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Wouldn't that trigger the security alarm installed in the property?

> When a courier arrives with a package for in-home delivery, they scan the barcode, sending a request to Amazon’s cloud. If everything checks out, the cloud grants permission by sending a message back to the camera, which starts recording. The courier then gets a prompt on their app, swipes the screen, and voilà, your door unlocks. They drop off the package, relock the door with another swipe, and are on their way. The customer will get a notification that their delivery has arrived, along with a short video showing the drop-off to confirm everything was done properly.

So, you only need a valid smart card, a working Amazon courier app and a balaclava to gain an unencumbered access to any of these homes?

Actually, good morning صباح الخير has a strong vowel right there "ا" in the first word.

One of the problems people face with learning Arabic is that weak vowels are implicit by nature and you need to know them by heart in order to read the words properly.

I have to play the native Arabic speaker resident here and weigh on this controversy

1) The guy wrote يصبحهم (non standard Arabic) but it was picked as يذبحهم by FB which translates to (He slaughters/slays them)

2) The smaller problem lies in that the word يصبحهم is not standard Arabic and probably Palestinian slang like in Egypt we got many variations on the morning greeting like صباحو or صبّح صبّح etc etc

3) The bigger problem was why FB translator went out of its way to change the letter from ص to ذ instead of returning a "Not Found" or "Please double check spelling and try again" or "Did you mean ....?"

It's really very strange.

Did he call for violence against homosexuals or this is just a strawman?

I must admit that I am not well acquainted with all the facts of this controversy, just the basics and I don't recall him calling for violence.

Collective punishment and guilt by association are morally reprehensible but getting everyone off the hook is equally wrong irrespective of their rank in the food chain.

I am not saying that you necessarily advocated for this position in your comment but I just felt the need to make my point clear.

What makes you think that that the coverage of this event to be unbalanced and vindictive?

I think that we all agree that this event should be documented and reported objectively as it's newsworthy proved by this very article here and it deserves a mention in a subsection on their Wiki entry.

It's free speech whether you like it or not and I don't think your tactics of playing hardball with Eich or any other skeptic of gay rights would win him over to your cause as it foments feelings of resentment and discontent and likely lead to counter-productive results.

When you usually write headlines, you go for the most concise or compact version possible to conserve space.

Even though I'm a non native speaker, I haven't experienced any difficulties parsing and processing this headline. I am not sure what part of it that got you off balance.

These questionable material in your opinion could have more entertainment value than other those educational and scientific material on YT and entertainment is more lucrative for advertisers than other genres.

This is a value judgement and therefore it's subjective and function of personal preferences.

My supposed remark was a reference to how this ritual was practiced in other human cultures as Jews didn't invent male circumcision.

It was like "Hey boy, you've hit puberty and become a man now. Let's do this small rite of passage and cut that foreskin off your dick so you could join the rest of the tribe of grown up men"

That's a theological critique, mine was sociological one from an outside observer. Still, the theological arguments don't work under a secular government which takes pride in separating the state from religion.

The problem with these rituals is that they're sometimes performed by non professionals, and in this specific case not under medical supervision, and this may put the infant's health at risk by either late health complications or worse death.

Here's a case for two babies getting Herpes in NYC because of this practise.

Are you OK with this?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/herpes-strikes-nyc-babies-ritua...

By the way, FGM is not an exclusively Islamic tradition in some Muslim-majority countries. There are certain non-Muslim African communities that engage in these awful practices.

I have a circumcised penis and I am not Jewish. Reducing the Jewish identity to having your penis circumcised is just flawed as it naturally excludes Jewish women.

Jewish males can still have their private parts circumcised when they become adult as it was supposed to be the case, a rite of passage for getting into the adult world.

Most of your rebuttal is centered around a "slippery-slope" argument and it is not convincing enough.

I totally agree that one should start with a monolith and when he feels confident that all bases were covered in the codebase, he can begin to worry about breaking up the monolith into microservices.

This growth journey makes more sense than starting out the door working on your microservices before business logic as this is like putting the cart before the horse.

I am not saying anything but this looks like good old "pork barrel politics" to me.

Can you recommend please some of these non CB based libraries?

Slightly off-topic, what caught my attention was how the firm developing MariaDB is Finnish while one of the top leadership* who approved the agreement is Finnish too.

*: European Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen, responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness

It's a loan agreement not a grant.

> It didn’t get all the bells and whistles of other alphabets in actual practice.

Like what exactly? What's missing of value?

> but this was rarely done in Arabic

Because it's redundant. I know it's frustrating for beginners to guess the diacritics on the words but once you get to intermediate/advanced proficiency level of the language, you'll start to appreciate this design aspect of the language.

> Again, the “current system” in use for centuries in Middle Turkic and early modern Kazan Tatar and other Kipchak languages did not mark most vowels with the use of diacritics in spite of their theoretic availability.

How's this Arabic's fault?

To be honest with you, I am not really familiar with Ottoman Turkish let alone other Turkic languages and their evolution journey but if they didn't make any use of extended vowel diacritics or worse the baseline package of Arabic, I don't know exactly how they managed to communicate using that system.

This is how all alphabets came into being:

1- Egyptian hieroglyphs

2- Sinaic script

3- Phoenician script.

Then alphabets evolved from that like Latin and Greek with all the bells and whistles. Semitic scripts on the other hand remained true to its roots and didn't evolve to have dedicated vowels early on.

Arabic as a Semitic language descended from Syriac and Aramaic and thus lacked distinct vowels. Heck early Arabic script didn't make any effort to differentiate similar looking consonants as diacritic were totally missing. Case in point, Hejazi Script, one of the early Arabic scripts lacked vowels, vowel diacritics and consonant diacritics but only possessed the defining quality of cursive/adjoining writing.

However, for later versions of the Arabic script, things improved substantially esp. when it had the full support and backup of the then-young and burgeoning Islamic state, and thus it underwent a complete overhaul where it got all the bells and whistles of other alphabets but retaining a few distinctive features like compactness.

So, yeah you can say that vowels were afterthought in early Arabic scripts but definitely not for the current system in use for centuries now and that's why I characterized his/her statement as an orientalist claim that's completely inaccurate and improper.

For Ottoman Turkish, I get the frustration that some Turkish speakers may have had with reading or writing in Arabic script. Original Arabic script is not supposed to be a drop-in replacement for any language. It needs first to be extended and re-purposed to meet the requirements of the target language and with languages like Turkish with a wider selection of vowels, it gets tricky to work around the limitations of the script like vowel diacritics.

Absent these additions and workarounds, it becomes more advisable to make the switch to more accommodative script like Latin and forgo the succinctness and terseness gains of the Arabic script and that's why I view Kurdish written in Arabic script as a big mess as the developers opted to full hard code of the vowels in the script while dropping vowel diacritics altogether.

> Vowels are an afterthought to Arabic writing,

That's an orientalist claim. Vowels do exist in Arabic but some foreign learners of the language don't get the distinction between short and long vowels and how the letters "ا و ي" have dual role as consonants and vowels as well.

> you're shoehorning a language into a script that really isn't appropriate for it.

Here's a phonetic transliteration of your first sentence in Arabic

"Arabic is a Semitic language; Turkish and the other Turkic are not."

"أَرَبِك از أَ سِمِتِك لانجوِﭺ، تِركِش أَند أَذَر تِركِك أَر نَت"

By the way, this is the Egyptian convention since the "g" sound is missing in Modern Standard Arabic.

In Arabic, some country names get the definite article "al ال" like "(The) Iraq العراق" while most don't and "Ukraine أوكرانيا" is definitely one of them.

Tech is a double-edged sword.

I also could think of anti-human-targeting weapons to stop or neutralize those vehicles.

Everything is possible.

Right, it's an arms race between us and the terrorists but at this point in time we need to make this weapon turn from low-tech to high-tech to operate thus raising the barrier and make it prohibitively difficult for losers to hijack or drive trucks to kill pedestrians on the street.

Or better stopping vehicle-ramming terrorist attacks like the one in Stockholm last week. Just imagine a system setup on the vehicle where it detects above-average acceleration in a downtown area (GPS supplied) in addition to abnormal swerving coupled with pedestrian data from the sensor network, the auto-pilot system kicks in and takes over the vehicle bringing it into grinding halt immediately.

Kill 'em with kindness.

On a more serious note, I don't see Trump's mentions in the article to be unwarranted at all. On the contrary, they're very appropriate given his divisive rhetoric about the news media, and I believe that the author was very measured and reserved with his reporting.

It is not like he went out of his way to take a jab at him. The references were all on topic and informative.

Nothing really to complain about here.

I think that was rhetorical.

I hate to sound this much politically incorrect but women in these times of social unrest and upheaval turn into resources themselves and this clustering, as you described it, would be more of involuntary and less of at will.

This doesn't mean that women in these situations wouldn't tend to gravitate toward the most power male with the largest resources in the pack but in most case it's the other way around.