I'm not a professional interpreter (and my english kinda sucks) so it's likely I made some mistakes: feel free to correct me and suggest a better version. Nonetheless I got Danah's OK to publish it on my blog: probably she doesn't read italian so she can't realize how I ruined her piece, but still :)
Public fountains are disappearing because the concept of public is disappearing. Public water fountains are not dangerous (unless cooties are real). Tap water is safe, and the spigots are designed to prevent contamination. The rise of bottled water here in the States shows how a public institution can be demonized and replaced by a much more expensive privatized solution.
[...] Charter schools are like bottled water--they're believed to be superior, and their standards are less stringent that their more public counterparts.
[...] they (the policy makers) let the citizen face daily the fear of a very-rare [terrorist] attack and they manage to take your rights apart [because of that].
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I just hope that no one will try to blow a plane with his underwear...
Oooops. I hope I will not be considered the mind behind the stupid ass who tried to assassinate a Saudi prince by exploding a bomb stuffed in his rectum.
Let's see if they will begin to search our asshole before boarding a plane just to be sure... this shit already happened, ya kno'
Best thing to do would be to have a fast internet connection at home (with simmetric speeds too, upstream and downstream) and some nice opensource software for webmail and for some documents writing and sharing. Mix that with IPV6 and we're all connected with our cloud, powered by us. The final ingredient could be some huge webservice where we could upload our nightly backup of our home server. And those backups should be encrypted too.
When it will be the time of some opensource gmail?
Yeah, exactly. Their point is the virus is "pretty weak now" but it will be stronger next autumn. Obviously, because of their goal, people who contracted the virus are warmly welcomed and, possibly, will have free drinks.
Now nerds sit in the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
"Hacker Jeff Moss, founder of computer security conferences DEFCON and Black Hat, has been sworn in as one of the new members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) of the DHS. Moss, who goes by the handle 'the Dark Tangent' says he was surprised to be asked to join the council and that he was nominated to bring an 'outside perspective' to its meetings. He said, 'I know there is a new-found emphasis on cybersecurity, and they're looking to diversify the members and to have alternative viewpoints. I think they needed a skeptical outsider's view because that has been missing.'"
Sweden’s Pirate Party has won 7.1% of Swedish votes in the Europe-wide ballot, comfortably over the 4% threshold and enough to give it two seats in the European Parliament.
Roughly 200,000 citizens voted for the party, making it the fifth most popular party in Sweden and the largest party representing under 30s, as well as beating more established parties like the Christian Democrats and the Centre Party.
Central African chimpanzees crave honey so much that they've invented the animal kingdom's most complex known set of tools to get it, according to researchers who found many of the tools still slathered with the syrupy liquid.
