I wonder if these "security" features are on imported Chinese printers (from Chinese manufacturers). It is so easy to order generic products from Hong Kong, even online, these days, for example.
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This is the reason why enterprises always use staging servers with test suites.
It is irrelevant if you use NoSQL, SQL, or magic, if you don't have development+staging+production platforms for a business reliant on an information system, you're doing it wrong and it will bite you hard eventually.
1. Doesn't have a Facebook account.
2. Runs NoScript to whitelist scripting and site trust.
3. Runs Cookie Whitelist to whitelist cookies.
4. Runs BetterPrivacy to wipe Flash/LSO cookies.
5. Runs Adblock Plus to prevent viewing ads wherever possible.
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That said, at least some like Heise.de, have put in place solutions that do not add to the underlying problem.
Who is to say that these same measures could not be applied to Google itself in future.
With such statements that amount to political activity by corporate vigilantism, it is going down a slippery slope.
This is the kind of idea that you expect to see endorsed in a Third World country or authoritarian/statist regime, not a supposedly advanced country built on advanced social constructs.
For example, if copyright infringment trumps all other activity in society including whistleblowing and journalism, then this should be enacted in law so that everyone can understand their rights and responsiblities. A group of companies differentially and unilaterally using their corporate or monopoly power to eliminate businesses and organisations is an example of the market creating rules for society instead of the other way around.
I agree.
I would go as far as to say that he is a better speaker than I am now and I would remain so without training.
That requires no qualification about his age or any of the other nonsense from some of the responses to your post.
There's a very good book on the subject, which is pretty shocking even if you work in finance (but not offshore tax accountancy or law):
"Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World"
http://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Islands-Havens-Stole-World/dp...
When I wiki'd that I also learned about the freaky phenomenon of superfluids. :)
The solution in the aftermath of the Great Depression was Glass-Steagal and capital controls globally. This meant,
1. The money supply effectively only circulated within each country and transfers between countries were always linked to trade. Since jobs follow business investment, this meant very high employment per nation.
2. Financial instability had minimal to zero systemic impact in advanced countries because banks were only permitted to engage in funding and financing directly related to the real economy.
3. In addition, a side effect due to the partitioning and lack of artificial wealth interconnectedness, TBTF was not possible.
4. All manner of speculators were able to exist even then, but they knew they only had one chance with the capital they had since completely different types of financial activity were not allowed to co-mingle under the same organisation or group.
5. Finally, money was linked to the gold standard and debt creation (including printing) that did not relate to trade was very difficult - though not impossible, especially for governments which wanted to run or extend huge war machines for their empires.
Having to pay for the Vietnam War and coinciding with domestic inflation, caused Nixon to move the dollar off the gold standard in 1971, a fitting end to the Golden Age on 15 August 1971. Almost exactly 40 years later, here we are - in real (inflation-adjusted) economic terms per capita for median person effectively back to square zero with the worst in the real economy still to come as the ripples of the crises continue on through entire sovereigns.
An alternative way to look at it, is that the combination of financial deregulation and financial "innovation" since 1980 caused capital to move well-ahead of the globalisation of the real economy. Like a very strong wave, it caused ripples and bubbles in the assets available to it before real growth and high quality assets (including highly educated workers) backing it caught up. In a sense, the financial industry became too efficient at shifting liquidity and wealth transfer relative to the underlying economy. Combine this with the enormous increase in money supply generated by the political masters of the new fiat currencies, this meant the mother of all deleveraging and financial crisis was being deferred into the future. Well, the future is here now.
In short, there is a reason why in every country above subsistence level in the world, the financial industry is almost as heavily regulated as the nuclear industry. Like writing a good, large and complex computer program, having a few huge procedures with many side effects is far worse along every dimension than having many much smaller and well-organised functions with minimal to no side-effects.
The solution is "Compartmentalization" aka. Glass-Steagall on steroids for the financial industry. It is even advocated by high profile economists and others who publicly foresaw the 2007 crisis.
After researching it, in most of Europe, children do not get vaccinated from chicken pox. We have no special higher rate of incidence of the disease either in totality or as adults.
The only time the vaccine is ever given out here is for those at special risk, e.g. adult healthcare workers who are not already immune or those who live around people with compromised immune systems.
Also, ironically, where the chicken pox vaccine is widely used, e.g. in the US (unlike most places in the world), there is no natural external boosting of immunity from being exposed to others with chicken pox, so therefore MORE injections may be needed later.
Inviting around other local kids to interact with each other to overcome the much heavier risks of the adult version of this disease or to go on frequent field trips to farms and rural areas while young so that kids bodies are no strangers to naturally occurring organisms and strengthen their immune system is VERY different from sending around contagions in the mail!
Risking affecting others without them knowing is very much a red line most sensible people would never cross.