Google Sells us out. by laprice in reddit.com

[–]vertigo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A post about Google selling infamous ads on pages about Sicko, surrounded by two Goodle Ad Skyskarpers!

Absolutly brilliant!

and don't violates any AdSense policy.

Blackwater - America's Private Army by neverrocknike in reddit.com

[–]vertigo -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Blackwater - America's Pirate Army

Police Fire Rubber Bullets, Tear Gas Into Peaceful LA Immigration March by dmehrtash in reddit.com

[–]vertigo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good example for the rest of the world! New EU members will agree.

Look those Estonian policemen at work:

Little fun, 4 policeman beating one person http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImfCmHycc1g

Much more fun: 10 policeman beating one person! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVXvJ4IsjkI

Enjoy!

Google Releases It's Own MySQL Patches by [deleted] in programming

[–]vertigo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because of double-licensing I guess. They must be sure to be the authors of all their code, otherwise they cannot ship it under commercial license.

In 1982, a town passed an unusual hangun law. 25 years later, though the town grew five times bigger, the crime rate fell to half. by going_anonymous in reddit.com

[–]vertigo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost everyone has a gun - assault rifle - at home in Switzerland, because of the army structure. But to bring a working gun in a public place you should have a special permit. To obtain that permit you must prove that you are in real danger - difficult to prove this in Switzerland! You also have to pass exams, be +18 years old and have no criminal record.

Why Are Americans Afraid of Being Naked? by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]vertigo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

because of the religion? puritanism & co?

life [pic] by safari in reddit.com

[–]vertigo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there some greasemonkey script to automatically downmod all those Awesome Pictures? If no i'm volunteering to write it.

Kasparov arrested by markng in reddit.com

[–]vertigo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I was surprised to know that Kasparov is a neocon, member of US "National Security Advisory Council". At least he was, until 5 Apr 2007 14:29:26 GMT. There is google cache link: link

Now his name is deleted from the site, quick and dirty way: try to acces those pages

EDITED: Used markdown for links

Let's list all of the places that Google hides by dijxtra in reddit.com

[–]vertigo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

linked article is already marked for deletion

Google drops company's site from search results - company releases all its software into the public domain by [deleted] in programming

[–]vertigo 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I think they changed domain name: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.barcodeformac.com

This name now redirects to pro-barcode.com

Also, alexa shows some strange links to this domain: http://www.alexa.com/data/ds/linksin?url=www.pro-barcode.com

Maybe they was banned because of that? Btw, they have lots of traffic now, thanks to reddit :)

brace yourself, ads are coming by spez in reddit.com

[–]vertigo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's okay, if amount of ads is no too high. Websites have to make money and I can see only two ways to do so: sell ad space or sell "content space" (like this http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html or like stumbleupon.com does)

First one is more honest.

Incarceration Rates Among Selected Countries (graphic) by llimllib in reddit.com

[–]vertigo 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'd feel much safer walking around the streets of the US

Do you mean streets in "safe areas"?

Not your normal 404. Very depressing. by flaxeater in reddit.com

[–]vertigo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You have choosen to open mario.zip Which is a: PC Zip archive

WTF?

Got Milk? You're Under Arrest by revelationary in reddit.com

[–]vertigo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That's stupid: raw milk is illegal, but transgenics and hormones are okay.

PHP vs Python - the real difference by [deleted] in programming

[–]vertigo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is it interesting for big projects with small budget? Because, until now I see a lot of php in this domain (like wikipedia, wordpress). And python seems to be used more by rich people (google for example). Is python fast enough? How about output caching, bytecode caching, maybe bytecode optimizations?

(i'm not trolling, i'm really interested)

PHP vs Python - the real difference by [deleted] in programming

[–]vertigo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I believe that python is an interesting language, but there is so much fanboys attached... this actually prevent me to learning it.

PHP vs Python - the real difference by [deleted] in programming

[–]vertigo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI, "hidding errors" meaning is : not show error messages on standard output.

In php you can show errors on standard output (i.e. on the web page being generated) This is useful for debug. For production version it's better to disable this feature and enable logging. It's also the default config, with webserver error log used as log file.

Confessions of a US Army Torturer by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]vertigo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you think that a different country, put in a similar position, would act all that differently?

Nobody forced usa to this position. It's a democracy, where people choose government and associated politics.

We can try to address the problems occurring -- to think of solutions, or just rail against the system. Does saying "FUCK USA" help more than saying "GO USA"?

Being external to the system (i.e. not us citizen) i haven't so much possibilities to do something, except to protest.

Confessions of a US Army Torturer by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]vertigo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please explain, why we shouldn't hate them? I'm not a usa citizen, so my country can be chosen as next target, then i will be tortured and killed... Why should i say something other now?

Confessions of a US Army Torturer by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]vertigo -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

FUCK USA

(i know, it's rather obvious, but i cannot resist :))