Certificate Authorities (CA) could help here: if a secured server was mandatory to get certificate renewal, things would be cleaned up.
Problem is: each CA has no interest into doing this extra work, and no central authority can force them to do so. Major browsers could push them, though, by telling users that some CA are more trustable than others.
It sounds like a cruel joke to be addicted the most ubiquitous carcinogen in the world
But UV exposure let the body produce vitamin D, which enables the immune system to fight cancer more efficiently, hence things are not that simple
In fact, avoiding UV probably means swapping skin cancers with other cancers. The nice point with skin cancers is that you have a chance to spot them early, so personally, I would choose UV exposure.
So they cannot have the last word, except that they have the last word?
There is no way the EU parliament can push an amendment if the EU council disagree. We even saw the commission removing amendments when moving a draft from EU parliament to EU council. The only real power of the EU parliament is to reject.
At least [EU] HAS a parliament, unlike the WTO, NATO
EU has a powerless parliament, who cannot propose a directive, who cannot have the last word against the EU council (except to reject a directive), and who does not decide the budget.
EU parliament is just here so that we can be told EU is democratic. The truth is that you can vote whatever you want at EU elections, you will not change anything to the hundred of economical policies that are carved in the treaties. All that stuff has just been removed from democratic decision.
In the long term it's probably much better for Europe if Europeans decide to go the route we Americans did, and create a truly Federal state with it's own Army.
But the EU has been an anti-democratic power for decades, and it seems magic thinking to believe it could evolve in the right direction now. Giving more power to it is an attack on democracy. Giving it an army seems just foolish.
This is the first step to get rid of the EU: reintroduce barriers within the common market.
Next, let's kill the Euro, and perhaps we will regain the ability to do in Europe interesting projects that are just impossible right now: if a project like Ariane would start today, the EU commission would kill it because of free market distortions
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I do not own a mobile phone. Today I understood I am going to become invisible to the government in the upcoming years.
How do they backup such insane amount of data?
Relying on NSA will not help as they do not provide an API for restoring data
I understand one have to abandon its MacBook to Microsoft to enjoy the deal, is that right?
What Microsoft will do with the MacBook? And the data it contains?
Certificate Authorities (CA) could help here: if a secured server was mandatory to get certificate renewal, things would be cleaned up.
Problem is: each CA has no interest into doing this extra work, and no central authority can force them to do so. Major browsers could push them, though, by telling users that some CA are more trustable than others.
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It sounds like a cruel joke to be addicted the most ubiquitous carcinogen in the world
But UV exposure let the body produce vitamin D, which enables the immune system to fight cancer more efficiently, hence things are not that simple
In fact, avoiding UV probably means swapping skin cancers with other cancers. The nice point with skin cancers is that you have a chance to spot them early, so personally, I would choose UV exposure.
We bothered about HIV for decades while we just had to run supercomputers to get rid of it. I wonder why nobody thought about it before.
In an upcoming news, America wakes up with an army of revolutionary marxist university professors.
Please mod parent up.. From TFA:
those who want to replace the U.S. government with new oversight structure, an idea that [ICANN CEO] vehemently opposes
Choice is good, but I am not sure whether mess is good too. How much time before the OpenSSL forks get incompatibles API?
the Supreme Court does not understand software, and says we won't see significant reform until they do.
In a healthy democracy, reform should come from the legislative branch.
Is the device still operational after all that time?
The general interest is that smart people work to help humanity and make no profit.
The smart people particular interest is to work to make profit.
In other words, Gates defended his personal interest and now defends the general interest by telling people to do what he says and not what he did.
So they cannot have the last word, except that they have the last word?
There is no way the EU parliament can push an amendment if the EU council disagree. We even saw the commission removing amendments when moving a draft from EU parliament to EU council. The only real power of the EU parliament is to reject.
IIRC, Ariane accounts for 50% of commercial payloads launches. It rarely fails, but the major drawback is that it is not designed to carry peoples.
I have trouble to believe Monstanto and others will be able to give up on GMO requirements in TAFTA. Greed leads them.
But time will tell.
At least [EU] HAS a parliament, unlike the WTO, NATO
EU has a powerless parliament, who cannot propose a directive, who cannot have the last word against the EU council (except to reject a directive), and who does not decide the budget.
EU parliament is just here so that we can be told EU is democratic. The truth is that you can vote whatever you want at EU elections, you will not change anything to the hundred of economical policies that are carved in the treaties. All that stuff has just been removed from democratic decision.
EU is the only way
Tell that to the many nations that are not part of EU.
With all the current knowledge we have about GMO foods, is there anything at all wrong with it?
The biggest problem IMO is that it lets megacorporations turn what people eat into their own intellectual property.
OTOH, the anti-GMO pressure is so strong on EU MP and MEP that if TAFTA favors GMO, it is likely to be voted down.
This is a subject of astonishment to me, but EU people are able to strongly reject GMO, while they fail to really oppose austerity policies.
The EU could currently not join itself. It fails the democratic requirements.
This deserves mod points!
In the long term it's probably much better for Europe if Europeans decide to go the route we Americans did, and create a truly Federal state with it's own Army.
But the EU has been an anti-democratic power for decades, and it seems magic thinking to believe it could evolve in the right direction now. Giving more power to it is an attack on democracy. Giving it an army seems just foolish.
GMO that are resistant to roundup can be treated with a lot of roundup, which ends up in your body. The GMO is safe, roundup is not.
This is the first step to get rid of the EU: reintroduce barriers within the common market.
Next, let's kill the Euro, and perhaps we will regain the ability to do in Europe interesting projects that are just impossible right now: if a project like Ariane would start today, the EU commission would kill it because of free market distortions
Is it a bad summary or a stupid idea?
As it is explained, it seems that system does not cover the case where someone gets the data and leaks it
It is refreshing to see they can chastise the leaders, and not just the scientist that was pushed into misconduct.