The goal or Al Queda, is and always was to transform the Islamic world along their fundamentalist ideals. Their best idea of how to do that is convince Muslims they are under attack from a powerful outside enemy, and that Al Queda is leading the resistance. The US has played it's part in this game, from their point of view, perfectly.
Stupid, stupid, stupid US policy to take this bait.
> Regardless of what you install there's no guaranteed way to stop your kid from stumbling upon boobs on the internet.
Yes, but that shouldn't stop you from trying. A 4-year-old should be on a whitelist-only browser. Also, put some discrete logging on the router. Better to know. I m
Not a lot of Macs at the federal government. And none of them running the latest version of Photoshop. A torrent search engine, on the other hand, may somehow have access to the latest software.
Unfortunately, neither my old iphone or new android phone can easily search and install apps from this "web" you speak of. And I hear that apps are popular with the "users". Having a new standard - platform independent apps - and a non-creepy selection criteria sounds like a win for people who use phones, encouraging competition and keeping us all interoperable.
I'm glad Mozilla is working on this, because no one else seems to give a damn about both openness and competition.
What makes you think it's not a sliding scale? The value of Facebook changes over time, while the deterrents to using it - namely that people hate or don't trust Facebook Inc. - also change over time. It's an unstable system, as the value is created by the users, and as users bail, that value can fall apart pretty quick. And I've got 100 shares of Friendster to prove it.
The fact that ANY consumer product (nevermind a whole category) has succeeded with black-and-white screens is remarkable, and points towards to some hard to beat advantages of the E Ink technology: they were strong enough to outweigh the fact that on first impression, the screens looks cheap.
With the addition of color (and the assumption of steady improvement to contrast and color gamut), it's entirely possible that e ink will be wrapped on all kind of things -- dashboards, airport signage, ATMs -- where power is an issue.
People ain't dumb, and they catch on. Which creates pressure in the other direction as well. One the most common barriers to getting people to recycle correctly is the widely held belief -- frequently completely unfounded -- that all the stuff goes to the same dump anyway. Recycling centers are making online videos of the pickup and sorting process to battle back, but it's an uphill struggle -- people assume they're getting lied to.
Uh, no. The goal of all trade is to allocate capital to the institutions most likely to create value. HFTs don't give a shit who creates value. They don't allocate capital based on which companies are useful. They are a transactional cost paid by everyone else. They are best approximated not as a trade, but as a tax, albeit one that does absolutely nothing for the public good. The value removed from the markets by HFT is value extraction, not creation. This is a fundamental difference from everyone else playing.
Unless other countries share the same view and tax the heck out of HFTs the problem is not going to go away. I could see the EU and Canada joining in, but there are many other questionable countries that probably won't participate.
Driving the assholes to another exchange isn't a bug, it's a feature. Having the only exchange that everyone can trust is a pretty good position to be in.
If by "special treatment" you mean ridicule and disgust because of the arrangement of their bodies and genders, I assure you that transgendered and intersexed people get plenty of that already.
Exactly. Privacy isn't an issue isn't for the normal-bodied, in the same way the free speech isn't "for" people with majority views. These searches will be very useful for those who like to humiliate, mock or punish people with different bodies, transgendered folks being a prime target. And if you think that the digital images won't make it out of the airport or be linked to individuals, keep dreaming.
Actually, no. It's worse than that. People can and should band together. But a corporation isn't people. It's money controlled by one or more people. And that's not a band. That's more like a fiefdom.
Given transparency, consumers and shareholders can influence outcomes. But in the current arrangement, those people will never know which corporations bankroll which candidates, rendering shareholders and consumers useless as a means of accountability. Of course, the elected reps know exactly where their money comes from, and know which policies will cut it off next cycle. That's the corruption.
> Can't we get competent people to design these things?
That depends. Does your community pass every tax cut referendum on the local ballot? If so, then no, you can't get competent people to design these things.
I'm a graphic designer, which should make me manic about press quality, and frankly I think the books I get from Lulu are fine. I could gripe about the lack of paper options, but the presses are fine for non-photo jobs.
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> This should be featured on Discovery's "How do they do it." for sure.
Amazon Web Services, with servers in US and Ireland.
The drug cartels, in particular, are fans of American made armor piercing pistol ammunition.
What documents? They have released, so far, a few hundred cables. The millions of cables are things they have promised to release in the near future.
So not only has no one successfully "processed" these documents, no one has even seen them.
The goal or Al Queda, is and always was to transform the Islamic world along their fundamentalist ideals. Their best idea of how to do that is convince Muslims they are under attack from a powerful outside enemy, and that Al Queda is leading the resistance. The US has played it's part in this game, from their point of view, perfectly.
Stupid, stupid, stupid US policy to take this bait.
> Regardless of what you install there's no guaranteed way to stop your kid from stumbling upon boobs on the internet.
Yes, but that shouldn't stop you from trying. A 4-year-old should be on a whitelist-only browser. Also, put some discrete logging on the router. Better to know. I m
Not a lot of Macs at the federal government. And none of them running the latest version of Photoshop. A torrent search engine, on the other hand, may somehow have access to the latest software.
Unfortunately, neither my old iphone or new android phone can easily search and install apps from this "web" you speak of. And I hear that apps are popular with the "users". Having a new standard - platform independent apps - and a non-creepy selection criteria sounds like a win for people who use phones, encouraging competition and keeping us all interoperable.
I'm glad Mozilla is working on this, because no one else seems to give a damn about both openness and competition.
What makes you think it's not a sliding scale? The value of Facebook changes over time, while the deterrents to using it - namely that people hate or don't trust Facebook Inc. - also change over time. It's an unstable system, as the value is created by the users, and as users bail, that value can fall apart pretty quick. And I've got 100 shares of Friendster to prove it.
Any security system that complex is a joke. Humans are always the fail point, and this little set of rules begs for fail.
Logging things done by a random buyer isn't the same as logging things by the guy we'd really like to know more about.
My point was that ANY black and white display looks cheap, despite the advantages you correctly note.
The fact that ANY consumer product (nevermind a whole category) has succeeded with black-and-white screens is remarkable, and points towards to some hard to beat advantages of the E Ink technology: they were strong enough to outweigh the fact that on first impression, the screens looks cheap.
With the addition of color (and the assumption of steady improvement to contrast and color gamut), it's entirely possible that e ink will be wrapped on all kind of things -- dashboards, airport signage, ATMs -- where power is an issue.
Once we're into microseconds per buy/sell, all practical need for liquidity has been met. They provide nothing of value to others.
People ain't dumb, and they catch on. Which creates pressure in the other direction as well. One the most common barriers to getting people to recycle correctly is the widely held belief -- frequently completely unfounded -- that all the stuff goes to the same dump anyway. Recycling centers are making online videos of the pickup and sorting process to battle back, but it's an uphill struggle -- people assume they're getting lied to.
Uh, no. The goal of all trade is to allocate capital to the institutions most likely to create value. HFTs don't give a shit who creates value. They don't allocate capital based on which companies are useful. They are a transactional cost paid by everyone else. They are best approximated not as a trade, but as a tax, albeit one that does absolutely nothing for the public good. The value removed from the markets by HFT is value extraction, not creation. This is a fundamental difference from everyone else playing.
Unless other countries share the same view and tax the heck out of HFTs the problem is not going to go away. I could see the EU and Canada joining in, but there are many other questionable countries that probably won't participate.
Driving the assholes to another exchange isn't a bug, it's a feature. Having the only exchange that everyone can trust is a pretty good position to be in.
I'd love to get broadband Internet for $20. I don't see that happening soon.
If by "special treatment" you mean ridicule and disgust because of the arrangement of their bodies and genders, I assure you that transgendered and intersexed people get plenty of that already.
Exactly. Privacy isn't an issue isn't for the normal-bodied, in the same way the free speech isn't "for" people with majority views. These searches will be very useful for those who like to humiliate, mock or punish people with different bodies, transgendered folks being a prime target. And if you think that the digital images won't make it out of the airport or be linked to individuals, keep dreaming.
Just imagine the serious cost savings that might come from quitting the damn wars.
Actually, no. It's worse than that. People can and should band together. But a corporation isn't people. It's money controlled by one or more people. And that's not a band. That's more like a fiefdom.
Given transparency, consumers and shareholders can influence outcomes. But in the current arrangement, those people will never know which corporations bankroll which candidates, rendering shareholders and consumers useless as a means of accountability. Of course, the elected reps know exactly where their money comes from, and know which policies will cut it off next cycle. That's the corruption.
> Can't we get competent people to design these things?
That depends. Does your community pass every tax cut referendum on the local ballot? If so, then no, you can't get competent people to design these things.
Maybe Mozilla can build us a fucking ballot box.
I'm a graphic designer, which should make me manic about press quality, and frankly I think the books I get from Lulu are fine. I could gripe about the lack of paper options, but the presses are fine for non-photo jobs.
This post is, like, totally understandable to the desktop user community.