Suing TomTom over ridiculous patents is not better behavior, especially since the only reason to use the technology in the first place is to interact with their OS and its ill-gained market dominance.
As we know by now, beyond a shadow of a doubt, planting new trees does not support the same ecosystem as old-growth forest. Further, the trees planted by wood products companies have often not been of the same species as those removed, which does further damage to the environment. But, it does indeed make wood harvesting more "sustainable". At a very high cost to the existing ecology.
We were talking about CO2, and nothing else. Whether they have other ecological impacts is completely unrelated to this discussion.
Except for outlaws cutting down on protected forests, that's not really true: wood producers want to actually continue to stay in business, so they plant new trees when they cut down the older.
That's not what's happening here, though. They're mostly protecting the business of US drug companies. Remember these are 'prescription drugs', not banned drugs.
A French MEP has quit the process of scrutinising ACTA for the European Parliament, calling the treaty's passage through the EU legislative system a masquerade.
In a statement on Thursday, Kader Arif denounced the signing of ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) by the EU and 21 member states earlier in the day. He said the European Parliament was being undermined and the process was a "charade" in which he would no longer participate. (..) "I want to denounce as the greatest of all the process that led to the signing of this agreement: no association of civil society, lack of transparency from the beginning of negotiations, successive postponements of the signing of the text without any explanation being given, setting aside the claims of the European Parliament [despite those views being] expressed in several resolutions of our Assembly," Arif said, according to an automated translation of his statement.
Arif said he had as rapporteur "faced unprecedented manoeuvres of the right of Parliament to impose an accelerated schedule to pass the agreement as soon as possible before the public is alerted, thereby depriving Parliament of its right of expression and the tools at its disposal to carry the legitimate demands of citizens". (...) "This agreement may [have a] major impact on the lives of our citizens, and yet everything is done [so that] the European Parliament has no say," Arif said. "I will not participate in this charade."
Governments will make their own certs, of course, but as for the sky high prices of certs, browsers can manage that, after all they control who gets in and who doesn't.
What Google is selling is the attention of its users.
So are the TV and radio channels, newspapers, billboard owners, race cars owners, bus companies, football clubs, professional athletes, people holding signs and Slashdot.
G+ is no more privacy invading than other Google services. They use all you give them. If you don't want G+ to have information about you, don't put it there.
But there's no spying! You're only shown what you already have access through G+! So non-G+ users only get public G+ content, that they could already view.
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MS has been much better behaved in recent years
Suing TomTom over ridiculous patents is not better behavior, especially since the only reason to use the technology in the first place is to interact with their OS and its ill-gained market dominance.
Wasn't that more or less how the US went to the moon the first time?
I've yet to see an mp3 that supports over 48GB of storage.
Not that it invalidates your choice, but there are MP3 players with 64GB, at least from Apple, Sony, Creative and Microsoft.
But why were you reading my post without reading parent's first? When I post, I assume people are following the discussion, not reading random posts.
Those were just banned in Germany, which is a small part of Europe.
As we know by now, beyond a shadow of a doubt, planting new trees does not support the same ecosystem as old-growth forest. Further, the trees planted by wood products companies have often not been of the same species as those removed, which does further damage to the environment. But, it does indeed make wood harvesting more "sustainable". At a very high cost to the existing ecology.
We were talking about CO2, and nothing else. Whether they have other ecological impacts is completely unrelated to this discussion.
Except for outlaws cutting down on protected forests, that's not really true: wood producers want to actually continue to stay in business, so they plant new trees when they cut down the older.
Parent said belief, not faith.
There are such things are auto-posters.
There's still the EP. They have voted against ACTA before.
This has nothing to do with morality. They're "prescription drugs". This is about protecting the US drug companies.
That's not what's happening here, though. They're mostly protecting the business of US drug companies. Remember these are 'prescription drugs', not banned drugs.
Google wasn't actually smuggling drugs.
https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA
A French MEP has quit the process of scrutinising ACTA for the European Parliament, calling the treaty's passage through the EU legislative system a masquerade.
In a statement on Thursday, Kader Arif denounced the signing of ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) by the EU and 21 member states earlier in the day. He said the European Parliament was being undermined and the process was a "charade" in which he would no longer participate.
(..)
"I want to denounce as the greatest of all the process that led to the signing of this agreement: no association of civil society, lack of transparency from the beginning of negotiations, successive postponements of the signing of the text without any explanation being given, setting aside the claims of the European Parliament [despite those views being] expressed in several resolutions of our Assembly," Arif said, according to an automated translation of his statement.
Arif said he had as rapporteur "faced unprecedented manoeuvres of the right of Parliament to impose an accelerated schedule to pass the agreement as soon as possible before the public is alerted, thereby depriving Parliament of its right of expression and the tools at its disposal to carry the legitimate demands of citizens".
(...)
"This agreement may [have a] major impact on the lives of our citizens, and yet everything is done [so that] the European Parliament has no say," Arif said. "I will not participate in this charade."
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communication-breakdown-10000030/mep-quits-acta-charade-in-protest-at-eu-signing-10025297/
You're right, hiding the useless titlebar is important too, but I just use a window manager that doesn't have them, for any window.
Pff, still too much useless chrome. This is a reasonable browser UI.
Governments will make their own certs, of course, but as for the sky high prices of certs, browsers can manage that, after all they control who gets in and who doesn't.
What about Jesus Christ?
What Google is selling is the attention of its users.
So are the TV and radio channels, newspapers, billboard owners, race cars owners, bus companies, football clubs, professional athletes, people holding signs and Slashdot.
G+ is no more privacy invading than other Google services. They use all you give them. If you don't want G+ to have information about you, don't put it there.
1. Print big poster with the key fingerprint
2. Prevent people from putting up their own posters
Physical security ftw.
I just use sshuttle.
I actually thought they already had. They've had their own distro for years now.
But there's no spying! You're only shown what you already have access through G+! So non-G+ users only get public G+ content, that they could already view.