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Ask HN: Kindly suggest a reliable VPN provider?
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by zotz 15y ago
Graphene filters combined with SODIS methods would be the ticket. http://www.sodis.ch
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Hopper — save links, text, images, and files in moments. (gethopper.com)
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by zotz 15y ago
How many Google execs that are formulating and implementing these policies spent their formative years on irc, usenet or on web boards being "ultim8haxor" or "l33tGOD"? This is akin to Metallica's BS move regarding tapers after gaining thei
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by zotz 15y ago
> But Hollywood funds artists I'm an artist, a musician to be precise. I've done ok for myself without Hollywood. I've known many artists that have been wrecked by Hollywood's promises of wealth and fame, far more than have benefited fr
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Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer for Solicitor General (Jan 2011)(wired.com)
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by zotz 15y ago
This makes more sense than "Anonymous" taking down .gov websites in a coordinated attack. "Anonymous" is so handy, if they didn't exist the government would just have to invent them.
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by zotz 15y ago
> we live in a plutocracy I prefer the word "synarchism", as used by Fairbank and King: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synarchy#China
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by zotz 15y ago
I'm waiting for the "terrorist" angle to be used with Megaupload or perhaps the next target. I'm a little surprised the Feds haven't played that card yet.
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by zotz 15y ago
> it was hosting pirated content. Not torrents, not links. AVI files of films. AND THEN CHARGING FOR ACCESS. Good. More and more of it is happening all over the net. I hope it drives the studios, MPAA and RIAA out of business forever. T
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by zotz 15y ago
Megaupload files countersuit against Universal, FBI moves in. Good thing I'm not the paranoid kind.
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by zotz 15y ago
Dogpile.
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by zotz 15y ago
This idea gets worse everytime it's brought up.
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by zotz 15y ago
Jon Stewart's brother is Lawrence (Larry) Leibowitz, COO of the New York Stock Exchange. He used to be an executive VP at UBS. Jon will never go against the money.
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by zotz 15y ago
Send William a few bucks if so moved: http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com
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by zotz 15y ago
http://dot-bit.org
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What the Sumerians can teach us about data(petewarden.typepad.com)
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by zotz 15y ago
I use red, not ed. You can't be too careful.
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by zotz 15y ago
> It's worth noting that Obama, upon signing, issued a signing statement... He originally promised not to sign it at all. Obama has no cred.
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by zotz 15y ago
Slightly OT, but hemp itself used to be used as an herbicide: http://hogwaller.net/hemp.html
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by zotz 15y ago
Anything that can be made from a hydrocarbon can be made from a carbohydrate. If hemp got the same subsidies, protections and considerations from the government that petroleum does, I suspect it would be cheaper than petroleum in the long r
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by zotz 15y ago
Companies such as Monsanto and DuPont (not to mention a host of others) are among the ones that were glad to see hemp made illegal back in the 1930's. Any hemp-based economy is a threat to centralized industrial concerns. With the invention
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by zotz 15y ago
> Make no mistake, this has nothing to do with terrorists. Anytime some government agency does something for our own good or "for the kids", run for your lives.
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by zotz 15y ago
There's nothing wrong with someone buying a WoW character and then selling it at a profit later. Bitcoin is the same principle, more or less. It's an unreal, digital commodity that might or might not have value, depending on the perceiver.
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by zotz 15y ago
So sad. ~$ whois mcom.com Organisation Name.... AOL Inc. ...
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by zotz 15y ago
"The nature of law is to maintain justice. This is so much the case that, in the minds of the people, law and justice are one and the same thing. There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate.
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by zotz 15y ago
I've seen code that's poetic and artful. Computer science, like any science, has artistic elements to it, especially when economy of motion is utilized. Money isn't art. To quote Robert Graves: "If there's no money in poetry, neither is the
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by zotz 15y ago
Being an artist and musician, I'm a little disturbed at businessmen thinking they're producing art.
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by zotz 15y ago
Not to be blunt, but I never understood why a drunken advocate of a murderous war gets such props no matter what his facility with words may have been.
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by zotz 15y ago
I greatly enjoyed reading this thread and peoples' well-expounded opinions on history and the Constitution. I can't add much but this quote seemed apropos. The author was a US Senator from South Dakota during the critical period of the lat

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