Posts by Drew V.

Well said indeed.

This study appears to lump genuine smears (which in my experience are rare) in with people who have genuine grievances but tend to overstate their case or employ course language...as people who have grievances often do (that's human behavior, nothing more).

But even if you lump both types together and call them all "trolls", at the end of the day there is still more truth in what these trolls are spouting online than contained in all of corporate advertising.

That's right. Those kids aren't dying because they don't have frickin' lasers, it's because they can't afford plain old mosquito nets, cheap though they are.

About the only realistic way this tech will ever reach its intended target, is by donating it to orphanages and such where it might be used to cover one large space with many beds. Maybe.

Not "become". Apple was a control freak right from the beginning. What has changed is that now it is a rich and powerful control freak able to throw its weight around in many directions.

Once a cookie is blocked, you have to unblock it not through Cookie Culler but through Firefox's own built-in cookies list ("Exceptions" under privacy settings). The reason for this is that the extension behaves in a subservient way to Firefox's built-in cookie settings and defers to it. All this is explained in the FAQ ( http://cookieculler.mozdev.org/ffaq.html ) but the developer admits that it can be confusing. Still a very good extension IMO.

This applies less less in Europe, where you have high-speed rail everywhere and people are somewhat less attached to cars. If you live in, say, the outskirts of France, then you take the high-speed train to the big hub in Paris and take the plane from there.

Ditto for Japan: you take the shinkansen bullet train to either Tokyo or Osaka, the big international hubs.

Even with the various improvements to airliners, trains continue to be more energy-efficient per passenger, and getting more efficient still. They are also far more environmentally friendlier.

http://files.gereports.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/FINAL-3_Transportation1.jpg

Not surprising, therefore, that Airbus has gone with the A380 idea. From a European and Asian POV I think it makes sense and is quite forward-looking. From an American POV it makes less sense, but that may yet change.

What is this C-D you speak of? Can you torrent that?

Though I do have a vague and distant memory of a company called A-O-L burying me in free ones..

News International doesn't outsource everything...

...but they have certainly tried, and will keep trying. They believe in the "market", after all.

@Craig 12

They have indeed made it a society-wide rule that it is always better to have too many employees than to have too few. All those low-paid menial jobs are indeed to keep unemployment down. Also because there is much more social and psychological pressure to make yourself useful to society...even if it is just scraping gum off the handrails for a living.

I lived and commuted in Tokyo for a year and no train was ever late by more than a minute, except on those few occasions when someone killed themselves jumping in front of one. Maybe it was a particularly bad month for suicides when you were there.

Still the finest public transport in the world, IMO. No offense meant to the folks employed by British rail companies, but BR is more like the very opposite.

Not necessarily saying you're wrong (it wouldn't surprise me at all to hear that FB's own in-house censorship policies are generally selective, arbitrary and unfair) but do you have any evidence of this?

The Have-Shares versus The Have-No-Shares

The American shareholders of Apple benefit from all that. So it's not so much the benefit of Chinese citizens vs. the benefit of American citizens (altough that's often what it looks like at the worker level, certainly) but Americans with capital vs. Americans without capital. Put differently, it's the 1% versus the 99%.

Funny how so many things can be reduced to a single issue (inequality) these days, is it not?

If it was really about getting pages to people faster, they could have gone with Opera Mini or another already existing mobile browser, instead of building everything from the ground up. Much cheaper.

Of course it is about snooping on people.

Have you tried fastmail.fm? Not based in the US. Not free. But not the chocolate factory either.

Actually, it gives the judiciary a (potential) veto on what can be sent over the internet. The government writes the laws, but the courts decide whether something is conform to the law, i.e. "lawful".

And the courts already had this power, otherwise we would never have had any copyright lawsuits whatsoever.

So your point stands but only in those cases where the courts side with the federal government.