These guys now have your credit card number, and the passwords to your email and bank accounts. The good looking one on the right also has your girlfriend's email & phone number.
Such as the immunization and the possible link to autism, lets say it creates a 1% increase in autism how ever it saves 25% from death, the benefits out weigh the risks and the parents who avoid this are poor judges on risk assessment.
Arrgh!
Speaking of fear mongering, it has been repeatedly shown that there is absolutely no link between autism and vaccines.
Please, can't this FUD just die already? It's already caused deaths in the UK from a loss of herd immunity!
Now that a senior member of the Bush administration has admitted "We tortured Qahtani", it is widely expected that pardons will be issued to those people involved in approving the use of torture. As an Australian, I wasn't really aware of this power of the US President, but after reading up on it and on the people who have received pardons in the past I have to say that it's pretty much putting the power of a dictator in the president's hands. I mean, Clinton used it to help his brother beat a drug rap FFS.
Here in Australia, if you want to study Medicine at University, you are required to take and pass the UMAT test.
This test is no joke, I know a couple of people who got good enough marks for entry to Medicine, then failed UMAT and had to wait a year to try it again (passing the second time around). It seems useless to me - why reject someone only to accept them a year later.. had their personality changed that much in 12 months?
Actually, much Greek and Roman knowledge was retained and built upon by the Islamic Empire during the Islamic Golden Age, from the 8th to the 16th century.
There's still a problem with this - The Kolmogorov scale is all about the smallest scales at which turbulence can occur in a fluid. It is effectively a fundamental constant in a fluid (can fluctuate in time/space, but usually treated as a field constant). Now, according to this source, the K-scale in the ocean is in the order of 1 mm. This means that while vortices may form easily behind 2cm high "scales", they probably do not form so easily behind real shark scales which are an order of magnitude or two below 2cm in length. I believe this is what TFA meant in this part at the end:
Sergei Chernyshenko, an aeronautical engineer from Imperial College London, UK, describes the research as fascinating. However, he points out that while the team have shown the existence of vortices, they haven't yet quantified the extent of the effect on the shark's drag, which he thinks could be minimal.
The team created artificial shark skin with a 16 x 24 array of synthetic scales, each 2 centimetres in length and angled at 90Â to the surface of the "skin".
This is at least a full order of magnitude larger than the scales on a shark's skin.
According to this source, the kolmogorov scale in the ocean is in the order of 1mm. Therefore, is the effect described in TFA going to actually be present for shark's skin? It seems to me that the effect will be minimal, if it is present at all..
I'm not sure which Australia you're living in, but I think the general public here has pretty good tech knowledge. The government, on the other hand, is made up of idiots like Conroy and Fielding - who, from their public comments, are puritan Luddite's.
The party's good intentions are there, it's just that those charged with delivering a product (Conroy) have no idea what they are doing. I think he's been so sidetracked with his little pet project of internet censorship, that he's forgotten what the "Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy" is actually supposed to do.
And none of this is helped by the resident monopoly Telstra who, following privatisation, have abused their monopoly on telecommunications infrastructure in an attempt to keep competition at a minimum. The Howard government simply didn't ensure healthy competition was possible following the transition of Telstra to private ownership.
To paraphrase Chris Rock"
"You got 20 million and your government want 10, big deal! You ain't starvin'. But if you make 30,000.. and your government want 15..."
* NewSpeak, the changing of language to make certain thoughts impossible (ala the politically correct language redefinition we experienced in the 70s/80s e.g. "differently abled" for "handicapped", in Sweden "husmor" replaced by "hemmafru" or their English cognates "housewife" with "stay-at-home-mom")
Your examples are more euphemisms but haven't eliminated the concept they refer to, thus they are not good examples of Newspeak.
Newspeak was intended to make certain thoughts impossible. Thus some better current examples are:
"Iraq War / Operation Iraqi Freedom" instead of "illegal invasion to consolidate power in the middle east and plunder cheap oil"
"foreign fighters" in Iraq referring to saudi militants but not to US soldiers
"pre-emptive war" referring to the US in Iraq, 2003, but not Germany in Norway, 1940
Exactly. See the Iranians for example. They know that Israel and the US would like nothing better than to wipe them off the face of the earth, and that their survival depends on them having a strong deterrent (this was Iraq's mistake). Hence the release of photos of nuclear facilities etc.
Maybe you should try reading further on the links you give:
In October 2001, polls indicated that about 88% of Americans and about 65% of Britons backed military action in Afghanistan.[148] On the other hand, a large-scale 37-nation poll of world opinion carried out by Gallup International in late September 2001, found that large majorities in most countries favoured a legal response, in the form of extradition and trial, over a military response to 9/11: Only in just 3 countries out of the 37 surveyed - the United States, Israel, and India - did majorities favour military action in Afghanistan. In 34 out of the 37 countries surveyed, the survey found many clear and sizeable majorities that did not favour military action: in the United Kingdom (75%), France (67%), Switzerland (87%), Czech Republic (64%), Lithuania (83%), Panama (80%), Mexico (94%), etc.
Believe it or not, USA != "the civilised world".
The war in Afghanistan was illegal and illegitimate. There are internationalagreementswhich the US is subject to and promptly ignored in 2001 when it was attacked, not by a country (though Bin Laden and most of the highjackers were Saudi's), but by a terrorist organisation. The "Bush Doctrine" is not a "Good Reason" for anything - it was just something dreamed up by that administration to establish military supremacy over one of "the greatest material prizes in world history".
I don't think your perspective is very libertarian - it's not just a trendy word, you know?
Try again in October, when Ubuntu 8.10 comes out. There have been some majoradvances in open-source graphics acceleration from AMD, so you might be pleasantly surprised.
You aren't nearly paranoid enough. Those of us who have thought the unthinkable can see dozens of really nasty possibilities. I'm more amazed that we haven't had a major attack yet.
...and that is why you are wrong. There will not be a 'Cyber 9/11' in the near future because people simply haven't had enough practice and the attackable systems aren't in place.
Remember that physical terrorism (eg. blowing stuff up, backing bloody coups etc.) has been happening for centuries of years. Terrorists have failed and succeeded and others have learned from their attempts - they know what works. From the days of Guy Fawkes through to the CIA and Al-Qaeda, the methods that worked and those that didn't meant that 9/11 could be planned with reasonable confidence of it working (eg. people have been hijacking planes for decades. They just hadn't flown one into a skyscraper before.).
On the other hand, no physical harm or injury has yet been inflicted through "cyber-terrorism" attacks. The best that's been done is spam or DoS. Both of which can easily be defended against fairly quickly.
So until there has been a background of lower profile "cyber-terrorism" events around the world doing real damage, for at least a few decades, we are pretty safe.
Check out this wiki for more info on Secure Ripping, how EAC works and how to use it correctly. In conjunction with AccurateRip, you can confirm if a rip was perfect.
Slashdot Mirror
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7341360.stm Until that server comes back up, here is an article from a year ago about the case. Makes for hilarious reading now!
Or Koffice.
These guys now have your credit card number, and the passwords to your email and bank accounts. The good looking one on the right also has your girlfriend's email & phone number.
Few people appreciate how fragile and unsecured the Internet's trust-based critical infrastructure really is - this is just the latest example.
Yeah. Like how everyone is trusted not to google "google".
Such as the immunization and the possible link to autism, lets say it creates a 1% increase in autism how ever it saves 25% from death, the benefits out weigh the risks and the parents who avoid this are poor judges on risk assessment.
Arrgh!
Speaking of fear mongering, it has been repeatedly shown that there is absolutely no link between autism and vaccines.
Please, can't this FUD just die already? It's already caused deaths in the UK from a loss of herd immunity!
Actually, DDT has never actually been proven a carcinogen. That's just anti-DDT propaganda.
simple answer: blacklists suck
Dude! That was Rimmer!
Actually, that just shows that no-one who listens to Lil Wayne was smart enough to go to TPB and download it for free.
That is one reason we have a PRESIDENT, not KING.
Okay, so how do reconcile that idea with the concept of Presidential Pardons?
Now that a senior member of the Bush administration has admitted "We tortured Qahtani", it is widely expected that pardons will be issued to those people involved in approving the use of torture. As an Australian, I wasn't really aware of this power of the US President, but after reading up on it and on the people who have received pardons in the past I have to say that it's pretty much putting the power of a dictator in the president's hands. I mean, Clinton used it to help his brother beat a drug rap FFS.
Here in Australia, if you want to study Medicine at University, you are required to take and pass the UMAT test.
This test is no joke, I know a couple of people who got good enough marks for entry to Medicine, then failed UMAT and had to wait a year to try it again (passing the second time around). It seems useless to me - why reject someone only to accept them a year later.. had their personality changed that much in 12 months?
Actually, much Greek and Roman knowledge was retained and built upon by the Islamic Empire during the Islamic Golden Age, from the 8th to the 16th century.
This is at least a full order of magnitude larger than the scales on a shark's skin.
According to this source, the kolmogorov scale in the ocean is in the order of 1mm. Therefore, is the effect described in TFA going to actually be present for shark's skin? It seems to me that the effect will be minimal, if it is present at all..
I'm not sure which Australia you're living in, but I think the general public here has pretty good tech knowledge. The government, on the other hand, is made up of idiots like Conroy and Fielding - who, from their public comments, are puritan Luddite's.
The party's good intentions are there, it's just that those charged with delivering a product (Conroy) have no idea what they are doing. I think he's been so sidetracked with his little pet project of internet censorship, that he's forgotten what the "Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy" is actually supposed to do.
And none of this is helped by the resident monopoly Telstra who, following privatisation, have abused their monopoly on telecommunications infrastructure in an attempt to keep competition at a minimum. The Howard government simply didn't ensure healthy competition was possible following the transition of Telstra to private ownership.
I call bullshit, or at least "Citation needed". How can siblings have such vast differences in skin colour then?
Sorry, that's an old article written by two gun advocates. In reality, the laws have worked very well
To paraphrase Chris Rock"
"You got 20 million and your government want 10, big deal! You ain't starvin'. But if you make 30,000.. and your government want 15..."
* NewSpeak, the changing of language to make certain thoughts impossible (ala the politically correct language redefinition we experienced in the 70s/80s e.g. "differently abled" for "handicapped", in Sweden "husmor" replaced by "hemmafru" or their English cognates "housewife" with "stay-at-home-mom")
Your examples are more euphemisms but haven't eliminated the concept they refer to, thus they are not good examples of Newspeak.
Newspeak was intended to make certain thoughts impossible. Thus some better current examples are:
Exactly. See the Iranians for example. They know that Israel and the US would like nothing better than to wipe them off the face of the earth, and that their survival depends on them having a strong deterrent (this was Iraq's mistake). Hence the release of photos of nuclear facilities etc.
Believe it or not, USA != "the civilised world".
The war in Afghanistan was illegal and illegitimate. There are international agreements which the US is subject to and promptly ignored in 2001 when it was attacked, not by a country (though Bin Laden and most of the highjackers were Saudi's), but by a terrorist organisation. The "Bush Doctrine" is not a "Good Reason" for anything - it was just something dreamed up by that administration to establish military supremacy over one of "the greatest material prizes in world history".
I don't think your perspective is very libertarian - it's not just a trendy word, you know?
Try again in October, when Ubuntu 8.10 comes out. There have been some major advances in open-source graphics acceleration from AMD, so you might be pleasantly surprised.
> What could possibly count as a cyber 9/11?
You aren't nearly paranoid enough. Those of us who have thought the unthinkable can see dozens of really nasty possibilities. I'm more amazed that we haven't had a major attack yet.
...and that is why you are wrong. There will not be a 'Cyber 9/11' in the near future because people simply haven't had enough practice and the attackable systems aren't in place.
Remember that physical terrorism (eg. blowing stuff up, backing bloody coups etc.) has been happening for centuries of years. Terrorists have failed and succeeded and others have learned from their attempts - they know what works. From the days of Guy Fawkes through to the CIA and Al-Qaeda, the methods that worked and those that didn't meant that 9/11 could be planned with reasonable confidence of it working (eg. people have been hijacking planes for decades. They just hadn't flown one into a skyscraper before.).
On the other hand, no physical harm or injury has yet been inflicted through "cyber-terrorism" attacks. The best that's been done is spam or DoS. Both of which can easily be defended against fairly quickly.
So until there has been a background of lower profile "cyber-terrorism" events around the world doing real damage, for at least a few decades, we are pretty safe.
Check out this wiki for more info on Secure Ripping, how EAC works and how to use it correctly. In conjunction with AccurateRip, you can confirm if a rip was perfect.
I really hope kde-pim will make it into this release, as the kde3 version gives me grief when using IMAP, however this looks far from certain...