yosefzeev

Poppycock and fiddle-faddle. We allowed these things and did it to ourselves.

I actually did what this article suggests in college. It didn't go well grade wise. However, I had money and time to study and learn about things I wanted to learn. I found that my path often was interwoven with the path of the class, but that the perspective was different and sometimes professors are only grading on perspective--specifically their own. The biggest dividing line is, I suspect, that college does not, at this point teach one how to think. How to think and good grades are not necessarily the same thing at all. I was busy learning how to think, and deciding what could be relegated to "It's in a book, I can find it if I need it" vs "I should memorize this because it will be useful in life for me later".

With all the domain buying out and weirdness, it is my fervent hope people seriously begin reconsidering what it means to have a domain name and to implement other structures to serve out names as opposed to the now, obviously bought and sold, DNS.

I'm not sure "useful content" should be the only metric. Think of all the things you learn in school that you think are useless until later.

The concept of this looks neat, although I am not sure I understand all the use cases yet.

All water connects, sooner or later. The problem should be fixed if for no other reason on account of this fact.

Uh, that's not how any of that works. Rather, that's how it worked for the article writer.

I understand the basic issues involved here. Both countries are doing very odd things when it comes to information and privacy. However, I feel like making this a "country issue" is really not exactly the right horse to ride on. Rather, I think it should be stated due to the security policies of these governments, we are banning them as information safeholds at this time or something of the sort. Then, the issue is LESS the country, and more the governmental informational policies.

Very neat link. It is true that if you cannot create it, you are simply borrowing someone else's idea and treating it like your own.

The timing of this event is curious. Hasn't this been an issue since almost the inception of web browsers?

Sounds like some body-snatching took place along with the ultimate in cultural appropriation.

Oftentimes. I gave you an upvote just because sometimes around here you will get downvoted because the gods of zeitgeist decide it must be so.

It means those guys weren't innovative enough to keep making them money in some way that they wished they would.