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by np422 13y ago
When I was a kid/teenager I blew up everything from large condensators, old TV sets, pet-bottles and one time there was even a broken window. I didn't end up as a criminal or a terrorist .... I got and engineering degree. Society need to r
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by np422 13y ago
My translation from political correct English would be that it is supposed to cover up for lack of real leadership skills? If the staff doesn't have the knowledge/tools required and/or the work morale that is needed to be productive and get
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by np422 13y ago
(I actually had to google skyrim, I'm that old ...) Please take a few minutes to rethink copyright from the ground up without any regards to what you have been told by anyone... Where does copyright originate? What purpose does it serve in
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by np422 13y ago
People who defend copyright take copyright for given, as that would be the normal state which can not be questioned. Don't pretend to a higher level of intellectual honesty or moral strength. Your position can lay claim to neither. Culture,
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by np422 13y ago
Most captchas look like that to me. I frequently have to click reload half a dozen times or more before I find one that I'm able to decode. I think there is an opportunity for user experience improvement when it comes to stopping bots.
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by np422 13y ago
Please forgive for painting a picture with a broad brush. I wasn't really talking about subways, they only served as a metaphor for the society at large.
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by np422 13y ago
Almost all of the things that I consider to be "excessive policing" and taking us in the wrong direction has happened since the the late 1980-ish, with a very strong acceleration after 9/11. I don't think reversing to a state comparable to
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by np422 13y ago
The rush of moral righteousness and overall feeling of superiority that non-smokers must get when they are agitating are obvious very addictive and I think that should be regulated. It's amazing how far the brainwashing have gone in regards
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by np422 13y ago
(English is not my native language) I am very surprised by the very large amount of statism that seems to be present in USA in general and on hacker news in particular. The high level of support for GWOT and all the side dishes like TSA, ma
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by np422 13y ago
I wasn't really talking about subways but rather trying to use a metaphor. :) Mad Max style Anarchy on one hand, the total and brutal police state on the other and a cosy middle ground somewhere between. My point being that we are now leavi
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by np422 13y ago
About ten years ago some guys from Saudi Arabia made it their goal to strike terror into US of A. I would say that they have done a pretty good job.
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by np422 13y ago
(English is not my native language) I am very surprised by the very large amount of statism that seems to be present in USA in general and on hacker news in particular. The high level of support for GWOT and all the side dishes like TSA, ma
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by np422 13y ago
"First they came ...."
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by np422 13y ago
GWOT has been taken a few steps to far. TSA and DHS are true examples how the terrorist actually have won, we now fear them so much we have changed our ways and our open/free society. We, as in the western / developed world. And no matter h
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by np422 13y ago
My knowledge of how the US systems works in practise is limited, but as draugadrotten says in another comment - the penal system of Sweden is in general preferable to US. But when it comes to legal security it really is much harder choice b
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by np422 13y ago
Swedish authorities are obviously out to get him, if he is kept under arrest he won't be able to subract that time from any prison ruling in another case - even if he is acquitted.
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by np422 13y ago
I really envy you naive notion on Swedish legal security. Take a look at our modern history. Confiscation of not yet published newspapers during world war II. The German troop transports, the extradition of Baltic citizens, the IB-matter, f
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by np422 13y ago
There is a high probability that this is false accusations, just "because we can" from the prosecutors ... I'm from Sweden and I'm very sad to say that I don't consider Sweden to fulfil all the requirements for rule of law and legal securit
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by np422 13y ago
Americans, please don't start another war because of this.
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by np422 13y ago
Just because one man said something back in the 18th century and was wrong does not mean that anyone who says something vaguely similar also is wrong. World population, energy consumed, paper clips manufactured, fishes caught in the sea - a
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by np422 14y ago
This is it, the final call, privacy invading has gone to far. I'm already wearing at least half a tinfoil hat, now it's time to put it on leave it there. I have already deleted my facebook account a long time ago and honestly I haven't miss
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by np422 14y ago
Have you ever read an eula? Have you ever heard of someone winning a lawsuit against a software vendor? Have you even heard of someone getting any kind of monetary compensation for mishaps caused by software bugs? The suing part is purely f
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by np422 14y ago
Or one may argue that all file-sharing law suits are indeed trolls and a gross waste of resources. Please read http://www.copyrightreform.eu/sites/copyrightreform.eu/files... , English is not my native language and I can't make the argume
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by np422 14y ago
If your performance bottleneck is at the database layer it's a difficult problem to solve, scaling relational databases requires all kinds of witchcraft and magic such as read-only replicas, sharding, result-caching ... But it is very simpl
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by np422 14y ago
(English is not my native language) Open relays were at the time manageable, even the ones that suddenly appeared when someone installed an old OS-version, as were the process for getting removed from the blacklists due to open relays. Once
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by np422 14y ago
Or perhaps they are? We really need places like cyberbunker to keep internet free and open. The day the the last piece of w4r3z, pr0n and other 1337 stuff is taken away from the internet the infrastructure would have to be in place to prett
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by np422 14y ago
A long time ago in a galaxy far away I was a sysadmin at a local university. Trying to keep mail-servers running and keeping up with the different spam clearing houses different policies that kept changing without notice was a lot of work b
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by np422 14y ago
Spamhaus can be a real PITA to deal with, all in attitude "squeal like a pig, or you'll end up on the blocked list - bitch!" Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. What can I do to provide extra firepower in the ongoing ddos against them?
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by np422 14y ago
This was a really good presentation, I've worked with postgres and enterprisedb on and off for many years but I still managed to learn a few new things.
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by np422 14y ago
You have obviously never used Oracle RAC .. :)

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