Great post by Jeff Atwood on log in forms:
Logging in involves a simple form with two fields, a link, and two buttons. And yet, after reading all this, I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s deceptively complex. Your best course of action is not to build one at all, e.g. rely on authentication from an outside source whenever you can.
I’m not sure, if I agree with his conclusion here, but I agree it’s very complex.
Die Geheimdienste betreiben nicht mehr nur Überwachung und Spionage. Dokumente aus dem Fundus von Edward Snowden, die dem SPIEGEL vorliegen, zeigen: Sie wollen die Herrschaft im Internet und bereiten digitale Kriege vor.
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Joel Meyerowitz is doing his own 365-project!
Another great Metal Evolution episode: Progressive Metal. (Although, it’s a mystery to me how they could not mention Opeth.)
Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better. The culture we will live in next month is a direct result of what people like us share today. The things we share and don’t share determine what happens next. As we move away from the top-down regime of promoted movies, well-shelved books and all sorts of hype, the recommendation from person to person is now the most powerful way we have to change things.
We watched this yesterday night.
For many metal fans, Extreme Metal is heavy metal.
Yep!
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Good stuff. The workplace in the Airstream is my favourite.
Report-turned-rant by Glenn Greenwald:
Think about the “defending terrorism” criminal offense for which Dieudonné has been arrested. Should it really be a criminal offense – causing someone to be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned – to say something along these lines: western countries like France have been bringing violence for so long to Muslims in their countries that I now believe it’s justifiable to bring violence to France as a means of making them stop? If you want “terrorism defenses” like that to be criminally prosecuted (as opposed to societally shunned), how about those who justify, cheer for and glorify the invasion and destruction of Iraq, with its “Shock and Awe” slogan signifying an intent to terrorize the civilian population into submission and its monstrous tactics in Fallujah? Or how about the psychotic calls from a Fox News host, when discussing Muslims radicals, to “kill them ALL.” Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred – other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one form of terrorism (violence in the Muslim world) is done by, rather than to, the west?
Humans Need Not Apply:
That’s why it’s important to emphasize again this stuff isn’t science fiction. The robots are here right now. There is a terrifying amount of working automation in labs and warehouses that is proof of concept.
We have been through economic revolutions before, but the robot revolution is different.
Horses aren’t unemployed now because they got lazy as a species, they’re unemployable. There’s little work a horse can do that pays for its housing and hay.
And many bright, perfectly capable humans will find themselves the new horse: unemployable through no fault of their own.
Die digitale Revolution wird schon bald erstmals ins bürgerliche Herz der Gesellschaft treffen: Wenn auch geistige Arbeit von Automatisierung betroffen ist. Damit rückt endlich die entscheidende wirtschaftspolitische Frage des 21. Jahrhundert in den Mittelpunkt.
Just one excerpt of another great article on this topic:
France is in sorrow today, and will be for many weeks to come. We mourn with France. We ought to. But it is also true that violence from “our” side continues unabated. By this time next month, in all likelihood, many more “young men of military age” and many others, neither young nor male, will have been killed by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan and elsewhere. If past strikes are anything to go by, many of these people will be innocent of wrongdoing. Their deaths will be considered as natural and incontestable as deaths like Menocchio’s, under the Inquisition. Those of us who are writers will not consider our pencils broken by such killings. But that incontestability, that unmournability, just as much as the massacre in Paris, is the clear and present danger to our collective liberté.
Bereits zum vierten Mal wird die Landeshaupstadt Düsseldorf Gastgeber des Duesseldorf Photo Weekends sein. Im Rahmen des Duesseldorf Photo Weekends 2015 werden wieder zahlreiche Galerien, Museen und Institute Ausstellungen und Veranstaltungen zeigen, die der Fotografie gewidmet sind.
This:
We are richer, and mightier, and far more deadly than any of our terrorist foes could dream of being. And yet we happily play into their hands. We declare a “War on Terror” of our own making, an absurd construct with no possible victory. We overreact so harshly to every injury that our reputation as bullies and savages is confirmed. We allow ourselves to be cowed by fear. We allow ourselves to be rendered senseless by rage. The terrorist lays the bait, and we give him the terror he seeks. The terrorist may be the criminal, but we are the hapless suckers who make his act worthwhile.
Hier ist nur einer der vielen guten Abschnitte in Jakob Augsteins Artikel:
Wenn wir erlauben, dass das Grauen von uns Besitz ergreift, dann ist das der wahre Triumph des Terrorismus. Nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 waren die USA dieser Herausforderung nicht gewachsen. Sie waren zu schwach. Im Kampf mit Osama Bin Laden haben die USA die schwerste Niederlage ihrer Geschichte erlitten: Sie haben gegen sich selbst verloren. Abu Ghuraib, die Folterkeller der CIA, die Bespitzelung der Welt durch die NSA - Amerika hat sich verändert. Wenn das noch der Westen ist, wer will dann Westen sein?
The horrific murder of the editor, cartoonists and other staff of the irreverent satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, along with two policemen, by terrorists in Paris was in my view a strategic strike, aiming at polarizing the French and European public.