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On that website, why don't the text word wrap when I zoom in?

> I wonder if anyone has anything from the early 80s. So much lost stuff.

Do people really want their ancient ramblings preserved indefinitely?

You make some very interesting points. I don't know why it was modded into invisibility. Speaking for myself, the prostitutes, sorry that should be ‘sex workers’, don't benefit from the job. Who does are the pimps who control the industry. In the case of the Internet that woud be the cyber-pimps. It's a very self-destructive ‘lifestyle’. You'd be better off flipping hamburgers. I know this is a novel concept to some on here but prostitution is degrading both to the ‘sex workers’ and their clients.

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Quoting @notsureaboutpg: “This hasn't led to a decrease in trafficking in the countries that have tried it though. Many of them in Europe have become trafficking destinations for women from other countries. There's lots and lots of studies out there that show that decriminalizing prostitution does not lead to lower trafficking or better outcomes for prostitutes.

Also the rhetoric we use here (defeatist, people are going to solicit sex and break the law so let's make it easier for them, etc.) is in stark contrast to how we talk about problems we actually want to fight in our societies like obesity, racism, worker mistreatment by employers, etc. In those situations we never say that people are going to do such things anyways and criminalizing it just makes those who do those crimes more unlikely to change, more unlikely to get back into society, more distrustful of the system, etc. In those situations we spend tons and tons of money at the corporate and the government level trying to teach people these behaviors are wrong and to not engage in them.

Why can't we do that with people who solicit prostitutes?”

I found it interesting. Instead of down-voting a comment the down-voters should post a refutal. That would add to the conversation. I'm always prepared to change my mind. Instead of getting down-voted into oblivion.

Where did your comment go ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26843586&goto=item%3Fi...

> Was there a private individual a few years ago who was doing a similar thing? Cleaning up backdoored servers?

Do you mean Max Butler, who was given jail-time after deciding to not be an undercover FBI informant FBI anymore?

https://www.securityfocus.com/news/203

"The FBI obtained court approval to access vulnerable computers across the United States."

So, have you got it yet. In the interests of state security, security on your computer has been so diluted that anyone and his dog can get access to your so-called confidential records.

> I believe some of those are probably true ..

That's actually the most accurate description of the international narc-terrorism business I have ever seen in print. Very well put bumbada ..

Technically speaking, it isn't a worm as it requires the enduser to install.

I have used Linux exclusively at home for years. Recently, I was very impressed with antiX Linux. Runs like the blazes on minimal hardware and highly configurable. For those used to a more busy desktop there's Ubuntu Mate or Lubuntu. A minimum version of Ubuntu, but not as minimum as antiX Linux.

https://antixlinux.com/ https://ubuntu-mate.org/ https://lubuntu.net/

> they had to rename a gene to stop excel auto-completing it into a date.

No one in their right mind uses a spreadsheet for data analysis. Good for working out your ideas but not in a production environment. I figure excel was chosen as this the utility the scientists were most familiar with.

The proper tool for the job would be a database. I recall reading about a utility, a highly customized database with an interface that looks just like a spreadsheet.

“.. the fundamental ontology of the world consists of a vector in Hilbert space evolving according to the Schrödinger equation. The laws of physics are determined solely by the energy eigenspectrum of the Hamiltonian. The structure of our observed world, including space and fields living within it, should arise as a higher-level emergent description ..”

Wha¿

Old news, ISPs have been using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) for ages. Purely in the interests of "prioritise latency" for video or voice that "don't tolerate dropped packets" ;]

"The wake up call of the Max was something that told them that all was not right."

What exactly was the nature of this ""The wake up call"?

"Neuroscientists are trying to work out why the brain does so much when it seems to be doing nothing at all."

Because it's busy maintain a 3D model of it's surrounding environment. When the brain is deprived of such stimulus, in sleep, it is provided through dreams.