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"Islamic cities and countries were much more tolerant of other religions than Christian cities and countries"

Of course. You were safe and treated as nearly equal to other citizens as long as you paid a tax for your "protection": the Dhimmi.

I see one huge issue: if you lose the flash drive, you lose ALL of the data you collected. At least you a assured to get part of the data when it is broadcast.

And you forgot the 70% of unavailable call centers in the US!

"Hacker" would have a really different meaning then...

At least in France we have a law stating that if a third-party patent owner fails to do something with the patent, the initial patent holder takes all his right on the patent back. No wonder why many lobby want to get rid of this to "have homogeneous laws in Europe"...

Hence the "So to find out, I'm teaming up with someone with an iPhone" at the end of the text. Seeing the number of complaints saying he is going to rob, I guess nobody read the whole text?

Some astounding figures about Minitel in the beginning of this other article: http://owni.fr/2012/06/28/jai-ete-animatrice-de-minitel-rose...

Translated from French: "In 2011, 420,000 people 'only' have connected, against 25 million at its peak. '3615 ULLA', the most famous Minitel sex service, still totals 21,000 hits a month, against 2 million 10 years ago."

I also heard many farmers are still using it to trade cattle or watch weather forecasts of their region. I wonder how they will handle the end of the Minitel.

Part of the huge prices is explained by the fact terminals were subzidized. IIIRC their real cost was around 1000 FRF but were nearly given for free. This is the economic model that is still used by all mobile phones operators in France nowadays (except for Free Mobile).

"Remember what Christians were doing 600 years ago? Inquisition, Crusades, etc" Yeah Christians did it 600 YEARS AGO. But islamic countries do that kind of horror nowadays and AFAIK they did not developed in a bubble, isolated from the other countries. So it is perfectly relevant to judge them. Human Rights are universal, not a simple "cultural standard".

Absolutely. You cannot kill such an emblematic figure like Assange without making a martyr of him. You must not kill the guy, you must kill his credibility.

You forgot CEA (nuclear and renewable energy, microelectronics, defense,... 16k people).

Vim can be a decent, fast Python IDE with the right plugins too: http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/2009/02/python-and-vim-mak...

This is so ridiculous. China really thinks US Army is using Google maps? I wonder how they did not figured out that all armies are not working like theirs...

Lost Labyrinth is a nice graphical roguelike. Games are relatively short but it has a high replayability. http://www.lostlabyrinth.com/

"In fact every piece of hardware on this rig worked perfect without no fiddling around." Holy crap! Where is the fun now?

You can also define a "minimum font size" in your browser options. This trick really changed my life. Sadly, the rendering can turn ugly on websites with a poor and/or overly complex design (e.g.: facebook.com).

Ahahah! Wait, they really took this prank as serious?

Someone posted recently about a nice, step by step, tutorial: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2936670

When will I be able to print my own T-bone with my 3D printer?

And Google would release Cyborg, an "open source" firmware communicating with your GPS chip in your Android phone and... Oh wait! We're screwed o_0

It reminds me an episode from Big Bang Theory.

What I would be worried about is that bionic people would totally depend on a company: "Your iLeg 3 is broken? Too bad this version is not supported anymore. Upgrade to iLeg 6 for $6000 only!"

Is this one of the example you are looking for? http://gizmodo.com/5717309/what-happens-when-you-steal-a-hac... (talk from Def Con '11)

Same here. I had difficulties not to cry the first time I put my glasses because I found everything was so wonderful!

No, I prefer 'river of news' style aggregators like Zencancan.