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and no NEW states secrets policy is more stringent than anything that came before

Uhm... reality check.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/congress-considers-rules-for-invoking-state-secrets.ars

- That new state secrets policy that is WAY more stringent than anything before.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090313/1456154113.shtml

- The Obama admin claiming that the details of a copyright treaty are "state secrets."

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/02/10/obama

- Obama administration invoking "state secrets" FAR MORE OFTEN than the previous administration

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/foia-filtered

- Obama administration having political appointees vetting FOIA requests intended for the Dept of Homeland Security, and making decisions on what can be released on the basis of political expediency...

The question of no "new" Gitmos - Yes, but the one we have isn't anywhere close to shut down.
The question of "no new pointless, unwinnable wars have been started" - How many are we on the brink of still?

Lifelock's practice of renewing fraud alerts on your credit profile was ruled illegal by a federal judge last year.

Their CEO had his identity stolen too.

Personally I find those services to be a waste of money. Make use of your right to a free credit report from each bureau per year, if you suspect something has happened you can place the fraud alert yourself and get access to your report then.

So, if I said I just caused world peace, does that mean I win myself the Nobel Peace Prize?

Listen you Insightful Troll, the answer too your question is No:

Firstly, Nobel Peace prizes are given for political reasons, and not necessarily for solving a peace problem.

Secondly, you cannot nominate yourself for a peace prize. Somebody of note (usually a distinguished scholar needs to nominate you, and then other scholars need to vote on the notability of your achievements). Use some Google skills are maybe just some common sense before saying something stupid.

Thirdly, if you had bothered to read the forums where he posted (instead of Trolling on Slashdot) you would have realized that this asshat had gone out of his way to prove that he is cool by speeding down a residential street with a fast and expensive sports car. He even provided pictures and the street name of his (relatively) small suburban suburb (not far from where I live BTW). And, according to the forum, this wasn't the first time he bragged about his crimes. Anybody on Slashdot should know it would be trivial for the police to get matching IP records to verify the physical address of the poster.

And seeing how incredibly stupid and immature this asshat's posts were, I doubt it would have been difficult for the police to obtain a full confession.

You, Psaakyrn, LOSE!

In this case the police did the right thing. Unusual to hear good news about an authority that likes to flex its powers (often in very bad ways), but protecting children from dangerous drivers is a lot more useful and practical than protecting them from sex, video games, music or the Internet. Kudos to the police (for this one, at least).

The tires are about the only wireless system. If they start designing remote disgnostics, then you can start worrying.

I worry already thank you. Cars are starting to become wireless and, consequently, vulnerable

If other shareholders file a lawsuit and win, the situation might change. But right now they do control the company, regardless of being a publicly traded company and having a minority in shares, and this probably won't change as long as Google continues to raise their profits and reduce their operating expenses as they have been doing year after year.

All of this requires physical access to the car

That used to be true. While some hacks still require physical access, others can be executed remotely. Cars are getting online and the security problems go with it.

The Honda Civic Hybrid and Prius should both get around 40mpg city, 50mpg highway. If you're not getting that, you're doing something wrong. Of course, just about anybody could build a tiny car with a 500cc engine and get over 50 mpg. The trick is to do that and still meet the safety regulations.

What kind of moron only keeps a car 5 years?

A number of people trade in their cars within that time frame, just because they want something new or larger or smaller. Here's a PDF of a study done in Salt Lake City with lots of interesting graphs, including a survey of ownership times.

My guess is that when the manufacturing deficit of buying a new hybrid is compared to buying a used high MPG car, the hybrid is a bit questionable in terms of carbon savings, as is suggested in this Wired article, especially if it is traded in frequently. Also note hybrids still require oil changes, coolant flushes, filters and all sorts of other peripherals that release carbon during production and take up landfill space, probably as HAZMAT. A huge benefit of electric cars is that the service requirements and items are significantly reduced, also lowering the carbon footprint. This suggests to me that real carbon savings aren't achieved unless the car is all electric. Buying hybrid is like buying a Swiss watch. It has its own merit, but ultimately it is a piece of jewelry.

What is odd is how it's all of a sudden a "big deal." Digg's had a group of left-wing Bury Brigades for years (as covered in 2007 by Wired and a number of other news organizations), but it wasn't a problem until now?

It's sort of like noticing this kind of thing going on, which seems to get missed. Or the fact that the guys with "Obama in a hitler mustache" signs at Tea Party rallies were actually Democrats of the Lyndon LaRouche cult.

Say what you want about the Tea Party guys, there are plenty of kooks there just as there are plenty of kooks at Democrat rallies, but the "ooh only if we think it will make political hay for our side" behavior of much of the media is getting rather old. Digg "bury brigades" are old, stale news, from both sides.

That's not from the owners of places as much as extortion from Yelp itself. If a company doesn't pay to become a "preferred member" or some such BS, then Yelp shows the unfavorable reviews. If the company is a "good citizen," then Yelp shows more of the favorable reviews; even to the point of pressuring users like you to modify their posts.

In short, Yelp is pretty much useless as a source of unbiased information.

Columbia is already having to alter their "war on drugs" tactics to take into account
the new Roundup-resistant strains of cocaine that have been bred by the local farmers
using age-old crop hybridizing techniques.

Wired article circa 2004: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/columbia.html

Yeah, because we all know that Google would never spy on anyone, or partner with anyone who does, like say the CIA.

http://www.dailytech.com/Former+Agent+Says+Google+and+CIA+in+Partnership/article4774.htm

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/141153

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/

We have other catalytic technology that uses heat to crack CO2 into CO. Which can be powered by solar heating (highly efficient) and the byproduct heat of whatever device inefficiently consumes propane. Like a 40% efficient propane fuelcell, using that 60% byproduct heat to crack more CO2 into CO. Electrical devices like motorized car wheels typically have over 95% efficiency, as do propane space heaters.

So a device like that could be used at homes to power them (and electric cars). Capturing the waste heat from the solar and electric generation processes to get the whole cycle closer to 95% efficient. Such a device would be quite a change in our energy systems, though it could work directly with most of our existing infrastructure.

The enzyme doesn't need any further engineering to make carbon monoxide into propane:

Vanadium nitrogenase, an enzyme that normally produces ammonia from nitrogen gas, can also convert carbon monoxide (CO), a common industrial byproduct, into propane, the blue-flamed gas found on stoves across America.

Since 2008 we've had simple technology (solar heated cobalt ferrite) that cracks CO2 into CO.

A combined reactor could efficiently crack CO2 in air into propane. Propane is the fuel that is easiest (lowest pressure) to store in homes, with an existing infrastructure servicing millions of American homes already. And 30% efficient propane fuelcells in 5KW (residential) sizes are on the market for $10K each (minus over 30% government credits). Which means solar panels could crack air into propane stored for use by the fuelcell at night and in Winter. If the thermal cracking phase matches the 80%+ efficiency of existing solar thermal water heaters, the overall cycle efficiency would start at 32% from sunlight to electricity, which is over 50% higher than current PV - with storage and discharge in the cycle. And fuelcells have a theoretical max efficiency of over 85%, even before the "combined heat and power" uses the thermal byproduct for home space heating and continuing the cracking cycle. Further fuelcell refinement could bring 65% or higher overall efficiency, even through the storage/discharge cycle.

This combination of technologies could solve practically all of our energy problems directly. Higher solar efficiency, easily distributed at homes with existing infrastructure, that is totally carbon neutral once the equipment is installed.

In most states, you'll be a registered sex offender for taking a leak in public -- i.e. down a dark alley after a few too many pints. Should it be illegal? Yeah probably. Should it be ambiguous whether you raped a kid or couldn't hold your bladder? I dunno, I don't write laws so I shouldn't have an opinion. Maybe the slashlawer can opine on why these are similar things.

Name the states. Because what you're stating is misinformed urban legend.

Google do not want a privacy bill in the US as it would inhibit data-mining.
The obvious strategy for them is to encourage government to allow data accumulation for national security reasons.

Though currently Google is just playing the politics of the situation to its advantage as it becomes more invasive it will become more important/dangerous to government.

Google is growing into a big problem for US/world citizens: either the US gets a strong privacy bill or Google gets clandestinely plugged into government.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/

Part of the document that every iPhone developer agrees to before their app ever gets on an iPhone basically states that Apple can use screenshots and videos of your apps, without your permission, and without ever notifying you.

Where in the agreement does it say that?

I thought there was something at least covering marketing specific use in there somewhere, but could not find even that. Basically the document states you own all the copyright to materials you use in an app and that's about it.

The apps you see on billboards and in TV ads? Developers are rarely told about that before they air.

To my knowledge they always know because Apple requests vector artwork (for bllboards) and a ton of custom work around production of a TV ad (I know someone who had an app in one).

The dozens of of apps featured every week in the nearly 100 different country specific AppStores? The only way you find out about that is after a spike in your daily sales numbers.

Even then many featured apps are asked for higher resolution artwork. But you're right that they can generally take special note or feature something on a whim.

That said, I'd be pretty pissed (and looking for a cheap patent lawyer) if one of my apps showed up in a patent filing, but I wouldn't be that surprised.

So would I, though I don't see any need to start with a patent lawyer, Too expensive and it's not really a patent issue.

I would actually start by asking Apple simply to credit the application in the document. Worth far more as potential advertising than any damages you could ever recover. But you'd probably want a lawyer to do the asking.

There was this article in Wired magazine talking about space junk and bringing them down with a giant tether. It seems like the balloon idea might work with large pieces of junk, but it seems like the bigger threat are the small pieces no larger than a few inches. The article stated that the ISS had a few close calls with some pieces of junk no larger than a baseball that could have caused massive damage if it hit the station. We can't tied a balloon or tether to every little piece out there. We need a giant space vacuum like this one!

Except that doesn't work. You blow yourself up, and you might injure the people next to you and startle the rest of the passengers, but that's about it. This guy tried it. But don't worry, they're looking into body cavity scanning technology, too! Now we can be safe from getting splattered by bomber bits.

From your own link:

Later reports indicated that according to forensics, the explosives had been sewn into his underwear.

Apparently he didn't use enough, and didn't wrap it in shrapnel. Don't sit next to the fat guy, he could have a nuke in his belly.

They are also useless from a practical point of view, since they can't scan body cavities. If you are willing to die for your cause it doesn't seem like a huge leap of faith to assume that you are also willing to shove explosives or a weapon up your ass......

Except that doesn't work. You blow yourself up, and you might injure the people next to you and startle the rest of the passengers, but that's about it. This guy tried it. But don't worry, they're looking into body cavity scanning technology, too! Now we can be safe from getting splattered by bomber bits.

Old people resist change, news at 11.

Yeah, and young people don't read their history. Next thing you know you'll be sporting Wayfarers and sacrificing civil liberties to fight Commies.

And... "News at 11?" Haven't you heard of the internet?

Grrrr, 1st gen iPod, not get. For penance I leave a link: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2002/02/50688

Fair use is worth $ Trillions in the US alone. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/fairuse-economy/ An independant, peer-reviewed study.

Oh wait... finally. I get it now. Copyright trolls want a slice of that untapped uncontroleld trillion dollar economy.

I'm not going to RTFA, or all your comments. I just read the headline and posted this. Any redundancy is intentionally accidental.

Good thing Android has never had a remote exploit huh ? (Oops.)
At least Apple as very judicious about pushing out updates (and Apple users generally update very frequently) while some manufacturers send out handsets with old Android versions and don't care that much about providing their users with the latest and greatest.

"At the keynote today at SXSW, Microsoft's Danah Boyd placed a lot of emphasis on Google's privacy "fails" with Buzz. The topic of the keynote was the relationship between privacy and publicity, and she certainly covered much more territory and social media in general, but it was interesting that Google Buzz was essentially the first thing talked about"

Who's Messing With the Google Book Settlement? Hint: They're in Redmond, Washington

This reminds me of Senator Hatch who used unlicensed copyrighted software on his official website but then attempted, believe it or not, to pass legislation that would allowed the recording industry to remotely automatically destroy computers when they discovered that their copyrighted music was being downloaded.

You couldn't invent this stuff...

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2003/06/59305

Yeah, haha, genitals.

Personally, I'd be more interested in alternate sensory input: embedded (or glued for a less permanent effect) magnets and er... vibrating compass belt.

Ideas for gameplay connect? Belt might be neat for spider sense....

Yeah, haha, genitals.

Personally, I'd be more interested in alternate sensory input: embedded (or glued for a less permanent effect) magnets and er... vibrating compass belt.

Ideas for gameplay connect? Belt might be neat for spider sense....

Actually true to an extent. Methane creates as much global warming as CO2 and is much easier to deal with.

Combine Methane control with Soot control:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/soot-control/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+(Wired%3A+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

And we would probably be just fine leaving CO2 alone.

Instead, I have to say 'the droid is known to have data stealing apps and no I can't tell you which ones suck ass, just get yourself an iPhone so apple can protect you, its far easier on all of us'

What the fuck is wrong with you?

You imply that you're tech-savvy and then in the same post assume Apple will protect them? Sneaking code by Apple is completely impossible! Oh wait...

The whole non-comercial clause is idiotic, at least on the internet. As long as the image can be freely downloaded by anyone, it's non-comercial use. That it's linked from another web page is entierly irrelevant. There's still the issue of attribution, and how and where that's accomplished. Ideally, the image file should contain metadata indicating this.

In physical, printed materials, I think you've got a very clear case for infringement.

Let me demonstarte: image. If /. allowed the embedding of images, I'd do that. Since I'm not actually providing the image myself, I haven't infringed anything. I don't even need to give an attribution, because again, wired is providing the image. In fact, if they wanted to be doubly vigilant, they could run a separate webserver that provides the images and attributions and not have to worry about a thing. Until they're dumb enough to run it in the print version of their magazine.

A US public radio show just ran a whole feature on Web 2.0 content farming. Wired also ran this piece on one of the main polluters, Demand Media, a while back, explaining how it uses algorithmically driven keyword generators that grab "hot" (ie, adclick revenue-generating) trends from, among others, source such as Google Trends, then farms out a skeleton of an article with the required keywords to an extremely poorly paid human whose job it is to string together acceptably human-readable inter-keyword verbiage to flesh out an "article".

we already know where the documents came from: bradley manning (with some help from lady gaga)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/

An interesting article written several months ago about Duke Nukem Forever and what the developers at 3D Realms went through

Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/all/1

I will believe it when I can actually buy one. Sorry, but I have seen sooo many article about the $100 dollar android tablet tablet from China, I just have to roll my eyes when I see this. These things seem to either not come out, or when they come out they are poor quality and/or cost way more than the $100-or-less, that was promised.

BTW: India announced a $10 laptop in 2009, amazingly that never materialized.

Despite the introduction of the latest tablet with much fanfare, India doesn't have a history of delivering on its much-hyped promises about electronic devices. For instance, Indian startup Notion Ink has been promising a tablet for months called Adam that is yet to hit the market. In February 2009, Indian government officials announced a $10 laptop that ultimately proved to be vaporware.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/india-35-tablet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+(Wired%3A+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))#ixzz0ubp1sW7f

perhaps because /. + IT + India = wharrgarbl? =)

Here's what a cursory click-through on tfa showed - article with pic.

In essence, the creators appear to have thoroughly understood this. It doesn't have to do everything, just enough of the most relevant things for most people. Now, if only it were exported here, I'd love to get one.

• "Apple Claims Jailbreaking will Destroy Cell Towers" - ZDNet
• "Apple: Jailbreaking encourages cell tower terrorism, 'catastrophic results'" - Engadget
• "Apple also claimed that jailbreaking would pave the way for hackers to alter the Exclusive Chip Identification number that identified the phone to the cell tower, which could enable calls to be made anonymously. Apple said “this would be desirable to drug dealers.”"Wired - Threat Level

Do I need to continue? Or is the reality distortion field still in effect?

I don't really have an issue with MRIs helping guide career descisions.

If anything, it will help dead salmon decide what they do when they get out of school.

A Windows machine, even the lowest comes with a video editor, DVD video authoring app, Photo manager and basic editor, Backup solution and media organizer. None are cripple ware or 30 day trials... they all are full retail versions.

The mac guys really want you to ignore that fact.

FTFY

It's only a question of how useful that something is in the rest of your life.

A few years ago, I read a story about a man who saved someones life with skills he learned from playing America's Army. I've played that game a few times, and it actually requires you watch videos about CPR and such to become a medic.

Really. UFO related material. Such as what? What material did he uncover? What part of his claims have any evidence whatsoever to back it up?

Hm. You appear to already be several steps ahead here, so it's clear that you are invested in the outcome of this conversation. But in the interest of completeness, his claims are summed up here, and the long version in interview form, here.

You appear to find his claims offensive. I don't. They seem quite mundane, actually. If he were going to make up a bunch of unverifiable fictions, then why not something more dramatic? Nothing he says really defies belief.

As for a honeytrap - that's an even more amusing. NASA has enough on its plate without creating honeytraps; especially honeytraps for something as obscure as UFO conspiracy theorists.

Maybe. Gary's description of the accusations laid against him indicate government fabrications. If NASA can't even make honest accusations when they have him dead to rights, then this indicates a preparedness to lie as a general feature of their operations. So. . , maybe.

The Asperger's syndrome bit is his defense, not a Government accusation. As for the persecution, he's making some very grand statements with no backing. In short, he's presenting a fiction as earth-shattering truth and expects that the public should follow along without the extraordinary proof that should accompany such claims. Little wonder the public has balked, even openly ridiculed the man.

He's making a defense which might give him the ability to avoid being jailed for sixty years in a foreign country. I'd do it too. That's not the point. The point is how it's spun. Look at the results; when it comes to the media, one must measure the final results, they are how to measure the effectiveness of the programming of the public mind. For instance, look at your own comments regarding, "Extraordinary Proof". What does that even mean? What's wrong with just regular, "Proof"? Why does proof of aliens need to have an emotional component added to it? Answer: It doesn't. That's mind programming via media again, because it sure wasn't YOUR idea. You heard it somewhere and you are repeating it without thinking it through. The manner through which it got into your head may seem entirely innocent, but the results demonstrate the intent which carried it.

Oh! A perfect opportunity for you to use the term "sheeple" and you missed it. Maybe next time.

I prefer not to repeat canned terminology. If I do that too much, I find I stop thinking and simply start spouting dogma.

Seriously though, if you're one of the "I want to believe" crowd, then you really should be supplementing that with "I need proof." Otherwise you'll be victim to any fiction that falls in line with your personal desire (herd response indeed).

I don't want to believe anything. I want to accumulate knowledge and learn to recognize patterns. There is a ton of UFO information available, provided by clear-eyed researchers. There is a ton of other material available as well from other areas of resarch. I've taken the time to wade through a lot of it, and when one cross references and cancels out the crap, there is a signal to be found. A strong one.

Gary McKinnon strikes me as an earnest man whose story fits the pattern. He may be inventing things and he is probably seeing through personal filters, (he claims that anti-gravity tech will become public domain in a few years. I disagree and think that this indicates wishful thinking on his part), but for the most part, he doesn't strike me as being too far off. But there is no proof here; just pattern. That's all I can say with certainty. -That, and the government is very corrupt, and while it contains earnest

As The Wired already explained a couple of days ago ( http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/google-china-fiction/ ) what Google and Chinese government agreed on is pure fiction.

This sort of thing has happened before between the PRC and Western organizations, like how the Shanghai Communique handled the PRC's wish that the USA honor the "One China Policy". Everyone's favorite Nobel Peace Prize winner, Henry Kissinger, even coined a term for it. "constructive ambiguity".

Al Jaffee beat them to the punch 31 years ago!

This is definitely humorous (and sad), but it still doesn't top China

This whole thing was just saber-rattling in retaliation for China trying to steal some of their source code. It was nothing more than a big PR show from the get-go. They censored before the theft, and it was only a matter of time before they went right back to censoring. Money always wins, and China has all the money these days.

As The Wired already explained a couple of days ago ( http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/google-china-fiction/ ) what Google and Chinese government agreed on is pure fiction. Google doesn't redirect Chinese users to the Honk Kong search engine automatically, but there is a button to easily switch and google.hk is left uncensored in China, meaning that the Chinese can still search Google without filtering. The article linked by Slashdot as the source presents the Chinese official version of the story which obviously hides the above fact.

Sounds like a good idea in theory. But this is an awful idea in practice. A leopard can't change its spots, and a curious hacker who can't respect boundaries (legal, ethical, or corporate) can rarely be trusted not to break those boundaries again as soon as he gets bored. Case in point.

I just read a story about exactly why Apple would want to collect that data. Seems there's been a bit of a tug-of-war between Apple and AT&T on that very subject and it looks like iPhone customers are caught in the middle of it.

Basically, this. There also is research into storing the energy as compressed air. The compressed air can also be generated directly by the windmills (sorry for the marketing video, was to lazy to search for a more scientific source)