MatthiasP

>In short, the EU and the IMF demanded savage spending cuts from the Greek government.

Let's also mention WHY those spending cuts were demanded: Because Greece was on the verge of bankruptcy, the interest rates for their bonds were exploding and the EU and IMF had to pump more than 300 billion € into this 11 million people country.

Exposure to your fears is a pretty standard method out of the wide spectrum of cognitive-behavioural-therapy tools. Of course, preparation for that is the most important part of it. AFAIK, it works for about a third to half of the patients, depending on what measurement for success you apply.

Definitely wait atleast until the elections in Greece are over.

The list of infected countries might tell us a thing about the attacker:

Russia and Saudi Arabia at the top: classical US intelligence targets. Pakistan and Afghanistan: Likely anti-islamists effort. Austria, Belgium, Iran: Opec, IEAE, tons of EU-institutions - someone who wants better intel about the nuclear talks with Iran?

Ireland, Mexico, India: Hard to find political reasons for those countries, but if you look at it economically: Ireland is the main hub for US companies into the EU, Mexico is a neighbouring country to the US, India: rival to China

My totally far-fetched guess would be that this trojan comes from the NSA or the GCHQ, I don't see China caring that much about Saudi Arabia and AfPak.

If this is true and has no strings (backdoors) attached this is huge. This means end-to-end encryption for messages from more than half a billion people and an incredible privacy win compared to SMS usage. Brought to you by facebook.

When Law Enforcement Agencies ignore the very law they are supposed to enforce they simply become a'put people into prisons' organization. This is the real reason why you don't want them to have wide reaching powers, there is only a fine line between LEA and criminal activity.

We will see if James Comey will shed as many tears about this as he is spending on Apple's encryption.

I would say a PPI of 326 still qualifies as high resolution display.

That price is cheaper than I expected, since Dell announced that they would charge $2500 for their 5K display. It is about time that 'retina' comes to the desktop, hopefully this will put more pressure on Microsoft and third party devs to actually make high DPI displays work with Windows. As it stands now, Apple has a monopoly on a usable high DPI environment (Assuming the usual quick adaption to this display of the OSX dev community). That may be enough for me to change over to OSX as daily driver, just think about how nice coding on this thing could be.

You can sell the phone in China for $3000, that is why.

Those cold war agreements always came with one important constraint: That the US would not use those facilities on German ground to spy on Germany.

"When has Apple ever catered to niche markets?"

-Today, with the presentation of the Apple Watch.

In the first two weeks of their relation.

Exactly. Out of all the things a smartwatch could do, only health tracking is something that your smartphone can't do. The successful smartwatch will not be a little window to your smartphone, but a high quality health tracker that integrates perfectly with your phone and ALSO shows you the time and notifications.

After 10 years of not having a single positive detected by my anti-virus program I uninstalled it. If you already have a certain amount of PC knowledge it doesn't really improve your security any more. AV-scanner find the kind of malware that spreads via e-mail attachments or warez downloads and those can be easily avoided. And if someone is really after you with a hot new exploit your anti-virus is probably the last to recognize it.

Yes they did[1], and a link to that article was published on an 'extremist' forum, triggering the inclusion of the domain in the filter.

[1]http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-distro-tales-you-c...

You are already on the 'extremists' list for reading HN.

I miss Paul Graham's influence on HN. My impression is that since he "retired", the topics now are more uniformly focused on core hacking/startup stuff and HN lost its "good hackers are interested in anything" approach that I so fell in love with when I first discovered the site.

So I thought about quitting too, but there are still enough gems hidden beneath the avalanche of Haskell vs Lisp vs Erlang threads that keep me wanting to come back.

Please DO this. Venture capital invested by people who actually know a thing or two about tech startups is urgently needed here. Something like YC Berlin could untap a goldmine, IF done right and IF it takes the quite significant (business) cultural differences into account.

It is not hard to imagine a company like Microsoft wanting something in exchange for all the zero day exploits they report to the NSA in advance.

I was in a similar situation a year ago and decided to go with the Series 9 with Full HD screen instead of a MBPr.

The weight advantage of the Series 9 and the screen are nice, but battery life, keyboard and trackpad are way behind Apple's quality. My next laptop will come from Apple and i don't see any competitor coming close any time soon. Samsung will drop out of the laptop market in 2015 alltogether btw.

It is a fad, one that has already been rejected on the market. See www.digitimes.com/news/a20131211PD217.html

My personal experience with a touchscreen laptop running Windows 8 was that once the novelty wears of, it feels unnatural to reach beyond your touchpad to the touchscreen for input. The touchpad is closer to the user's hands and therefore faster to access and that beats everything a touchscreen could offer.

The clumsiness of Drew's statement does remind me of those from the Bush Administration when they started to explain why the US Army wasn't exactly greeted with flowers by the Iraqis. Condoleeza will have to do a lot of work to win the "hearts and minds" of the users.

They stopped using de-duplication some time ago.

Comments on those type of sites are always negative and always based on ignorance no matter the topic.

This political-correctness frenzy is beyond ridiculous. A browser company should not have to give statements about political issues that have absolutely nothing to do with their business. What's next, regular declerations concerning basic income, marijuana legalization and the Crimea?

The danger comes from the Dysmorphical Disorder, not the selfies.

Tailored Access.

The title is somewhat misleading, Russia's membership was suspended and considering Russia never was a full member this is hardly more than symbolic. The G7 were always a club of US friendly 'capitalist' states and are in no way comparable to the UN.

Academic success is based on hard work, intelligence and to know exactly what not to say.

Besides Thailand i would also suggest to look at India, some nice locations there, considerably cheaper than Thailand and a higher percentage of people speaking English.