I second that, and I have visited some fucked up corners of the internet in my time. The only time I saw something that could be classified as underage porn was on 4chan, go figure. That's the reason I don't visit this site and other *chans anymore, because I do not want to see images that show children in a sexual context. I simply do not want stuff like that in my subconsciousness.
But nobody will stumble on child porn accidentally or by using Google/Bing, especially not in 2013. At best this is a publicity stunt, at worst it's salami-slice strategy to introduce more censorship.
There are quite a few men that discover when they are getting older that they are gay. That they either were gay the whole time and just didn't realize or admit it, or that they became gay along the way. Some leave their families to live with a partner of the same sex, some just buy a Mac.
Nothing wrong with that if it makes them happy, I guess.
the pirate party has been gaining considerable traction causing some rethinking in the bigger parties
Really? Maybe you should know that one public figure of the German pirate party, Christopher Lauer, has stated that the pirate party would shut down the pirate bay if they could.
See here for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwd6x8l_RQM (in German, obviously).
He is a dumb ****, like most of the other party members whose only expertise consist in knowing how to talk shit on twitter, but still that's what he said, that the party wants to shut down the site they got their name from.
People who think meat is inefficient compared to vegetable don't understand that Grazing animal use the massive tracts of un-airable land and don't require labor and oil and pesticide intensive production techniques.
[...]
Eat a banana and it probably traveled 2500 miles, was grown in a chopped-down rain forest, with massive amounts of pesticide.
Excuse me, but you are either extremely naive or an idiot!
You really think that the animals that were farmed for meat all grazed happily on green meadows?
Yeah sure!
These are all lies after all:
"The escalation in forest destruction is driven by the global livestock industry. The vast majority (above 80%) of soybeans are bound for animal feedlots, providing protein for cattle, hogs and poultry. The European Union (EU) is the largest importer of Argentinian soybean meal, with imports to EU agribusinesses accounting for almost 50% of all global trade in soymeal (3)."
http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/the-expanding-soybean-frontier.pdf
For all of you Android haters that want a true Linux phone experience! Built with blessed APIs and running the latest mainline Linux kernel. This is your chance to prove us that a phone OS built using a fully open source development methods works. I am sick of going to conferences and hearing about how Android is bad for the community etc and then these same people pull out Apple iPhones. Needed to get that off my chest!:-)
If it had a keyboard i would buy one, guaranteed!
But without one it doesn't appeal to me at all, alas!
Sent from my N900
In my opinion, the problem is Eric Schmidt. I trust both Larry Page and (even more so) Sergey Brin that they really try to live by "don't be evil".
But Eric Schmidt transforms the company more and more into a profit-oriented, shareholder-controlled, greedy mess.
I'm afraid that it will get a lot worse once Page and Brin lose give up control over the company.
After all, most shareholders are concerned with return of investment, not things as silly as ethics.
"By 2014, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will have sold enough of their stock to give up majority control of the company, Google announced Friday evening."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10440005-265.html
Not something I'm looking forward to.
If you want to use "wireless networks" to determine your approximate location on an Android phone (something quite common I think), you _HAVE_ to agree to your location data being sent to Google even when no app is running. If you disagree, you can't activate Wireless Networks Location.
This means you either have to use GPS everytime you want to look something up on Google Maps etc., or have to enter your location by hand (if you don't agree with their "consent").
The exact text of the "Location consent" is:
"Allow Google's location service to collect anonymous location data. Collection will occur even when no applications are running."
Here is a ticket regarding this issue:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2813
In my opinion this is really bad.
I don't get why Mozilla goes out of its way to bring their products to the iphone.
If SJ doesn't want their software on his precious, why bother trying to find ways to do it anyway?
Maybe some people might start to think about getting a system that is not as closed down if their favorite software isn't available on their current phone.
Thats true, a lot of great programmers come from eastern Europe. For example MPlayer is a Hungary based project. And I remember an article that said that many writers of viruses come from Bulgaria.
I think the reason for this may be the fact, that in many communist countries computer scientists tried to reverse engineer western technology, and therefor had a very low-level knowledge of things most people in the west hadn't.
I think it makes a great difference if you started programming in Pascal or in Assembly.
Another reason might be that most natural sciences are quite expensive to teach. For Biology and Chemistry you need laboratories.
For Computer Sciences, you only need a pen and a piece of paper.
So I think that many people in eastern European countries have a very good understanding of the way computers work, due to the history of their teachers/parents.
Wasn't there a project by Cult of the Dead Cow a few years back that should be a p2p browser?
So if you are in a country where some site is blocked you can access it via other users from other countries?
I remember something like Freebird.
Here it says it was called Peekabooty.
https://training.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2027
Maybe something like this could be really useful in the future.
This trick is rather old. Discredit the enemies of your employer, to make your employer look better.
Maybe you could have thought of something a little more subtle?
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I second that, and I have visited some fucked up corners of the internet in my time. The only time I saw something that could be classified as underage porn was on 4chan, go figure. That's the reason I don't visit this site and other *chans anymore, because I do not want to see images that show children in a sexual context. I simply do not want stuff like that in my subconsciousness. But nobody will stumble on child porn accidentally or by using Google/Bing, especially not in 2013. At best this is a publicity stunt, at worst it's salami-slice strategy to introduce more censorship.
"Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by corruption. FTFY.
based on how they go after prototypes that get lost, you'd think they got an iDrone heading his way....
In this case there was no prototype "lost" by the marketing department.
There are quite a few men that discover when they are getting older that they are gay. That they either were gay the whole time and just didn't realize or admit it, or that they became gay along the way. Some leave their families to live with a partner of the same sex, some just buy a Mac. Nothing wrong with that if it makes them happy, I guess.
the pirate party has been gaining considerable traction causing some rethinking in the bigger parties
Really? Maybe you should know that one public figure of the German pirate party, Christopher Lauer, has stated that the pirate party would shut down the pirate bay if they could.
See here for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwd6x8l_RQM (in German, obviously).
He is a dumb ****, like most of the other party members whose only expertise consist in knowing how to talk shit on twitter, but still that's what he said, that the party wants to shut down the site they got their name from.
Way to reply to your own post.
People who think meat is inefficient compared to vegetable don't understand that Grazing animal use the massive tracts of un-airable land and don't require labor and oil and pesticide intensive production techniques. [...] Eat a banana and it probably traveled 2500 miles, was grown in a chopped-down rain forest, with massive amounts of pesticide.
Excuse me, but you are either extremely naive or an idiot! You really think that the animals that were farmed for meat all grazed happily on green meadows? Yeah sure! These are all lies after all: "The escalation in forest destruction is driven by the global livestock industry. The vast majority (above 80%) of soybeans are bound for animal feedlots, providing protein for cattle, hogs and poultry. The European Union (EU) is the largest importer of Argentinian soybean meal, with imports to EU agribusinesses accounting for almost 50% of all global trade in soymeal (3)." http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/the-expanding-soybean-frontier.pdf
You need to quote the author, otherwise it is meaningless:
"Good artists copy, great artists steal." - Steve Jobs, The Triumph of the Nerds, 1996
Yeah, forgot to say that the quote was his idea as well.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
For all of you Android haters that want a true Linux phone experience! Built with blessed APIs and running the latest mainline Linux kernel. This is your chance to prove us that a phone OS built using a fully open source development methods works. I am sick of going to conferences and hearing about how Android is bad for the community etc and then these same people pull out Apple iPhones. Needed to get that off my chest! :-)
If it had a keyboard i would buy one, guaranteed! But without one it doesn't appeal to me at all, alas! Sent from my N900
And i'm not happy about them. If you don't even know the difference between mercurial and git, please just stfu.
In my opinion, the problem is Eric Schmidt. I trust both Larry Page and (even more so) Sergey Brin that they really try to live by "don't be evil". But Eric Schmidt transforms the company more and more into a profit-oriented, shareholder-controlled, greedy mess. I'm afraid that it will get a lot worse once Page and Brin lose give up control over the company. After all, most shareholders are concerned with return of investment, not things as silly as ethics. "By 2014, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will have sold enough of their stock to give up majority control of the company, Google announced Friday evening." http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10440005-265.html Not something I'm looking forward to.
If you want to use "wireless networks" to determine your approximate location on an Android phone (something quite common I think), you _HAVE_ to agree to your location data being sent to Google even when no app is running. If you disagree, you can't activate Wireless Networks Location. This means you either have to use GPS everytime you want to look something up on Google Maps etc., or have to enter your location by hand (if you don't agree with their "consent"). The exact text of the "Location consent" is: "Allow Google's location service to collect anonymous location data. Collection will occur even when no applications are running." Here is a ticket regarding this issue: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2813 In my opinion this is really bad.
I don't get why Mozilla goes out of its way to bring their products to the iphone. If SJ doesn't want their software on his precious, why bother trying to find ways to do it anyway? Maybe some people might start to think about getting a system that is not as closed down if their favorite software isn't available on their current phone.
Embarrassing, how the media got played to do advertisement for them. Goodbye, journalism.
That's what they should be, they are ISPs...
I have updated all my filter-lists several times, but this article still shows up.
Thats true, a lot of great programmers come from eastern Europe. For example MPlayer is a Hungary based project. And I remember an article that said that many writers of viruses come from Bulgaria. I think the reason for this may be the fact, that in many communist countries computer scientists tried to reverse engineer western technology, and therefor had a very low-level knowledge of things most people in the west hadn't. I think it makes a great difference if you started programming in Pascal or in Assembly. Another reason might be that most natural sciences are quite expensive to teach. For Biology and Chemistry you need laboratories. For Computer Sciences, you only need a pen and a piece of paper. So I think that many people in eastern European countries have a very good understanding of the way computers work, due to the history of their teachers/parents.
Wasn't there a project by Cult of the Dead Cow a few years back that should be a p2p browser? So if you are in a country where some site is blocked you can access it via other users from other countries? I remember something like Freebird. Here it says it was called Peekabooty. https://training.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2027 Maybe something like this could be really useful in the future.
This trick is rather old. Discredit the enemies of your employer, to make your employer look better. Maybe you could have thought of something a little more subtle?