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Samsung Blu-ray players bricked because of an XML config file(theregister.com)
213 points by jgome 6y ago|175 comments
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by jgome 6y ago
Also, https://www.medicineuncensored.com/a-study-out-of-thin-air https://www.isglobal.org/en/healthisglobal/-/custom-blog-por... (I was going to submit this link some days ago, but I couldn&#
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A Study Out of Thin Air(medicineuncensored.com)
10 points by jgome 6y ago|2 comments
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by jgome 8y ago
> As much as you can (rightly) criticize the US, particularly the current administration, the US still has the rule of law to a degree far larger than almost all of the rest of the world And, conveniently, there are ad-hoc courts (FISA)
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by jgome 8y ago
How do Intel and AMD manage to make their own drivers mostly open-source, then?
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by jgome 8y ago
Kinda off-topic, but I feel like they could gain a lot by opening their graphics stacks or simply by letting FOSS devs work on them, instead of making their work more difficult/impossible (see: history of the FOSS lima driver).
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by jgome 8y ago
Your comment reminds me of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13959324 In particular, these comments explain very well the kind of problems one may have when trying to concentrate on a task: https:/&#x2
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by jgome 9y ago
Just install busybox.exe from https://frippery.org/busybox/ to some directory in your %PATH% or in C\: and run 'busybox sh'.
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by jgome 9y ago
All AVs can or do send suspicious files to their servers for analysis. Why is this a surprise?
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by jgome 9y ago
Not sure about "80's and 90's" zines, but PoC||GTFO is a really good one.
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by jgome 9y ago
This has directly affected the ranking of Chile in a negative way, for at least 4 years. The person who was in charge of the group responsible for the supposed "screw up", Augusto Lopez-Claros, is chilean. Chile currently has a &
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World Bank Unfairly Influenced Its Own Competitiveness Rankings(wsj.com)
2 points by jgome 9y ago|2 comments
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by jgome 9y ago
AFAIU (prolly not much), GDP measures money that comes and goes to/from a country. If, let's say, products/services were exchanged directly, without moving money, that wouldn't be counted; OTOH, if certain country, say t
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by jgome 9y ago
I forgot, the one and only language spoken in the whole world is english... And everyone should know it, even the small details. As a language, it's a disaster. I better worry about more important things, and not waste more time with i
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by jgome 9y ago
What I mean is exactly what I said: start by looking at the dirt your own country may have BEFORE looking at someone else's dirt. You may learn a thing or two about your government, the upper classes in your country, the racism and xen
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by jgome 9y ago
Nice joke.
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by jgome 9y ago
It is normal (be it "lefty" democratic, or republican US presidents) for the US government to use its power to destroy other countries and steal its resources... And yet here you are discussing "cynicism and [...] deliberate
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by jgome 9y ago
Since we are at it, I suggest reading John Perkins's "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man": https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins... Also, any book on past and current colonialism (say,
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by jgome 9y ago
As opposed to the "blood money" invested by the US govt. in technology companies? Do you also have problems with Twitter, Google and Facebook getting money from the US govt.? Let's not forget, the US govt., both Republicans a
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by jgome 9y ago
The US doesn't need to annex any country, they just pay their "partners" overseas, or, if they go "rogue", a few US navy ships show up and that's it. BTW, you are forgetting more recent events in which the US g
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by jgome 9y ago
I suggest that you don't buy the hype and the bullshit. All this China/Russia stuff... It's nothing new, and it's not like the US doesn't do the same, and worse. And yet here we are, talking about the russians &quot
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by jgome 9y ago
Of course you are, the whole security industry is based on spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt... And that makes it very profitable.
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by jgome 9y ago
> For someone who lives in a remote area and survives on hunting wild animals, being able to tell where game is situated, is more valuable than matching some geometrical figures or knowing capital city of a country he will never visit. S
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by jgome 10y ago
Reminds me of Microsoft, USAID and other similar companies/organizations.
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by jgome 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3d+printed+hous...
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by jgome 10y ago
> if you're willing to make arguments that sending troops 4000km to protect your own citizens You mean, the colonialists sent by the UK government? They shouldn't have been there in the first place.
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by jgome 10y ago
So the US as a nation is evil. BTW, you are wrong: cubans do vote, too.
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by jgome 10y ago
> whose entire career is corruption. His "charitable" foundation pays his legal bills FCS. Meanwhile... From https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/795284806510714881 > Chelsea Clinton used Clinton F
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by jgome 10y ago
> if they did, they would have been released well before millions of people had already voted, and not on the eve of the election. Assange has claimed multiple times, that he thinks these elections are a farce... Perhaps he knows some th
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by jgome 10y ago
Private emails... From political parties, public representatives and lobbyists. These are VERY PUBLIC people. IMO, these people should not enjoy having a private life in the first place, because, as the Podesta emails show, they end up usin

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