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We do nothing of the sort. We wait for the sea levels to rise and we build dams and walls. And we reinforce our buildings against natural disasters. And slowly the public demands changes on greenhouse gas emissions, recycling, etc, and it slowly will slow down the worsening effects.
That's the most likely scenario, nothing will change because the HackerNews netizens change cloud providers and start recycling more.
Current copyright laws, of course. Or else no one would write a book, sell software, make movies, write music.
No sharing wouldn't be possible, unless in a very controlled environment like watching a movie in the cinema or using software that only connects to a 3rd party service, that does all the computing.
And the next time there is a large scale conflict, some neighbour country may feel tempted to use that opportunity to send a single division to your country and absorb it.
Then you can say how wonderful it is to save a fraction of a percentage point of your GDP on defence and how it worked so well until the day it was needed.
I think platforms like Facebook depend on being "cool" over some demographic. Then other demographics adopt it, time passes, other demographics grow tired of the same old Facebook look their parents also used, and Facebook starts to die. We've seen this as well with other social networks like hi5, myspace, that once dominated entire continents as the preferred social website. Of course they are smart and competent people so they will try to prevent it, and it seems to have lasted longer and left a bigger mark already, but still; I'm sure a lot of people around the world already share the sentiment of "not doing anything on FB", and just keeping it open for messenger chat.
My point is not that everyone is bad. My point is that this is par for the course. We don't live in a world of law. We live in a world of civilian law separated and insulated mostly in countries, and over that, anything goes. We are not at war because our wars are financial now but it is very normal for the kidnapping and murder of people that a security threat to a country.
My point was that, if you switched and the murdered was a nuclear scientist and the assassins were Mossad agents (like it happened at least once), no one was surprised or made sanctions because of it.
Are you upset about the droning of civilians with very little oversight? Are you upset about the kidnapping of civilians into cargo ships to act as prisons without jurisdiction?
This attack killed four people, let's say there have been 20 times as many, so 80 deaths overall. do you believe the CIA, Mossad, Iran secret services, China secret services, didn't kill more?
This is interesting as an investigative work, but what of it?
Are we to believe only Russia conducts extra-judicial assassinations of people of interest? And do we expect the governments responsible to come out and admit it?
To me this circus around this particular assassination just appears to stem from having to justify sanctions against Russia by the UK. But then again, I don't expect a country to come out and admit that they'll sanction a country just to weaken it's economy and provoke social instability until they get a more favorable government.
Ah poor DuPont, who will think of the little and weak most powerful chemical company in the world. Oh the humanity.
That's not the point at all, because you don't know how significant was the result when changing the question, because this article conveniently doesn't mention it's sources and if you search a bit you find the probable source article is not online (to the best of my knowledge).
So this article seems to be just about spreading division among racial lines.
In this case the author is happy, but the point stands that he wasn't asked. And most people would be angry at receiving no attribution or warning.
But it won't, there's too much money involved to demonize China. And there are many other such examples of mass surveillance from the five eyes, CCTVs in major cities, less and less "freedom" in the web. Just this week in my country (western European) the whole database of everyone that enters and leaves the country was moved from the police to the secret services, to avoid any kind of scrutiny.
I disagree. I think that companies have such a vast and strong grasp on public discourse, opinion, and even whole countries, that it will only get worse and worse. I'm sure some companies will sell "privacy" at a premium for the few that can afford it, but I don't see any future where there will be actual riots in the streets for privacy.
Because some people have feelings and get very offended and don't process some things as logically as others.
The attack on "fake news", by any other name...
We should more than ever be teaching everyone not to use their real name on the internet, not to give out their phone number or private email address. In the internet and for businesses for advertising or any other avoidable purpose. This would eventually prevent the assumption that everybody has a phone number that can be used as authentication, or even worse, a Facebook account!
And rightly so. I'm surprised more countries haven't enforced rules on Facebook, like China does. Saying like "only things that are illegal are to be prohibited". It's insane to leave it arbitrarily to the opinion of a foreign company.
Just to add my 2 cents. I participated in elections before, both as a candidate and as member of the voting table (at instances at the same time as well). If there is some complicit agreement you can see certain leaning votes being discarded as not being clear enough, mostly because they are too left for the table or the inverse. This is widespread and a mostly unknown phenomena, since no one is going to recount a table for a small percentage of discrepancy.
I don't know anything about electronic voting but if it can guarantee there is no personal opinion in the middle, good.
I'd just like to correct one common misconception. It is not the government blocking sites, literally any company can just complain via email and the site is banned. No government oversight, no court order. Just being an important company.
To give you an example, one of the popular websites that was banned just showed photographs of the covers of the daily newspapers. This is 100% legal but some media group complained and that's about it.
Classical Mozilla
I've tested it myself as well. It is still as laggy as I remember, such a shame. I really want a simple graphical editor that can color the files that have been modified in Git.
I wish I could use Atom but I work with very large files at time and it is very slow at some tasks (like selecting all selections of text and editing them all at once), forcing me to use Sublime Text.
Can some kind user tell me if this latest version performs better now?
China is also populous and oppressive enough that they can outlast the Uighurs in the long run, so there is little hope on this matter.
What a silly article. They saw themselves as greek, or macedonian, or athenian, or citizens versus slaves. Everywhere in the world people saw themselves and other as where they were from, their culture, etc. Travel was very difficult and most people didn't read, so chances are you'd never see someone from somwhere else with different color or fashion sense.
The first mentions I know of people based on their race in when talking about "the negroe", but it is still implied as being people from Sub Sahaaran Africa, but by virtue of ignorance about individual tribes/regions, a common name was used. I remember a famous criticism to the constitution created after the French revolution that talked about "the rights of men"; instead of the rights of the French, the Englishman, the Turk; which were seen as completely different groups of people given the time and difficulty of travel.
Plus, I dislike the confusion between slavery and racism. People used to take what they wanted by force, and when allowed, they'd take human beings. I doubt it was because they hated other people, instead it was because they were allowed to subjugate other people; motivated by financial/power motives. Enslavement was a common practise until the ideals of humanism won over the super powers of the time; humanism won over human greed.
There is no legal right to Facebook, but if Facebook wants to do business here, it has to abide by our rules. And our rules are very simple, you cannot deny service because the user doesn't allow tracking if tracking is not necessary for your service to work. And it isn't in this case, it's only necessary to deliver higher paying ads.
Since they are being selective on the users they accept based on being tracked, they are now on track for another EU fine.
They have wiretapped the entire world with PRISM and other similar secret programs. They have seized and vanished a countless number of people to black site secret prisons.
Who cares about Russia.
This should be named: Data transfer through power lines. The rest is just accessory since the machine has to have the exploit already installed.
"If you look at what is happening around us, you can see very clear signals that the public has had enough."
No, outside of a few echo chambers, no one cares about privacy or knows what GDPR is. Until GDPR shows everyday on the evening news for weeks it will not be well-known, and there are many things more important to most people than online privacy. Heck, Cambridge Analytica was only a scandal because the "bad guy won".
How did you not expect this to be here if your own account has 26 self promotion submissions? (and nothing else)
Flag 4: Supposedly he published articles at 12 about how "every year there are a lot of new startups" [1].
Flag 5: He had the good sense of using a throwaway email at 13, associated with nothing but his projects and no photos.
Flag 6: That same good sense to get into every self-promotion channel, like Twitter would even cross a child's mind in 2017.
Flag 7: Some of his projects seem copy pasted from school/books/online examples, without attribution.
My guess is that he has a really intense family on him being an overachiever, they are probably aiming at some internships, which is only fair.
[1] https://hackernoon.com/42-startups-changing-the-world-4f3d1a...
Hi there, I'm left wondering if you started this [1] from scratch or used a sample OS project? I don't understand why'd you initialize the GDT in the bootloader.