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Amazon monopoly

samedi 3 octobre 2015 à 02:00

Amazon will try to kill Google and Apple video streaming products by not listing them for sale.

Those products are just as proprietary, and probably just as nasty, as what Amazon offers. People shouldn't buy or use any of them. However, that doesn't detract from the main point of the article: that Amazon's market power is dangerous.

I urge people not to buy anything from Amazon under any circumstances. I have never done so.

Data protection ruling

samedi 3 octobre 2015 à 02:00

The European Court of Justice ruled that an internet-based company which specifically markets to any particular country and has operates in that country must follow that country's data protection rules for citizens of that country.

This decision looks correct to me. The multinational Companies should not be able to shop around between countries for the weakest data protection and apply that to everyone. Meanwhile, smaller companies that operate in one country will still be covered only by that country's law, even though they sell to people in other countries.

Hypocrisy regarding Saudi regime

samedi 3 octobre 2015 à 02:00

The US smears its name by supporting the Saudi regime, whose cruelty resembles PISSI.

The Saudi regime even destroys ancient relics too — mainly those from early Islam.

Ebola still active

samedi 3 octobre 2015 à 02:00

Ebola is still infecting people in Sierra Leone.

Is the vaccine ready?

Vigilante virus

samedi 3 octobre 2015 à 02:00

A vigilante virus tightens the security of systems it enters, and appears to do nothing nasty.

To be truly ethical, it should make all its source code available (under a free license, of course), and should ask before it changes things.