Google says they did the extra padding to create a "unified experience" for all. Meaning us normal users get to suffer because we somehow need to have the same interface as people using tablets. Like you, I'm going back to Firefox as my primary browser, or Waterfox to be exact.
So if a Rwandan dude put every French diplomatic cable on a Congolese website, do you seriously think the French would be like "we have no jurisdiction, so we'll just have to be good losers?"
France would probably be annoyed and hiss a lot about it, but unless the Rwandan dude has broken any local laws he goes free. France is free to vote in laws that allows them to block the domains and/or IPs of the Congolese host in France, but other than that they can't do much.
Wikileaks biggest activity was breaking US Laws on classified information, which is illegal in the US, which generally means that Sweden has an obligation to stop them.
No, Sweden has no obligation to stop them - just like the US isn't obliged to stop an American from doing something in the US that would be illegal in Sweden.
Manning (or so the prosecutors say) leaked the information, not Wikileaks. That was illegal under US law, and the US has jurisdiction. Wikileaks, on the other hand, is not and has never been a US organisation, and are thus not under US jurisdiction. They are registered in Sweden, and I think their infrastructure is placed there as well, so the legality of whatever they have on their servers is a matter of Swedish law. After all, Sweden is a sovereign country, where US laws doesn't apply.
I was raised in a county in northern Sweden with just over 3000 inhabitants. The closest city with 50k+ people is 160km away. It's basically just forest, lakes, scattered villages and a small central town with about 1500 people. In town you can get cheap cable up to 30Mbit or fiber up to 100Mbit and in the villages ADSL up to 24Mbit. So no, it's not even about local population density.
Does it make you happy and delighted that your enemies feel they must speak anonymously?
What saddens ME is that some regard people of a different political persuation "enemies". Extreme political polarization, fed by talking-head whackos, makes people totally lose grip on reality and regard every single thought from the other side as wrong/facist/treasonous/whatever, even if they themselves held that position before.
First of all, as I'm writing this 667 out of 251,287 cables, or 0.27% of the total, have been released thus far. So we have a LONG time to go before we can summarize the leak and see "if it was worth it". They're doing the slow release so each piece is noticed, which I think is rather smart.
Second, I can't speak for all of the 667 released cables as I haven't had the time or patience to go through them, but one revealed the fact that CIA were still ferrying subjects of their "extraordinary renditions" over Sweden in 2006 without telling the Swedish government about it. The flights were tagged as private instead of official and was only discovered when the swedish secret service, dressed as flight staff, got into the plane and exposed them. This, of course, caused a serious diplomatic spat between Sweden and the US. Crimes against us poor swedes: 1, your argument that nothing has been found: 0.
I could be really mean and say one instance (concerning Sweden - again, I haven't had time to go through all the news from other countries) in 0,27% of the documents would indicate around 376 crimes against my country in the full batch, but that would be seriously absusing statistics.
Hopefully the remaining 250,620 documents will be as interesting as this first little teaser.
...but seeing as you seem hell bent into walling off your part of the internet into compartmentalized corporate domains, we might not hear much from you in the future. Good luck with that.
When does "strong transparency" turn into treason, obstructing justice, or invasion of privacy?
That would depend on (1) the primary source of the information and (2) who publishes it. I don't think most 'patriotic' Chinese citizens would consider publishing the U.S. defence plans for Taiwan 'treason'. When it comes to classified material related to national security, the primary source is in most circumstances committing an illegal act. If it's treason... Well that probably depends on what is uncovered - if it shows that a government is breaking national laws it can be argued that NOT trying to make it known would amount to 'treason'.
Making an, relatively speaking, ancient design for an atomic bomb public is hardly something worth getting upset about, especially since any modern (and reasonably skilled) nuclear physicist could make a far better job.
... IF the price Merck was asking for the drug was really disproportionate to the typical Brazilian's income. I do understand that drug companies must price their drugs high enough to get return on their investments, but when it comes to these poor nations I don't think they're doing themselves any favors.
I'm not a biochemist, but I can't imagine it being too hard to mark pills sent to country X with some kind of safe chemical marker. Then tell the government of country X that you'll continue to provide these drugs at a proportional price as long as they can keep them inside their own borders. That should be incentive enough for these governments to take steps against smuggling and so forth. If not, and large quantities of marked pills pop up elsewhere, I'd say sanctions are warranted.
As I attended Luleå university of Technology as a CS student when the technology was developed, I got to use the software from its infancy. Before I graduated they started recording lectures with the system (with video and slides), so you could either follow it live from home (and of course ask questions to the lecturer) or review it later. Cool shit which is probably a lot cooler today.
The Marratech crew were all true nerds (meant as a compliment, of course) and they really deserved this success. Hmmm.. They're probably all slashdotters and reading this, so GRATTIS! (congrats)
Slightly off topic, but what's really sad in this story is that the woman was pretty BEFORE the surgery. So there was really no reason for her to go under the knife in the first place. We live in a scary world where people strive to look unnatural (though this woman probably didn't get the unnatural looks she wanted).
That said, it's great that we have plastic surgery for patients with actual disfigurements.
This is akin to the situation with students. People from developing countries can't dish out a years worth of salary for a piece of software they want to use, just as many students can't afford to buy all the "must-have" software. Student licences are great, but not every company/product has them.
In comes piracy - people from developing countries and students everywhere gets to try just about any kind of software that's sold. When they're not as poor anymore, or have influence over what software their employer should invest in, they are probably a lot more likely to have formed an opinion from their previous experience with pirated software. Personally I think this kind of piracy is 100% beneficial for both users and software companies. I suspect even Bill Gates (gasp) understands this, but is unable to say anything that might sound pro-piracy.
Of course there comes a time in the progression from poor to "wealthy" (or adequately financed) where there has to be a transition from pirated to licenced software for this to hold true. People who can afford it should always buy the non-free software they use, or else I'm in trouble as a software engineer!
From conversations I've had with "conservative republicans", I've mostly gotten variations of the following non-exhaustive list of answers:
"(a) Al Gore believes in global warming. (b) Al Gore is a liberal. Thus global warming is a liberal conspiracy"
"Today it's cold where I live, hence global warming is a fraud"
"There's a non-zero chance that humanity isn't causing global warming, so we shouldn't worry"
"I like warm weather, so I don't care"
"Climatologists are just fishing for more grants, which they want to steal out of my pockets"
"They can't predict the weather next week, so they sure as hell can't predict how it will be 50 years from now"
"The Apocalypse will happen before, or is related to global warming, so everything is alright"
The scary thing is that most of the conservatives I know are otherwise quite science-literate and often accept the science communities consensus views. I'd say it's very healthy to be sceptical, but on this issue there's much more to it. Something I can't explain.
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Google says they did the extra padding to create a "unified experience" for all. Meaning us normal users get to suffer because we somehow need to have the same interface as people using tablets. Like you, I'm going back to Firefox as my primary browser, or Waterfox to be exact.
So if a Rwandan dude put every French diplomatic cable on a Congolese website, do you seriously think the French would be like "we have no jurisdiction, so we'll just have to be good losers?"
France would probably be annoyed and hiss a lot about it, but unless the Rwandan dude has broken any local laws he goes free. France is free to vote in laws that allows them to block the domains and/or IPs of the Congolese host in France, but other than that they can't do much.
Wikileaks biggest activity was breaking US Laws on classified information, which is illegal in the US, which generally means that Sweden has an obligation to stop them.
No, Sweden has no obligation to stop them - just like the US isn't obliged to stop an American from doing something in the US that would be illegal in Sweden.
Manning (or so the prosecutors say) leaked the information, not Wikileaks. That was illegal under US law, and the US has jurisdiction. Wikileaks, on the other hand, is not and has never been a US organisation, and are thus not under US jurisdiction. They are registered in Sweden, and I think their infrastructure is placed there as well, so the legality of whatever they have on their servers is a matter of Swedish law. After all, Sweden is a sovereign country, where US laws doesn't apply.
Caffeinated coffee? That's just "Coffee" - add words if you've taken away the good stuff, not when it's au naturel.
Is there ANYTHING a telnet/SSH client CAN'T do? :p
I was raised in a county in northern Sweden with just over 3000 inhabitants. The closest city with 50k+ people is 160km away. It's basically just forest, lakes, scattered villages and a small central town with about 1500 people. In town you can get cheap cable up to 30Mbit or fiber up to 100Mbit and in the villages ADSL up to 24Mbit. So no, it's not even about local population density.
Does it make you happy and delighted that your enemies feel they must speak anonymously?
What saddens ME is that some regard people of a different political persuation "enemies". Extreme political polarization, fed by talking-head whackos, makes people totally lose grip on reality and regard every single thought from the other side as wrong/facist/treasonous/whatever, even if they themselves held that position before.
Second, I can't speak for all of the 667 released cables as I haven't had the time or patience to go through them, but one revealed the fact that CIA were still ferrying subjects of their "extraordinary renditions" over Sweden in 2006 without telling the Swedish government about it. The flights were tagged as private instead of official and was only discovered when the swedish secret service, dressed as flight staff, got into the plane and exposed them. This, of course, caused a serious diplomatic spat between Sweden and the US. Crimes against us poor swedes: 1, your argument that nothing has been found: 0.
I could be really mean and say one instance (concerning Sweden - again, I haven't had time to go through all the news from other countries) in 0,27% of the documents would indicate around 376 crimes against my country in the full batch, but that would be seriously absusing statistics.
Hopefully the remaining 250,620 documents will be as interesting as this first little teaser.
...but seeing as you seem hell bent into walling off your part of the internet into compartmentalized corporate domains, we might not hear much from you in the future. Good luck with that.
That would depend on (1) the primary source of the information and (2) who publishes it. I don't think most 'patriotic' Chinese citizens would consider publishing the U.S. defence plans for Taiwan 'treason'. When it comes to classified material related to national security, the primary source is in most circumstances committing an illegal act. If it's treason... Well that probably depends on what is uncovered - if it shows that a government is breaking national laws it can be argued that NOT trying to make it known would amount to 'treason'.
Making an, relatively speaking, ancient design for an atomic bomb public is hardly something worth getting upset about, especially since any modern (and reasonably skilled) nuclear physicist could make a far better job.
- Buy Diebold
- Elect neo-conservatives
- Get the US into more wars
- Sell lots of military hardware
- Profit!
(no ????-step this time)I'm not a biochemist, but I can't imagine it being too hard to mark pills sent to country X with some kind of safe chemical marker. Then tell the government of country X that you'll continue to provide these drugs at a proportional price as long as they can keep them inside their own borders. That should be incentive enough for these governments to take steps against smuggling and so forth. If not, and large quantities of marked pills pop up elsewhere, I'd say sanctions are warranted.
Wouldn't that be a win-win?
Damn! This means the phrase "eat dirt and die" will be so outdated, unless said to a tumor.
As I attended Luleå university of Technology as a CS student when the technology was developed, I got to use the software from its infancy. Before I graduated they started recording lectures with the system (with video and slides), so you could either follow it live from home (and of course ask questions to the lecturer) or review it later. Cool shit which is probably a lot cooler today. The Marratech crew were all true nerds (meant as a compliment, of course) and they really deserved this success. Hmmm.. They're probably all slashdotters and reading this, so GRATTIS! (congrats)
Move along, nothing (new) to see here. The US is just doing the usual "everybody but us need to adhere to the rules" routine.
Shady business in solar power? I see warning flags popping up all over the place!
That said, it's great that we have plastic surgery for patients with actual disfigurements.
In comes piracy - people from developing countries and students everywhere gets to try just about any kind of software that's sold. When they're not as poor anymore, or have influence over what software their employer should invest in, they are probably a lot more likely to have formed an opinion from their previous experience with pirated software. Personally I think this kind of piracy is 100% beneficial for both users and software companies. I suspect even Bill Gates (gasp) understands this, but is unable to say anything that might sound pro-piracy.
Of course there comes a time in the progression from poor to "wealthy" (or adequately financed) where there has to be a transition from pirated to licenced software for this to hold true. People who can afford it should always buy the non-free software they use, or else I'm in trouble as a software engineer!
- "(a) Al Gore believes in global warming. (b) Al Gore is a liberal. Thus global warming is a liberal conspiracy"
- "Today it's cold where I live, hence global warming is a fraud"
- "There's a non-zero chance that humanity isn't causing global warming, so we shouldn't worry"
- "I like warm weather, so I don't care"
- "Climatologists are just fishing for more grants, which they want to steal out of my pockets"
- "They can't predict the weather next week, so they sure as hell can't predict how it will be 50 years from now"
- "The Apocalypse will happen before, or is related to global warming, so everything is alright"
The scary thing is that most of the conservatives I know are otherwise quite science-literate and often accept the science communities consensus views. I'd say it's very healthy to be sceptical, but on this issue there's much more to it. Something I can't explain.