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No, it's not 'hostile'. Behavior "give me now 50K and then monthly 200K" is called Racketeering. wikipedia > In the United States of America, racketeering is a type of organized cr…

While his leaks expose surveillance, he was useful idiot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot in hands of Assange club. And it might be event of his saving was trigger for Pu…

you mean, like registering anti-ccp domain before ccp comes to power, eh?

there is reason why John Woods wrote in 1991 Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. Code for readability…

actually Bruce Byfield explains it in Linux Magazine: Pass is available in the repositories of most major distributions. As usual, you can also compile from scratch, but, if you do…

for item 4, one has to have limited responsibilities towards society.

for some folks systemd is also 5th wheel in the cart

there is one small nuisance here - if we start to treat all governments equally skeptic, we should also "fry live" all large corporations too.

(quote) "People in dictatorial regimes didn't get there by being quiet. They never were. Even today in places like Venezuela and Russia people take to the streets. They got there b…

CA regulation did not stop VolksWagen to do what they did. And they did it for many years.

that's exactly how it is going on now. and it doesn't work anymore - different scale.

the sad thing is that you're probably on lawyer's mentality and hence deliver mantra "if that does not work on country level, lets push it up". Only that international law is not l…

uptime was much better, and reaction was much quicker and to the point. with recent switchover to Google infra they are almost non-stop -- only Google is not that stupid to pay for…