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by derrida 15y ago
Any HN'ers in Sydney with a spare Yacht want to go check out Ball's pyramid? I'll cook. :-)
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by derrida 15y ago
Saving an insect species is human life.
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by derrida 15y ago
So now they will describe it as home to 'hackers, thieves, ravers and squatters' :-) If you go to Berlin, you'll discover many hackers are both also ravers and squatters. If you go to a security conference, you'll find many that are thieves
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by derrida 15y ago
It's a political hack, it's making the point that it is easier to synthesise pseudoephedrine by buying crystal meth (the reason pseudoephedrine is so heavily restricted) than it is to go out and buy pseudoephedrine. It's an effort to change
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by derrida 15y ago
Adblock.
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by derrida 15y ago
....perhaps we shouldn't have these weapons...
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by derrida 15y ago
That's 2/3rd's the kilo tonnage of Hiroshima. I wouldn't call that 'low yield'. See: Hiroshima.
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by derrida 15y ago
I don't think you are getting rid of RFID, they are too cheap and low-tech to get rid of. I hear Aluminium foil does the trick.
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by derrida 15y ago
How do I opt out of all face recognition? I have a right that my personal life not be exploited for advertising by a large company.
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by derrida 15y ago
I attended 28c3 and from memory there was a tool called JStylo for discovering authorship and Anonymouth for defeating authorship recognition. Check the Chaos Computer Club site.
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by derrida 15y ago
What was there before the Royal Society? There were still universities, wasn't that 'Academia'? Or is there a specific meaning to the word 'academia' I don't know?
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by derrida 15y ago
This will work.
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by derrida 15y ago
As someone that ran a marathon and didn't think much of it, there is truth in this article! I ran because I enjoyed running: but I didn't find this out until I had been running for two weeks. Enjoyment and ease are two separate things. You
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by derrida 15y ago
Why isn't it considered a destination for technologists? You blockade Wikileaks. Period. When did Paypal's problems in this domain begin? I'm guessing circa December 2010.
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by derrida 15y ago
"All you need is a free Apple ID" - seriously Apple, what is with tracking me every time I try to use my computer for something non-trivial?
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by derrida 15y ago
1. Post link on Facebook redirected through your web server. 2. Correlate ip/site coming from with individual. Now you have stats on who is stalking/interested in you. (Disclaimer: I don't use Facebook)
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by derrida 15y ago
Google gives details of email accounts at the request of the US Government, without much of a fight. Ask Jacob Appelbaum who had his entire email account seized. Paranoia: justified. If that can happen to him, it can happen to all of us. Ev
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Iran Blocks HTTPS, Cutting Off Gmail, Yahoo and Other Major Sites(readwriteweb.com)
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by derrida 15y ago
According to the first graph, there are 100 fixies per capita in Manhattan.
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by derrida 15y ago
Dan, 25, Berlin. Python, Java, Linux (Bash). I like web apps, writing spiders, and data mining. Happy anywhere in Europe or Australia.
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by derrida 15y ago
Perhaps. But I worry those lobbying voices would only in the end represent big money, and not necessarily the small entrepreneurs and creators. I can imagine a future where a powerful tech lobby augments a bill like SOPA to benefit the exis
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by derrida 15y ago
Just launch a giant magnet at close range past it and head for the atmosphere. No debris, just burn-up.
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by derrida 15y ago
And 50% of over 65s live below the UN poverty line. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/elde...
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by derrida 15y ago
There are real reasons people buy Android over iOS. I bought an Android because of great applications like https://guardianproject.info/ and http://whispersys.com The ability to manage the security of Android down to the finest detail,
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by derrida 15y ago
He is less a "pest", more a "hero". This guy "fights for the user", to quote Tron.
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by derrida 15y ago
TL,DR. Started out with an email that looked like it was written by a scammer, got bored, moved on.
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by derrida 15y ago
Funny how those stereotypical 'beautiful' pictures found on the internet are usually ugly.
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by derrida 15y ago
Mine is up. The major ones I have checked are still up. Report any noticed downs in the Wikileaks IRC.
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by derrida 15y ago
Can you do anything to rule out it was the pre-existing cookies? It could be that Facebook doesn't mind people creating new profiles, as long as they know about it.
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by derrida 15y ago
No. The main anonymous twitter accounts have denied it and they suspect it is a ploy to get people to use LOIC to arrest activists associated with #OccupyWallStreet

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