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Comment Re:Counter attack. (Score 5, Informative) 96

The Rights Alliance is in effect threatening a political party to a government. Any obligations Sweden has to that organizations hosting country, could become null and void as a result.

The Rights Alliance (Rättighetsalliansen) is a Swedish organization, with sister organizations in other countries (e.g. RettighedsAlliancen in Denmark).

You must realize that Sweden's obligations to the USA trumps Sweden's obligations to its own population.

Comment Re:Next - SE for houses without security systems (Score 1) 85

So by that logic, I assume you rape every woman you pass on a dark street, mug the elderly who don't go out in groups, and commit every other crime of opportunity to shame people into what *you* consider proper, minimum safe behavior. How brave and noble of you.

Phew. For a moment I was worried this thread would descend into hyperbole and strawman arguments.

Comment Ways around TPB blocks (Score 5, Informative) 72

First method: Try a Pirate Bay proxy: http://thepiratebay.se/, http://malaysiabay.org/, many more

Second method: Several ISPs use simple DNS blocking, so try Google Public DNS. (This doesn't apply to OP, but may help others.) On Windows, you can use the following command to see if it might work, without changing your DNS: nslookup thepiratebay.org 8.8.8.8 (the IP right now should be 194.71.107.50).

Third method: Use Google Cache to find the magnet-link:

1. Do a site:thepiratebay.se Google search for the torrent.
2. Click the Preview (>>) arrow next to your result, and click the Cached link.
3. Click "Text Only" version if the page fails to load.
4. Finally, click the magnet link.

If the "Cached" link is missing from the Google search result, click on the search result, then copy the URL (the real URL, not the Google redirect URL), prepend "http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:" to the URL. (example)

Comment Re:Undisclosed new feature (Score 3, Informative) 131

In case anyone is wondering, many programs should perform better under Python 3.3 than under 3.2, due to the new way of storing Unicode strings:

The memory usage of Python 3.3 is two to three times smaller than Python 3.2, and a little bit better than Python 2.7, on a Django benchmark.

Benchmarks that focus on certain types of string-operations have seen slowdowns, but real-world applications (such as Django web applications) should benefit from this change. (And real-world applications that perform intensive and performance critical string manipulations should use PyPy.)

Comment Interesting paper (Score 1) 295

I recommend skimming the paper (second link in TFS), it's short and quite readable. At the very least, check out the provided sample of successful manipulations (PDF; the notation is explained on page 2).

Highlights include:

Our intuition that abstract principles would involve more moderate attitudes, and engender less detection was not supported by the data.

The more the participants agreed or disagreed with a statement, the more likely they were to correct the manipulation.

But:

The overall rating of the non-detected manipulated trials was notably high. Using a 9-point scale, the average rating was 2.8 or 7.2 depending on the direction of the rating, which means that the average ‘distance’ being manipulated when a statement was reversed was 4.4 units on the scale. This is evidence that the participants cared about the issues involved, and expressed seemingly polarized opinions about the manipulated issues they failed to detect.

Of course, serious multiple choice questionnaires often repeat the same questions with a different wording each time (or with a reversed scale), precisely to limit issues with bad self-reporting. It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between consistent replies to differently worded versions of the same question, and ability to detect manipulations like in this study. If so, multiple-choice might be a useful tool after all.

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