It's been public knowledge for years that he's basically an asshole and a pain to work with. Wikileaks is necessary and requires support, and in so far as his work is essential to Wikileaks, so does he, but that doesn't make him personally worthy of respect. The heroes in this piece, if there are heroes, are sources like Breanna Manning and Edward Snowden, and journalists like Glenn Greenwald.
This kind of ultimatum sounds like standard chest-thumping. Yeah, sure, you're going to walk away from a 16-billion-dollar deal for the sake of an airline ticket. Pull the other one.
If we extend the definition to technology that is not tightly integrated with the body, then we've been cyborgs since we started using stone tools. Modern humans couldn't survive without hardware - I don't think that a clear line can be drawn between sticks and wheels, wheels and engines, or engines and microcomputers.
If you're sending an email from anywhere to anywhere, odds are that at least one or both of you are using an email account with one of the big US-based internet companies (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.). Or you don't even bother with email and use Facebook instead.
So your message is very likely to not only cross the Atlantic, but also get stored and backed up redundantly in several datacenters including servers in the US. This has nothing to do with internet architecture, just market forces and poor consumer options.
Internet routing only begins to matter to email security if your email account is hosted privately or by a local organization - and even then, you're better off securing the email by encryption than trying to compartmentalize a network that was designed from the beginning to ignore physical locations and borders.
Internet routing doesn't respect geographical location. If you can't trust your internet connection even without knowing the route it takes, then you can't trust it at all. Everything must be encrypted.
Of course, our politicians don't actually want to protect our privacy; they just want to be the only ones listening.
"If you can make it this easy for people to share more information about themselves, why can't you let me decide to share less information about myself?"
Because that's their business. Yeah, this is progress on the gender acceptance front, but the biggest reason Facebook does it is so they can get more detailed and more accurate information about their users' identities.
Record companies can extort huge license fees because they control most of the artists, which is because they control the biggest market, which is because they extort huge license fees to make other industries unprofitable.
Trying to supplant the record industry by licensing its content can't work. If the streaming industry wants to go anywhere, they need to deal with the artists directly. Which popular artists hesitate to do to avoid hurting relations with record companies.
In fact, the Toronto fire department says the fire didn't originate in the battery, the charging system, the adapter or electrical receptacle since all of those components weren't touched by the fire.
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It's been public knowledge for years that he's basically an asshole and a pain to work with. Wikileaks is necessary and requires support, and in so far as his work is essential to Wikileaks, so does he, but that doesn't make him personally worthy of respect. The heroes in this piece, if there are heroes, are sources like Breanna Manning and Edward Snowden, and journalists like Glenn Greenwald.
https://xkcd.com/512/
Waiting for angry libertarians to demand that the government pass regulations to stop this from happening again.
I hope it was a vulnerability in their Python code?
If the microwave laser ever gets knocked out of alignment, you'll never ever have to worry about popcorn shortages.
Or anything else, I guess.
That judge will surely be convinced if you dismiss the law as their personal opinion.
A group of Anonymous Cowards playing the Internet Tough Guy game together is honestly pretty funny.
This kind of ultimatum sounds like standard chest-thumping. Yeah, sure, you're going to walk away from a 16-billion-dollar deal for the sake of an airline ticket. Pull the other one.
Now he has the money to fly to Barcelona and back every day for the rest of his natural life, so that worked out great.
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It's almost as if girls are actively made to feel unwelcome in gamer culture or something.
His name is John Laws. Really.
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If we extend the definition to technology that is not tightly integrated with the body, then we've been cyborgs since we started using stone tools. Modern humans couldn't survive without hardware - I don't think that a clear line can be drawn between sticks and wheels, wheels and engines, or engines and microcomputers.
If you're sending an email from anywhere to anywhere, odds are that at least one or both of you are using an email account with one of the big US-based internet companies (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.). Or you don't even bother with email and use Facebook instead.
So your message is very likely to not only cross the Atlantic, but also get stored and backed up redundantly in several datacenters including servers in the US. This has nothing to do with internet architecture, just market forces and poor consumer options.
Internet routing only begins to matter to email security if your email account is hosted privately or by a local organization - and even then, you're better off securing the email by encryption than trying to compartmentalize a network that was designed from the beginning to ignore physical locations and borders.
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I'm not Greek and right there with you; Cosmos needs Vangelis again.
Could listen to this for hours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
But Neil Tyson is pretty awesome too.
Internet routing doesn't respect geographical location. If you can't trust your internet connection even without knowing the route it takes, then you can't trust it at all. Everything must be encrypted.
Of course, our politicians don't actually want to protect our privacy; they just want to be the only ones listening.
More on this exciting development later.
People aren't superstitious idiots. They're just idiots.
Yep, that probably follows from Cantor's diagonal argument.
"If you can make it this easy for people to share more information about themselves, why can't you let me decide to share less information about myself?"
Because that's their business. Yeah, this is progress on the gender acceptance front, but the biggest reason Facebook does it is so they can get more detailed and more accurate information about their users' identities.
Record companies can extort huge license fees because they control most of the artists, which is because they control the biggest market, which is because they extort huge license fees to make other industries unprofitable.
Trying to supplant the record industry by licensing its content can't work. If the streaming industry wants to go anywhere, they need to deal with the artists directly. Which popular artists hesitate to do to avoid hurting relations with record companies.
Or maybe insurance fraud, who knows.