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Comment Re:Secret meetings: (Score 1) 364

Those papers don't have politics. They will quite happily set their editorial policies against any government that doesn't do what they want.

"What do they want?" you may ask. They want the right to spy on anyone and everyone without limit. They want the right to get information out of the police and public officials whenever they think it will increase sales. They want Only certain people to be taxed. Who may vary but they generally do not want their owners friends to be taxed for sure...

Basically, they are journalistic sociopaths.Individuals may vary but collectively this seems to be the case.

Privacy

Ask Slashdot: What Does Edward Snowden Deserve? 822

Nerval's Lobster writes "U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder made government whistleblower Edward Snowden a very peculiar offer last week: plead guilty, and the U.S. government would consider how to handle his criminal case. That seems an inverted way of doing things—in the United States, the discussions (if not the trial) usually come before the guilty plea—but Holder's statement hints yet again at the conundrum facing the government when it comes to Snowden, a former subcontractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) who leaked secrets about that group's intelligence operations to a number of newspapers, most notably The Guardian. It's unlikely that the U.S. government would ever consider giving full clemency to Snowden, but now it seems that various officials are willing to offer something other than locking him in a deep, dark cell and throwing away the key. If Snowden ever risked coming back to the United States (or if he was forced to return, thanks to the Russians kicking him out and no other country willing to give him asylum), and you were Holder and Obama, what sort of deal would you try to strike with everybody's favorite secrets-leaker?"

Comment Insignificant (Score 1) 846

So 23% of people in the USA do not believe in science. That actually comes to about 1% of humanity. If we allow for the fact that there will be a sizeable chunk of the world that does not know either side of the argument who would have to be discounted in the statistic and even in the most educated countries, there are those who are uninformed and there are those who choose to be.

I suspect that it will be under 5% of the world would admit to this opinion. If that was a political movement, they would be insignificant and out of government. Perhaps it is best that they stay that way...

Comment Re:The only plausible solution... (Score 1) 388

Add something more to your name. Like "j.smith1997@nowhere.nul", ...

That doesn't even work for Twitter. I have a simple handle like @something but people keep sending me stuff for @something1979 @something_a and so on.

Fortunately, Twitter is just a glorified XML feed and I just ignore most things about how I had a really good time at a party and "what was that chicks name?"

Networking

Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School 294

drmofe writes "Two parents in New Zealand have orchestrated the removal of a school's Wi-Fi system. They have expressed the concerns that Wi-Fi causes cancer and other health issues. The child of one of these parents died recently from brain cancer. This appears to be an emotional area and one where decisions appear to be being made without evidence. The NZ Ministry of Education provides guidelines for the safe use of Wi-Fi in schools and the school itself was operating within those guidelines."

Comment Twitter != Social networking (Score 1) 457

Twitter is a souped up alternative to an XML feed.

It used to be useful to keep track of interesting people and organisations. That is better done in Google Plus now.
It is no use for sharing photographs unless you have accounts in othersystems - like facebook or even Flickr.
I still have an account and it's useful for following some organisations that still use it only, They will either catch up or "go under".

Its IM is less useful than even Facebooks. I am obviously because I consider email to be an even more useful tool.

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