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> governments who murder and torture their citizens. What about governments that murder and torture citizens of other countries? The number of Iraqi and Afghani civilians killed by…

I didn't know that! I used to be a member of FidoNet (pre-internet network that provided e-mail and usenet-like services) back in 1990s and any commercial activity and encryption w…

I can think of at least one counterexample, namely the failure of the NSA-promoted key escrow system in 1990s (aka Clipper chip)

I hope it works out similarly to how proliferation of public wi-fi led to increased adoption of https.

It's terahash where hash means double sha256 that is used in the bitcoin proof-of-work protocol

Which is year 2140 or so

MD5 is so fast on GPUs, you can do some pretty ridiculous dictionary attacks in a matter of minutes (like trying every combination of words that has ever been written in a book or …

I now do searches like this using Tor Browser. Just in case.

I had a similar thought recently. People who are currently in their 20s and 30s had a unique privilege of growing up when fully-featured computers appeared in almost every househol…

mobile contracts are very rare in Russia, almost everyone is on a prepaid plan

By the way, bitcoin can no longer be efficiently mined on GPUs since the network hashrate has been increasing tremendously with ASICs (tenfold growth in the past 6 months and conti…

For convenience mainly.. It saves me from having to install a "serious" RDBMS, import data, etc. With SQLite, deployment is simply copying the db file to the server.

Indeed, this is probably the reason. The company that developed ejdb (Softmotions) apparently uses ejdb in their own proprietary software, and they wouldn't be able to if it contai…

I use SQLite in small and medium-traffic web apps (the largest one getting about 80000 hits daily) all the time with no concurrency issues whatsoever. My rule of thumb is that if y…

Here's a nice infographic for this: http://dontbubble.us/ Google has been serving personalized results for a while now, but this is probably first time it attracted such widespread…

This is known as "shaving" among affiliate marketers and it mostly doesn't matter. E.g. when you are choosing among 10 offers to monetize your traffic, you split test and keep the …

Exactly. Most people think that SEO spam is something that is only done by shady eastern european viagra-selling rings. In reality, the worst offenders are multi-billion dollar com…

> I've had a discussion with someone else about how a group of people could route each other's packets and then hypothetically law enforcement couldn't prove who they came from. Co…

A handful of countries attempt to block Tor and only two (China and Iran) do it seriously, using deep packet inspection (still doesn't work because of obfsproxy, duh). Even though,…

Depends on the definition of jumping. Besides paid character transfer (which is a "true" jump from realm to realm) a lot of activities in WoW take place in "instances" and players …

The problem with AdSense is not that there are no alternatives (there are plenty - chitika, adbrite etc.) The problem is that those alternatives pay way, way less. All the customer…

I don't disagree with your views on privacy, but what google does is simple hypocrisy. It still continues to provide visitors' search terms to paid advertisers who are probably muc…

History disagrees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...

They do (almost) the same thing at youtube, don't they?

* "email-advertising" companies in China/Russia/Nigeria.* FYI, the US is by far the largest producer of spam e-mails: http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries/