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Yeah, and for extra points using that same style of misleading headlines for his title.

Would it really have been so bad to put a "nutritional" into the title to produce something related to the actual topic?

Happily it turns out that these new rules only apply in cases where the EU provides an important service: the legality of the trade itself in the first place.

Glory to great leader Gen. Prayuth, savior of the fish!

No, but IP requesting certain porn sites \approx user wants to see porn => account holder specifically requesting porn blocker be disabled. The equivalence can be expected to almost always hold, because its simply the easiest way to account for the behavior. Thus the inital objection stands.

From those categorical statements I guess you are one of those that objects to sites defaulting to a language guessed from your ip location, or google trying to <strike>auto complete your search</strike> putting words in your mouth.

Pretty much sums it up. Instead of a simple form and some "I have an unusual address format" check box that gives a more free form field we have people abandoning all restrictions.

And being burned by the total anarchy tried, there is the usual discussion about localization not being worth it that simplifies to "I don't believe those not like me should get my attention".

An excellent example of a pointless data visualisation. I wanted to view a list of titles by date. What I get is a time series of top page visits shown as a faux heat map, with titles written on top.

I get it, a list with 365 entries is quite long, but that's what you commit to if you want "every day". The abuse the simple list gets here is uncalled for, and worst of all even collapsing it into stacked boxes doesn't improve the "too long" aspect enough to make it worthwhile.

If you send mail to addresses outside of freenet I can't see why you would expect better anonymity than with any old throw away account.

tl;dr. Young ambitious person gets first chance at job she is trained for, feels pressure to work long hours without complaint. Because of too much work, now she can't use her arms half of the time, instead draws with nose and made portfolio site with nose-drawing as central focus.

Still, I'm surprised they bother with github being such a specialized website.

Do you know of other surprising examples of sites getting takedown request because of "immoral behaviour" (or whatever the name is)? Does the suicide list when hosted on bitbucket get taken down? On deviantart? Etc

So is it your livejournal that is linked to in the "suicide.rst" post?

What's up with the bans on suicide mentions? Is the topic growing because the public feels without hope as the poem seems to suggest, or is Roskomnadzor just tying to keep busy?

This is a really strange phenomenon, and I feel like there is a bigger context in which this exchange between the citizens and the state should be viewed.

Looking at the first takedown, there is the conspicuously named account "russian-suicide", which contains a fork of a blog. A cursory look reveals one post just like the other suicide lists, but it notably references a poem about how teenagers should just kill themselves because they have only shit to expect from growing up. (http://mudacek.livejournal.com/720.html)

The poem is prefaced by an assertion the author expects Roscomnadzor will take it down soon. It seems likely that they have been taking down anything with the word suicide they've come across. My guess would be some programmer reads these poems and started putting these silly suicide instructions into repos as a form of protest, and the authorities are trying to kill the protest as well.

There seems to be barely more than one person per participating organization, wonder why.

Well, the strongest connection is probably to the recent DOE plan to spend $30 million on the more fringe fusion researchers. That certainly would provoke people doing that sort of thing to call attention to their research. What caused the DOE to spend the money in the first place I don't know.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2014/sep/30/us-targ...

Is this an opinion piece? I thought techcrunch was a news site, but this is so opinionated without any clear indication of being an editorial I'm not sure anymore.

Maybe its one of those sites where the editorial stance is so brazen in all texts that its best to consider it an opinion magazine.

Well, its only a small token of gratitude for all the things the NSA gave the EU.

The rule of thumb is that most languages are rarely used (since there are a finite number of users), so if you support only the most used languages you necessarily drop support for most languages.

Then depending on exactly how popular a language must be to be supported you could end up breaking language support for quite a lot of them.

The wonky thing being that they would have to pay tax on that money if they take it to the US, but they've already made all that effort not to pay tax on the income in the country of origin! (sad face)

The state already needs to keep track of companies for tax purposes, so it seems strange that it couldn't simply void any trademark owned by a company that died.

Then define point of death as a company not paying taxes for two years and not declaring the company to be in some special tax-exempt state.

It's not at all exactly like twitter, for one a text that needs to stand on its own (a blog post) will require far more work to be of any sort of quality than a simple reply on twitter.

The article explicitly mentions that only PhD studies are free in Sweden (for non-EU citizens).

Yeah, the article mentions in passing that it could be artistic choice. The observations at the end, where it appears it might be more natural to take the "wrong" stance when holding a running pose is probably the main reason. Couple this with the fact that painted art is fiction (and thus not that concerned about the details), so many painters primarily use other paintings as reference and its not hard to see why this error could survive so long.

Compare this to the portrayal of guns in film for instance, or the sound in space. The survival of the erroneous portrayals in both the case of painting and film probably have very similar explanations.

Best tip was that you should be on the look-out for criminals pretending to be security cameras!

"Be on the lookout for social engineering attacks by criminals who may be masquerading as inspectors or security alarms, security cameras or other devices on premises."

"The use of the atomic bomb would have to be done with visual targeting, not by use of radar. [...] The targets should be 'large urban areas of not less than 3 miles in diameter existing in the larger populated areas… between the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Nagasaki… [and] should have high strategic value.' A list of possible targets that met this criteria was given [...] Of these, Hiroshima was noted as 'the largest untouched target not on the 21st Bomber Command priority list.' Tokyo, on the other hand, was 'now practically all bombed and burned out and is practically rubble with only the palace grounds left standing.' It was further noted that they had to take into account that the policy of the 20th Air Force was now 'systematically bombing out' cities 'with the prime purpose in mind of not leaving one stone lying on the other,' and that they would not likely reserve targets just for the Manhattan Project."

"Stimson left the meeting thinking Truman completely understood the matter, and the final target order — with Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, and Nagasaki (the latter added only then) — was sent out.

But what did Truman take away from this meeting? We can look at Truman’s own diary entry from July 25th:

" This weapon is to be used against Japan between now and August 10th. I have told the Sec. of War, Mr. Stimson, to use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children. Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop that terrible bomb on the old capital or the new.

He and I are in accord. The target will be a purely military one and we will issue a warning statement asking the Japs to surrender and save lives. I’m sure they will not do that, but we will have given them the chance. It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler’s crowd or Stalin’s did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful. "

This passage reflects an incredible misconception. Truman appears, here, to believe that Hiroshima was 'a purely military' target, and that 'soldiers and sailors' would be killed, 'not women and children.' But of course every city on that list was inhabited primarily by civilians. And by the calculus of war being waged, every city on that list had a military connection — they produced weapons for the military."

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/08/08/kyoto-misconceptio...

So they tell you to "reclaim" your data by letting them sell your personal data? Datapimp seems an more apt name for them, implications included.

No, its the example given to the suggestion that people from other cultures than yours should just shut up about how their name is stored because you don't care about their culture (and by extension about them, specifically because of their culture).

Yeah, have you heard of IP-law?

From my reading of the fastställda tingsrättsdomen I note that they mention this excpetion being granted on a case by case basis, and considering Sunde is not a reformed alcoholic with a debth from a accident caused by his addiction it seems unlikely the case you refer to proves more than the existence of the exception.

Also, in regards to "any murderer", I belive that there really isn't much beyond the perspective of those asked that separate (some) terrorists from soldiers from murderers...

Typically the observation is made that if you are a serial murderer you are not really to be considered sane and into closed treatment you go, not coming out until you are sane again which I guess is not ever if the crime is really gruesome.