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by iwr 16y ago
Browsing through the webcam list (child safe mode off), every other one appears to be a bloke wanking. So what's the site's business model?
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by iwr 16y ago
Back when I started programming VB many years ago, I discovered the following expression: ON ERROR RESUME NEXT Armed with only the help file (no manual), coding felt easy. "An error, you say? Just skip and pretend it never happened"
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by iwr 16y ago
This is not just about Wikileaks, but all websites deemed objectionable by the government. Remember the original motive behind such laws: protecting children online.
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by iwr 16y ago
The cables are not necessarily proof.
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by iwr 16y ago
This is not a new finding, Google is competent enough to realize who is behind such kinds of attacks. That's why they kicked up a big storm (threatening to leave China etc).
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by iwr 16y ago
No institutional change per se, but a realization that state institutions enjoy too many information protections. These protections are ostensibly in place to further "national security", but are in fact a means to cover up crime. Julian As
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by iwr 16y ago
Let's wait and see. Besides, whore or not, the world is a better place due to wikileaks.
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by iwr 16y ago
OK, so generic, policy-based programming is a possible alternative to classic OO. Can you recommend a few free thematic resources?
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by iwr 16y ago
The link did not make it clear how fossil fuels are subsidized.
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by iwr 16y ago
For one, there are almost(?) no unclaimed patches of land available. If you look at a political map of the Pacific, most of it is locked up between the EEZ of various states and micro-states. http://www.spc.int/aquaculture/images/stories/d
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by iwr 16y ago
Most IPSs think that DNS is an afterthought, to be stuffed in an old box and forgotten. Typical scenario: wait for a request, deny that request, then cache and honor the request the second time round.
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by iwr 16y ago
Thanks, I was not aware of that aspect.
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by iwr 16y ago
The core of tyranny is Orwellian because there are people out to get power for its own sake. Still, Orwell's bitter pill has to be sugared with some Huxley before people are tricked into taking it. Even in a Huxley's world, there would stil
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by iwr 16y ago
Hosts files. Given that storing megabyte-sized data is no problem, it can work even for individual users. Update your hosts off your peers in a web'o'trust fashion. But DNS is the easiest thing to circumvent and hence, there will be pressur
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by iwr 16y ago
What are database rights?
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by iwr 16y ago
Intellectual property is a misnomer, or at least a weaker form of property. It's not about free speech, but rather about the particulars of owning an idea which may reside in another mind. Calling it theft outright is framing the question.
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by iwr 16y ago
That story sounds apocryphal. Why did it come up now?
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by iwr 16y ago
Your best bet is geoIP: http://www.geoiptool.com/en/?IP=32.165.154.5 If you really want to track the person down, you may not to change the gmail password, then monitor the account for further intrusions. Note that a smart intruder will a
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by iwr 16y ago
Not the first precedent. Remember blogetery? http://www.zdnet.com/news/blog-site-shut-down-after-potentia... No commercial and centralized system is safe from censorship/seizure.
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by iwr 16y ago
Technically, if Google is indexing sites accused of wrongdoing, the MPAA could force Google itself to filter search results (or serve them with a court order to do so). On a wider scale, if you link to a site that links to another site, wou
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by iwr 16y ago
So ISPs would reverse-lookup all IPs requested by their customers, mapped onto a list of banned domains or naked IPs?
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7 ways the Mafia made the US a better place(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by iwr 16y ago|0 comments
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Engineering is not science(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by iwr 16y ago|1 comments
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Memristor neuronal simulation (MoNETA)(spectrum.ieee.org)
6 points by iwr 16y ago|0 comments
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by iwr 16y ago
Is it really wise to build a financial transaction system on top of an unsecure GSM network?
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by iwr 16y ago
Is it an explicit fee increase, or a removal of a fee cap already in place?
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HP-Oracle war: HP ditches Oracle CRM for Salesforce(theregister.co.uk)
14 points by iwr 16y ago|4 comments
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by iwr 16y ago
There are no known deaths or crippling longterm effects of THC, as opposed to alcohol.
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by iwr 16y ago
These substances are significantly more dangerous than hash. They are periodically banned and so there is high churn of new concoctions. People have been smoking hash for thousands of years and it is probably the safest drug out there. But
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by iwr 16y ago
There is no Dark Side of the Moon. The _far_ side receives as much sunlight as the other hemisphere.

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