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by thisiswrong 13y ago
From the BBC article: ''The authorities said the pair were engaged in a scheme to sell more than $1m (£603,000) in bitcoins to users of online drug marketplace the Silk Road.'' This is ridiculous! Please tell me how sell
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SoundCloud is great. You really get the feeling that you're being empowered as a content consumer and creator. This is because SoundCloud really doesn't give a shit about the making people listen to what the copyright monopoly wan
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> Fuck Kim Dotcom. He's a scumbag piece of shit Really? Perhaps you work for the corrupt dinosaurs at the MAFIAA or those in the UK/US government? Or perhaps you were easily fooled by the lies fed to you by mainstream media? Ei
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> I've now spent more of my adult life outside the States than in the U.S., and I've also come to the opinion that the U.S. is one of the most amazing places in the world. Yes. The American backed/sponsored slaughter of in
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
>We are apathetic, b/c we are tired. No. Americans are apathetic because they are one of the most brainwashed peoples of the planet [1], perhaps after North Koreans. There are exceptions to this and some few Americans are very enlig
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
I'm not so worried about net neutrality. I mean it's easy enough for the average person to eventually understand the importance of all traffic being treated the same. Copyright extremism (and 'protecting' children - Fire
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
False. Speedtest.net gives results in Mbit/s. 25 Mbit/s ≠ 25 Mb/s. 1 Mbit = 0.125 MB
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Yes it is. And so is Twister. But the millions who use Twitter to quietly follow people/things could potentially be profiled [1] and labeled ''terrorist™'' by association. > Twister is designed to prevent other u
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> any arbitrary hierarchical group of people with common interests From the Guardian article: ''Obama’s White House staff were meeting representatives of tech firms on Friday, concluding a packed week packed of meetings with su
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> Obama will follow the recommendations of a review group he set up, which suggested that the responsibility for the bulk domestic call records database should be transferred from the NSA to a third party, such as the phone companies Mus
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> a world riding the wave of the industrial revolution > all of the people filmed were affected in some way by the Second World War I can't agree with you more. But what makes me more sad is that it all seems to be slowly repeati
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> This is bbc news, not fox news. I expect better. Seeing how bbc 'news' have covered the NSA scandal so far [1] I would no longer say there's much difference between bbc and fox. Both are establishment mouthpieces, while
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Or if El Salvador and Panama dropped the USD as their currency and used BTC.
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
You're correct. Litecoin will go mainstream - just like bitcoin. Believe it or not but bitcoin only represents 75 percent of the cryptocurrency market [1] But people should'nt forget that bitcoin has thousands of GigaHashes per se
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Bearish!? You do realize that if you invested 6 months ago, your investment has risen by 1000% ?! Also, these recent price rises are nothing compared to what will hit when mass adoption happens in 2014. It's all about perspective. Try
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Yes. Larry, and Google have gotten a lot of (well-merited) bad PR recently. Sadly PR-stunts like these were, so far , only restricted to Reddit [1]. But it seems that HN has a growing user-base and can no longer escape the commercial shills
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> Only someone watching too much 24 and Homeland would believe that [...] You're picking up on something very interesting here. Sadly, you don't fully address the issue. Hollywood propaganda [1] could very well be THE reason wh
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> That describes a huge fraction of today's protestors and activists, which is why despite many things in the world sucking I rarely take today's "activism" very seriously. It's mostly activism-as-entertainment f
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Not related to the laptop: I like the retailer's site [1]. It's simple and clean. But most importantly there are no 3rd party trackers, and they have chosen not to use Google's surveillance code (Analytics) and instead they u
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Wishes for Mozilla in 2014: -Accept cryptocurrency donations; -Break free from Google/surveilance as default search; -DDGo as default search; -Firefox OS becomes as adopted as iOS and Android; -Firefox browser regain market share ba
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> The American public are war-mongers and game studios are simply giving the people what they wanted By that logic GW Bush was simply trying to get reelected when he helped start a false war in Iraq and Obama is simply appealing to his e
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
This article raises a valid point, but sadly doesn't fully address it. Are the same group of conspirators who illegally spy on us also pulling strings in Hollywood and at game studios to promote their agenda? This concept may seem hard
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
This a great step forward. General IT education at an early age is currently non-existent in most schools around the world. Technology is for everyone - not just a select few. Teach all kids (and adults) basic coding skills and you'll
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Unrelated to the article: I have taken a quick browse around this site. Their content and supposed mission is very appealing and something i have much respect for. However, as an organization that is fighting for digital rights i don't
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
''Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.'' Oscar Wilde
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> It would be lovely if it would fall through Ireland, since the Irish have consistently been the most vocal proponent of surrendering EU privacy protections to American business and government interests. I can't agree with you more
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
I hope you've settled somewhere with a more conservative gvt that has everyone's best interests at heart (sarcasm). Perhaps your new home is in the land of the free?
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> It's the question of why we all let this happen without any resistance. Why, and how did we let this happen? Look no further : http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Holl... &
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
I also have high hopes for the PayPal 14
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> In-Q-Tel, a non-profit venture-capital firm established by the CIA Good old Mussolini style fascism is steaming full speed ahead in the land of the free.

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