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by gasull 15y ago
We're living interesting times.
782.
by gasull 15y ago
Look for another job. Seriously. I'm not saying you should quit right now. Find something better, then quit. They don't deserve your talent.
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by gasull 15y ago
And VISA and Mastercard helped censoring WikiLeaks in the past, illegally blocking its funds.
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Ask HN: How can I boycott pro-SOPA Comcast if I live in San Francisco?
3 points by gasull 15y ago|2 comments
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by gasull 15y ago
SOPA is going to hurt our industry so much. It's going to be destructive for Silicon Valley. Taking a stand is necessary. YC startups are going to have much a harder time is SOPA passes. Even from just an economic point of view, it's bet
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by gasull 15y ago
I was going to say the same thing. Thank you PG for doing your part. Thank you so much.
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by gasull 15y ago
Tor is designed to circunvent censorship, including SOPA. So yes, it matches the definition.
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by gasull 15y ago
Hollywood can, and will, throw more money at the problem. I doubt you can beat them on their own game. That said, I will contribute to the fund-raise. Better trying than not.
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by gasull 15y ago
Since the amendment is propossed, that confirms that SOPA would, otherwise, ban Tor. Until the amendment is actually in SOPA, that's the reaility: Tor will be banned by SOPA.
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by gasull 15y ago
I've used http://www.name.com/ in the past. It's cheap and with very good usability, unlike the clunky GoDaddy's UI.
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Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration(ted.com)
2 points by gasull 15y ago|0 comments
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by gasull 15y ago
I installed SELinux on LMDE and Firefox was crashing all the time. I had to remove it. SELinux is a good idea except... it isn't, because everything breaks with SELinux and makes your Linux installation unstable, at least for the desktop.
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The goal is to break the Internet(yro.slashdot.org)
3 points by gasull 15y ago|0 comments
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by gasull 15y ago
The only difference with other states of countries is that California got the budget crisis sooner, so it woke up first. It's better to have the crisis when you can still raise taxes (or cut spending).
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by gasull 15y ago
This is an invitation to play the lobby game. To me it reads like "we should bribe Congress too". But can we do that? Large corporations will have disproportionally much more economic power to bribe Congress. They can throw money at the
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by gasull 15y ago
Why should they receive any money from lobbies? How's that good for our country and our democracy?
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Vint Cerf: SOPA means 'unprecedented censorship', will undermine security(cacm.acm.org)
99 points by gasull 15y ago|3 comments
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by gasull 15y ago
Or they care too much about the money they get from lobbies. SOPA creator got half a million dollars: http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/18/1836249/sopa-cre...
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SOPA creator received half a million dollars from the TV/Film/Music lobby(politics.slashdot.org)
300 points by gasull 15y ago|64 comments
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by gasull 15y ago
If SOPA passes, every user-generated content website is going to have tremendous costs, in many cases prohibitive. I think only Facebook and a few players would have the resources to police their content. This is going to be really bad fo
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by gasull 15y ago
> If they use the .es TLD, then shouldn't anyone with access to a name server that accurately mirrors the zones for that domain have access? I don't see how it's in the US's power to prevent that. I think ICANN still has the power to
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by gasull 15y ago
> I don't understand why this should be downvoted. Are those downvoting it suggesting that the government does indeed want to see these sites go? Or that they will go? The Government doesn't care, and the sites will go because it will
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Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly mean the end of reddit"(reddit.com)
427 points by gasull 15y ago|150 comments
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Why bitcoin will rise in price again, but it will take years(forum.theuklibertarian.com)
37 points by gasull 15y ago|30 comments
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by gasull 15y ago
I mean the African emigrants that send money back home to their families.
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by gasull 15y ago
> On the other hand I suppose the existence of Silk Road is not sufficient to drive prices up Right now Bitcoin has a controlled monetary inflation of 30% a year. Its user base isn't growing. It's actually shrinking if you count the
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by gasull 15y ago
You made me search for it. Apparently it was a rumor: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/ubuntu-is-not-changing-to...
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by gasull 15y ago
Except the difference in speed is really noticeable.
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by gasull 15y ago
I've skimmed it. My point is that, if the source code of Stuxnet is available on the Internet, anyone could have created Duqu.
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by gasull 15y ago
Why does the article assume is made by the same people who wrote Stuxnet? Stuxnet source code from an IDA Pro dump is available in GitHub and in torrents.

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