I'll just leave this here. The US has been spying on the world forever, but what we are seeing here, is that if you want to be a truly global organisation of any kind, then the US is the place you don't want to be setting up in.
For the EU it's really just the question if you want to be spied on by the US or by China. In recent years, trade with China has probably helped the economy much more than trade with the US. At the same time, China (while certainly acting out of self interest), is somewhat predictable in their actions.
Europeans are really critical of China and their policies (esp. their human rights record). But they don't like the US that much more (apart from the Brits) and with a struggling economy you really don't want to make them choose between money and ideology.
Yeah, wow, it must be completely impossible for someone without decades of US residency or decades of intense interest in the US to understand the US government!
I like to flatter myself that after 58 years of living in the US, I have recently started to be able to predict most of the major decisions of the US government. (Youtube videos of speeches and interviews by Peter Zeihan and George Friedman helped me in my understanding. Most of the senior editors and reporters at, e.g., the New York Times and the Washington Post, although passionately interested in the US government, have only a shallow understanding of it IMO.)
You can easily find examples where you can replace China with the US. And now with the current American leadership I can't say personally that I trust the US more than China at this point.
I haven't been to US, but all my friends that visited it were quite disappointed with quality of life there (coming from Poland). But I've recently spent a few weeks in China and I'm really impressed with how advanced it is in terms of infrastructure and technology, I don't think US or even EU is anywhere near where China is right now. So it's not as simple a comparison as it first appears.
It's not only about QoL. Personal freedom, government accountability and democracy is as important. If not even more important. Coming from ex-Soviet state you should be aware of that (saying this as your neighbour from Lithuania).
Even if democracy in West (or at home) is far from perfect, it's lightyears ahead of China.
Your guess is wrong, other than big cities (Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu and Xi'an) I've also visited smaller cities (under 100K) and villages in central China.
lol you watched too many hollywood movies growing up that you can't imagine daily life an another country being as good or better than living in America you silly goose
They weren't talking about simply any other country, but China specifically. In terms of government interference and freedom of thought, at this point I think the US is still pretty clearly the better place. From the point of view of the EU, though, it is edging closer to China.
Yep, and China has been playing the same game with its neighboring countries for a while. Remember how China responded when South Korea brought THAAD for missile defense?
Samsung. Google services is just there because I think its required on their contract. All other services offered by Google is duplicated with their own version and variation.
That's kinda hilarious coming from an australian. a country in which some companies have said they will no longer trust their employees due to the new law enforcement bills passed.
In addition australia has the same stance as nearly every western country when it comes to Huawei, namely "only we get to spy on our people, so get out"
I'm sure that the EU/australia/the west is breathing a sigh of relief that Trump did this instead of forcing them to make up some more draconian law about foreign device mfg that would have unintended consequences.
I use http://www.namechk.com to ensure the social media real estate is available for a given name. also you want the .com as most non tech ppl wont remember tricky urls. keep it short and simple
Let’s say a business wanted to promote their account to gain more followers and Instagram was able to feature them in some way.
Isn't this just exactly how facebook fooled the world? You pay x to gain y followers and when they have bleed that river dry, they roll out another update that requires you to pay z if you want your posts to show up in their feed?
Aggregation networks that focus on a individual users experience across mutliple channels rather then a single channel will be the driving force for the next wave of big startups IMO (and providing they can get the data cleanly).
ALTO confirms this, Its not just a new paradigm for email UX but communication UX. HootSuite and others have attempted similar by focusing on a few networks or channels and they have shown that people want a service where then can manage their online profile and communication from a single system. Attach email and file management capabilities and its a one stop shop.
btw: I would also add this is where Google has failed to capitalise in the marketplace. Users don't want another social network, The want control of everything from a single point.
I've done a little bit of domaining myself and the first thing to take away from any list is that recently dropped doesn't always equal available. Also you have guys that are running massive lists that perform thousands of buys requests per second across a massive number of domain name sellers in order to ensure they get to purchase the domain as soon as its released.
In terms of obtaining information, most whois queries can be performed via command line utilities... so to start you off here is a good list for whois servers (http://code.google.com/p/whois-servers-list/). Finally, check out each service, some will allow queries which will return true or false to being registered and generally you get a lot more of these requests then complete lookups (without being IP blacklisted)
Finally, in terms of building and managing an index, I believe manual crawling is the only option available... and start with dictionary terms and work out.
Its a problem with CSS frameworks these days (especially bootstrap). No longer are they the starting point for a design but instead they are now considered the final solution.
I would like to see the ability to drag and drop the text directly into the editor... and an ability to choose the sources for obtaining information (Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia etc). Also, if you could highlight individual results and run a lookup against them you could drill down even further making the information more relevant... and as a sidenote, I be would inclined to target the student market whom could use this as a study tool (or lifesaver for last minute assignments)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON