simbalion

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by simbalion 10y ago
Go into business for yourself. Truth be told, no matter what the circumstances are that is the correct answer.
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by simbalion 10y ago
Kudos to facebook for resisting the government of brazil but why would they help the U.S. government nail media pirates and not help another government nail terrorists? This does not add up.
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by simbalion 10y ago
You can't be arrested for telling someone the street address of a crack house. Why is this different?
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by simbalion 10y ago
Corruption is a problem in every nation. Has any country found a way to curb it yet? I dont know of any examples, but everyone knows dozens of examples of countries whose governments were bought and sold years ago.
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by simbalion 10y ago
Shame on them both. I was glad to see KAT bounce back so swiftly. I don't have any emotional ties to the site, but it was time 10 years ago that big media corporations wake up and realize their business model is _dead_. They need to st
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by simbalion 10y ago
Because the people who run those companies are literally extremely old, very ignorant about technology, and they do not care what people want, only what they perceive as the best money-making investment. They don't want change, they wa
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by simbalion 10y ago
The folks who operate sites like KAT and TPB are heroes.
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by simbalion 10y ago
That is quite possibly true, and if they don't understand the language being used then they should not have a part of the conversation, should they? We don't let children participate in adult conversations for the same reason, the
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by simbalion 10y ago
tl;dr: good discipline reduces poverty.
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by simbalion 10y ago
"listen to al Qaeda" yeah that makes sense, murderers always tell the truth right? You can't buy a fully automatic firearm at a gun show without a background check. Not legally. And not without an ID card. But listen to the m
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by simbalion 10y ago
My phone rarely crashes too, but the point is it tends to crash at the worst moments (perhaps all moments are the worst moments, when you are reliant on technology). Using strong passwords and an auto-completing app like keepass, this is si
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by simbalion 10y ago
regarding the shootings, "gun free zones" are actually "safe for terror zones" and should be referred to as such.
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by simbalion 10y ago
Banning guns from citizens doesn't make life harder for terrorists. There was a video last year of an ISIS person beheading someone using a large knife, on a city street in broad daylight as pedestrians walked by on the other side of t
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by simbalion 10y ago
There's no such thing as 'safe places'. They're certainly picking and choosing their data.
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by simbalion 10y ago
I like keypairs but if you work with a lot of devices, it can be a bit troublesome managing all the per-device keys. I find passwords are a bit easier, this may be a matter of personal preference.
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by simbalion 10y ago
At the risk of sounding negative... Only a complete idiot or crook would think Snowden's activities make him a spy. He is a hero. He risked his personal safety to expose the _criminal_ activities of the U.S. government. There is nothin
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by simbalion 10y ago
The dependency list is missing "Smart phone". Anyone who's spent time in hotels in recent years knows that since switching from mechanical keys to magnetic keys, sometimes the keys break and the guest is locked out of their h
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by simbalion 10y ago
I share your optimism, and I am confident we will figure it out, which is why I describe these apps and similar ones as fads. They prey on ignorance and that will not last forever because the users are becoming less ignorant, as recent hist
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by simbalion 10y ago
I think some, and I don't mean to point a single finger because there's too many, are far too obsessed or concerned with what other people are wearing. This kind of tribal rivalry bullshit does not benefit the species at all.
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by simbalion 10y ago
People have to earn money to survive. If you don't earn money you will starve, unless other people spend their money to save you. People make the most money doing what they are best at, so it's natural that hackers would put their
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by simbalion 10y ago
No that's socialists and liberals, yuppies don't necessarily subscribe to a singular political philosophy.
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by simbalion 10y ago
It's only existed for 5 years. Technology moves very swiftly and with new capabilities comes new apps, something will replace it and so I call them fads, maybe I'm wrong to do so, but let's see if it still exists in 20 years.
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by simbalion 10y ago
I think the people in government are idiots. I think most people are not as capable or intelligent as some of us would like to believe. The really smart and exceptional people are rare, and they never go into politics. But I like both of yo
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by simbalion 10y ago
This is an excellent point. This may seem off-topic, but I realized some time ago during the debates about minimum wage increases, it wasn't the managers of fast food joints being the loudest opposition, it was lower-middle class peopl
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by simbalion 10y ago
Yes, however neither google nor facebook can be pinned down to a single product. They are now holding companies which own dozens of products, some of which are successful, some which are fads.
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by simbalion 10y ago
Why would you keep 14 years of your labors on a server owned by an uninterested corporation with no off-site backups anywhere?
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by simbalion 10y ago
This stuff is a fad, like the housing bubble and the .com boom. People who don't really understand technology or the internet or how people use both think they smell gold and they take us on these ridiculous roller coaster rides about
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by simbalion 10y ago
http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=nmona&article=71967573 story without the adwall. "do no evil" yeah whatever..
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by simbalion 10y ago
Our government, at least under this administration and other recent administrations, seems to have forgotten that they exist to _serve_ us. Maybe it's not treason, but it's definitely an abdication of their responsibilities as pub
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by simbalion 10y ago
I've read a number of music theory books and guides, and not one of them contained: "unjustified superstition, non-reasoning, and funny symbols glorified by Latin phrases". In fact all were based on mathematics and at least s

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