Check out https://matrix.org/ -- federated, open source, open spec. it's still being actively developed, but from what I've seen so far it's looking really solid, and seems like a good development community, too... End-to-end encryption isn't yet finalized, but it's said to be coming soon...
Also check-out this analysis of the "massacre" at Shijaiyah (warning: some of the content is pretty graphic). While I'm not convinced that everything in the analysis is 100% correct, the basic gist seems pretty indisputable...
How do you distinguish a "terror tunnel" from the many tunnels used to smuggle food, clothing, potable water, and basic construction materials?
Actually, it's pretty easy: those for bringing in goods end up in Egypt, the terror tunnels end up in Israel. Also, stashes of arms being stored in the tunnels may provide a hint as to their purpose...
and those tunnels it built were actually the main way to get food and supplies into Gaza due to Israels blockade on imports
Oops, imagine their surprise when they found out their tunnels (aimed at "getting food") ended up in Israel! Do you think they were planning to go to the nearest Israeli supermarket and buy some food to take home?
True, it is not a critical review, though it is by someone who is willing to admit mistakes in the face of evidence.
Care to share links to some serious reviews "written by the skeptical contingent of climate scientists"? (An honest request, I'm not trying to imply there are none...).
A modular phone will never work. The masses don't want modular devices. They want a solid slate they can get laser engraved more than they want the ability to customize, modify, or repair things.
Has anyone stated this is even intended for the masses?
Quoting the Project Ara website: "Introducing Project Ara. Designed exclusively for 6 billion people."
That would qualify as "the masses", I think...
Unfortunately, there is no smartphone version of Zim, but I have little need for a smartpone app of this sort. I do email myself info as needed to integrate into Zim later.
Actually, Zim exists for the N900 -- in fact, I first heard about it that way. Or is it not considered a smartphone if it doesn't run Android or iOS?:P
Life in Gaza is valued cheaply -- not by the Israelis, but by the Palestinians. A small, but telling, example: Man killed by celebratory gunfire in Gaza. Not to mention the fact that Hamas uses its own citizens as human shields and fires from among civilians; or the fact that Hamas attacks target civilians...
Anyone who's ever gone looking for meteors knows the feeling: the people you're with see a great one just as you were looking the other way --- it's almost part of the fun;) --- so I agree that I don't find this very newsworthy... However, I'm also wondering how much the fact that this was being shot with a Night Vision camera (as the caption on the bottom left seems to imply?) would have affected the visibility of the meteor; in other words, even if the reporter had been looking straight at the meteor, would he have seen it with the naked eye?
I've use Skype-Out on the N900 all the time without any problem. You may need to add the international prefix in order for it to work (starting with a + ). If you still have problems, head over to http://talk.maemo.org/ .
Off the top of my hand, a Git feature for which I don't know a Mercurial equivalent -- git-cherry-pick. Want to rewrite history a bit? Create a new branch from sometime before the commits you want to change, then cherry-pick (point-and-click simple in gitk) the commits you want, in the order you want, ignoring the ones you don't. When you're ready, clobber master with your new branch.
> Why is evacuation of Israeli colonies in the West Bank unrealistic? Israel evacuated their colonies in Gaza,
Because what Israel got in return for its withdrawal from Gaza is that the evacuated area (the entire Gaza strip) was used as a base for increased terrorism against it; because through the border between Egypt and Gaza, from which Israel also withdrew, hundreds of rockets were smuggled into Gaza and then fired at Israeli cities; because after having gradually withdrawn much of its military from the West Bank after the Oslo accords in the 1990s, Israel was finally forced to return its military there in order to halt rampant Palestinian terrorism which resulted in 1000 Israeli *civilian* deaths, in Israeli cities, after September 2000.
So now tell me, if *you* were Israeli, would you support the withdrawal from more area?
I don't know anything about economics, but it seems to me that the real DWL is the fact that these companies have invested the $5000 in something which produced nothing, rather than having invested it in whatever it is they do, and thus actually producing something. So you have one situation in which $10000 were spent, and you have something to show for it, and another situation in which the same $10000 were spent, but there's nothing to show for it. So the real DWL is the "something vs. nothing", not the $10000, which are spent in either situation.
Palestinians who are Israeli citizens living in Israel are probably better off there than they would be anywhere else in the Middle East --- I don't see any of them running to move to any of the neighboring countries, or to a Palestinian State, should one be created. Even Palestinians living in the occupied territories are probably better off than they would be in most of the neighboring countries. That's not to say that things couldn't be better, and I sincerely hope that we are able to learn to live peacefully side-by-side. But the first step has to be acknowledgment of the fact that Israel is far from the Ultimate Evil that it is often made out to be.
There is a branch of psi which supports jingle at http://psi-im.org/wiki/Jingle_branch. I've tested it with gtalk once or twice and it works, but I don't really know anyone who uses gtalk...
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Check out https://matrix.org/ -- might just be what you're looking for, looks very promising so far...!
Check out https://matrix.org/ -- federated, open source, open spec. it's still being actively developed, but from what I've seen so far it's looking really solid, and seems like a good development community, too... End-to-end encryption isn't yet finalized, but it's said to be coming soon...
If Hamas were funded with billions, they wouldn't need "terror tunnels" to smuggle food across the border with Egypt.
Depends how those billions are allocated...
Also check-out this analysis of the "massacre" at Shijaiyah (warning: some of the content is pretty graphic). While I'm not convinced that everything in the analysis is 100% correct, the basic gist seems pretty indisputable...
How do you distinguish a "terror tunnel" from the many tunnels used to smuggle food, clothing, potable water, and basic construction materials?
Actually, it's pretty easy: those for bringing in goods end up in Egypt, the terror tunnels end up in Israel. Also, stashes of arms being stored in the tunnels may provide a hint as to their purpose...
and those tunnels it built were actually the main way to get food and supplies into Gaza due to Israels blockade on imports
Oops, imagine their surprise when they found out their tunnels (aimed at "getting food") ended up in Israel! Do you think they were planning to go to the nearest Israeli supermarket and buy some food to take home?
A peace where the occupier continues to steal land from you at an ever increasing rate.
You might be interested in reading this article.
Israel has never shown themselves to be ready for peaceful coexistence (and neither has Hamas).
This article is quite relevant to the above claim...
True, it is not a critical review, though it is by someone who is willing to admit mistakes in the face of evidence. Care to share links to some serious reviews "written by the skeptical contingent of climate scientists"? (An honest request, I'm not trying to imply there are none...).
This report is also reviewed over at Slate by the Bad Astronomer.
A year ago almost to the day a very similar question was discussed here: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/... But I'll respond the same way I did there: Science News!
A modular phone will never work. The masses don't want modular devices. They want a solid slate they can get laser engraved more than they want the ability to customize, modify, or repair things.
Has anyone stated this is even intended for the masses?
Quoting the Project Ara website: "Introducing Project Ara. Designed exclusively for 6 billion people." That would qualify as "the masses", I think...
Unfortunately, there is no smartphone version of Zim, but I have little need for a smartpone app of this sort. I do email myself info as needed to integrate into Zim later.
Actually, Zim exists for the N900 -- in fact, I first heard about it that way. Or is it not considered a smartphone if it doesn't run Android or iOS? :P
This article by John Quiggin in Aeon Magazine discussing Keynes' prediction of a 15-hour work week seems extremely relevant...
As in http://www.sciencenews.org/ (but my dad and I share a print subscription). Been reading it cover-to-cover for the past 17 years at least...
I've always wondered outloud why all Russians have dashcams. Now I look like a fool.
There was a great piece on this at Krulwich Wonders a couple of months back...
Life in Gaza is valued cheaply -- not by the Israelis, but by the Palestinians. A small, but telling, example: Man killed by celebratory gunfire in Gaza. Not to mention the fact that Hamas uses its own citizens as human shields and fires from among civilians; or the fact that Hamas attacks target civilians...
Wow, your grandma runs Skype on Linux?!
Anyone who's ever gone looking for meteors knows the feeling: the people you're with see a great one just as you were looking the other way --- it's almost part of the fun ;) --- so I agree that I don't find this very newsworthy... However, I'm also wondering how much the fact that this was being shot with a Night Vision camera (as the caption on the bottom left seems to imply?) would have affected the visibility of the meteor; in other words, even if the reporter had been looking straight at the meteor, would he have seen it with the naked eye?
I've use Skype-Out on the N900 all the time without any problem. You may need to add the international prefix in order for it to work (starting with a + ). If you still have problems, head over to http://talk.maemo.org/ .
Off the top of my hand, a Git feature for which I don't know a Mercurial equivalent -- git-cherry-pick. Want to rewrite history a bit? Create a new branch from sometime before the commits you want to change, then cherry-pick (point-and-click simple in gitk) the commits you want, in the order you want, ignoring the ones you don't. When you're ready, clobber master with your new branch.
hg transplant
I mean, quilt (hg mq) is cool and all, but how easy is it to rewrite history if you weren't in a quilt to begin with?
hg qimport has a '-r' option which allows you to "place existing revisions under mq control" (from hg help qimport)
> Why is evacuation of Israeli colonies in the West Bank unrealistic? Israel evacuated their colonies in Gaza,
Because what Israel got in return for its withdrawal from Gaza is that the evacuated area (the entire Gaza strip) was used as a base for increased terrorism against it; because through the border between Egypt and Gaza, from which Israel also withdrew, hundreds of rockets were smuggled into Gaza and then fired at Israeli cities; because after having gradually withdrawn much of its military from the West Bank after the Oslo accords in the 1990s, Israel was finally forced to return its military there in order to halt rampant Palestinian terrorism which resulted in 1000 Israeli *civilian* deaths, in Israeli cities, after September 2000.
So now tell me, if *you* were Israeli, would you support the withdrawal from more area?
I don't know anything about economics, but it seems to me that the real DWL is the fact that these companies have invested the $5000 in something which produced nothing, rather than having invested it in whatever it is they do, and thus actually producing something. So you have one situation in which $10000 were spent, and you have something to show for it, and another situation in which the same $10000 were spent, but there's nothing to show for it. So the real DWL is the "something vs. nothing", not the $10000, which are spent in either situation.
Palestinians who are Israeli citizens living in Israel are probably better off there than they would be anywhere else in the Middle East --- I don't see any of them running to move to any of the neighboring countries, or to a Palestinian State, should one be created. Even Palestinians living in the occupied territories are probably better off than they would be in most of the neighboring countries. That's not to say that things couldn't be better, and I sincerely hope that we are able to learn to live peacefully side-by-side. But the first step has to be acknowledgment of the fact that Israel is far from the Ultimate Evil that it is often made out to be.
There is a branch of psi which supports jingle at http://psi-im.org/wiki/Jingle_branch. I've tested it with gtalk once or twice and it works, but I don't really know anyone who uses gtalk...