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by sentenza 13y ago
This is not a surprise, though. While I'm not Italian myself, I can attest that Italy (more specifically: The south of Italy) has a Europe-wide reputation for corruption. It seems that things have been getting better lately, or maybe t
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Wait a minute. WTF? If the system sends signals EXACTLY every 30 minutes, then a very careful reconstruction of signal running times (combined of course with the positions of the recieving antennae and the EXACT times the signals were recie
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By method of elimination, the only nation-state that is insane enough to try something like this and has a non-zero chance to keep it under wraps is North Korea. But, given the position that the plane disappeared, it is IMO impossible to fl
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People often conflate socialism and Soviet-style centrally planned communism or, alternatively capitalism and the market economy. I think it would be helpful to view the socio-economic spectrum in two dimensions here. One axis is the capita
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I think you misunderstood the GP. He means that the internet runs on linux, so the OS is a high-value target. Thus, it is reasonable to assume that the intelligence agencies have collected some as-of-now-unknown-to-the-public vulnerabilitie
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Maybe it is the other way round. He didn't want to damage his professional reputation which could have happened if important and vocal members of the crypto community had declared that they thought the project ridiculous. Just like Car
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Being slim to deliver only essential functionality is one thing, but playing fast and loose with user data is not a shortcut that should be rewarded so lavishly.
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What's troubling is, that their security track record has been abysmal from the start. In that regard, the acquisition sends entirely the wrong message.
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As a German, I would like to point out that the German government also behaved abysmally in these cases, both with Al-Masri and also with Murat Kurnaz[1]. The latter case has shown us that Frank Walter Steinmeier is a wolf in a sheeps coat.
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I had some hope that maybe somebody just snatched the plane in order to kidnap the Freescale Semiconductor employees, but that seems impossible by now. The only nation that has performed such Bond-esque schemes in the past and still exists
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I know that there is a cost attached, even though, from an argumentative stand point I sometimes want to wish it away... That is where transfer payments between the publically fincanced broadcasters come in. Make one big nice platform where
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The BBC is more than TV. The BBC is a cultural lifeline. It might be less so today in the age of the internet but it still is significant. If you say there is no moral obligation, then what is the reason for the BBC or ARD or YLE or TVE or
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Why? There is proof to the contrary. The Eurovision Song Contest has been streamed via a decentralized peer-to-peer protocol (albeit proprietary) for some years now. And the BBC is involved with that. So what is different here? Furthermore,
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> Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only Yes, well. It's not like the publically financed television stations of EUrope have FUCKING MORAL OBLIGATION to help the free movement of people throughout E
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I'd say this sounds like a case of "Idea whose time has come". Sometimes, the flow of culture and technology creates a situation in which certain ideas keep bubbling up. Might be that decentralized accounting is one of those
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You are right that Python 2 is good enough, but I'd add a majestically large "yet", because that will change from one day to the other. My primary machine runs Arch Linux, a distro that switched the /usr/bin/py
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I'd say it makes sense for equation-heavy fields. The biophysics stuff I did during my Phd, however, worked very well with Powerpoint. I'd always have the images-and-diagrams-only presentation without text as my goal, which I usua
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Lately I've grown weary of the overall tone that Hollywood productions (and to some extend American media productions in general) have. Maybe I've gotten old or maybe I'm hopelessly out of touch with mainstream culture but tw
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One main reason that Bitcoin cannot, IMO, replace the current banking system is that the coupling of banks and government guarantees stability. If you have a bank account anywhere within the EU, the first 100.000€ (or thereabout) on that ac
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Note, however, that not every country on the planet has a Craigslist equivalent. I don't know of one of notable size here in Germany. Over here, Ebay is the fleamarket of the internet, dominating the used items market. There are some e
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I don't know what the situation in the UK is, but it is probably safe to say that, while possibly legally in the right, such a publication is risky in most jurisdictions. Personally, what I'd do in such a situation is to contact a
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I am happy to hear that. From my experience, some inroads have been made in universities regarding the ethics of research projects. Security of the computer systems used to store and handle tha data, on the other hand, is way to often still
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Do you still work in that field? If so, you're probably one of the few people that IMO actually should have some access to that data. Maybe you'll get lucky and the data will become a researcher free-for-all, like the Enron emails
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I'd also assume the worst, even if there are no patient names out. There are too many examples of de-anonymization of purposefully anonymized data out there to warrant any belief that missing real world names alone should constitute mu
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It all depends on the value we assign to privacy. My personal opinion is that the handling of patient data should legally be protected somewhere on a scale between banking data and state secrets. If those kinds of data are mishandled, there
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Also, we now see that the Wild West metaphor for Bitcoin banking carries quite far. If you fuck up in the wilderness, you'll not only be sorry, but you'll also be ripped apart by the wolves! Maybe this can serve as a warning that
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There is a reason that speaking Japanese correctly is a highly valuable skill. For me personally, though, the amount of "communication rites" in Japanese business interactions is enough to be scared away. On the other hand, I&#x27
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Everybody who doesn't have children, read the parent post! Most children will go through a phase where they throw tantrums. Different children have different needs, but for some you just have to let them kick and sream themselves to th
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Uh huh. Do you know when I last time have seen a gun here in Germany, not carried by a police officer? Never. I have never seen a non-official handle a weapon, except on Television. In my life. Oh by the way. Memories are long, sure. I rece
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I'd say that is wishful thinking. The number of college shooting perpetrators that expected to get away without being killed is most likely zero. Here in Germany there are very few guns. Nonetheless, one of the typical places to go on

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