If the terrorists' treatment of prisoners is your standard, then you are doing very well indeed. Let's see what other enlightened comparisons we can find:
USA economy - what recession, we are doing waaaay better than Burundi Awful healthcare system - pfft Somalia's is no match for ours Torturing prisoners - hey Genghis Khan used to do it too Right wing religious groups influencing science policy - hey, not as bad as Saudi Arabia Domestic spying - try North Korea, you America hater
I have to say I am impressed by slashdot posters and mods in this story. It seems that there are quite a few Americans around who are not brainwashed by all the fear mongering and fake patriotism of the last few years (I'm assuming from the time story was posted - evening in US, very early morning in Europe) that many of the posters are from the US. As for Matt Stone and Trey Parker, they should be embarrassed by their reaction to the news that their cartoon was used as a tool to humiliate a defeated enemy who was on his way to execution anyway. They should have refused to accept the picture, not claim to be proud of it.
Pentagon or generally military efficiency is a myth, or rather propaganda. It's really no different than any other government organization in that it is highly bureaucratic, politicized (as in office politics, petty infighting over promotions etc, not democrat v. republican type of politics) and staffed mostly with second rate people who couldn't get a better paid job in the private sector. Apologies to exceptions who do it for patriotic reasons or whatever but that was my experience in working with military bureaucracy.
I think they'd be better off claiming that it WAS a prank even if it wasn't. If I was their customer I might have more understanding for an April's fool joke that went bad (assuming appropriate people are fired) than for the fact that their system is so flawed that customer's balances were off by millions of dollars by mistake.
The problem wouldn't have arisen in the first place if the programmers have not as a rule undersold their skills (not least by happily working for free) to the point where they are treated like shit and paid accordingly. The way to do it is to emulate lawyers (as a rule less intelligent than programmers, but not when it comes to money) and sell themselves as highly skilled practitioners of a mystical craft that can only be performed in high priced suits with gold rolexes and not for less than 300K/year
Let me get this straight, NSA (the agency recommended for the job according to tfa) will conduct "ongoing audits" of private networks owned by the utilities (telecoms too?) and nowhere does it say that this does not include access mountains of data held by those utilities on just about every person in the US
Make an affordable electric car with a decent range. That's it. All this other crap just adds unnecessary complexity and cost. RFID to detect your presence? What the hell are they thinking...
Not sure who is being a dumbass here. Stealing and theft as English words (not as a legal concepts) apply perfectly validly to a variety of uses that have nothing to do with tangible property or depriving the victim of its use: "he stole my idea", "identity theft" etc. Look them up in a dictionary. Yes, I'm aware that courts have made a distinction between theft and copyright infringement but precise legal terminology is a different thing from the language in common use. This is a fortunate thing or else non-lawyers among us would have a hard time understanding each other.
I think that's 200K unique visitors. According to alexa, archive.org is the 386th most visited site on the internet last week which is not to be sneezed at
They don't mention anything about licensing in the blog linked in the summary though. The only explanation they give is that only in those three countries there is enough advertising money to be made to pay for the subscribers in those countries.
And since internet services don't grow in nature and someone has to provide the content, hosting, bandwidth, labor etc, your statement can be translated as: I want somebody else to pay for the internet services I use, waaaaaaaa...
It's funny how it breaks down the Bay Area into San Francisco and Silicon Valley while on the other hand it puts entire Japan (population 130 mil) as one entry.
Still, continuous monitoring of your heart rate is far more useful. You could have a serious heart condition and your pulse will still look normal in most random tests. When it starts to show abnormalities is when you want to be alerted and that's what an implant would do.
You can't "take charge of your health". Sure, living a healthy lifestyle reduces the risks of many health problems but there are plenty where your genes count far more than your lifestyle. In many of the most serious diseases (such as many cancers and heart problems) family history is the primary factor. Of course accidents can happen too.
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Off topic but interesting article by Richard Dawkins on trial by jury in general:
http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1997-11-16trialbyjury.shtml
Every other news outlet says $388M: http://news.google.com/news?q=Uniloc so I guess PC World is probably wrong
If the terrorists' treatment of prisoners is your standard, then you are doing very well indeed. Let's see what other enlightened comparisons we can find:
USA economy - what recession, we are doing waaaay better than Burundi
Awful healthcare system - pfft Somalia's is no match for ours
Torturing prisoners - hey Genghis Khan used to do it too
Right wing religious groups influencing science policy - hey, not as bad as Saudi Arabia
Domestic spying - try North Korea, you America hater
One doesn't exclude the other.
I have to say I am impressed by slashdot posters and mods in this story. It seems that there are quite a few Americans around who are not brainwashed by all the fear mongering and fake patriotism of the last few years (I'm assuming from the time story was posted - evening in US, very early morning in Europe) that many of the posters are from the US. As for Matt Stone and Trey Parker, they should be embarrassed by their reaction to the news that their cartoon was used as a tool to humiliate a defeated enemy who was on his way to execution anyway. They should have refused to accept the picture, not claim to be proud of it.
Pentagon or generally military efficiency is a myth, or rather propaganda. It's really no different than any other government organization in that it is highly bureaucratic, politicized (as in office politics, petty infighting over promotions etc, not democrat v. republican type of politics) and staffed mostly with second rate people who couldn't get a better paid job in the private sector. Apologies to exceptions who do it for patriotic reasons or whatever but that was my experience in working with military bureaucracy.
I think they'd be better off claiming that it WAS a prank even if it wasn't. If I was their customer I might have more understanding for an April's fool joke that went bad (assuming appropriate people are fired) than for the fact that their system is so flawed that customer's balances were off by millions of dollars by mistake.
The problem wouldn't have arisen in the first place if the programmers have not as a rule undersold their skills (not least by happily working for free) to the point where they are treated like shit and paid accordingly. The way to do it is to emulate lawyers (as a rule less intelligent than programmers, but not when it comes to money) and sell themselves as highly skilled practitioners of a mystical craft that can only be performed in high priced suits with gold rolexes and not for less than 300K/year
I hope they don't put it to a vote or it will be called Colbert
Missed an important one:
- Not abuse access to data held by said companies
Let me get this straight, NSA (the agency recommended for the job according to tfa) will conduct "ongoing audits" of private networks owned by the utilities (telecoms too?) and nowhere does it say that this does not include access mountains of data held by those utilities on just about every person in the US
Sorry, couldn't find a nude one. http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/050211/chamber.standard.jpg
$20,000/100 Days = $200 dollars, day.
Which is about $6,000/month. Nod bad in Russia where the average monthly salary, according to Wikipedia, is $640.
Make an affordable electric car with a decent range. That's it. All this other crap just adds unnecessary complexity and cost. RFID to detect your presence? What the hell are they thinking...
Not sure who is being a dumbass here. Stealing and theft as English words (not as a legal concepts) apply perfectly validly to a variety of uses that have nothing to do with tangible property or depriving the victim of its use: "he stole my idea", "identity theft" etc. Look them up in a dictionary. Yes, I'm aware that courts have made a distinction between theft and copyright infringement but precise legal terminology is a different thing from the language in common use. This is a fortunate thing or else non-lawyers among us would have a hard time understanding each other.
Why can't you sue a software company if you suffer a loss due to poor security in their product?
I think that's 200K unique visitors. According to alexa, archive.org is the 386th most visited site on the internet last week which is not to be sneezed at
Bah, LOC is outdated. 4.5PB = 1 Shipping Container
It's 4.5PB, which is a whole different thing, and TFA says it's mirrored at the library of Alexandria, Egypt. I guess that counts as off-site :)
They don't mention anything about licensing in the blog linked in the summary though. The only explanation they give is that only in those three countries there is enough advertising money to be made to pay for the subscribers in those countries.
I will NEVER pay for an internet service.
And since internet services don't grow in nature and someone has to provide the content, hosting, bandwidth, labor etc, your statement can be translated as: I want somebody else to pay for the internet services I use, waaaaaaaa...
Just leave it to the government, it knows best: http://www.discussanything.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-69781.html
It's funny how it breaks down the Bay Area into San Francisco and Silicon Valley while on the other hand it puts entire Japan (population 130 mil) as one entry.
Still, continuous monitoring of your heart rate is far more useful. You could have a serious heart condition and your pulse will still look normal in most random tests. When it starts to show abnormalities is when you want to be alerted and that's what an implant would do.
You can't "take charge of your health". Sure, living a healthy lifestyle reduces the risks of many health problems but there are plenty where your genes count far more than your lifestyle. In many of the most serious diseases (such as many cancers and heart problems) family history is the primary factor. Of course accidents can happen too.
Why would the enemy government's websites not be legitimate targets in a war?