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Comment "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." (Score 5, Insightful) 144

by seoras (#44237053) Attached to: Heml.is, New Encrypted Messaging Service From Brokep of the Pirate Bay

When you try to eradicate anything and fail you only succeed in make it stronger and more menacing.
It's true in medicine with antibiotics and bacteria, it's true in nature with mosquitoes and the various failed attempts to defeat their spread of malaria.

Skype was born from the technology to evade detection and network filtering (Kazaa).
First time I fire up Skype I couldn't believe the complexity of the networking it got into.
A close friend, who worked in networking with me, un-installed it immediately as it looked like a trojan at the network layer.

TPB people have learned some very hard lessons about evasion, law and staying alive online under extreme hostilities.

It'll be interesting to see what the next "Skype" will be and this could be either it, or one more step towards it.

Comment Re:There is no freedom in US (or almost anywhere). (Score 4, Interesting) 330

by seoras (#44186505) Attached to: U.S. Independence Day is a ...

Why didn't Snowden just flee to S.America?
Why Hong Kong and then Russia?

He's making a point and he's keeping himself in the news at the risk of being caught and treated the same as B.Manning.
Who leaked the rumour of him being on the Bolivian Presidential Jet? Why?

I notice the BBC dropped that story off their front page PDQ.

As long as Snowden appears in the headlines shall we question the role of the USA (& UK puppet) globally.
It's clear, brave and risky media manipulation to get a point across...

What is Independence?
What are you celebrating?
The end of one empire and the beginning of another?

Comment BBC iPlayer for the large UK ex-pat pop of NZ (Score 2) 126

I've lived in NZ and hope to return to living there at some point. I'm from the UK.
One thing I missed while living there was the BBC iPlayer service (or maybe not ;) ).
If I had an ISP in NZ who could give me a UK IP Address I'd be laughing all the way to my TV/Laptop.
I'm sure there's other reasons why you might want to cover up your from NZ (Mr Dotcom!) but this is the best one I can think of.

Submission + - High School kid builds his own Iron Man costume. "...Google helped a lot" (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by seoras
seoras writes: A teenager has told the BBC that his self-built Iron Man suit has led to offers from the US to create more.
Archie Whitehead, 17, told the BBC's Richard Williams that he spent 300 hours building the fibreglass suit for a school project.
However, he said he is now considering turning the one-off into a career in costume design.
The Military

United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea 567

Posted by samzenpus from the nice-day-for-a-flight dept.
skade88 writes "The New York Times is reporting that the United States has started flying B-2 stealth bomber runs over South Korea as a show of force to North Korea. The bombers flew 6,500 miles to bomb a South Korean island with mock explosives. Earlier this month the U.S. Military ran mock B-52 bombing runs over the same South Korean island. The U.S. military says it shows that it can execute precision bombing runs at will with little notice needed. The U.S. also reaffirmed their commitment to protecting its allies in the region. The North Koreans have been making threats to turn South Korea into a sea of fire. North Korea has also made threats claiming they will nuke the United States' mainland."

Comment The class is usually just nerds. No hot chicks! (Score 1) 971

by seoras (#22847448) Attached to: Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student?
OK, it was 20 years ago for me but doing an engineering degree, especially computer science and electronics, we had 80 guys and 1 cute girl.
As you walk past other lecture rooms for biology, chemistry, etc it was all girls. Hot ones.
Thats the only reason and the real reason its sucks. Especially when you are at that age.

Seriously, an enforced balance of the sexes in classes should be encourage if not enforced.
In all academic disciplines.

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