However, what I don't understand is why the subject of the story just didn't leave McDonalds.
In the first case, the American woman with the camera was manhandled and physically pinned against the wall, because the McDonald female employee wanted her picture deleted from her camera (a picture the American woman claims she had not taken, she had only taken a picture of the menu, not the employee, not that there was much communication going on between the two, the American woman didn't know a word of French, nor did the French female employee know a word of English).
In the second case, regarding the prosthetic eye-ware, the story doesn't really tell us the details of what happened, only the summary does (which I generally don't trust), but I suspect a similar thing happened. Leaving the McDonalds is probably a natural response anyone would take, but if some idiotic angry person really thinks you've "stolen" their image somehow, your leaving is precisely what might get them to assault you.
Frankly, the McDonald corporate branch in France should have handled this better the second time around. In the US, Starbucks had a corporate policy of not allowing people to take pictures inside their coffee shops, but once this policy became of public interest and everybody started pictures inside their stores, they immediately reversed their policy, just went with the flow, and even encouraged their barristas to pose for pictures.
Now I understand, it's probably not McDonalds corporate policy that triggered those incidents, but after the first camera incident at least, McDonald should have just assumed that more clueless American and more clueless Canadian tourists were going to try to take pictures of their menu boards (just to compare with the menus from back home), and at the very least, it should have dictated a clear hands-off, no manhandling, policy to their employees of their customers (even if they've already supposedly "stolen" an image of you in the public space).
Doesn't Android include something equivalent to iOS's VoiceOver
-jcr
That doesn't matter. Android has multiple systems for the blind, just like it has multiple systems for the sighted. It's a thriving ecosystem where the user gets to choose what fits their individual needs the best.
Case in point, I'm not blind, and Android has a truly awesome default stock keyboard and auto-completion algorithm, especially with Android 4.1, but my favorite keyboard is still going to be Swiftkey X, because it lets me mix languages on the fly when I email family members. To me, that kind of auto-completion is priceless and it's still something that the PC, or gmail on the PC, hasn't given me yet.
I suspect that blind people are going to have unique needs too. For one thing, there are various degrees of blindness, but there are also various kinds of blindness and various adaptions to it. And it's going to be difficult to make an interface that truly works for all blind/visually impaired people.
...if you think that's why it managed to cleared over $100 million in ad and subscription fees in its lifetime from legitimate, author-sourced file distro, you're hopelessly naive.)
Is that the extent of your proof dear Federal Prosecutor?
Dropbox made 240 millions in just 2011 (compared to that, $100 million during its lifetime is small change). May be, you should have gone after them instead? After all, we know Dropbox has its legitimate uses, but we all know a big chunk of that change was also made from sharing pirated porn, blockbuster movies, and top charts music.
...it hasn't even been won on the home front yet. I hate to call it a war... but why expand the territory of a war when you're still losing battles in disputed territory you're trying to occupy?
That's the thing, Google is not trying to change the World.
It only seems to be focusing this effort on the Tech Worker communities where it has development centers in. And if Google is fighting a War, it's fighting a recruitment War. In that sense, you could compare their efforts to the US military modifying their own standards for their own recruitment/retention problems, which affects the larger Wars they're waging.
In that sense, Google is also probably just trying to prevent a significant number of their Tech employees from potentially being blackmailed, or being potentially compromised, or simply being harassed and hassled during off-work hours.
You seem to know about this field. Can you translate this part for me?
Separate logistic regression for RhD-negative subjects showed a 2.53 times higher risk of traffic accidents in Toxoplasma-infected than Toxoplasma-free subjects (CI95: 1.12–5.7, t = 2.23, P = 0.026). http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/9/72
Are they really saying that this is causing "2.53 times higher risk of traffic accidents" among their infected population of Czech male military draftees???
Imagine the repercussions if this is found to be also true in other populations (not that it will be, and not that correlation equals causation, but...):
Car Insurance rates (or driver licenses) could start depending on the results of those blood tests. Criminal sentencing could be affected by the results of those tests. And at the very minimum, the next time you'd fill out a questionnaire for getting car insurance, or filling out an application for becoming a truck driver or operating heavy machinery, or applying to get into the military, you'd be asked all kinds of questions about your history with cats (whether you owned one, your significant other owned one, or whether your family ever owned one while you were growing up).
That's assuming the DVD was indeed lost in the mail.
All that we know for sure is that the chain of custody was broken and that the data lost -- was mostly left unencrypted. For all we know, the DVD could have been, lost/stolen/social engineered from the receiving government agency, or lost/stolen/social engineered from the sending government contractor.
By telling us that the data was lost in the mail, they've fulfilled their strictest minimum legal obligation to publicize that there was indeed a breach. Now if the data gets used, they've limited their exposure, even if it gets shown that the data came from their database.
Ten years ago, an incident like that probably wouldn't even have been reported, less even publicized. So it's not like government agencies/employees, or private companies/employees, are above lying/withholding the truth to cover their asses. It's just that now, there is a minimum of disclosure the law requires them to do, when such a breach occurs.
Why were they taking information, which they have electronically, and putting it on a physical medium where it loses its usability, presumably so someone could use it.
Perhaps, that DVD was for archival, or legal purposes.
Anyway, the real error here was not having the entire thing encrypted.
Safety deposit box is probably the only reasonable solution.
Actually, a bank safety deposit box, which I assume is what you meant when you said "safety deposit box", may be one of the worst places for some of your most urgently needed documents.
Why? When someone dies, a safe deposit box may be sealed for weeks, which could result in result in delays. You might even have to spend money securing a court order to open the box. Further, and here's the Catch-22: the will's executor will not be able to get to the box without the will that shows that he is indeed, the executor, resulting in headaches and delays.
It demonstrates that it's a good _TEMPORARY_ peacekeeping measure. The problem is, eventually, at some point, someone will push the button.
I agree. Also, let's not forget. We're constantly redefining what a nuke is. We're developing tactical nukes and bunker-busting nukes. And we're even using depleted Uranium in our ordinances.
Some of us are so eager to push that button, we're constantly redefining the boundaries of what's possible with nuclear technology and what's possible ethically.
Can you please stop posting articles from the Local? As I've explained in other threads, it's a "service" that steals content without attribution from local news sources in Germany Sweden and Switzerland, summarizes it, translates it to English, and sensationalizes it, then makes money off of your page views. It's crap, it's misleading, and at times it's just plain wrong.
So it's a bit like Slashdot, except for the translation part?
Actually, Firefox OS is becoming the perfect OS for making your custom ROM on low-end hardware.
And except for individual hobbyists and tinkerers, it will serve corporate interests far more than any interests of consumers (at least initially). I predict that hotels, casinos, museums, enterprises, and carriers wishing to control and remove functionality from their devices will be the first to adopt this OS.
All they really need is to alter a few words in sentences depending on who is accessing the document.
What you're talking about is a simple form of watermarking. What they're talking about, since they're calling it "disinformation", is much more than that.
Now only the 4-star generals will know which spy plane blueprints are real, and which diplomatic cables are true, so no information will be actionable until it first gets reviewed and validated by a 4-star general first.
Some will say that the Apple App Store is "no longer secure."
Who cares about the Apple App Store no longer being secure if the iPhone itself lost that claim long ago? You iPhone users are just playing with semantics here. If your iPhone can be compromised by just being directed at a web site (as it did a while ago), it really doesn't matter much if the App Store is secure or not.
Besides, I'm not even sure if the latter claim of the Apple App Store being secure is that true to begin with. Many iTunes users, including some app developers, have had their iTunes account credentials stolen and their account hijacked. In my opinion, that vulnerability at the server-side is just as bad as the previous iOS vulnerability on its client-side, since your iTunes account is pretty much used for everything -- including developer accounts.
And the last time I checked, which granted is over one year ago (so my information is hopefully outdated by now), google users could add 2-factor authentication to their account, but iTunes users still couldn't.
Only the sarcastic attention-grabbing summary says it's "completely safe".
The actual article seems to imply the opposite. The actual article claims that Terahertz-rays are safer than X-rays. And the article does not advocate using T-rays where radios have never been used before. It's only advocating replacing existing X-ray machines with T-ray machines, especially in dental practices and some medical practices, where a T-ray can do as a good a job as an X-ray (at least, according to one of their researchers).
Disclaimer: T-ray is my own abbreviation. It's probably not the correct one.
That's not the same thing as a swarm though. You make it sound like people were prosecuted because their neighbours used BT, that's on the same cable too.
That is exactly what we're talking about actually.
If you share the same ip address with someone else, only the account holder gets named and sued for having file-shared pornography. And if you poison the data with fake ip addresses like Pirate Bay used to do, or like the University of Portland's study successfully proved could be done, then some random account holder at the end of some randomly selected ip address can be blamed for that as well.
This is what makes the "interaction" claim so dubious in the first place. Not only the people supposedly interacting with each other can't even be sure who they're "interacting" with, but they can't even tell if they were even connected to a real person (and not some fake person's ip address designed to poison the evidentiary information they were trying to collect), and nor would they even care even if they could (after all, with porn they can get a potential financial settlement payment, whether the person making the settlement is guilty, or innocent, so they have no incentive to weed out that kind of data, on the contrary).
I am all for "fair access" but if the CC was not made available by the content maker, than how is it netflixes fault for not having them?
May be, they did provide them, after all they're already providing them to Netflix on DVDs.
And the studios themselves certainly don't do the encoding for Netflix, Netflix does the encoding for itself (and my guess, Hulu does as well). The resulting streams coming from a studio's web site are vastly different from the streams coming from sites like Netflix, or Hulu.
The amount of revenue you bring in by making your content accessible is not going to pay the cost of doing so.
Why not? Viki.com has no problem providing reliable subtitles for up to 96+ languages. Why can't Netflix do it just for one language?
Besides, the movies Netflix provides on their streaming service are exactly the same ones they provide on DVDs, and most of those DVD movies do have Closed Captions on them, so it's not like the incremental cost of adding CC to a streaming movie will be that much more.
NFC by itself, doesn't do much, but layer it with other technologies, and that's when some of its benefits really shine through.
For instance, combine NFC with Bluetooth, and pairing with a Bluetooth headset (even one that your phone has never paired with before) becomes as simple as unlocking your screen lock, and tapping the back of your phone to your Bluetooth headset (the screen lock in this case is usually used as a precaution that you do not accidentally trigger NFC events on your phone when your phone sits in one of your pockets and might accidentally touch a tag)
And combine NFC with web access, and just unlock your screen, and tap your phone to go to a web site url (even one with a unique id so long, you would never enter it manually). In that sense, NFC replaces the camera Qr code scanner that many of us have used before, but it's actually very usable so you keep using it even once the novelty wears off. With NFC, you don't have to fumble around with holding your cell phone just above a Qr code, and you don't have to fumble around with having to find an application first (since NFC is very low power, the NFC detection will normally be turned on all the time in the background, and once the tag is detected, the relevant application(s) will be triggered and launched accordingly).
Which bears repeating, an NFC-based application can be triggered and launched automatically by touching a tag with your phone And if you compare that to a Qr code scanner, not only that Qr code scanner needs to be manually launched, but once it finds something it recognizes (for instance, let's say it recognizes a full url, it confronts you with another dialog box asking you if you want to go to that url, thus interrupting your user flow once again, when an NFC would have just opened the web browser to that page -- no questions asked).
Of course, NFC is more than that still, it even has different modes, but I don't want to confuse you with too many different examples. Just think of those two simpler examples I mentioned above. Those are some of its most basic examples.
Yes. Your right to punish idiots "with no commonsense" trumps my right to be alerted in time because those idiots "with no commonsense" will probably just run away and hide their rifles before alerting anyone (let alone the authorities) of anything that might get them thrown them in jail for the rest of their lives.
And yes, only in Utah, USA, where the population density is so high, it's like Tokyo and Luxembourg merged into one, only smaller, where everybody knows what their neighbors are doing all of the time, and even the idiots "with no common sense" follow all the laws to the letter, because they know they'll get caught if they don't. I assume we're both talking about the same place.
Ethiopia is like the US in many respects. Just like in the US, Ethiopia can have modern skyscrapers and modern roads, and just like in the US, Ethiopia can have people that go hungry every night.
The only difference now is that if you're a journalist who's trying to call attention to the corruption and to the problems of the Ethiopian government by reaching out to the international community through the use of tools like Skype, you'll probably end up in prison for 15 years.
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However, what I don't understand is why the subject of the story just didn't leave McDonalds.
In the first case, the American woman with the camera was manhandled and physically pinned against the wall, because the McDonald female employee wanted her picture deleted from her camera (a picture the American woman claims she had not taken, she had only taken a picture of the menu, not the employee, not that there was much communication going on between the two, the American woman didn't know a word of French, nor did the French female employee know a word of English).
In the second case, regarding the prosthetic eye-ware, the story doesn't really tell us the details of what happened, only the summary does (which I generally don't trust), but I suspect a similar thing happened. Leaving the McDonalds is probably a natural response anyone would take, but if some idiotic angry person really thinks you've "stolen" their image somehow, your leaving is precisely what might get them to assault you.
Frankly, the McDonald corporate branch in France should have handled this better the second time around. In the US, Starbucks had a corporate policy of not allowing people to take pictures inside their coffee shops, but once this policy became of public interest and everybody started pictures inside their stores, they immediately reversed their policy, just went with the flow, and even encouraged their barristas to pose for pictures.
Now I understand, it's probably not McDonalds corporate policy that triggered those incidents, but after the first camera incident at least, McDonald should have just assumed that more clueless American and more clueless Canadian tourists were going to try to take pictures of their menu boards (just to compare with the menus from back home), and at the very least, it should have dictated a clear hands-off, no manhandling, policy to their employees of their customers (even if they've already supposedly "stolen" an image of you in the public space).
Doesn't Android include something equivalent to iOS's VoiceOver
-jcr
That doesn't matter. Android has multiple systems for the blind, just like it has multiple systems for the sighted. It's a thriving ecosystem where the user gets to choose what fits their individual needs the best.
Case in point, I'm not blind, and Android has a truly awesome default stock keyboard and auto-completion algorithm, especially with Android 4.1, but my favorite keyboard is still going to be Swiftkey X, because it lets me mix languages on the fly when I email family members. To me, that kind of auto-completion is priceless and it's still something that the PC, or gmail on the PC, hasn't given me yet.
I suspect that blind people are going to have unique needs too. For one thing, there are various degrees of blindness, but there are also various kinds of blindness and various adaptions to it. And it's going to be difficult to make an interface that truly works for all blind/visually impaired people.
...if you think that's why it managed to cleared over $100 million in ad and subscription fees in its lifetime from legitimate, author-sourced file distro, you're hopelessly naive.)
Is that the extent of your proof dear Federal Prosecutor?
Dropbox made 240 millions in just 2011 (compared to that, $100 million during its lifetime is small change). May be, you should have gone after them instead? After all, we know Dropbox has its legitimate uses, but we all know a big chunk of that change was also made from sharing pirated porn, blockbuster movies, and top charts music.
...it hasn't even been won on the home front yet. I hate to call it a war... but why expand the territory of a war when you're still losing battles in disputed territory you're trying to occupy?
That's the thing, Google is not trying to change the World.
It only seems to be focusing this effort on the Tech Worker communities where it has development centers in. And if Google is fighting a War, it's fighting a recruitment War. In that sense, you could compare their efforts to the US military modifying their own standards for their own recruitment/retention problems, which affects the larger Wars they're waging.
In that sense, Google is also probably just trying to prevent a significant number of their Tech employees from potentially being blackmailed, or being potentially compromised, or simply being harassed and hassled during off-work hours.
You seem to know about this field. Can you translate this part for me?
Separate logistic regression for RhD-negative subjects showed a 2.53 times higher risk of traffic accidents in Toxoplasma-infected than Toxoplasma-free subjects (CI95: 1.12–5.7, t = 2.23, P = 0.026). http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/9/72
Are they really saying that this is causing "2.53 times higher risk of traffic accidents" among their infected population of Czech male military draftees???
Imagine the repercussions if this is found to be also true in other populations (not that it will be, and not that correlation equals causation, but...):
Car Insurance rates (or driver licenses) could start depending on the results of those blood tests. Criminal sentencing could be affected by the results of those tests. And at the very minimum, the next time you'd fill out a questionnaire for getting car insurance, or filling out an application for becoming a truck driver or operating heavy machinery, or applying to get into the military, you'd be asked all kinds of questions about your history with cats (whether you owned one, your significant other owned one, or whether your family ever owned one while you were growing up).
That's assuming the DVD was indeed lost in the mail.
All that we know for sure is that the chain of custody was broken and that the data lost -- was mostly left unencrypted. For all we know, the DVD could have been, lost/stolen/social engineered from the receiving government agency, or lost/stolen/social engineered from the sending government contractor.
By telling us that the data was lost in the mail, they've fulfilled their strictest minimum legal obligation to publicize that there was indeed a breach. Now if the data gets used, they've limited their exposure, even if it gets shown that the data came from their database.
Ten years ago, an incident like that probably wouldn't even have been reported, less even publicized. So it's not like government agencies/employees, or private companies/employees, are above lying/withholding the truth to cover their asses. It's just that now, there is a minimum of disclosure the law requires them to do, when such a breach occurs.
Why were they taking information, which they have electronically, and putting it on a physical medium where it loses its usability, presumably so someone could use it.
Perhaps, that DVD was for archival, or legal purposes.
Anyway, the real error here was not having the entire thing encrypted.
Safety deposit box is probably the only reasonable solution.
Actually, a bank safety deposit box, which I assume is what you meant when you said "safety deposit box", may be one of the worst places for some of your most urgently needed documents.
Why? When someone dies, a safe deposit box may be sealed for weeks, which could result in result in delays. You might even have to spend money securing a court order to open the box. Further, and here's the Catch-22: the will's executor will not be able to get to the box without the will that shows that he is indeed, the executor, resulting in headaches and delays.
It demonstrates that it's a good _TEMPORARY_ peacekeeping measure. The problem is, eventually, at some point, someone will push the button.
I agree. Also, let's not forget. We're constantly redefining what a nuke is. We're developing tactical nukes and bunker-busting nukes. And we're even using depleted Uranium in our ordinances.
Some of us are so eager to push that button, we're constantly redefining the boundaries of what's possible with nuclear technology and what's possible ethically.
Can you please stop posting articles from the Local? As I've explained in other threads, it's a "service" that steals content without attribution from local news sources in Germany Sweden and Switzerland, summarizes it, translates it to English, and sensationalizes it, then makes money off of your page views. It's crap, it's misleading, and at times it's just plain wrong.
So it's a bit like Slashdot, except for the translation part?
Actually, Firefox OS is becoming the perfect OS for making your custom ROM on low-end hardware.
And except for individual hobbyists and tinkerers, it will serve corporate interests far more than any interests of consumers (at least initially). I predict that hotels, casinos, museums, enterprises, and carriers wishing to control and remove functionality from their devices will be the first to adopt this OS.
All they really need is to alter a few words in sentences depending on who is accessing the document.
What you're talking about is a simple form of watermarking. What they're talking about, since they're calling it "disinformation", is much more than that.
Now only the 4-star generals will know which spy plane blueprints are real, and which diplomatic cables are true, so no information will be actionable until it first gets reviewed and validated by a 4-star general first.
Some will say that the Apple App Store is "no longer secure."
Who cares about the Apple App Store no longer being secure if the iPhone itself lost that claim long ago? You iPhone users are just playing with semantics here. If your iPhone can be compromised by just being directed at a web site (as it did a while ago), it really doesn't matter much if the App Store is secure or not.
Besides, I'm not even sure if the latter claim of the Apple App Store being secure is that true to begin with. Many iTunes users, including some app developers, have had their iTunes account credentials stolen and their account hijacked. In my opinion, that vulnerability at the server-side is just as bad as the previous iOS vulnerability on its client-side, since your iTunes account is pretty much used for everything -- including developer accounts.
And the last time I checked, which granted is over one year ago (so my information is hopefully outdated by now), google users could add 2-factor authentication to their account, but iTunes users still couldn't.
Only the sarcastic attention-grabbing summary says it's "completely safe".
The actual article seems to imply the opposite. The actual article claims that Terahertz-rays are safer than X-rays. And the article does not advocate using T-rays where radios have never been used before. It's only advocating replacing existing X-ray machines with T-ray machines, especially in dental practices and some medical practices, where a T-ray can do as a good a job as an X-ray (at least, according to one of their researchers).
Disclaimer: T-ray is my own abbreviation. It's probably not the correct one.
"It's believed that the patents in question have to do with the IEEE 802.11 WiFi standard".
Of course, it's believed that. The Nexus 7 is wifi-only.
Perhaps, Nokia probably just assumed that the Nexus 7 was cell-phone network enabled, because all the previous Nexuses were cell phones.
I wish I could have asked him how the power company reads his meter right now?
With a bullet-proof jacket, a white flag in one hand and a confederation flag in the other, just to be safe.
That's not the same thing as a swarm though. You make it sound like people were prosecuted because their neighbours used BT, that's on the same cable too.
That is exactly what we're talking about actually.
If you share the same ip address with someone else, only the account holder gets named and sued for having file-shared pornography. And if you poison the data with fake ip addresses like Pirate Bay used to do, or like the University of Portland's study successfully proved could be done, then some random account holder at the end of some randomly selected ip address can be blamed for that as well.
This is what makes the "interaction" claim so dubious in the first place. Not only the people supposedly interacting with each other can't even be sure who they're "interacting" with, but they can't even tell if they were even connected to a real person (and not some fake person's ip address designed to poison the evidentiary information they were trying to collect), and nor would they even care even if they could (after all, with porn they can get a potential financial settlement payment, whether the person making the settlement is guilty, or innocent, so they have no incentive to weed out that kind of data, on the contrary).
I'm surprised Hotmail just lost its crown. It has millions of spam accounts on there.
Either their spam detection just got better, or the spammers themselves are leaving Hotmail because no one takes Hotmail seriously anymore.
I am all for "fair access" but if the CC was not made available by the content maker, than how is it netflixes fault for not having them?
May be, they did provide them, after all they're already providing them to Netflix on DVDs.
And the studios themselves certainly don't do the encoding for Netflix, Netflix does the encoding for itself (and my guess, Hulu does as well). The resulting streams coming from a studio's web site are vastly different from the streams coming from sites like Netflix, or Hulu.
The amount of revenue you bring in by making your content accessible is not going to pay the cost of doing so.
Why not? Viki.com has no problem providing reliable subtitles for up to 96+ languages. Why can't Netflix do it just for one language?
Besides, the movies Netflix provides on their streaming service are exactly the same ones they provide on DVDs, and most of those DVD movies do have Closed Captions on them, so it's not like the incremental cost of adding CC to a streaming movie will be that much more.
NFC is a feature. Mobile payments is really only a very tiny part of what NFC-enabled phones will able do for us.
NFC by itself, doesn't do much, but layer it with other technologies, and that's when some of its benefits really shine through.
For instance, combine NFC with Bluetooth, and pairing with a Bluetooth headset (even one that your phone has never paired with before) becomes as simple as unlocking your screen lock, and tapping the back of your phone to your Bluetooth headset (the screen lock in this case is usually used as a precaution that you do not accidentally trigger NFC events on your phone when your phone sits in one of your pockets and might accidentally touch a tag)
And combine NFC with web access, and just unlock your screen, and tap your phone to go to a web site url (even one with a unique id so long, you would never enter it manually). In that sense, NFC replaces the camera Qr code scanner that many of us have used before, but it's actually very usable so you keep using it even once the novelty wears off. With NFC, you don't have to fumble around with holding your cell phone just above a Qr code, and you don't have to fumble around with having to find an application first (since NFC is very low power, the NFC detection will normally be turned on all the time in the background, and once the tag is detected, the relevant application(s) will be triggered and launched accordingly).
Which bears repeating, an NFC-based application can be triggered and launched automatically by touching a tag with your phone And if you compare that to a Qr code scanner, not only that Qr code scanner needs to be manually launched, but once it finds something it recognizes (for instance, let's say it recognizes a full url, it confronts you with another dialog box asking you if you want to go to that url, thus interrupting your user flow once again, when an NFC would have just opened the web browser to that page -- no questions asked).
Of course, NFC is more than that still, it even has different modes, but I don't want to confuse you with too many different examples. Just think of those two simpler examples I mentioned above. Those are some of its most basic examples.
Yes, except the crucial difference is Apple is going with a standard for a change (unlike Google's original implementation).
To be fair to Google. I don't think that was their intent, it was initially just a bug on their part that was eventually fixed over the air.
And yes, Android has bugs on occasion, just like iOS has bugs on occasion as well.
Yes. Your right to punish idiots "with no commonsense" trumps my right to be alerted in time because those idiots "with no commonsense" will probably just run away and hide their rifles before alerting anyone (let alone the authorities) of anything that might get them thrown them in jail for the rest of their lives.
And yes, only in Utah, USA, where the population density is so high, it's like Tokyo and Luxembourg merged into one, only smaller, where everybody knows what their neighbors are doing all of the time, and even the idiots "with no common sense" follow all the laws to the letter, because they know they'll get caught if they don't. I assume we're both talking about the same place.
Ethiopia is like the US in many respects. Just like in the US, Ethiopia can have modern skyscrapers and modern roads, and just like in the US, Ethiopia can have people that go hungry every night.
The only difference now is that if you're a journalist who's trying to call attention to the corruption and to the problems of the Ethiopian government by reaching out to the international community through the use of tools like Skype, you'll probably end up in prison for 15 years.