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spanishcowon US vaccine researcher sentenced to prison for fraud

https://www.google.se/search?q=smallpox&source=lnms&tbm=isch...

This is smallpox. It is no joke.

spanishcowon French Uber protests block airports

I think that Taxi fares on Paris are fixed: http://www.taxis-de-france.com/professionnel/tarifstaxis.htm So it is quite estrange what you are telling. Maybe it was a pirate taxi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxicab_operation)?

spanishcowon French Uber protests block airports

Uber is an unlawful business that tries to by-pass Labour law. If Uber model is imposed workers will be working for big companies without proper rights or protections. I want cheaper and better services but never at the cost of other people's rights.

With time driverless cars will be the norm. Until then I want that the people that drive me home have as many rights as them deserve.

(What will happen when machines are able to do all manual work is another more complex discussion)

spanishcowon Apple Says “We Hear You Taylor Swift”, Will Pay Musicians During Free Trial

Looks like a publicity stunt...

spanishcowon Apple has published a great free learn to code course for on GitHub

I don't think that begin to learn programming on a proprietary language is a good practice. Not only it will limit your professional career as it is more difficult to change to other platforms. Also it is more easy to pick bad habits as you can easily mistake what is platform specific behavior for standard code practices.

Once you are good at designing and coding standard languages you can easily move to whatever platform/language you desire.

spanishcowon Goodbye Sweden

I didn't knew that ycombinator allowed such xenophobic views on their site. This is an example of some guy that thinks that only the pure swedish people is to be trusted.

I'm horrified at what Hacker News can become...

spanishcowon Texas Lawmakers Pass a Bill Allowing Guns at Colleges

| That's probably not true. *Citation needed

spanishcowon Why Palmyra's ruins are so important

Any one that doesn't agrees you in one point is an Isis supporter?

spanishcowon Game Job: Getting a job in the game industry simulator

This is just a cynic view of game industry (and the world). Of course some people get a lot more that they deserve. But I have seen a lot of great professionals getting promoted thanks to their abilities and hard work. The world is not so black and white like this game. If you don't like it remember it and when you have a management role fight injustices and congratulate the people that deserve it.

spanishcowon Is Wikipedia for Sale?

The problem is as old as mass media. The solution is the same. Make it illegal for a company pass advertisments as casual forum comments, wikipedia articles and generally forbid misleding the general public to believe that actual advertisments are part of other natural interactions. (This doesn't means that this practices will stop but that them can be punished)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertorial#Legal_issues

spanishcowon When Batman isn’t available: Crowd-fund

100% agree. This is not more than another hint of a failing government. If people wants and needs more police and are willing to pay for it it's the government duty to put it in place. Using taxes as a political weapon and demonizing them as something inherently bad causes irrational decisions that costs more money and could cost lifes.

spanishcowon Google is Exploring an Alternative to Cookies for Ad Tracking

The problem is with privacy and privacy laws. If you read the laws about privacy (like http://www.ico.org.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electron...) you are going to see that they are targeting cookie-like tracking systems.

It's not a technical problem at all. Tracking is as easy to solve as to put a UID to each device (problem solved).

e.g. Apple some time ago forbid developer to use such an unique id (http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/19/ios-5-deprecates-udid-as-iden...) probably on privacy laws grounds.

spanishcowon Google is Exploring an Alternative to Cookies for Ad Tracking

The problem are not the cookies. The problem is the tracking and the privacy invasion. I don't want some body following me at every step to know every thing I do using cookies or any alternative method.

spanishcowon How Detroit went broke

That's true but for "Too big to fail" business. This century has begun with this new type of pseudo-public economy where the taxpayers support the financial loses of this kind of business.

Also I don't understand why the state or the union help this city. Having a city with so much citicies living in misery is a failure of the entire country. Detroit is in this situation because the laus of the country let it be.