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I find the idea of old photo/data degradation strangely comforting. Even digital data seems to be unable to escape the law of entropy (don't mention the black holes). On another no…

I grew up, not with the satan idea, but was told that there was a relation between the apostle Peter and the symbol. The reason for that was that Peter was crucified upsidedown. Th…

In the past, you could program on the C64 in a kind of symbol code. The keys on the C64 had all graphics symbols on them (ascii?) and if you used them while programming in Basic it…

I made your statement a little more accurate. "THOU SHALT MAKE SURE CHILDREN UNDERSTAND [our version of] RIGHT AND WRONG!." You're welcome :)

Thanks for the link, I reread it. Nice story but I think I can guess his current password now: "Plus, if you’re interested in more of this, I’m writing a book!" :)

Yes, this! Exactly to the point. This is in my view THE argument against all-out snooping. It is about control, not about criminality.

"In fact, I'm not expecting other conference speakers to cancel. Most of your speakers are american anyway – why would they care about surveillance that’s not targeted at them but …

This is funny AND insightful. Reminds me of folding proteins. So, I guess it is a good moment to point to http://folding.stanford.edu/

The problem now is not the tv anymore. I grew up and have now to deal with the distractions of this age and time.

I have done this and I agree. "News" gives a single side view on the world and it is hardly an uplifting one. Personally I strongly belief that the general public opinion is negati…

I grew also up without a television. That was no deliberate choice, my parents are orthodox christians. I was very creative in that period and I kinda miss that now :)

I went to the code.org site, looked around and tried the objective-C version. I was (positively) surprised that it did work because I am not in the USA at the moment, meaning it's …

I can totally understand your frustration that shines through. Basically I agree with you. 8 years ago I saw the start of an explosion of new languages/frameworks/etc. All solving …

Tor browser (package tor-browser-2.3.25-15_en-US, latest bundle) does have Javascript disabled by default. Please check options-content->enable Javascript. If I am mistaken I am de…

If someone starts about Dark Web, VPN and privacy and then states: "so if a request for your data is legitimate, F Secure will not stop a proper investigation from the authorities"…

I like these kinds of perspectives :)

Not jealous, just surprisingly misinformed and perhaps narrow minded :) Hope that India is going to work on the communications side of things, exciting times indeed!

I think it is a little bit odd to create a page that shows every fuck-word it can find in the world, call it "fbomb", having an About page whereby one only talks about the "F word"…

I am not put off by the DIY surgery or the size of the computer. But I was astonished by this line: 'the chip can record Cannon's body temperature and transfer it in real time via …

Reaction of Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond on the news. Sounds a lot more sincere then their previous denials (which proved to be lies forced by the law anyway). "We …

I always realy like these kind of data. Not in a morbid sense but just to see the real data instead of marketing driven FUD. Another thought that I always have seeing data like thi…

Indeed! I was going to remark the same. Also a side effect of digital zoom is that it is not perfectly sharp. You see this already in the example pictures. After all, digital zoom …

I work at a small company as the only software engineer (indeed sofware is not the core business here). My annual salary is around 40K euro. 3 years ago we started a huge project a…

A program listing as screensaver (KolibriOS). Now, that is cool.

Although sounding a little bit cynical, there is unfortunately some truth in it: if thinking was important then the smartest people could be found on the highest positions. Clearly…