Forgive me for my late reply, but I wanted to take the time to give a reply worthy to your post and take the time to research the articles I was referring to with regard to our offer to the Europeans.
Regrettably, I cannot find the articles I was thinking about, so without proper evidence, it would appear as though I was in error. (I was able to find an instance where we offered prisoners to the UK, but I could've sworn we had an offer out to France for more than just their nationals - but again, it appears I was incorrect).
However, I still take issue with the parallel you draw between German concentration camps and Guantanamo Bay. If you must draw some kind of comparison, I'd say it's more like the POW camps we had during WWII, and though there are human rights issues, it is certainly no where near what happened during WWII Germany. This is a prison used to house people who were associated with the organization which attacked us - I would call that a war prison.
Holding these people without due process within the military system and torture of any kind is a terrible thing and certainly not something I condone. I just watched Obama's acceptance speech a couple hours ago, and I can nearly guarantee one of his first actions will be to close Guantanamo. I am no fan of the Bush administration, and it is my opinion that they have probably been the singular worst government we have ever had - but the fact remains that I still don't know what to do with these people. If they are tried and convicted I don't think they should be put in our general prison population. We're going to need to put them in some specialized prison somewhere, it can't (and shouldn't) be Guantanamo, but they will need to be isolated.
Yeah, Guantanamo sucks, but comparing it to Nazi concentration camps is way over the top.
Are you European? We have offered you (Europeans) these detainees - but you've refused. Perhaps you're more content to sit and heckle from the peanut gallery. No country wants these people sitting in their territory, to mix among the native prison population. If whatever country you're from is so concerned about their rights, you should take them into your prison system.
The Bush administration views Europeans as inferior, not the USA. The Bush administration is NOT the USA.
I think ridding Europe of the specter of Soviet invasion was a pretty good deal for Europe. The US/European hegemony is what is keeping order and peace in the world right now - I think it's working relatively well.
Sigh, it is quite unfortunate that just because one nation rises, it must usually have a very nasty war to get to the top. But this truly is the nature of things, I suppose.
So, operating under the unfortunate assumption that the US and China will be enemies, we must build India. It is out only chance to have a decisive advantage. India + USA + Europe will beat China + Russia(?) + (portions of) Africa(??). Maybe we can get the Brazilians on our side for good measure.
I'd settle for being able to do any kind of special character search using google, or any search engine, for that matter. When trying to look up programming related content, the lack of ability to search by special characters can be a real pain.
Increasing the number of items that can be searched is great, but the actual searching algorithms really haven't gotten THAT much better in the past 3 years or so.
Obviously, you can't have breakthroughs every year (or maybe even every 5 years) but search as an algorithm still has much more room to improve. I'd love to see an improvement in that, as opposed to just increasing the number of pages indexed.
I submit that this is 80's PC history repeating itself (ok, maybe it's just rhyming). Again, with Apple pushing a proprietary, tightly controlled hardware/software package and another pushing only the software side (this time it's Google, not MS).
If history is any indication, the open standard will win... these "clones" are an indication of that. Their initial quality will be awful, but if there's a market, quality will improve.
Of course, there are differences and nothing is guaranteed, but the similarities are too striking to ignore.
More like in time for a pardon by W before he leaves office.
There have probably been a few instances of pardons being put to good use, but they're likely outnumbered 100 to 1 against the bad uses. I hate to throw away a potentially useful tool for the executive, but when Stephens gets pardoned, it'll be garbage - just like nearly ever other pardon.
If these elections are truly "secure", they shouldn't mind hackers (of course they will) trying to hack it. The fact that we haven't had someone say "hey, everyone we're going to have an election - just try to screw it up!" to test the procedure tells me people are still living under the illusion that this will be 100% secure.
Sure, every vote is important, but I think a relatively small number of evotes should be used to show that evoting can be tampered with.
CowboyNeal in '08! I think he should get every evote... in fact even more than that!
Great, only another year or so for the desktop widgets to load! Then another ten minutes or so for the system backup to completely fill your hard drive and finally shut itself off.
Yeah, tell that to the militaries and governments of the world, who will be interested in QCryptography not only for the nearly unbreakable security, but (even more importantly) in using QComputing to break existing security measures.
I'm sure he's a genius, but it doesn't sound like he's thought this aspect totally through. It's an arms race... like it always has been.
For better or worse, never underestimate the "communists"... China is just starting to gear up, and a major project that builds on, or stands tall alongside of, LHC will give China plenty of "face" in the world.
Think they just want to spend money on the Olympics?
The Chinese will pick up the slack and lead technology where large capital investments are required, again - for better or worse.
Yeah, I used to hate it, now I'm kind of indifferent to it. I've seen some good stories (disagree mail can be funny), but some of them are big, fat loads.
I'm keeping it on my front page now to reserve judgment.
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Forgive me for my late reply, but I wanted to take the time to give a reply worthy to your post and take the time to research the articles I was referring to with regard to our offer to the Europeans.
Regrettably, I cannot find the articles I was thinking about, so without proper evidence, it would appear as though I was in error. (I was able to find an instance where we offered prisoners to the UK, but I could've sworn we had an offer out to France for more than just their nationals - but again, it appears I was incorrect).
However, I still take issue with the parallel you draw between German concentration camps and Guantanamo Bay. If you must draw some kind of comparison, I'd say it's more like the POW camps we had during WWII, and though there are human rights issues, it is certainly no where near what happened during WWII Germany. This is a prison used to house people who were associated with the organization which attacked us - I would call that a war prison.
Holding these people without due process within the military system and torture of any kind is a terrible thing and certainly not something I condone. I just watched Obama's acceptance speech a couple hours ago, and I can nearly guarantee one of his first actions will be to close Guantanamo. I am no fan of the Bush administration, and it is my opinion that they have probably been the singular worst government we have ever had - but the fact remains that I still don't know what to do with these people. If they are tried and convicted I don't think they should be put in our general prison population. We're going to need to put them in some specialized prison somewhere, it can't (and shouldn't) be Guantanamo, but they will need to be isolated.
Yeah, Guantanamo sucks, but comparing it to Nazi concentration camps is way over the top.
Are you European? We have offered you (Europeans) these detainees - but you've refused. Perhaps you're more content to sit and heckle from the peanut gallery. No country wants these people sitting in their territory, to mix among the native prison population. If whatever country you're from is so concerned about their rights, you should take them into your prison system.
The Bush administration views Europeans as inferior, not the USA. The Bush administration is NOT the USA.
I think ridding Europe of the specter of Soviet invasion was a pretty good deal for Europe. The US/European hegemony is what is keeping order and peace in the world right now - I think it's working relatively well.
based on the assumption that capitalism leads to democracy
No, capitalism is a PREREQUISITE for democracy, not a guarantee that it will happen.
Pfft, care to back your opinions up with facts, or are you just here to spew unverified opinions?
Thank you for improving the IQ of this board. Blatantly false statements like this deserve to be refuted.
You guys wouldn't do that... you might want to take a peak at all the juicy info too. ;-)
Like it or not, USA and Europe are tied to the hip as allies.
Sigh, it is quite unfortunate that just because one nation rises, it must usually have a very nasty war to get to the top. But this truly is the nature of things, I suppose.
So, operating under the unfortunate assumption that the US and China will be enemies, we must build India. It is out only chance to have a decisive advantage. India + USA + Europe will beat China + Russia(?) + (portions of) Africa(??). Maybe we can get the Brazilians on our side for good measure.
You're forgiven for being naive. What do you think a soldier would do with an opposing soldier who is "blind, deaf, and paralyzed"?
I'd settle for being able to do any kind of special character search using google, or any search engine, for that matter. When trying to look up programming related content, the lack of ability to search by special characters can be a real pain.
Increasing the number of items that can be searched is great, but the actual searching algorithms really haven't gotten THAT much better in the past 3 years or so.
Obviously, you can't have breakthroughs every year (or maybe even every 5 years) but search as an algorithm still has much more room to improve. I'd love to see an improvement in that, as opposed to just increasing the number of pages indexed.
Still cool though...
You can find it in TFA, but if you're like I usually am and don't read it... there is a video, just to let those interested know...
http://research.microsoft.com/sendev/video/SecondLight.wmv
That was f'in funny!
I submit that this is 80's PC history repeating itself (ok, maybe it's just rhyming). Again, with Apple pushing a proprietary, tightly controlled hardware/software package and another pushing only the software side (this time it's Google, not MS).
If history is any indication, the open standard will win... these "clones" are an indication of that. Their initial quality will be awful, but if there's a market, quality will improve.
Of course, there are differences and nothing is guaranteed, but the similarities are too striking to ignore.
More like in time for a pardon by W before he leaves office.
There have probably been a few instances of pardons being put to good use, but they're likely outnumbered 100 to 1 against the bad uses. I hate to throw away a potentially useful tool for the executive, but when Stephens gets pardoned, it'll be garbage - just like nearly ever other pardon.
Admit it... you had to look it up (unless you're in physics or live outside the USA)
Truly... seriously...
If these elections are truly "secure", they shouldn't mind hackers (of course they will) trying to hack it. The fact that we haven't had someone say "hey, everyone we're going to have an election - just try to screw it up!" to test the procedure tells me people are still living under the illusion that this will be 100% secure.
Sure, every vote is important, but I think a relatively small number of evotes should be used to show that evoting can be tampered with.
CowboyNeal in '08! I think he should get every evote... in fact even more than that!
His little friend, Simon clears the clogs for him.
I'm almost completely booted up now!
Great, only another year or so for the desktop widgets to load! Then another ten minutes or so for the system backup to completely fill your hard drive and finally shut itself off.
Yeah, tell that to the militaries and governments of the world, who will be interested in QCryptography not only for the nearly unbreakable security, but (even more importantly) in using QComputing to break existing security measures.
I'm sure he's a genius, but it doesn't sound like he's thought this aspect totally through. It's an arms race... like it always has been.
Buffy f'in rules!!!
(But I'm still all man)
For better or worse, never underestimate the "communists"... China is just starting to gear up, and a major project that builds on, or stands tall alongside of, LHC will give China plenty of "face" in the world.
Think they just want to spend money on the Olympics?
The Chinese will pick up the slack and lead technology where large capital investments are required, again - for better or worse.
Yeah, I used to hate it, now I'm kind of indifferent to it. I've seen some good stories (disagree mail can be funny), but some of them are big, fat loads.
I'm keeping it on my front page now to reserve judgment.
Or Google's: (beta) "Innovation and quality is guaranteed" (beta)
I'm not a huge fan of idle, but if we're going to get random crap, it might as well be interesting, random crap. This story isn't too bad - I guess.