Fine, if you want to be pedantic about words: I am saying the day cycle that you live becomes longer than the Synodic day. Which crashes with normal peoples lives.
Anyone who has been camping should have experienced this. It's really nice to be in sync with the day again, makes one happy. With computers (blue lights destroys Melatonin and thus makes you less sleepy), days last longer and longer.
It starts by de-humanising people by calling them something inferior (cockroaches, rats,...), and scapegoating. Then you don't emphasize with how they are treated and their suffering, because they are not like you, and probably deserve it. Be aware if you want to prevent the next Holocaust...
Yes, warrentless wiretapping is a problem. (I'll not talk about Britain here)
But spot the difference between allowing police to track specific phones for investigations and the NSA recording all communications for everyone, forever.
The police can be held accountable. There is a paper trail of who accessed what and how often. These stats are made available. That's the difference.
Yes, the Data Retention Directive is problematic, and we should push to limit the storage time limit to 2 weeks. The fight against this directive is still ongoing, as it is costly and unnecessarily invasive to privacy.
While I applaud the engineer's efforts, I wish his employer (Google), would spend a bit more of resources in making its maps aplication more functional [for me].
Here's my gripe, and I am not alone:
Why is it that there's no way to make routing avoid toll roads by default?
I have got a solution: I use Waze but worried that if Google's ambitions with it (Waze) go through, they may disable this feature.
You sometimes wonder why things so basic, take so long to implement. Why?
Because that's not a product they sell? Go to a car navigation company (TomTom, Garvin, Navit come to mind) and give them money, they do what you want. Why you expect more than something basic from a free service is beyond me.
Still, I think in this century materials and systems will be developed which can detect neutrinos 1000 times better than today. That opens up new possibilities in astronomy (solar neutrinos, AGN, looking past the CMB just to name a few).
Yes, neutrinos start the SN explosion according to current models. However, the timing results for SN 1987a were actually inconclusive, as observatories were not connected to calibrated precision timing systems.
I'm definitely in the camp that Americans need to do more but that is a bit disingenuous comparison. It looks like the Western European Country with the lowest population density is three times the population density of the US. That has huge public transportation ramifications.
Only if you look at the average. The US has large empty areas. If you ignore them -- and you can, for the discussion about public transportation -- the eastern third of the country is densely populated, entirely comparable to Europe.
Yes, and there is a limit to how long you may store data. Ideally, we should follow what Merkel suggested, that this duration should be 2 weeks. Data access can be (and is) granted by courts/judges. The return for criminal investigations for a longer time is negligible, but privacy concerns and costs (mostly to IT in companies) are a big issue. I also don't think data where both parties are outside the EU are stored.
There is a stark contrast with the NSA's methods. Both are probably effective to investigate terrorist cells after one person has been identified, but NSAs privacy intrusion is just insane. And it seems clear that they don't care about the privacy of non-citizens, apparently those don't have human rights.
And if the military intends to (again) establish a democracy, will the people just vote the Muslim Brotherhood back into power?
The support for the Muslim Brotherhood dwindled as soon as they were in power and actually acted. That's when people saw that they were not as awesome as they thought. And the Muslim Brotherhood learned they are actually being held accountable for their governing.
I may not like Morsi but he was the democratically elected leader, with no more than the usual level of shenanigans in the election. (And given the shenanigans that show up in the US, I'm not going to throw too many stones. They're different, in both kind and degree, but we're hardly beyond reproach.)
Yes, you don't just overthrow a elected government by a coup just because you disagree with them. But if there is wide-spread violence from both sides, over a longer period of time, and you exhaust all other options including a ultimatum, it is the job of the army to step in and prevent a civil war.
A new election will be held. Egypt is new at this. Give them some time. The dedication of the Egyptian people is exemplary, they want a better state for themselves. It's a historic chance, but it is a process.
I agree. Also, if you rewrite structured code into a "performance oriented approach", you are doing it wrong. Write code so it is easy to understand. Then compilers should understand how to make it fast. This can only come from people who think code is for machines. Code is for humans to read and modify.
Many are willing, but legislation requires being inside the country already. And having politicians changing legislation because of individual cases is usually not a good idea, as it leads to crude laws.
Where can I buy MagicPlay speakers?... Not really a standard then is it? It's not recognised by any standards institutes. It's just someones pet OSS project at the moment. Because its open, they're declaring it a standard.
I think you can already use it if you have a media center setup (connected to speakers), and then stream from laptop & phone.
You are implying that you would like hardware manufacturers to make a de-facto standard by selling devices first, and then open it up.
This is the route AirPlay went so far, and where all vendor lock-in happens.
A standard allows multiple parties to come together (hardware vendors, software devs, sellers) and have a common ground / interface, so everyone knows what they are talking about. So progress on spreading a open solution should be accelerated by defining a standard first.
All Unity and Gnome3 and KDE have shown is that it doesn't take Ballmer and closed source to give the user what they don't want. Good job! You can compete with MS and release as big a turds as them.
I still think the fault lies with distros. They should have not forced the update, and allowed users the choice to stick with older, stable UIs. It is ok for DEs to make poor, incomplete releases. It is not ok for distros to take every release as an update no matter what the prize. They need to learn that cutting edge is not a thing every distro should do, and that testing might be a good idea.
Redhat understands that -- cutting edge technology in one distro for testing, good releases for customers in another. Gentoo allows KDE3/4 along side, and there is a gnome3/gnome2 choice you can downgrade from again.
It's actually not that rare. Very frequently decisions and how they are communicated by the news and perceived by citizens are mismatched. Most recent examples: communal water, oil cans. That's why I always go back to the official released documents to look what they were actually saying. The EU has a communication problems with its base.
Why do people believe he is flying or taking the publicized path? What's the credible source for that? It could be a ruse and he is taking a different route. Was it confirmed that he was on the first flight?
I agree that the USA are better than Europe at protecting freedom of expression, by the way. I really wish we had a similar freedom of expression in Europe.
It's right there in Austrian law Art. 13 StGG and the European human rights convention Art. 10 EMRK. Do you mean culturally? I really don't know what you are talking about?
Well, presumably it is legal to look at public web content (Twitter, public Facebook events). Monitoring private communication by analysing data streams would clearly be illegal (not just in Brazil). Joining the events with a fake profile to follow communication would presumably be ok for the police to do.
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Fine, if you want to be pedantic about words: I am saying the day cycle that you live becomes longer than the Synodic day. Which crashes with normal peoples lives.
Anyone who has been camping should have experienced this. It's really nice to be in sync with the day again, makes one happy. With computers (blue lights destroys Melatonin and thus makes you less sleepy), days last longer and longer.
It starts by de-humanising people by calling them something inferior (cockroaches, rats, ...), and scapegoating. Then you don't emphasize with how they are treated and their suffering, because they are not like you, and probably deserve it. ...
Be aware if you want to prevent the next Holocaust
Yes, warrentless wiretapping is a problem. (I'll not talk about Britain here)
But spot the difference between allowing police to track specific phones for investigations and the NSA recording all communications for everyone, forever.
The police can be held accountable. There is a paper trail of who accessed what and how often. These stats are made available. That's the difference.
Yes, the Data Retention Directive is problematic, and we should push to limit the storage time limit to 2 weeks. The fight against this directive is still ongoing, as it is costly and unnecessarily invasive to privacy.
I think every country that has a roman-based judicature and uses funky words like judicature qualifies as a descendent.
Here's a foreign word missing in this discussion: De-escalation.
While I applaud the engineer's efforts, I wish his employer (Google), would spend a bit more of resources in making its maps aplication more functional [for me].
Here's my gripe, and I am not alone:
Why is it that there's no way to make routing avoid toll roads by default?
I have got a solution: I use Waze but worried that if Google's ambitions with it (Waze) go through, they may disable this feature.
You sometimes wonder why things so basic, take so long to implement. Why?
Because that's not a product they sell? Go to a car navigation company (TomTom, Garvin, Navit come to mind) and give them money, they do what you want. Why you expect more than something basic from a free service is beyond me.
Still, I think in this century materials and systems will be developed which can detect neutrinos 1000 times better than today. That opens up new possibilities in astronomy (solar neutrinos, AGN, looking past the CMB just to name a few).
Yes, neutrinos start the SN explosion according to current models. However, the timing results for SN 1987a were actually inconclusive, as observatories were not connected to calibrated precision timing systems.
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I'm definitely in the camp that Americans need to do more but that is a bit disingenuous comparison. It looks like the Western European Country with the lowest population density is three times the population density of the US. That has huge public transportation ramifications.
Only if you look at the average. The US has large empty areas. If you ignore them -- and you can, for the discussion about public transportation -- the eastern third of the country is densely populated, entirely comparable to Europe.
Ever heard of separation of powers?
Yet they seem to regard Snowden with the same animosity that the U.S. administration does.
Not true. Many politicians in various countries are thinking about finding a way to grant him asylum.
Yes, and there is a limit to how long you may store data. Ideally, we should follow what Merkel suggested, that this duration should be 2 weeks. Data access can be (and is) granted by courts/judges. The return for criminal investigations for a longer time is negligible, but privacy concerns and costs (mostly to IT in companies) are a big issue.
I also don't think data where both parties are outside the EU are stored.
There is a stark contrast with the NSA's methods. Both are probably effective to investigate terrorist cells after one person has been identified, but NSAs privacy intrusion is just insane. And it seems clear that they don't care about the privacy of non-citizens, apparently those don't have human rights.
And if the military intends to (again) establish a democracy, will the people just vote the Muslim Brotherhood back into power?
The support for the Muslim Brotherhood dwindled as soon as they were in power and actually acted. That's when people saw that they were not as awesome as they thought. And the Muslim Brotherhood learned they are actually being held accountable for their governing.
I may not like Morsi but he was the democratically elected leader, with no more than the usual level of shenanigans in the election. (And given the shenanigans that show up in the US, I'm not going to throw too many stones. They're different, in both kind and degree, but we're hardly beyond reproach.)
Yes, you don't just overthrow a elected government by a coup just because you disagree with them. But if there is wide-spread violence from both sides, over a longer period of time, and you exhaust all other options including a ultimatum, it is the job of the army to step in and prevent a civil war.
A new election will be held. Egypt is new at this. Give them some time. The dedication of the Egyptian people is exemplary, they want a better state for themselves. It's a historic chance, but it is a process.
I agree. Also, if you rewrite structured code into a "performance oriented approach", you are doing it wrong.
Write code so it is easy to understand. Then compilers should understand how to make it fast.
This can only come from people who think code is for machines. Code is for humans to read and modify.
Many are willing, but legislation requires being inside the country already. And having politicians changing legislation because of individual cases is usually not a good idea, as it leads to crude laws.
Where can I buy MagicPlay speakers? ... Not really a standard then is it? It's not recognised by any standards institutes. It's just someones pet OSS project at the moment. Because its open, they're declaring it a standard.
I think you can already use it if you have a media center setup (connected to speakers), and then stream from laptop & phone.
You are implying that you would like hardware manufacturers to make a de-facto standard by selling devices first, and then open it up.
This is the route AirPlay went so far, and where all vendor lock-in happens.
A standard allows multiple parties to come together (hardware vendors, software devs, sellers) and have a common ground / interface, so everyone knows what they are talking about. So progress on spreading a open solution should be accelerated by defining a standard first.
Russians will never give up nukes.
They already gave up a significant fraction. See START.
It's their only defense against China.
Is your imagination so limited?
You imply China is attacking. How so?
You don't need more than 10 nukes to annihilate China, so why keep >100?
In short, lots of false assumptions.
... Conspiracy to commit a terrorist act ...
What is terrorism exactly? There is no agreed definition.
All Unity and Gnome3 and KDE have shown is that it doesn't take Ballmer and closed source to give the user what they don't want. Good job! You can compete with MS and release as big a turds as them.
I still think the fault lies with distros. They should have not forced the update, and allowed users the choice to stick with older, stable UIs. It is ok for DEs to make poor, incomplete releases. It is not ok for distros to take every release as an update no matter what the prize. They need to learn that cutting edge is not a thing every distro should do, and that testing might be a good idea.
Redhat understands that -- cutting edge technology in one distro for testing, good releases for customers in another. Gentoo allows KDE3/4 along side, and there is a gnome3/gnome2 choice you can downgrade from again.
It's actually not that rare. Very frequently decisions and how they are communicated by the news and perceived by citizens are mismatched. Most recent examples: communal water, oil cans. That's why I always go back to the official released documents to look what they were actually saying. The EU has a communication problems with its base.
Why do people believe he is flying or taking the publicized path? What's the credible source for that? It could be a ruse and he is taking a different route. Was it confirmed that he was on the first flight?
I agree that the USA are better than Europe at protecting freedom of expression, by the way. I really wish we had a similar freedom of expression in Europe.
It's right there in Austrian law Art. 13 StGG and the European human rights convention Art. 10 EMRK.
Do you mean culturally? I really don't know what you are talking about?
Well, presumably it is legal to look at public web content (Twitter, public Facebook events). Monitoring private communication by analysing data streams would clearly be illegal (not just in Brazil). Joining the events with a fake profile to follow communication would presumably be ok for the police to do.