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It is perfectly legitimate to doubt the veracity of MSM. However, what is your exact criterion for vetting fake or real information, based only on your personal experience ─ and one which you might need to present or refute in a professional capacity?
He goes on to contrast the role of companies such as Microsoft with that of aggregators, which dominate a market by amassing far more content than rivals — like Google and Facebook Inc. in online media, or Amazon in e-commerce. Referring to how companies like these work, he says: “You commoditize supply. You’re even sort of commoditizing the demand, in some ways. That’s a very different dynamic.”
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-12-21...
This kind of jingoistic comment demonstrates how a tactical post with some technical information, can massively skew judgement. According to Network Rail, the routes in question are not only one of the most congested in the country, but have been mired with problems of under-investment and lack of desire to ease the bottleneck. Some of the routes connect salubrious stock-broker belts with the City of London, in addition to Brighton & Hove, East Sussex. Other routes traversing East Croydon, acting as a hub, also serve the mainline stations of London Victoria and London Bridge to (London) Gatwick ─ the second busiest airport in the country.
I wonder how many people will be forgiving or cheering for Network Rail and handing out accolades for their neatly constructed blogs, when they miss their flight or arrive to work late 'due to signalling problems'.
Part 1:https://www.networkrail.co.uk/news/strong-support-for-propos...
Part 2:https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-routes...
A Conservative spokesperson said the real justification for their MPs to use Signal was operational, rather than for security reasons. With so many Tory MPs elected at the last election, it had become impossible to fit them all in a single WhatsApp group, because they are currently capped at 256 members.
Your comment is partially correct, it is the Home Secretaries, past and present, who have been routinely told by the civil servants to tow the anti-encryption line, which goes back to RIPA 2000 and even further back. In essence it is GCHQ who are asking and they understand encryption perfectly well; since they can't ask directly, hence the role falls upon the relevant minister in government to do it.
This will once again become a hot-button issue as outlined in the Queen's speech. The Tory Party is also switching from Whatsapp to Signal ─ make of that, what you will.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/10/former_gchq_wades_i...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/17/tories-swit...
You could not have picked a worse example to illustrate your point. If your intention was to defend the person by admonishing me and meting out sage advice as a form of punishment, perhaps it would have been wise to read past the first tweet, whose contents you crudely paraphrased. If you unroll the thread and read the following tweets, you will find that it presents a litany of events ─ adding to an already chequered past of a man, who has a colourful presence on the platform, which has been documented comprehensively elsewhere in the media.
I studied Mandarin formally a little while ago up to HSK 2/3 level, at a reputable university based on a weekly 3 hour lesson. Although not comparable to your experience, I can relate to your approach.
On the course, we were encouraged to concentrate as much on the conversational side as reading simplified/traditional texts, mostly assisted via Pinyin. The only resources available to us were a well stocked library. It took so much longer and proved to be an incredibly frustrating experience at times, especially when desperately trying to find native speakers to converse with or decipher even the most basic of texts. As a lapsed 'student' I feel it was all worth it in the end, despite only retaining 10% of everything I learned, at least the knowledge can be justified as well rounded.
The other resources I leaned upon for assistance consisted of TV, news, movies, meetup and various language courses, which were no substitute for real interaction with native speakers. Wenlin and Plecodict were a godsend, when you did not want to consult a physical dictionary. Amongst others, the forum below sparked more interest in the wider aspects of the language and culture.
>On the other hand, this should be an excellent test of Apple’s security and review process....
In between your two contrasting comments, lies the rub of how much further Apple is willing to capitulate to the demands of nation states ─ who demand nothing less.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/28/world/europe/crimea-apple...
By rolling with an approved and expensed option, which eliminates certain amount of ambiguity, does not imply that Uber is part of a cartel; irrespective of it's licensing woes and/or impending banishment from multiple lucrative markets. At present, it does not even enjoy a majority position to form an alliance, let alone collude with locally competitive operators.
If you seek an answer to that question, you don't have to venture very far from Google, who birthed this creation.
As you have been overly fond of using tu quoque as a rhetorical device throughout this thread ─ in your earlier response, you trivialised the exercise of willingly handing-over the most precious of all and the pinnacle of personal data, whilst paying for the privilege, and compared it to just another transaction on Amazon: what about the fact, that almost all tyrants are enabled and empowered by somebody (usually the govt.); it would be conducive to conclude based upon your fervour, that you are equally complicit in creating yet another tyrannical corporation, which shares your disdain for privacy?
Nevertheless, the above-mentioned debate is moot, especially when you consider the original point(s) made in the article, with regards to the vagaries of explicitly sharing your genetic data without first analysing the implications.
"Alibaba Cloud earns 90% of its revenue in China and has not appreciably grown its enterprise customer base outside of China. Alibaba has limited capabilities in terms of an MSP ecosystem, third-party enterprise software integration and operational tools; and small global field teams limit adoption outside of China."
"Google demonstrates an immaturity of process and procedures when dealing with enterprise accounts, which can make the company difficult to transact with at times. This can be attributed to its nascent focus on the enterprise market. The immaturity of process is most pronounced in areas such as contract negotiation, discounting, independent software vendor (ISV) licensing, integration with enterprise systems and support."
Which part sounds good? At it's most simplest, the part where you are not just frittering away your own privacy, but also of those related to you ─ in order to help a Google spin-off based on nepotism, should be reason enough to remain wary ─ until at least some semblance of how to deal with bad practices or egregious cases, is offered by lawmakers on this subject.
Tiffany C. Li, a privacy expert and resident fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, told Tom's Guide. "You are paying to help the company make money with your data"
When you give your DNA data to companies like Ancestry.com or 23andMe, you give up not only your own genetic privacy, but that of your entire family
You are right about a complex relationship with numerous contractual obligations and SLA's etc. in place; usually loaded in favour of the big contractors, but it is extremely rare for them to be paid by the hour. They might parachute individuals or a team of IT contractors/consultants and pay them on a hourly basis, to clean up some mess or cover up their ineptitude and provide a level of plausible deniability, which almost always involves political machinations.
"None of the stories have any quotations in, none of them have any analysis of what happened or what the significance is. It is purely a written version of what has happened based on the data. So that's quite a big downside in terms of quality of journalism."
However, Mr McKenzie said the BBC was still in the "very early stages of understanding what audiences want from the technology".
https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/cfmlca/i_build_the_a...
Apollo (iOS) provides a nice and clean design, as does Joey (Android) which copies the style of the former. Even on the desktop, the experience is smooth and manageable, by using uMatrix and RES, whether you are browsing old.reddit or not. I don't understand the hesitancy in using these enhancements to enrich your user experience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bågenholm
The electrocardiogram connected to her showed no signs of life,[2] but Gilbert knew patients should be "warmed up before you declare them dead".[25]
I feel we have reached peak Firefox. I have no qualms about supporting Mozilla by going with their VPN offering, even it costs a little more. I don't particularly have any objections to some of the recent features like Monitor, DoH, Sync etc. Once the rollout of their VPN product is complete, sometime next year, I would expect them to work with what they have at hand, rather than having too many balls in the air ie. instead of chasing down Chrome or integrating even more services, I hope they will concentrate on staying close to their values and committed to strengthening the core products.
Excerpt from the linked article: In these two case studies, all that was changed was the time stamp on the blog post. In both studies, the sample posts received a more than 50% growth in traffic in the weeks following the update.
The Night Tube has been operational since mid-2014 and it has only gathered pace.
https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/what-we-are-do...
They are not rare in city centres, which is their natural habitat eg. take a trip into Central London/Westend/City of London etc., you will find them everywhere. Unless, you are talking about the suburbs, where they have always been as rare as hens teeth.
https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing...