It's very common in South India. I'm a Hindu too, and my last name is my father's first name, just like my son's last name is my first name.
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Most of all, if this was indeed above board and ethical, why did Thiel feel the need to do this surreptitiously until outed by the NYT (is he going to fund someone to sue them too?).
That's an assumption not borne out by facts. The Indian govt. has denied that citizens even have a right to privacy [1]. And there is no recourse (or even disclosure requirements) if a citizen's data is lost, stolen or misused under the Aadhaar ID system [2].
This is not say Aadhaar or the Indian govt. are bad, but I'm just contesting your point Indians "should not be so uneasy" about giving up their biometrics and other data to the govt. There are massive, valid concerns.
[1] - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/No-fundamental-righ...
[2] - http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/aadhaar-bil...
AFAIK, the raw Panama Papers database has not been made available online and is only restricted to ICIJ and its int'l media partners.
[1] https://twitter.com/singersuchi/status/677734574319767552
[2] https://recode.net/2015/12/21/facebook-accidentally-asks-u-s...
[3] https://twitter.com/grondmaster/status/677797484781957120
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>> Apple has approved a piece of software for its digital store that enables iPhone users to block advertisements from appearing in mobile apps such as those of Facebook, Yahoo and The New York Times.
>> Been Choice was launched in the US this month and is more powerful than other types of adblocking software on the market, which are only able to eliminate ads from web pages. The service even prevents Apple delivering ads to its own News app
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>> David Yoon, co-founder of Been Choice, said he created the company to give consumers “a choice about who gets their data, how it gets used, and who benefits from its value”.
>> To make money, Been Choice plans to allow users to sell their data through the app. The company is offering to pay people $20 a month if they consent to being shown ads and allow Been Choice to collect information about how they use their devices.
>> Mr Yoon said the company gives users “a clear choice” about whether they want to block ads or share in the value created by their data.
1 - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/bringing-the-internet...
Thing is, it's a constant battle for the school with parents who always want their kids to with same-age kids or older-ones, never smaller ones. Everyone thinks their kid's development will be "held back" because of the younger children in the class. Telling them about how older kids also learn from playing or working with younger kids is a hard sell, when all parents think today is academic progress.
For a minute I almost thought we were talking about China.
(a) it has dozens of companies that create technology the rest of the world uses, and (b) it has a govt. that secretly works to undermine the technology developed by those companies.
You're not going to hear about many foreign govt's actively hacking their country's software products, simply because they could easily/secretly armtwist cos. into installing backdoors at the beginning. Take China for instance - do we think it needs to hack into, say, Huawei phones or Wechat? I don't think so.
As a foreigner, that is why this "fight" between US software cos. and its govt. is so fascinating. It's made possible through a unique combination of capital, freedom and history. And I hope it remains that way, for the sake of the rest of the world too.
That said, I wonder if Gemalto really had any other option than to say its keys weren't stolen. What might be the cost of replacing all affected SIM cards?
-Resource Availability
-Resource Quality
- Employee turnover
- Mindset and work ethics
- Cost
A truly lazy piece of writing about generic/cylical demand-supply challenges that most booming industries end up facing.
I wish there was a way to visualize at a high-level how language on the Chinese Internet is drifting over time and try and correlate it to the emotions/thoughts the Communist Party wants people to have. This is the Thought Police and Mind Control from 1984, only way, way more advanced and insidious and real.
Brrrr. Getting the chills just imagining being subjected to this!
Edit: adding a direct link to the Google Docs spreadsheet containing the 9054 words - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19eS47Dg086vR1jh9oo51...
[1] - http://www.berkes.ca/archive/berkes_1984_language.html
There was once Google Voice, Google Chat, Google Talk, Google Hangouts and now Google Messenger! This is crazy.
Yesterday I opened a Google Drive spreadsheet via the Android "Drive" (which was earlier "Docs") app yesterday but when I tried to edit a cell was told I need to install "Sheets" to do so! I'm waiting for Google Save, Google Forward, Google Share, Google Delete. Sorry, scratch that last one cos we know Delete ain't gonna happpen at Google.
Thanks to the trifecta of ubiquitous smartphones, pervasive Internet and no-holds-barred data mining, I'd argue that the tech landscape we inhabit today is very different from anything we've ever encountered.
Say a startup does create a better product than Google or Facebook, it can't charge for it, because everything is free. It certainly can't monetize it better than Google or Facebook because they have infinitely more data on users than any startup can even fathom. It has to go through Google's and Facebook's "gates" to find and retain customers.
Those precious few that do manage to pull off the impossible, like Whatsapp, will be quickly bought over by Google or Facebook. Thus closing off any gaps that existed in their defense and reducing the possibility of independent competition even more.
Any meaningful analysis of digital monopolies needs to understand this instead of just relying on past examples.
Edit: I'm not saying the EU is right, or that their motives are kosher. Merely that we need to do a comprehensive forward-looking analysis of Google's dominance, extrapolating from present data and trends. Using past data alone strikes me as lazy or self-serving.
Can you explain "civilization reversion"?
I live in a fairly well-off suburb of south Bangalore that has NO municipal sewage or water supply. Mine isn't an isolated case either as large parts of Bangalore have neither. Also, large parts of Gurgaon, arguably India's largest new city.
So how do we make by? Apartment communities have their own sewage & waste water treatment plants; rain-water harvesting; private garbage disposal (we segregate into multiple categories); drinking water brought in by water tankers that pump ground water (which the law doesn't really protect).
> In the case of VPN traffic, a system called HAMMERSTEIN identifies the traffic and sends the metadata to a database called TOYGRIPPE. The TOYGRIPPE database is a “repository of VPN endpoints”14 that is used by targeting officers to determine if that computer should be a target for further exploitation 13. The TURMOIL VPN module also looks up the IP information in a database called KEYCARD to determine if the target should be tasked for targeted SIGINT collection or to recover the VPN key. Of special note is that this VPN traffic passes through a system called “TE-VPN PIQ Blade.” PIQ refers to the PICARESQUE ECI marking 38, which is associated with BULLRUN 16. The BULLRUN program is NSA’s effort to weaken and exploit encryption that protects digial SIGINT, whether by finding bugs in cryptographic algorithms or by manipulating standards bodies or companies into weakening encryption tools. It is safe to assume that PIQ is a compartment that contains the details of a cryptologic attack against a specific VPN technology (or technologies), which the NSA/GCHQ either found or paid for.
I'm not saying 10X Management is an example, but why can't individual programming be valued like, say, acting/singing etc.?