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PixelRobot | 14 years ago | on: EU: Possession/distribution of hacking tools to be made a criminal offence

If you outlaw hacking tools only criminals will have hacking tools.

This would make the EU less safe, since security experts will not be able to know what they're facing or check the security of their own systems against real attacks until they're really being attacked. Another clueless law that does the opposite of what it's supposed to do. Either that or it will be completely ignored.

PixelRobot | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: my weekend project, Good Old Google Reader

I thought some people would be interested in a way to get the data out of all those ugly JSON files where Google put all your old social data from Google Reader, so here's Good Old Google Reader. Still alpha, but this is what I've got so far. Any thoughts? I made most of it yesterday, so there's still a lot of room for improvement.

PixelRobot | 14 years ago | on: FaqMe? FaqYou

Hey, I was working on something similar as a side project. I was even using a similar name for it.

The approach is different though. Well, FAQ it, I think I'll keep on working on it.

PixelRobot | 14 years ago | on: Myths About Introverts

I've noticed that most extroverts think like this. People who are extroverted usually have problems understanding what being introverted is like, and usually just see it as a different label to give social anxiety a more socially acceptable image, since it seems it's easier to understand for them. They assume everybody is an extrovert, just like them, but some people just feel social anxiety and call themselves extroverts. What you call "the traditional use" seems to me like the traditional misconception about introverts.

I'm an introvert myself, and I don't feel social anxiety. I grew up thinking I was shy, since my introversion seemed to be traditionally and socially identified with shyness, but at one point I realized I didn't feel social anxiety at all. It actually seemed to me that extrovert were much more worried about social situations and how they were perceived socially than me.

I don't try to explain my introversion to extroverts because I've noticed most of them don't get it. This makes it hard to use as an excuse, or even as a reasonable reason for your behaviour. I get dragged to social situations sometimes because extroverted people just assume I'll have fun if I just relax a bit, and sometimes I accept because I don't want to be rude. The result is I don't feel anxious or anything like that, I just get bored fast and want to go home soon. If I were actually interested in some activity being an introvert wouldn't get in the way, because being interested in it would keep my interest. It's just that social activities don't usually keep my interest for too long. They just feel like a boring waste of time to me, not something that makes me anxious.

This doesn't mean I don't enjoy social situations sometimes. I enjoy parties and concerts and stuff like that. I'm just the kind of guy who leaves the party early with some kind of excuse, not because of social anxiety, but because I'm starting to get tired and bored with the whole thing. I don't ever use "I'm an introvert" as an excuse, since I know people will not get it. I don't use it and I don't see other people use it to explain why they do certain things or don't do other things.

PixelRobot | 14 years ago | on: Three Arrested over Sony Hack

The title is not true.

I watched the press conference the police gave and they didn't mention Sony at all until a journalist asked about the Sony hack and the police officer answered the arrested could be related to it, maybe, but that they didn't know if they were, and that they weren't going to charge them with anything related to it unless they found out they were involved. So no, they didn't get "arrested over Sony Hack".

This three guys were arrested because they were the administrators of a chat Anonymous used for their online meetings. They could be related to some DDoS attacks in Spain, though it's not clear how, and that's why they got arrested. They're not being charged with data stealing so far, just regular DDoS attacks against banks, political parties, foreign governments and similar organizations. Not confirmed relation with the Sony hack so far.

PixelRobot | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you meditate? How/Why?

I do it whenever it feels like my brain needs a reboot, that is, when my mental processes seem to be frozen and don't flow properly. That's like a pair of times every day. Some days more, some other less.

Nothing fancy, I just sit there breathing and take everything else out of my mind.

Since I do it when I feel I need it doesn't feel like a waste of time or anything like that. I know I'll be more focused after meditating and will do a better job.

PixelRobot | 15 years ago | on: Wolfram Alpha's take on the Drake Equation

I think there is little wrong with assuming that the probability of appearance of life given right condition and time to develop is one

Fair enough. It's a bit like the infinite monkeys in infinite typewriters scenario. Given enough time, sure, you'll have life. It's a question of how much time. Still, assuming all Eart-like planets will actually develop life given the time lapse of the existence of the Milky Way does still seems like a bold assumption.

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