is 10 years of FreeBSD stupidity. They don't know a thing about security. They even ignore relevant research in all fields, not just from us, but from everyone.&qu
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by aspidistra 13y ago
If I remember rightly, discussions that are hostile and contain lots of flaming are penalised.
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Firefox OS 2.0 starts emerging from its cocoon(cnet.com)
1 points by aspidistra 13y ago|0 comments
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by aspidistra 13y ago
> I thought I heard somewhere that they are shooting for 2.0 in July. This CNET article says testing is "due to begin in late July": http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/new-features-and-appearance-for-...
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Wuala by LaCie – Secure Cloud Storage(wuala.com)
2 points by aspidistra 13y ago|0 comments
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by aspidistra 13y ago
Wuala is run by LaCie and based in Switzerland. http://wuala.com/en/ Its servers are in CH, FR and DE. It encrypts the data on your client before it is uploaded. The free plan offers 5GB.

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