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by slowpoke 15y ago
Sorry, my bad. I'm not that familiar with the specific terminology, so I tend to confuse some things. A better formulation would have been "TLDs which are based in the US".
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by slowpoke 15y ago
This isn't about blocking domains, this is about the DHS or FBI seizing the domain, which they can only do with TLDs whose registrar is located in the US (.com, .net, .org, .us, amongst others)
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by slowpoke 15y ago
As far as I understand it, Freenet is exactly that. Participants offer a part of their harddrive as storage for the network, and content is distributed in an encrypted manner. Websites and other services can be (and are) build on top of thi
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You could even change the search engine from Google to something else if you want. It's a field in about:config called 'keyword.URL'. I haven't even needed the dedicated search bar since I switched to DuckDuckGo thanks to the !bang commands
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I don't have any strategies, really. I just never had problems with a clogged RAM to begin with. Concerning crashes (which became incredibly rare after I decided to just not have Flash installed anymore[1]), Firefox usually is able to just
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by slowpoke 15y ago
If you're seriously basing consumer-friendliness on the ability of a two-year old to operate it, then I'm sorry, but I fundamentally disagree with your idea of consumer-friendly. Also, if you can teach a 2-year-old to put a disc into a play
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by slowpoke 15y ago
And as an added bonus, you're reclaiming a lot of your online privacy. Unless that was your main reason to install all these addons in the first place (as is the case for myself). It also tends to speed up page load times, often by magnitud
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>C makes tight resource control possible, and to do that it sacrifices a lot of ease. I'm not a C programmer (yet), but I would say that depends on what you define as "easy" or "simple". What I am is an Arch Linux user, and I embrace
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>An acquisition or exclusivity deal with the increasingly desperate Nintendo would be money well spent. Please elaborate, in what way is Nintendo "desperate"? I'm not really following the console market anymore, but last I checked was
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>The properties inherent to physical media are some of the most consumer friendly aspects of distribution. I don't think so. What's consumer friendly about plastic garbage that takes up space, is ridden with unskipable ads, DRM to boo
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I'm talking about the "free market", which is a race to the bottom, which I really don't think anyone wants our education to become.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
A technical solution to this might be a form of encryption the requires a writable disk to actually decrypt anything. I don't know if that is possible, but it would effectively prevent these safeguards to work. And remember, you don't nee
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>I'm not convinced that academics are better qualified to predict the needs of society regards knowledge and education any more than the free market is. On the contrary, I'm pretty sure the free market is the last thing qualified for
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Students do problems because they will get a number for it. And that's exactly the problem with the entire system. We need other ways to give incentives and motivation. The point is that plain numbered grades suck at giving motiv
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I find it truly sad when education has to conform to demands of companies, when instead it should be the other way round. A fail/pass system with a narrative evaluation would be much better for students at any age. It helps identify problem
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I don't know why you are getting downvoted, you present valid objections to the assumption that everything will always go smoothly. Education should be highly fault-tolerant instead of punishing failure which might not even have been in you
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>The data at my college shows that students who get an A or B in a math class have a very high probability of passing the next math class. Students who get a C in a math class have a much lower probability of passing the next math clas
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by slowpoke 15y ago
That's an interesting point, however I doubt that the personal ego of some people is a strong enough reason to impose the grading system on everyone . And while this more of a philosophical point than anything, I think that this form of co
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>No, no its not. Its to show that you've learned the material. But it doesn't do that. It merely shows you were able to perform well in a contrived testing environment that has little to do with how you'd actually approach problems in
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I don't really see a pretty much imaginary, arbitrary number on a piece of paper judging my performance in an artificial testing environment as a motivation in any way, shape or form. On the contrary, I think it's highly discouraging. In
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Normally programming is the design process, with pseudo-code and flowcharts and jackson structured programming charts and etc, while coding is just taking that and writing it in some language. That sounds more like software engineeri
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by slowpoke 15y ago
That is why we call it "security theater" - because every informed person will realize it's a heap of bullshit that serves no purpose but to get people used to methods of a authoritarian police state. Terrorism is a retarded excuse, period,
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I think it's besides the point that there are alternatives. Locked down hardware should be universally frowned upon, no matter who is trying to control it - whether that's Microsoft, Apple, or anyone else. It's downright sickening to see th
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You could ask the Wikileaks folks and community around them for help. I'm sure they wouldn't be adverse to such a project.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
If you really believe that, you have neither understood basic cause and effect nor the entire problem of copyright in the digital age of unlimited sharing.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>How does one adapt? If distribution is dead than what's the alternative? That's not my problem, to be blunt. I'm simply stating the fact that distribution as a business model is dead in the face of unlimited, near-costless sharing of
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>You're stance on this takes away the rights of creators. The creator's rights are no less important than the consumer's rights. My stance on the matter is that copyright takes away from the general public in the first place. It's not
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I'm sorry, but no, there is absolutely no antithesis between those two goals. Hell, that's part of the Hacker ethics: "Make public data available, protect private data."[1] Art isn't private data. Credit card info is. In other words, you
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by slowpoke 15y ago
And I'm still baffled that people like you are insisting that a) this is a problem with piracy, and not - for the umpteenth time now - the brokenness of distribution as a business model in the face of a world where copying is virtually cost
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I could write a lengthy response to this too but you are unwilling to even try to grasp my point, as apparent by your utter misinterpretation of what I said. Hint: I was talking about policing the internet, not about protecting interests. T

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