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Comment Re:So Arrest Them (Score 1) 207

Congratulations on completely missing the irony in GP's post.

So why is it modded +5 insightful? These kind of comments are taken seriously by many - just see the other comment on it (and don't tell me that's sarcasm too). If it is sarcasm and if it's not clear - then (s)he should have added a sarcasm tag.

Comment Re:So Arrest Them (Score 5, Insightful) 207

if Congress wants people to stop lieing to them

Just strap the CIA director to a table before the congressional committee and pour water on his face until he tells the truth.

What's good for the goose ....

This is exactly what they want! If you do this, you follow their frame, their method, and you (or congress) approve of it. If congress approves of this, they don't have to hide it anymore. Mission accomplished! And thanks for your helpful suggestion!

Comment Re:Information is not for you (Score 1) 128

Information is for the state. You will not record and share among yourselves. You will not become more aware.

You will not develop the capacity to police yourselves. That is for the state.

The funny thing is that these devices only make it easier for the state to record what you do. So preventing that is a good thing. It makes them a bit less powerful.

Comment Re:If Twitter wants to do something useful (Score 4, Interesting) 29

They should help provide information and methods of circumvention to help ensure that no state can block them. Going through the courts is just workfare for the lawyers.

Twitter feeds can be viewed via other websites. Take Wordpress (the software, not the site), which has numerous twitter plugins. You cannot block all individual sites that have these feeds. Turkey cannot prevent those sites from using twitter as long as those sites are hosted outside Turkey. I thought this was common practise in Iran and Libya and other countries that tried to block twitter since the revolutions in the islamic world.

Submission + - Dutch woman gets first complete skull replacement with 3D printed skull (golivewire.com)

rvw writes: Three months ago, a Dutch woman had her complete skull replaced by a 3D printed artificial skull. She has a disease which results in skull bone getting thicker, which would result in too much pressure on the brain. The operation was done in the hospital of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. It's the first time a complete skull has been replaced. With 3D printing they could make an exact copy of the skull. Before they used cement to replace parts of a skull, but this was never a precise method.

Comment Re:Never drink water! (Score 1) 285

Thanks! That was 25 years ago. I tried beer since then, but that doesn't work for me. I don't drink milk anymore, and if I still would I wouldn't like it with spicy food. What really works well for me is apple juice.

Comment Tears running (Score 1) 285

As a student I was invited to a dinner with friends. One of them would cook, and she had bought fresh peppers at the market. She lived in an appartment. While cooking, we fled to the balcony because we couldn't stand it. It was almost impossible to eat the dish. For every bite, I needed one glass of water, and after half a plate I gave up.

Today I don't mind eating a tea spoon of Sambal Ulek in one go, with a glass of water closeby, but I don't think that comes close to that dish.

Comment Re:But there's nothing wrong with Bitcoin! (Score 1) 357

People who keep their coins on deposit with an exchange aren't even really Bitcoin users. What they've done is wire money to a company and received an IOU for bitcoins which they then have not exercised. Given that the whole point of the system is that you don't need to trust third parties, it's frustrating to see people turn around and do exactly that (then get burned by exactly the same kind of financial instability that's so common in the existing system).

Given the fact that a normal desktop PC cannot generate bitcoins in a reasonable amount of time, isn't it a given fact that we need another party to create or transfer those bitcoins? When another party creates those bitcoins for me, how can I be sure that they won't keep a copy for later use?

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