User: ThePangolino

Even in North Korea

On: The Guardian Backtracks On WhatsApp 'Backdoor' Report (theguardian.com)

Freedom of speech is not at stake. Freedom after speech is what this impairs.

Re:RIAA, MPAA

On: Torrent Website ExtraTorrent Under DDoS Attacks; Pirate Bay Also Down (torrentfreak.com)

Lesser known.

Re:Well.... damn!

On: All Cyanogen Services Are Shutting Down (cyngn.com)

"No, this was mismanagement by the Nokia guys." FTFY

Re:Wow! Can't wait!!

On: Panasonic Announces 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio LCD Panel To Rival OLED (androidauthority.com)

12" is way too big for a smartphone though. :(

Re:Surprised it took them this long

On: China Is Censoring People's Chats Without Them Even Knowing About It (qz.com)

It's a somewhat common practice notably on Reddit. You can read about it here

Neo9

On: Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone

I'm waiting on that one.

Re:Windows Phone. 5% = Failure. Linux 2% = Victory

On: Steam For Linux: A Respectable Showing

Remember Window Mobile?

Re:Identifying what exactly?

On: Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel

Last time I heard someone threaten a bunch of people with having a list, a dude named Robespierre I think, ended up dead quite fast.

Re:Don't care about Google+

On: Is Google+ a Cathedral Or a Bazaar?

This might be useful in the furure.

Re:I have a better idea.

On: 29 Universities Seek High-Speed Networks

Nobody needs more than 640KiB of RAM. --Gates.

FTFY

Re:Deep Thought

On: Could Wikipedia Become a Supercomputer?

Well, let's try The Last Question then.

Re:Instead of complaints, we need answers

On: US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act

YaCy

Re:So?

On: Forty Years of P=NP?

One my think some Wikipedia articles need a tl;dr
This guy did it pretty well.

Re:I wonder...

On: Skype For Android Can Leak Data To Malicious Apps

The problem here is not with the app store. Nor is it with Skype's developers ability to produce neat code as one may think. In this case the problem is just some Anonymous Coward's troll attempt.

Re:Worthless

On: Contemplating Financial Trading At Picosecond Resolution

I'll be pleased to pay this tax. My bank charges me already a 15€ fee per transaction!

It's a trebuchet

On: Drug Catapult Found At US-Mexico Border

Not to mention that catapults are all but medieval.

Re:BEEBE, Arkansas

On: Thousands of Blackbirds Fall From Sky Dead

Without disrespect sir, I think it is already taken by a small country in South Eastern Europe.

Re:Can't resist ...

On: Goldman Invests $450m In Facebook

The 450 million deal may have something to do with this:

As part of the deal, Goldman is looking to raise as much as $1.5 billion from its wealthy clients to invest in Facebook alongside the firm.

Just tell me

On: Dell Reveals Specs For the Looking Glass Tablet

...this has not anything to do with Looking Glass does it?
The project seemed to me worth of interest back then.

Re:This just in3 628 800

On: How To Be Popular On Facebook, Quantified

I am sorry but I couldn't find The Simpsons at 40 320 nor Jay Leno at 3 628 600.

Re:france sucks

On: The French Government Can Now Censor the Internet

I am french and at the moment everybody should leave this country for china.

Thanks for confirming French people are cowards!

Re:Surgical implantation of explosives.

On: Backscatter X-Ray Machines Easily Fooled

Taking down a plane?
Easy game, one can simply try using this.

Re:Self-defeating

On: WikiLeaks Defenders Threaten Amazon

Because none of us is as cruel as all of us

FTFY

My tow cents

On: UN May Ban Blotting Out the Sun

I remembre having done some math on this idea a wile ago and it turned out you had to send something the size of Egypt (that's 1.000.000 -one million- km) in space to hope reduce the average global temperature of 1C.

Re:Also a better way to CYA

On: Look For AI, Not Aliens

Oh yeah!
Let's put a relay on the Moon. If they come all the way thinking they'll find us all they'll see will be a big antena!