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by kleim 14y ago
"Islamic cities and countries were much more tolerant of other religions than Christian cities and countries" Of course. You were safe and treated as nearly equal to other citizens as long as you paid a tax for your "protection": the Dhimmi
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by kleim 14y ago
I see one huge issue: if you lose the flash drive, you lose ALL of the data you collected. At least you a assured to get part of the data when it is broadcast.
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by kleim 14y ago
And you forgot the 70% of unavailable call centers in the US!
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by kleim 14y ago
"Hacker" would have a really different meaning then...
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by kleim 14y ago
At least in France we have a law stating that if a third-party patent owner fails to do something with the patent, the initial patent holder takes all his right on the patent back. No wonder why many lobby want to get rid of this to "have h
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by kleim 14y ago
Hence the "So to find out, I'm teaming up with someone with an iPhone" at the end of the text. Seeing the number of complaints saying he is going to rob, I guess nobody read the whole text?
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by kleim 14y ago
Some astounding figures about Minitel in the beginning of this other article: http://owni.fr/2012/06/28/jai-ete-animatrice-de-minitel-rose... Translated from French: "In 2011, 420,000 people 'only' have connected, against 25 million at it
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by kleim 14y ago
I also heard many farmers are still using it to trade cattle or watch weather forecasts of their region. I wonder how they will handle the end of the Minitel.
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by kleim 14y ago
Part of the huge prices is explained by the fact terminals were subzidized. IIIRC their real cost was around 1000 FRF but were nearly given for free. This is the economic model that is still used by all mobile phones operators in France now
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by kleim 14y ago
"Remember what Christians were doing 600 years ago? Inquisition, Crusades, etc" Yeah Christians did it 600 YEARS AGO. But islamic countries do that kind of horror nowadays and AFAIK they did not developed in a bubble, isolated from the othe
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by kleim 14y ago
Absolutely. You cannot kill such an emblematic figure like Assange without making a martyr of him. You must not kill the guy, you must kill his credibility.
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by kleim 14y ago
You forgot CEA (nuclear and renewable energy, microelectronics, defense,... 16k people).
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by kleim 15y ago
Vim can be a decent, fast Python IDE with the right plugins too: http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/2009/02/python-and-vim-mak...
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by kleim 15y ago
This is so ridiculous. China really thinks US Army is using Google maps? I wonder how they did not figured out that all armies are not working like theirs...
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by kleim 15y ago
Lost Labyrinth is a nice graphical roguelike. Games are relatively short but it has a high replayability. http://www.lostlabyrinth.com/
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by kleim 15y ago
"In fact every piece of hardware on this rig worked perfect without no fiddling around." Holy crap! Where is the fun now?
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by kleim 15y ago
You can also define a "minimum font size" in your browser options. This trick really changed my life. Sadly, the rendering can turn ugly on websites with a poor and/or overly complex design (e.g.: facebook.com).
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by kleim 15y ago
Ahahah! Wait, they really took this prank as serious?
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by kleim 15y ago
Someone posted recently about a nice, step by step, tutorial: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2936670
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by kleim 15y ago
When will I be able to print my own T-bone with my 3D printer?
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by kleim 15y ago
And Google would release Cyborg, an "open source" firmware communicating with your GPS chip in your Android phone and... Oh wait! We're screwed o_0
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by kleim 15y ago
It reminds me an episode from Big Bang Theory.
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by kleim 15y ago
What I would be worried about is that bionic people would totally depend on a company: "Your iLeg 3 is broken? Too bad this version is not supported anymore. Upgrade to iLeg 6 for $6000 only!"
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by kleim 15y ago
Is this one of the example you are looking for? http://gizmodo.com/5717309/what-happens-when-you-steal-a-hac... (talk from Def Con '11)
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by kleim 15y ago
Same here. I had difficulties not to cry the first time I put my glasses because I found everything was so wonderful!
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by kleim 15y ago
No, I prefer 'river of news' style aggregators like Zencancan.