No, he's right, because he's talking about companies. Companies (corporations and related entities like LLCs) are the creation of government, and therefore their rights, and limitations, are defined 100% by the government.
You'd have been right if you were talking about people, but you're not.
Glenn Greenwald has been one of the most ardent Assange supporters from the get-go. I wonder what he is going to have to say about this.
I'm guessing something about Clinton, Cheney, 9/11, Clinton again, Morgan Stanley, the Democrats, neo-conservatism, Clinton again, the CIA, 9/11, Clinton again, some spurious accusation of hypocrisy against the ACLU, Clinton again, CIA, banksters, Clinton.
Yeah, that was done by Saudi Arabia, not Sweden. Easy to confuse them, I know, one's a liberal democracy with no substantial record of abusing human rights, the other a theocratic dictatorship that chops the hands off people for stealing apples. I mean, they're almost the same when you put it like that, but no, they're not actually the same.
No he wouldn't. It's far easier to extradite someone to the US from the UK than from Sweden, and nobody was even trying the former.
Plus, you know, the US would benefit far more having a critic imprisoned for rape with a neutral country taking "credit" for that, than have a peaceful critic imprisoned without trial in the US for a crime that doesn't apply to any jurisdiction he might have committed it in.
Cinnamon is in the Ubuntu repos these days, and Mint has made some... interesting technical decisions that makes me not trust their devs, so I'd recommend the Ubuntu version. There's very little difference between the two anyway. Mint is built on Ubuntu.
(In case you're curious, the login system was at one point, don't know if it still is, built upon Webkit, with plugins enabled. I learned this when trying to log in only to have the screen blocked by Adobe Acrobat, which has a plugin Webkit was loading as root, putting up an EULA acceptance screen. Yeah, really. Again, remember, the login screen is run as root. And it's built on a generic web browser. Because... I don't know why. Wouldn't you want the login screen to be clear, simple, and secure? I know I would.)
iTunes is big, but I've never felt like I had to use it. More importantly, it doesn't even work with 90% of the world's smartphones - I'm not even sure I believe the stat you mentioned because of that, either Android users rarely buy music or Doubletwist should be a hell of a lot less obscure.
I can believe they're the single biggest music store, but I doubt it's more than a plurality.
Facebook doesn't have a monopoly on search. Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on social networking. Google doesn't have a monopoly on operating systems. All three however do have monopolies.
I'm actually not sure why the GP mentioned Apple, they don't appear to me to have a monopoly in anything major, maybe control over applications for their own devices? Even that's suspect.
Sounds to me like Google really didn't like the EU hampering their vertical integration plans and are retaliating by raising the costs of smartphones to people living in the EU area. Then again if you are a company with a motto as benign as "Don't be evil" only to get rid of it then retaliation is probably going to be your standard response to consumer protection laws being enforced.
Not sure it's evil to do what you've been told to do. $40 is almost certainly fair market value for the Google suite, maybe even less than FMV.
The problem here is the EU hasn't been able to see the wood for the trees. It assumes the problem is the bundling of search and has gone overboard trying to prevent that, when in fact that's not what most people are concerned about. So a stupid decision has been made, Google has protested, they've been overruled, now they're doing what they've been ordered to do, and you're blaming them for it.
What's wrong with posting from a Russian IP during Russian working hours? Aren't Russians allowed to use twitter to procrastinate from their work?:)
Sure they can. And if they're posting "Hillary Clinton sucks" with a profile that says "Accountant at St Petersburg Insurance, retweets not endorsements" written in Russian, then that's fine.
But if they're pretending to be a housewife from Minnesota then it's a bit of a dead giveaway that they post from Russian IP addresses during Russian working hours.
The concerns Twitter are addressing relate to professional troll farms, not ideological extremists. ISIS tweets would add absolutely nothing of value to the survey, and it's extremely hard for me to comprehend the logic that says "Oh, so Twitter is publishing information making it easier to do research on bad faith tweets from fake accounts built by governmental organizations trying to interfere with an election, WHAT ABOUT ISIS?
What the fuck does ISIS have to do with the price of tea in China?
Depends on how probable they thought that particular hypothesis was. They could have felt it was 10%, with the other 90% being more difficult to test, unknown, or unavoidable.
Kinda like when you're trying to get a car to start, and, exasperated and out of ideas, you try something ridiculous, and it starts up right away.
Make it a few mm thicker and add a battery that lasts 3-4 days. Ensure it has a headphone jack. Don't add a notch, and do add dedicated buttons (which can be touch, that's fine) on the bottom (and minimize other annoyances.) Make it dockable, maybe running ChromeOS in its docked state. And give it a decent screen and cameras.
There. A phone that everyone will want that nobody sells right now that you can probably sell for $200 or less given what other manufacturers are doing - and make money from assorted "docks".
The market is crowded, but crowded with me-too phones that suck. It really isn't hard to make a phone that doesn't suck, it's just nobody wants to do it.
Wouldn't Elon Musk be better as a Bond Villain? Billionaire, running numerous secret projects, capable of launching stuff into space, carefully built populist public image... could easily be Max Zorin, Elliot Carver, or Gustav Graves.
Because the Android phone maker now has to pay Google for the Play Store, and you're not going to buy a phone without the Play Store.
As the GP says, the cost of the Play Store might be partially or totally reduced via a subsidy from Bing, but how is being forced to use Bing just in order to pay the same price for a phone that you would have had to pay without the EU's BS an improvement?
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It can legitimately take minutes for an email to be sent, but let's face it: we're not using UUCP any more, if it takes days for an email to arrive (hell, if it takes hours) then something is broken.
The world changes and technologies change, and expectations along with them. It used to take five to ten minutes to load a game from tape on a Commodore 64, does that mean you shouldn't think something's wrong if Firefox isn't showing a window within a minute of starting it?
"Verizon Exclusive". It amazes me there are still idiots out there that think that sticking "Exclusive" on their products will be considered a feature, not a bug, by customers. Also congrats Palm, no matter how much effort you've spent making the phone's audio quality great, it's going to sound like you're speaking through a garden hose thanks to Verizon's shitty voice network.
When you come to your senses, make sure it has a headphone jack and a decent battery life (shouldn't be hard if there's no giant screen to maintain and you're not going for credit card widths), and I'm sure it'll sell like hot cakes.
Meh, on the plus side the press gangs can finally stop getting young people drunk in bars, dropping a shilling in the glass, and then forcing them while still drunk to join the crew.
Well, that's the rub isn't it, because "pure Android" can mean "Exactly what Google would give you" (more probably) or "AOSP" (fairly unlikely.) The Mail app is part of AOSP. Google's "Android" however isn't pure AOSP, or even pure AOSP + the Google suite, it's often confused with the latter, but it's been drifting away from AOSP for many years now.
Here's email, as you can see it's in there right up to AOSP 9.1 as of the current state of the universe.
I believe most phone makers include it. Sounds like Nokia doesn't, possibly because it's advertising the "Pure Android" horseshit.
My barebones Alcatel comes with the Android Mail application (as well as GMail et al) installed. I don't think I've had an Android phone since my first that didn't come with it - sounds like a "Nokia" problem, not an Android problem.
You meant the early 2000s, not late 2000s right? I moved to the US in 1998, and got a half decent Sprint plan in 1999, something like 500 minutes for $50/mo. That sounds limited compared to what you get today, but 500 minutes was plenty (and there were cheaper options.)
By 2001, most carriers were offering free nights and weekends with a bundle of anytime minutes for about that price. As most of us don't use the phone that much during the day because, you know, we work, 500+N+W was actually effectively unlimited.
Today $70 buys you an unlimited plan plus data, which is certainly better value than 2001, but not radically so considering they know few people will use hundreds of minutes in a month.
Personal experience: in 1998 most Americans I knew didn't have cellphones (most Brits did, oddly enough); by 2002-2003 they were pretty much ubiquitous, that was when the first stories about how payphones were obsolete and nobody could afford to operate them started running.
Not the GP, but: I'm guessing you stopped at the sentence that said "the people who worked there were expected to keep quiet and carry on making plutonium for the bomb", and noticed a lot of other military references in the article, which is understandable, but...
Windscale is/was a "civilian" Nuclear reactor. An early justification for the British nuclear power programme was to create Plutonium (as a by-product) for the UK nuclear weapons programme. Hence the sentence in the article, which pointed out that people were scared to speak out and had to continue working in post-accident terrible conditions for military reasons.
So while there were military aspects that made the situation worse, that was a Nuclear Power related accident, not a Nuclear Weapons thing.
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No, he's right, because he's talking about companies. Companies (corporations and related entities like LLCs) are the creation of government, and therefore their rights, and limitations, are defined 100% by the government.
You'd have been right if you were talking about people, but you're not.
I'm guessing something about Clinton, Cheney, 9/11, Clinton again, Morgan Stanley, the Democrats, neo-conservatism, Clinton again, the CIA, 9/11, Clinton again, some spurious accusation of hypocrisy against the ACLU, Clinton again, CIA, banksters, Clinton.
Yeah, that was done by Saudi Arabia, not Sweden. Easy to confuse them, I know, one's a liberal democracy with no substantial record of abusing human rights, the other a theocratic dictatorship that chops the hands off people for stealing apples. I mean, they're almost the same when you put it like that, but no, they're not actually the same.
No he wouldn't. It's far easier to extradite someone to the US from the UK than from Sweden, and nobody was even trying the former.
Plus, you know, the US would benefit far more having a critic imprisoned for rape with a neutral country taking "credit" for that, than have a peaceful critic imprisoned without trial in the US for a crime that doesn't apply to any jurisdiction he might have committed it in.
Cinnamon is in the Ubuntu repos these days, and Mint has made some... interesting technical decisions that makes me not trust their devs, so I'd recommend the Ubuntu version. There's very little difference between the two anyway. Mint is built on Ubuntu.
(In case you're curious, the login system was at one point, don't know if it still is, built upon Webkit, with plugins enabled. I learned this when trying to log in only to have the screen blocked by Adobe Acrobat, which has a plugin Webkit was loading as root, putting up an EULA acceptance screen. Yeah, really. Again, remember, the login screen is run as root. And it's built on a generic web browser. Because... I don't know why. Wouldn't you want the login screen to be clear, simple, and secure? I know I would.)
iTunes is big, but I've never felt like I had to use it. More importantly, it doesn't even work with 90% of the world's smartphones - I'm not even sure I believe the stat you mentioned because of that, either Android users rarely buy music or Doubletwist should be a hell of a lot less obscure.
I can believe they're the single biggest music store, but I doubt it's more than a plurality.
Facebook doesn't have a monopoly on search. Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on social networking. Google doesn't have a monopoly on operating systems. All three however do have monopolies.
I'm actually not sure why the GP mentioned Apple, they don't appear to me to have a monopoly in anything major, maybe control over applications for their own devices? Even that's suspect.
Not sure it's evil to do what you've been told to do. $40 is almost certainly fair market value for the Google suite, maybe even less than FMV.
The problem here is the EU hasn't been able to see the wood for the trees. It assumes the problem is the bundling of search and has gone overboard trying to prevent that, when in fact that's not what most people are concerned about. So a stupid decision has been made, Google has protested, they've been overruled, now they're doing what they've been ordered to do, and you're blaming them for it.
Sure they can. And if they're posting "Hillary Clinton sucks" with a profile that says "Accountant at St Petersburg Insurance, retweets not endorsements" written in Russian, then that's fine.
But if they're pretending to be a housewife from Minnesota then it's a bit of a dead giveaway that they post from Russian IP addresses during Russian working hours.
What valid point is it making?
The concerns Twitter are addressing relate to professional troll farms, not ideological extremists. ISIS tweets would add absolutely nothing of value to the survey, and it's extremely hard for me to comprehend the logic that says "Oh, so Twitter is publishing information making it easier to do research on bad faith tweets from fake accounts built by governmental organizations trying to interfere with an election, WHAT ABOUT ISIS?
What the fuck does ISIS have to do with the price of tea in China?
Depends on how probable they thought that particular hypothesis was. They could have felt it was 10%, with the other 90% being more difficult to test, unknown, or unavoidable.
Kinda like when you're trying to get a car to start, and, exasperated and out of ideas, you try something ridiculous, and it starts up right away.
One of the things about his death is it looks like Bateman's totally in the clear, nobody will ever suspect him now.
Make it a few mm thicker and add a battery that lasts 3-4 days. Ensure it has a headphone jack. Don't add a notch, and do add dedicated buttons (which can be touch, that's fine) on the bottom (and minimize other annoyances.) Make it dockable, maybe running ChromeOS in its docked state. And give it a decent screen and cameras.
There. A phone that everyone will want that nobody sells right now that you can probably sell for $200 or less given what other manufacturers are doing - and make money from assorted "docks".
The market is crowded, but crowded with me-too phones that suck. It really isn't hard to make a phone that doesn't suck, it's just nobody wants to do it.
Hillary Clinton.
Wouldn't Elon Musk be better as a Bond Villain? Billionaire, running numerous secret projects, capable of launching stuff into space, carefully built populist public image... could easily be Max Zorin, Elliot Carver, or Gustav Graves.
Because the Android phone maker now has to pay Google for the Play Store, and you're not going to buy a phone without the Play Store.
As the GP says, the cost of the Play Store might be partially or totally reduced via a subsidy from Bing, but how is being forced to use Bing just in order to pay the same price for a phone that you would have had to pay without the EU's BS an improvement?
It can legitimately take minutes for an email to be sent, but let's face it: we're not using UUCP any more, if it takes days for an email to arrive (hell, if it takes hours) then something is broken.
The world changes and technologies change, and expectations along with them. It used to take five to ten minutes to load a game from tape on a Commodore 64, does that mean you shouldn't think something's wrong if Firefox isn't showing a window within a minute of starting it?
"Verizon Exclusive". It amazes me there are still idiots out there that think that sticking "Exclusive" on their products will be considered a feature, not a bug, by customers. Also congrats Palm, no matter how much effort you've spent making the phone's audio quality great, it's going to sound like you're speaking through a garden hose thanks to Verizon's shitty voice network.
When you come to your senses, make sure it has a headphone jack and a decent battery life (shouldn't be hard if there's no giant screen to maintain and you're not going for credit card widths), and I'm sure it'll sell like hot cakes.
Meh, on the plus side the press gangs can finally stop getting young people drunk in bars, dropping a shilling in the glass, and then forcing them while still drunk to join the crew.
That, uh, still happens right?
Well, that's the rub isn't it, because "pure Android" can mean "Exactly what Google would give you" (more probably) or "AOSP" (fairly unlikely.) The Mail app is part of AOSP. Google's "Android" however isn't pure AOSP, or even pure AOSP + the Google suite, it's often confused with the latter, but it's been drifting away from AOSP for many years now.
Here's email, as you can see it's in there right up to AOSP 9.1 as of the current state of the universe.
I believe most phone makers include it. Sounds like Nokia doesn't, possibly because it's advertising the "Pure Android" horseshit.
My barebones Alcatel comes with the Android Mail application (as well as GMail et al) installed. I don't think I've had an Android phone since my first that didn't come with it - sounds like a "Nokia" problem, not an Android problem.
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People pay for convenience.
You meant the early 2000s, not late 2000s right? I moved to the US in 1998, and got a half decent Sprint plan in 1999, something like 500 minutes for $50/mo. That sounds limited compared to what you get today, but 500 minutes was plenty (and there were cheaper options.)
By 2001, most carriers were offering free nights and weekends with a bundle of anytime minutes for about that price. As most of us don't use the phone that much during the day because, you know, we work, 500+N+W was actually effectively unlimited.
Today $70 buys you an unlimited plan plus data, which is certainly better value than 2001, but not radically so considering they know few people will use hundreds of minutes in a month.
Personal experience: in 1998 most Americans I knew didn't have cellphones (most Brits did, oddly enough); by 2002-2003 they were pretty much ubiquitous, that was when the first stories about how payphones were obsolete and nobody could afford to operate them started running.
Not the GP, but: I'm guessing you stopped at the sentence that said "the people who worked there were expected to keep quiet and carry on making plutonium for the bomb", and noticed a lot of other military references in the article, which is understandable, but...
Windscale is/was a "civilian" Nuclear reactor. An early justification for the British nuclear power programme was to create Plutonium (as a by-product) for the UK nuclear weapons programme. Hence the sentence in the article, which pointed out that people were scared to speak out and had to continue working in post-accident terrible conditions for military reasons.
So while there were military aspects that made the situation worse, that was a Nuclear Power related accident, not a Nuclear Weapons thing.