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  1. VPN is widely in use there on France Will Block Web Sites That Promote Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Because they bent for the music industry and actively went against downloaders, the infrastructure (massive use of VPN's in another country) to circumvent censorship is already in place.

  2. Re:Sleeping through first semester German class on France Will Block Web Sites That Promote Terrorism · · Score: 1

    It has been debated if A. Hitler had a fully functional reproductive organ, so deliberately saying "das" could be a statement.

  3. Re:Mac. on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Laptop To Support Physics Research? · · Score: 1

    But does she want it as a main operating system or does she want to be able to work with Linux? In the later case, I'd say just run it as a virtual machine above windows. That gives much less issues with hardware drivers, and makes it also much easier to copy the setup to another machine if anything goes wrong.

  4. Re:Write-only code. on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I usually use C++ as "C with classes". No fancy stuff like STL or Lambda expressions. That works well, and most companies where I've worked use C++ that way.,

  5. Re:No one should buy Microsoft products on Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones · · Score: 1

    Whan it is about their phones, no one does.

  6. They are just trying to cover up on UK Parliament: Banning Tor Is Unacceptable and Technologically Impossible · · Score: 1

    Their upper class wants to communicate anonymously: http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

  7. Remove the profit to be made from this on FTC Announces $50k In Prizes For Robocaller Trap Software · · Score: 1

    Big problem, easy solution: they make those calls because there is money to be made. Remove that incentive: make a law that all contracts due to robocalls do not require payment, the customer does not have to pay. The other side has to keep delivering for free as long as the contract.

  8. No adblock on Hands-On With the Vivaldi Browser · · Score: 0

    That's a no-go for me, I definitely want adblock and tracking protection, and hosts file blocking can be too crude, especially against tracking.

  9. Re:Why Force Your Children to Live in the Past? on Ask Slashdot: Should I Let My Kids Become American Citizens? · · Score: 1

    At least in Europe, you get something in return for those taxes. It isn't wasted almost entirely on wars and the offence industry (calling it "defence" is just propaganda in the US).

  10. Re:Bad idea on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 2

    Even if there are riots, they won't help. Police officers still shoot black kids in the back out of self defence.

  11. So, is Twitter US propaganda now? on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 0

    So Twitter has made a choice and choose to be a US propaganda channel? Do they ban all those repoblican warmongsters too, who I consider far more dangerous for this plannet than some fanatics in the middle east? Or can they just continue to use their free speech?

    If you publicly choose sides, don't be surprised when it has consequences.

  12. Re:Cheaper in Vietnam on Microsoft Closing Two Phone Factories In China · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an adequate descriptionof the USA.

  13. Re:Fragmentation no on Who's Afraid of Android Fragmentation? · · Score: 1

    You don't need root to use F-Droid.

  14. Re:Doesn't matter much on Who's Afraid of Android Fragmentation? · · Score: 1

    That has nothing to do with apps.

  15. Doesn't matter much on Who's Afraid of Android Fragmentation? · · Score: 1

    For iOS, most apps require the latest version to run, and Apple actively pushes developers to do this. When I check the requirements for the Android apps I use, most require Android 2.3 or higher, some 4.0 or higher and some very specific ones require 4.4, but that's SDFix, to fix usage of SD cards that was broken in 4.4. So for most Android apps nearly every phone is supported, given sufficient storage. Maybe some games will become slow, but other apps usually don't care much.

  16. Re:Ah, Damnit... on Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    I think they still believe in windows phone and the one size fits all ideology.

  17. Re:Do it like Linux on Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Windows 95 looked much better than windows 8 and leter. Heck, even 3.1 looked better. This seems more like a 1980 design to me: it had to be what they now call "flat" because the hardware could not handle anything better.

  18. Re:Luddites can keep their dead trees. on The Case Against E-readers -- Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading On Paper · · Score: 1

    However, you can download ebooks fro torrentsites and sites like Mobilism for free. That's a clear advantage over a paper book.

  19. Re:All private encryption has run its course on Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course · · Score: 1

    Unless you can deploy it widely, like Moxie did when it got the Textsecure protocol integrated into WhatsApp for Android. In my country, there are 9,3 milion WhatsApp account for 17 milion people. No serious security service can claim all those 9 milion are propably terrorists.

  20. Re:The US gets back what it seeded on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 0

    " Jefferson and Adams asked the Dey's ambassador why Muslims held so much hostility towards America"

    The most honest answer would probably have been that they were just pirates and attacked any ship they thought they could win from without serious retalliation.

  21. Re:The US gets back what it seeded on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 1

    "You really think this is a US only, and recent US only, issue?"

    No, of course not. Terrorist attacks are common in Iraq, some African countries, Pakistan and the middle east. But since the US is the country that with by far the most foreign aggression, it has to live with the fact that it becomes a high-profile target.

  22. The US gets back what it seeded on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So the US thinks it can bomb the shit out of civilians (only "collateral damage" in US terms) in many countries and support oppressive regimes without someday getting it back? Think again. When you vote for the bombing criminals, you become a legitimate target.

    However, these people help the US government just fine in getting support for the US government to control and repress their own population even more.

  23. Re:Wrong Koch on GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 2

    If you want to see what a healthy combination of as free as possible market and government protection for the underclass does, go visit northern Europe. Both fundamentalists views on the economy (pure communism and libertarianism) lead to disaster.

  24. Re:More ambiguous cruft on The Gap Between What The Public Thinks And What Scientists Know · · Score: 1

    Noone starves because the farmers wil plant potatoes.

  25. Re:More ambiguous cruft on The Gap Between What The Public Thinks And What Scientists Know · · Score: 1

    In some countries they use this ugly practice, yes. Fortunately I don't live in such a country. However, I understand that they only drink this water after (most of) the chlorine has escaped.