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by sentenza 13y ago
In a now deleted comment somebody claimed that this info didn't contribute much. After all, this isn't reddit. However, while I was at first hesitant to submit it, there are IMO a few aspects to this that are relevant to the HN co
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At first I was hesitant to submit it, but then saw that there are quite a few relevant aspects to this: 1. If the US state department can't keep its communications secure, how are we supposed to do it with the communications between ou
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Ah, thank you for that link. I so far hadn't seen an English-language article on the incident, so I submitted the German one with some more context in the comments.
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Accompanying text: Somebody, possibly the Russian government, intercepted a phone call between the "Europe person" in the state department and the US ambassador in Ukraine. The phone call was then put on Youtube, see [1]. [1] htt
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"Fuck the EU" – Phone call intercept (Google translate)(translate.google.com)
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I'm no friend of Bitcoin, but won't disregarding early adopters lead them one step closer to becoming Microsoft?
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Here in Germany, police and intelligence agencies are separated more clearly than in most other states[1]. The anglosphere tends to be rather sloppy with these things. [1] http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=e
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Nobody is laughing. I've started re-listening some of the podcasts by people from the CCC and from that have gathered a reasonable situation-assessment mechanism: Assume "their" (NSA, GCHQ) managers are as competent as yourse
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Wait a minute. Intelligence agencies _are not_ law enforcement. This is a common misconception. Intelligence agencies do not engage in law enforcement, even though in some nation-states police have access to some intelligence agency informa
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I hope the prolonged exposure to low-sex-high-violence content from the US doesn't damage our moral compass over here. When I was a kid, there was still the occasional female toplessness in movies targeted at the whole family.
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Yes! Are you an EU citizen? If so, it would be great if you could voice your opinion in the ongoing consultation on the review of the EU copyright rules, currently held by the European Commision. Here's the link: http://ec.e
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That's probably the point. Clothing is a less relevant competitor for the scarce financial resources of teenagers than it used to be. So where did the teenagers go? Apple store.
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Yes! _IF_ this isn't immediately shot down, things will become interesting. The German officials can always hide behind police/antiterror investigations for data they requested, HOWEVER: The collecting and storing of user data and
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That 50 galon number is wrong. With a modern dishwasher (at least the ones sold here in Europe) you will always use less water than hand-washing, since there is massive re-circulation of the water in the dishwasher.
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So explain Spain. They have massive farming operations in a rather dry area and yet use significantly less water than the US. A significant portion of the vegetables and fruits in any grocery store here in Germany come from Spain.
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Maybe they should also make micro-donations to the authors of videos possible? They'd get a cut of the payment as profit and it would also "incentivize the content creators" (I feel dirty now.).
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Thank you and thanks also to the good people at archive.org. The whole situation makes more sense now, given those links. I also just remembered that the original video of the interview was region-locked for Germany (where I live) on youtub
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There will always be places online for people that do not like to pay. The question is, for how long will those places remain good places? I don't use ADN either, but AFAIK it is used by a rather active "in crowd" here in Ger
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You'd not be paying for every site you want to watch. Only those that are most important to you. Also, not everybody using the site would be paying. If content is supposed to be available to paying and non-paying users, then maybe (in
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Ah, you misunderstood. I was talking about a Skyrim-like Elder scrolls game _after_ Elder Scrolls Online. That is what I consider unlikely.
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I was surprised to hear there was a blackout. The reddit commentary shows that it was picked up, albeit with lackluster coverage. One important thing is still missing, though: Where is a link to the video that has a chance of persisting for
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Anybody who works in infrastructure for a big European ISP is a target. That's a lot of people who are currently living relatively normal lives.
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Fair enough. My sense of time is gone since having kids. Though I'm fairly confident with my prediction about Warcraft 4. There are probably a lot of people at Blizzard, right now, thinking about how to make "the next WOW" wo
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It is true though, that an MMORPG is very likely to destroy an RPG franchise. Anybody still waiting for Warcraft 4. How about a new Elder Scrolls game?
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A near-perfect copy of Slashdot was supposedly served to infect "targets" with malware. Since Slashdot isn't the center of the IT world any more, the logical conclusion must be this: Who of us (reading this) is currently bein
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Yea. The first 500 years of history of my region in Germany were lost on September 11th 1944 when the archives of Darmstadt were consumed by a firestorm.
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Well, I gave up when I saw that it wasn't written in anything I could work with, so this is news to me. Also, having had some bad experiences with to-C translated code (looking at you, Matlab), I'd say that knowing that Web2C exis
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There is another problem. Some time ago, I thought about integrating LaTeX into user-facing software, not to render an entire web page but to generate a few formulas and images containing formulas in real-time or close to real-time. It brea
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Add to that, that the physical and mental strain which having children will put on you is better absorbed at a young, but not too young age (if you actually take care of the children, as opposed to offloading the work on your SO). I (on pur
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You're welcome. If you want to deploy and maintain many machines, then maybe FAI[1] might be worth a look. It allows you to maintain a consistent state over an arbitrary number of machines running a Debian-based distribution, with _and

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