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Comment Iron Curtain v2 (Score 3, Interesting) 99

by bocsika (#61444776) Attached to: Belarus Bans Most Citizens from Going Abroad
This is not the beginning of World War III, this is just the logical consequence of a dictatorship.
When the situation seems hopeless for the youth, they start to escape from the country.
To stop this, the One True Leader must close the borders, otherwise he will run out of cannon fodder.

I experienced this in the Communist Eastern Block once, and feeling somewhat similar now also in Hungary and in Poland...

Comment Re:Context - at least spell it well, please (Score 1) 43

by bocsika (#60961584) Attached to: Hungary Mulls Sanctions Against Social Media Giants
Name of capitol is Budapest - please spell it correctly at least (btw its a really nice city).
Only 20% of the population lives at Budapest, so the country cannot be called as a city-state.

Otherwise about the prime minister, Mr. Orban's puppets: unfortunately it is all true.

He and his ruling party
- captured the state with mafia methods,
- syphons out taxpayer's money to well-behaving friendly firms and to family members,
- oppresses any counter-opinions,
- constantly rewrites the election rules to make any opposition more difficult if not impossible.

Their methods are well.known:
constant propaganda from captured media, dirty lies against everyone who is not Us, fear mongering especially about foreigners and "hidden traitors", support from the Church in exchange for constant flood of money.

All this not from some African dictatorship, but from Central Europe... really sad.
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New Real Life Laser-Rifle Cuts Through Metal Like a Blowtorch 143

Posted by samzenpus from the like-a-hot-knife-through-butter dept.
dryriver writes "We've seen real laser guns before pulling off tricks like starting small fires, or popping black balloons. That's cool, sure, but it's got nothing—on this handheld laser rifle. Developed by TWI this laser-cutter was initially designed for use by robots, but a few recent tweaks including a pistol-grip and a trigger made it into a human-sized rifle. It is designed specifically with nuclear decommission in mind, specifically chopping up huge pieces of metal infrastructure into bite-sized bits that are easily disposed of. And while it's definitely suited for that, it has some short-comings compared typical rifles. That range is pretty low, for instance, and it's not exactly mobile."

Comment Don't (Score 5, Insightful) 257

by bocsika (#42875201) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Making Side-Money As a Programmer?
I did two jobs on the same time.
DO NOT DO IT.
Spend the life together with your family, your kids.
Forget the bits and nerd stuff.
Read and walk with your children.
Get a dog, that makes you move out more frequently.

The electrons in the CPU do not deserve your precious time, they are immortal, you are not.

Comment what it feels like in there... (Score 1) 66

by gciochina (#39123069) Attached to: Astronomers Confirm a Hot and Steamy Exoplanet
Standing on what little land exists here, you watch a giant red dwarf sink slowly into the horizon of a hot ocean. Waterspouts drop out of the sky, formed by a crushing atmosphere that wonâ(TM)t allow water to boil, even at 500 degrees Fahrenheit. You are on one of the smallest known exoplanets, GJ 1214b. http://evo.beyondgenes.com/journal/worldgj.jpg courtesy of Kemo D. 7
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Submission + - Symantec identifies polymorphic Android Trojans (techworld.com.au) 1

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angry tapir writes: "Symantec researchers have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection. his technique is known as server-side polymorphism and has already existed in the world of desktop malware for many years, but mobile malware creators have only now begun to adopt it."

Comment Re:awww sh*t! (Score 1) 253

by gciochina (#38837667) Attached to: EU ACTA Chief Resigns

Or they are just in the hands of politicians who signed the ACTA?

Now that's an understatement! :)

You'll understand my (sad) amuzement once I explain some thing about most of that region (Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Ukraine etc.). It's rife with politician collusion in Mafia-like organizations at national level. Basically the entire system becomes one big corrupt blob which infiltrates everything: justice, administration, religion, health, economy, education, mass media etc. It's core purpose: making money for the members, mainly by robbing massively from national resources, EU grants, IMF loans, anything and anyhow, without any regard for long term consequences.

Choices for average Joe: A) join the system, leave backbone and scruples at the door; B) don't join the system, lead an honest life, but you'll never get ahead; C) GTFO of the country. Of course there's also D) civil disobedience and protests, but the population in these countries is usually brainwashed by decades, sometimes centuries, of "bread and circus", and sistematically kept out of practice with any kind of stepping out of line.

Even so, in the long term the resources eventually dry up and the shit hits the fan. Now, I'm not gonna throw all those countries in the same basket; each of them has very different circumstances. But the economical crisis has exposed the ugly underbelly of the system and brought the end so much closer, and it's coming to a conclusion soon.

Coming back to topic: adopting ACTA against the interest of the citizens is perfectly natural in such systems, but it's a drop in the ocean. Stuff like that is business as usual in these countries, and they have much bigger issues right now, such as nearing complete collapse of economy, health care, education etc.

What this guy wrote here is totally true, (sadly) especially in my country.

Comment Re:awww sh*t! (Score 1) 253

by gciochina (#38837439) Attached to: EU ACTA Chief Resigns

You must have some important (and independent) site which can black-out Internet. ACTA will hit hard on ISP's, it must be a chance that they can put a pop-up Web Page once per day or every few hours explaining to Internet users whats going on? Or they are just in the hands of politicians who signed the ACTA?

good point, but that's exactly my concern above ... there are 22 countries that have already signed. basically it's impossible to get people from 22 countries informed via one or two important sites. what we are using here everyday are basically the same big-name sites that US/Australia & others are using (Wikipedia, YouTube, Google) but asides from that, everyone is on his own: For instance in Romania, (probably) the only high-impact news site is hotnews(.)ro. But can't guarantee for it's independence.... And even if we would manage to get hotnews to make a blackout/popup warning about ACTA, this would only get us 1 vote down.

Comment awww sh*t! (Score 3, Insightful) 253

by gciochina (#38837253) Attached to: EU ACTA Chief Resigns
I'm from Romania and I think I can say that I've been actively involved in "down with SOPA/PIPA" movement... and, for now, looks like we've won a battle on these two. However, i'm getting really worried about the whole ACTA stuff, because I don't think that we'll ever manage to get that much support for an anti-ACTA movement. Right now, at least two of the guys (Romanians) we've got in the EU parliament are certified retards and i'm pretty sure that they'll never consider the full implications of their vote on this one. The most disturbing thing is that the majority of the population hasn't even heard of ACTA, SOPA, PIPA... let alone ever heard of what they stand for and how will these change their lives. Without a huge move like the one made by Reddit/ Wikipedia/ Google & Co/ etc we'll never be able to stop it. Right now, the only thing i can think of is FML :(.

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