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by hastur 15y ago
Just another data point confirming a well known pattern: The Israeli government has no common sense. They behave like fanatics and should be treated as such.
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by hastur 15y ago
Don't you know US law enforcement and Homeland Security are seriously fucked up? No-one from the civilized world should go to the US, unless it's necessary, and then you just do your business and get out, and not wander around waiting for s
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by hastur 15y ago
Sony is evil. They put rootkits on CDs. They sued a kid (GeoHot) that tinkered around with his private PS3. Most likely, they are one of the originators of ACTA. I hope they loose more money. Much more.
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by hastur 15y ago
Here's a fun fact for our "self-serving non-signatory" colleague: Poland signed ACTA on Jan 26th, while Germany hasn't until now. Also, you might be interested to know that Poland isn't merely killing ACTA with the use of fig leaves, like
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by hastur 15y ago
Because of the hits ACTA is constantly taking. Initially the adoption process went silently, as in other places, like the US. There were a few mentions in some geek media, but 99.9% of the society never heard of ACTA (not to mention having
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by hastur 15y ago
Hell yeah! Europe will kill ACTA! :D
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by hastur 15y ago
That's funny, but I think putting MPAA and RIAA in one line with China and Iran is actually not such a huge stretch. After all, how much difference is there between a Chinese kid being thrown in jail for a blog post critical of the communis
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by hastur 15y ago
Not all are, because not all of them are worth it. For most companies, the worst scenario is that a low-ranking officer will ask them for a little money for krysha . But Yandex is no small potatoes. Also, it's a mind trap to refuse to pond
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by hastur 15y ago
I have absolutely no quarrel or suspicion of the average Yandex employee. I'm sure the company is filled with intelligent and well-intentioned people. But surely you must realize, you would have no idea if the security services had exerted
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by hastur 15y ago
The CIA has nowhere near as much control over those businesses, it's limited by all kinds of legal obstacles and procedures. The FSB can do almost anything they want. Also, the CIA has a mission dictated by the US govt. You can disagree wit
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by hastur 15y ago
I can't know for sure, but if you know enough about the realities of that environment, you realize it's almost inevitable. Yandex is too tasty of a prey, and the security services are too powerful. [And I don't even know what you mean by "p
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by hastur 15y ago
Can you please read my comment in full? Evidence of what? I've said immediately below that it's an oversimplification, as you must obviously realize, intended to catch peoples' attention? Or do you want me to provide evidence that: - Yandex
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by hastur 15y ago
No one is suggesting that Brazil should run the Internet. I'm just saying that Brazil is capable of independent thinking and could be a force for positive change in Internet governance. And, personally, I would be even more hopeful for EU i
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by hastur 15y ago
Yandex = FSB (former KGB) why? An oversimplification, yes, but people should be more careful. Current security services in Russia haven't really changed much since the Soviet times, except they are more "capitalistic" in their motivations.
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by hastur 15y ago
That's great, except China and Russia can't impose anything. As the article says, the UN body is representative, every of the 190-sth members has a vote, and only some of them are despotic autocracies that will align themselves with China a
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by hastur 15y ago
The article conveniently omits the fact that the Internet is already partially regulated by one side: the US. After all, ICANN et al. are American organizations and many of the most popular top domains (e.g. .com), which for all intents and
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by hastur 15y ago
I'd be more interested in node.js (with V8) and mongodb on ARM.
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by hastur 15y ago
Wow, this is actually quite big. I'd say, more significant than the previous decision by Poland (and then other EU counties) to suspend ACTA ratification. Suspension meant merely that they needed to think more about this. Now Poland comes o
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by hastur 15y ago
Good luck, Onanymous. Big talk, like with Facebook, but nothing will happen.
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by hastur 15y ago
I don't know but I very much doubt that airports pay for TSA staff. At worst, airports provide electricity for all the equipment, like scanners, and don't make any money off the space used up by TSA (screening rooms, etc).
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by hastur 15y ago
I doubt that's even possible. US airports don't have much to say in terms of TSA presence. US security services have shown very poor judgment on multiple occasions, in Canada now you're a child pornography supporter if you don't like intern
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Ask HN: Is there a HN-like site for Foreign Policy and International Relations?
4 points by hastur 15y ago|2 comments
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by hastur 15y ago
Flame bait? ;)
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by hastur 15y ago
It's purely PR, since Poland signed ACTA already on Jan 26th with 21 other EU countries. Now ratification is mainly up to the EU Parliament. A "yes" vote in EU will mean 90% of ACTA still applies in Poland, regardless of national ratificati
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by hastur 15y ago
Maybe in US, not elsewhere. In Poland, we already had some nice anti-ACTA protests on 24-26 of January, pushing our govt into panic mode, and if word spreads we will kick butts again on Feb 11.
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Obama Dodges a Direct Question on UK Student Extradition for Piracy(youtube.com)
1 points by hastur 15y ago|0 comments
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Obama dodges direct question on UK "pirate" student extradition.(youtube.com)
1 points by hastur 15y ago|0 comments
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by hastur 15y ago
Second Update [Jan 27th]: An opinion poll on ACTA was just published in Poland: 1) 64% oppose signing ACTA, (while 21% approve) 2) 60% disagree that ACTA will help fighting internet piracy, (29% agree) 3) 52% think that ACTA will curb civil
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by hastur 15y ago
Poland is in NATO so the threat from Russia is vastly overestimated. Poland is also a great friend of Germany.
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by hastur 15y ago
Well, they did what they could. La Quadrature Du Net is a French site that also publishes in English. We should be glad that we could learn about this development.

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