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biggfoot
14y ago
How does this help? At all?
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14y ago
Just in: the motion to get the draconian IT Rules 2011 act annulled has been negatived. https://twitter.com/#!/PRSLegislative/status/203069104331030... This and acts like it are central to such ridiculousness even being possible ...
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14y ago
'protect your move ...' Move? What move?
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14y ago
Dummy meaning it is a facade put up by some vested interests. To my mind there is no way a genuine company can get this done without a legal (or should I say, illegal) backdoor.
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14y ago
"I worried more about piracy and it almost spoils everyone in the movie industry" ... only a man of such eloquence is capable of such otherwise impossible tasks ...
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14y ago
It is a John Doe order being enforced because some big movie is being released and they don't want it to be pirated. Those of us who use Vimeo for leisure or work are evidently lesser citizens ...
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14y ago
The site is quite ridiculous, so you are probably right about it being some dummy company.
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14y ago
Quoting: 1. "Readers of the 400-something page cyberpunk-inspired rant about technology and its interfaces in our everyday lives will find QR-codes placed on every single page of the book. Quite fitting to the book’s main theme, the digital
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The world’s first social book breaks down barriers between online and print
(karmamedia.eu)
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15y ago
In a way, yes. It is an evolved relationship. Middlemen started out as traders who acted as the exchange mechanism, for example between farmer bodies and the consumers. Over time they have grown in strength and sadly in autonomy. Middlemen
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15y ago
There is tons to do even if the UID is successfully rolled out through out the country. First and foremost would be to get all government services to willingly accept the UID as the standard scheme ... I know that sounds ironic but such is
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15y ago
Forcing the middlemen to come up with new ways of cheating the system would be a huge step-up from the status quo. Presently they don't even need to think!
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Sometimes it's good to be a little evil
(blogs.gartner.com)
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15y ago
This is really good information. We did do some level of usability testing but we still rely on content for important messaging.
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15y ago
It will probably only be clear with time if this is leading into a bubble or is it just a case of the unsustainable ones losing the race in a bid to capture the rising online market.
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Investors turn skeptical on e-commerce in India
(livemint.com)
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15y ago
Well, in such a large universe everything is too far away.
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15y ago
Inter-planetary travel is probably to big a problem to say that if not for our consumerism habits getting in the way we would have colonized some other planet already.
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2012 predictions for entrepreneurs?
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From the site: "No exercises" "Lose weight in a homeopathic way with no side-effects" Massive, MASSIVE, red flag!
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15y ago
Co-incidence maybe? It is interesting to see this but maybe it wasn't a conscious choice so much as we being used to seeing things that follow such a ratio.