When I read articles similar to this one, I can't avoid asking myself how can universities take a more integrated approach to disciplines related to software engineering and computer science. I know that we can't learn all the stuff that's going around, but some standard organization should be put on the table. I felt it many times while studying this lack of "low level" preparedness.
Evo Morales is the legitimate president? Where are the thousand dissapeared persons? Where are them? We want them alive! What about the 50 persons who died in the protest against the regime installed by USA?
It's funny to think that I do books translations so others in my country (or for those that know my language) can read them, most of them pirated books. I sometimes ask my self how much would I earn if publishers would pay me for that work.
Anyway, it feels good to know that someone got his(her) exams fine, school homework done or just a pleasant read because some of my work. This is my contribution to the humanity. The invisible spark of information freedom.
This is really subjective. Classics of Rock like Pink Floyd works for me, but I'm not sure that it works for my mate who asked me to "stop the music". Lofi is a good option too.
In Argentina we have the other problem: the right media accuses Wikipedia to be hijacked by leftists or peronists, because they don't like that biographies of genocides of our last dictatorship and their civil accomplices (now in politics) being exposed. The Right is the problem of our modern world.
Yes. In some countries of South America we have typists for transcribing litigations in the legal system. Of course we also have cameras and voice recorders,but transcriptions are done faster with typists.
I used to felt what you describe when I got into University (and I'm going forward slowly). I tried to learn all maths and solving problems, reproducing proofs and understanding the logic behind the proof (like the construction of mathematical objects that aid in proving something, a lemma or a theorem). Only after that period of maturing my maths background I could feel comfortable enough reading books on many topics.
If you don't feel comfortable you'd be wasting your time, fighting to get into the proofs.
I really believe CS programs and schools should implement courses on "Thinking ,learning and building".
Hacking is not dead, but it has become complex because you have to deal with many layers of abstraction. In fact, we have to deal with complex concepts, implementations with different layers of complexity, more protocols... so the knowledge to hack something goes beyond that, because you have to understand how something works, maybe completely, to add something novel to it.
We shouldn't be worried while police doesn't loose their connection with their people and treat cases properly according to the law, but now it seems that they're being taught to use force for whatever reason in most situations. It's not only a phenomena that could happens in totalitarian states or broken states, now it reaches all countries.
The capitalist didn't always know what was going on in their factories. Besides that, workers used to pay somebody to read for them, or they would select someone from their own group.
What's the dramatic difference? It's like USA, worst quality of life, inequality and a bunch of idiots whom for decades stole from workers and avoided taxes, and try to sell that "model" to the rest of the world.
Yes, it's so good that Chileans come to the universities in my country, Argentina, and many work here. And we're happy to help them, because Neoliberalism took their opportunities and their future.
I felt bad when I read that too. I think foreigners don't know about Latin America, they where all indoctrinated to hate "socialist" or "populist" Latin America states. All propaganda, they never think why people put them there first. Just look what happened in Bolivia.
That's how the anarchist, modern liberal and socialist ideas spread through Europe. You had this guys doing a manual job while someone was reading for them the classics and the new books on Politics and Philosophy, then you had a powerful and organized working class. Amazing.
How many years has an attorney prosecutor to investigate this cases? I mean both Canada and USA.
In my country, if something like this is considered violating human rights, then the general prosecutor could re-open the case, it doesn't matter how many years after (this was intended for investigations on the disappearances during last dictatorship, but I think our constitution abides my reasoning if something like this happens).
A well-written article about politics in US and its class conflict. I still think and insists that US citizens don't look enough to the rest of the world. Just observe what happened to South-America since 2000's. Popular Revolution and Popular Governments was the way out of the capitalist-neoliberal crisis, at the time when global "promises" were being risen by the elites. The struggle had its positives results because even when the dictatorships, imposed by Washington, tried to drown the working class and the professional class, they couldn't kill inequalities and the political structure that generated that inequalities. Those measures (dictatorships) were brought for preserving those inequalities and that structure. Now South-America is entering into a new crisis, the elite's reaction to the conquests for the People.
US needs new leaders, grassroots political leaders. Many people believe that "change" comes from upper classes, but that happens when class struggle is in the stagnant state, when the conditions are uncertain for the majority. Building a new leadership and activism style for the affected classes will effectively replace the excuses and the fear, that Fear that was imposed by the elites.
Yes, exactly that. Also Google doesn't take actions when you report something or they just dismissed the reports: spam-blogging, spam results when you're looking for references, badly translated news sites copying content from legitimate sources, and the list goes on.
Old way sharing is in danger when big guys like Google don't fight back spam and black-hat SEO. I try to do my search on different search engines so older content- sometimes well established articles on programming - and meaningful new content can both go to surface. Since four or five years ago if you search something with Google then sponsored content goes first, sometimes it's just brand propaganda.
They may be running, no doubt on that. But if they don't "scatter" their operations and try to get monopoly or oligopoly of the market they'll in trouble because nobody will trust this "companies".