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  1. Re:So? by bossk538 · · Score: 1 · on Russian Troops Traced To Ukrainian Battlefields Through Social Media

    Putin's denials are convincing enough domestically. For example 65% of Russians still believe that flight MH-17 was shot down by Ukrainian armed forces. I don't know what the percentage who believe that regular Russian armed forces are active in Ukraine, but I imagine it is even higher.

  2. Re:Reference Newspapers by Yomers · · Score: 2 · on Inside the Guardian and the Snowden Leaks

    As a Russian I can not agree with you on Novaya Gazeta and Echo Moskvi. AFAIK those are very boring - whatever happens it's always one conclusion - Russian government is shit and country is going down. For example Snowden? Same - http://www.echo.msk.ru/blog/dobrokhotov/1127964-echo/ . Really, anything that happens anywhere - conclusion is always the same, it's just boring. Unbiased news source? LOL

  3. Re:Reference Newspapers by utkonos · · Score: 1 · on Inside the Guardian and the Snowden Leaks

    This paper does still count for your request, since it has an English language online version - Novaya Gazeta from Russia. This is one of the trustworthy news sources from Russia. Most news outlets in Russia are state owned, but this one is a rare occurrence of the paper's staff controlling 51%. This, however, is not the reason why I find the paper trustworthy. It is a bit of a grim statistic, but Novaya Gazeta has more journalists killed than any other news outlet in Russia. The majority of whom were either murdered by the state, or at least the state turned a blind eye to their death.

    This next one is Russian-language only, and a radio station in Moscow. But it is a fairly good, unbiased news source. It's called Echo Moskvy or Echo of Moscow.

    Unfortunately, one of the best English language news sources in Moscow, The eXile, closed its doors a few years ago. There are two possible reasons: one, that the paper was harassed into closing by the government. Or that the editor, Mark Ames, was tired and used some light harassment from the government as an excuse to close shop. Either way, it used to be a good source of insanely funny gonzo journalism with a constant streak of hard-hitting honest journalism.

  4. Re:The most beautiful... by kill_-9 · · Score: 1 · on Boeing Turning Old F-16s Into Unmanned Drones

    Berkut:
    Nice, but the F-16 had a design version similar the Su-37 Berkut way back in the early 80s...as the F-16SFW.
    http://www.voodoo-world.cz/falcon/F16SWF.JPG

    The F-16 AFTI and F-16 CCV are just as just as beautiful.
    The vertical canards under the intake are wicked....
    http://crimso.msk.ru/Images6/SC/SC-1/84-1.jpg
    http://www.voodoo-world.cz/falcon/old/f16148.jpg
    http://www.hitechweb.genezis.eu/fightersAP07.files/general_dynamics_F-16_CCV_1_big.jpg

    Not starting a war here...just enjoy the designs.. :-)

  5. Of passwords and security by hackrobat · · Score: 1 · on Users feel Password Rage
    RMS was against the use of passwords in computer labs: http://sch57.msk.ru/~khim/hackers/epilogue.html

    The Internet worm of 1988 took advantage of stupid passwords: http://world.std.com/~franl/worm.html

  6. RMS and Security by hackrobat · · Score: 1 · on FSF FTP Site Cracked, Looking for MD5 Sums
    RMS's "Information wants to be Free" mindset is famous. At MIT, he was against the use of passwords in the computer labs. Quoting from The Last of the True Hackers:
    As a true hacker, RMS despised passwords, and was proud of the fact that the computers he was paid to maintain did not use them.
    He even cracked the password system in the lab such that it would display the user's password on the system console; he found it "amusing".

    In this interview on KDE's site, RMS admits that he was forced to use passwords on his systems after a few bad experiences.

    HY: In a lecture, you mentioned that you didn't use passwords, and had no security for your computer.

    RMS: Uh-huh. Security might make sense with banks and military facilities, but in a computer lab, that is a sign of a social breakdown.

    HY: (!!!) Social Breakdown?!?!!

    RMS: Yes. It's like curing the symptom and worsening the disease. The disease here are the young people who are cut off from warmth and anything really worthwhile, who have nothing on their hands that to rebel and get attention by sneaking into other peoples system. But then the attention that they get from this is one of total hate and hostility. Security sends out that message of hostility, and I don't want to be on either side of it.

    HY: So, you still don't have security?

    RMS: I regret to say that we had to. There was this one person who repeatedly erased our files and there was no choice. So we made a gateway, a login server. But since I thought that this was such a sad thing, I thought I should suffer more from it so I can't log in on that server.
    We have to appreciate the man for his ideals; it's really sad that they have no place in this world. If there's one person whom I can give God status, it's RMS. He's a pain in the ass, alright, but that's characteristic of all Gods (look up Greek mythology, Hindu mythology, etc.).
  7. -1, irrelevant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on EU Anti-Hate Laws On The Web
    The national socialist party killed x-millions of people, granted. this is data, not opinion, it happened. Hmm, the communist party of the soviet union killed at LEAST x million times 2 people, mostly their own citizens. Data, it happened.

    So what? This EU law IS NOT about how many people were killed. It is about racism raised to the level of systematic murder and genocide.

    Now any dictatorship can kill people.

    The difference is that neo-nazi parties advocate the racism and books like Mein Kampf (which are 100% pure hate speech), while the neo-communists parties don't advocate killing millions of people. I'm tired about Americans who can't even understand even the basics of communism: Stalin was a fascist dictator more than a communist.

  8. Re:Bill Gates's Prediction by Scooby+Snacks · · Score: 1 · on Spam Under Legislative Attack in Europe
    Word docs could get piped through msdoc2txt (If it only existed!).
    Actually it does exist. Additionally, you can view MS-Word, HTML, etc, inline. You need to define a conversion routine in your /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap:

    text/html; /usr/bin/w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
    application/msword; word2text %s; copiousoutput

    And then put lines in your .muttrc similar to the following:

    auto_view text/html
    auto_view application/msword

    Then the HTML and MS-Word attachments will show up as plain text right in mutt's internal pager. I'm sure there are similar procedures for other mail readers. More information is available.