I live in Germany and we still got democracy here, but who guaranties me that this will be like that forever? China's use of total surveillance should be a warning to us all, what can happen too us, too.
People always say: 'I have nothing to hide, so I am not against surveillance'. They don't realize that this might change.
I don't know if this method is supposed to be much more eco-friendly, but to me it sounds like that would make it much warmer up here, on the earth's surface...
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"Voting machines are the non-solution of a non-existing problem" (not my quote, I heard it somewhere).
The quote is completely right. a) What is wrong with pen&paper voting? b) Voting machines do not solve any problems: If we say for example a) was about the money: Voting machines cost all-in-all more money than pen&paper voting.
The reason why DoubleClick has so much traffic is because it's an ad company. And afaik every time you load a page with ads (and you don't use an adblocker), some content from DoubleClick's page is transfered. This way DoubleClick gets so much traffic.
So Alexa says they are not spying on the user. Big surprise.
How can I verify what this toolbar is really doing unless I have the source code? IMHO the problem lies there: There is no trust for Alexa because nobody can really say for sure how it works and that it doesn't harm the user.
The countries in the EU have to store telecommunications data for 0.5 to 2 years.
In Germany this data will also be used in cases of copyright infringement (at least, that's what the current proposal says). Also a matter with the new law, there is no judge required for the police to get the data.
Those commercial and non-free search engines are nothing new. Google, Yahoo, and also government-supported proprietary search engines like Theseus are all the same.
I am looking forward to see if free search engines such as Wikia Search will succeed. They are really something new and I can only wish their best.
In other news, the gathering of algae lead to an increased production of CO2, as the machines and techniques used in this progress were powered by normal gasoline.
And I thought the whole point in Galileo was to be independent of USA's mercy. The US can turn off GPS at any time they want. The EU don't want to be dependent on the USA and so they build their own system.
Now perhaps this story refers to times when both Galileo _and_ GPS are working. Would that increase the accuracy so that both systems together are more effective? I don't really think so. I don't think that Galileo (which has an accuracy of 0.1 meters afaik) can be enhanced by some GPS satellites (which has an accuracy of 15 meters). They are way too old, the GPS satellites (at least, most of them).
How exactly is this story connected to the gnu project? I could only find their statement against proprietary standards (such as M$ Word). They are not the inventors of odf, though they of course support odf. But what makes them so special that they deserve to be tagged in this story, instead of sun for example?
It's not only a matter of price. It's also a matter of your freedom. I prefer GIMP, not only because it can handle everything a non-professional can possibly want, but also because it is free software (under the GNU General Public License).
I think I've read something that they are already unable to read some data stored on computers in the Ex-German Democratic Republic.
The only solution IMHO is _open and documented_ interfaces, protocols, programs, data types and hardware. In the future they won't be able to read our disks and files. They just can try to build a machine that reads our disks and files - for which they need documentation how they work.
See this essay or, if you prefer, an updated version of the essay by Richard Stallman (without whom we would not have the free GNU/Linux operating system). It explains the big differences between Open Source and Free Software. You can also look it up on Wikipedia.
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I live in Germany and we still got democracy here, but who guaranties me that this will be like that forever? China's use of total surveillance should be a warning to us all, what can happen too us, too.
People always say: 'I have nothing to hide, so I am not against surveillance'. They don't realize that this might change.
I don't know if this method is supposed to be much more eco-friendly, but to me it sounds like that would make it much warmer up here, on the earth's surface...
development, development, development!
*ducks from thrown chair*
And I thought they were trained in those small trucks (Powell showed us) in Iraq. I was wrong. They are trained in the tubes.
I thought they are made up of Carbon, too...
"Voting machines are the non-solution of a non-existing problem" (not my quote, I heard it somewhere).
The quote is completely right.
a) What is wrong with pen&paper voting?
b) Voting machines do not solve any problems: If we say for example a) was about the money: Voting machines cost all-in-all more money than pen&paper voting.
The great thing about virtual machines is that you basically can do whatever you want with them. Things you'd normally never do to your computer.
It's only lacking a feature of throwing the virtual computer out of the window.
The reason why DoubleClick has so much traffic is because it's an ad company. And afaik every time you load a page with ads (and you don't use an adblocker), some content from DoubleClick's page is transfered. This way DoubleClick gets so much traffic.
So Alexa says they are not spying on the user. Big surprise.
How can I verify what this toolbar is really doing unless I have the source code? IMHO the problem lies there: There is no trust for Alexa because nobody can really say for sure how it works and that it doesn't harm the user.
The countries in the EU have to store telecommunications data for 0.5 to 2 years.
In Germany this data will also be used in cases of copyright infringement (at least, that's what the current proposal says). Also a matter with the new law, there is no judge required for the police to get the data.
I was not referring to any of the Wikis Wikia is hosting, but to this site.
Those commercial and non-free search engines are nothing new. Google, Yahoo, and also government-supported proprietary search engines like Theseus are all the same.
I am looking forward to see if free search engines such as Wikia Search will succeed. They are really something new and I can only wish their best.
In other news, the gathering of algae lead to an increased production of CO2, as the machines and techniques used in this progress were powered by normal gasoline.
Fortunately nothing changes for most geeks, because Adblock filters most ads. :)
And I thought the whole point in Galileo was to be independent of USA's mercy. The US can turn off GPS at any time they want. The EU don't want to be dependent on the USA and so they build their own system.
Now perhaps this story refers to times when both Galileo _and_ GPS are working. Would that increase the accuracy so that both systems together are more effective? I don't really think so. I don't think that Galileo (which has an accuracy of 0.1 meters afaik) can be enhanced by some GPS satellites (which has an accuracy of 15 meters). They are way too old, the GPS satellites (at least, most of them).
Doesn't matter. You'll have to re-install windows from time to time, anyway. Uninstalling programs works only via uninstalling Vista ;)
How exactly is this story connected to the gnu project? I could only find their statement against proprietary standards (such as M$ Word). They are not the inventors of odf, though they of course support odf. But what makes them so special that they deserve to be tagged in this story, instead of sun for example?
It's not only a matter of price. It's also a matter of your freedom. I prefer GIMP, not only because it can handle everything a non-professional can possibly want, but also because it is free software (under the GNU General Public License).
At the beginning it is hard - just like many programs. But my experience is, that you get used to it pretty fast.
Yes. And over here you can see the Weapons of Mass Destruction(TM) of Saddam Hussein.
Wow. Shit.
I think it is easier to read it when the text is not all over the screen. That's why newspapers do that, too.
I think I've read something that they are already unable to read some data stored on computers in the Ex-German Democratic Republic.
The only solution IMHO is _open and documented_ interfaces, protocols, programs, data types and hardware. In the future they won't be able to read our disks and files. They just can try to build a machine that reads our disks and files - for which they need documentation how they work.
See this essay or, if you prefer, an updated version of the essay by Richard Stallman (without whom we would not have the free GNU/Linux operating system). It explains the big differences between Open Source and Free Software. You can also look it up on Wikipedia.