The problem with American policies is that they depend heavily on whoever currently occupies the White House and its subsidiaries. So, when the administration had the kind of people who would cover up the nipple of a marble statue in the DOJ, the various entities like ICANN adopt a comparable attitude.
The UN is not just the Security Council. It is also the WHO, UNESCO, UNICEF, FAO and many other entities which are part of the UN and *generally* work well enough that they blend into the background.
When police got bulletproof vests, it wasn't long before they became fashionable among bank robbers. Mace, tasers... you name it, criminals got them.
So now the Pentagon wants to develop a technology that can make a plane slam on its brakes mid-flight. How long will it be before Osama Bin Laden can just point his remote at the sky and bring down a loaded airliner?
I remember being forced to learn how to use logarithm tables (printed booklets with rows and columns of logs, sine, cosine values etc) long after electronic scientific calculators were commonplace and cheap. It was a total waste of time. I'd never dream of introducing people to programming using C or C++. I'd leave those for much later, or even for an optional, specialised unit. The use of libraries is actually important - in today's world one of the best talents a programmer can demonstrate is the ability to find what he needs, whether it's a library, some documentation or a solution to a problem. It certainly beats the old practice of just copying and pasting code from one place to another.
If interpol or some other "good guys" can do it to identify the bad guys, the bad guys could do it too. How about the many photos in which victims' faces, or vulnerable witnesses, or whistleblowers, are blurred in some similar way. I can't help imagining some poor sod who, years back, gave evidence that put some members of a dangerous gang behind bars, feeling safe in the knowledge that the only photos which appeared had their faces blurred out, then reading this news item...
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The problem with American policies is that they depend heavily on whoever currently occupies the White House and its subsidiaries. So, when the administration had the kind of people who would cover up the nipple of a marble statue in the DOJ, the various entities like ICANN adopt a comparable attitude.
The UN is not just the Security Council. It is also the WHO, UNESCO, UNICEF, FAO and many other entities which are part of the UN and *generally* work well enough that they blend into the background.
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Is it surprising that spammers are sociopaths?
...and metal cigar tubes make great antennas
I'm getting an image of SUVs being overtaken by rickshaws, reducing emissions and providing massive employment.
When police got bulletproof vests, it wasn't long before they became fashionable among bank robbers. Mace, tasers... you name it, criminals got them.
So now the Pentagon wants to develop a technology that can make a plane slam on its brakes mid-flight. How long will it be before Osama Bin Laden can just point his remote at the sky and bring down a loaded airliner?
I remember being forced to learn how to use logarithm tables (printed booklets with rows and columns of logs, sine, cosine values etc) long after electronic scientific calculators were commonplace and cheap. It was a total waste of time. I'd never dream of introducing people to programming using C or C++. I'd leave those for much later, or even for an optional, specialised unit. The use of libraries is actually important - in today's world one of the best talents a programmer can demonstrate is the ability to find what he needs, whether it's a library, some documentation or a solution to a problem. It certainly beats the old practice of just copying and pasting code from one place to another.
If interpol or some other "good guys" can do it to identify the bad guys, the bad guys could do it too. How about the many photos in which victims' faces, or vulnerable witnesses, or whistleblowers, are blurred in some similar way. I can't help imagining some poor sod who, years back, gave evidence that put some members of a dangerous gang behind bars, feeling safe in the knowledge that the only photos which appeared had their faces blurred out, then reading this news item ...