slowpoke

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by slowpoke 14y ago
On your Google, with your results, with your search history and thus in your specific filter bubble. Fuck, people, don't you get this already? There is no n-th result on Google. Don't act like there is.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I seriously do not understand his problem. I don't like LotR either, but its cultural impact is huge and it does in no way devalue the gigantic literary work that Tolkien has created. Idiotic copyright lawsuits won't change reality, eithe
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Exactly.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Do yourself a favor and use a native client. Every single web client for IRC sucks. No exceptions .
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I'm sorry to say this, but all issues you describe are instances of PEBKAC.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Is this supposed to be a joke? Why in all seven hells would you use a proprietary, hosted service which brings you zero advantages over a time-tested, open and simple network protocol which you can extremely easily host and extend your
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>1. People afraid of being tracked down and prosecuted because someone used their exit node for criminal behavior Again, Flash Proxy is not an exit node, it's a bridge. It merely helps people to access the Tor network, and does not
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by slowpoke 14y ago
It's equally debatable whether it's okay to put stupid advertisements or tracking technology on your website - which have infinitely less positive benefits for humanity than Tor. Anyways, my answer wasn't about Flash-Proxy at all (which i
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by slowpoke 14y ago
It makes me extremely sad - and somewhat angry - that a lot of people just associate Tor with CP and criminals. Tor enabled and helped carry out fucking revolutions. Hundreds, if not thousands of (not only) chinese dissidents use it to
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>a serious crime You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means. Piracy is not a crime, much less a serious one. Murder, for example, is a serious crime. Please don't spout nonsense. Copyright infringement
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by slowpoke 14y ago
The bad thing about the "nothing to hide" camp usually isn't their opinion that they themselves have nothing to hide, but the fact that the majority of these people seem to want to force this opinion on the rest of society. Fine, live
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by slowpoke 14y ago
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." - Cardinal Richelieu
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by slowpoke 14y ago
> For some people, jobs are hard to come by, I would wager the majority of TSA screeners do not have any better paying options, so to criticize them for being a part of a faulty system, or to paint them as being "from a sixth grade m
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Your examples only make a legal name important if you consider these things important. I don't, and they aren't. Part of why we need to get rid of the concept of a legal name is exactly for this reason. A government has no business and
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I always wonder during those discussions - what exactly is a "real" name supposed to be? I don't have "real" name. Rather, I have many chosen names, and a name my parents gave me. I consider all of these names real, as they refer to a fa
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by slowpoke 14y ago
> no major wars That's demonstrably false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_wars
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I don't think you understand how science works.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
> People search on Google -- they opt-in to Google Search -- because the results satisfy them (more than the competition). Um, no. A lot of people don't even know there is competition to Google. They don't "opt-in" to Google just as
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by slowpoke 14y ago
If you saw it on twitter, why don't you ask this on twitter?
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>I see that a programmer or artist is slightly different because the work the programmer or artist did can be duplicated. That's not only "slightly different", that's the crucial difference . So no, they aren't "effectively the same"
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by slowpoke 14y ago
There is a very important difference between "owning" information - which is impossible and any attempt to do so is morally reprehensible - and the "creator's right" of being named as said creator - which is perfectly fine. All your example
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Except here in Germany, where the local fuckwads at the GEMA [1] made Youtube block the video because "they hadn't granted the necessary rights". For a fucking copyright-waived video. Argh. And people actually wonder why more and more (Germ
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Our first, yes, but not our only. Otherwise, dolphins and whales might be extinct soon. There's nothing preventing you from supporting both, say, Amnesty International and Sea Sheperd, or Médecins Sans Frontières and Greenpeace - or all of
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Education shouldn't be about not doing drugs, but about not getting addicted to them. It's perfectly fine to occasionally take drugs (you know, like CH₃CH₂OH or C₈H₁₀N₄O₂, the former of which is a lot worse than a good number of illegal and
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I do believe most new projects today would be better off with a combination of a high level language for the logic, like Python or Perl, and a low level language like C or maybe Go for the plumbing, with clean interfaces between them. There
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by slowpoke 14y ago
The thing about identifying as removable storage is that it allows you to use whatever music syncing tool or library program you want, and aren't locked into the universally horrible vendor-supplied excuses for an application. Files in a di
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by slowpoke 14y ago
If you are building your own computers anyways, it's not that huge of an issue to watch out for Linux compatible graphic cards. Really.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>But asking them to give up their mp3 players, chat programs and background tasks while they're gaming? Wat. Linux programs like Pidgin have support for almost all IM protocols known to man, it can handle any Portable Media Player with
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by slowpoke 14y ago
With all due respect, you have absolutely no fucking idea what you are talking about. First of all, every damn time someone brings up the "you just have to double click the installer on Windows" argument, they leave out the steps before tha
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by slowpoke 14y ago
It's a bit stretched to assert that European countries don't have Free Speech. Germany, for instance, grants Freedom of Expression in its "Grundgesetz" (its fundamental law), and states that "there is no censorship", though there may be exc

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