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  1. The most difficult part of the project is completed: they found a nice backronym for it.

  2. Re:unprecedented? on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Oh right, then your point of view makes more sense. After all, Crimea already had the status of being an autonomous republic inside Ukraine, and the People here massively voted to be merged into Russia.

    For the two others... Russia involvement in Ukraine happens only in Donbass, where the population has shown some will to merge into Russia. That does not allow Russia to interfere into Ukraine internal affairs, but on the other hand, the Kiev government has been bombing its own citizen in separatist Donbass for years. Choose your evil.

    You may want to check Wikipedia about the conflict in Georgia, since this is a more complicated story than "Russia invaded Georgia".

  3. Re:unprecedented? on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You think that Putin's invasions of Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine, and then bombing the rebels in Syria was not a threat?

    Your presentation of Crimea and Ukraine as distinct nations is interesting. It embraces the Russian (and Crimean) point of view you seem to criticize.

  4. A tunnel between SpaceX and LAX would be 9.5 km beneath dense urban areas. I wonder how many authorization one would need before starting the thing.

  5. hyperloop will likely require a perfectly flat track

    Perhaps that can be addresses by tunnels?

  6. Anti-Russia hysteria piggybacking on FBI Is Probing Sundance Cyberattack That Forced Box Office To Close (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it looks a good idea to piggyback on anti-Russia hysteria to get news coverage on an obscure film that only specialists would have heard about. Well done!

  7. Discolse to investors on Yahoo Faces SEC Probe Over Data Breaches (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Yahoo may have had to disclose hacks to investors sooner, but user information is not relevant.

    That confirms that internet companies' users are not the customers, they are the products.

  8. It is surprising the project comes from a nation with a relatively small territory: the benefits are much smaller than if it happened in for instance Russia, China, or USA.

  9. New brand design, Internet health report... I would be more pleased if Mozilla could focus on writing good software instead.

  10. Yet another language. What Nim is good for?

  11. Memory slot interface on Raspberry Pi Gets Competitors (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The choice of memory slot interface is odd. Today's form factor will be deprecated within 2 years, making it a headache to use the thing on next new hardware

    But I am also curious to learn how host software interfaces with such a helper computer hooked to a memory slot.

  12. SSL on Lavabit Is Relaunching (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    SSL problem fixed: the key is now in a Hardware Security Module and cannot be seized by police.

    That fixes communication, but what about stored data. And why the FBI couldn't seize the hardware security module itself?

  13. New SPARC? on Oracle Scraps Plans For Solaris 12 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A new SPARC chip without a new OS? That looks odd, except perhaps if they just plan a minor Solaris 11 update to support it.

  14. Logo renewal sucks on Mozilla's New Logo Reminds Us that It Is, In Fact, a Web Firm (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have the feeling that any logo renewal leads to terrible result. Perhaps this is because there is never a good reason for changing a logo?

  15. Re:Internet access in Cuba on Thousands Of Cubans Now Have Internet Access (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    You attempt to deflect

    Indeed I do, but not the way you think. My point is not to defend Cuba's political regime, but to question your information and assumptions about what human right violations happen there.

    You seem to assume that Cuba performs as many evil stuff as one could imagine, and this opinion is based on sources that are 40 years old testimonies.

    I do not have any information about internet censorship in Cuba, but for human right violations, we have Amnesty International reports. Compare reports for Cuba and the USA. While Cuba's record is far from been fine, at least you do not find the keywords "torture" or "death sentence" in it. My understanding is that the worst human right violation on this island happen in Guantanamo Bay's US base.

  16. Information source? on Google Maps Starts Showing Parking Availability For Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand Google has some insights about parking availability, but where does it get this information from?

  17. Re:Internet access in Cuba on Thousands Of Cubans Now Have Internet Access (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Cubans in Florida who had escaped the Castro regime. I lived in FL in the '70s.

    This is Testimony from cold-war era. I am certain nobody could had trouble for looking up a web site at that time, since the web did not exist,.

    Beside this, if you look for fresher witnesses, it is easy to find people that went to Cuba recently for tourism and could speak freely with cuban people. This is not North Korea, you know...

  18. Re:Internet access in Cuba on Thousands Of Cubans Now Have Internet Access (ap.org) · · Score: 2

    How about "monitored, with a high probability of being 'disappeared', murdered, or simply arrested & imprisoned for visiting the 'wrong' kind of sites

    A bit better, but who told you that kind of things happen in Cuba?

  19. Re:Internet access in Cuba on Thousands Of Cubans Now Have Internet Access (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    provide uncensored and free wireless internet access to Cubans

    Who told you it was censored?

  20. Use case? on Meet Lux, A New Lisp-like Language (javaworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What is this new language good for?

  21. Unexpected on Driverless Electric Shuttle Deployed In Downtown Las Vegas (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I have been wondering what US tech giant would have its fleet of autonomous vehicles in street first, and the winner is an obscure foreign company I never heard about.

  22. No need to fine here, since they never made any benefit: all they have is a part of the money they are supposed to refund

  23. Re:End of capitalism on Half the Work People Do Can Be Automated, Says McKinsey (techinasia.com) · · Score: 1

    The real reason the cost of living keeps going up is because (1) people consume much more than they used to and (2) government mandates, price fixing, and regulation.

    I do not see how government is involved in soaring price of housing in big cities.

  24. End of capitalism on Half the Work People Do Can Be Automated, Says McKinsey (techinasia.com) · · Score: 1

    Automating half of labor would severely hit people's ability to buy goods. I am not sure today's capitalism would survive such a surproduction crisis.

    Problem is: there is no alternative model on the shelf ready to be deployed. Result will not be pretty.

  25. Indeed, an LDAP directory answers there, but it has little to say:

    $ ldapsearch -xLLLh 209.238.99.227 -s base -b '' +
    (nothing!)