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by borism 16y ago
Wait a minute. What is a content owner? Copyright owner is the original poster at Quora. If (s)he chooses to delete the post, thus revoking Quora's licence to republish, will it become Quora's responsibility to remove Posterous post and all
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by borism 16y ago
Projectile speed will be much less after it has travelled 100km.
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by borism 16y ago
How would you use ICBM to deliver rail?
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by borism 16y ago
Anonymous can have non-anonymous members as well. Just a suggestion.
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by borism 16y ago
You're right. However this post gives a little more than that - an insight into social media as percieved by millenials from one of their own. Nothing new, but not entirely irrelevant.
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by borism 16y ago
not. yet.
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by borism 16y ago
not after WakeMate (YC S09) fiasco.
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by borism 16y ago
and lsc is assuming in his calculations that he'd be able to attack for a month.
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by borism 16y ago
because they can
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by borism 16y ago
The cow cannot exist in nature. umm, yes it can http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs and Aurochs originated in India, where cultural tradition prohibits using them for meat http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by borism 16y ago
He doesn't mean governments' IT security (which is so-so overall), but the Internet as a whole. And he's right the stuff that will come out of it probably will not be very encouraging.
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by borism 16y ago
absolutely. donations = 100% income.
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by borism 16y ago
it has been around for 1.5 weeks now, when average media attention span is 1.5 days at best, so no it is not momentary.
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by borism 16y ago
or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_(political)
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by borism 16y ago
legitimate != legal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_(political) legitimate protest vs. legal protest are very very different things.
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by borism 16y ago
I tried to ask the same about removing TSA stories back in the day, and was flagged to death, so no.
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Statement from Datacell CEO on Visa and Mastercard legal action(datacell.com)
2 points by borism 16y ago|0 comments
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by borism 16y ago
V for Vendetta subtle http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=V
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by borism 16y ago
this is far from peaceful and force is very much involved: "Not being able to receive money from the public for a week can cost Wikileaks 7 digit figures in losses, and DataCell as well, as it is unable to process any cards," Fink said. Th
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by borism 16y ago
One quick flourish of the pen, and a company can be destroyed. Obviously this is true at the startup scale, where a niche can simply be erased. But even at the larger scale, a national decision to back one approach can be devastating (as i
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by borism 16y ago
Yes, theoretically national power supersedes power of any single corporation in that country. That doesn't mean that corporations as a whole don't influence governments or vice versa. It all comes down to who needs whom the most. US multina
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by borism 16y ago
alright, alright, you win. 4chan is CIA's covert operation to install New World Order.
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by borism 16y ago
Who has more money and power in your opinion? The answer of course differs by country - it's one extreme in the US and another extreme in Russia or China.
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by borism 16y ago
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/security-bullet-in-10000166/leg... Visa and MasterCard can block payment providers if they believe those generate a lot of fraudulent activity, not because they disagree with those organisations activities.
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by borism 16y ago
It's Mastercard's choice whom they do business with No it's not.
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by borism 16y ago
Ridiculous. USG agencies already have their hands full of dealing with this stuff, not adding more to it.
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by borism 16y ago
so do you browse the web with emacs as well or what is your primary browser?
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by borism 16y ago
"A century after the wireless telegraph revolutionised communications, the Internet has re-established a telegraph that runs on (telephone) wires." -Umberto Eco, who's essay was widely criticized here yesterday for some factual mistakes. He
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by borism 16y ago
still, 100 > 1
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by borism 16y ago
this is philosophy you know, not everything is what it sounds like at first!

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