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Urgent: No more "golden parachutes"

samedi 30 avril 2016 à 02:00

US citizens: call on Wall Street to stop giving "golden parachutes" to employees that move to government appointments.

The president should not appoint such people. Sanders would not.

Chatbots

samedi 30 avril 2016 à 02:00

Chatbots are ideal for phishing, because they are running on a server that isn't yours.

Any speech recognition running on a server that isn't yours, you can't trust.

Australian Greens call for tax on mines

samedi 30 avril 2016 à 02:00

Australian Greens call for a tax on mines to pay for the environmental damage they do.

Tax regulations by tax-dodger lobbyists

samedi 30 avril 2016 à 02:00

US congresscritters have hired former tax-dodger lobbyists to write the tax regulations.

File sharing

samedi 30 avril 2016 à 02:00

In places where ISPs make users pay to access anything but Facebook and/or Wikipedia, they use those services for file sharing.

File sharing is good, and ought to be legal. Shame on that article for supporting the publishers' smear campaign by calling sharing "piracy".

I understand that Wikipedia does not want to be a site for file sharing. Besides which, it has a specific purpose, and letting people post whatever they wish is not it. Still, they should not support the smear campaign.

It is also a mistake to refer to works as "content".