On the ad front, people said the same thing about android. I haven't ever obtrusive ads. Same thing with gmail and search, they are there, but entirely to the side.
Frankly this sort of advertising is far less intrusive then most offline advertising. Consider the omni-present ads on busses and taxis and billboards, the flood of intrusive ads on TV and radio. I would far prefer to substitute those for google's approach: show me something I might actually want in a very unobtrusive fashion.
On the privacy front, your argument is straw-man. Privacy is already destroyed, constant surveillance is the norm now that literally everyone is carrying at least one camera. Glass may well improve the situation by reminding people of that.
"Spies and terrorists may be subject to civilian law or military tribunal for their acts and in practice have been subjected to torture and/or execution. The laws of war neither approve nor condemn such acts, which fall outside their scope."
According to the article you cite: They need a fair and regular trial. They can be held. They can be tortured. They can be executed. They just need a fair and regular trial. What that means is never defined.
Face it, there are no established laws or norms for these situations.
Geneva conventions covers flagged soldiers and non-combatants. These guys were neither. The constitution covers U.S. territory, Guantanamo is in Cuba. Furthermore even within the U.S. armed combatants don't get habeas corpus or any other constitutional protections. Lincoln arrested and imprisoned thousands.
They are in a legal no mans land, uncovered by treaty or U.S. law.
Guantanamo is not part of the US. The people on trial were not picked up in the US.
There is no requirement for fair trials for those captured in a war. There is no country willing to take the released prisoners. Frankly most countries would not have taken them prisoner in this first place, they would have just been killed.
We have mistakenly tried to apply U.S. Civil Justice to war trials. It was noble, but very stupid, however the failure to do so is not itself an indictment on Justice in America.
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I doubt they would pay to have a post go live at midnight.
Government guaranteed loans are responsible for the increased cost of education. The best thing for students would be to eliminate the cheap loans. Way too many of the degrees given out are completely useless. Why would you borrow 100k to get a degree that will barely assist you in getting a 40k a year job? You will never pay it back. The notion that this encourages upward mobility is a complete myth. It myers people in debt.
We need to take the money out of higher education. At least for liberal arts majors. Eliminate the incentive for schools to spend wildly on gyms and sports and campuses, force them to focus on competing to deliver quality instruction in useful skills. This means turning the tap of unlimited student loan money off. No government guarantees, treat it like normal debt and leave it to the private sector to price debt based on actual risk.
"In Europe (at least in Belgium and the Netherlands and probably in other countries as well) VISA, MasterCard nor any other credit card company will know what you used your card for."
This is true for the most part in the U.S. too. With the exception of stuff like hotels & airlines where the CC company has a deal in place*, credit cards do not get line item details for the vast majority of transactions. There are tons of companies starting up right now to try and figure this out, however there are real technical challenges plus retails have no desire to give the info up.
No one is forced to use anything. People voluntarily make requests to and pass information to web servers. The very act of doing so should considered consent unless there is an explicit agreement stipulating use.
The French government would love this. I'm sure that at it's root their objection to Google is that its not French. Remember that god awful Parisian municipal network that was pushed by government but no one used?
Yes, of course it is possible. Here is why it is not likely and a poor argument against missile defense.
(1) Witness Iron Dome in Israel. Combining human intervention with advanced software, Iron Dome does not attempt to take every missile. Instead the system is designed to identify and destroy only those that are a threat to people. It was very effective. Older inaccurate missiles that are not on target will be ignored. (2) Old missiles fielded by poor countries (see NK) are poorly maintained and are more likely then not to simply not fire. (3) Poor countries with large number of missiles are going to have awful command and control. They aren't going to be able to launch a coordinated attack. (4) Older missiles have bad range. Who cares if NK fires a bunch of scuds, what will they hit? They can barely build a handful of long ranged stuff, and that doesn't appear to be changing. (5) Richer countries like China aren't looking for a strategy that wipes the enemy out via surprise. They want a credible deterrent, which is best achieved by a limited number of advanced, hidden, city busters.
I missed something. What big horrible crimes did Manning's leaks reveal? The only thing close was a video of an airstrike in Baghdad, which he found in a Judge advocates file because it was being investigated by the military already.
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"What guarantee is there that Microsoft won't later re-enable the phone-home drm feature?"
The only guarantee is that customers demonstrated they won't buy it. As long as thats the case, then they won't add it in.
Really, its the worst of all worlds.
So who cares?
Often dealing with is knowing when to discard.
On the ad front, people said the same thing about android. I haven't ever obtrusive ads. Same thing with gmail and search, they are there, but entirely to the side.
Frankly this sort of advertising is far less intrusive then most offline advertising. Consider the omni-present ads on busses and taxis and billboards, the flood of intrusive ads on TV and radio. I would far prefer to substitute those for google's approach: show me something I might actually want in a very unobtrusive fashion.
On the privacy front, your argument is straw-man. Privacy is already destroyed, constant surveillance is the norm now that literally everyone is carrying at least one camera. Glass may well improve the situation by reminding people of that.
Also its very likely that their last two "nuclear" tests were fakes as well using large amounts of conventional explosions.
Please. From the article you cite:
"Spies and terrorists may be subject to civilian law or military tribunal for their acts and in practice have been subjected to torture and/or execution. The laws of war neither approve nor condemn such acts, which fall outside their scope."
According to the article you cite: They need a fair and regular trial. They can be held. They can be tortured. They can be executed. They just need a fair and regular trial. What that means is never defined.
Face it, there are no established laws or norms for these situations.
"Most of them did nothing wrong" citation pls?
Also at least 18 prisoners that were released from Guantanamo participated in attacks after release.
Geneva conventions covers flagged soldiers and non-combatants. These guys were neither.
The constitution covers U.S. territory, Guantanamo is in Cuba. Furthermore even within the U.S. armed combatants don't get habeas corpus or any other constitutional protections. Lincoln arrested and imprisoned thousands.
They are in a legal no mans land, uncovered by treaty or U.S. law.
If another country had been willing to claim these guys and take responsibility for the future actions, they would have been released years ago.
Nobody wants these dudes.
Guantanamo is not part of the US.
The people on trial were not picked up in the US.
There is no requirement for fair trials for those captured in a war. There is no country willing to take the released prisoners. Frankly most countries would not have taken them prisoner in this first place, they would have just been killed.
We have mistakenly tried to apply U.S. Civil Justice to war trials. It was noble, but very stupid, however the failure to do so is not itself an indictment on Justice in America.
I doubt they would pay to have a post go live at midnight.
Government guaranteed loans are responsible for the increased cost of education. The best thing for students would be to eliminate the cheap loans. Way too many of the degrees given out are completely useless. Why would you borrow 100k to get a degree that will barely assist you in getting a 40k a year job? You will never pay it back. The notion that this encourages upward mobility is a complete myth. It myers people in debt.
We need to take the money out of higher education. At least for liberal arts majors. Eliminate the incentive for schools to spend wildly on gyms and sports and campuses, force them to focus on competing to deliver quality instruction in useful skills. This means turning the tap of unlimited student loan money off. No government guarantees, treat it like normal debt and leave it to the private sector to price debt based on actual risk.
"In Europe (at least in Belgium and the Netherlands and probably in other countries as well) VISA, MasterCard nor any other credit card company will know what you used your card for."
This is true for the most part in the U.S. too. With the exception of stuff like hotels & airlines where the CC company has a deal in place*, credit cards do not get line item details for the vast majority of transactions. There are tons of companies starting up right now to try and figure this out, however there are real technical challenges plus retails have no desire to give the info up.
The article summary is misleading.
No one is forced to use anything. People voluntarily make requests to and pass information to web servers. The very act of doing so should considered consent unless there is an explicit agreement stipulating use.
The French government would love this. I'm sure that at it's root their objection to Google is that its not French. Remember that god awful Parisian municipal network that was pushed by government but no one used?
No one is forced to use Google. If you don't want them to do things with your data, don't give it to them.
I will boycot Google if they go ahead with this.
Anyone with half a brain will refuse to buy Sony again.
They have made a relentless effort to be anti-consumer. Fuck them.
Why can't we have a nice discussion about this great premium content?
Saying something and doing something are not the same thing. If the government is doing something, talking about it would quite likely be very dumb.
Vampire U on Wii U was pretty amazing. Definitely innovative.
There are lots of good new titles I think. Its just that they don't have the marketing $, so you haven't seen most of them.
Yes, of course it is possible. Here is why it is not likely and a poor argument against missile defense.
(1) Witness Iron Dome in Israel. Combining human intervention with advanced software, Iron Dome does not attempt to take every missile. Instead the system is designed to identify and destroy only those that are a threat to people. It was very effective. Older inaccurate missiles that are not on target will be ignored.
(2) Old missiles fielded by poor countries (see NK) are poorly maintained and are more likely then not to simply not fire.
(3) Poor countries with large number of missiles are going to have awful command and control. They aren't going to be able to launch a coordinated attack.
(4) Older missiles have bad range. Who cares if NK fires a bunch of scuds, what will they hit? They can barely build a handful of long ranged stuff, and that doesn't appear to be changing.
(5) Richer countries like China aren't looking for a strategy that wipes the enemy out via surprise. They want a credible deterrent, which is best achieved by a limited number of advanced, hidden, city busters.
Oh you mean form Reagan adviser Paul Krugman?
I missed something. What big horrible crimes did Manning's leaks reveal? The only thing close was a video of an airstrike in Baghdad, which he found in a Judge advocates file because it was being investigated by the military already.