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bysakdoctor
2012 @02:04PM
(#39101773)
Attached to: Researchers Break Video CAPTCHAs
The going rate is around $1 per 1000 solved catchpa.
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bysakdoctor
2012 @10:39AM
(#39099687)
Attached to: UK Government To Demand Data On Every Call, Email, and Tweet
The threat of terrorism is a lame excuse for mass surveillance.
Copyright protection is a lame excuse for mass surveillance.
Child porn is a lame excuse for mass surveillance.
The Olympics!? They're not even trying any more.
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bysakdoctor
2012 @10:36AM
(#39099667)
Attached to: UK Government To Demand Data On Every Call, Email, and Tweet
The world in 1984 is a global symmetric system.
You have some of the prerequisites for that system in place:
Perpetual war on X
A vast military-industrial complex to destroy the excess of human production.
Choice between two indistinguishable political ideals.
However the 1984 world is also in equilibrium. Once big brother exists, he will always have existed.
You're discounting the possibility of being conquered from without.
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bysakdoctor
2012 @03:28PM
(#39094609)
Attached to: Canada's Online Surveillance Bill: Section 34 "Opens Door To Big Brother"
I call rule 34 on rule 34
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bysakdoctor
2012 @10:38AM
(#39092637)
Attached to: Tetris In 140 Bytes
The function requires an animation loop and event handler otherwise it does nothing. After that, it's way more than 140 bytes.
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bysakdoctor
2012 @10:22AM
(#39092517)
Attached to: Human Rights Groups Push To Save Condemned Programmer In Iran
Right, the American legal system would only destroy someone's life if they wrote a circumvention for a copy-right protection system.
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bysakdoctor
2012 @09:47AM
(#39092365)
Attached to: Human Rights Groups Push To Save Condemned Programmer In Iran
I dunno about this.
The European Parliament seem hell bent on protecting human rights lately, despite a barrage of 4-letter acronym pro-censorship laws.
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bysakdoctor
2012 @03:22PM
(#39078613)
Attached to: EU Court Rules Social Networks Cannot Be Forced To Police Downloads
(repeal even)
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bysakdoctor
2012 @03:21PM
(#39078599)
Attached to: EU Court Rules Social Networks Cannot Be Forced To Police Downloads
Repel 'Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act' in the UK.
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bysakdoctor
2012 @03:18PM
(#39078561)
Attached to: EU Court Rules Social Networks Cannot Be Forced To Police Downloads
Oktoberfest?
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bysakdoctor
2012 @03:17PM
(#39078539)
Attached to: EU Court Rules Social Networks Cannot Be Forced To Police Downloads
A defeat for US e-colonialism.
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bysakdoctor
2012 @02:50PM
(#39078177)
Attached to: Making a Better Solar Cooker
To which the solution is, better wood burning stoves, with a chimney to improve draft, operating temperate and efficiency, while eliminating indoor pollutants.
Even a flue that's not completely air-tight is a start, because the pressure is lower than ambient, and it draws air in along its length.
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bysakdoctor
2012 @02:35PM
(#39078001)
Attached to: Making a Better Solar Cooker
The Philips wood burning stove was way cooler than these looks good on paper solar contraptions. Not that this design would be suitable for these villages, but better wood stoves should have been first on the list.
http://www.research.philips.com/technologies/woodstove.html
I heat my cosy developed-world house using wood, and it's incredibly clean and efficient. And by clean I mean even "a little bit of dust" would be unacceptably dirty. The yearly chimney sweep shows that the combustion itself is very close to complete, and the fuel itself is free. Garden waste to most people.
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bysakdoctor
2012 @02:15PM
(#39077747)
Attached to: Making a Better Solar Cooker
That isn't what happened, but thanks for sharing your narrow perspective.
The goal of this charity is "to heal the climate crisis though reforestation" ... total hypocrisy of course, given mine and your ecological footprint.
Wahwhua = White affluent hippy with head up ass
Wahwhua: Here is a crappy solar cooker we designed. Use this instead of harvesting firewood.
Villagers: This solar cooker is completely inferior to our existing wood stoves. It's not fit for purpose.
Wahwhua: Ok, here is our new design. You should use this because YOU'RE damaging the planet.
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bysakdoctor
2012 @02:04PM
(#39077601)
Attached to: A Look At Microsoft's 'Mini Internet' For Testing IE
IE is crap, but not for that reason. IE9 is missing some very-nice-to-have bits of HTML5 just because it was released so long ago.
As for CSS3, yes it's deficient in some areas, but there is a trick to get around many of them: SVG
Unless you have to support IE8 (LOL poor you), then the users will never notice the smoke and mirrors.
With JavaScript polyfills, it's possible to take advantage of the latest and greatest in IE9 with minimal effort.
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