Developers of applications that store or transmit data of this kind need to be held accountable for their practices, need to use strong encryption and should generally be treated like producers of medical devices that store sensitive information.
I'd feel sorry for anyone to whom this is not obvious.
I'd go farther and claim that it's essentially impossible to find good apps by shifting through the standard app stores. You need to look up reviews and hopefully unbiased "best of" lists on the net in order to find anything remotely usable that isn't spyware.
No, his defense is essentially that the US prison system is so inhumane that nobody should be extradited to it. Which is unfortunately a very reasonable defense based on facts. He wants to stand trial in the UK, where he has committed his crimes.
Generally, if you don't link to companies you should be fine.
But there should be two WWWs. One for commercial use (let's call it "the shitweb") and one on which companies or any other commercial use is strictly prohibited (let's call it "the wonderweb"). Then you can buy your stuff on the Shitweb and do everything else on the Wonderweb.
Two notes:
#1 - Plenty of Arabs live in Israel.
#2 - I wouldn't refer to certain US citizens as "the Puritan Christians" either, because even when it's not entirely wrong, it may be kind of misleading.
Yes, it was ensured, though as domestic shipping cargo and not under some better policy that would have been in effect after a launch. That's because the tests were on the ground.
It will probably take a while until the lawyers have sorted this out.
The EU being unresponsive to the desires of its populations is exactly why the UK left.
Not on this earth. The UK left because of diffuse and non-concrete fears that large waves of refugees might enter the country, coupled with latent racism against Polish immigrants.
Your post makes no sense. Anyone in Germany can import as much as they want from other EU countries without the German government having any say in it. Unless we're talking about weapons or other restricted goods. Likewise, anybody can export as much as they want to other EU countries without the government being able to interfere with it. That's the whole fucking idea of the common EU market. Government policies have nearly zero effect on this. It's a free market.
Yes, that may be what some people in the UK government think but delaying also creates long-lasting uncertainty, which known as a strong poison for economy.
Anyway, the Bexit is a lose-lose situation for both sides.:(
Nobody said that the EU doesn't want to make a mutually beneficial trade deal with the UK. Of course, they will.
EU officials and many officials from the governments of the 27 remaining member states have only made it clear (from the start and pretty unambiguously) that the UK first has to trigger Article 50, and then while it is leaving (or afterwards) trade deals can be negotiated. Anything else would make no sense at all from the perspective of the EU, since the UK remains a full member with all duties and rights within the EU until Article 50 is triggered. Dragging things out for a long time also makes very limited sense from the perspective of the majority of British voters who have voted for leaving the EU and from the perspective of UK's economy.
I agree. An even better thing would be to store the identity if the other side the first time when it is visited, warn the user when it changes afterwards, and leave the initial authentication to side channels. Like SSH does without manual keys. The certificate system with its dubious chain of trust is broken anyway.
But corporations and authorities can't allow this, because that would make the Web more secure without giving them any control or other benefits.
No Man's Sky is about pushing the boundaries of procedurally generated content and has always been advertised as such. It's basically an experimental indie game whose developers might have unfortunately gotten into bed with the wrong distributor and producers.
Those gamers who discover later that space exploration is not their thing and demand a refund are not just whiners but are doing themselves a huge disfavor in the long run. They basically incentivize the AAA gaming industry to continue with their copy & paste schemes and endless sequels, using the same concepts over and over and avoiding to take any risks. That's exactly what many gamers complain about int he first place (and rightly so, for most genres).
I don't care about how Kim Dotcom is depicted by the media, fact is that his company respected DMCA takedown requests and there is probably more infringing content on Youtube than there ever was on Megaupload. But even if he was totally guilty of infringing New Zealand copyright law, this illegal prosecution by a foreign country without any jurisdiction is the biggest scandal in the history of the Internet. It's just unbelievable to me that a foreign power can seize the assets of a company in another country on the basis of illegal warrants and illegal wiretapping, refuse to return them, and treat someone as a 'fugitive' who has never put a foot in their soil. If the same trick had been pulled by Russia or North Korea, the whole world would be upset and nobody would even get the idea that an extradition request could be justified.
The US should seriously consider to act act like an asshole less often and clean up their own justice and prison system instead, rather than bullying other countries and their businesses.
Encryption will not keep the NSA out of your communication channel for long, nor will it help against other intelligence agencies. It's their job to infiltrate any communications channel they have been assigned to infiltrate. At most, encryption will annoy them. What you need is better privacy laws, better separation of power and better control of intelligence agencies.
The problem is social/political, not technical.
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But you still can't spell Ada correctly. Shame on you!
Developers of applications that store or transmit data of this kind need to be held accountable for their practices, need to use strong encryption and should generally be treated like producers of medical devices that store sensitive information. I'd feel sorry for anyone to whom this is not obvious.
I'd go farther and claim that it's essentially impossible to find good apps by shifting through the standard app stores. You need to look up reviews and hopefully unbiased "best of" lists on the net in order to find anything remotely usable that isn't spyware.
Just out of curiosity: What's wrong with Amazon's website? I've never had any trouble ordering something from it or finding things.
No, his defense is essentially that the US prison system is so inhumane that nobody should be extradited to it. Which is unfortunately a very reasonable defense based on facts. He wants to stand trial in the UK, where he has committed his crimes.
Pluto is probably just a defunct spaceship. The emissions are the equivalent of a cellphone calling a base tower now and then.
That doesn't surprise me. MadCatz produces the only mice on the market that are flawed by design and cannot possibly work.
Right, it would be so much better if we in Europe could pay for the F-35 stealth fighter with our taxes instead...
Because wild speculations by panicking housewives is what we like to hear when there is a crisis or emergency. And I'm not kidding...
Generally, if you don't link to companies you should be fine. But there should be two WWWs. One for commercial use (let's call it "the shitweb") and one on which companies or any other commercial use is strictly prohibited (let's call it "the wonderweb"). Then you can buy your stuff on the Shitweb and do everything else on the Wonderweb.
Two notes: #1 - Plenty of Arabs live in Israel. #2 - I wouldn't refer to certain US citizens as "the Puritan Christians" either, because even when it's not entirely wrong, it may be kind of misleading.
Well, I for one would take one for free, provided that the boot loader is not locked. Go Microsoft, go!
Yes, it was ensured, though as domestic shipping cargo and not under some better policy that would have been in effect after a launch. That's because the tests were on the ground. It will probably take a while until the lawyers have sorted this out.
The EU being unresponsive to the desires of its populations is exactly why the UK left.
Not on this earth. The UK left because of diffuse and non-concrete fears that large waves of refugees might enter the country, coupled with latent racism against Polish immigrants.
Your post makes no sense. Anyone in Germany can import as much as they want from other EU countries without the German government having any say in it. Unless we're talking about weapons or other restricted goods. Likewise, anybody can export as much as they want to other EU countries without the government being able to interfere with it. That's the whole fucking idea of the common EU market. Government policies have nearly zero effect on this. It's a free market.
But... Japan produces lots of car in the UK. For example, Nissan runs the largest car manufacturing plant of the UK.
Yes, that may be what some people in the UK government think but delaying also creates long-lasting uncertainty, which known as a strong poison for economy. Anyway, the Bexit is a lose-lose situation for both sides. :(
Nope, statistics unfortunately tell us that it was indeed mostly old, jaded people who wanted out. And a few misinformed who regretted it afterwards.
Nobody said that the EU doesn't want to make a mutually beneficial trade deal with the UK. Of course, they will. EU officials and many officials from the governments of the 27 remaining member states have only made it clear (from the start and pretty unambiguously) that the UK first has to trigger Article 50, and then while it is leaving (or afterwards) trade deals can be negotiated. Anything else would make no sense at all from the perspective of the EU, since the UK remains a full member with all duties and rights within the EU until Article 50 is triggered. Dragging things out for a long time also makes very limited sense from the perspective of the majority of British voters who have voted for leaving the EU and from the perspective of UK's economy.
I'm not sure you really know what "news service" means ...
I agree. An even better thing would be to store the identity if the other side the first time when it is visited, warn the user when it changes afterwards, and leave the initial authentication to side channels. Like SSH does without manual keys. The certificate system with its dubious chain of trust is broken anyway. But corporations and authorities can't allow this, because that would make the Web more secure without giving them any control or other benefits.
No Man's Sky is about pushing the boundaries of procedurally generated content and has always been advertised as such. It's basically an experimental indie game whose developers might have unfortunately gotten into bed with the wrong distributor and producers. Those gamers who discover later that space exploration is not their thing and demand a refund are not just whiners but are doing themselves a huge disfavor in the long run. They basically incentivize the AAA gaming industry to continue with their copy & paste schemes and endless sequels, using the same concepts over and over and avoiding to take any risks. That's exactly what many gamers complain about int he first place (and rightly so, for most genres).
Just don't visit the US. It's not worth it, anyway.
I don't care about how Kim Dotcom is depicted by the media, fact is that his company respected DMCA takedown requests and there is probably more infringing content on Youtube than there ever was on Megaupload. But even if he was totally guilty of infringing New Zealand copyright law, this illegal prosecution by a foreign country without any jurisdiction is the biggest scandal in the history of the Internet. It's just unbelievable to me that a foreign power can seize the assets of a company in another country on the basis of illegal warrants and illegal wiretapping, refuse to return them, and treat someone as a 'fugitive' who has never put a foot in their soil. If the same trick had been pulled by Russia or North Korea, the whole world would be upset and nobody would even get the idea that an extradition request could be justified. The US should seriously consider to act act like an asshole less often and clean up their own justice and prison system instead, rather than bullying other countries and their businesses.
Encryption will not keep the NSA out of your communication channel for long, nor will it help against other intelligence agencies. It's their job to infiltrate any communications channel they have been assigned to infiltrate. At most, encryption will annoy them. What you need is better privacy laws, better separation of power and better control of intelligence agencies. The problem is social/political, not technical.