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Submission + - The Pirate Bay's .sx seized (torrentfreak.com)

An anonymous reader writes: From the article:
"TorrentFreak reached out to The Pirate Bay team who informed us that the .SX registry appears to have seized the domain overnight.

The Pirate Bay website itself remains online, however, as the site’s operators quickly relocated to thepiratebay.ac, which uses Ascension Island’s ccTLD.

It’s seems possible that the domain seizure is connected to pressure applied by Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN, which represents a variety of copyright holders."

Just in case, there're other methods to access the site described here: http://proxybay.info/

Submission + - Driver Arrested in Ohio for Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing (reason.com)

schwit1 writes: Norman Gurley, 30, is facing drug-related charges in Lorain County, Ohio, despite the fact that state troopers did not actually find any drugs in his possession.

Ohio passed a law in 2012 making it a felony to alter a vehicle to add a secret compartment with the “intent” of using it to conceal drugs for trafficking.

Comment Re:British? (Score 2) 107

Exactly. And as "dfk" says, it's a universal government tactic.

I'm form Argentina and I've got to say it's insulting the way they use this. They not only just focuses on the target for a few months (furiously I may say) but appeal on feelings like patriotism, because the target ALWAYS want to destroy the country and the democracy. (resemble other country of America?)

The worst of all is.. a lot of people buy it.

So moronic.

Comment Re:Another Job for RequestPolicy (Score 1) 212

Luckily for us, most sites have petitions to domains like wetrackyou.com, adsadsandmore.com, doubleclick, exoclick, and so on. The CDNs are identifiable by the name too. And lots of petitions to googleapis, googleanalytics, googleajax (or something like that).

But yes, every time you go to a site never visited before it may be a struggle. That's something to think about when designing websites.

*Surprisingly way more cross site petitions to google domains than to facebook's. WAY more. It's actually really impressive, like if google owns the frickin internet.

Comment Re:"Web forums" (Score 1) 329

Web forums are the heart of the Internet, seriously. If you're looking for info about a subject, I have no doubt that you'll find a forum, within seconds, full of users talking about that and willing to give you more information, tips and tricks.

From TFA: "The company argued that porn filters will not solve the problem of child pornography and will only create new problems." I don't think that kind of pornography is in the 'open' web, but buried in parallel networks. That move is obviously for other reasons.

Comment Re:Open source spying program? (Score 1) 75

A couple years ago he came to my university to talk about, well.. free software. When he finished his presentation, he would take some questions from the audience to answer. The conference room was full, so It was great to hear doubts and questions answered by sir RMS.

So, I asked him something like "Is it okay to use free software for military purpose?". To my surprise he said yes.
Great Isn't it? If a missile is going to be conducted by software, it should be free software! privative software is EVIL!!

My opinion is that the developer of such software should refuse or not to do it according whit his/her principles and code of ethics. But dunno if it's more important the license of the program than it's true nature, which would be, for example, killing people.

Comment Re:Norway (Score 1) 447

What about privacy in Norway? I'd really like to know as I consider Norway the most advanced country in the world (that i'm aware of).
I thought of Sweden the same way but after the Assange and TPB case, I'm pretty confident it's a US lapdog. So now I don't know what to think of other Sandinavian countries

Mars

Submission + - Mars Rover Solves Metalic Object Mystery, Unearths Another (newscientist.com)

SchrodingerZ writes: "Last week the Mars Curiosity Rover spotted a shiny metallic-looking object in the martian soil. This week scientists have confirmed that it is plastic that has fallen off the 1-ton rover. However, the discovery of this trans-planetary littering has opened up another mystery for the science team. On October 12th the rover took a sample of soil from the ground, feeding it into its Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instruments for analysis, and a picture of the hole dug by the rover's claw revealed metallic particles in the dirt. The sample was subsequently dropped due to fears that particles from the rover had made it into the dirt. Further study now suggests that the metallic particles are actually native to Mars, as the photo reveals that they are imbedded in the soil in clumps. In 2007 the older rover Spirit found evidence of silica for the first time, more testing will occur over the next few days to determine truly if this is again just Curiosity's littler, or something more profound."

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