It's a chat app that carefully cultivated the appearance of being "more private" than text messaging and old IM services like AOL or ICQ. Then it got bought by Facebook for a stupid 19 billion dollars.
I suppose the news here is that it's leaking information to people who aren't paying Facebook for it.
It's a Fine. Not damages. I'm not sure how it works across the pond, but where we live, a fine goes straight to government, not individuals/corporations.
The country can't pay its debts, and the upcoming referendum will decide whether they face increased austerity measures or start the process of exiting the Euro and face even worse austerity.
FTFY.
Leaving the Euro will mean that the country has defaulted, and whatever currency they put in place will have no value at all. The government will be bankrupt and will not be able to pay civil servants or pensioners. There are only 3 ways this goes: - Creditors accept to write-off some of the debt. They cut their losses and allow Grece to survive, in a situation which is actually bearable. - More austerity, from inside the euro. Hard times ahead. - Default. Chaos, Civil War.
Humanity and Finance don't go together very well...
Don't get me wrong. I'm French, and I agree that we should offer him asylum. Whistleblowers deserve to be protected. But what he uncovered was an open secret. People with positive IQs knew that it was probably going on in the background, Snowden only confirmed it.
Well there's also the great hypocrisy that lies there like an elephant in the room. France have probably tried to do the same on all its allies... (No presumption on whether they succeeded or not, just that the fact that they tried is highly likely).
To me, the reaction of the French government shrieking like pigs is just a show for the public opinion, and maybe they'll send back the US Ambassador for good measure. But it will soon die down and no change is to be expected.
A couple of nuke blasts on the moon would let us keep the Earth's rotation in sync with our atomic clocks. It's practice for asteroids, and good entertainment too!
You do know that leap seconds are driven by angular momentum fluctuations in the Earth's liquid outer core? I don't think the Moon has much to do with those.
You mean like the Moon has no influence on other liquids on Earth?
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It's a chat app that carefully cultivated the appearance of being "more private" than text messaging and old IM services like AOL or ICQ. Then it got bought by Facebook for a stupid 19 billion dollars.
I suppose the news here is that it's leaking information to people who aren't paying Facebook for it.
But it's kind of hard to get a constructive opinion across in 140 signs...
It's a Fine. Not damages. I'm not sure how it works across the pond, but where we live, a fine goes straight to government, not individuals/corporations.
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Yes, and like "Free (Illiad)" in France.
Wut.
There aren't any memory leaks when you write in C?
Not me.. I never use malloc or free....
That's the spirit. sbrk(2) FTW :-D
UberX does, not UberPOPs "car sharing" service
I don't know about HK, but they provided their own lawyers to drivers who were arrested in Paris.
They usually end up pushing customers to the provider that gives them the best kick-back at the time, so no quite so independant...
Unless the tender is for multi-billion defense contracts (I don't have any information, didn't RTFA, but 2m to get a 2B contract is sound investment!)
Not necessarily. Stupid Synology NAS users fell victim of this.
FTFY. You don't leave it open for Internet access.
In other news, they apparently signed a deal with Amazon Prime :-) First episodes in 2016.
Dunno, My Computer is gone...
An African bird, or a European bird?
This. They can get back to me when they do it with just a plain steel needle.
From TFS:
A biological mechanism explaining part of the mystery of acupuncture has been pinpointed by scientists
Pin-point, steel needle, sounds all the same to me!!
The country can't pay its debts, and the upcoming referendum will decide whether they face increased austerity measures or start the process of exiting the Euro and face even worse austerity.
FTFY.
Leaving the Euro will mean that the country has defaulted, and whatever currency they put in place will have no value at all. The government will be bankrupt and will not be able to pay civil servants or pensioners. There are only 3 ways this goes:
- Creditors accept to write-off some of the debt. They cut their losses and allow Grece to survive, in a situation which is actually bearable.
- More austerity, from inside the euro. Hard times ahead.
- Default. Chaos, Civil War.
Humanity and Finance don't go together very well...
Don't get me wrong. I'm French, and I agree that we should offer him asylum. Whistleblowers deserve to be protected. But what he uncovered was an open secret. People with positive IQs knew that it was probably going on in the background, Snowden only confirmed it.
But the show will go on.
Well there's also the great hypocrisy that lies there like an elephant in the room. France have probably tried to do the same on all its allies... (No presumption on whether they succeeded or not, just that the fact that they tried is highly likely).
To me, the reaction of the French government shrieking like pigs is just a show for the public opinion, and maybe they'll send back the US Ambassador for good measure. But it will soon die down and no change is to be expected.
True. But then again, is there such a thing as a convenient hard drive failure?
A couple of nuke blasts on the moon would let us keep the Earth's rotation in sync with our atomic clocks. It's practice for asteroids, and good entertainment too!
You do know that leap seconds are driven by angular momentum fluctuations in the Earth's liquid outer core? I don't think the Moon has much to do with those.
You mean like the Moon has no influence on other liquids on Earth?
Everybody in the UK knows a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter, easy peasy
It will still be a human making a decision as to what is newsworthy and what is not. Crowd-vetting could be an option too?
I came here for the LOLz: after seeing the title, it could only be a flame war. But 7 comments in and you've already made my day. Thank you.
And nobody can delete or disable your files remotely. But please, this is 2015. Use FLAC instead of MP3.
FTFY
Of course, because the compiler leaves *all* those #ifdefs in the binary. You know, all those the preprocessor didn't catch.