Doing business with an oppressive regime helps bring up the standard of living for the people under it, eventually as the middle class grows it forces reform. Once there's food in your belly and a roof over your head, you start to pay more attention to what else is going on in your life. While Google is being a party to the state-censorship in China, remember that it's really the Chinese government at fault, and overall Google will have done more good than harm.
A search engine's job is to make profit for their shareholders. Nothing more. It's their job to get as large a market share as possible, so that's why they do what they need to do to keep China from blocking their site. We don't have to like it, but don't confuse what Google's actual responsibility is.
They still need to steal your card though, and unless you're pretty careless you'll notice when they do, and then you can call your bank and have your card deactivated. This strikes me as a little less secure than an ATM.
I think you're right. I just hope that it soon becomes prohibitively expensive to hire all their lobbyists and lawyers compared to their lawsuit payouts.
I really don't know why the different shows didn't just hire scabs and keep going. I'm sure there were other people that would have probably been fine with the old contract. Going on strike really does just hurt the writers since more reality shows get created in the meantime, so there's less time slots for them to work in. And of course the viewers hate the reality shows so they stop watching as much TV.
Well hey, let's use the same evolutionary principles that let birds fly so well. Design aircraft with random variables and see which ones can fly. The ones that can fly, keep randomizing stuff and see if they get better.
Associating violence with any one religion, or religion as a whole is just silly. All humans, religious or not, are capable of atrocities, and have been carrying them out for nearly every reason imaginable for millennia. The capacity for hatred really is the one thing all humans have in common.
Yeah, I think grandparent missed the point. This thing lets you plug in different parts, not just cosmetic changes. Almost like plugging in peripherals to your laptop. Add a mouse, add a webcam, whatever.
I really hope this sort of thing happens more often. I remember some games I used to play only required the CD if you hadn't copied the CD onto your hard drive, and that was because the normal install didn't include all the data needed for the game to run. But now that hard drives are so much larger, it'd be nice for more games to do that, even if they are on DVD.
Fine, but what happens once somebody does get your username and password, let's say a keylogger, or one of these fake banking sites designed to steal your password. Now they can get into everything. It's not like this is going to stop scummy admins. OpenID doesn't instantly become mandatory everywhere just because a few new companies endorsed it. All this means is that when your OpenID gets stolen, you're even more screwed.
I was actually expecting this to be talking about virtual terrorism when I first saw the title. Stuff like (black-hat) hacking, comment vandalism, forum trolls.
I always knew those gnomes in the tram were up to something!
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Definitely an interesting idea. Dark matter always sort of bugged me. But if it doesn't really exist, that means we can't use gravitic weapons (a la Schlock Mercenary) to talk to dark matter aliens!
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It's not a meme, it's an economic fact. Swearing at me won't change that.
Hmm, maybe Microsoft will sign up for an account and try to ruin Yahoo so their stock tanks and they can buy them cheaper?
Sometimes a little truth is better than no truth. You think a state-run search engine would be better for China than a filtered independent one?
Doing business with an oppressive regime helps bring up the standard of living for the people under it, eventually as the middle class grows it forces reform. Once there's food in your belly and a roof over your head, you start to pay more attention to what else is going on in your life. While Google is being a party to the state-censorship in China, remember that it's really the Chinese government at fault, and overall Google will have done more good than harm.
A search engine's job is to make profit for their shareholders. Nothing more. It's their job to get as large a market share as possible, so that's why they do what they need to do to keep China from blocking their site. We don't have to like it, but don't confuse what Google's actual responsibility is.
They still need to steal your card though, and unless you're pretty careless you'll notice when they do, and then you can call your bank and have your card deactivated. This strikes me as a little less secure than an ATM.
I think you're right. I just hope that it soon becomes prohibitively expensive to hire all their lobbyists and lawyers compared to their lawsuit payouts.
I really don't know why the different shows didn't just hire scabs and keep going. I'm sure there were other people that would have probably been fine with the old contract. Going on strike really does just hurt the writers since more reality shows get created in the meantime, so there's less time slots for them to work in. And of course the viewers hate the reality shows so they stop watching as much TV.
Well hey, let's use the same evolutionary principles that let birds fly so well. Design aircraft with random variables and see which ones can fly. The ones that can fly, keep randomizing stuff and see if they get better.
So does one, so will another. If you think the other cable companies won't follow suit eventually, you're dreaming.
I assume other non-profit organizations will also be let through too.
Nah, somebody will always crack these things, or somebody out there won't have it. I'm quite certain it'll never come to this anyway.
Associating violence with any one religion, or religion as a whole is just silly. All humans, religious or not, are capable of atrocities, and have been carrying them out for nearly every reason imaginable for millennia. The capacity for hatred really is the one thing all humans have in common.
Yeah, I think grandparent missed the point. This thing lets you plug in different parts, not just cosmetic changes. Almost like plugging in peripherals to your laptop. Add a mouse, add a webcam, whatever.
You work at the CIA or something?
I really hope this sort of thing happens more often. I remember some games I used to play only required the CD if you hadn't copied the CD onto your hard drive, and that was because the normal install didn't include all the data needed for the game to run. But now that hard drives are so much larger, it'd be nice for more games to do that, even if they are on DVD.
Fine, but what happens once somebody does get your username and password, let's say a keylogger, or one of these fake banking sites designed to steal your password. Now they can get into everything. It's not like this is going to stop scummy admins. OpenID doesn't instantly become mandatory everywhere just because a few new companies endorsed it. All this means is that when your OpenID gets stolen, you're even more screwed.
Yeah, this is the first I've heard of it too. I just don't understand how one ID everywhere is a good thing on the internet.
Is it really all that secure to have one username and password for every website you go to? I would imagine there'd be privacy concerns as well.
Can somebody paste in the full list? It seems the page has been slashdotted already.
I was actually expecting this to be talking about virtual terrorism when I first saw the title. Stuff like (black-hat) hacking, comment vandalism, forum trolls.
People should probably be more scared about what's added to their cereal than a little gene splicing.
Well realistically, I'm sure terrorists do meet in person to plot. This article needs a big stamp labeled [Obvious].
I always knew those gnomes in the tram were up to something!
Definitely an interesting idea. Dark matter always sort of bugged me. But if it doesn't really exist, that means we can't use gravitic weapons (a la Schlock Mercenary) to talk to dark matter aliens!