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by znowi 13y ago
>Makes me think if the US project to place a rocket-shield in Central Europe has anything to do with Russia re-activating it's cold war methods. Yes, in the same way the US invaded Iraq due to weapons of mass destruction :)
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by znowi 13y ago
Or use BitTorrent Sync instead. I'm quite pleased with it and moved all my data off Dropbox. http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
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I Know You're Listening(xkcd.com)
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The funny part is that Russia has stopped worrying a while ago, but the US is still up in arms. The Bush administration unilaterally withdrew from the ABM Treaty [1] in 2002, which put an end to methodical decrease in nuclear arsenal. Russi
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by znowi 13y ago
Actually, there's an EFF sponsored tool for that (written in collaboration with the Tor project) for both Chrome and Firefox: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
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This is one of those times when it's both funny and makes you cry
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Visualize who's tracking you online (Firefox extension)(addons.mozilla.org)
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Well, this is getting really grim. There seems to be no safe place left. Although, this is to be expected. The US is a common trend-maker and the world is looking up to them. Of course who can sit this one out when the US itself is at full
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by znowi 13y ago
This is very nice of Jonsdottir, but given the current conservative government in Iceland, I doubt it is a safe place for Snowden. In fact, given how widespread the American influence is, I can't think of a safe country for him. Apart
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by znowi 13y ago
And therein lies the problem. The US thinks in terms of military nouns. The EU doesn't :)
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by znowi 13y ago
I may partly agree with your assessment. There's always room for improvement. But in comparison to the US, the EU is the privacy heaven :)
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by znowi 13y ago
> He will probably rot in jail This is where we, the people, must step in to make sure it doesn't happen.
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by znowi 13y ago
Microsoft is also using "voluntary" in their, surprisingly short, press release: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jun13/06-06st...
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They're commonly known as "closed cities". You can read up more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city
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I suppose it's better late than never. Glad people start realizing this and seeing the scale of the iceberg. I hope the young generation will find value in his ideals and will not be put off by "swimming against the tide of conven
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by znowi 13y ago
Assange is an exemplary case of how secret services operate. Containment plan is generally to discredit an inconvenient person via a character attack, which directs attention to a single person (and boy do the crowd loves gossip and celebri
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by znowi 13y ago
Isn't there a site that tracks politicians' promises and what has been done while in the office? It'd be a great tool to weed out the fraud. Words get easily forgotten in a couple of years. This would make them count.
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by znowi 13y ago
Not to vote is a free choice, but with this you exclude yourself from the democratic process. You become a bystander and then indeed have no right to complain.
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by znowi 13y ago
I expected a more nordic look :) Like bluish, lots of white, simplistic layout with green accents :) And why not host the Swedish community on .se domain?
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by znowi 13y ago
Yandex is traditionally playing catch up with Google copying their ideas. This time - it is Knowledge Graph.
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by znowi 13y ago
> this program only cost $20M a year? If that's the price of eternal security, I'd say we got a pretty goddamn good deal. This line of thought is similar to another comment on HN stating that "we should be grateful to Google". - Oh, the
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by znowi 13y ago
> I have a lot more confidence in, say, The New York Times or The Guardian than Wikileaks So do governments. It's much easier to deal with a newspaper :)
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Sentiments like this bring despots to power and further cultivate erosion of the democratic process. I can only applaud to secret agencies for this fine job of creating a favorable public opinion on the matter that would had been deemed atr
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by znowi 13y ago
Oddly enough, reading this made me want to move my NL servers elsewhere :)
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by znowi 13y ago
I wonder if this team could be a prototype for the characters in the movie Twister.
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by znowi 13y ago
There's a catch. While it's trivial to design a gun-type bomb (Little Boy), it's very difficult to produce weapon grade uranium for it. As for implosion-type bomb (Fat Man), it's relatively easy to get a hold of plutonium, but the design is
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by znowi 13y ago
> we should be grateful Jesus Christ, this is the top comment on Hacker News. The sentiment is very similar to what you may hear in repressive countries: "Thank God, they don't do x to us". This is very disturbing.
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by znowi 13y ago
Despite his controversial figure, I very much respect RMS. I may not agree with his life choices, but his integrity and resolve of the pursuit of his ideals are at the least inspiring. It is sad to see the "tieless" generation of beards and
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by znowi 13y ago
Damn, news like that surely make you note the fragility of our lives. Too bad. Condolences to the family. Keep yourself safe fellow hackers.
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by znowi 13y ago
Exactly! To each few good "SEO" guys there's a plethora of scammers. I think it's a great move for them and will help to win a more skeptical crowd. Although, I still don't trust them with or without "SEO" :)

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