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by weland 13y ago
Sorry for the late reply :-). Canada is the first that springs to mind, and there is at least one European country (from the ex-Communist block no less -- Romania -- that does the same thing under certain circumstances).
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by weland 13y ago
> Earlier this week, I searched for “Pride,” expecting to find out more about Pride Weekend in San Francisco. DuckDuckGo seemed to have no understanding of that context, whereas Google’s first results were exactly what I was looking for.
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by weland 13y ago
Many civilised countries explicitely forbid this -- you only execute the highest punishment you are given if the accusations are related. So if you are accused of money laundering and get 8 years for that, and of information theft (which he
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by weland 13y ago
Actually, if enough of these spring up on various trackers, chances are some real terrorist organization may actually end up making one of these files (but with actual information). I say we go for it.
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by weland 13y ago
I have a small conspiracy theory going, that they are using this sort of articles to discourage people from using encryption. I suggest that we all create a handful of large files from /dev/random, make torrents out of them, and s
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by weland 13y ago
I can't believe what I just witnessed. Something expressing a valid concern in a somewhat uncivilized manner, the developer answering in a nice way, the original poster apologizing and the developer linking to the source code to quench
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by weland 13y ago
Yes! I will gladly second that. The sheer amount of information back then was nothing compared to what it was today, but it was so much easier to browse around. Something as trivial as a webring was a cement for a community rather than a pl
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by weland 13y ago
A while ago, some folks in my country of origin started to make efforts towards a bill that (had it passed -- needless to say, it had no chance) might have provided some form of solution here. The essence of the bill was that, if one of the
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by weland 13y ago
> you're going to have a hell of a time finding someone willing to dedicate their life to doing PDP-11 forever. Between my enthusiasm for vintage computing and my job developing embedded systems, I'd do it in a split second, we
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by weland 13y ago
When you are spying on a foreign bank or corporation, aren't you spying on a bunch of foreign people? I mean, arguably, if the NSA were spying on Google, would that make it reasonably all right? It's not like Google has feelings o
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by weland 13y ago
It was fairly similar all over the place :-).
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by weland 13y ago
Yeah, but why would the media want that?
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by weland 13y ago
> They are being called fascist because they want to stop the current practice of paying 2000$ for Roma families for raising children, while Hungarian families get 1/20 of that for the same task, all this while the average Hungarian
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by weland 13y ago
The hive mind, unfortunately.
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by weland 13y ago
Yeah, there were enough terms for it. The scarring this left in the popular consciousness is impressive though. More than twenty years later, the exact same phrasings are still being used occasionally, and with the same meanings, especially
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by weland 13y ago
Yes, yes, we had those, too. In the beginning, they were fierce opposites of progress, prisoners of the old mentality. It then became rather uncomfortable to label them as such, when a twenty-year old mentality was about as old as the regim
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by weland 13y ago
I am familiar with Jeremy Paxman's work. It's impressive.
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by weland 13y ago
I'm not in the US, but a (fairly long) while ago when my mother decided she wanted to be a teacher, being a primary school (first four years here) either required a university degree and some fairly serious examination, or enrolling in
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by weland 13y ago
This is the thing I hate about media. Charlie, dude, you're the moderator. You're a journalist who's been schooled and has tens of years of experience in the field, whose duty is to inform your viewers/readers about curr
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by weland 13y ago
Dear God, it's like I'm a kid again. I didn't grow up in the US; when I was a kid, we didn't have this kind of interviews on TV. For one thing, most of the TV shows they aired was propaganda, and it was so utterly boring
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by weland 13y ago
This is one of the things that has always bugged me. I've had my share of work in a-large-company-i-shall-not-name. In my experience, given higher tiers that are receptive enough (read: people with technical backgrounds and some techni
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by weland 13y ago
Aye, but no Chinese without political involvement and no mental problems would freely claim (and believe!) he's a free man living under a democratic regime.
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by weland 13y ago
My surprise was directed at the fact that people have this in a system advertised as democratic. I am quite well-acquainted with cases like those you quote.
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by weland 13y ago
Court opinions can be classified? What in the actual fuck?
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by weland 13y ago
But does this not open the way for arbitrariness? At this rate, given enough support in the congress, the executive power can pretty much do anything -- the congress will just decriminalize it afterwards. Edit: What I meant in previous post
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by weland 13y ago
> Why should a private actor be burdened for the perceived misdoings of government? But why does this have to be ensured through the action of the Congress? If the misdoing was the Government's, it is up to the courts of law to abso
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by weland 13y ago
As I said above, I don't live in the US, so I can't claim to have a reasonable grip on the important discussion themes (I am slightly more informed on the actual problems on the agendas, but those play little part in the election
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by weland 13y ago
The data net was there and doing great, they just didn't have enough personnel and bandwidth to stop it in time. This is actually great news, it means there's a great demand for talented, technologically-minded individuals.
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by weland 13y ago
I know this is reductio at hitlerum, but about 70 years ago, you had to be 49% foreign or less not to be filtered out...
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by weland 13y ago
> It has a well-known and respected editorial process that can weigh the consequences of a leak versus the potential value to the public. Unfortunately, the well-known and respected editorial process isn't transparent to the public. I'm

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