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by yaix 15y ago
Well, I am not talking nonsense, I am probably much better informed about the topic that most other here. With "censorship" I do not mean government censorship but self-sensorship. It's implated in the heads that certain things are "correct
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by yaix 15y ago
Thanks for confirming the censorship in the West regarding this topic. I would have thought I get downvoted more than only (-4) points, though. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me for saying the unsayable. Btw: I have studied thic
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by yaix 15y ago
This is a very simplistic view on development of societies. Freedom must always come accompanied with responsibilities. In the West, we learn that early in school and (hopefully) life. I have lived many years in countries where people have
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by yaix 15y ago
Off topic, but for the first image displayed next to the text: >> "(Source: Google Images)" What? Does Google Images offer own original content?
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by yaix 15y ago
>> communications with national leaders as they >> negotiate, often behind the scenes, ... Looking forward to reading the stuff on Wikileaks. Only absolutely necessary things should be classified. Not every time a goverment
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by yaix 15y ago
Why would I want to live "Google free"? Compared to other companies who collect similar amounts of data, G has (as of yet) behaved quite well. If I don't want AdWords or Analytics tracking, I can redirect their domains to 127.0.0.1 (which I
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by yaix 15y ago
Nice, thanks again. >> "Carrefour’s Asian strategy is to stay the course in China and Taiwan, [...]" Looks like they only pull out of South-East Asia, not China, though.
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by yaix 15y ago
That's my point exactly. Don't wait. Send probes out every year. Because it takes so long for them to get to these places. A few may get lost on the way. Some instruments may malfunction. So better send out more. What would that cost? Half
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by yaix 15y ago
The shuttle programme was good and necessary. But maybe we could have used some of the x trillion dollars spend on killing people in the past few decades.
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by yaix 15y ago
Thanks. I ll try to find it on the Economist site. Living in China, I don't see much difference between Walmart and Carrefour supermarkets, both in decoration and in products, even compared with Chinese chains like Wu-Mei or Lianhua. They a
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by yaix 15y ago
I remember an article here on HN a few days ago about the storage of antimatter for about half an hour. In a few decades from now, the energy necessary for such a long distance space flight could come from half a ton of anti-hydrogen.
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by yaix 15y ago
It would be great if we would send one or two such probes out per year, in different directions. We could find so many interesting things. There are currently only two.
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by yaix 15y ago
The last sentense caught my attention: "While Walmart and Carrefours are pulling out of Chinese operations, [...]" Walmart and Carrefour "pulling out"??! Both are openening new stores at an amazing speed, undless that changed in the past ye
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by yaix 15y ago
I have been doing this for some time. Not with Dropbox but sync'ing the encrypted files to my own server with rsync. Install "Cryptkeeper" on Linux to have an tray icon to more conveniently mount and unmount.
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by yaix 15y ago
Why does this get downvoted? GWEI write on their web site that they are using "robots" for "clicks". If that is the case, it would be criminal, since they would be stealing money from AdWords advertisers. I don't think its true though, beca
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by yaix 15y ago
They write about their own methods: "Now we have set up [...] Adsense-Accounts [...]. Each time someone visits a Web-Sites within our network of sites, he/she triggers a series of robots. For each click we receive a micropaiment from Google
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by yaix 15y ago
If you ever had a look at PCs in China, you would know why. You get copied Windows CDs for a few cents everywhere, no doubt pre-loaded with all sorts of virii and trojans. The botnets in China must be massive.
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by yaix 15y ago
Sure. Its not genetic or anything. Critical views towards authority have developed in the West in the past 500 years, with the rise of protestantism (as in "you talk to God yourself and not through some father figure mediator") and later th
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by yaix 15y ago
I would call you, because I am a human being and not a lawyer zombie. If you don't care or mis-interpret my "being friendly" as "I don't really care", well then its your own fault (and cost). But claiming that anybody serious would immediat
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by yaix 15y ago
When you take a look around Singapore's neigbor countries and their living conditions, you must admit that the Sing' government did a pretty good job so far. And then there is the asian culture of not being to critical to the "superior". Yo
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by yaix 15y ago
At least once. You seem to have found the attack vector. ;)
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by yaix 15y ago
Good article about always the same problem in development politics. Simple ground rule: If it does not create business for local companies, its usually not a good idea in the long run.
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by yaix 15y ago
Argh! 99% of people have no clue what a "cookie" is used for and just hear that it is "evil" and such. At the same time, these same people have no problem exhibiting themselves of Facebook or tracking their positions on Foursquare. @gov: Ju
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by yaix 15y ago
>> Someday, even things like boarding passes, tickets, ID and keys could be stored in Google Wallet. I think it's called a "single point of failure". Always a "good" thing to have.
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by yaix 15y ago
An African version of Anonymous? Would be interesting to read updates on the story.
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by yaix 15y ago
Take a pen, circle a face, write "that's Bob" next to it. I believe somebody may have done that before.
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by yaix 15y ago
I saw a few hits from Slurp with Y!/USA IP just 2 days ago in my logs.
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by yaix 15y ago
robots.txt is simple and effective. I do not want certain bots, especially so-called "archives" to automatically download all my content. And that's what robots.txt is for and works well. The article is just stupid, sorry. There is not one
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by yaix 15y ago
re 1: I guess its more about "looking amazing", not about usability. I looked at the clock and forgot to look at the date (had to re-open the tab to see when the event was). Looks amazing, though. re 2: I think that's intentional, because y
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by yaix 16y ago
Isn't there a "scientific Google Goggles version"? Wouldn't it be as easy as photograph all archived specimens and let Google's photo search filter out duplicates of known animals. What remains needs names...

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