If every Mexican was white and culturally relatable, or perhaps even just the latter, I bet there would be very few to no complaints about immigration.
As a darknet I2P is clearly superior to Tor, both in speed and security - Tor still relies on trusted directory servers while I2P is fully distributed and requires no trusted servers of any kind. Tor is better as an anonymizing proxy.
The way I see it, accessibility loss is just a precursor to connectivity loss. When ACTA fails to stop piracy what do you think they're going to do next? It's not two separate problems, just two degrees of the same problem.
If Windows didn't have PITA copy protection, planned obsolescence and a sky-high price I wouldn't have had enough motivation to switch to Linux so it's not all bad:-P
A comedian recently also made huge profits by selling a video cheap & DRM-free. At some point he started donating all the profits to charity.
Wow has fanboyism become this bad, that the individual who criticizes anything Apple does must personally own a competing phone? This is insanely childish.
It's possible to find products not made by Foxconn (even though most tech companies use them for at least *some* products), actually it's easy if you avoid the cheapo bargain basement stuff, and Apple. But yeah if you go for the really cheap shit you'll find that it's Foxconn every single time.
When you're paying $500+ for a toy computer I don't think another $70 will hurt. You might as well be worrying about the economic and societal ramifications of a price increase to the BMW Z3.
Agreed. It's one thing to make your products in factories operating under those conditions, but the apple exutive seemed to be so proud of the fact that they have near-slaves building their products when he described the condition under which they work. I can't even imagine what he was thinking when he described all that the way he did. A normal person holds back when talking about something they know other people probably wouldn't approve of, especially when it's a major corporation with a public image to uphold. He seemed oblivious to the fact that people might not approve. I couldn't decide if he was clueless or a sociopath.
The uber-wealthy live in a different world where this stuff is considered acceptable and they often ARE completely oblivious to how offensive it is, you'll find quotes like that in any business magazine.
I think the idea is to go after the worst offender to make an example (Apple is pretty bad by volume, and especially bad considering their retail prices and "enlightened" PR image). If people were to get pissed enough at Apple that their legendarily loyal fanboys were to boycott them, other companies need good PR would notice and flee unethical manufacturing like rats from a sinking ship.
I suspect that the second, less hypocritical, option is not being called for because we would have to use wooden tablets to achieve it (as nothing electronic is made outside of China any more).
Oh please. I only wish I'd chosen more carefully when picking a mobo for my home server, then I could say that none of my computers contain any Foxconn components.
Ah excellent, just the person I need to talk to, have you looked into the safety of those scanning trucks that can look through container walls, dumpsters, and entire cars?
Yeah I'm a 20-something and I don't use social networking, my social life is pretty dead but that's at least partly due to the type of crowd around here. But let me quote a friend of mine who's a total party animal and has a very active social life:
"These days if you ain't on BBM and Facebook, you're nobody. That's no joke."
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If every Mexican was white and culturally relatable, or perhaps even just the latter, I bet there would be very few to no complaints about immigration.
As a darknet I2P is clearly superior to Tor, both in speed and security - Tor still relies on trusted directory servers while I2P is fully distributed and requires no trusted servers of any kind. Tor is better as an anonymizing proxy.
The way I see it, accessibility loss is just a precursor to connectivity loss. When ACTA fails to stop piracy what do you think they're going to do next? It's not two separate problems, just two degrees of the same problem.
If Windows didn't have PITA copy protection, planned obsolescence and a sky-high price I wouldn't have had enough motivation to switch to Linux so it's not all bad :-P
A comedian recently also made huge profits by selling a video cheap & DRM-free. At some point he started donating all the profits to charity.
I think it's the tinny little white headphones, they cost around $20.
Wow has fanboyism become this bad, that the individual who criticizes anything Apple does must personally own a competing phone? This is insanely childish.
It's possible to find products not made by Foxconn (even though most tech companies use them for at least *some* products), actually it's easy if you avoid the cheapo bargain basement stuff, and Apple. But yeah if you go for the really cheap shit you'll find that it's Foxconn every single time.
I think the "planned failure" accusation has to do with non-replaceable batteries and anti-tampering screws.
not have a cracked version appear on pirate bay shortly after
All this tells me is that when you release an iOS game you don't check TPB, or the jailbreaker app stores afterwards.
That was my first thought when I saw the headline: "There are plenty of reasons to boycott Apple, just pick one!"
D'oh just realized I needlessly quoted the entire parent post -_-
When you're paying $500+ for a toy computer I don't think another $70 will hurt. You might as well be worrying about the economic and societal ramifications of a price increase to the BMW Z3.
That's what I thought, I hope they'll stop using those covert scanning vans (that can look through cars) which put innocent bystanders at risk then.
Oooh, kinky! /goingtohell
Agreed. It's one thing to make your products in factories operating under those conditions, but the apple exutive seemed to be so proud of the fact that they have near-slaves building their products when he described the condition under which they work. I can't even imagine what he was thinking when he described all that the way he did. A normal person holds back when talking about something they know other people probably wouldn't approve of, especially when it's a major corporation with a public image to uphold. He seemed oblivious to the fact that people might not approve. I couldn't decide if he was clueless or a sociopath.
The uber-wealthy live in a different world where this stuff is considered acceptable and they often ARE completely oblivious to how offensive it is, you'll find quotes like that in any business magazine.
See also: Newt Gingrich on poor kids as janitors.
In some areas we're already there. Income inequality is at least as bad now as it was in the gilded age.
I think the idea is to go after the worst offender to make an example (Apple is pretty bad by volume, and especially bad considering their retail prices and "enlightened" PR image). If people were to get pissed enough at Apple that their legendarily loyal fanboys were to boycott them, other companies need good PR would notice and flee unethical manufacturing like rats from a sinking ship.
I suspect that the second, less hypocritical, option is not being called for because we would have to use wooden tablets to achieve it (as nothing electronic is made outside of China any more).
Oh please. I only wish I'd chosen more carefully when picking a mobo for my home server, then I could say that none of my computers contain any Foxconn components.
Ah excellent, just the person I need to talk to, have you looked into the safety of those scanning trucks that can look through container walls, dumpsters, and entire cars?
You should check out Friendica too, basically like Diaspora but it's capable of interfacing with many of the existing closed social networks.
Identi.ca running on something like Freenet, accessed through Tor and I2P with a web-to-darknet portal site for convenience?
I wonder if that show is a girly-looking show that actually isn't very girly, like Powerpuff Girls. If so that could explain the male fanbase.
Yeah I'm a 20-something and I don't use social networking, my social life is pretty dead but that's at least partly due to the type of crowd around here. But let me quote a friend of mine who's a total party animal and has a very active social life:
"These days if you ain't on BBM and Facebook, you're nobody. That's no joke."
I heard it was terrible anyways, only good for making penis-monsters.
Look at how curated computing has taken off and say it isn't true.