A pair of shoes, a bike or a phone will be used a lot more, and with no license restrictions, than a hobbyist copy of Mathematica.
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The grammar is simpler (no gender and fewer inflections), but it has more phonemes than most other Indo-European languages, and has one of the largest vocabularies.
It's bad enough when sunrise is after 9am in the middle of the winter, after most people have travelled to work or children to school.
That costs more than a month's rent in some European cities https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/region_prices_by_city?...
At $work, once we dropped support for Internet Explorer, site development and maintenance became much easier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_hast_den_Farbfilm_vergessen
Is this also happening for repos for other languages (e.g. CPAN, RubyGems)?
This had nothing to do with the internet.
Speech has always been under attack in the US.
Even in the past 100 years from the teaching of evolution in the early 20th century to bans of "obscene" books and films, even bans on what you can say on radio or television, or banning marches and protests by unpopular groups of people.
If anything, the internet has allowed people to circumvent these bans.
That isn't to say recent attacks on free speech should be ignored. But they are not "thanks to the internet".
If you make false accusations about people, and that results in them losing business, or being harassed or physically attacked, then you are responsible.
I recall reading an article about studies paper companies did in the early 20th century that found the same thing. (If the studies showed light ink on dark paper was easier to read, I'm sure businesses would have rushed to sell expensive patented dark papers and white inks.) Can't find references to those studies alas.
In the late 90s I inherited a SunOS workstation that booted with black text on a white background. (Could never get it working so gave it back.)
Imagine instead of a user profile at Royal Mail this was patient data in a hospital. Getting this information wrong could endanger someone's life.
And mistakes with private data that isn't safety critical can still cost a hefty fine from a government data protection office, or bad publicity and damage to your reputation.
Even if you have a perfect way to fix the social problems with social media, it's still a massive time and productivity sink.
I don't have enough time in the day to read every interesting article and blog post, let along engage in debate or add a meaningful comment.
Nor to I have enough time top write thoughtful articles about things that I am thinking about, let along ready any comments people might have.
This reminds me that I should be disengaging from even more websites (this one included).
Unfortunately, most devs don't think there is ever a need to check that until it fails.
Until an unauthorized person gains access to your computer.
I'm assuming there is some sort of encryption, but if the software can transparently decrypt the data to access it, then what is to prevent someone stealing the key from the software?
How is this affected by wiretap and privacy laws, where you would need the consent of other people in the room?
At home, I certainly don't want something recording every sound.
Even at work, I don't want everything recorded. Sometimes people need to communicate freely and discretely, e.g. your manager says to you like "Don't prioritize the CEOs request. It's a bad idea and won't go anywhere. If he asks you, we're working on it. I'll deal with the fallout later."
Meta has an awful history of managing users' data and harvesting users' emotions to make money from advertisers. They don't care about the damage they do to users or to their culture and politics.
- You can be prosecuted for the effects of speech, e.g. inciting people to riot/commit crimes;
- Threats of violence are not protected;
- Misleading claims in advertisements are not protected;
You can still be sued in civil courts for libel/slander, or the effects of your speech.
And people have the right to shun you if they don't like what you say.
It does not mean that a publisher is obligated to publish your speech. A newspaper does not have to publish your letter, a blog can delete your comments, and Facebook or Twitter can delete your posts or even suspend your account.
> McKinsey reports that this will make it easier to provide financial aid more effectively and quickly in the future. But it also unlocks potential opportunities to provide Americans with more privacy and security than traditional IDs typically give.
> For example, a driver’s license, which has become the default ID for most people in the country, has a vulnerable combination of sensitive information printed right on it: name, date of birth, and address. With digital IDs, the theory is that Americans can better protect sensitive information by relying on a QR code to share only the information needed for a transaction to be verified. This would limit the data collected by third parties that can then be seized by bad actors through data breaches
As the question is about granting access to accounts after death, it seems an odd worry. The government is also likely to get access to your data from your Google, Facebook, etc. If you have a server in the cloud, they can probably go to your hosting provider to get physical access.
So unless you have data in secret offshore servers in countries that won't cooperate with the US government, then a safe is not your weakest link.
The point of markdown is to be readable by humans, using similar annotations that people have been using in ASCII text emails for decades.