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Do you support Facebook blocking the developer pages of those who are creating the various AdBlock* browser extensions? Isn't that pretty much the same thing as FB Purity is doing …

They shouldn't be allowed to ban a company from having an account on Facebook for a web extension? Will the developers of all the AdBlock variants need to worry about their account…

Can they optimize Skype so that it doesn't require 80MB-130MB just to run in the background? How can it require this much memory to run an instant messenger? Couldn't they delay lo…

The issue is that there is a dual system of rights in place depending on whether you are Jewish or whether you are a Palestinian Arab and that is deeply wrong. I am not in favor of…

> If you don't like the security measures then don't go there. But what happens if you are Palestinian like the people in these stories and as a politically aware Palestinian you b…

Your posts which highlight LGBT rights while completely ignoring the elephant in the room (the 40+ year occupation affecting millions) fits well with what is described in this New …

It's weird that you were down voted for being factually correct.

I didn't say there is a simple solution but rather that Israeli permanent occupation has become akin to Apartheid South Africa for the non-citizen Arabs and the citizen Jews living…

But stamping down such opinions is actually pretty common. These email searches are about preventing people with those opinions from entering Israel. It isn't about terrorist threa…

AJ007 wrote: > This just sounds like an attempt to keep individuals of certain backgrounds out of a country. Absolutely correct. The security officials believed that the individual…

Israel does prevent those with sympathy to the Palestinians from entering Israel. I posted this quote/article in response to another comment but it is pertinent here: "The agent, s…

You will notice this isn't about security but about identifying pro-Palestinian activists: Quote: "The agent, suspecting Tamari was involved in pro-Palestinian activism , wanted to…

nyellin wrote: > We also have our warts... But you didn't mention the elephant in the room in your comment, which is pretty strange: Israel also has run a 40+ year occupation that …

I am against the occupation

The NGO Monitor aims to undermine non-violent actions against the Israeli occupation in order to maintain it. It tries to cut funding to peaceful NGOs because they don't align with…

He is an awesome scientist and has made real contributions to the field computer science. It is unfortunate that in his politics he a very right wing pro-Israel type that supports …

You were working without a contract. I would suggest that is the whole reason this experienced sucked, not because of Apress.

I would argue the issue is more about the priorities of the American government and also its economic decline. America has fundamental issues that means it can not longer fund such…

Israel's academics are quite good outside the realm of politics. Within the realm of politics, currently departments are being forced to close if they have the wrong views (namely …

I don't believe in censoring the ugliness of Israel's current policy against Arabs within its borders, it is a major component of what Israel is today unfortunately.

Very cheap robotics will decimate China's low skilled labor force.

At 160 bytes per text and 2T texts per year, there are 800 gigabytes of texts per day. Thus Carrier IQ is monitoring the equivalent of 1% of all texts across all phones. That is st…

I believe that the person you are responding to was being sarcastic.