The post was sort of a joke in terms of, NOT reliable, and could you imagine if you meet someone, and asked them "Hey do you mind if I prick your finger and we wait at least 15 minutes before we have sex?" I don't imagine it'd go down well, double entendre intended.
Imagine if you can prick the finger of a hooker in a Pattaya bar while you're drinking, "just as a joke!", and figure out whether you need to strap on a condom or not. Wonderful invention for all the people who need immediate HIV tests for their partners! Yay for sex tourism!
Until it goes wrong and doesn't work. This type of thing is a litigation nightmare. Looks like vaporware to me, and the actual legitimate applications seem few.
I'd also like to add the author is an idiot, and her article is pretty much full of speculation and garbage with copied stats to attempt to back it up, for example:
"the CNNIC said microblog users dropped 7.1 percent to 249 million—unsurprising, as social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are blocked in China." - yes, first of all, "dropped 7.1%" - what? Does this person really think Twitter Facebook or Youtube accounted for, at any point in time, any significant user base in mainland China? The more popular local microblog/other similar services have hundreds of millions of active users (like Weixin/Wechat), nobody gives a shit about twitter or facebook being blocked and Youku streams like 1billion+ hours of video a month. There is no relationship between age-old bans on Twitter/Facebook/Youtube and any decrease in microblog registered userbases. *sigh*
"haha" Yu so funy!
Vote down, overrated. Obviously you haven't travelled abroad very much, or you'd realize not every country writes exclusively in English. "Tang Li" is pinyin, when you register for services online in China you don't/can't use pinyin - you use Hanzi. Hanzi is the character system of which, to use your stupid example, "tang" has very many iterations of different characters, and li has even more.
If what you just wrote was said in a youtube video, you could expect mad hate for being an ignorant child - lucky for you it's just buried in a
This is more of an expansion on the law rather than a new law. Microblog type services have required real ID registration for a long time -- you must provide a national ID in order to access, however, the display name did not (and still doesn't) have to be a real name.
The news here is more about the affect on impersonations...which I don't entirely see as a negative. People should not be allowed to impersonate others or organisations online in any country, and I believe many countries have laws against this already. In California, for example, it's illegal - with heavier repercussions if one can prove intent to harm/defraud/defame/etc...
So, for any of those who outrage against this type of thing, get over it.
I'm assuming the principal is a she, not a he - "Roxanne Greer" -- women in education have to have an extra hard line in policy enforcement don'cha'kno', because they're often seen as being inferior/weak by their peers.
What pisses me off here isn't the action, it's the refusal to back up their action. If she truly believes she's doing something correct and proper, why refuse to comment. Should she be allowed to refuse to comment? As a publicly funded educator who has made a decision which impacts the child of a tax payer (I'm assuming) in such a ridiculous situation......can just 'refuse to comment'? Where's the accountability, she should back her decision up with reasoning and logic not silence.
Much like lobbyists and donations - it's obviously a well calculated cost. Spread around the freebies when you want something, because the upside once you get it is a thousand times more profitable! Yay for obvious corruption.
On farmland in New Zealand, ready to pounce.
John Oliver makes this kinda shit. In fact, they crashed the site after he called them out for "cable company fuckery"
Read about it here: http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
In addition, watch the whole segment here, it's wonderful:
If I was in their shoes
You probably are in their shoes.
More countries should be doing security audits on more products.
"define:" and that's about it. She wont be getting an oxford "junior dictionary", wtf is that anyways..
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