VPN is a good idea whenever using a public Internet service, since not all sites are encrypted and you don't really know who you're connecting to.
And you know your VPN better? You know and trust every of the stations appearing on the traceroute list when run on your VPN-ed network interface?
Yes, I also hate "free" WiFi where you have to login first, or install some stupid app. It should just simply work without all that.
still it can be through an app you have to install.
I'm not blaming you for not RTFA, but if you did you would find that you actually still can make phone calls with those stations. However, you won't have a handset anymore. Making phone calls will be free.
Usually also everybody else in that area can access the data. Encrypt your connections and live with it.
First, the MAC is nothing fixed (unlike IMEI which is pretty much fixed by closed-down driver software), and second, WiFi APs are far more cheaper in buying and getting a license to send than 3G or LTE masts. The only solution for our internet needs is a dense mesh of APs, whether its WiFi or LTE. But as I've said, WiFi is cheaper and far more open than mobile connections.
"NSA class intel" is not exactly the case: if people use end-to-end encryption, the WiFi owner only sees which website I visit, but not which page on the website. Giving access to people's data to everybody and not just NSA, is like giving weapons to everybody and not just the state. Wasn't this something you americans like?
... and save humanity from an evil autopilot.
What do you think is the greatest misconception people not liking systemd have about it?
Its good to have choice. If there is none, things like heartbleed or winshock can happen.
... so that they can focus on fucking up the desktop like with gnome 3?
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Maybe you are right that the web is not the place for illiterates, but I know from my kids who primarily use tablets and mobile they are not interested in textual media. They are the web users of the future. As I say in the article, why try and read 3000 words about Taylor Swift when watching a few videos will give you far more information?
I don't have children on my own, but from my personal experience with my own childhood was that this changes.
"sin" 4 is tackled by wikidata, but unfortunately they are still in a very early phase.
I wonder what the incentive is for writers to do this work. I can understand people writing a page to get some glory, but there's not much glory in adding tabular data.
I guess that most people edit because they are annoyed that something is missing or wrong. I have written an article once, because I haven't found an internet page describing it.
Content is created through controversies. First you say that in wikipedia there are so many conflicts, and then you say that Wikipedia is like a socialist dictature.
I said it has all the inefficiencies of socialist structures, resulting in a low-quality product. That you can download Wikipedia to your HDD is not the measure of a project's advancement. Also, it doesn't matter if the information is "free" if it is inferior. Most media in the word is actually for-profit.
Socialism forces people to give control over limited resources to a single party which controls everything. Your site forces people to give control over (in theory) unlimited (as in easily-copyable) content to you, which you can use for whatever you like. Wikipedia allows anyone to take and copy the content to where they want, not impairing any limits except copyleft. Yes, there are wars on wikipedia, but thats a sign that people have the right to fight and conflict.
Even for-profit-companies like Stackexchange could create a business model without having for-profit content. Most media is for-profit, yes, but wikipedia is quickly accessible, and doesn't need a paywall or anything else.
Its a possibility that one day your company gets bought by lets say microsoft, which makes you probably very happy (nothing against that), and microsoft integrates your content into bing for people with a microsoft account. Now I have to get a microsoft account for access to your content.
You don't even make an index [newslines.org], and separate your content into "pages". wasn't paper the thing you regarded as "outdated"?
I don't know what you mean about an index. You can see our popular pages on our front page, and search for anyone else using the search bar. By adhering slavishly to a book-like metaphor, the information on Wikipedia articles is overly textual, and cannot be sorted or filtered. The user has no control over the page. The point is that the web gives us many more ways to display data that thinking about it as though it were a book.
Sorry I've meant table of contents. On your site, I can't get a simple list of the new's items headlines. I have to scroll through lots of text and video content where I don't even see the title (only a play button).
Every post on our site goes through an approval process, so vandalism and other content issues are far less than those on Wikipedia. We also building systems to pay people to maintain the site, unlike Wikipedia pages, which after and initial burst of activity are left to wilt [insert thousands of examples here].
Yet on your google glass page you include a commercial and don't even try to declare it as this.
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Yeah, and politics is never about money.
nor can they share to Facebook or Twitter with a single click
There is a thing called URLs. The "share" buttons are pseudo-progress nobody needs. Who decides whether its facebook, twitter, or something else?
your "sin" 3: Wikipedia doesn't like non-freely licensed content not because a real world encyclopedia doesn't have content, but because . The page for Big Buck Bunny has a trailer included. Missing embedding is because of missing freedom.
The web is not a place for illiterates. Videos are a step back, not forward. I can read faster than I can hear somebody speak. I can't search what the people said. If you try to solve these problems, you end up with text again (TTS or otherwise).
"sin" 4 is tackled by wikidata, but unfortunately they are still in a very early phase.
Content is created through controversies. First you say that in wikipedia there are so many conflicts, and then you say that wikipedia is like a socialist dictature.
Wikipedia is not a trabant. I don't have to wait 16 years for my example, I can download the whole wikipedia onto my HDD immediately. can I do that with your site too? what's your content's license?
I doubt I get a fair analysis from a website that writes:
We are the only direct competitor to Wikipedia, and we think you will agree that our multimedia pages are far better than Wikipedia’s 10-year-old textbook-like pages.
You complain that wikipedia is clunky and contains large pages. You don't even make an index, and separate your content into "pages". wasn't paper the thing you regarded as "outdated"?
By giving editors money for writing content, you create a system in which lots of people write tons of bullshit, and your page gets more and more meaningless content that can never be updated. And fanpages are already tackled by wikia. You are more a competitor for those, not for wikipedia.
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