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You don't need a time machine. Standing up and preventing your government from doing these stunts again and again would do.

You do need a time machine if you want to stop the real culprits who started this cyberwar in cyberspace with their cybermissile. No, I'm not talking about the United States, or Isreal, or Saudi Arabia or even Theodore Donald 'The Rat' Finch AKA Mr. "Hack the Planet." No, the real villan here is clearly the CYBERMAN !!!!

Okay, we have proven we can orbit the Earth successfully for the past 37 years. NOW we have to move on to landing back on the Moon and Mars.

Whatever happened to our pioneering spirit in space? Are we just going to build un-manned shuttles and satellites for the next 50 years?

Our scientific missions seemed a lot more important and interesting on the moon with Apollo 17 in 1972.

I guess if you're incapable of reading TFA, or at least the first paragraph, we can quote it for you:

  Food libel laws, also known as food disparagement laws and informally as veggie libel laws, are laws passed in 13 U.S. states that make it easier for food producers to sue their critics for libel. These 13 states include Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas.[1] Many of the food-disparagement laws establish a lower standard for civil liability and allow for punitive damages and attorney's fees for plaintiffs alone,[2] regardless of the case's outcome.[3]

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Food_libel_laws

Pfah, such short-term thinking. I prefer this graph:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/65_Myr_Climate_Change.png

Really, current "climate change" (global warming theory) is so short-term-focused as to be meaningless, as both graphs amply demonstrate.

On the Pentagon Papers, it's not very clear-cut that the press has unlimited right to publish classified documents. Yes, Times v Unites States was eventually ruled for the Times et. al., but the opinions of the justices were really divided.

The Espionage Act still criminalizes anyone

"Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, ... relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it."

So there is precedent in the Pentagon Papers case, but I'm not sure how it would be applied in a +400,000 document release such as this.

IANAL, BTW.

Know what trumps that? The First Amendment. Next!

On the Pentagon Papers, it's not very clear-cut that the press has unlimited right to publish classified documents. Yes, Times v Unites States was eventually ruled for the Times et. al., but the opinions of the justices were really divided.

The Espionage Act still criminalizes anyone

"Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, ... relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it."

So there is precedent in the Pentagon Papers case, but I'm not sure how it would be applied in a +400,000 document release such as this.

IANAL, BTW.

I write in 3 languages on a US keyboard (no accents). I used to know all the Alt codes by heart, but now on Linux I converted the [Caps lock] key to a [Compose] key. That's a very handy trick to do é: press Compose and ', then e. For â, press Compose-Shift-^ then a, etc. And here's how you set it up in KDE: You go in [System Settings][Regional & Language][Keyboard layout][Advanced][Compose key position] and select Caps Lock. Plenty of combinations.

"He is a founding member of two networks of chief privacy officers"
After all, he protects the Allspark right?

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Transformers_(film)
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Peter_Cullen

Bonus - they're both Canadian.

"He is a founding member of two networks of chief privacy officers"
After all, he protects the Allspark right?

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Transformers_(film)
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Peter_Cullen

Bonus - they're both Canadian.

huh? there's all sorts of problems that have been solved by engineers where I'm certain the engineer went into the situation without a clue of exactly how they were going to solve the problem...and thus no idea exactly how long it would take. Engineering is only predictable in the sense you say if the problem being solved is one which is relatively common. But if you're, say, engineering a novel new bridge, there's a whole host of problems which aren't "predictable".

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Trolley_problem

No, that would be silly.

Wikileaks' target is unjust secretive material. They have been selective in their publishing and concentrated on revealing two-faced politics and outright corruption. Now that government is anticipating this kind of material to be leaked, they'll cramp down their effectiveness in handling this material.

If the officials decide to share unjustly secretive material in the same networks with justifiedly secret material, it's their call. Either unjustly secret material or effective sharing in one network.

As for security of the US of A, Wikileaks has likely only done to increase it. If one out of three million people have risked their life leaking to a non-profit oganization, rest assured that some others have leaked for profit and prosperity to competing, corrupt governments. Nobody knows if this has happened after 2001 Robert Hanssen and George Trofimoff cases or not, but now everyone knows it certainly was not just possible but easy.

Wikileaks' target is unjust secretive material. They have been selective in their publishing and concentrated on revealing two-faced politics and outright corruption. Now that government is anticipating this kind of material to be leaked, they'll cramp down their effectiveness in handling this material.

If the officials decide to share unjustly secretive material in the same networks with justifiedly secret material, it's their call. Either unjustly secret material or effective sharing in one network.

As for security of the US of A, Wikileaks has likely only done to increase it. If one out of three million people have risked their life leaking to a non-profit oganization, rest assured that some others have leaked for profit and prosperity to competing, corrupt governments. Nobody knows if this has happened after 2001 Robert Hanssen and George Trofimoff cases or not, but now everyone knows it certainly was not just possible but easy.

There ARE people who know more about governance than the masses.

And there is/will be some in the mass who know more that those people. Admiting otherewise is admiting an upper bound to knowledge which is absurde IMHO.

hands of the misinformed manipulated masses.

well part of that mass chose to be missinformed. and part was missinformed. We need something like wikileaks to keep the flow of information to miss(miss (informe)) the mass, those who are intrested anyways. by doing that we might approach that equilibrium (1).

>>I can't quite figure what the problem with bicycle helmets is that you're suggesting.

There have been a number of papers written on the paradoxical effects things like bicycle (and ski) helmets have on people. The causality is debated, but a common hypothesis is that the slight decrease in injury from wearing the helmet is counterbalanced by increased risk taking, cars driving closer to the cyclists, and cycling faster.

There's similar problems with ABS systems:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Risk_compensation

If you like that quote, read "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius.

It is the single most helpful book you will ever read IMO.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Meditations

'I can't see why they are not a bank anyway. '

They have been a bank since 2007.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Paypal

Bigger view of the building built by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Please see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing

It's an old philosophical concept, called Theseus' Paradox or Philosopher's axe.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

Hi! I would like to invite you to rent or purchase a copy of A Christmas Carol, watch it all, think about the character that best defines you and then look up "Logical fallacies" on Wikipedia. Merry Christmas :)

(in case you need a hint: you've used exactly the same fallacy as Scrooge when he was talking to the beggars at the beginning of the movie)

Peering:

Peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the other for the exchanged traffic; instead, each derives revenue from its own customers. Marketing and commercial pressures have led to the word peering routinely being used when there is some settlement involved, even though that is not the accurate technical use of the word. The phrase "settlement-free peering" is sometimes used to reflect this reality and unambiguously describe the pure cost-free peering situation.

(emphasis mine)

That, my friend, is how the Internet works and that is how it worked from the beginning.

I'm fairly sure this is a peering issue as has been stated many times. If Level3 is cut out of the private exchange, you'll still get Netflix, it will just take normal 'longer' transit routes to your house instead a shorter route at their private exchange(s).

Why should Comcast have to foot the bill for power and equipment and maintenance so Level3 can send traffic to you faster? It's not like these are $99 Linksys routers we're talking here. With a near 1:1 ratio that might make sense, but I'm kinda thinking Comcast is actually not the bad guy here.

Yay! This brings us one step closer to "The Feed" in The Diamond Age - just make it send a string of organic molecules (no arsenic though) and your 3D printer will make whatever food you need on your end.

Automatically routed trains in partially evacuated tubes, run by linear induction motors? Sounds nice. It could go really fast on the straights, and unlike the underground proposal, they wouldn't first have to build a subterrene or spend ages making tunnels with a TBM.

Since his spamming goes beyond national boundaries, even extending to satellite net links that reach into space, this may fall under Cardassian jurisdiction.

"In Cardassian criminal trials the defendant is presumed guilty and in fact the punishment is already decided before the trial begins; the purpose of the trial (effectively a show trial) is merely to help the defendant acknowledge his wrongdoing. In Cardassian mystery novels, everyone is always guilty, the puzzle being to work out who is guilty of what. In Cardassian mythology the Galor deity was a helmeted, warrior demigod of antiquity. Tribute is paid to the vessel class of the same name as well as the likeness seen in the national symbol."

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cardassian

Anyway, X runs fine on OS X.

No, it doesn't. It doesn't integrate well with the base system, and you have to put up with either OSX window management or running X fullscreen.

Since Tiger OSX can and does run X fullscreen or rootless.

Falcon

Yes. This is pretty significant. I wonder if there are any viruses that can effect them. Read about the Hershey–Chase experiment if you want to see how significant this is https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hershey%E2%80%93Chase_experiment

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Netsukuku#A_Netsukuku_Domain_Name_Architecture

Deadly wasteland is land I want to obtain for free and destroy for a big profit. Ecosystem or home is what everyone else calls it.

One part not wanting to have sex anymore. By Swedish law, you are then required to stop, and not doing so is considered rape (but often with mitigating circumstances).

Assuming this goes to court, both parties agree that the sex started as consensual. The girl says she asked him to stop at some point, the guy says she never did. What is the standard of evidence?

The BDSM communities have respected this for a long time, and know the value of having a safe word that must never be violated. For non-BSDM, that word is "stop".

And in BDSM communitites, the word is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?

oh i think it can handle it:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Poly(methyl_methacrylate)#Transparent_glass_substitute

and the resolution is limited to the projectors used, iirc.

You ask why, but I think you know the answer...

I am familiar with Hanlon's razor, but they can't be this blatantly incompetent.

Daniel: Tastes like chicken.
Carter: What's wrong with that?
Daniel: It's macaroni and cheese.

How close we get to thermodynamic limitations? We're still many orders of magnitude away from that; even doubling every year wouldn't get us there in one decade. Landauer's bounds on the theoretically possible seem to be much "looser" from a human perspective than Carnot's were. (and they seem to have more loopholes)

How close we get to thermodynamic limitations? We're still many orders of magnitude away from that; even doubling every year wouldn't get us there in one decade. Landauer's bounds on the theoretically possible seem to be much "looser" from a human perspective than Carnot's were. (and they seem to have more loopholes)

3) Wikileaks only care about or chooses to publish secrets for US entities, not foreign. This is likely.

That's based on the entirely absurd predicate that all leaked information ends up at wikileaks. Maybe the people with the info don't want to give it to wikileaks, maybe they would prefer to sell it on the black market to someone who can use it for direct financial benefit (blackmail, market manipulation, etc).

All you need to do is look at a list of wikileaks highlights to see it's not true:

Somalian assassination order
Swiss Bank Julius Baer
British National Party membership list
British University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit
Australian internet censorship list
Peruvian Petrogate scandal
Trafigura toxic dumping in the Ivory Coast
Kaupthing Bank of Iceland
British Joint Services Protocol
Love Parade stampede in Duisburg, Germany

Where the heck do they get off not posting the ICONIC CAMERA I?

Sorry, my mistake, I meant the St Petersburg Declaration.

"The Great Powers agreed to renounce, in case of war among themselves, the use of any explosive projectile of less weight than 400 grams (14 ounces avoirdupois) or one charged with fulminating or inflammable substances."

It's possible that these projectiles are over 400g in weight though.

Rich.

And a very expensive Neopup PAW-20 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Neopup

For a long time, the famous Edgerton photos were a staple of physics textbooks. E.g., you could see the (huge) deformation of a tennis ball being hit by a racket. But the Edgerton images are all copyrighted, and it would be really helpful to have CC-BY-SA-compatible photos that could be used instead in places like Wikipedia. I'm the author of some copylefted physics textbooks, and I really haven't been able to find much that's useful. There's this category on wikimedia commons, but there's currently not much in it that's useful educationally. IMO there are a couple of things that would be useful in physics education: (1) an image like the tennis racket, showing how an object's center of mass accelerates even while it's in contact with another object; (2) an image like the bullet going through the apple, which I believe shows that the speed of sound in the apple is less than the speed of the bullet.

Mikko Hyppönen, head of research at F-Secure, confirms that it does look indeed to be a real attack.

You can read it from here (Google Translate):

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=fi&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=fi&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fyle.fi%2Fuutiset%2Fulkomaat%2F2010%2F11%2Fwikileaks_-sivuja_vastaan_hyokataan_rajusti_2177622.html

The site is the newssite of the Finnish National Broadcasting company YLE https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Yle

Insert the interesting number paradox here.

Who modded that Insightful? It is pretty clear the the majority of Slashdot readers are not finance or econ majors.

US Inflation by year

Sure doesn't look like we are inflating our currency very fast. The great thing about being the world reserve currency is that our monetary supply is huge. For the US to match what Zimbabwe did we would have to print:

Year 1: 22 quadtrillion (10^15) dollars
Year 2: ~20 decillion (10^33) dollars

We are safely ~21 orders of magnitude short of owing 20 decillion...

What we have actually done:

Year 1: 1 trillion (10^12) dollars
Year 2: 600 billion (10^9) dollars

hmm... no wonder we haven't seen much in the way of inflation... because we aren't actually printing that much money relative to the size of our money supply...

The best solution is to add semantic information to hyperlinks - but that's not supported yet...

There are other solutions, but people just don't care about what and how they link to: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Spamdexing

The fact that the largest website in the world could be shut down by a 15 year old created widespread panic. - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mafiaboy

It just needs to inflate itself out of debt.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/Zimbabwe_%24100_trillion_2009_Obverse.jpg

LOL - Zimbabwe, which got indebted in US dollars and Euros (i.e. currencies Zimbabwe cannot print (legally)), ruled by a madman dictator, is the only recent historic example you can cite? Is there no developed nation in your list, really? Wow!

The fact is that inflating out of debt is a hugely successful approach, as long as the country is indebted in its own currency - like the US is today. The UK did it in the early 90s, successfully. Sweden did it successfully, Korea did it successfully, etc. etc. - there's many big and small examples of that approach.

Here's Krugman's take on the right-wing hyperinflation fetish Zimbabwe.

Actually, you might want to check out Home Fuel Cells. They're being pushed by a number of companies as backup or primary power solutions. They usually generate power at your home using natural gas, but without burning it, so the emissions are pretty clean and since gas is cheap it's affordable too. If you installed one along with your electric car, then you would have no problem with excess grid demand.

It would be much harder to meet the demand with home solar or wind, since you'd essentially need to charge and discharge your deep cell batteries every single day.

It just needs to inflate itself out of debt.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/Zimbabwe_%24100_trillion_2009_Obverse.jpg