I use several at work every day. Sometimes, when I've weekend work (rare enough, thankfully), I use them from home. VPNs are too useful to too many businesses to be disallowed. It's not like it's merely the public who find them useful! These are the clients ISPs actually care for.
This happened to me in 2005, my luggage was waiting for me at home after I missed a connecting flight. I'm sure since then, baggage handlers are only more assiduous.
I'm not so thrilled about being judged on the company I keep afk either. But the internet is our brave new world, and we would not want to spoil it with the sort of crap we have to put up with in real life.
If freedom of speech is not respected for fascists, then it may not be respected for anyone. Hate speech is always ambiguously defined, and where the line is today, it may not be tomorrow. I'd have thought that with your sig you'd be more inclined to shame and pity racism than to ban it. Finally, if nazi marches were outlawed, no one would have proved their worth in Cable Street.
The French newspapers know what they're doing. They don't want to be unlisted from Google, that would be a terrible idea. If you're not listed in the largest search engine, no one can find you and you're in trouble. But if they all threaten to unlist together, then it's Google who is in trouble in France. Google is in the business of linking people to content, and it can't do that without any content, so the newspapers (as long as they act together, and especially if the government backs them) have a foothold to bargain with Google. If Google wants to keep its share of the French market, it can't afford to lose the news agencies - little as it may care about losing just one.
That said though, I don't think Google will have to pay. Sense will prevail in the end.
Garbage collection in Naples is handled by the municipality afak. Remember that trash issue a few years ago? If the mafia had been in charge of trash, all the trash would have disappeared. No one makes things disappear like the mafia.
I remember reading somewhere (Niall Ferguson's Empire, I think) that the very poor in Northern England or Scotland would commit petty crimes and ask for to be sent to Botany Bay (a greater punishment). Australia being so large, it was quite common to get free land after having served your sentence, and the colonies' administrators would help out with capital, themselves having an incentive to develop beyond a penal colony. And that's how they got Sidney.
The tea party wants more federalism and less centralised bureaucracy. In Europe, the problem is the opposite, states remain sovreign and citizens have very little say ove what goes on at the European level. The EU is an agreement amongst states, not a democratic institution, and it would take a major restructuring of the political landscape of its 27 members to make it into one. The EU has its origins in a four country agreement for the free trade of steel and coal, through the EEC into what it is today. It is remarkable that so much has been agreed on, but perhaps they were too quick to try to absorb so much of the economic autonomy of its members into a single supranational institution.
I don't think they want to force anyone to stop watching pornography on the internet. It says above that the protesters are linked to a group that plans to sell internet filtering software. If you read the article, they were even handed fliers that advertised apps such as "kosher GPS". Such companies would undoubtedly be opposed to a public filter of the internet, as they would then be out of a product to sell.
Instead, it seems that the rally tried to raise awareness of harmful material on the internet and the moral imperative to avoid it. To me, a moral argument against online vices that does not promote forcible intervention is not only unobjectionable but even laudable; they're not trying to force their beliefs onto you, they're trying to persuade you of their virtue. Let them march, it will even help the cause of an open internet if the censors can see that there is another way.
Maybe. The way I read it is this: I used to buy €1.10 with £1 one year ago; today, I buy €1.22 with the same £1. The euro has cheapened and the pound is stronger. Notice that the title of the graph is GBP/EUR, if the value of this ratio increases, then either the pound is up or the euro is down when compared to some other numeraire.
On the other hand, as aliquis points out, the value of the pound has fallen since 2007-8,
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I use several at work every day. Sometimes, when I've weekend work (rare enough, thankfully), I use them from home. VPNs are too useful to too many businesses to be disallowed. It's not like it's merely the public who find them useful! These are the clients ISPs actually care for.
This happened to me in 2005, my luggage was waiting for me at home after I missed a connecting flight. I'm sure since then, baggage handlers are only more assiduous.
I'm not so thrilled about being judged on the company I keep afk either. But the internet is our brave new world, and we would not want to spoil it with the sort of crap we have to put up with in real life.
If freedom of speech is not respected for fascists, then it may not be respected for anyone. Hate speech is always ambiguously defined, and where the line is today, it may not be tomorrow. I'd have thought that with your sig you'd be more inclined to shame and pity racism than to ban it. Finally, if nazi marches were outlawed, no one would have proved their worth in Cable Street.
The French newspapers know what they're doing. They don't want to be unlisted from Google, that would be a terrible idea. If you're not listed in the largest search engine, no one can find you and you're in trouble. But if they all threaten to unlist together, then it's Google who is in trouble in France. Google is in the business of linking people to content, and it can't do that without any content, so the newspapers (as long as they act together, and especially if the government backs them) have a foothold to bargain with Google. If Google wants to keep its share of the French market, it can't afford to lose the news agencies - little as it may care about losing just one.
That said though, I don't think Google will have to pay. Sense will prevail in the end.
Garbage collection in Naples is handled by the municipality afak. Remember that trash issue a few years ago? If the mafia had been in charge of trash, all the trash would have disappeared. No one makes things disappear like the mafia.
What's wrong with opinion pieces? The whole point of slashdot is that we all give our comments. You're just upset because this one is longer.
I remember reading somewhere (Niall Ferguson's Empire, I think) that the very poor in Northern England or Scotland would commit petty crimes and ask for to be sent to Botany Bay (a greater punishment). Australia being so large, it was quite common to get free land after having served your sentence, and the colonies' administrators would help out with capital, themselves having an incentive to develop beyond a penal colony. And that's how they got Sidney.
The tea party wants more federalism and less centralised bureaucracy. In Europe, the problem is the opposite, states remain sovreign and citizens have very little say ove what goes on at the European level. The EU is an agreement amongst states, not a democratic institution, and it would take a major restructuring of the political landscape of its 27 members to make it into one. The EU has its origins in a four country agreement for the free trade of steel and coal, through the EEC into what it is today. It is remarkable that so much has been agreed on, but perhaps they were too quick to try to absorb so much of the economic autonomy of its members into a single supranational institution.
I don't think they want to force anyone to stop watching pornography on the internet. It says above that the protesters are linked to a group that plans to sell internet filtering software. If you read the article, they were even handed fliers that advertised apps such as "kosher GPS". Such companies would undoubtedly be opposed to a public filter of the internet, as they would then be out of a product to sell.
Instead, it seems that the rally tried to raise awareness of harmful material on the internet and the moral imperative to avoid it. To me, a moral argument against online vices that does not promote forcible intervention is not only unobjectionable but even laudable; they're not trying to force their beliefs onto you, they're trying to persuade you of their virtue. Let them march, it will even help the cause of an open internet if the censors can see that there is another way.
Maybe. The way I read it is this: I used to buy €1.10 with £1 one year ago; today, I buy €1.22 with the same £1. The euro has cheapened and the pound is stronger. Notice that the title of the graph is GBP/EUR, if the value of this ratio increases, then either the pound is up or the euro is down when compared to some other numeraire. On the other hand, as aliquis points out, the value of the pound has fallen since 2007-8,
The pound sterling may be doing worse than it ever has, but it's certainly faring better than the euro. View the last year's trend from yahoo!