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by widforss 10y ago
If I understand the American system correctly, this is indeed something that Trump has mandate to do. However. I wonder whether I will ever stop to be surprised and horrified over the development in the US.
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Trump fires acting attorney general(theguardian.com)
30 points by widforss 10y ago|0 comments
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by widforss 10y ago
While it is a great location, Iceland is not "cheap for a Nordic country" anymore. They picked up, and isolation does not come for free.
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by widforss 10y ago
I use a special dialect of Dvorak, called Svorak A5 [1]. I think it is somewhat similar to what you describe. It is really liberating to have special characters on the home row. [1]: https://i.imgur.com/YKojP7B.png
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by widforss 10y ago
Isn't the kid in War Games rather nuanced? It was a while since i watched it, but looking for passwords in a drawer and war dialing is not exactly highly sophisticated h4x0r-skills.
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by widforss 10y ago
That's how you get to rent anything at all in Sweden. Every company has their own waiting list that you sign up for. You get one point per day you're on the list. When you are interested in an apartment you apply for it, and if yo
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by widforss 10y ago
Well, it is not exactly news is it? It has been known since Snowden that the FRA is working closely with the NSA. And it is really hard for journalists to write something constructive about the FRA because of the secrecy [1]. [1]: https:&#
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by widforss 10y ago
> Signal - while certainly can be setup/hosted by anyone else separate of OpenWhisper - leaves some to be desired in the actual self-implementation details; just not enough tutorials out there. That is the problem at hand, that Sign
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by widforss 10y ago
But one should never consider oneself secure from targeted attacks. What Signal et. al. protects from is dragnet surveillance, which Apple can perform remotely with iMessage without having to install an exploit on every iOS device. They do
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by widforss 10y ago
This is an OS developed by a finnish company. There is little to none risk that a finnish developer would allow malicious russian code on their plattform. The only more anti-russian people I know of is the Balts.
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by widforss 10y ago
I find it's really easy to get people to use it. I tell them to install it and then use it as my primary communication channel with them. As I do this with more and more of my contacts some of them will have each others numbers and wil
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by widforss 10y ago
This is most probably a rather lousy hack put together by Alice and Bob, but it maps out a very interesting future were we one day maybe can stop worrying about how our algorithms work and make that the job of the computer. It also is total
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by widforss 10y ago
I'm in college, and every time I turn an exercise in the assistant takes my keyboard, tries to navigate Vim with my Dvorak setup and stares blankly as something completly different than what they expected happened.
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by widforss 10y ago
I may have read too much between the lines. I interpreted your comment that their position on the shit list made them eligible for intervention. Something like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12766554
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by widforss 10y ago
And why would an authorian regime in one country justify American destabilization in their territory? Jesus, I'm tired of american military acting world police pretty much everywhere. I do not like dictatorships, but bombing people int
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by widforss 10y ago
I meant government as in government agencies, not strictly under the direct control of the actual group of humans making up the government. I guess "government" interprets to different things in different countries, what I wrote a
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by widforss 10y ago
What is the state of the temporary spy laws in France? Shouldn't it at least be mentioned in the announcement that the french government can pretty much ask Amazon for any of your data without a warrant. Or is the situation better than
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by widforss 10y ago
Worth mentioning is that objects keep their thermal energy for much longer in a vacuum since there is nothing that can conduct the heat away, so the heaters does not have to output that much energy.
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by widforss 10y ago
You guys might be intererested in the Swedish site lexbase.se. They asked the courts for five years of records, cross-ran them with the population registration and presented the data using a search prompt taking a name or address as search
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by widforss 10y ago
Is that because some "businesses are people" and fifth amendment rights?
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by widforss 10y ago
Touché. However, I will continue to think that it is completely normal, as will most scandinavians ;)
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by widforss 10y ago
That's just weird. Social rule number one: don't look up somebody in the Taxeringskalender when they are in the same room.
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by widforss 10y ago
What? You cannot do this in every democratic country? The government should be transparent, therefore everything the government bodies do that does not obviously need to be protected should be public.
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by widforss 10y ago
I find this very touching, as, if I understand this right, many of these parents are not very literate themselves. Getting their kids into college must be a very big moment in their lives.
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Chinese parents sleep in tents outside their college kids’ dorms(qz.com)
3 points by widforss 10y ago|1 comments
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by widforss 10y ago
I wish I could sleep in until sunrise. That would mean quite a lot of sleep during winter ^_^ https://www.google.se/search?hl=en&q=sunrise+in+lule%C3%A5+a...
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by widforss 10y ago
I bought a monitor, not a television. There is a $250 license fee for TV recievers.
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by widforss 10y ago
I just bought a Philips 40" 4k-computer monitor with a Chromecast. Mostly because there is a license cost to own a television in my country. This setup saves me $200-300 a year.
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by widforss 10y ago
So, what does this mean? Should I consider Secure Boot broken on x86 systems?
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by widforss 10y ago
Now, wouldn't it be more appropriate to align the job with the marsian year? But I assume that wouldn't work as well as PR.

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