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The preface to this article is annoying.

> And founder Julian Assange continues to face charges that his ‘radical transparency’ organization is a front for Kremlin agents...

The use of the word "charges" here indicates an unwarranted level of severity of these claims. He has not faced any legal charges and the only people making these accusations are those who suffered political fallout from their documents being revealed.

The fact is that there is no evidence whatsoever that wikileaks is associated with the Russian government at all and anyone claiming there is is speculating at best.

They should just rebrand it as the ministry of truth already.
Information the rich don't want you to see.
Re:Flex on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:50PM (#13990930)
In this case it is actually released and you can run this tool, and it is actually pretty awesome:

https://github.com/harc/ohm

Re:Flex on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:49PM (#13990926)
This is just a visualizer ontop of the Ohm library. I have played around with it some and it is excellent:

https://github.com/harc/ohm

What do you mean by "everything is libre"?
Re:Stick a fork in ’em: Windows Phones are done on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @01:08PM (#11723507)
Sucks. I had one for years, switched to Android (for the GearVR) and have been frustrated ever since.

Windows Phone is better in a lot of ways, too bad they couldn't make it stick. It just seems like to me they mostly had a marketing problem and they needed to incentivize the mobile carriers to actually try to sell them. I remember going into the Verizon store and watching the sales people actively steer people away from the phones and push them towards Android. I don't know why that was but it seemed like a huge problem to me.

Re:Electron 1.0 is here on Thursday May 12, 2016 @11:39AM (#11684192)
^ This. Setup your .npmignore before publishing!

Also, before packaging your Electron app use something like gulp to exclude problematic files like .md and anything else unnecessary.

There are other common tools like browserify that can still be leveraged.

Re:Electron 1.0 is here on Thursday May 12, 2016 @11:33AM (#11684142)
I think its beautiful and fast enough for nearly anything one would want to throw at it.

Also, unbelievably faster in terms of developer time.

Re:Electron 1.0 is here on Thursday May 12, 2016 @11:31AM (#11684114)
Congrats! This is an awesome tool and I hope it ushers in a whole new generation of desktop apps!
This title hurts my brain. I don't even know what it's trying to say.
Try making it with Electron http://electron.atom.io/

Then if you decide later you want it to be a web app its not that big of a job to convert it.

I have worked on a surprising number of desktop apps over the years, including Visual Studio and Internet Explorer. But even before that, a lot of businesses rely on desktop applications for a lot of their internal applications.

Re:Report: FBI moves to interview Clinton over emails on Thursday March 31, 2016 @07:03PM (#11401284)
More likely she would want to draw it out as much as possible so she could get immunity as president.
Re:Ubuntu on Windows on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @02:43PM (#11391836)
Also, for windows devs not in the know check this out:

http://cmder.net/

Re:Ubuntu on Windows on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @02:43PM (#11391831)
This is great.

For the last couple of years, as a windows user, I have just been installing Git Scm, which includes something similar to this and have been using that for all script / command line needs.

If this was baked into Windows so much the better! I would love it if nobody ever wrote a single CMD or PS1 file ever again. Let's please all just converge on bash and put this debate behind us.

Re:React Native for OS X on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @11:41PM (#11386816)
Slack is electron based
Re:React Native for OS X on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @11:39PM (#11386807)
Why would you use this instead of Electron?
Would giving them access to the source code even matter, other than morally speaking?

Meaning, just having the code won't let them crack a phone and it won't let them patch the OS so that its subsequently crackable would it?

When the FBI is worse than the terrorists they need to take a step back and think about the bigger picture a little bit.

Re:Should All Research Papers Be Free? on Monday March 14, 2016 @05:44PM (#11285803)
I was thinking a good startup company may be an open publication and peer review site. Something where users are non-anonymous and they are weighted by their accomplishments irl. Submissions and peer reviews would be open to anyone but weighted heavily by ranking, which is affected by irl achievements and cumulative quality contributions to the site. Like a combination of stack overflow and wikipedia maybe.

Money would be made by donation (ala wikipedia) and paper submission fees. Perhaps organizational level membership fees, such as universities, etc.

Just an idea I haven't had time to work on.

Re:TiltBrush by Google on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:01PM (#11241629)
I don't know for sure but I bet it is, or could be exported to, any existing object model file formats. Like fbx.
Re:TiltBrush by Google on Monday March 07, 2016 @03:59PM (#11241605)
Probably the same group running Cardboard.
Re:There is another planet inside Earth and her name is Theia on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @01:35PM (#11021363)
I don't think this is that controversial or hard to believe.

That long ago the solar system would have been full of a lot of bodies of matter, slowly colliding, combining and growing. Eventually the bodies would grow until they formed their own orbits and there was nothing significant left to collide with.

We still absorb meteorites from time to time.

Re:Google to deliver wrong search results to would-be jihadis on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @01:30PM (#11021328)
The George Orwell in me hates this... a lot.

Today it's jihadis tomorrow its labor organizers.

Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @01:47PM (#10896496)
What is the difference between an IDE and an editor? When this supports C++, be prepared for Visual Studio to disappear.

Also, it's based on Electron but doesn't have anything to do with Atom.

Re:The Great Republican Land Heist on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @12:45PM (#10896029)
For everyones purpose, sure. For one individual persons purpose? No.

What's good for the environment and wildlife is typically also good for humanity.

Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @12:42PM (#10896012)
Just because it seems some people aren't aware, Code from Microsoft is also a pretty cool C# IDE. It's arguably way better than Visual Studio in a lot of ways:

https://code.visualstudio.com/

Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @12:31PM (#10895951)
Have you tried Code?

https://code.visualstudio.com/

Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @12:29PM (#10895939)
Have you tried this?

https://code.visualstudio.com/

Unless you capture more than you burn and sequester the rest. If its even possible to sequester an amount that would matter that is.

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