"It plays into the narrative that ISIS is trying to paint, namely that the west hates Muslims so lets go to war. Along with the west bombing them, starving them and screwing with their affairs, a ban just expands the hatred."
But isn't simply keeping them out a rational alternative to our military being involved in the region forever? And right now, apparently a highly popular alternative.
Sahara is Middle East in the sense that it consists of Muslim countries that we would rather not have anything to do with, for any reason, ever again. The whole point of solar power is that we capture the sunlight that falls on us, beholden to nothing and no one.
Because I do IT services in a place with a lot of retirees, all of the people I work with are ongoing computer users. But when I find someone who has to use the password reset link every time they log onto a site they don't go to every day, I count that as Stage 1. Stage 2 is when they are writing their passwords down (as I instruct them! Geezer IT rules are not the same as workplace rules.) but are no longer organized enough to associate the right password with the right site.
"A solution would be a separate Internet on which commercial enterprises of any kind are strictly prohibited. "
Such an "Internet" actually did exist. It was called ham radio, and although it was great at pushing the technology of the medium, there was endless wrangling over what constituted commercial use. Ordering a pizza, for example?
Commercial use has brought much more good to the Internet than bad, and as a previous poster pointed out the bad has happened when large companies gain monopoly powers. If there's one ISP in town and it prohibits servers, that favors big business over small right out of the gate.
"Apple Pay is just Apple's name for NFC. Look for the NFC Logo [google.com]"
Bing! You're the lone person in this thread who gets it right. But although new POS registers almost always have the NFC chip, very few merchants have taken the trouble to use the NFC logo. That's why you just have to try it and see if it works.
It uses exactly the same EMV protocol as the chip on my credit card. The only difference is that my credit card is a lot more portable than my phone and doesn't need a battery.
It uses the near-field chip in the register, not the EMV chip on your card. and because the merchant has no access to your credit card number, you can't be skimmed or scammed. The number the merchant gets is good for one use only.
Because the service uses the standard NFC chip that comes on all new point-of-sale terminals except for some big chains that turn it off by policy, very few merchants who have Apple Pay are aware that it exists, let alone that they support it.
Just bless the POS terminal with your iPhone. If it lights up with your favorite credit card displayed, you can use ApplePay. The checker will look at you as if you just magically cured her liver spots. And no, you can't use AP at places where you are physically separated from the register, such as at drive-through windows.
Yes, there's a "trouble barrier" in a process like torrenting that the ordinary person does not feel like taking the effort to cross. But as content limits get more and more outrageous (why can I stream one ABC show the day after it airs, have to wait a week for some other show and can't see Show Number Three at all if I miss it?) the more ordinary people will take the trouble to cross that barrier. By the time this effect shows up in the network's viewer metrics, it will be too late.
For the hippie mother market there are already food processors who label for No GMO. I'm sure they assume that anything not labeled this way was made using the dreaded process.
"Even if you think that GMO is the greatest thing since sliced bread, you pretty much have to accept the argument that most GMO is Monsanto-related, and that Monsanto is literally evil."
Then why do you people rip up fields of golden rice, a GMO that is open source and has nothing to do with Monsanto?"
"Gee, officer, I'm running this VPN for security. Where in your log does it show that I accessed this NBC broadcast streamed rerun by circumventing anything?"
There's nothing illegal about geoblockimg, but neither is ther anything illegal about our working around it. And if they try too hard at making geoblockimg stick, we will just torrent, and nobody gets paid.
That's why NASA will never build a nuclear rocket. But because of the high specific impulse nuclear will be the tech the successful Mars mission, be it private or foreign government, will use.
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Because it was a Google Maps error, not an Apple Maps error.
"It plays into the narrative that ISIS is trying to paint, namely that the west hates Muslims so lets go to war. Along with the west bombing them, starving them and screwing with their affairs, a ban just expands the hatred."
But isn't simply keeping them out a rational alternative to our military being involved in the region forever? And right now, apparently a highly popular alternative.
Sahara is Middle East in the sense that it consists of Muslim countries that we would rather not have anything to do with, for any reason, ever again. The whole point of solar power is that we capture the sunlight that falls on us, beholden to nothing and no one.
Wonder how much taxpayers money was wasted on this effort.
Surveillance seems to be the British equivalent of the DEA.
Because I do IT services in a place with a lot of retirees, all of the people I work with are ongoing computer users. But when I find someone who has to use the password reset link every time they log onto a site they don't go to every day, I count that as Stage 1. Stage 2 is when they are writing their passwords down (as I instruct them! Geezer IT rules are not the same as workplace rules.) but are no longer organized enough to associate the right password with the right site.
"You can see why for example Europe really wants to use the Sahara as a power plant."
So that once again, Europe will be critically dependent on the Middle East for its energy.
"A solution would be a separate Internet on which commercial enterprises of any kind are strictly prohibited. "
Such an "Internet" actually did exist. It was called ham radio, and although it was great at pushing the technology of the medium, there was endless wrangling over what constituted commercial use. Ordering a pizza, for example?
Commercial use has brought much more good to the Internet than bad, and as a previous poster pointed out the bad has happened when large companies gain monopoly powers. If there's one ISP in town and it prohibits servers, that favors big business over small right out of the gate.
" I now have emptiness and see nothing but bleakness for the future because we let technology enslave us."
We're being 'enslaved' by the legal system, not by the technology.
"More than 50 people die in accidents on European roads on average per day."
The difference is that highway accidents are not associated with a million rabid insurgents who admit upfront to wanting to kill Europeans.
"The next release of what? "
There was a new iOS point update just today. Wonder if that had anything to do with the FBI's assertion?
I prefer not having my every purchase tracked and data-mined.
Like I care whether the NSA is tracking my grocery store purchases.
If you want to confidentially buy your pit bull feed and chain-link pullers without being traced by The Man, just use cash.
"Apple Pay is just Apple's name for NFC. Look for the NFC Logo [google.com]"
Bing! You're the lone person in this thread who gets it right. But although new POS registers almost always have the NFC chip, very few merchants have taken the trouble to use the NFC logo. That's why you just have to try it and see if it works.
It uses exactly the same EMV protocol as the chip on my credit card. The only difference is that my credit card is a lot more portable than my phone and doesn't need a battery.
It uses the near-field chip in the register, not the EMV chip on your card. and because the merchant has no access to your credit card number, you can't be skimmed or scammed. The number the merchant gets is good for one use only.
Because the service uses the standard NFC chip that comes on all new point-of-sale terminals except for some big chains that turn it off by policy, very few merchants who have Apple Pay are aware that it exists, let alone that they support it.
Just bless the POS terminal with your iPhone. If it lights up with your favorite credit card displayed, you can use ApplePay. The checker will look at you as if you just magically cured her liver spots. And no, you can't use AP at places where you are physically separated from the register, such as at drive-through windows.
Yes, there's a "trouble barrier" in a process like torrenting that the ordinary person does not feel like taking the effort to cross. But as content limits get more and more outrageous (why can I stream one ABC show the day after it airs, have to wait a week for some other show and can't see Show Number Three at all if I miss it?) the more ordinary people will take the trouble to cross that barrier. By the time this effect shows up in the network's viewer metrics, it will be too late.
For the hippie mother market there are already food processors who label for No GMO. I'm sure they assume that anything not labeled this way was made using the dreaded process.
"Even if you think that GMO is the greatest thing since sliced bread, you pretty much have to accept the argument that most GMO is Monsanto-related, and that Monsanto is literally evil."
Then why do you people rip up fields of golden rice, a GMO that is open source and has nothing to do with Monsanto?"
Food labels today list ingredients. GMO is not an ingredient.
Yes, but I'm with parent. Any level of radioactivity, even one atom of bismuth, should be on the food label. It's the only honest way.
"This product genetically modified using Mendelian technology"
Evidently you never heard of the DMCA?
"Gee, officer, I'm running this VPN for security. Where in your log does it show that I accessed this NBC broadcast streamed rerun by circumventing anything?"
'How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics'
"Why does my geographical location determine whether or not I'm allowed to access the content I paid for"
And what happens when I'm away from home and need to stream content I legally subscribe to because it will 'expire' by the time I'm back home?
There's nothing illegal about geoblockimg, but neither is ther anything illegal about our working around it. And if they try too hard at making geoblockimg stick, we will just torrent, and nobody gets paid.
That's why NASA will never build a nuclear rocket. But because of the high specific impulse nuclear will be the tech the successful Mars mission, be it private or foreign government, will use.