Tag: Russia
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Russia Today is a garbage TV station
Buzzfeed is probably not the first place you would go to in search for news but you would still trust it more than the Kremlin’s garbage RT television station. RT advertised itself in Britain with a deliberate appeal to anti-science conspiracists. Support for the lunacies of the “9/11 Truther” variety are only the most prominent. […]
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Poisoning the internet
This news item struck me as interesting and even borderline alarming – as it suggests that 18% of all traffic (and 41% of UDP traffic) on the Internet is from one attempt to poison BitTorrentnetworks worldwide: a truly extraordinary finding, but one that seems well grounded, at least on first blush. For those who do […]
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Richard Stallman plainly lacks any sense of irony
Richard Stallman (aka “RMS” or the “last of the true hackers” according to Steven Levy’s classic book) is a great, but very difficult, man. His strops and sulks about Linus Torvalds should not blind us to the fact that he does have a serious and valid point when he insists that what most people call […]
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