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Yeah, but no governemt is lucky with having people operate entirely freely. It makes corruption difficult, and every government has corruption to some degree
Once again proving that they dont know how any of this works. And still getting re-elected
Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs on Saturday July 22, 2017 @01:40AM (#14825596)
Boredom or laziness. On my mobile firefox, i sometimes don't close tabs for months
Re:Image unshredder by simulated annealing (2015) on Saturday October 08, 2016 @02:01PM (#12667902)
there are still a lot of destroyed documents being stored around the world (say, from the StaSi for example). I would love to see this applied on them. It migjt shed some light on things supposedly lost to history.
Well, thats what happened to ACTA too, isn't it?

A lot of the stuff that was in there got reused in TTIP.

Re:Kerbal Control Panel on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:27AM (#12364964)
on one hand, i would say 'some people have too much free time'

on the other hand, i DO say 'i know what i am gonna spend my weekend on'

Re:Temperament is a Skill on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @11:05AM (#12352546)
Listening, and patience in general, are skills far too few these days, especially because many people falsely view them only as "sitting still"
Re:Temperament is a Skill on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @02:45AM (#12350194)
He's right there. Like every other skill, gaining the right temperament is a task that requires a lot of time and self discipline.
This makes a whol lot of good points. C is really not suited for most modern applications, and some of its design choices are questionable (to say the least).

On the other hand: In my opinion, C is a good language to show beginning programmers how memory management is done. Basically, it could be a third learned language, after a scrip language (like python) and an OOP language (Java or C++).

Re:US ready to 'hand over' the internet's naming system on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:20AM (#12312647)
But the USA will bend the rules anyway, wether it lies within their jurisdiction or not. Thing is, if it does not lie within theiir jurisdiction, the international fallout might be of more significance. Yet with ICANN staying state-side, i doubt it will make any difference anyways.