Twitter want vertical integration.
They're not quite sure what they can do with it, but they know any hope of monetization is lost if all they are doing is providing a backend for third party clients.
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They're not quite sure what they can do with it, but they know any hope of monetization is lost if all they are doing is providing a backend for third party clients.
As for the Electronic Intifada, which you previously cited. I think you can work that one out for yourself.
CAMERA have a detailed and objective timeline of recent events: http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=52&#...
Problems with the EI narrative:
1) The "unarmed, mentally unfit man" is also seen in a photo posted to a Hamas forum holding an assault rifle and wearing an armored vest. He was buried wrapped in a Hamas flag;
2) According to the IDF, this man ignored calls for him to stop and warning shots from soldiers;
3) EI cite a Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (go figure) claim that the boy was fatally wounded by "as a result of the indiscriminate shooting". This is unverified. He was hit during a firefight between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants, while the IDF were disabling explosive devices (two days after two Israelis were seriously injured by a similar such device). The AP reported it was unclear who fired the shot(s) that fatally wounded the boy;
4) EI doesn't mention the explosive device that seriously injured two Israelis on 6th Nov. Nor do they mention the detonation of the explosive-filled tunnel that injured an Israeli soldier on 8th Nov.
It goes on and on...
Israel provides the residents of the Strip with food, water, electricity, medical supplies, etc. The residents respond with rockets aimed at Israeli civilians.
An utterly preposterous generalization.
> The UN and the BBC disagree with you on the blockade
No they don't. You referred to an 'aid blockade'. Legitimate aid flows freely into the Gaza Strip.
What do the actions of dissidents 70 years ago have to do with classifying current Israeli government policy as rather humane?
You could spend the rest of your life investigating past wrongs on both side of this conflict, and you aren't going to get anywhere.
> No aid blockades there...
There is no aid blockade in Gaza either?
When I say the script kiddies conducting these particular attacks are 'not Anonymous' I mean that they are not attacking in accordance with this ethos.
Food, medicine and water are not blockaded?
Israel allows enormous amounts of aid to pass into the Gaza Strip on a daily basis.
Israel are engaged in a legitimate military operation, exclusively targeting legitimate military targets.
If you deliberately put yourself in harm's way, then I'm sorry, but you are partially responsible for the harm that comes to you.
In what sense is it not working? According to the latest figures, more than 500 targets have been hit, with 19 combatants and 10 civilians killed.
In most comparable conflicts, the number of civilian casualties far outnumbers the number of combatant casualties.
Where should citizens run? Around 100m away from any rocket manufacturing, storage or launch site should be sufficient.
That means most of the Gaza Strip is safe.
Nothing is perfect. Equipment malfunctions, mistaken intel, and human error can all lead to civilian casualties, despite the best precautions.
Alas, it's a strange sort of conflict in which one side deliberately targets civilians, while the other does everything humanly possible to avoid them.
Israel are not carpet-bombing the area, they are performing pinpoint strikes on legitimate military targets.
As a civilian, it is not difficult to avoid those targets.
It's rather simple. As a general rule, civilians in the Gaza Strip know if they are near a target. You don't live next to a rocket manufacturing, storage or launch site without knowing about it.
The IDF have gone to great pains to warn civilians not to go near these sites, or to mix with combatants.
They send text messages, drop leaflets, even make phone calls with recorded messages to the affected areas. They perform 'roof knocks' (using non-lethal bombs) to warn civilians they are in the vicinity of a target.
The ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in the Gaza Strip is well below that of any comparable conflict as a result.
2) The majority of the sites affected appear to be hosted with a single company;
3) If any of the deleted databases held important information, there will be backups.
Edit: 4) The leaked passwords appear to be site-specific; all are six characters long, around a third of them are '123456'
Yep. One retailer's loss is another retailer's gain.
You could apply the same criticism to pretty much anyone in a managerial position.
I can guarantee you there are high-ranking executives in leading IT companies who have less practical knowledge of computing than the average 13-year-old.
My AppleID password is pretty secure (~25 characters, upper/lower case, alphanumeric, bunch of symbols, etc.) and having to type it in on an iPhone/iPad every time I want to download an app (even a free app, or updating an app I've already purchased) makes me want to cry.
Clicked through to the article expecting something interesting, left almost immediately upon realizing it was just Mat Honan milking his hacking once again.
Obviously most companies mix successes and failures, but in recent years Sony has been pushing out an unreasonable number of failures with no successes to show for it.
I don't see any innovations coming out of Sony. I don't see them leading the way in any particular sector when it comes to consumer electronics. In audio products they're nobodies, in computing they make so-so non-descript equipment, in photography they've lost almost all the ground they once had to Canon and Nikon, in video they are being trounced by the likes of Samsung, LG, and Panasonic, and in cell phones they've just about been wiped off the face of the planet by Apple and Android handset manufacturers.
About the only sector they seem to be doing okay in is consoles, which from what I understand are not massively profitable, and are on the way out.
I'm no accountant or tax lawyer, but it's obvious Google are playing games with the UK. According to their own filings, they made $4bn from UK sales in the last financial year.
The representative yesterday shrugged it off and tried to make out all Google do in the UK is have a bunch of promotions/localization staff. They (Google UK Ltd) receive all their income from Google in Ireland, and end up reporting a loss, meaning they pay a nominal amount of tax to the UK tax authorities.
$4bn in sales from the UK market and they pay UK tax authorities around $5mn in tax.
That's why people are angry, and that's why their representative was getting laid into by MPs yesterday.
It's a matter of whether there is a level playing field. I was shocked to hear the representative from Amazon admit yesterday that they only pay 3% tax on ebook sales through an agreement with Luxembourg.
That's absurd.
I don't buy this. It's absurd that a UK business can pay to place ads on the Google UK website, presenting them solely to UK consumers, and yet the money involved in this transaction never touches the UK.
It goes straight to Ireland, then the Netherlands, to Bermuda.
Everything is slow, or messy, or has a crap interface. Sometimes all three. Then you take your laptop out of your house and you don't have access to any of your music.
Why would someone? A lot of people are now using SSDs as their system drives. Given the cost of SSDs, a lot of people end up with 128/256GB system drives, which doesn't give them much space for non-system storage.
That in itself is quite alarming, that the justice system seems to be bowing to the whim of the mob.
More worrying is that, in each of these cases, there were people who initially brought the communications to the attention of the police. In each case there was some busybody, with nothing better to do, who thought some hijinks on the Internet was worthy of a police investigation.
I have no doubt that the number of these cases being reported in the national news (at a rate of one every 1-2 weeks over the last six months) is re-enforcing the view that reporting offensive content to the police is an appropriate and proportionate action.
> Paul Chambers was found guilty for sending menacing electronic communication.
Chambers' conviction was quashed in July, in a rare display of common sense.
In July, a 17-year-old was arrested during the Olympics for tweeting abusive messages at diver Tom Daley.
In August, a 22-year-old man was arrested for posting racist tweets aimed at footballer Carlton Cole.
Also in August, a 44-year-old man was arrested for posting a message on Facebook praising Anders Breivik.
In September, a 22-year-old man was arrested for setting up a fan page on Facebook for Dale Cregan, shortly after Cregan was arrested by police, suspected of murdering two female police officers.
In October a 19-year-old man was sentenced to three months in prison for posting jokes about the missing five-year-old April Jones.
Also in October, a 20-year-old was given a community order for making an online post stating "all soldiers should die and go to hell"