This only underscores what a complete and total douchebag Assange and his Wikileaks cohorts are. I believe that what they are doing is right. HOWEVER, to hold the lives of thousands of innocents hostage to make sure the government does what you want them to do it fucking blackmail and demonstrates a distinct lack of courage on their part. Imagine that the names of dozens or hundreds of Afghans who had informed against the Taliban are in the file. Assange is saying that if he dies, THEY ALL DIE.
To put this in context, Assange is one of the madmen he hates so much. If he were in that fucking chopper, he probably would have mowed down all sorts of women and children if he is capable of holding these lives hostage for his own gain.
Let me tell you a story. A true story. In Afghanistan, a four man special forces team was discovered in the mountains by a shepherd and his teenaged son. There was no doubt that they were loyal to the Taliban and that if released, they would immediately tell the Taliban where the special forces team was. The options were to kill the shepherds or release them. The US special forces team took a vote. Argument for killing them: we get to live. Argument for letting them go: we're Americans and we don't kill civilians. They voted to let the shepherd and his son go. Keep in mind that they weren't doing this for glory; the chances were very good that they would all be killed and no one would be left to explain that they died defending American values. To paraphrase James Stockdale, this was devotion to duty: to do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.
The freed shepherd and his son summoned the Taliban. Soon, the four Americans found themselves surrounded by dozens or hundreds of armed Taliban without air support. After an hour-long firefight to the death, three special forces dudes were killed. The lone survivor fell off a cliff while fleeing, was rescued by an Afghan who protected him and returned him to US forces.
What would Asssange have done? By this action, the Wikileaks guys would have wasted the two guys in the desert. No questions asked.
What about the disclosure of the names of the Afghans who helped us fight the Taliban, who are running around killing civilians, blowing supermarkets up, and repressing women? It's easy to say that a free nation should have no secrets, but no one wants to pay the price of that.
I am surprised, shocked, and dismayed to see a fine journalistic source such as Slashdot stoop to yellow journalism, as it were. There is absolutely nothing suspicious about the origin of the website being being in Shenzen, China and the summary's implication of this is absolutely untoward. I expect a full apology posted immediately, then duped again tomorrow.
Transocean was not an independent contractor. BP directed the Transocean employees on what to do. The Transocean employees sometimes told the BP executives that they were risking a failure of the well, but their concerns were vetoed. Decisions such as the choice of casing, what material to use to plug the well, and whether or not to try to fix the safety equipment were all made by BP and executed by Transocean.
You must be a crazy Apple fanboy. It doesn't matter if it isn't shorting or bridging. The fact is that iPhone 4 has an additional defect that when the exterior antennae are connected by your hand, you lose 10 db on top of the death grip. Oh, did Jobs point this out? Huh? No? Oh. Liar.
You seem like the pedantic type so I wanted to correct a mistake in your post. The issue isn't whether or not Barack Obama is merely a citizen of the United States. In order to be President, one has to be a natural-born citizen. The question is whether or not being born in a foreign country (to US citizens) is enough to make you a natural-born citizen. Don't forget that John McCain was born in Panama so there was an issue there as well.
Viruses and germs that evolve around an antibody or antibiotic tend to be less virulent than the wild strain. Without the antibody or antibiotic, the wild strain has predominated against all other strains, including the resistant strain. The resistant strain tends to be less efficient at survival than the wild strain. If the strains of HIV that are best able to bind with human immune cells are knocked out, the ten percent left may be less able to spread than the existing strains. If you assume that the spread of a contagion has exponential (to some degree) a drop in the transmission rates may save many, many lives.
The problem with HIV is that its effects can be mitigated if people use condoms, not be so promiscuous, and stay away from risky practices such as anal sex or dry sex. The risk of getting HIV from non-anal heterosexual intercourse is very small; studies put it at 1 in 500 if you have vaginal sex with a HIV-infected person. Using a condom makes that risk effectively 0. We need to educate everyone to avoid these practices. This would mitigate the spread of this plague.
Asus and Quanta make laptops for Dell, Compaq, Apple, and Sony. These OEMs basically make most of the laptop computers out there on the market today. When they get behind an initiative, it's a big step because they are the ones making all of the little laptops. Of course, Dell, Apple, etc. don't have to follow but it's a big step anyway.
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I love how the fear-mongering anti-global warming folk say that we have to destroy our economies to prevent global warming. That's not the case. We need to get off of oil because it might run out sooner than we thought. Furthermore, getting off of fossil fuels would help America become independent of dictatorships and regimes we would rather stay away from.
You seem fairly convinced that there's no big deal, and that all these scientists are making a problem out of nothing. Well, what are the consequences if you're wrong? Conservatives said we would be welcomed as liberators when we invaded Iraq. The opposite happened. Where are the men who got us into the war? They've all slinked away. If you're wrong about global warming, we might end up making Earth uninhabitable. Perhaps we should try to study this phenomenon and find ways to ameliorate greenhouse gases just to be safe. After all, it's not certain we'd have to destroy our economies to do this, as you seem to rely on without basis.
If you believe the FBI, one of the targets under investigation realized that she was compromised. The FBI had become aggressive and had an undercover agent contact her because they pretty much knew how the Russians operated with this woman. I would expect that the FBI was trying to set up a sting operation so they can finally bag these spies for espionage. Unfortunately, they gave away the game. The woman bought a Verizon cell phone under a fake name, threw away the charger, and started to make calls. The FBI realized that she was trying to make an anonymous call (which doesn't work if you're already under constant surveillance) then decided to arrest everyone before they fled. One guy ran away but ten were caught.
If that's your biggest problem, have your administrator do his job and set up domain aliases. I have Google Apps and my login page is mail.myfirmname.com.
I agree that Gmail is so far ahead of its webmail competition such as Yahoo and Hotmail. The biggest feature, however, is Gmail's junk filter. Nary a piece of junkmail gets into my inbox and false positives are exceedingly rare. However, it's pretty disconcerting if this success is due to their understanding of your behaviors. Haha. The Gmail interface is very quick and efficient. It loads and works quickly. I also I love how Gmail doesn't ask for confirmation but rather gives you the option to undo a delete.
It's most likely that she received $500,000 for the loss of her husband. There is an immediate payment of a tax-free $100,000 death gratuity (macabre name, I know). Then there's a standard $400,000 GI life insurance payout unless she opted out of it. (No one in an active combat zone has ever dropped or decreased that coverage, though it's possible to do so.) The $350 Verizon ETF was on her own account, not her husband's.
Perhaps. But the argument for non-disclosure of voting results is that this makes buying votes harder. I can sell my vote to all parties then vote my conscience. They cannot enforce what they cannot identify.
That's because Apple tightly controls the application marketplace before you can even get in. Google lets basically anyone in so I'm not surprised that they had to use this feature while Apple does not.
The airmen did kill unarmed civilians but you have to realize that these civilians were journalists hanging out with armed men. The journalists were carrying cameras but there were men holding RPGs and AK-47s in that crowd they were hanging out with. It wasn't cut and dry, but it wasn't as if the chopper pilots went out to kill innocents. In fact, removed from the video was a clip that showed the chopper crew not engaging hostiles shooting at US ground forces because there were civilians in the crossfire. What I disagree with was shooting at an ambulance removing wounded men from the battlefield even though I don't believe it is contrary to the laws of war to shoot medics. (Red Cross/Crescent transports cannot be targeted, but battlefield medics/evacs perhaps can be if they're armed.)
The founder of Wikileaks went on The Colbert Report and basically admitted that he has a political goal (of pacifism), and is not concerned if he has to be deceptive to advance that goal. (Colbert said that 90% of the public downloaded the short version and wasn't it deceptive for Wikileaks to have that edited version be the dominant release. The wikileaks guy said, yeah, so what?) You have to watch the watcher.
Negatory, Ghost Rider. The $150,000 figure is the highest amount of statutory damages available under the Copyright Act for willful infringement of a copyrighted work. Statutory damages have no bearing on actual damages. That's why commercially unsuccessful movie producers have gone around suing alleged infringers: the plaintiffs don't have to show any actual damages to get a huge payday.
I looked at the link you posted. It did not show Obama threatening to arrest the wikileaker. In fact, it shows Obama signing a law that is meant to protect journalists' rights. Perhaps you meant another link that actually showed what you said it would.
But in this case, the wikileaker would be Manning, the guy who swore an oath to abide by the Constitution and follow orders. The video of the killings was edited to remove scenes where the gunship did not shoot at confirmed hostile forces that was actively shooting at US forces due to the risk of harming women and children. This edit was meant to portray the gunship crew in a bad light, not to tell the truth. Now it comes out that he's leaking over 200,000 highly confidential diplomatic conversations, whose release would jeopardize diplomatic relations with our friends and foes alike. Releasing these documents without permission is a crime. That's different than a journalist being forced to name his sources, it's about punishing a man who broke the law.
Especially since BP was able to pump mud down there with enough force to push the oil back into the ground. Of course, this top-kill didn't work but it still puts the lie to your contention that these pressures are unworkable for human technology.
I had the Razr and the Moto Q. It seems like Motorola has the crappiest and most confusing user interfaces ever. If they were loading pure Android, that'd be great. However, Moto customizes the OS with something called "MotoBlur." I assume that this would be a crap firmware/UI. This would prevent the latest Android OS from being used. Also, a two GHz processor sounds great but the impact on battery life will probably outweigh any benefits in a smart phone.
Why do you equate commercial success with critical success? The Hurt Locker won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director. It was a good movie even if the masses did not really go out to watch it.
The significance of this discovery is that the Standard Model is wrong. The transformation of neutrinos mean they have mass, whereas the Standard Model predicts that they have no mass. Neutrinos having mass mean they interact with matter, and that they can constitute dark matter. Or something like that. This is about all I know/or think I know about the subject.
I hope I'm alive when the Next Big Nerd figures out the Next Big Thing regarding a Theory of Everything.
Perhaps. But that would require a comprehensive change of the patent laws of the United States. Over-patenting can be done without getting all the politicians together.
This is a great example of why defensive patents are necessary. The inventor can obtain the patents, then grant anyone a free, perpetual license to use the technology. Hopefully, the doctor will win the lawsuit based on his work in creating the process but it's pretty crazy that it's not certain that he can win unless his creative process was public enough to constitute prior art.
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This only underscores what a complete and total douchebag Assange and his Wikileaks cohorts are. I believe that what they are doing is right. HOWEVER, to hold the lives of thousands of innocents hostage to make sure the government does what you want them to do it fucking blackmail and demonstrates a distinct lack of courage on their part. Imagine that the names of dozens or hundreds of Afghans who had informed against the Taliban are in the file. Assange is saying that if he dies, THEY ALL DIE.
To put this in context, Assange is one of the madmen he hates so much. If he were in that fucking chopper, he probably would have mowed down all sorts of women and children if he is capable of holding these lives hostage for his own gain.
Let me tell you a story. A true story. In Afghanistan, a four man special forces team was discovered in the mountains by a shepherd and his teenaged son. There was no doubt that they were loyal to the Taliban and that if released, they would immediately tell the Taliban where the special forces team was. The options were to kill the shepherds or release them. The US special forces team took a vote. Argument for killing them: we get to live. Argument for letting them go: we're Americans and we don't kill civilians. They voted to let the shepherd and his son go. Keep in mind that they weren't doing this for glory; the chances were very good that they would all be killed and no one would be left to explain that they died defending American values. To paraphrase James Stockdale, this was devotion to duty: to do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.
The freed shepherd and his son summoned the Taliban. Soon, the four Americans found themselves surrounded by dozens or hundreds of armed Taliban without air support. After an hour-long firefight to the death, three special forces dudes were killed. The lone survivor fell off a cliff while fleeing, was rescued by an Afghan who protected him and returned him to US forces.
What would Asssange have done? By this action, the Wikileaks guys would have wasted the two guys in the desert. No questions asked.
What about the disclosure of the names of the Afghans who helped us fight the Taliban, who are running around killing civilians, blowing supermarkets up, and repressing women? It's easy to say that a free nation should have no secrets, but no one wants to pay the price of that.
I am surprised, shocked, and dismayed to see a fine journalistic source such as Slashdot stoop to yellow journalism, as it were. There is absolutely nothing suspicious about the origin of the website being being in Shenzen, China and the summary's implication of this is absolutely untoward. I expect a full apology posted immediately, then duped again tomorrow.
Transocean was not an independent contractor. BP directed the Transocean employees on what to do. The Transocean employees sometimes told the BP executives that they were risking a failure of the well, but their concerns were vetoed. Decisions such as the choice of casing, what material to use to plug the well, and whether or not to try to fix the safety equipment were all made by BP and executed by Transocean.
You must be a crazy Apple fanboy. It doesn't matter if it isn't shorting or bridging. The fact is that iPhone 4 has an additional defect that when the exterior antennae are connected by your hand, you lose 10 db on top of the death grip. Oh, did Jobs point this out? Huh? No? Oh. Liar.
You seem like the pedantic type so I wanted to correct a mistake in your post. The issue isn't whether or not Barack Obama is merely a citizen of the United States. In order to be President, one has to be a natural-born citizen. The question is whether or not being born in a foreign country (to US citizens) is enough to make you a natural-born citizen. Don't forget that John McCain was born in Panama so there was an issue there as well.
Viruses and germs that evolve around an antibody or antibiotic tend to be less virulent than the wild strain. Without the antibody or antibiotic, the wild strain has predominated against all other strains, including the resistant strain. The resistant strain tends to be less efficient at survival than the wild strain. If the strains of HIV that are best able to bind with human immune cells are knocked out, the ten percent left may be less able to spread than the existing strains. If you assume that the spread of a contagion has exponential (to some degree) a drop in the transmission rates may save many, many lives.
The problem with HIV is that its effects can be mitigated if people use condoms, not be so promiscuous, and stay away from risky practices such as anal sex or dry sex. The risk of getting HIV from non-anal heterosexual intercourse is very small; studies put it at 1 in 500 if you have vaginal sex with a HIV-infected person. Using a condom makes that risk effectively 0. We need to educate everyone to avoid these practices. This would mitigate the spread of this plague.
Asus and Quanta make laptops for Dell, Compaq, Apple, and Sony. These OEMs basically make most of the laptop computers out there on the market today. When they get behind an initiative, it's a big step because they are the ones making all of the little laptops. Of course, Dell, Apple, etc. don't have to follow but it's a big step anyway.
I love how the fear-mongering anti-global warming folk say that we have to destroy our economies to prevent global warming. That's not the case. We need to get off of oil because it might run out sooner than we thought. Furthermore, getting off of fossil fuels would help America become independent of dictatorships and regimes we would rather stay away from.
You seem fairly convinced that there's no big deal, and that all these scientists are making a problem out of nothing. Well, what are the consequences if you're wrong? Conservatives said we would be welcomed as liberators when we invaded Iraq. The opposite happened. Where are the men who got us into the war? They've all slinked away. If you're wrong about global warming, we might end up making Earth uninhabitable. Perhaps we should try to study this phenomenon and find ways to ameliorate greenhouse gases just to be safe. After all, it's not certain we'd have to destroy our economies to do this, as you seem to rely on without basis.
If you believe the FBI, one of the targets under investigation realized that she was compromised. The FBI had become aggressive and had an undercover agent contact her because they pretty much knew how the Russians operated with this woman. I would expect that the FBI was trying to set up a sting operation so they can finally bag these spies for espionage. Unfortunately, they gave away the game. The woman bought a Verizon cell phone under a fake name, threw away the charger, and started to make calls. The FBI realized that she was trying to make an anonymous call (which doesn't work if you're already under constant surveillance) then decided to arrest everyone before they fled. One guy ran away but ten were caught.
If that's your biggest problem, have your administrator do his job and set up domain aliases. I have Google Apps and my login page is mail.myfirmname.com.
I agree that Gmail is so far ahead of its webmail competition such as Yahoo and Hotmail. The biggest feature, however, is Gmail's junk filter. Nary a piece of junkmail gets into my inbox and false positives are exceedingly rare. However, it's pretty disconcerting if this success is due to their understanding of your behaviors. Haha. The Gmail interface is very quick and efficient. It loads and works quickly. I also I love how Gmail doesn't ask for confirmation but rather gives you the option to undo a delete.
It's most likely that she received $500,000 for the loss of her husband. There is an immediate payment of a tax-free $100,000 death gratuity (macabre name, I know). Then there's a standard $400,000 GI life insurance payout unless she opted out of it. (No one in an active combat zone has ever dropped or decreased that coverage, though it's possible to do so.) The $350 Verizon ETF was on her own account, not her husband's.
Perhaps. But the argument for non-disclosure of voting results is that this makes buying votes harder. I can sell my vote to all parties then vote my conscience. They cannot enforce what they cannot identify.
That's because Apple tightly controls the application marketplace before you can even get in. Google lets basically anyone in so I'm not surprised that they had to use this feature while Apple does not.
The airmen did kill unarmed civilians but you have to realize that these civilians were journalists hanging out with armed men. The journalists were carrying cameras but there were men holding RPGs and AK-47s in that crowd they were hanging out with. It wasn't cut and dry, but it wasn't as if the chopper pilots went out to kill innocents. In fact, removed from the video was a clip that showed the chopper crew not engaging hostiles shooting at US ground forces because there were civilians in the crossfire. What I disagree with was shooting at an ambulance removing wounded men from the battlefield even though I don't believe it is contrary to the laws of war to shoot medics. (Red Cross/Crescent transports cannot be targeted, but battlefield medics/evacs perhaps can be if they're armed.)
The founder of Wikileaks went on The Colbert Report and basically admitted that he has a political goal (of pacifism), and is not concerned if he has to be deceptive to advance that goal. (Colbert said that 90% of the public downloaded the short version and wasn't it deceptive for Wikileaks to have that edited version be the dominant release. The wikileaks guy said, yeah, so what?) You have to watch the watcher.
Negatory, Ghost Rider. The $150,000 figure is the highest amount of statutory damages available under the Copyright Act for willful infringement of a copyrighted work. Statutory damages have no bearing on actual damages. That's why commercially unsuccessful movie producers have gone around suing alleged infringers: the plaintiffs don't have to show any actual damages to get a huge payday.
Dude, seriously, that's fucked up. This xkcd man must be a genius or something. Holy fucking shit! LOL. LOL. LOL.
I looked at the link you posted. It did not show Obama threatening to arrest the wikileaker. In fact, it shows Obama signing a law that is meant to protect journalists' rights. Perhaps you meant another link that actually showed what you said it would.
But in this case, the wikileaker would be Manning, the guy who swore an oath to abide by the Constitution and follow orders. The video of the killings was edited to remove scenes where the gunship did not shoot at confirmed hostile forces that was actively shooting at US forces due to the risk of harming women and children. This edit was meant to portray the gunship crew in a bad light, not to tell the truth. Now it comes out that he's leaking over 200,000 highly confidential diplomatic conversations, whose release would jeopardize diplomatic relations with our friends and foes alike. Releasing these documents without permission is a crime. That's different than a journalist being forced to name his sources, it's about punishing a man who broke the law.
Especially since BP was able to pump mud down there with enough force to push the oil back into the ground. Of course, this top-kill didn't work but it still puts the lie to your contention that these pressures are unworkable for human technology.
I had the Razr and the Moto Q. It seems like Motorola has the crappiest and most confusing user interfaces ever. If they were loading pure Android, that'd be great. However, Moto customizes the OS with something called "MotoBlur." I assume that this would be a crap firmware/UI. This would prevent the latest Android OS from being used. Also, a two GHz processor sounds great but the impact on battery life will probably outweigh any benefits in a smart phone.
Why do you equate commercial success with critical success? The Hurt Locker won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director. It was a good movie even if the masses did not really go out to watch it.
The significance of this discovery is that the Standard Model is wrong. The transformation of neutrinos mean they have mass, whereas the Standard Model predicts that they have no mass. Neutrinos having mass mean they interact with matter, and that they can constitute dark matter. Or something like that. This is about all I know/or think I know about the subject.
I hope I'm alive when the Next Big Nerd figures out the Next Big Thing regarding a Theory of Everything.
Perhaps. But that would require a comprehensive change of the patent laws of the United States. Over-patenting can be done without getting all the politicians together.
This is a great example of why defensive patents are necessary. The inventor can obtain the patents, then grant anyone a free, perpetual license to use the technology. Hopefully, the doctor will win the lawsuit based on his work in creating the process but it's pretty crazy that it's not certain that he can win unless his creative process was public enough to constitute prior art.