Go read the report. They support technologies that do the least amount of damage, acknowledging that none are zero impact.

So, again a straw man, even after I posted a link to their manifesto.

Yes, it's all a giant conspiracy and no respectable media outlet anywhere will dare break ranks. Thankfully we have a bunch of bloggers posting links to YouTube rants which link to other YouTube rants to get the truth out. GamerGate should do 9/11 next, and then maybe debunk the moon landings.

That's one of its biggest problems: it doesn't support all the characters in Chinese. In fact it doesn't really support any of them, because they tried to merge them with Japanese and Korean characters. The result is that Unicode contains a sort of amalgamation that can be used to approximate any of those three languages, but not represent them properly.

I listen to both Japanese and Chinese music. Unicode is broken for me. There is no way to tell if a character is a Chinese or a Japanese one. The character has the same Unicode code for both languages. The software is supposed to somehow magically know which language is in use and select a Japanese or Chinese font. When you have file names or metadata tags there is no simple way of determining language, you just have to guess. Humans are pretty good at guessing, machines not so much.

That problem has nothing to do with encoding, it's to do with the standard body trying to merge characters from different languages that shouldn't be merged.

Apple has a beta programme. No excuse.

I imagine the feature is smarter than TFA suggests. Phones can easily tell if they are in your pocket or bag with the same proximity sensor they use to disable the screen when you hold them to your ear. This feature probably works like a smart watch, turning the screen on when you raise the phone up to look at it if it has been in your hand since last unlocked.

They do mention that the smart unlocking feature also supports location awareness. No need for a password if the phone is connected to your home wifi or car's Bluetooth, for example. I wouldn't use it but it seems like a reasonable compromise for people who are only worried about theft.

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Note how even Greenpeace, one of the most hard line environmental movements, clearly states that there will need to be a mix of energy sources that includes wind and solar but also many others. For the time being fossil fuel is necessary, as is nuclear, but in the long term purely renewable sources (including hydo, geothermal, tidal and various non-PV types of solar) is possible. By long term they are stating around 2050 if the world makes a massive, concerted effort, which is obviously quite unlikely.

Your argument is a straw man. No major organization is arguing for just solar PV and wind.

Just because you sanitized it a little doesn't make it right. Drones are a little more targeted but still kill unacceptably high numbers of civilians. Civilians you are not even at war with.

Drone strikes are what motivate a lot of the people fighting against you.

One of the corner stones of democracy is that no-one has too much power. GCHQ clearly has too much and there is no balance, no ability for us to check or control them.

We know that Microsoft changed the way Skype works to make it possible for them to tap the line. They almost certainly log all the IP addresses involved in conversations. ISPs can convert the IP addresses into subscriber addresses. All that takes time of course, there has to be some legal process. Plus, the parts of the government that regularly do monitor Skype connections probably don't want to share their toys or dispel the myth that Skype is anonymous.

Of course, if the criminal had any sense they would have used Tor anyway, but many of them don't.

In other words the government probably can find out who it was, but isn't motivated to.

Even so, there are a lot of innocent people getting shot by the police in the UK. It happens with alarming regularity, especially now more of them are carrying tazer guns.

The problem seems to be that if you put a gun in someone's hand and then put them in a stressful situation where they are worried they might be injured they tend to use it. Much of the training that UK officers receive on fire arms re-enforces this. If you look at the training video they are taught to pull the trigger when someone armed with a knife who is stood >10m away raises it. The slightest perceived threat is justification enough to kill someone.

If you do that the media will just blame you for being a bad parent who didn't show enough love, and for knowing that your kids were criminals and not ratting them out. Pretending to be surprised is a defence mechanism.

Politicians in the UK regularly talk about how schools should be teaching the skills that employers want. Of course by that they usually mean basic English and maths, but you have to start your dystopia somewhere.

Varvet monkey society is not exactly a good model of human society. In any case, do we really want to be like that primitive society with strongly defined and impossible to break gender roles? I think we moved on from that over 100 years ago.

Github offers commercial hosting services. It's up to them if they think it is acceptable to host that kind of thing in a public repo, or if they think it creates a bad impression because for them.

There are some extremes, of course, but that doesn't mean the whole concept of a non-hostile work environment where there is no gender based harassment is a bad one. It just means that sometimes the implementation is broken.

Rather than trying to portray it as a "men vs. stupid bitches" war, why not try to figure out we can all work together? Where I work half the programmers are female and by boss is female, and it's a really good place to work. Everywhere should be like that.