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This command will add your network parameters to the configuration file of wpa_supplicant

sudo -s
wpa_passphrase YOUR_SSID YOUR_PASSWORD >> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

If the SSID of the network is hidden additional step need to be done:

sudo vim /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Update what you just added scan_ssid=1 in your network parameters, such as from

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Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

• A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
• A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
• There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

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Braking

Standard Braking Distance

• DE: (Geschwindigkeit / 10) * (Geschwindigkeit / 10)
• EN: (Speed / 10) * (Speed / 10)

Evasive (Emergency) Braking Distance

• DE: ((Geschwindigkeit / 10) * (Geschwindigkeit / 10)) / 2
• EN: ((Speed / 10) * (Speed / 10)) / 2

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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost.

That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific a