Tombone5's comments

Yeah, and for extra points using that same style of misleading headlines for his title.

Would it really have been so bad to put a "nutritional" into the title to produce something related to the actual topic?

Happily it turns out that these new rules only apply in cases where the EU provides an important service: the legality of the trade itself in the first place.

Glory to great leader Gen. Prayuth, savior of the fish!

No, but IP requesting certain porn sites \approx user wants to see porn => account holder specifically requesting porn blocker be disabled. The equivalence can be expected to almost always hold, because its simply the easiest way to account for the behavior. Thus the inital objection stands.

From those categorical statements I guess you are one of those that objects to sites defaulting to a language guessed from your ip location, or google trying to <strike>auto complete your search</strike> putting words in your mouth.

Pretty much sums it up. Instead of a simple form and some "I have an unusual address format" check box that gives a more free form field we have people abandoning all restrictions.

And being burned by the total anarchy tried, there is the usual discussion about localization not being worth it that simplifies to "I don't believe those not like me should get my attention".

An excellent example of a pointless data visualisation. I wanted to view a list of titles by date. What I get is a time series of top page visits shown as a faux heat map, with titles written on top.

I get it, a list with 365 entries is quite long, but that's what you commit to if you want "every day". The abuse the simple list gets here is uncalled for, and worst of all even collapsing it into stacked boxes doesn't improve the "too long" aspect enough to make it worthwhile.

If you send mail to addresses outside of freenet I can't see why you would expect better anonymity than with any old throw away account.

tl;dr. Young ambitious person gets first chance at job she is trained for, feels pressure to work long hours without complaint. Because of too much work, now she can't use her arms half of the time, instead draws with nose and made portfolio site with nose-drawing as central focus.

Still, I'm surprised they bother with github being such a specialized website.

Do you know of other surprising examples of sites getting takedown request because of "immoral behaviour" (or whatever the name is)? Does the suicide list when hosted on bitbucket get taken down? On deviantart? Etc

So is it your livejournal that is linked to in the "suicide.rst" post?

What's up with the bans on suicide mentions? Is the topic growing because the public feels without hope as the poem seems to suggest, or is Roskomnadzor just tying to keep busy?

This is a really strange phenomenon, and I feel like there is a bigger context in which this exchange between the citizens and the state should be viewed.

Looking at the first takedown, there is the conspicuously named account "russian-suicide", which contains a fork of a blog. A cursory look reveals one post just like the other suicide lists, but it notably references a poem about how teenagers should just kill themselves because they have only shit to expect from growing up. (http://mudacek.livejournal.com/720.html)

The poem is prefaced by an assertion the author expects Roscomnadzor will take it down soon. It seems likely that they have been taking down anything with the word suicide they've come across. My guess would be some programmer reads these poems and started putting these silly suicide instructions into repos as a form of protest, and the authorities are trying to kill the protest as well.

There seems to be barely more than one person per participating organization, wonder why.

Well, the strongest connection is probably to the recent DOE plan to spend $30 million on the more fringe fusion researchers. That certainly would provoke people doing that sort of thing to call attention to their research. What caused the DOE to spend the money in the first place I don't know.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2014/sep/30/us-targ...

Is this an opinion piece? I thought techcrunch was a news site, but this is so opinionated without any clear indication of being an editorial I'm not sure anymore.

Maybe its one of those sites where the editorial stance is so brazen in all texts that its best to consider it an opinion magazine.

Well, its only a small token of gratitude for all the things the NSA gave the EU.

The rule of thumb is that most languages are rarely used (since there are a finite number of users), so if you support only the most used languages you necessarily drop support for most languages.

Then depending on exactly how popular a language must be to be supported you could end up breaking language support for quite a lot of them.

The wonky thing being that they would have to pay tax on that money if they take it to the US, but they've already made all that effort not to pay tax on the income in the country of origin! (sad face)

The state already needs to keep track of companies for tax purposes, so it seems strange that it couldn't simply void any trademark owned by a company that died.

Then define point of death as a company not paying taxes for two years and not declaring the company to be in some special tax-exempt state.

It's not at all exactly like twitter, for one a text that needs to stand on its own (a blog post) will require far more work to be of any sort of quality than a simple reply on twitter.