Ha! Of course! Kimono is come from the Greek word himona, is mean winter. So, what do you wear in the wintertime to stay warm? A robe. You see: robe, kimono. There you go!
The German article links to some previously discovered flaws. I read the TFS as in "the previously discovered flaw isn't necessary to calculate the PIN anymore, because a new backdoor has been discovered that makes things so much easier".
No, even though we're outside the States we are not immune. The USA are an important power in today's world, and the outcome of a national election can (and will) have an influence in our local economy, security, and politics.
While you were in the kitchen fixing some sandwich your wife used your browser to order some leather boots, your daughter looked at pictures of horse whips, and your son bought handcuffs for carnival. You come back to check your gmail account and wonder why you are getting targeted S&M ads.
A video of an autistic kid being bullied, uploaded to Google Video by one of the offenders to further humiliate the kid, has nothing to do with free speech. (I believe that the judge addressed the wrong party, though.)
People define free speech differently, depending on their cultural and geopolitical background, and sometimes their agenda (I'm not referring to you, Hentes).
I live in northern Italy, in a part of the country with three main ethnic groups that was annexed after WWI. For the past few decades, coexistence has been mainly peaceful, but when my father was a kid, under fascist law, his parents were not allowed to give him a name that came from our ethnic group, the name had to be Italian. People were also forbidden to speak our native language, only Italian was allowed. Some women and men taught school classes in catacomb schools, risking imprisonment or deportation.
Now that I would define a strict limitation on free speech.
Care to point out which legal limitations you are referring to?
The problem with free speech in Italy is not caused by the law, but by the media monopoly that is in the hand of a single family, and by the organized crime. Journalists have to fear for their job - and sometimes for their physical integrity - when their work covers the "wrong" person. Dissenting voices from the population are gladly ignored by mainstream media (unless it fits their agenda), and when they cannot be ignored they are pictured as silly, selfish, violent, or anti-democratic.
Michele Santoro had to leave the (publicly funded) RAI because of his critical stance to Berlusconi's political role, and he has received death threats because of his reports. This is the real threat to free speech in Italy right now.
On a related note, I was quite surprised to find out (via the same paper) that people liked to ride through the prairie on their 8-HP transaxle lawn tractor. A 36-inch mower, no less!
If the European Union is afraid of compromising their image they should consider sending inspectors to oversee our next elections. Try to uncover how many votes are extorted or bought by organized crime who then send "their" politician to Rome.
This is obviously another censorship/media control ploy by Berlusconi, and I wouldn't be surprised if this was specifically designed to hurt Wikipedia.
This ploy was designed to silence the last few media that are not under SB's personal control, and those individuals and groups who still dare to report facts.
Initial reports said that the driver, David Secker, was apparently using his knees to steer the car, an accusation he tried to refute in court.
Of course you don't need your knees to steer a vehicle when you are busy with two mobile phones. Just look at this bus driver who is talking on one phone and configuring a second phone, all the while steering a bus (public transport) with his elbows.
Reminds me of a blog post by Sun's Jonathan I. Schwartz:
In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass*, Steve called my office to let me know the graphical effects were “stepping all over Apple’s IP.” [...] If we moved forward to commercialize it, “I’ll just sue you.”
My response was simple. “Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence – do you own that IP?” Concurrence was a presentation product built by Lighthouse Design, a company I’d help to found and which Sun acquired in 1996. Lighthouse built applications for NeXTSTEP, the Unix based operating system whose core would become the foundation for all Mac products after Apple acquired NeXT in 1996. Steve had used Concurrence for years, and as Apple built their own presentation tool, it was obvious where they’d found inspiration. “And last I checked, MacOS is now built on Unix. I think Sun has a few OS patents, too.” Steve was silent.
And that was the last I heard on the topic.
And further down:
I understand the value of patents – offensively and, more importantly, for defensive purposes. Sun had a treasure trove of some of the internet’s most valuable patents [...] so no one in the technology industry could come after us without fearing an expensive counter assault. And there’s no defense like an obvious offense.
But for a technology company, going on offense with software patents seems like an act of desperation, relying on the courts instead of the marketplace. See Nokia’s suit against Apple for a parallel example of frivolous litigation – it hasn’t slowed iPhone momentum (I’d argue it accelerated it). So I wonder who will be first to claim Apple’s iPad is stepping on their IP perhaps those that own the carcass of the tablet computing pioneer Go Corp.? Except that would be AT&T. Hm.
I've been running my own mail server for a few domains since 1998. At that time I managed mail servers a living (working for a small local hosting provider), so running one more was no big deal. I do have a Gmail address and use it mainly on my Nexus S for syncing contacts and calendars. This just to say that I don't have a problem with Google.
I do prefer to manage my mails on my own, though, mainly for reasons of control. Privacy is only one aspect, since whenever you write a mail, your recipient could be hosting their domain on Google's servers anyway, so unless you loop up their MX records Google might end up with a copy of your message(s) anyway.
I don't know about your technical preparation, so please forgive me if I point out the obvious:
Get a domain with a reputable registrar, possibly not from your ISP. If you ever change ISP you want to be able to change your DNS information without having to wait for a transfer. I have found EasyDNS to be very reliable, and they offer backup MX services.
How important is your mail server to you and how reliable/fast is the link from your home to your ISP? Can you afford prolonged downtime when your neighbor accidentally cuts your lines with his backhoe? Is your up-link fast enough to handle large messages (think attachments) fast enough when you access your mail from away? Depending on the answers to these questions you might want to rent your own server (or a VPS) from a hosting provider. If cost is a concern try to find a few friends or family members who'd like to join you and split expenses.
No matter what MTA you use, make sure you're not an open relay, otherwise your server will end up as part of the spam-sending pool and you'll find yourself on a blacklist quite fast; getting off a blacklist can be hard, and sometimes impossible.
There'd be a lot more to say about technical details, but I'm afraid I've gotten too far off-topic already.:) Some of the above may sound a bit negative, but it wasn't meant to be discouraging.
While democracy should trump all, is it wise to hold majority opinion so high that it slows down progress?
What kind of silly question is this? Is "fast" progress more important than democracy? Or let me put this differently: if a nation wants to foster progress, why don't they simply forbid stupid sitcoms and TV shows and make sure a lot of science-related stuff is aired. Encourage young and old to explore technology, nature, literature, and much more. This would certainly help with progress. But is this what (the majority of) people would want?
Italians have voted in 1987 that they don't want nuclear power plants. During the past few years, the current administration has taken steps to reintroduce nuclear power, and to build new nuclear power plants. A large number of citizens did not want to go in this direction, and therefore the public vote was held. And apparently the majority of Italians do not want nuclear power plants on their territory. This is a decision that the government has to respect.
And if you are a bit familiar with how things work in Italy, you can easily see that the whole thing was going to be a giant black hole where an incredible lot of (public) money was about to be shoveled into, never to be officially seen again. Organized crime has made a business of "taking care" of highly toxic waste by simply dumping it left and right, be it a green pasture or into the sea just a few miles from the beach. Do I want to find radioactive waste around the coast of Italy, just because someone has decided this was the cheapest way to get rid of it? Do I really believe nuclear power is cheaper than other energy sources, if I take into account all the public money that goes into construction, maintenance and nuclear waste disposal, and the emergency cleaning-up that has to be done eventually?
I generally agree with you, but I think this part of TFA is interesting:
While the location of an individual tweet might not reveal much, visualising a user's history on a map reveals clusters around their home, their workplace, and the areas they hang out.
This is a bit more than public records about houses and phone numbers - I'd say it is closer to the "everyone knows everyone" situation, where the better part of a town would know what bar you could find John in after work.
I don't find the application creepy, after all it simply aggregates information that is available anyway. I believe that people should be more aware that when using certain services they are sharing a bit more than just their thoughts or pictures. This will be fine for many, but some might prefer to remain a bit less "locatable".
He is not beloved by the police. Just have a look at the ANSA messages on the sap website (Sindacato Autonomo di Polizia, a union for the members of the Polizia di Stato). These are the official statements - it would be interesting to read the "off the record"-messages.
The current government has cut funds so that the police doesn't have enough money to fuel their cars. Stories about officers buying gas for the patrol cars with their own, personal money are no exaggeration. I know a couple of officers who have quit service because they say they can't do a proper job any longer, understaffed and without a budget to speak of.
Today's news let us know that police officers should not use their munitions anymore because the bullets might explode. The government has decided to buy munitions from another country in order to save some money. Unfortunately the gun powder used is too "active".
What Berlusconi definitely has (apart from owning most of the media) is a number of good lawyers and law experts that happen to also be members of the current government and as such keep creating new laws and bending existing laws so that he can avoid getting thrown into jail. Also, the whole judicial system has been deprived of funds. Processes take longer and longer, and Berlusconi can hope for prescription. Some laws have terrible consequences - like the depenalization of certain crimes that leads to the release of a lot of criminals, just to make sure the current Prime Minister can't be indicted.
The following sentence from TFA might be worth pointing out:
The decision [...] has serious implications for U.S. retailers that obtain their goods on the gray market.
As fas as I see you are still free to sell you watch if you please. What you can't do is to turn selling watches into a business while getting these goods from the gray market.
They can often be seen not only by those that are driving directly behind the one that hits the brakes, but also a couple cars further down the line, allowing the drivers to react timelier.
I think what catbutt meant is that Google blocks specific terms from autocomplete, not from the search results. In the end you still get all the information you were looking for; you just have to hit enter after writing the full search terms.
The other oddity is people use their phone as an alarmclock? A smartphone with a battery life measured in hours, probably dead by wakeup time?
I don't know about the iPhone, but I use my Nokia as an alarm clock. The phone doesn't need to be on for the alarm to go off. I can set the alarm and turn the phone off, and it will turn on an sound the alarm at the desired time.
The translation and your German are fine; this sentence allows a different interpretation, though: When I read the motto on his website, I thought it was in the spirit of: "Don't live trying to please others, live for (so that you're ok with) yourself."
Not trying to second-guess his intentions, I just thought I'd chime in with a different interpretation.
It's possible, although difficult, to find tomato paste in glass jars, but I haven't found a good alternative for canned tomatoes.
Here in Italy you can buy tomatoes in glass bottles or jars from a variety of brands and with differing consistency (from a very liquid sauce to little cubes), and usually they contain tomato only, no extra ingredients or flavoring. You can look for "salsa di pomodoro", "passata di pomodoro" or "pomodori pelati" on amazon.com to get an idea. Hopefully you can find some similar local products from your area until you get the chance to make your own.
We usually make our own once a year and keep them in jars, a year's supply for three families. A piece of goat cheese, some tomato from the jar and a bit of olive oil on top, what more could you want.:)
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Ha! Of course! Kimono is come from the Greek word himona, is mean winter. So, what do you wear in the wintertime to stay warm? A robe. You see: robe, kimono. There you go!
A great movie.
The German article links to some previously discovered flaws. I read the TFS as in "the previously discovered flaw isn't necessary to calculate the PIN anymore, because a new backdoor has been discovered that makes things so much easier".
Your comment gave me a good chuckle, though.
No, even though we're outside the States we are not immune. The USA are an important power in today's world, and the outcome of a national election can (and will) have an influence in our local economy, security, and politics.
While you were in the kitchen fixing some sandwich your wife used your browser to order some leather boots, your daughter looked at pictures of horse whips, and your son bought handcuffs for carnival. You come back to check your gmail account and wonder why you are getting targeted S&M ads.
A video of an autistic kid being bullied, uploaded to Google Video by one of the offenders to further humiliate the kid, has nothing to do with free speech. (I believe that the judge addressed the wrong party, though.)
People define free speech differently, depending on their cultural and geopolitical background, and sometimes their agenda (I'm not referring to you, Hentes).
I live in northern Italy, in a part of the country with three main ethnic groups that was annexed after WWI. For the past few decades, coexistence has been mainly peaceful, but when my father was a kid, under fascist law, his parents were not allowed to give him a name that came from our ethnic group, the name had to be Italian. People were also forbidden to speak our native language, only Italian was allowed. Some women and men taught school classes in catacomb schools, risking imprisonment or deportation.
Now that I would define a strict limitation on free speech.
Care to point out which legal limitations you are referring to?
The problem with free speech in Italy is not caused by the law, but by the media monopoly that is in the hand of a single family, and by the organized crime. Journalists have to fear for their job - and sometimes for their physical integrity - when their work covers the "wrong" person. Dissenting voices from the population are gladly ignored by mainstream media (unless it fits their agenda), and when they cannot be ignored they are pictured as silly, selfish, violent, or anti-democratic.
Michele Santoro had to leave the (publicly funded) RAI because of his critical stance to Berlusconi's political role, and he has received death threats because of his reports. This is the real threat to free speech in Italy right now.
Sure, no problem. But how often a day would I have to bring him a cuppa and a donut? Also, I'd appreciate if he didn't leak on the carpet.
Apparently some serious photography was available as early as 1794. (source: Baltimore Afro-American - May 11, 1794)
On a related note, I was quite surprised to find out (via the same paper) that people liked to ride through the prairie on their 8-HP transaxle lawn tractor. A 36-inch mower, no less!
...allowed in the European Union?
If the European Union is afraid of compromising their image they should consider sending inspectors to oversee our next elections. Try to uncover how many votes are extorted or bought by organized crime who then send "their" politician to Rome.
This is obviously another censorship/media control ploy by Berlusconi, and I wouldn't be surprised if this was specifically designed to hurt Wikipedia.
This ploy was designed to silence the last few media that are not under SB's personal control, and those individuals and groups who still dare to report facts.
If you are not averse to tinkering with electronics and have a little spare time you could create a propeller clock. Or a slick 16-segment POV hard drive clock.
Otherwise just drill a few holes through the drives (possibly through the platters).
Of course you don't need your knees to steer a vehicle when you are busy with two mobile phones. Just look at this bus driver who is talking on one phone and configuring a second phone, all the while steering a bus (public transport) with his elbows.
Reminds me of a blog post by Sun's Jonathan I. Schwartz:
And further down:
I've been running my own mail server for a few domains since 1998. At that time I managed mail servers a living (working for a small local hosting provider), so running one more was no big deal. I do have a Gmail address and use it mainly on my Nexus S for syncing contacts and calendars. This just to say that I don't have a problem with Google.
I do prefer to manage my mails on my own, though, mainly for reasons of control. Privacy is only one aspect, since whenever you write a mail, your recipient could be hosting their domain on Google's servers anyway, so unless you loop up their MX records Google might end up with a copy of your message(s) anyway.
I don't know about your technical preparation, so please forgive me if I point out the obvious:
Get a domain with a reputable registrar, possibly not from your ISP. If you ever change ISP you want to be able to change your DNS information without having to wait for a transfer. I have found EasyDNS to be very reliable, and they offer backup MX services.
How important is your mail server to you and how reliable/fast is the link from your home to your ISP? Can you afford prolonged downtime when your neighbor accidentally cuts your lines with his backhoe? Is your up-link fast enough to handle large messages (think attachments) fast enough when you access your mail from away? Depending on the answers to these questions you might want to rent your own server (or a VPS) from a hosting provider. If cost is a concern try to find a few friends or family members who'd like to join you and split expenses.
No matter what MTA you use, make sure you're not an open relay, otherwise your server will end up as part of the spam-sending pool and you'll find yourself on a blacklist quite fast; getting off a blacklist can be hard, and sometimes impossible.
There'd be a lot more to say about technical details, but I'm afraid I've gotten too far off-topic already. :) Some of the above may sound a bit negative, but it wasn't meant to be discouraging.
What kind of silly question is this? Is "fast" progress more important than democracy? Or let me put this differently: if a nation wants to foster progress, why don't they simply forbid stupid sitcoms and TV shows and make sure a lot of science-related stuff is aired. Encourage young and old to explore technology, nature, literature, and much more. This would certainly help with progress. But is this what (the majority of) people would want?
Italians have voted in 1987 that they don't want nuclear power plants. During the past few years, the current administration has taken steps to reintroduce nuclear power, and to build new nuclear power plants. A large number of citizens did not want to go in this direction, and therefore the public vote was held. And apparently the majority of Italians do not want nuclear power plants on their territory. This is a decision that the government has to respect.
And if you are a bit familiar with how things work in Italy, you can easily see that the whole thing was going to be a giant black hole where an incredible lot of (public) money was about to be shoveled into, never to be officially seen again. Organized crime has made a business of "taking care" of highly toxic waste by simply dumping it left and right, be it a green pasture or into the sea just a few miles from the beach. Do I want to find radioactive waste around the coast of Italy, just because someone has decided this was the cheapest way to get rid of it? Do I really believe nuclear power is cheaper than other energy sources, if I take into account all the public money that goes into construction, maintenance and nuclear waste disposal, and the emergency cleaning-up that has to be done eventually?
I generally agree with you, but I think this part of TFA is interesting:
This is a bit more than public records about houses and phone numbers - I'd say it is closer to the "everyone knows everyone" situation, where the better part of a town would know what bar you could find John in after work.
I don't find the application creepy, after all it simply aggregates information that is available anyway. I believe that people should be more aware that when using certain services they are sharing a bit more than just their thoughts or pictures. This will be fine for many, but some might prefer to remain a bit less "locatable".
The Seismic Intruder Detection Device has a striking resemblance with some toys you can find at a sex shop, even under a similar name...
As a European, I learned about Glenn Beck from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. These videos were made when Beck had undergone "ass surgery".
He is not beloved by the police. Just have a look at the ANSA messages on the sap website (Sindacato Autonomo di Polizia, a union for the members of the Polizia di Stato). These are the official statements - it would be interesting to read the "off the record"-messages.
The current government has cut funds so that the police doesn't have enough money to fuel their cars. Stories about officers buying gas for the patrol cars with their own, personal money are no exaggeration. I know a couple of officers who have quit service because they say they can't do a proper job any longer, understaffed and without a budget to speak of.
Today's news let us know that police officers should not use their munitions anymore because the bullets might explode. The government has decided to buy munitions from another country in order to save some money. Unfortunately the gun powder used is too "active".
What Berlusconi definitely has (apart from owning most of the media) is a number of good lawyers and law experts that happen to also be members of the current government and as such keep creating new laws and bending existing laws so that he can avoid getting thrown into jail. Also, the whole judicial system has been deprived of funds. Processes take longer and longer, and Berlusconi can hope for prescription. Some laws have terrible consequences - like the depenalization of certain crimes that leads to the release of a lot of criminals, just to make sure the current Prime Minister can't be indicted.
The following sentence from TFA might be worth pointing out:
The decision [...] has serious implications for U.S. retailers that obtain their goods on the gray market.
As fas as I see you are still free to sell you watch if you please. What you can't do is to turn selling watches into a business while getting these goods from the gray market.
They can often be seen not only by those that are driving directly behind the one that hits the brakes, but also a couple cars further down the line, allowing the drivers to react timelier.
I think what catbutt meant is that Google blocks specific terms from autocomplete, not from the search results. In the end you still get all the information you were looking for; you just have to hit enter after writing the full search terms.
The other oddity is people use their phone as an alarmclock? A smartphone with a battery life measured in hours, probably dead by wakeup time?
I don't know about the iPhone, but I use my Nokia as an alarm clock. The phone doesn't need to be on for the alarm to go off. I can set the alarm and turn the phone off, and it will turn on an sound the alarm at the desired time.
The translation and your German are fine; this sentence allows a different interpretation, though: When I read the motto on his website, I thought it was in the spirit of: "Don't live trying to please others, live for (so that you're ok with) yourself."
Not trying to second-guess his intentions, I just thought I'd chime in with a different interpretation.
It's possible, although difficult, to find tomato paste in glass jars, but I haven't found a good alternative for canned tomatoes.
Here in Italy you can buy tomatoes in glass bottles or jars from a variety of brands and with differing consistency (from a very liquid sauce to little cubes), and usually they contain tomato only, no extra ingredients or flavoring. You can look for "salsa di pomodoro", "passata di pomodoro" or "pomodori pelati" on amazon.com to get an idea. Hopefully you can find some similar local products from your area until you get the chance to make your own.
We usually make our own once a year and keep them in jars, a year's supply for three families. A piece of goat cheese, some tomato from the jar and a bit of olive oil on top, what more could you want. :)