Search for Amazon: looks like it simply redisplays the Amazon mobile site in an app and adds a few features e.g. writing a review into the native interface. In the absence of an official Amazon app for the Blackberry, it may well be useful for the avid Amazon shopper.
Given the tortoise-like speed of BlackBerry's web browser, just about anything that could be done on the web is better done in a BlackBerry app. When Google made a search app that ran on my BlackBerry, I used it all the time. Then I lost my copy of that app in a wipe/reload, and the newer version of their app won't install on my device, so now I have to use the web browser. In the time it takes for the search page to load, I can generally get to a computer or Android tablet and enter my query there instead. (Admittedly, I'm using a 3-year-old device on Verizon 3G, but still....)
This is the D.C. government we're talking about. Procurement irregularities there have kept investigative reporters employed there for decades.
The BAC was reduced last year from 0.08 to 0.05. in our province. It did not lead to a huge rise in BAC convictions, nor it did not lead to any lessening of the social stigma associated with drunk driving. What it did is make our roads safer.
Do you have accident counts to back that up? I find it hard to believe if the conviction rate (and presumably the arrest rate) didn't go up. I was all behind MADD until they continued lobbying for lower BAC levels after the limit was set to 0.008. It gets to a point of diminishing returns. The people getting into accidents seem to be way over 0.008, and rather than enlarge the net, the government needs to concentrate on preventing the ones caught DWI at existing levels from driving.
Perhaps you should make bribes illegal before you ask the people accepting those bribes to change any important laws...
Actually, in the U.S., bribes are illegal. The problem lies either in the definition of the term or in a closely related term, "influence".
Another problem, not exactly bribery or influence, is the problem that both parties seem to place more emphasis on making the other one look bad and lose seats, to the point that we end up seeing them take positions that are exactly the opposite of one formerly held just because the other party is now in favor of it. Examples include the 2009 healthcare act, passed by Democrats but originally proposed by Republicans a decade earlier, and the Republican flip-flopping over whether the budget should be balanced. (I'm sure there are examples of Democratic flip-flopping, but I admit of a bias that makes the Republican transgressions easier to see.)
You must not have kids. I've heard plenty about education reform for the last 20 years. My kid gets tested out the wazoo and is required to know a lot of stuff that was completely missing from my education 35+ years ago. From what I've seen, the dominant factor in educational outcome seems to be the economic success of the parents. Kids from well-off households seem to do well, and kids from poor households seem to struggle. An interesting tidbit from Freakonomics is that the authors found a correlation between kids living in households with books and the kids' educational success. The amount of reading didn't factor -- it was the presence of books. (Go figure.)
Yes, it got so bad that the FBI saw the need to release the photographs they were interested in, stating people should only focus on these and not others, because the amateur sleuths were creating unnecessary extra work for them.
Half a dozen innocent guys were at some point accused or harassed, not by the authorities but by 'the internet' and trashy publications and similarly 24h cable news networks.
I'm waiting for the moment not too far off when some of these same innocent people's photos will be circulated on Facebook identifying them as accomplices.
By making the notices available, Google is unintentionally highlighting the location of allegedly pirated material, say some experts. 'It would only take one skilled coder to index the URLs from the DMCA notices in order to create one of the largest pirate search engines available,' wrote Torrent Freak editor Ernesto Van Der Sar on the site."
I stumbled on one of these notices filed by the RIAA yesterday, and it seems not only reasonable but important for the notice to be posted, including the relevant URL; otherwise, how will I know that the site hosting the illegal material is doing so illegally? I looked at the site in question, and they most certainly didn't include any notice that downloading that particular song was a violation of copyright. But because of the notice that Google linked to, I knew that I shouldn't do it.
It seems to me that MPAA and RIAA want to have their cake and eat it, too.
Using TOR via an unsecured or hacked WLAN router seems to be quite secure, in my opinion. You can easily extend the range of your WLAN atenna by a factor of 10 via a "Cantenna" (dead simple, gooogle it). So, your post is full of paranoid hyperbole.
Didn't Osama bin Laden try a variant of the carrier pigeon method? It seems to me is the best thing is to not do anything that makes them that interested in you to begin with.
You're French? I'm impressed. I didn't even notice your "accent". (There are things Francophones do when writing English that are similar to a spoken accent, like using the plural for "information".) In any case, the panda joke would not make sense in French. In the joke, "[The panda] eats shoots and leaves," would come out as something like "Il mange des pousses et des feuilles," while "[The panda] eats, shoots, and leaves," would be more like "Il mange, il tire, et il se quitte." (As you can see, punctuation is the least of my problems in French.)
I tried plugging "Americans have a huge bias against diesel which is common in Europe" and "Americans have a huge bias against diesel, which is common in Europe" into Google translate, and it's hard for me to see the difference, even when I substitute "crow" and "crows" for "diesel". Hmm. (I'm a better language nerd than I am a computer programmer.)
"Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core." -- Hannah Arendt.
