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The fact that there are many networks is not, by itself, the problem. It's a fun thing to joke about, but not truly bad.

The truly bad thing is that as of March 2017 there is not one network that is secure, reliable, and popular.

Non-free-software networks WhatsApp, Kik, Allo, Facebook, Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat, etc., are not secure by definition. I don't trust a word of what WhatsApp is saying about Signal-protocol security. It's not just about my safety from government surveillance—I am even more concerned about processing of my data by marketing companies who want to learn who I am to improve their sales (or political campaigns—it's quite the same thing).

Signal is Free software, and it's widely recognized as secure, but it's not reliable because many people complain that messages are delivered slowly or not at all, and it's not popular. Also, it doesn't have much of a bot API, and it's becoming important these days. Finally, its partnership with WhatsApp is truly puzzling.

Telegram is partly, but not completely, Free software, and it's more reliable and popular than Signal, but not very much so. Personally, I love it for the features, like channels, groups, bot API, and cloud storage, but I acknowledge it has problems. (Most of my friends are on WhatsApp, and those of them who tried Telegram all said that Telegram's features are better.)

Wire is kind-of curious, but very unpopular.

What I really wish is that Mozilla stopped all its activities except developing Firefox on desktop and Android (I'm talking about pointless stuff like the recent rebranding, Webmaker, overblown international conferences, etc.), and then acquired Telegram or Signal and focused all of its non-Firefox efforts on one of them. If it acquires Telegram, it should make it fully Free software. If it acquires Signal, it should invest in its reliability and popularity.

Broken for me, too—it's just <a>!

But the “cnet.com” link in the title works correctly. Here’s the URL: http://www.cnet.com/news/game-developer-barbie-gets-it-right-by-being-cool-and-capable/

Wikipedia is available in Odia.

It's much smaller than the one in English, but it's there. The best part: you and your friends can improve it. It's a wiki, which means that you can improve it yourself - add as many articles as you want, as long as they are relevant to the encyclopedia, and edit the existing articles. You can even teach the children themselves to edit, thus making sure that they know that it's possible to type in Odia on computers.

I'm super-passionate about making the editions of Wikipedia in various languages better, so please contact me if you have more questions.

How nice of him to take his children to the most peaceful country in the Middle East. To show them war he could take them to actual Syria, rather then "Occupied Syria", which is actually called Golan Heights. Though I readily admit that it's occupied somewhat illegally, it has been peaceful since 1967.

Of course, he is a responsible father, and he wouldn't take his children to a place that is actually dangerous. It's a shame that he'll probably tell them uninformed propaganda about Israel. Oh well.

Reality is even more interesting if you care to check facts on the ground.

Michael Bolton? Don't exaggerate. More like Sandi Thom.

Hello.

Atheists are frequently accused of having no moral code to live by. This hardly holds water - many atheists are essentially moral people even if they don't live by a religious book. Furthermore, religious morals are frequently contradictory and hurtful to many, so their worth is dubious.

That said, there is a moral rule on which all religious and secular cultures and systems of thought seem to agree, at least nominally: "One should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated".

Do you accept this rule as a good basis for a common human moral code? Would you collaborate with religious leaders in promoting this idea?

For variety, consider some Soviet science fiction.

The author with the most neutral and universal appeal, especially to young people, is probably Kir Bulychev.

The brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are more brainy. They are immensely popular among Russian-speaking geeks and hackers. You may have heard about the film "Stalker" and "The Inhabited Island", which are based on their novels.

The more communist authors are Alexander Belyayev and Ivan Yefremov. Despite the political angle of many of their works they were translated into English and other languages and well-regarded outside of the USSR. They honestly imagined that the future would be communist - this is an important point that you should consider telling your students.

OK, Microsoft bundles a browser with the OS.

Bundles-schmundles.

Get over it. All GNU/Linux distributions bundle a browser, an office suite, a photo editing program and a bunch of compilers with an OS, nobody says that it's anti-competitive and it doesn't help GNU/Linux to gain market share.

Microsoft bundles with their OS a crappy browser that breaks web interoperability and locks people on Windows, 'cuz they think they need those crappy nonstandard sites - yes, those still exist in 2009; now that's a problem.

I don't want to hear about the bundling anymore.

Tatarstan is not tiny - it is one of the most populous and important regions of Russia. Its capital Kazan is one of the most important cities in Russia.

Tatarstan is not independent - it is an autonomy within the Russian Federation.

Tatarstan is not a former Russian republic - see above.