Exactly, why would anybody go to library when any book can be downloaded from torrents and read on device with e-inc screen? And if it's immoral to download 'pirated' book - what is the difference between downloading a book and taking it from library?
There's something about sitting down with a book that just doesn't work as well with a digital device, at least not yet.
Try kindle or other reader with e-inc screen. If you still prefer old style books - that is probably because you used to it, in less than 100 years paper books will be no more than curiosity, like scrolls or stone tablets with inscribed symbols. There is certainly something about sitting with stone tablet that just does not work as well with the books, but stone tablets, paper books or books on a digital devices are essentially the same - information in human readable form. Digital reader is more convenient than a paper book, same as paper book is more convenient than a stone table - information density is higher, reproduction cost is lower (practically zero for digital devices). But newer formats are less sturdy - it's not easy to destroy stone tablet, paper books burn and rot, digital devices are even more fragile. So use stone or metal tablets if your want your message to be read in couple thousands years, digital reader for everyday reading.
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
Yes she does seems to promote sensible things and seems to understand what's going on. Comparing to our Russian counterparts that just add new topics to be included in firewall 'DROP' list in order to protect 'children' and rights holders - very very sensible.
Does not it make it kinda even more difficult to operate discussion forum, or IRC channel, or, I dare say, anonymous imageboard like 4chan? By what logic operator may be held liable for user's postings? If unidentified person offended other person in, say, supermarket - would supermarket owner be held liable? Operator may be forced to delete offending content by court order, or at least as with DCMA complaints - by the letter from offended person, that's understandable. But to hold operator liable for user's postings - means say farewell to any forms of discussions on the internet, except where user posted content is premoderated or user have to somehow authorise with his real identity.
BBC and Fox often present the same message different ways. For example on foreign wars - BBC shows some children in caves, children are suffering - cold, hungry, afraid of bombings by pro-government forces and want to return to normal life. After successful campaign children miraculously disappear - like in Libya, where anarchy currently is so widespread that PM was recently kidnapped. But evil dictator is dead, so children must be ok now, sure:) Fox message is just like "He is an enemy of US, we will destroy him!" - more straightforward, less sickening.
I remember how those "think of the children" news are made - I was around 15 y.o. in Moscow, it was around 1992, presumably Japanese news channel (there was russian producer who told us that) filmed as as "Russian punks". They told us to come to building in our block that was scheduled for demolition, generously gave us each 2 packs of marlboro and some vodka, somebody brought a guitar. So we were to sing russian punk songs while drinking vodka from a bottle and smoking cigarettes, all this with broken windows and overall mess of a building scheduled for demolition as a background. I do not know if it was shown or not, if shown we could be orphans of war near dwelling, half destroyed by government aviation in Chechnya, or where it was needed at the moment.
Try to create everything, then listen to this damn stupid prayers all day - like give me this, give me that, please destroy all my enemies, oh lord forgive me and so on. Oh, and there is another bunch of your creations brutally killed in your name by your faithful servants, again. I bet you'll become mad psycho in less than millennia.
But why would somebody believe that happy dancing with no close on (i.e. as created by, well, creator) is somehow insult to any deity is difficult to understand, unless they serve shopping god or fashion goddess.
Optimal strategy for ssd + hdd dual drive configuration on linux would be to use ssd drive for cache, there are couple of ways to accomplish this, easiest is flashcache - open source kernel module developed by facebook.
Interesting device! How to protect linux computer from such attack, besides glueing USB ports? Any way to make it to ask for user password upon inserting HID device?
We are not THAT screwed yet. PGP encrypted email is still secure? Torchat is probably secure and anonymous, in a sense it's impossible to decrypt conversation and figure out who is talking to who.
Honestly I forget the details that I did read about the attacks, and can't keep Sunni and Shiite apart, but I remember hearing someone explain it and explained why it was much more likely that the chem attacks were Assad rather than the rebels.
LOL, that is a good example of modern journalism - you do not know why, but somehow you believe it's true, because some smart looking people with serious faces was discussing the issue on TV and came to this conclusion, or maybe your read article in reputable newspaper written by 'doctor of middle-eastern affairs' who surely understand all this Sunni and Shiite relations and stuff like this?
It's propaganda war, only thing that we can be sure is that we do not know what really happens there. I think it's more probable that rebels used chemical weapons to frame Assad, just because it makes more sense - they are the loosing side and need US to intervene.
Speaking of bullshit, it's very hard to take you serious when you spew it yourself about Chernobyl.
Check how Chernobyl was handled - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Q6VDQWtqk . In short - 600 000 people finished sarcophagus in half a year. What is done to secure Fukushima in more than 2 years? Also check comparison - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Fukushima_and_Chernobyl_nuclear_accident , look at radiation levels on site and amount of fuel in reactors. Fukushima is much easier to clean up than Chernobyl, and risk of apocalyptic contamination is much higher! One more tsunami and what? What will happen if all fuel that is now in reactors will be washed out to the ocean and spread worldwide by currents? It's a fucking doomsday machine that is set to trigger by random chance! Maybe Tepco employ dr. Strangelove as head of clean up operation?
making a statement about deadliness of a sievert level of water leaking into the ground is also nonsense. that would be for a full body exposure to a level of radiation, and the lethal dose is more like 5000 mS, 1800mS over four hours and a person would be almost to the point of "severe radiation sickness", but most would not die. perhaps 8% would die at that level without proper medical intervention.
Exactly out thoughts, gaijin! It's 4 hours - nobody should swim that long, and only 8% anyway - not a big deal. We are waiting for a new tsunami that will wash all this inconvenient radioactive junk into the ocean, we do not need it any more, you see. Ocean currents will do the rest, nature will find the way! Pity about dolphins tho. Tasty, tasty dolphins!
Tepco - committed to bringing nuclear power to every doorstep in the world!
Wait, what? You think Fukushima is worse than Chernobyl was? Why?
I'm saying liquidation was handled much worse in Fukushima accident. Look how Chernobyl was handled - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Immediate_crisis_management. Fire containment, that prevented fire to spread another reactor, volunteers swimming in bubbling radioactive water to open the valve - 3 people prevented one more hydrogen explosion and died shortly afterwards, and later quarter million workers building sarcophagus over reactor 4, sealing it to prevent future contamination. If Chernobyl was handled same way as Fukushima - we would have have of Europe exclusion zone, with all what was inside reactors 3 and 4 blown around and scattered by the wind. Fukushima is not over yet after more that 2 years after disaster - there are still tons of radioactive water pouring into world ocean every day, and in case of an earthquake, that is not really uncommon in Japan, high possibility of massive disaster involving that huge amounts of spend fuel that is still on site.
Better than capitalism in Japan anyway. 2 years since accident - the freaking thing still massively leaks! Read about Chernobyl disaster - basically much larger hydrogen explosion and radioactive contamination was prevented with cost of liquidators lives.
But why would Assad do that? To get punished for using chemical weapons on civilian population? - not logical. Maybe he is just a crazy evil maniac? Not looks like that, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad. If you think about it, it is much more likely that rebels or CIA used chemical weapons on civilian population to get a good pretext to punish Assad for doing that.
Yes, and another possibility is spaghetti monster created us all. We can think of milliards of possibilities, but from inside the box we can not see what is outside the box, there can be nothing at all or something so weird that we can not even imagine it - it can be anything. Everything that we really have is the current moment, we can spend it anyway we like, we can feel love, hate, pain, pleasure, think about the gods, search for something, write posts on slashdot, believe in god in any form - it's all the same, it's all just happening now, in a current moment. Does it really matter is there something out there? Just choose what do you want to experience now, in a current moment. Feeling love is the popular choice:)
99% of the people using those products would never care if you changed them from Linux to something else.
Provided all software is working and GUI remains the same? They would not care if you change NT kernel on their Windows desktops to this mystical 'something else', then. Majority of people using any product do not think much about kernel, and rightly so.
Anyway it's just as easy to tap traffic after it exit VPN endpoint in UK, so your UK VPN does not hurt anyone, use it if it makes you content. It will always be slower - all your traffic will be routed trough your UK VDS, so latency to a given website will be sum of latency from your home to UK VDS and from UK VDS to a given website.
But yes, now you can watch BBC online - it will not let you with non UK IP. And to watch hulu you need US IP. And if you live in one of the countries in growing "Wanna Great Firewall like in China" club... No, internet is not fragmented, no, no. Ok, maybe just a bit. For now.
Sorry, telepaths are currently on a vacation. Show us traceroute output from your home to VPS and from VPS to home IP.
Yeah, and not to offend you but just in case - please erase last digits of your home and VPS IP's before posting, or you may end up with no connectivity at all;)
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Exactly, why would anybody go to library when any book can be downloaded from torrents and read on device with e-inc screen? And if it's immoral to download 'pirated' book - what is the difference between downloading a book and taking it from library?
There's something about sitting down with a book that just doesn't work as well with a digital device, at least not yet.
Try kindle or other reader with e-inc screen. If you still prefer old style books - that is probably because you used to it, in less than 100 years paper books will be no more than curiosity, like scrolls or stone tablets with inscribed symbols. There is certainly something about sitting with stone tablet that just does not work as well with the books, but stone tablets, paper books or books on a digital devices are essentially the same - information in human readable form. Digital reader is more convenient than a paper book, same as paper book is more convenient than a stone table - information density is higher, reproduction cost is lower (practically zero for digital devices). But newer formats are less sturdy - it's not easy to destroy stone tablet, paper books burn and rot, digital devices are even more fragile. So use stone or metal tablets if your want your message to be read in couple thousands years, digital reader for everyday reading.
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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
Yes she does seems to promote sensible things and seems to understand what's going on. Comparing to our Russian counterparts that just add new topics to be included in firewall 'DROP' list in order to protect 'children' and rights holders - very very sensible.
Does not it make it kinda even more difficult to operate discussion forum, or IRC channel, or, I dare say, anonymous imageboard like 4chan? By what logic operator may be held liable for user's postings? If unidentified person offended other person in, say, supermarket - would supermarket owner be held liable? Operator may be forced to delete offending content by court order, or at least as with DCMA complaints - by the letter from offended person, that's understandable. But to hold operator liable for user's postings - means say farewell to any forms of discussions on the internet, except where user posted content is premoderated or user have to somehow authorise with his real identity.
AC that posted offending comment ought to be responsible. Can not find him? Oh well...
I tried to find not premoderated comments on any of EU officials blogs to give them a taste, no luck :(
But look what I've found, granma that's responsible for EU's 'digital agenda' (WTF is that?) wants our views on what she calls 'Internet governance'. http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en/content/internet-governance-i-want-your-views
BBC and Fox often present the same message different ways. For example on foreign wars - BBC shows some children in caves, children are suffering - cold, hungry, afraid of bombings by pro-government forces and want to return to normal life. After successful campaign children miraculously disappear - like in Libya, where anarchy currently is so widespread that PM was recently kidnapped. But evil dictator is dead, so children must be ok now, sure :) Fox message is just like "He is an enemy of US, we will destroy him!" - more straightforward, less sickening.
I remember how those "think of the children" news are made - I was around 15 y.o. in Moscow, it was around 1992, presumably Japanese news channel (there was russian producer who told us that) filmed as as "Russian punks". They told us to come to building in our block that was scheduled for demolition, generously gave us each 2 packs of marlboro and some vodka, somebody brought a guitar. So we were to sing russian punk songs while drinking vodka from a bottle and smoking cigarettes, all this with broken windows and overall mess of a building scheduled for demolition as a background. I do not know if it was shown or not, if shown we could be orphans of war near dwelling, half destroyed by government aviation in Chechnya, or where it was needed at the moment.
Try to create everything, then listen to this damn stupid prayers all day - like give me this, give me that, please destroy all my enemies, oh lord forgive me and so on. Oh, and there is another bunch of your creations brutally killed in your name by your faithful servants, again. I bet you'll become mad psycho in less than millennia.
But why would somebody believe that happy dancing with no close on (i.e. as created by, well, creator) is somehow insult to any deity is difficult to understand, unless they serve shopping god or fashion goddess.
Optimal strategy for ssd + hdd dual drive configuration on linux would be to use ssd drive for cache, there are couple of ways to accomplish this, easiest is flashcache - open source kernel module developed by facebook.
Or you can buy 32-64 GB SSD and HDD, and use flashcache, and you will have the same hybrid drive but with 4-8 times larger cache.
Interesting device! How to protect linux computer from such attack, besides glueing USB ports? Any way to make it to ask for user password upon inserting HID device?
We are not THAT screwed yet. PGP encrypted email is still secure? Torchat is probably secure and anonymous, in a sense it's impossible to decrypt conversation and figure out who is talking to who.
Honestly I forget the details that I did read about the attacks, and can't keep Sunni and Shiite apart, but I remember hearing someone explain it and explained why it was much more likely that the chem attacks were Assad rather than the rebels.
LOL, that is a good example of modern journalism - you do not know why, but somehow you believe it's true, because some smart looking people with serious faces was discussing the issue on TV and came to this conclusion, or maybe your read article in reputable newspaper written by 'doctor of middle-eastern affairs' who surely understand all this Sunni and Shiite relations and stuff like this?
It all depends on who you believe, we get all information (pro and anti strike) from biased sources, I did not expect anything else from HWR - article is written in classical style, to get emotional response. Check out this link http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/15496841-hostages-piccinin-quirico-heard-syrian-rebels-say-assad-not-responsible-for-chemical-attack.
It's propaganda war, only thing that we can be sure is that we do not know what really happens there. I think it's more probable that rebels used chemical weapons to frame Assad, just because it makes more sense - they are the loosing side and need US to intervene.
Speaking of bullshit, it's very hard to take you serious when you spew it yourself about Chernobyl.
Check how Chernobyl was handled - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Q6VDQWtqk . In short - 600 000 people finished sarcophagus in half a year. What is done to secure Fukushima in more than 2 years? Also check comparison - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Fukushima_and_Chernobyl_nuclear_accident , look at radiation levels on site and amount of fuel in reactors. Fukushima is much easier to clean up than Chernobyl, and risk of apocalyptic contamination is much higher! One more tsunami and what? What will happen if all fuel that is now in reactors will be washed out to the ocean and spread worldwide by currents? It's a fucking doomsday machine that is set to trigger by random chance! Maybe Tepco employ dr. Strangelove as head of clean up operation?
making a statement about deadliness of a sievert level of water leaking into the ground is also nonsense. that would be for a full body exposure to a level of radiation, and the lethal dose is more like 5000 mS, 1800mS over four hours and a person would be almost to the point of "severe radiation sickness", but most would not die. perhaps 8% would die at that level without proper medical intervention.
Exactly out thoughts, gaijin! It's 4 hours - nobody should swim that long, and only 8% anyway - not a big deal. We are waiting for a new tsunami that will wash all this inconvenient radioactive junk into the ocean, we do not need it any more, you see. Ocean currents will do the rest, nature will find the way! Pity about dolphins tho. Tasty, tasty dolphins!
Tepco - committed to bringing nuclear power to every doorstep in the world!
What the actual fuck. How could such a stupid mistake be made?
Do not worry gaijin, we upgraded our dosimeters to a newest model that is capable of displaying up to 1.8 sieverts!
Wait, what? You think Fukushima is worse than Chernobyl was? Why?
I'm saying liquidation was handled much worse in Fukushima accident. Look how Chernobyl was handled - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Immediate_crisis_management. Fire containment, that prevented fire to spread another reactor, volunteers swimming in bubbling radioactive water to open the valve - 3 people prevented one more hydrogen explosion and died shortly afterwards, and later quarter million workers building sarcophagus over reactor 4, sealing it to prevent future contamination. If Chernobyl was handled same way as Fukushima - we would have have of Europe exclusion zone, with all what was inside reactors 3 and 4 blown around and scattered by the wind. Fukushima is not over yet after more that 2 years after disaster - there are still tons of radioactive water pouring into world ocean every day, and in case of an earthquake, that is not really uncommon in Japan, high possibility of massive disaster involving that huge amounts of spend fuel that is still on site.
And socialism worked so well at Cherynobl.
Better than capitalism in Japan anyway. 2 years since accident - the freaking thing still massively leaks! Read about Chernobyl disaster - basically much larger hydrogen explosion and radioactive contamination was prevented with cost of liquidators lives.
But why would Assad do that? To get punished for using chemical weapons on civilian population? - not logical. Maybe he is just a crazy evil maniac? Not looks like that, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad. If you think about it, it is much more likely that rebels or CIA used chemical weapons on civilian population to get a good pretext to punish Assad for doing that.
Yes, and another possibility is spaghetti monster created us all. We can think of milliards of possibilities, but from inside the box we can not see what is outside the box, there can be nothing at all or something so weird that we can not even imagine it - it can be anything. Everything that we really have is the current moment, we can spend it anyway we like, we can feel love, hate, pain, pleasure, think about the gods, search for something, write posts on slashdot, believe in god in any form - it's all the same, it's all just happening now, in a current moment. Does it really matter is there something out there? Just choose what do you want to experience now, in a current moment. Feeling love is the popular choice :)
99% of the people using those products would never care if you changed them from Linux to something else.
Provided all software is working and GUI remains the same? They would not care if you change NT kernel on their Windows desktops to this mystical 'something else', then. Majority of people using any product do not think much about kernel, and rightly so.
Anyway it's just as easy to tap traffic after it exit VPN endpoint in UK, so your UK VPN does not hurt anyone, use it if it makes you content. It will always be slower - all your traffic will be routed trough your UK VDS, so latency to a given website will be sum of latency from your home to UK VDS and from UK VDS to a given website.
But yes, now you can watch BBC online - it will not let you with non UK IP. And to watch hulu you need US IP. And if you live in one of the countries in growing "Wanna Great Firewall like in China" club...
No, internet is not fragmented, no, no. Ok, maybe just a bit. For now.
Always yours, Captain Obvious.
Sorry, telepaths are currently on a vacation. Show us traceroute output from your home to VPS and from VPS to home IP.
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Yeah, and not to offend you but just in case - please erase last digits of your home and VPS IP's before posting, or you may end up with no connectivity at all