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Microsoft services

mardi 13 mai 2014 à 14:00

It is unethical for universities to entrust their computing and email to Microsoft services because this exposes them to surveillance.

In addition, letting someone else's server do your computing means you lose control over that computing. This is known as Service as a Software Substitute.

Microsoft services also involve running nonfree software.

By the way, the article falls into confusion when it calls services "products". A product is something physical that you buy, own, and take home.

Low-wage work keeps workers busy

mardi 13 mai 2014 à 14:00

Low-wage work keeps workers busy for so many hours that they have no time to study new skills. (Even supposing they can afford to.)

Fined for Feeding Homeless People

mardi 13 mai 2014 à 14:00

Florida Couple Fined $746 For Crime Of Feeding Homeless People.

By enforcing this unjust law, thug chief Chitwood makes himself personally responsible for the injustice he carries out. He ought to quit rather than enforce that law.

The heartless people that passed the law are probably Republicans and responsible for the cruel policies that make people homeless. Then they kick those people when they are down.

They deserve to be sentenced to a year of homelessness.

Increased domestic violence against women

mardi 13 mai 2014 à 14:00

The increase of poverty in the US has increased domestic violence against women.

How NSA tampers with US-made internet routers

mardi 13 mai 2014 à 14:00

Glenn Greenwald: how the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers.