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well, the "G" originally stood for Google.

> Email will be still around when WeChat is dead and gone.

I highly doubt that. WeChat is so deeply embedded in daily life in China that I would almost consider it required to do anything substantial in China.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world/china-watch/technology...

In China, you will probably do all of the above in WeChat rather than email. Whenever I need to conduct business with someone in China, it's always over WeChat rather than email.

One of the Chinese court systems actually sends notifications through their WeChat account. I believe there are even pilot programs where you can initiate court cases through WeChat as well.

Apple bought C3 Technologies, a Swedish 3D mapping company back in 2011. It was originally spun out of SAAB (the mapping solution was originally used for missile targeting systems, iirc.)

more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3apAXzf3JTg

add some more context, this NYT editorial was written a couple days before Abraham Lincoln was sworn into office (March 4th, 1861).

The states had already voted to secede (or not to) earlier in the year. The Confederates had even provisionally elected a president, Jefferson Davis, on February 18th. The secession crisis started after Abraham Lincoln was elected in November of 1860.

The nation really was falling apart, hence the lamentation of the republic being just a collection of states in the editorial.

Here is a live version of a [Palantir product for the Carter Center](http://www.cartercenter.org/syria-conflict-map/). I'd say it looks quite nice for a digital map.

> The physical Google button is a somewhat terrible idea, I think someone tried something similar a while back

The idea is the same as Google's Voice Search (and Siri).

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/voicesearch/

They all generally obeyed them because those ISPs didn't want to tangle with the FCC and their Open Internet order. (Who does?) Also at various times before the 2005 regulations, certain parts of the internet infrastructure were under regulations that had the side effect of having a neutral internet.

The reason why the formalizing the rules is now an issue is because a federal court has thrown out the legal method the FCC had been using to wave at ISPs to be neutral.

So now there is no ruling, and the ISPs wouldn't have spent all that time & money on lawyers to preserve what they just took down.

So right now, the FCC is going to release new rules on the Open Internet. The question is, will it be under a new interpretation of the old method that was thrown out of court (Section 702), or by calling ISPs common carriers and then forbearing most of the sections in Title II (as the court alluded is possible).

In the wireless data sector, which operates under separate and looser "net neutrality" rules, there are already packages to allow "unlimited" access to preferred applications.

T-mobile does this[1] as well as Virgin[2]. Scroll down to see packages like:

* "Unlimited Instagram — Monthly $5.00"

* "Unlimited Pinterest — Monthly $5.00"

* "Unlimited Social — Monthly $15.00"

If you are a web or app startup, it's gonna be might hard to get people to use your product when they can use Facebook or other preferred apps for free.

Sure, the above plans are made for low income demographics but it is a looking glass of what the ISP/telecom companies view as the future of the internet.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/18/5822996/t-mobile-music-fre...

[2] http://www.virginmobileusa.com/custom/#/

>I think the strongest argument against net neutrality is that the US has gone through long periods without it and none of the doomsday scenarios have occurred.

Incorrect, the Internet in the United States has been under de-facto net neutrality rules through a patchwork of agreements, policy statements, and regulations.

The current debate is just about formalizing the legal method & the scope of any rules to maintain a "Open Internet". (That is the term that the FCC uses for the various net neutrality issues.)

I just installed them, doesn't seem to impact the speed of Quick Look.

While your points are valid, they are not relevant in a legal sense (at least in the United States).

An electronic signature is as good as a paper signature under the ESign Act of 2000 if they follow this definition:

`electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record.`

Hell, even sending the words "I accept" via Morse code over telegraph was considered a legal signature in the 19th century.

However, if there a dispute over the authenticity of the signature and found to be fraudulant, the courts have ruled that it's not a signature then.

Sigh. If you bothered to read the article, then you'd know that it doesn't say anything about donating to the EFF. There isn't even a link in the article to donate.

All last point asks is people to support Stop Watching Us rally and other campaigns against bulk spying, run a Tor node, or hold a cryptoparty.

Your comments on surveillance tactics/hunger/climate change is just bringing up irrelevant arguments, so I won't address them.

P.S. Sorry to go on a rant, but I miss the days when people actually RTFA. (aka never gonna happen).

Just throw the terms in the RapGenius search bar:

http://rapgenius.com/search?hide_unexplained_songs=false&q=h...

Javascript is mentioned in "White & Nerdy" by Weird Al Yankovic. Also, looks like there are non-songs that are being counted into the rap stats.

I think it's all the embedded content and the huge banner (that somewhat unrelated to the headline) at the top, etc is not really meshing together.

The site design could use a bit of love.

Minnesota DOT probably recommends zipper merging because they are taking into account that it's likely a safer (and easier) method for drivers in denser traffic.

A 25% recidivism rate is pretty good considering that many might have gone to the "battlefield" as payback for their improper imprisonment. Also, it is disingenuous to conflate terrorism with insurgency as both have different motivations and "scope of battlefield."

So-called insurgents were only a threat to local presence of Americans and not interested in sticking overseas or be a part of a broader movement against America. Just because they are fighting for their country from their perspective doesn't make it right to say they are the same as terrorists.

You also have to take into account for the loss of goodwill and reputation across the world for hosting Gitmo; particularly when it has possibly radicalized more people simply by having something to point to when a terrorist recruiter propagandizes about the 'evilness of the US' and the merits of attacking us.

Just to compare, a quick google search shows that the U.S. recidivism was around 70%. It might have improved or not since the study period, but it does perspective on the issue.

Source: http://bjs.gov/content/reentry/recidivism.cfm

I'm really sorry about everything, but I do want to say the virtually all of the work and promotion was done by me and my friend in the beginning three years ago. (I'm hesitant to bring my friend's name in this thread even though he is an awesome designer/dev who just graduated from highschool and deserves to be recognized. Email me if you like his stuff!)

I learned my lesson. I don't know too much about legal stuff so I'll look into making non-profit. I didn't want to ask for money from people and companies were asking for sponsor World Backup Day. I thought was a nice gesture. Last year, I had a link to bone marrow registry and even had tied the message of being a "backup for a human" to get people to sign up for the registry. I wanted to do something this year, but we ran out of time to settle & create graphics for another cause.

I just wanted it to be a happy and helpful event before April Fool's Day. That is all.

That was some proposed advertising packages on reddit plus a couple other things-I didn't handle the advertising. I'm really tired and sorry.

I just wanted want a nice event for everyone. :(

It was just supposed to be monitoring for some scammy companies and she got overzealous and sent a letter to Backupify (they are awesome and definitely not scammy). The lawyer said the best way to stop scammy companies would be to trademark it, I'm just a college student so I (unwisely) let them take care of it. Plus it was just an unnecessarily scary letter-not an legal action.

I just didn't want people to mess up their computer because they downloaded something that seemed to be endorsed us (fyi, we don't endorse anyone). That's all.

Thanks! I really appreciate that. It's just difficult to see the reaction here compared to happy reaction on Twitter and facebook. :) Your comment was nice to hear.

It was an idea from a reddit thread. I getting hammered in this thread, and I don't if anyone can see this. but the Backupify thing was a misunderstanding. It's okay to use World Backup Day!

I had some trouble with scammy companies and I wanted to protect people from thinking we were endorsing them. That's all

I just wanted to protect my visitors. Companies wouldn't listen to me when they found out I was student. I hope everyone understands that. I'm just a guy in [redacted] who wanted to do something for the community. The designer/coder is just a kid who graduated from highschool. I want people to think our their data. Not to be the center of things. :(

That was for a proposed advertising package for reddit.com. That definitely isn't coming to me.

Why doesn't anyone believe me? I live in my parent's house and I got a broken car. I love HN because it helped inspire me to do something. That's all. I'm almost crying here. :'(

Please call me at [redacted] if you don't believe me.

I can explain. It was just a misunderstanding with Backupify! Backupify is cool. The name was trademarked because some shady companies were creating ransomware/shitty software and using World Backup Day to promote it. The lawyer was just overzealous with the stupid notices. :( I apologized to Rob about the other day.

But anyone can use the name! We just wanted to protect our visitors. I am just a college student and the site was hand-coded & designed by this awesome redditor who just graduated highschool.