You bring up a good point regarding education. No matter how much censorship there is, education is better. The way we educate young people about alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, etc. should be similar to the way we educate people on pornography.
The availability and ease for this type of content is scary especially when children are more connected than ever. Pornography kills love (Edit: https://fightthenewdrug.org/how-porn-kills-love/). Love is extremely important for human beings and civilizations. It drives art, philosophy, faith, religion, etc. It is love that produced great works throughout history.
I read some where there was going to be a TLD for porn (.xxx I think). I wish they did that and all the porn content was only on that TLD. Then browsers can easily block all porn for underage viewers. I know I would do that for my children until they are adults and I believe they can make their own decisions. There is a level of maturity and education one needs before exposed to this type of content.
Personally I find it repulsive and I try my best to avoid it as best as possible. Sadly it creeps into TV shows and movies nowadays.
Is this similar to other courses but just branded as Google or is there Google specific knowledge? Do you get a chance to work for Google after taking this course?
>At issue is once again an Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage bucket that was misconfigured and inadvertently left open to the public internet, where anyone with a connection online could have found it.
I use S3 and I have noticed that by default it's locked down and secure and in order for it to be open you have to open it for the public. Maybe AWS could improve the way it can secure the S3 buckets by making it easier to whitelist access by IPs or some variant to this. Although I personally find it fairly straight forward to use in the projects I work on but it appears it may be difficult and my developers just open it up to the public so their apps can easily access it.
Also Quran 46:15:
"And We have enjoined upon man, to his parents, good treatment. His mother carried him with hardship and gave birth to him with hardship, and his gestation and weaning [period] is thirty months. [He grows] until, when he reaches maturity and reaches [the age of] forty years, he says, "My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to work righteousness of which You will approve and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed, I am of the Muslims.""
I feel like some underestimate the .NET framework. Microsoft has done a great job of really opening up and building a better eco system for developers to work with. Years ago there was a common stereotype that .NET was old and not cool. I believe it still has a place and is a strong server side framework.
Google's version (photos.google.com) is great. I love the auto-generated albums, animated gifs and movies. It's also very easy to share and create group albums.
One thing I really find myself having a hard time working with WordPress themes is that many of them are bloated and require so many plugins. The amount of css/js files that are required to load a page in a premium WordPress theme averages around 30+ files (at least from what I have seen working with WordPress themes).
Sometimes I feel like I am behind with CSS. I have not used LESS or SASS or any others on any production application that I work on. It's usually Bootstrap and then custom CSS to override. I have messed around and learned the basics of LESS/SASS but nothing beyond that.
>When terrorists struck Brussels in March, first responders quickly found their communication systems were overwhelmed. They were forced to share critical information through text messages and services like What's App. A group of hackers has made it their mission to help emergency personnel. And Teri Schultz reports many of these geeky geniuses come from the same Brussels neighborhood as the radical Islamists who launched the attacks.
I also forgot that the people being occupied by ISIS could use that same ISP to save themselves and their loved ones. They could use it also to help the fight against the terrorists.
"Twitter is the cornerstone of the group’s digital strategy. 80% to 90% of its social media comes from twitter with a projected 46,000 to 70,000 accounts all over the world that are linked to promoting messages of hate (NYT). There are an estimated 21,000 English-language followers alone. (CNN) Most content comes from 2,000 over-performers that tweet in bursts of 50 or more tweets per day with each of these over-performers having an average of 1,004 followers. The result is an astonishing estimated 200,000 tweets per day. (The Brookings Institute)"
200,000 tweets per day? Who is the ISP in the ISIS controlled regions? Couldn't we just cut their ISP?
Looks very different from a few years ago.