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Using Search To Reconnect Refugees With Their Families
Lanxon writes "A lengthy and emotional feature on Wired this week goes behind the scenes of Refugees United (RU) — a US-registered non-profit, founded in 2006 by two Danish brothers, Christopher and David Mikkelsen, that aims to be a Google for refugee search: an easy, accessible platform that enables the displaced to find their families. On a grey July day in the RU office in Copenhagen — typical tech-company open-plan — Christopher and David, and Tomas Krag, chief technology officer, explain how the project came about, and the impact it has had on the world."
"...on Wired-" Lost me there. Hackneyed attacks on what is probably among the most hated of tech magazines pretending to be more independent than they are aside, this is certainly a good idea, but what's to stop people searching for people whom they have nothing to do with? The information on the site, from what I could ascertain from the article, doesn't appear to be meaningfully secured and is open to abuse.
no it is the new slashcode. You click on one link and randomly another article or link will come up.
I have very nearly done it my self 2-3 times in the last few days.
Who ever designed the new slashdot went to MSFT's interface design school and was a good study. All sorts of random crap is happening, and we get to beta test it for them. Loading slashdot on my phone cuts off comments, articles, and both menu bars
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
And what's more fun, <I> tags no longer appear to work, including retroactively. See look, not italics.
Which means it's utterly impossible to figure out what people quoted for about 30% of all slashdot posts, ever.
I point to below the posting buttons, where it explicitly (We'll see if that ends up bold) says you can use an <I> tag.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?